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to any other institution of Iowa you are a teacher at $35, $40 or 

 $50 a month and you will stay there. Go to Ames and graduate 

 and he a big man and go out where you can do something." He 

 said, "I think I will do that." 



Mr. Wentworth of Marshall County : Mr. President, your com- 

 mittee recognizes the high standing of each of the great educational 

 institutions of the state. We are delegates to an agricultural con- 

 vention. We felt that it was proper for us to confine our resolu- 

 tions to the particular branches of activity in which we are di- 

 rectly interested. It is a crying shame and disgrace that the state 

 of Iowa has been so niggardly in its appropriations to pay living 

 wages to the men who are teaching the younger generations of 

 this state, the boys and girls from sixteen to twenty and twenty- 

 three years of age, in order to enable them to go out into the world 

 and do something for themselves and to make something of them- 

 selves. I am told on most credible authority that there are men 

 teaching in these institutions, men teaching in Ames, men who 

 have spent hundreds and upon whom have been spent in the aggre- 

 gate thousands of dollars to acquire that trained intellect which 

 will enable them to impart to others the lines of least resistance 

 through which to see the object in which they desire to perfect 

 themselves educationally, men working up there for salaries of 

 about $1,000 or $1,200, men of family, not a living wage. And I 

 do not believe that there is one single man in the state of Iowa 

 if he understood those conditions but what would rebel at the very 

 thought that we were treating these men as they have been treated. 

 Every day of my life practically I run across some merchant, some 

 manufacturer, or some man engaged in the various avocations of 

 life, that is criticising, I wont say particularly finding fault, but he 

 is offering endless criticism against the methods of education which 

 have been in vogue in our state. There seems to be a crying need 

 and demand for the vocational or technically trained chap in these 

 days. And it is up to the state of Iowa, as it is up to every in- 

 telligent progressive community, to afford the way for these boys 

 and girls that we think more of than even life itself, to acquire 

 that opportunity and to be given those opportunities. I have been 

 proud as I have sat in the senate chamber and listened to the pleas 

 Mr. Gillilland has put up year after year for adequate appropri- 

 ations along that line, and God grant that this incoming legislature 

 may be made up of Shirley Gillillands and men of progressive 

 ideas along that line that will place the educational institutions of 



