No. 6. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 289 



Here is the section known as the First Section. I notice, and 1 have 

 not time to go over the entire section, but just one or two places that 

 the gentlemen stopped at over Sunday in this County of Lancaster. 

 In the first seciiou they started in at Quarryville two days, Lampeter 

 two days and where do you think they stopped over Sunday? Why 

 in Paradise. 



A Member : They came to Lancaster every night from all the insti- 

 tutes over the splendid trolley system. 



DEPUTY SECRETAKY MARTIN: Who would you suppose 

 would have left Paradise lor Lancaster. 



Now just a word, my friends. Ihere are some things that are i^os- 

 sible and some things that are impossible. Ihe most county chair- 

 men understand me with me that when the schedule of places is sent 

 in 1 take up that schedule and under the act covering it I llx the line 

 of travel to bo the most direct and economical in the direction. It 

 is (juite an expensive thing, you understand, liut when this is fixed 

 if it does not meet the convenience and economy the county chairman 

 fully and readily understands that he can transpose that schedule to 

 the way that will be the most convenient to land these speiikers in 

 the most acceptable place to spend the Sabbath day. Sometimes this 

 mav not be fullv consunnuated. We are talking about conditions. 

 There are times where away out eight or ten miles in a splendid farm- 

 ing location in Pennsylvania, where the farmers there are the salt of 

 the earth; they have no trolley lines; they have no permanently con- 

 structed roads; they have none of these conditions; but they have 

 good farms; they are good farmers, and they are entitled to the very 

 best we have got, if it comes on Saturday night, and occasionally we 

 are landed right out there. I stand up here and affirm to these speakers 

 that it is their duty to these farmers and to this Department to en- 

 dure the hardships like good soldiers and give to the farmers out 

 there the best that is in them. There is one thing these good farmers 

 have to be excused for. You are the most sociable people in 

 the world and when you get these men there and you entertain them 

 and you kno\y you have good company, and you only once a year have 

 the oj)portunity to get some knowledge and you want to get it and 

 sometimes you talk tliem to death. They will have to i)ut up with that. 

 I am going to talk ])retty plain with these leaders of sections. I 

 know it is a splendid thing and I appreciate it, to get a good warm 

 bath once or twice and really I believe a man ought to have a bath once 

 a month whelher he needs it or not. But look liere: 1 never went to 

 a farmhouse in my life that they did not either have a good pump or 

 spring of good flowing water and they had a wash basin and tub and 

 a lot of towels and a lot of soap. Ask for the lowel and you will have 

 the soap, and rub yourself off until the blood courses through your 

 veins and gives a vigor like it does to everybody on the farm. That 

 is my view of this matter. 



I stand here and pledge you Ihat so far as we are concerned we 

 stand ready and willing to fix the schedule of these lines of travel 

 to the very greatest conveniences of these lecturers who are under 

 heavy pressure. We know that and we say to you farmers that you 

 on your part will study their highest comfort and convenience. I 



19_6— 1911 



