EIGHTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PAET VII. 333 



portant relations with the industrial people and industrial interests of the 

 great state with which we are connected. It is our business to take 

 the choicest product of our homes, the boys and girls, and in their edu- 

 cation, we trust not in any way inferior in quality or in extent to that 

 which is given in any institution, to so lead them in their educational 

 work that they shall have an intelligent interest in the industrial affairs 

 of the world in which they must live; and it is gratifying to know that 

 when young men and women go out from that institution and others 

 like it they find a place ready for them in the world of affairs. Industrial 

 efficiency is the key word of our school for as we shall be able to 

 progress in the actual industrial efficiency of the individual man and 

 woman, too, shall we be able to keep step with our own progress in other 

 respects. 



We are educating all the time to wider and more varied interests that 

 require wider ministry. Every man in the humblest home today has 

 needs, such as he considers needs at least, which would have been luxuries 

 to his grandfather, and your children have needs which to you are the 

 greatest of luxury, so we must have a like advancement in industrial 

 efficiency so there shall be ability to meet the important needs. 



You in this association are aiming to increase the industral product 

 of the acre, the industrial efficiency of the boy and man and the girl. 

 You are working at two problems just as we are. We want to keep in 

 close touch with you, with your homes and with your interests. We 

 want our young men and young women to be in close contact with the 

 problems with which we are dealing. We aim to have it so and are glad 

 to know when it comes to matters of contest in school and knowledge 

 and application of knowledge, that the student of the college is not 

 second to any. We are glad to have this affiliated relation. We want 

 your interest and support and we want your presence whenever you can 

 give it to us. We are engaged in many phases of the problem in which 

 you are interested, and we want you to know, while you do not always 

 understand just what we are aiming at, we are trying to do something 

 nearly the same as you are and hope sometimes to hit the mark. 



I am very glad, indeed, to have this very pleasant privilege of meet- 

 ing you men. Some of you I recognize and others I do not, but not so 

 much personally as the fact that I do happen to be connected in a sort 

 of way, as the head janitor, you know, with the institution which is 

 your institution and which is interested in the same problems with which 

 you are dealing. 



Mk. Edwards : I spoke to you this morning about this division of 

 the state into different sections and the appointment of local secre- 

 taries in the different divisions. I promised to bring this up later 

 on, after you had time to consider the matter. I am going to leave 

 it to the association as to what to do. If you feel it is the proper 

 thing to do, you can appoint a committee to make this division and 

 allow your secretary to appoint the local secretaries, or follow any 

 plan you desire. I would like to hear from some others in regard 

 to this. 



