THE DEMONSTRATION WORK 



Agent. His investigation and study of rudimentary civiliza- 

 tions in the East gave him a different point of view from the 

 tourists who visit the cathedrals, art galleries and parliament 

 houses abroad. He hired his interpreter and explored farms 

 ^/ of British India. He was far back among the half clad Fili- 

 pinos when the insurrection broke out following the Spanish 

 War and the American occupation of the Islands. He was 

 arrested by Aguinaldo's troops and was in danger of the 

 traditional treatment before sunrise, but he convinced the 

 minions of the Malay chief that he was the representative of 

 the great white father and engaged in the peaceful pursuit 

 of agriculture rather than in the destruction of his fellowmen. 

 His extensive visits to China and Japan must have given him 

 points of contrast, as well as comparison, when it came to an 

 analysis of conditions and the planning of methods for 

 the great movement in our American civilization. Bishop 

 Gruntdvig, who was the great educational reformer of Den- 

 mark, said that any educational movement that is worth 

 teaching at all is worth teaching historically. Out of the 

 richness of the history of Dr. Kjiapp's life come floods of 

 light on his mental attitude and processes of thought in the 

 establishment of the Demonstration Work. He always tried 

 to go to the bottom of the subject, and after full investigation, 

 he threw himself into the task with unbounded enthusiasm. 

 He once told Chancellor Barrow, of the University of Georgia, 

 ' ' That the South was destined to become a great agricultural 

 country and that the Southern people would be conservators 

 of the best American traditions." Chancellor Barrow asked 

 him why he thought so. He said : ' ' Because the germinating 

 power of the South is five times as great as that of any other 

 part of the country and your people are the purest anglo- 

 saxon." In an address to the students of Clemson College, 



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