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supplemented in time by another great 

 industry, the vegetable-canning industry. 

 I should not be surprised to find the peas 

 of the future raised in that snowbound 

 country and canned there. The finest 

 turnips that I have ever eaten and the 

 largest and crispest celery came from 

 Alaska. And there is a territory of 600,- 

 000,000 acres almost untouched that be- 

 longs to your Uncle Sam. 



THE WONDERFUL STATE OE WASHINGTON 



You come on down the coast to the 

 State of Washington. There we have at 

 one point the largest rainfall of any point 

 in the United States — 150 inches. And 

 on the other side of the State is or was 

 the great desert of the Columbia basin. 

 Land that I could have bought for $1.25 

 an acre is today selling for $1,000 an 

 acre. Why ? Because we have invested 

 a little money in taking the waters that 

 flowed down from Mount Tacoma ( or 

 Mount Rainier) and, turning them upon 

 that land, have planted apples. One of 

 the apples planted here comes from the 

 Hudson River. The people of New York 

 State did not care for and love this fruit 

 as those people did out there. They have 

 taken the Delicious apple as you know it, 

 pruned it, watered it, sorted it, cared for 

 it, until now it makes that land worth 

 $1,500 to $2,000 an acre. 



The dominant feature in the landscape 

 in the State of Washington is Mount 

 Rainier. I like the name Tacoma be- 

 cause it is an Indian name. Rainier was 

 the name of an admiral who saw this 

 splendid place. Tacoma was the Indian 

 name and means "The feeding breast" ; 

 and when you see the mountain you will 

 realize where the Indians got that name, 

 because from every side come down 

 rivers which make for the strength, the 

 beauty, and the wealth of the country. 



Here is one of our great parks ; and I 

 have stood therein with the snow of the 

 glacier in one hand, and touched with the 

 other the blossoming wild flowers. 



THE STATE'S GREATEST TREASURE 



That State is rich in mines, rich in agri- 

 cultural land, rich in power possibilities. 

 It has hundreds of thousands of acres of 

 land that are practically desert and that 

 can be reclaimed and brought into use- 

 fulness by use of the water of the Colum- 

 bia River. 



And yet the most significant thing in 

 that State is the State University. I saw 

 Seattle when it was a frontier town, and 

 there was little thought then of its pos- 

 sessing a great university ; but there are 

 6,000 students in the University of Wash- 

 ington today, and that State is only 30 

 years old. This fact indicates better than 

 anything else can the trend of American 

 life. America has in her mind the pur- 

 pose to do things that make for a richer 

 country not only materially but also in- 

 tellectually. 



You come down from Washington to 

 Oregon, with its long line of mountains, 

 its majestic river, its vast forests. There 

 is one outstanding scenic feature of nov- 

 elty, Crater Lake. The top was blown 

 off a volcano, and in the center of that 

 crater we find the most exquisite bit of 

 water — a thing without parallel in color 

 in this country, perhaps in the world. 



And there is abundant land yet to be 

 had "where rolls the Oregon." We have 

 recently brought back to the United 

 States a strip of land ten miles wide and 

 300 miles long which was granted to the 

 Oregon and California Railroad, and that 

 land has been thrown open to home- 

 steaders. 



WHY THERE ARE "CALIFORNIACS" 



Go farther south and you come to 

 California. Being a Calif ornian, I must 

 speak with some degree of modesty re- 

 garding that State, though that is said 

 not to be characteristic of the Cali- 

 fornian. 



Let me tell you a story : I went over 

 to Baltimore to speak to a Methodist con- 

 ference some time ago. I met there a 

 splendid-looking man. with a long, flow- 

 ing, white beard, and I said to him, "Do 

 you preach in this section of the coun- 

 try?" He said. "Yes, sir; I come from 

 the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Have 

 you ever been on the Eastern Shore ?" 



I said, "No ; I am sorry to say that I 

 have seen every other beauty spot in this 

 country, I believe, but I never have seen 

 that." ' 



"Well." he said to me. "we love that 

 country. I have been preaching there f or 

 66 years. We are a strange people and 

 we have some strange legends, and one of 

 them is that a long, long time ago, when 

 Adam and Eve lived in the Garden of 



