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eral or State treasury to such work may be amply justified. The 
chief problem will always be that of co-operation and correlation 
of work. Adequate intelligence and willingness of mind will always 
solve that issue. 
In conclusion let me indicate that the contest of the future will, 
be between the two great forces represented by the police officer and 
the teacher. ‘he former represents the repressive and protective 
functions of government, while the latter represents the de- 
velopmental functions. As intelligence increases and education pro- 
duces its ripened fruit the office of the former will grow less while 
education will make a constantly increasing field for itself. The 
police functions will become less the representative of force and 
more that of direction and guidance. The ascendancy of the future 
will be given to intelligence. Government will concern itself more 
with the problems of construction, of investigation, of teaching, 
and with such other activities as will develop both men and re- 
sources. Government by the people will be increasingly for the peo- 
ple. World building enterprises will occupy us not so much for the 
worlds we shall build as for the men we shall develop. In these in- 
terests there should be and will be no antagonism between the 
Federal and State governments. The happy co-operation of a 
brief generation is ample proof that one’s successors in duty and 
office inspired by a high patriotism and a love of country will carry 
on the work so that the earth will yield her increase and that 
America will remain for her increasing millions the land of abund- 
ant opportunity. 
LESSONS OF TO-DAY. 
Loh BALE EN. 
The New York State College of Agriculture is glad of this op- 
portunity to extend its congratulations to its sister and neighbor in- 
stitution on the completion of its quarter centennary. This has 
been a quarter century of pioneering and of experiment in experi- 
menting; but for the New York Agricultural Experiment Station it 
has also been an epoch of substantial leadership and of great and 
lasting accomplishment. It is only necessary to recall the names of 
those who have successively composed its staff, to collect the bul- 
letins and reports it has published, and to remember the public ser- 
