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secondary educational lines in Ohio. Mr. Sandles can be of the greatest 

 benefit to us and to this State in saying a few words to us on the work he 

 has been doing out there. Almost all the states are doing better work 

 along this line than Pennsylvania. This Ohio trip shows us what they are 

 doing in Ohio in that direction. I am only too sorry that I am obliged to 

 limit him in his remarks to about eight minutes. 



Mr. a. p. Sandles (President, Ohio Agricultural Commission): 

 How many in this place tonight have at some time in their lives lived on a 

 farm? [Hands raised.] How many now live on farms? [Hands raised.] 

 I imagine that the conference you now have in progress is a good business 

 to be in. I am sure that suggestions will be made here that will enlarge 

 your view and your vision, and your power to do good where good must be 

 done, if the wealth and strength of this nation are to continue and to be 

 perpetuated. We come to your city today one thousand and five, boys and 

 girls, who have accomplishment to their credit. Ohio is getting what it 

 has long needed, and what other states need, and that is, enthusiasm right 

 back in the cornfield and in the kitchen. [Applause.] We have 150 girls 

 who have won prizes at baking, sewing and canning; girls who are emu- 

 lating the housekeeping virtues of their mothers in the kitchen, and that 

 kind of virtue means more than the Tango and Turkey-Trot athletics of 

 modern days. [Applause.] The girl who can cook a meal and bake bread is 

 making fewer divorce cases for the future courts. 



We have with us boys who are working out their own problems, boys 

 who in their eagerness to win are consulting the Director of the Experi- 

 mental Station of Ohio, who is here tonight. Director Thorne. The boys 

 who are getting licked in this contest are good soldiers. They say, ''We 

 will fight again," but before we do it we are going down to the College 

 of Agriculture at Columbus, and we are going to get some scientific knowl- 

 edge, and we will get the measure of that other son-of-a-gun who beat us 

 last year. [Applause.] 



We have here tonight Dean Price, who if he had time could stand up 

 here and testify how the College of Agriculture attendance is multiplying 

 every year, and we are doing something for the boy uniformed in overalls 

 right back in the cornfield. Yesterday when we were in the White House, 

 being royally received there, it was the Log House shaking hands with 

 the White House. 



We are giving to the boys of Ohio the conviction that they can win 

 victories, can see something of the world, and win some of its honors and 

 distinctions on the farm, as well as the boy and girl who lives off the farm. 

 We are giving to the boys and girls in Ohio the opportunity to get thejr 

 names and their pictures in the newspapers of the state of Ohio. Don^t 

 you know I would rather publish the name and picture of the boy who can 

 raise 100 bushels of corn to the acre, or the girl who can win a domestic 

 science contest — I would rather publish that kind of a picture on the first 



