The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-26
]. r. Deems Speaking at Iowa State
Fair Tells Three Aims He
Should Have for Success
In Work.
User ORGANIZATION
Speaker Would Like to See Every One
Acting Together In Order to
Establish Desired
Aims.
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DIES MONIES, Iowa, Aug. 26.-That
education, organization and feruliza-
ton should be the triple slogan OF the
Iowa farmer, was the text OF the
speech of j. f. Deems on farm bureau
day at the Iowa state fair
This is not time for sentimental
tribulation, for soap bubbles of ora
tory and souffle phrases he said,
land 1t is significant fact that, chris
tianity was born in the lap of war. In
the present period we must take on
Peace whether we will or not. and the
great world problm will be solved, as
all such questions have always been
solved, 10y work and not wind, by
strong men of action, not by windy
warblers.
ANY student of history knows that
after every great war new conditions
have come forth, new nations have
cmerged-or nations with new ideals
and in most cases it has meant bet
ter average conditions and better ma
tjonal standards. We may gain some
thing by meeting the present situa-
ton and the year Immediately ahead
of us with appreciation of the crisis,
rather than deluding ourselves with
the soothing JUNCTION that we will slide
back into the easy pre-war condition
over night"
Agriculture Is Supreme.
Agriculture is the supreme, the
paramount question of all the ages"
Mr.. Deems said little later THE
oldest industry in the world antidat-
ing even the creation of man-for the
Bible tells US tina. our first parents.
Adam and EJVeS were placed in the
garden of Eden where it seems fruit
and sustenance were already to be-
found, both the fruit of the apple tree
and the leaves of the fig tree"
Mr. Deems said that agricultural
progress in the future can be encom-
passed in a trinity-educati ton, organ
ization and fertilization-and his ad-
dress was on these three words as O
text with the most time given to or
ganization.
He analysed thorough education and
called it absolutely necessary and in
dispensible to the farmer and once
said it is, misplaced today, mis-ap-
piled tomorrow, seductive. deluslve
and elusive"
That the greatest desideratum OF
any education is work, he emphasized
and "the college course should edu-
cate the student into work and not out
f, of it,"
Attitude Towards Work.
One of the strongest PASSAGES in
the address was on mans mental
attitude toward work, "as this seems
important just now when the !. w. w.
the bolsheviki and the other closely
allied organization are industriously
preaching their vicious, anarchistic
doctrine, the real basis Of which is
not work at all, but to prey on the
fruit of the labor Of those who have
worked or do work. l hold that to
any normal man with a normal mind
his work is the greatest JOY. If there
lis anything that makes life worth liv-
ing, it is happy, cheerful, Joy giving,
pride inspiring work"
I'VE want to organize for co-opera-
ton, for mutual benefit, and for great
/ err eficience all along the line" Mr..
Deems told his fellow farmers, and
that the organization should be per
lfected at once to takek advantage OF
the European situation Of today. Con.