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of that a great many times. They are boys, bright boys, but it is not in 

 them to study, they are spoiling for something toi do, and one of the 

 greatest needs of the day is skilled labor. The day of apprenticeship 

 is past. You hear of apprentices across the water and of skilled labor. 

 They do not come from "Joes," they are men that know everything about 

 one thing. One of the greatest needs of the hour is skilled labor. This 

 country suffers today from unskilled, bungling labor, and one of the 

 greatest, needs is to take these boys and give them an industrial training. 

 Get a big dairy school, and see the boys that will go into it, and com<e 

 out skilled dairymen; see what good wages they will command-; they will 

 be picked up just as soon as they are skilled workmen. 



Another need of today, and I promised myself I would be brief tonight, 

 is more sermon in shoes. Most men and women that are living every day 

 of their lives the precepts taught by that man who "spake like never man 

 spake," when he gave to us the golden rule, "Do unto others as ye would 

 that men should do unto you." The trouble is that they turn the thing 

 right around and say, "Do unto others that they do unto you," and a great 

 deal more not less preaching nor more precept; more sermons in shoes. 

 Some men and women who not only say "Lord, "Lord" on the Sabbath day, 

 but who are sweet, loving, kind, and tender in their homes seven days in 

 the week, four weeks in the month, and twelve months in the year. That 

 is the thing we need today, to set a higher plane and teach the children 

 that God has given us how to live higher and better and wiser that you 

 and I have done. 



I remember so well at the World's Fair; you saw the same thing but 

 I do not know whether it impressed you as it impressed me. I came in 

 a door at one of these buildings and I stood by the side of some* of those 

 tapestry looms and I saw them throwing the shuttle back and forth with 

 the varied threads that made the beautiful work in the pattern. They 

 kept their eyes on the pattern still weaving back and forth and every 

 time they fastened the threads they tied it on the side next them. As I 

 looked over their shoulders at what they were weaving and looked at the 

 pattern, I saw very little resemblance and thought it was anything but 



