THE DEMONSTRATION WORK 



"Teachers! You must help create sentiments of thrift and 

 establish habits of industry or this nation will drift to wreckage. 

 The greatest opportunity in the history of the world for the molding 

 of a strong people and the establishment of a mighty nation will 

 culminate in disaster if we discard such corner stones as labor and 

 thrift. Idleness and lack of thrift will undermine intellect, weaken 

 physical vigor and personal courage, and waste the fairest heritage 

 that ever fell to the fortunes of men." 



"Politeness is the material expression given to human kindness." 



"There is many a man planning to sell his paternal acres in the 

 country for a pittance and invest the proceeds in a cottage in the 

 town — and then earn the support of his family by daily toil. It is 

 the act of an irrational man. He does not stop to think that that 

 farm will give him a home and support and soon quadruple in value. 

 He fails to note the possibiltiies of rapidly increasing his wealth by 

 the planting of valuable trees, and he voluntarily exchanges the 

 rights of a king and the privileges of a freeman for a daily wage and 

 the badge of service." 



"If we have no more time than necessary to become perfect in 

 the knowledge of one country, let that country be our own. Study 

 the history, the language, the soil, the climate, the animals, the birds, 

 the plants and all the conditions that make for home success and com- 

 fort. If still there be inclination, leisure and means, then extend the 

 researches into foreign lands." 



"What can you, teachers, do to help our rural conditions? 

 Everything. You are an essential part of the greatest of all univer- 

 sities — the home. You have charge of the extension courses. You 

 can inspire in youth a love of knowledge and make all its avenues 

 look delightful. You can unlock the books, which are treasure 

 houses of human wisdom, and give them a golden key. You can 

 cause the soil to become more responsive to the touch of industry 

 and the harvest more abundant to meet the measure of a larger hope. 

 You can add to the comforts of the home, shape its environment 

 into lines of beauty and increase its attractiveness, till the home shall 

 become the greatest magnet of our people." 



"You can create a love of investigation and give it direction. 

 You can enlarge the knowledge of the people in common things and 

 thus lay the foundation of common sense. At your instance, fingers 



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