The San Francisco call., 1913-08-17

dress on the occasion already referred
to- Doctor Hunt then said that the
main purpose of the college would be
to cooperate with all other agencies
| which may have for their main pur-
pose the maintenance in California of a
successful family life and to promote
to the greatest extent human ef-
fciency.
In close conjunction with this should
be read his other statement. .that when
couple has taken each other for bet
ter or worse 1t is a crime to permit
any other motive or ambition to pre-
vent the rearing or worthy family
Not that it is necessary for every one
to assume the family relation, but the
human family, he holds as well as
plants and animals. come within the
purview of the activities of agriculture,
of which Doctor Hunt gives this COM
prehensive definition: The economic
production OF living things
Wherefore it seems but a. natural
sequence that the agriculturist we have
been quoting should hold that not only
can no development of agriculture be
considered wise which does not lead to
successful family life but that in
California a proper development of its
agriculture is essential to this end 1t
is the home loving people who inherit
the earth. 1t is the immediate duty of
the college of agriculture through re-
search and education TO make the agri-
culture of California more prosperous.
Through its various divisions 1t is
straining every nerve to solve the ma
teriaI problems which best those
who create wealth from the Soil
Doctor Hunt observed that the fight
| of time had not changed the. agricu1-
tura1 possibilities of those hills and
| valleys, but he called attention to the
obvious fact that "the Aladdin like de,
veIopment that had occurred from I'm
perial to Shasta during so years was
due to a hardy and efficient race OF
people. This race must be perpetu-
ated"
TWO GREAT PROBLEMS
In the opinion of Doctor Hunt the
two great problems before the people
Of California are the humanizing of
| the labor supply and the stabilizing of
the water supply. To illustrate, he
says:
I'm the Salt River valley, Arizona,
approximately .s10,000.O0o has been
expended, including the great Roose-
| yelt dam. to stabilize the water supply
| over 100, 900 acres of the desert under
the irrigation ditch. It was expected
| prise in the United States would fur
nish about 81 worth of water per acre.
! In other words a gross income per
annum of about s500,000 was antici-
pated Although the enterprise has
| scarcely been completed in all its de-
| tails already it has contracts for
! 81 900, 600 worth of electric energy.
It is said that there is nowhere any
more livab1e region than in the foot
/ ,,;l1 Of ho Col a In
can be developed unlimited power with
| out the loss OF any natural resource
except the oil required to lubricate the
machinery. In developing. the power
| the water in the valley will be mob
| ilized. When this rs accomplished
! California will have f0.0oo,00o people
! i'm place of 100000. - - Cover
your hills and fll up your valleys with
homes, and the cities will take care OF
| themselves. ;.
HUMANIZING LABOR
.Hurnanizing the labor supply is a
problem. wider than the confines of
California. If the. agricultural scien-
! lists there learn how. to develop their
state with the least human sacrifice
| it will doubtless be, as Doctor Hunt
believes, through some selective proc
ess of locating people upon the land.
| On this point let us again quote him
| adaptation of the peoples who. now live
| in regions with natural conditions
| similar to our own. Instead Of alluring
| the offscourings we should by some
| selectiye process secure the intelligent,
| thrifty, moral countryman whose gen.
erations of experience will help de-
velop our country. When he arrives he
| ditions with which he has been familiar
and protected until he has his industry
| upon its feet"
| Excellent one Is prompted to say.
! And, IL idealistic, 1t certainly Is the
| right sort of an ideal But this is not
all; 1t is simply step In the progress
| sion. In developing the land it nat
urany occurs that there will be need
| Of expansion, and so the president and
board of regents OF the university are
to be asked to establish new depart
ment in the college of agriculture. sim
] liar, but with a wider scope, to the
United States bureau of plant and seed
! introduction. This department will be
known as the department Of new agri-
cultural industries. To the trained
| agriculturist what a vista does this
suggestion. open upI Again. unable to
! find better expression of this purpose,
let us quote Doctor Hunt.
STUDYING OTHER COUNTRIES
The duty of this department. will be
to study the agricultural industries OF
regions having conditions similar to
| California and to study our own state
with reference to any industries which,
on investigation, may seem desirable
| to transplant. We are told that PaIes-
tine is an exact counterpart of Call
! fornia, except that Palestine is only
/ one-tenth the size. Within this di-
minutive area 1T duplicates the Sacra-
mento and San Joaqein valleys. the
valleys of the coast and the Sierra Ne
vadas and Coast ranges. There is the
same variation in climatic conditions
and. above all, they have a 1000 year
| old agriculture. No one knows what
agricultural lessons this old world
holds in store for us Perhaps it may
yet enable us to become the greater
Palestine of a new civilization"
| Quite pertinently the speaker re-
marked that the discussion had taken
| in century long program and state
wide movement, but he observed: I'VE