EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK — PART VII W6 



and the hog being the greatest fat producer of any animal that grows, it 

 means that you will contribute the greatest share in that particular to- 

 wards the winning of the war. 



We have learned in recent months to take an entirely different view- 

 point toward our industries than we have ever taken before. Hereto- 

 fore at these meetings, it has been customary for the men who were 

 discussing the various subjects on the program to confine their remarks 

 almost entirely to the immediate profit which they were going to get out 

 of their efforts, to look toward the evils which were pursuing them and 

 would reduce their profits. Today we have not heard a word of discour- 

 agement toward any other industry as it is related to ours, nor a word 

 of dissatisfaction in regard to the condition of our industry; but we are 

 all here together to take what is coming to us and to do our share, and 

 do it cheerfully, regardless of almost anything that may happen. That 

 is the attitude of the live stock men in every state in our Union; they 

 are big, broad-minded men, who are ready to contribute in every possible 

 manner toward the winning of the war, which we of course all realize 

 is the biggest job that has ever been set up before our country. 



Now, coming from an educational institution, I can not help but call 

 your attention to a few things in connection with the winning of the war. 

 There never has been a time in the history of our country when an 

 education on the part of an individual citizen has been so valuable to our 

 country as it is today. We find in our state, and you find in yours, that in 

 the selection of the additional officers to command our armies the first 

 requisite that the United States army has made has been that those men 

 should be educated men. I don't know how many of our self-made cattle 

 men in Kansas who have not had the opportunity of obtaining a college 

 education have come to me and said that this was the first time in their 

 lives that they ever came up point-blank against a proposition that they 

 were unable to put over, simply because of the fact that they were not 

 classified as educated men. The president of our local Hereford Cattle 

 Breeders' Association came to me less than a week ago, and said that he 

 had tried to get into the first officers' training camp, and into the second 

 officers' training camp. He is as good a citizen as we have. He is of 

 draft age, and he said that the only reason he was turned down in either 

 instance was because of the fact that his education had not been suffi- 

 cient. He is one of the most progressive, shrewd, keen men we have in 

 the state, and yet that one thing has kept him from doing his part as he 

 felt that he could do it most efficiently. He is a man who is able to 

 command men; he has employed men and has done it successfully; and 

 he is a man in whom everyone has confidence. The men who work for 

 him consider him one of the most liberal employers in the state. I cite 

 that as an indication of the tendency in our country toward educating 

 the larger proportion of our citizens — what it has meant in the past and 

 what it will mean in the future. 



I just happen to have a list made up of the men who were in attendance 

 at our institution last year in the animal husbandry work, and while but 

 one and a half per cent of our total population are now under arms, the 

 junior and senior students are now under the colors to the extent of a 



