Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1916-03-29
THE RACE OF LIFE.
A Talk With the Boys.
{ Progressive Farmcr.D

CThe talk this week is by Joscphus
Daniels, Secretary OF Il. S. Navy.
Before Mr.. Daniels entered the cab
met 'he was editor Of the Raleigh
News. The talk is mainly to tic
corn club bOyS.)
TO the Corn Club Boys:
Everything good comes to the man
who has the corn, for it is the univcr-
sal staif Of lie for every part OF the
republic. We grow buckwheat in
Vermont. wheat in the Dakotas. bar
ley in Minnesota, and breakfast food
in Grand Rapids. and other food for
man or beast in this or that section of
America But corn is the only one
that is proiitably grown in every
State in the Union. No farmer can
be said to be really prosperous. said
an Old farmer once, whose crop does
not transport itself. Therefore, we
convert our corn into hogs and cattle
and Thanksgiving turkeys and Christ
mas roast beef and New Year pos
sums. The high cost OF living never
troubles man who has plenty of
corn. He can put part Of his crop
into corn poncs, part into spare
ribs, and parch some Of it and make
1t into what was called Confederate
cOttee In the South when there was
neither coffee from Brazil nor postum
from Battle Creek.
| repeat that the man who has the
corn is the King OF the Universe. You
have read OF Joseph. He thought he
was rich when he pHradcd up the
Great White Way in the Land of
Canaan wearing his coat OF many
cOlors. and rather looking down on
his brothers who wore jeans and over
alls. They didn't like his airs and
his dreams and so they sold him into
Egypt. and forgot all about him un-
til he began to dream about corn and
shcavCS and to make a corner on corn
in the fertile valley Of the Nile. And
then one day when the corn crop
Jailed in the land of Jacob--and it
failed because there were no boys
corn clubs to make l55 bushels to
the acre-these wicked brethren
rushed off TO Egypt to get corn lest
they die. They didn't care anything
about their long-lost brother. but
hunger made them cry out for corn.
You know the rest Of that illuminate
ing Bible story, and how through
corn the family was invited and Jo-
seph forgave his brethren. For Jo-
seph had the corn. The account OF
how the land yielded seven years Of
plenty is not given us, but have an
idea that Joseph organized corn
clubs ~ every part of the country
from the Great Lakes to the Ohio
River, so to speak--and for seven
years these industrious boys worked
energetically. and each year Joseph
gave a medal to every boy in the
corn club who produced 155 bushels
to the acre, and the competition be-
tween the Egyptian boys grew so
great that the land outdid itself and
Joseph had to build new cribs in
which to store the surplus corn.
Anyhow, it is to you-the Younger
generaton--that we must look in no
small measure to furnish the leader
ship in the future. for our resources
have extended more rapidly than the
, supply OF trained leaders. In the
work the corn clubs have already
done YOU and others like you have
demonstrated your capacity to lead:
You have set standards below Which
Others cannot afford to fall. either for
their own or for the nations sake.
Your leadership is needed not only
in the field Of research. but also in
the field Of application Of the re-
suits secured through research to
agriculture, and especially in the rel
ativcly new undertaking Of providing
instruction in agriculture to the rro-
pie on the farms who cannot attend
schools and colleges
JoscWhus Daniels.
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