The Yale expositor., 1913-03-27
"THE DAWN OF PLENTY"
An illustrated Lecture Full of Inter-
esting Pictures, Etc.


estins Pictures, Etc.
1t was a great pity that the weather
conditions OH Wednesday were such
that il was almost impossible for the
people from the country TO get in to
attend the lecture at Central Hall, and
very few farmers were present.
7 The tOwnspeOple however, filled the
hall and enjoyed to the utmost the treat
given, The lecture by Frank Stock
dale, had for its subject "rhe Dawn of
Plenty" and his remarks were i!lusirat-
ed by motion pictures and views.
The lecture was fine thing and Mr..
Stockdale is All eloquent and bright
speaker. The whole was replete with
information and instruction expressed
Interestingly and with plenty of humor.
No wonder he is called "The Mirthful
Orator with a Message"
In presenting the story of "The
Dawn of Plenty" emphasized with col
ored views and motion pictures, Frank
Stockdale made plain the reason for
our wonderful progress during the past
century. He showed how agriculture
is the foundation of all progress and
civilization, how people must be well
fed before they can be anything else,
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the world are the leaders of the world.
Among the strong sentences spoke by
Mr. Stockdale, we caught the follow
ing:
Every morning the WORLD wakes up
hungry.
I he history of the world is the record
Of mans struggle for food.
The ancients died like flies as the re-
suit of famine.
War was a business-a means of get
ting bread.
The ancients sought empire, fame
and genius, but failed to realize the
simple truth that the basis of civiliZa-
ton is bread
They lived on poorer rations than
the average tramp who calls at our
kitchen door.
They were poor farmers, bound to
the soil by the land tools of slayes.
A few centuries ago il required five
days of drudgery to raise bushel of
wheat, today it takes only ten minutes
labor to produce the same results.
At the beginning of the nineteenth
century nine-tenths of the people were
still on the farm.
Today two-thirds of these people are
doing other useful Notwithstanding
and manufacturing the comforts of
life.
The wise men of the East ignored
the farmer and their children paid the
penalty of starvation.
We in America are what we are be-
cause we have been doing what we
have been doing.
Only 80 years ago there was no Cali
fOrnia, no. Minnesota, no Texas, no
Kansas or Nebraska, no newspaper in
Wisconsin, and no house in Iowa.
In 1881 san Francisco was a little
fort guarding the Golden Gate, and
Chicago was village Of twelve fami.
lies in a great prairie swamp.
We live in the greatest hour in the
greatest day aud in the greatest country
the world has ever seen, made possible
by the progressive American farmer.
The most important business in the
worlI is farming.
No matter what man may wish to
do for the happiness of himself or
brother, his first necessity is food
Every sunset sees the wide and fer
tile fields of America bring forth har-
vests worth $24,000,000.
Abraham Lincoln never said "hello
central" never lodged an automobile
ueNcE utlu StTdp Ill lrOllty Gar
never pushed a button for light, never
heard of an aeroplane, never listened
tosa monograph, and never posed for a
motion picture; and yet Abraham Lin
coin died only AZ years ago.
A trip around the world shows that
the tools of the farmer are the sign
posts of civilization.
When you see how people live, you
know how they farm,
The Romans builded their temples
on the shoulders Of the common peo
pie, but they fell in ruins-monuments
to misery rather than TO magnitlcence
Civilization is an exact proportion to
the number of honest and indast rious
men and women.
The wheat map of the world is also
map of the highest civilization in the
world.
Plenty is mother not only to the
comforts but also to the virtues of hu
mainly.
This new world of ours was born OF
faith and courage.
This spirit has given us religious
freedom, political liberty, and made
this the garden spot of the world.