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other motive or ambition to prevent the rearing of a worthy 

 family. A man's business should be his means of making 

 a successful home and not the means of getting a front 

 page illustration. Between the age of twenty-five and fifty 

 the wife may well assist in this enterprise. 



I was permitted recently to sit at the table of a capable 

 woman. She exclaimed: "I am a free woman. I am 

 fifty. I no longer need to conceal my age." According 

 to the law of probabilities this woman has twenty years 

 to devote through education and politics to promoting the 

 social welfare. The women of her class have the power 

 to become through their mature judgment and culture the 

 greatest and most benign influence in every community. 



It is so plain that he who runs may read that not only 

 can no development of agriculture be considered wise which 

 does not lead to a successful family life, but that in Cali- 

 fornia a proper development of its agriculture is essential 

 to this end. The acceptance of this doctrine by the Anglo- 

 Saxon race would solve many if not most of the difficulties 

 which beset the body politic. It is the home-loving people 

 who inherit the earth. It is the immediate duty of the 

 College of Agriculture through research and education to 

 make the agriculture of California more prosperous. 

 Through its various divisions, it is straining every nerve 

 to solve the material problems which beset those who create 

 wealth from the soil. It is its chief duty, however, to 

 develop those methods of agriculture which are of greatest 

 benefit to society. The College of Agriculture is not pri- 

 marily interested in whether the profits of agriculture 

 enable the ranchman to substitute for his $3000 automo- 

 bile a $5000 motor car, but it conceives its chief concern 

 to be a prosperity that leads to the proper economic, social, 

 moral, and spiritual ideals in the community. 



When the interests of the individual and those of society 

 become opposing forces, then here as elsewhere in the his- 

 tory of the human race individual interests must be sacri- 

 ficed for the benefit of the common good. Lest I be mis- 



