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success of this Congress. Many others have contributed handsomely 

 toward it. I know you have had a splendid 3-days program and I am 

 satisfied you have been given a very cordial welcome and I hope you will 

 come again. 



I thank you. 



SECRETARY FAXON: 



All members of all committees — the retiring Executive Committee, the 

 new Executive Committee, the Committee on Resolutions, the Committee on 

 Nominations — are asked to remain in the room for a very few minutes. 



This announcement is made at the request of Chairman Drummond 

 of the retiring Executive Committee. 



The Congress was then at recess until 1:30 o'clock. 



THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1914 



AFTERNOON SESSION 



SECRETARY FAXON: 



The Congress will be in order. The session of this afternoon includes 

 one address, and then the transaction of the routine business of which 

 there is considerable. The chair will be in possession of Vice-President 

 H. M. Bainer, of Texas, who will now take charge of the session. 



MR. BAINER: 



We are going to depart from the regular program as printed, this 

 afternoon, and the first thing on the program will be an address by 

 P. E. Crabtree, Specialist in Farm Management, Kansas State Agricultural 

 College, who will address you on the subject of "'College Extension Service." 

 Mr. Crabtree. 



Address of Mr. Crabtree 

 COLLEGE EXTENSION SERVICE 



"College Extension Service" is a service comparatively new, little under- 

 stood — by the general public — and of increasing interest. We may well 

 consider it, briefly, from three points of view: 



Why College? 



Why Extension? 



Why Service? 



"Why College?" 



A human being is born. It inherits, of physical ability, about eight 

 pounds — of mental ability, not much — about the same as the calf or the 

 colt. Morally, it is all right in the beginning. Obviously, the duty is to 

 build up the next 150 pounds of the right kind of material, to possess it 

 with a mentality equal to the occasion in every respect, and to keep the 

 moral strength untarnished, unreproachable. 



A man or a woman can only hope to attain to the high plain and 



