396 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



(Mr- Ingham tlien devotQ^ aoca* time to the discussion of tbe Chineee 

 and Japanese relations.) 



My friends, we must come to recognize that for some reason there 

 are a great many different kinds of people in the world, and Providence 

 undoubtedly had some purpose in placing us all here. There are a gi-eat 

 many different kinds of religious opinions and political opinions and ways 

 of doing business, and we must learn that each one of these different 

 ways is worth trying out. We will never have a war with Canada, and 

 yet their interests are very different from ours. Under the greatest 

 provocation in the world, we have not gone to war with Mexico. If the 

 nations of Europe had treated each other with half the toleration we 

 have shown in Mexico, there would not have been any war. In the end, 

 we are going to have Mexico on her feet, if there is any such thing. We 

 are going to do there as we have done in Cuba and in the Philippines. I 

 hope when the war is over, the feeling will be that America came to 

 Europe for the purpose of helping Europe to solve her own problems, 

 and not for the purpose of getting anything out of it for ourselves. 



We are learning a tremendous world lesson in this organization, and 

 we are learning it in every organization that brings us together. The 

 thing to do is to appreciate that fact, and go out into our larger activities 

 of life, and into our political relations, with this lesson on our lips, and 

 use the tremendous influence we have in this great country to lay the 

 foundation for a world that will be, as America has been, a world of 

 opportunity, so that our boys and the boys of future generations will 

 enjoy everywhere on earth the blessings that you and I have had. 



The Toastmaster: There are a few things necessary in the prosecution 

 of a war. First we have to get the men to fight, and then we have to 

 provide the equipment— ammunition and guns — to fight with, and clotn- 

 ing and food. The feeding of the men is just as important as any one 

 of the other things. Our government thought it necessary to appoint 

 a Food Administrator, who would make it his job to see that not only 

 our own people but our allies were fed. The Food Administrator thought 

 it necessary to divide up his work. One of the crying needs on the other 

 side is meat; so Mr. Hoover organized a Meat Division, and put Mr. 

 Cotton, of New York, in charge of it. I think we have the very unusual 

 honor of being the first organization which Mr. Cotton has visited. We 

 heard him this afternoon tell us some of his troubles, but he can tell 

 more amusing things if he wants to. 



Mr. Cotton: Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: I came out here 

 to talk to the Iowa men about food, and to say very little with reference 

 to the Food Administration, and I did not realize that I had to have the 

 results we got this afternoon approved by the ladies. 



Practically all that we said this afternoon was to get clearly in all 

 our minds that the work of growing hogs and cattle, altho it is the same 

 work you have been doing before, has a real relation to the war, and to 

 say that it is not so tremendously important what Iowa men make out of 

 it, but it is enormously important that they do it. I came here not so 

 much for what I might say to you as that I should be able to take back 

 a clear vision that Iowa would keep on doing what she has done in the 



