TWENTY-FIRST ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART VII 591 



"Make a fair fight of it, keep to the right of it, 



Honestly battle to win. 

 But don't let the price of it, glitter and size of it, 



Tempt you to shame or to sin; 

 Better by far to be short of the victory, 



Better to bow to defeat. 

 Than falsely get hold of it, knowing the gold of it 



Carries the name of a cheat. 



"Hold yourself high above cheering and money-love, 



Want something more than a goal; 

 Treasure your honest name more than a victor's fame — 



Nothing can pay for your soul. 

 Then if you're beaten down, failing to gain the crown. 



You can come homeward in pride. 

 Smiling and head-erect, owning your self-respect, 



Knowing that truly you tried." 



I thank you. (Applause). 



The Chairman : I think we are really indebted to Mr. Wilson 

 for his entertaining and illuminating talk. His illustrations were 

 particularly pat. With regard to his airplane illustration, I think 

 some of us have felt that probably we fell out of that plane just 

 before it started down (laughter), at least, so far as agricultural 

 prices are concerned. 



I like the note of optimism in Mr. Wilson's speech, .and his ref- 

 erence to the woodpecker is our only way out — we have got to 

 use our heads; and I want to call your attention to the fact that it 

 was a "red-headed" woodpecker. (Laughter and applause). We 

 are going to do that, the farmers of Iowa have always done that, 

 and we are going to make out all right. 



Now we are going to hear from one of our old friends. During 

 the course of the evening, I saw him fussing with three different 

 sets of papers. He first started in on this book. I don't know 

 what it's for, but I suspect that he has his speech in that ; and 

 then he began to fuss with this roll of papers, and I concluded 

 that the book was something that he had just temporarily ex- 

 amined, and that this was really his speech; and then you may 

 have noticed about fifteen or twenty minutes ago he got up and 

 got a bellboy and gave him something, and subsequently the 

 boy came back with a great big satchel full of papers. (Laugh- 

 ter). So I don't know which his speech is, but I do know this, 

 if it is not in this book or in that folder or in that satchel, it is in 

 Thorne himself, and he will now proceed to get it out of him. 

 (Applause). 



