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enough and work enough for all her children." How we are going to 

 accomplish it we do not know, but we must do it. You men living on 

 farms have sons and daughters; you don't know what to do with 

 them; you are going out of the state to seek opportunities for manu- 

 facturing and farming, we want you to find opportunities in Iowa for 

 these young men and women. 



The auditor of state gave me a statement about a month ago and I 

 have used It all over the state and it has not been denied, so I assume 

 it is correct. During the last twenty-five years 150,000 lowans have left 

 us. How many do you know that left Iowa with less than $5,000? Not 

 many. And how many have left with more than $5,000? A great many. 

 So let's assume that these 150,000 lowans carried with them $5,000 apiece, 

 and what does it mean? It means that seven hundred fifty millions of 

 dollars have left Iowa in the last twenty-five years taken away by these 

 men and women who have left us because we did not have the opportunities 

 for their young men and young women. Seven hundred and fifty mil- 

 lion dollars! Think what it would do for Iowa to-day! If we had 

 to put in new industries in this state it would establish 1,500 new 

 industries in Iowa with $500,000 real money in each one of them. 

 Think of what that means! If we can only make Iowa so it is attrac- 

 tive; so we have a community spirit; so we could love one another 

 and love Iowa and find within our own borders opportunities for 

 our young men and young women. That is what is needed. If we are 

 going to keep our money in Iowa and develop Iowa with it, we don't 

 need anybody's else money. Just think of it! In the next twenty years 

 we can save seven hundred and fifty million dollars to the credit of Iowa. 

 Even cut it in half or a quarter and what does it mean? 



Another thing: We asked the state legislature four years ago for 

 an appropriation of funds for publicity work to build up this same idea 

 and to build up this pride and love for Iowa — this state pride. I have 

 found this out: The state gives the State University one million dol- 

 lars, and the Agricultural College one million dollars a year, in round 

 numbers, two million dollars a year for the education of our young men 

 and women, and I have been told that thirty-five per cent of the gradu- 

 ates of those institutions leave the state thus not only denying Iowa the 

 benefit of their brain and energy, but go into competitive states and 

 give them the benefit of this Iowa brain, energy, courage and skill that 

 they have acquired at the expense of the Iowa tax payer. Now thirty- 

 five per cent — lets call it twenty-five per cent — of that two million dol- 

 lars is $500,000 a year that we have wasted. In all these years we have 

 been educating our young men and women, — doing missionary work — edu- 

 cating our young men for the benefit of our competitors. Maybe $500,000 

 is too much. Let's cut it to $400,000, $300,000, to $200,000, isn't it worth 

 something to the state. Shouldn't the legislature do something to ap- 

 propriate a fund to enable somebody to go out and advertise the re- 

 sources and the possibilities and desirabilities of Iowa so we can keep 

 in Iowa this thirty-five per cent, thirty or the thirty-five per cent. It 

 is not all sentiment. This is an economic question. It is not all theory. 

 Here we are spending money to educate young men and women and 



