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ally, it can be better done through the latter method, than by the slip-shod 

 method of yield only. The basis of award in the corn club work, in the 

 30 states which have federated, is based upon the following points: yield, 

 30 per cent; net profit on investment, 30 per cent; exhibit and quality of 

 products, 20 per cent; crop report and story of how I made my crop, 20 per 

 cent. This standard was not the one set by the United States Department 

 of Agriculture, but unanimously accepted by the state leaders of all of 

 these states, as the best workable basis, for the good of the boy, as well as 

 for the good of agriculture. This will encourage the very thing that will 

 be accepted and appreciated by both business men and farmers. 



While passing through an eastern town, not long since, a friend of 

 mine hesitated on the street corner and said, ''Do you see that group of 

 boys over there? Do you notice that they are all using tobacco in some 

 form? One little boy about twelve years old has a cigarette in his mouth, 

 the others either pipes or cigars. I cannot understand why every bo> 

 in this town seems to have for his chief ambition the use of tobacco." I 

 said, "This is easily understood. Those boys want to be men, and it is be- 

 cause the men of the community practically all use tobacco in some form, 

 and they recognis^e at once that one of the easiest things they can learn 

 to do that looks like a man's job is to smoke a pipe or learn to use tobacco. 

 Get your men to quit and make it unmanly, and the boys will all quit, 

 without a word of mouth, or special effort on the part of social workers." 

 Understand I am not endorsing the use of tobacco, but I am pointing 

 a general principle that should be followed in the teaching of girls and 

 boys industrial activity. I know what I am talking about in this regard, 

 as I once was a boy. My father's personal friend was a banker, and when 

 my father came out of the bank, arm in arm with this banker, both of 

 them with cigars in their mouths, and both of them were men that I 

 believed in and admired, the first germ of ^'Oh, to he a man," dawned 

 upon me on that particular day and my first manly effort with a cigar 

 was tried back of the barn. Sick — yes, just a few times, but what does 

 an American boy care for tribulations of this kind if it makes him look 

 like a man, in the end ! And for the encouragement of the boys present 

 may I add that since I became a man I put away childish things. And 

 since my twentieth year I have never used tobacco in any form. Boys, 

 I want you to take a whole acre, and more if you can, for next year, 

 and, like the best farmer in your community, prove that it is profitable 

 to grow corn, select seed corn from the mother stock, string your seed 

 corn and market it under the 4-H Brand Label. 



I have a notion to close right here and not show you any more slides. 

 I have enough of dope on slides and charts to keep you here all night, 

 but I want to leave you in such a way that I may have another invitation 

 to your gracious community. Let me urge that you all together put your 

 shoulders to the wheels of agriculture and home economic progress in 

 the State of Pennsylvania, and encourage the boys and girls to enter 



