Evening star., 1914-03-08

it prerequisite contened farming population and
to the securing of the best things of life"
WAS the work on that hot August day the
ming outfit and in the cornfield worth while?
You could not ask it had you the faces of these
State boy and girl champions. And the old folk at
home-were those days worth the heart pulse, the
flaming eyes, the throb of mother love and pride that
greeted them back the farm?
There seventvfive boys and girls like John and
Mary who that Washington trip and its week of
dazzling JOY. There hundred thousand of their
kind in our land who striving in this great work
The winning of the Washington trip is not ALL Those
who did win raised themselves above the plane of
ploddng dreary lives. Their efforts in youth will never
be lost With the coming of winters in life their
homes will be brighter their barns fuller their lives the
sweeter for it. No, the winning of the trip is not all
The slver-tongued Bryan. who awoke a nation with
the loness of his "Prnce of Peace looked into their
ewes, and lump in his throat Eight your battles
on higher plane than the battlefield he cried at
better to lift up than to and it is far better to
grow crops than to participate in wars that sarve!'
And the big-hearted Champ Clark, with the whole
some, brusk candor that makes him liked by men,
charged them as father would. Stick to the farm
he said, @and keep out of politics.
Nobody who had the opportunity missed the chance
address them; nobody but who felt it honor to
talk to them For whole week they the capitals
chosen guests. Everybody from the President to the
street newses knew the club boys and the garden
and canning club girls Their pictures and their records
filled the dailes.
wish YOU could have seen Walker Lee Dunson Of
Alexander City, Alabama, the fourteen year-old boy
who broke the world record this last when he
produced 1927 bushels of of land at
cost of less than twenty cents a bushe!.
He didn't look bit puffed up over it, over all the
things the Secretary of Agriculture said about him. He
took it all with the nonchalance of veteran.
But the girls Little Hattie Holbrool, from away
out in Utah, for instancehow her cheeks famed and
her parked she stepped the lawn to take
her diploma from the Secretary! Do YOU know what
Hattie did to win that trip to Washington Well, she
led sixteen thousand club members. She took four first
prizes and second her State Fair, by having the
best flower garden Of petunas and for excelling
in sewing; for putting up and better canned fruits
and vegetables than the others; for making the best
starch from potato culls. And such modest, quiet
little soul she is!
And there her team mate Merle Hyer, the
eneen old potato club boy champion from Utah.
Merle raised 764 bushels of potatoes of
Utah land Of drouth, and at cost of less
than eight cents b1she He cleared S39S4O on that
piece OF land Look that YOU who say there is
nothing in farming!
From New Jersey they came, and Massachusetts,,
from the far South and the far North Why, there's
railroad in New Jersey that be the girls of the canning
clubs for all the canned they put up 1t
wants quality products. One little girl sold this
poraton 4O4 cans at dollar and ten cents dozen.
The local dealers bid for them The railroads went