TWENTY-FIRST ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART V 427 



ing; but yet you are only on the threshold, just beginning, as it were, to 

 reach out and do the things that you have laid out for yourselves to do. 



We have a campaign of education before us. The farm woman, as well 

 as the farm man, needs to educate the woman and the man of the town 

 and the city of the things that are actually our problems. Farm women 

 sometimes get quite provoked when city people say "Oh, it is so easy to 

 get something to eat in the country, and we love to come to your house, 

 because you have such good things to eat, and it isn't any trouble for you 

 to get it." Sometimes, when I am in a mood to be tired and nervous and 

 pessimistic, I think they come out just for my jam or my ham, and not 

 particularly to see me. (Laughter). 



But we need a campaign of education, so that they will know the prob- 

 lems that confront us, the things that we have to do to get the jam and 

 the ham. And so it is that thru this campaign we hope that, instead of 

 perpetuating a class-feeling between us, we will learn of the other's 

 problems and pull together. 



In traveling, one is reminded that it needed a man who understood en- 

 gineering to build that road-bed on which are laid the rails for the cars to 

 roll over; it needed a man who understood the science of driving the great 

 locomotive that brought the train safely thru the darkness of the night 

 to its terminal; and it just illustrates that none can live unto himself and 

 none can die unto himself. And so we have this educational campaign 

 ahead of us. 



There are many pitfalls; there are those who would rather we failed 

 than not, but I believe that the women and the girls can step along with 

 heads erect, keeping step with father and the boys, and that we are going 

 to come out in the glad tomorrow with the things that belong to the farm 

 family as their very own. Women have exercised more influence during 

 the past ages than men have properly estimated. As Longfellow said: 



"As unto the bow the cord is, 



So is man unto the woman; 

 Tho she bends him, she obeys him, 



Tho she leads him, still she follows, 

 Useless each without the other." 



And I am sure that is the feeling of every woman and daughter in the 

 United States in farm homes today. 



Go ahead with your big, fine work, and make living conditions so FULL 

 and so FINE and so FREE, that instead of the young people of the coun- 

 tryside wanting to leave, they won't want to go away; and if they go for 

 higher education and a better appreciation of their life's work, they will 

 be glad to come back. 



