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gation may seem desirable to transplant. Last week we 

 were told that Palestine is an exact counterpart of Cali- 

 fornia, except that Palestine is only one-tenth the size. 

 Within this diminutive area it duplicates the Sacramento 

 and San Joaquin valleys, the valleys of the coast and the 

 Sierra Nevadas and Coast Ranges. There is the same vari- 

 ation in climatic conditions and above all they have a four 

 thousand year old agriculture. No one knows what agricul- 

 tural lessons this old world holds in store for us. Perhaps 

 it may yet enable us to become the greater Palestine of a 

 new civilization. 



We have been discussing a century long programme and 

 a state wide movement. Every man and woman in this 

 audience will have been gathered in by Father Time long 

 before our water supply has been fully stabilized and our 

 labor supply fully humanized. We are not now dealing 

 with the individual, but with society. If society is not 

 able to look beyond the confines of its individual members 

 it is doomed to eternal damnation. 



It may have occurred to some of you that the questions 

 which have been discussed are beyond the realm of the 

 institution which I for the moment represent. What has 

 been said is for the purpose of emphasizing the fact that 

 the University of California is perforce the leader of 

 thought in all that relates to the welfare of the State and 

 its College of Agriculture, if it is to be effective, must be 

 the leader in all that relates to the development of Agricul- 

 ture. To fail to accept such leadership would be to fail 

 to understand the responsibility that is placed upon it. Any 

 other attitude upon the part of the people, whose child the 

 institution is, would be reprehensible. 



Pedagogically speaking I use that phrase because I do 

 not know what it means the College of Agriculture has 

 two ambitions: one is to become the post-graduate institu- 

 tion in Agriculture for the western third of the United 

 States, and the other is to supply the demand in California 

 for teachers of agriculture in the secondary schools. To 



