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army and navy enough every year to construct homes sufficient to house 

 a miUion people. We expend upon the bloody arts of war $250,000,000. 

 We expend upon agriculture, the fruitful arts of peace only $17,000,000 a 

 year. Of course we must deal with conditions as they are. I wish it 

 were possible for us to arrange with all the powers of the earth to let 

 the Republic stand for one brief year undisturbed and undestroyed, so 

 that during that brief year we could expend $250,000,000 upon agriculture, 

 upon internal improvements upon rivers and harbors, upon public high- 

 ways — $250,000,000 to make life worth the living, and expend only 

 $17,000,000 preparing for the butchery of our brethren. 



Of course, I know, and you know, that the Golden Age has not come 

 and, perchance, is not coming, when the war trumpets shall throb no 

 longer, and the battle flag be furled; but let us hope the tendency is 

 toward the time when the nations of the earth will cease to determine 

 which is right and which is wrong by the amount of bloodshed and 

 slaughter one is able to inflict upon the other. Let us hope the tendency 

 is towards the time when we will regard as the greatest hero the man who 

 makes two ears of corn grow where one had grown before, or, what is 

 better still, makes one ear of corn grow where none had grown before. 

 I hope the tendency is toward the time when we will look upon that man 

 as a greater hero than he who takes a city, when we will regard the man 

 with the hoe a more glorious citizen, and a more useful citizen, than the 

 conqueror who wades through slaughter to the throne. 



Mr. Calwell: We all appreciate that address of Senator Gore's. 

 It has been practical. We are very glad to be in closer touch with the 

 service the Government is rendering and is going to render the country 

 in that farm extension work it is going to make in every state. That 

 sounds like a very good idea to me. I would like to ask if Senator Gore 

 would let us have some information about that bill, the number of the 

 bill or what the bill is called, so that this organization and the bankers of 

 Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland will be able to get 

 together and request their senators and representatives to take an espe- 

 cially active interest in that work. The Senator also mentioned the 

 waste in cotton of $25,000,000 and said perhaps we had a sympathetic 

 interest in that statement. We have a very active interest in that. 

 Philadelphia is the cotton yarn center of the United States. We have 

 a ticker in the bank, and more people come to see the quotations of cotton 

 than come in to see the quotations of the stock exchange. Every manu- 

 facturer in Kensington and Manayunk is complaining today of the rise 

 of the cost of cotton yam. So we are just as interested in saving 

 that $25,000,000 as Oklahoma or any other state in the West or the 

 South. 



Dr. Carver was mentioned in connection with the Market Bureau. 

 We are going to have Dr. Carver speak to-morrow morning, and I think 



