Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-01
PRESIDENT TALKS
TO COLLEGE MEN
MAKES THREE ADDRESSES AT
AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL
Spends Busy Day In Lansing, Mich
Greeted with 'Rahs by Students.
Presents Glass with
Diplomas
By Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
LANSING, Mich, May 31.-After g
strenuous six hours in the state capital,
during which he made three addresses
and held reception at the capitol
President Roosevelt left at 4:2O o'clock
for Washington on the Lake Shore road.
NO untoward incident happened dur
ing the presidents visit and nothing oc'
Cured which in any way excited the
suspicious of the scores of police Of
hcers in the city today.
At the Agricultural building TINS
evening President Roosevelt spoke TO
about $4,000 people from stand erected
on a little knoll at the head OF the
campus. Seated on benches immedi-
ately before the stand were students OF
the college and hundreds of alumni who
have been attending the semi-centen-
NAL celebration of the founding of the
college. Standing on the turf behind
were thousands of people from thls ana
other Michigan cities.
The president concluded his second
address in the state capitol about Ill
o'clock and was driven with his party
to the college, where President j. l..
SNYDER of the institution entertained
them at luncheon. Before walking out
to the platform to begin his address the
president planted a maple tree on the
knoll in President Snyder's yard. The
crowd before the speaking stand was
held in check by national guard regi-
ment which did police duty throughout
the day both in the city and at the
college grounds.
A distinguished company of public
men and educators was seated on the
platform with the president. They in
cluded United States Senators ]. Z.
Il,,t n william A l6an Smith Sec
retary of Agriculture James Wilson and
President J. G. Angel of the University
of Michigan.
College Boys Cheer
The graduating class of the college
jumped to their feet as the president en-
tered the stand and gave three ronsing
"trahs," to which President Roosevelt
responded with a bow and laughing
shout of touch down." which brought
more applause from the student body.
The great assemblage rose and sang
"America," after which President ]. L.
Snyder of the college introduced the
chief executive with merely the words
Ladies and gentlemen, the president of
the United States"
The president was given the closest at
tention and was frequently interrupted
by applause. He interjected formal re-
bringing a great round of laughter and
cheers when he turned toward dozen
women in the graduating class and
said:
81 believe that you young ladies will
make first class farmers wives and
heartily congratulate the farmers of the
future on the uneXampled prospects be-
fore them"
The president also interjected plea
~ Af nnf for.
manual labor "I shall be very disap-
pointed in you boys here" he said to
the graduating class "if you cannot
work with your hands and are afraid to
have your working clothes look as
though you do work.
At the conclusion of the presidents
address the graduating class filed
across the platform and the president
presented to them their diplomas. Hon
orary degrees were conferred upon a
number of distinguished visitors, in
Guiding Clifford Pinchot, Secretary Will
son and President Angel.
President Speaks
In his address on the campus of the
Agricultural college the president took
for his topic: "The Man Who Works
with His Hands," speaking in part, as
follows:
"The fiftieth anniversary of the foun-
dation of this college is an event of
national significance, for Michigan was
the first state in the Union to found
this, the first agricultural college in
America. The nation is to be congrat-
ulated on the fact that the congress at
Washington has repeatedly enacted
laws designed to aid the several states
is established and maintaining agricul-
tural and mechanical colleges.
'I greet all such colleges, through
their representatives who have gath
cred here today, and bid them godspeed
in their work.
Our public schools and our colleges
have done their work well, and there
is no class of our citizens deserving of
heartier praise than the men and
women who teach in them.
1.-THE young man who has the cour-
age and the ability to refuse to enter
the crowded field of the so-called pro-
fessions and to take to constructive in
dustry is almost sure of an ample re-
ward in earnings, in health, in oppor-
tunity to marry early, and to estab-
lish a home with reasonable freedom
from worry.
ITO train boys and girls in merely
literary accomplishments to the total
exclusion of Industrial, manual and
technical training tends to unfit them
for industrial work; and in real life
most work is industrial.
Best Crop Is Children
"But the best crop in the world is
the crop of children; the best products
of the farm are the men and women
reared thereon; and the most in
structive and practical treatises on
farming, necessary though they be, are
no more necessary than the books
which teach us our duty to our neigh
Dor, and above all to the neighbor who
is of our own household.
II have as hearty contempt for the
woman who shirks her duty of bearing
and rearing the children, of doing her
full housewives work, as l have for
the man who is an idler who shirks
his duty of earning living for himself
and for his household, or who is selfish
or brutal toward his wife and children,
I believe in the happiness that comes
from the performance of duty, not from
the avoidance of duty. But I believe
also in trying, each of us, as strength
is given us, to bear one another's bur-
dens; and this especially in our own
homes.
NOTHING outside of home can take
the place of home. The school is an
t.ia ~ i,tnaf m the homo b1,t ~