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little over 21 per cent of the total enrollment; and that is the his.tory 

 and condition in practically every educational institution in the country. 

 Our educational institutions have been developed upon lines which enable 

 the students to realize that their country is one of the most important 

 factors, if not the paramount factor in their lives. 



If we felt that this condition which now confronts us is only one of 

 the individual, and that the country as a whole is not particularly In- 

 terested in it, the sacrifice would not be worth while; but under the 

 present circumstances we must feel that this war in which we are now 

 engaged is oeing carried on the, same as every other great war in the 

 history of the world — for some definite, specific purpose — and that we 

 are going to come out of it a better nation, a better people. We are going 

 to have different ideals from those that we have had heretofore, and it 

 is because of the fact that we are contributing the best we have in men, 

 in food, in inventive genius, in munitions, in every factor concerned in 

 the winning of the war. It means that when this war is closed and our 

 part of it is written, the good which is to come out of it in the end must 

 of necessity be greater than any good that has ever come out of any war 

 in the history of the world, because it is the biggest, the most expensive, 

 occupies a greater number of people, and is going to be fought to a more 

 definite and final finish than any that we have ever been engaged in. The 

 live stock men are contributing their share in every way. They are the 

 men upon whom we have depended in times of peace to exercise the best 

 judgment, to contribute to our country the best that has been contributed 

 to it; and we are finding in our section of the country — and I know you 

 are in Iowa— that the live stock men are the ones who are leading in 

 every way in the winning of the war, and contributing their share toward 

 its success. 



The Toastmaster: We are doubly fortunate tonight in having with us 

 the chairman of our State Council of Defense, the Hon. Lafayette Young. 

 He has been spending the entire day outside of the city, came in at 8:40, 

 and was kind enough to come and talk to us a little while. 



Senator Young: I am a member of the meat consumers' association, 

 I am glad to hear our friend from Kansas speak. If I should ever be born 

 again, I am going to select Kansas, just on chance. 



The people of the United States have a big job on their hands — one 

 that they did not seek, but one they can not avoid. The United States 

 never engaged in the war of her own volition; she did not fire the first 

 shot in this war, but she is making arrangements to fire the last one. 

 The United States never engaged in a war that was not for the liberty 

 of our own people and the human race generally. Germany never 

 engaged in a war that was not for her own individual aggrandizement, 

 either in money or lands. 'What we lack in the United States is ap- 

 preciation. We have been shy on patriots. We have not had them in 

 the schools or the churches or the colleges. We have not had patriots 

 on the farms, in the shops, or anywhere else where we should have had 

 them. In my foolish days, I used to lecture a good deal, and I have been 

 at colleges and churches where there were large gatherings of handsome 

 ladies and fine-looking men, with roses on the table, but not a sign of an 



