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"HOW MUCH CAN I PUT INTO IT.*" 



In conclusion let me say this: We are all today in the great wheel 

 of Progress; we are all placed in certain segments, and the strength of each 

 segment depends upon the individual service of the people in that segment, 

 tbeir love of country and love of community. You can't do the job without 

 loving your neighbor. Do something every day for somebody else. Learn 

 to love each other more than you do. There isn't a mother who gave up 

 a boy, nor a sister or father, that said before the war, "Well, what do I 

 get out of it by giving that boy?" There wasn't a boy who put the uniform 

 on that said, "What is there in it for me? What do I get out of it? I go over 

 there and fight for you men, but what do I get out of it?" He didn't say 

 that. They learned the big idea in life, "That it is a good thing to serve." 

 There* wasn't a mother who said: "Your boy can go first and be killed. Let 

 my boy be second, or third." No, the mothers turned like loyal women and 

 said, "Take my boy and, if necessary, his life; he must fight for his country 

 first." That was the spirit that won the war. 



Let us go forward as neighbors and' friends all over the state of Illinois. 

 The St. Louis Chamber of Commerce will be glad to help. We want to work 

 with you. We want you to work with us. We are only a part of you. 

 Therefore, let us go forth all of us in life and follow the great motto that 

 it isn't a question of how much I can get out of it, but let us say to our- 

 selves every day: "How much can I put into it?" 



PRESIDENT MANN: The rules provide that the president of the In- 

 stitute each year shall give a short address, and if you will stay a little 

 longer we will impose that on you. 



PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS. 

 (Frank I. Mann.) 



Th last act in Creation was the creation of man, and to man was given 

 dominion over all that had been created, with three injunctions: to multiply, 

 replenish the earth and subdue it. The human race has multiplied 1 until 



it covers the four corners of the earth; the wild 

 plants and wild animals have been subdued for 

 the use of man, as evidenced by the wonderful 

 wheat plant from the wild weed and the more 

 wonderful dairy cow from the wild beast; but 

 no people have ever yet replenished the earth. 

 Because the earth has not been replenished, 

 there have been wars, famines, pestilences, 

 crimes and ignorances: wars of conquest, for 

 land on which to grow food; famines, because 

 of land exhaustion; pestilences, because of in- 

 adequate food; crimes and ignorance, because 

 pepole cannot develop morally and intellectu- 

 ally when they must struggle for mere physi- 

 cal existence. Wars will not cease, nor will 

 crime and ignorance be overcome until the in- 

 junction to replenish the earth is observed. 



Frank I. Mann 



A LEADER IN ORGANIZATION. 



For the first time in the world's history there 

 are organizations of men founded on the prin- 

 ciples of the earth's replenishment. The Illi- 

 nois Farmers' Institute took the lead among these organizations, and it 

 has been steadfast in its extension of these principles. It was because of the 

 efforts of this organization that the University of Illinois through its Col- 

 lege of Agriculture made a study of the soils and soil problems, and de- 

 veloped the Illinois Permanent System of Agriculture, the fundamental prin- 

 ciple of which is replenishment. It. was largely through the efforts of the 



