Marble Hill press., 1915-01-28

OH tne 0tner hand the waste in
America. But after all we could
only be glad that We We're Americans
when we saw the crude farming i'm
plenlents and rude home life in CON
trasl to our splendid machinery and
thrifty farm home.
The thing of most interest and ex.
citement perhaps during the week
was the visit of Governor Major
I On his arrival Tuesday a salute was
fired by the University Ca lets Tnat
night the auditorium was pac,ed
with farmers, students aud citizens
OF Columbia. The Governo. gave
an interesting account of his boy
hood on thc old home in Pike county.
including very humorous dcscrip-
ton OF his first visit TO a Couniy
fair. He and his brother, he said,
dressed IN cotton shirts, and trousers
bagIlns at the knees, both rode the
Old gray sway-backed mare, On
reaching their destination, they
hitched the old mare on the outside
and crawled through hole in the
wall TO avoid the entrance fee, in
order to save the ten cents their
father had given each Of them. After
going the rounds and seeing greater
sights than he had since beheld in
all his travels, he finally decided to
make an investment, rich he al
iirned was greater than any j P.
Morgan had ever made, for it was
half of all he possessed. This was
five cents with which he bought
three balls to throw at the head of
a negro. Each time he succeeded in
hitting the negro, for which feat in
Workmanship he received fifty cents,
and actually thought himself able to
buy out John D. Rockefeller and
pay him in advance, He concluded
the story by saying that he WAS
proud of all those experiences, and
that they were the very things that
had made him what he is now.
Since Farmers week this year
was the celebration of the fiftieth
anniversary of the founding of the
State Board of Agriculture it was
especially important that the event
be made of as great significance as
possible and there was nothing
which would have added more to
the making of this event memorable |
than the presence of the man at the |
head OF the department Of Agricul- |
ture in the presidents cabinet unless
il would have been the president I
himself. Secretary Houston spoke
in the Universary auditorium on
Thursday afternoon and the hall
was packed to overf1owing, 1t was,
in fact, so crowded as to make it
uncomfortable for those who had to
stand. On this account some were
disappointed with the speech be-
cause Mr.. Houston made no high
fights in oratory nor attempted to
make rhetorical word painting pleas
Ing to the thoughtless. His effort
was one designed more especially to
the man who deals with
facts and in that respect we thought
ii the most valuable of the many
things We heard Secretary Houston
is MiSSourian and he told us the
things which the administration had
done not only for the farmers of
Missouri but for the farmers of the
nation. Ii was to us the crownine
feature of the whole event for after
the visiting farmers had come to
feel the importance of their most
noble work in all its noble features,
an agent Of the peoples president
,ame forth TO tell the farmers what
III national government was doing
or his benefit Ii was a fitting eli
max for notable event and Column
'ia, the University and the visiting
armers were extremely gratitied by l
he secretarv's visit. After his
peech the whole assembly gathered l
ut of doors for a picture the like of
'hich was perhaps never eQualled '
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