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occurs once in a while, and when such does happen the banks 

 can realize on short-time money when they could not do so on 

 long-time money. If we could bar the possibility of panics it 

 would relieve this condition and make long-time money possible. 



At the foundation of making things in the country or life in 

 the country worth while, we can trace it back possibly to one 

 word, and that one word is "Citizenship." I repeat what I 

 said today that a high quality man and a low quality soil cannot 

 live together. The soil will make the man poorer or he will 

 make the soil richer; they will eventually get together. That is 

 one of the things now that I have been trying to bring about by 

 hobnobbing with the bankers, realizing the fact that if we can 

 make it possible for the boys of the State of Missouri to begin 

 farming in a profitable way, and when those boys eventually 

 have the home paid for we will have a citizenship in Missouri 

 that is well worth while. If every man on every farm and 

 every man in every town was the owner of a home, and one that 

 was reasonably good at least, I believe that our hardware stores 

 would not carry padlocks in stock unless some outsiders came 

 in. It might be that some of the "Quo Vadis Club" would hap- 

 pen along. The means by which we are trying to accomplish 

 other things is through school and through organizations of 

 various sorts. 



Just one or two of the things now by which we have to 

 popularize our work. There is the farm adviser — that is what 

 they call him; I wish we had some other name, and while I think 

 of it, I did hear another name for him. Some fellow said he 

 was "a nuisance." So they can take it as they please, but the 

 people that we have served possibly would not be satisfied to give 

 us that title. I am going to give you one or two illustrations of 

 some of the things that we have to do, and the man will make 

 good on that work in proportion to the number of places that he 

 can see where he can render efficient service. If he cannot see 

 where service can be rendered, he will fall down on the job. 



A little while ago a man was taking me through the country; 

 we were making soil tests on several farms that day in the neigh- 

 borhood. I was to make a talk at a meeting that night. He 

 said, "I have to stop at one of my neighbors down here; he don't 

 believe in you'.' — and by the way, they don't all believe in me 

 over there. I have some very much appreciated objectors. 

 And who don't? If you do something, somebody will kick you; 

 if you don't do anything they will kick you. There is only one 



