THIRTEENTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART V 233 



I notice a few professors from Ames here and I suppose there are 

 some professors here from other educational institutions. It is a good 

 thing to have these educators meet with this fair association. The criti- 

 cism I have to make of our educational institutions is this: We pay 

 men good salaries — maybe not as high as we ought to — and they dig 

 away year after year working in science and mathematics and these 

 various other studies and then give this information out only to' the people 

 who can afford to attend these institutions for a period of years. My 

 criticism of the educational institutions of the state is that the knowledge 

 which these professors have and the discoveries which they make are 

 not reaching a large enough percentage of the people of the state. What 

 the state ought to do is to take the results that these professors are obtain- 

 ing and carry them out to the people of the state. 



A boy is living on a farm. He has never passed through the. high 

 school and therefore cannot pass the entrance examination to any state 

 school. He has to take care of himself. The boy who has had high 

 school advantages, who can pass the entrance examination, can get into 

 the state school. The state furnishes to the boy who wants to be a lawyer 

 an opportunity to become a lawyer. When the state invests her money 

 for education it is her business to invest it so that the investment will 

 reach the individuals that need the education and those individuals who 

 need this education are the ones far away from the centers, the ones 

 v/ho are not liable to get to these centers of education. 



This suggestion in reference to educational institutions is one that can 

 be fairly made to the state fair association.' There is a new industry 

 in this country. It is the moving picture industry. I do not know whether 

 it can be worked out now or not, but I believe that the moving picture 

 can be made a part of our great educational system in this state. There 

 is an agitation on now for clean pictures; some of the preachefs are 

 fussing around about these picture shows trying to have it arranged so 

 that only clean pictures can be shown. This is all right; we want clean 

 pictures. You will never get clean pictures, however, by passing law^s 

 against dirty pictures. The state will get clean pictures when the state 

 sees to it that clean pictures are furnished. Whose business is it to 

 furnish these clean pictures? It is the business of the people and you 

 are the people. You represent Iowa and it is your duty to initiate these 

 things. Oh, I know how you feel because I have been sitting back of 

 one of these desks. I have had men who are interested in these things, 

 who have seen the opportunities and the possibilities and yet they would 

 sneak up to my desk and say, "I beg your pardon; I am awfully sorry 

 to encroach upon your valuable time, but if we had a little money we 

 could scatter this information we have been accumulating here." Gentle- 

 men, I say do not go to the legislature and beg; go to them and demand 

 rights. You are the representatives of the people of Iowa and you have 

 a right' to demand these things. That is what you are put in these posi- 

 tions for. You are not doing your duty to the people unless you do 

 present these needs in an open and manly way to the legislature. If 

 the legislature does not send men here big enough to listen and meet 



