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and programs for the coming season are somewhat indefinite. It 

 is to be hoped that the meeting just past will bear much fruit 

 before another year is ended. 



I trust that every member of the Missouri Women Farmers* 

 Club may find it convenient to go to Tulsa, for there is much to be 

 gained. I hope that if I can go next October, it will be possible 

 for me to attend more of the dry farming sessions. This year 

 they were at such distances that one could not take advantage of 

 both without losing much time. Dry farming does not exclude 

 our methods, for as President Widstowe said, dry farming is a 

 misnomer — it means better farming and improved conditions. The 

 important work of the International Congress of Farm Women is: 

 to make it worth while to do the things we have to do. 



THE WOMAN FARMER AS A CITIZEN. 



(Mrs. Rosa Paissell Ingels, Columbia, Mo.) 



Our president has asked me to talk a few minutes on the 

 ''Woman Farmer as a Citizen." It seems to me that the individual 

 qualities and general interests which make for citizenship among 

 women farmers are identical with those which make women, good 

 citizens anywhere. However, we might consider a difference due 

 to environment. What is a citizen? What is a good citizen? I 

 remember once hearing two men, discuss the death of a neighbor. 

 They seemed to be searching for something good to say about a 

 man who was calling direct attention to himself for the first time 

 in his life by leaving it. At last one of them said, "Well, he was 

 a good citizen," and the other replied, "Yes, he never done no buddy 

 no harm." Both of these men were counting a man a good citizen 

 simply because he had kept out of trouble. 



Citizenship is positive, not negative. Neither men nor women 

 may be counted good citizens, even when death calls for charity, 

 because their lives were free from disputes, in or out of court. This 

 is a positive age, full of action, and when activities are questioned, 

 for results. 



The responsibilities thrust upon women in our age have done 

 much to develop what is termed the progressive woman. To me, 

 one of the most hopeful signs of positive advance in the world 

 today is the spirit of tolerance and impersonality among our 

 thinking, active women. I believe that never in the history of 



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