Evening star., 1928-03-18
An Intimate Picture of William NJ. .Jardine

filled with dapper young persons and he
Is sorry for their occupants. He has
found that out OF difficulties self-confi-
dence Is born.
It seems far jump from rustling
cattle, raising crops, ChOpping trees, to
being college president and a member
OF Presidents cabinet. 1t would be II
1t came In one leap, but Jardine be-
lieves that after the first Job the next
should follow as the natural conse-
quence of efficient performance. To
him opportunity follows the flag OF
achievement.
Son of Scotchman who went out
the Southern Pacific in the wilds o.
Utah, he read the old classics his
father had loved and worked with his
hands and fought his way. He was
In his own spicy speech--inclined to be
"lippy." Every one knows that ''lippy"
boy survives after difficultieS-if he sur
wives at all.
This dynamic man must have been a
super charged boy. He did regular farm
work by day and was the first one to
rise in the morning so that he could
get the fires lighted and wrangle the
horses for the hands. He had to go
into the primitive forest to chop the
firewood At II he ran scrsper in an
irrigation ditch. At 20 he rode the
range. strung barbed wire fences,
branded cattle.
He was never a Cowboy in the
He was always a farmer--a Montana
farmer a Utah or Idaho farmer-witn
all the slants that the great mountains
and wide valleys and free conditions OF
life In the Western '90s imply.
Moreover, he was going some day to
college.
To get into the college 40 miles
away, at Logan. Utah. he had to
wrangle a certain amount OF French
and math as we'll as cattle. But he got
in--older and a whole lot wiser than
the other students. OF course, he paid
for his own education, farming Sum-
mers. BY the time he was senior he
had been asked to help in the teaching.
For although he had entered college
with the idea Of becoming an engineer,
he had soon tbeing older than the othe-
students and whole lot wiSer) made
up his mind that agriculture was just as
much OF a profession as law.
He became interested in what Is pop
ularly called dry farming" and was
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cause he was only little over 20. the
men on the Job tried to put things over
on him. and brought in broken-down
nags and one-eyed cayuSes. hoping he'd
buy them. But he fooled them.
He unloaded the first tractor ever
seen in the country. only to discover
that it wouldn't work. His leadership
was tottering So, after the men were
in bed. he drove 20 miles through rough
country. got spare part. and was back
at noon next day 10 make 1t work.
He heard OF an examination for a
Government john the department
which he now headS-which would
bring In a salary of $2.750 He was
getting $1,000 He got "a in the exam
Gee" he thought. II sure have that
landed" No so. The man who had
set the paper himself got the job.
Soon after, however. Jardine was In
the departmental his own speciality of
dry farming" Soon he was travelling
about the West. here and there and
everywhere. one of the field men of
that epartment--traveling. observing
studying. storing up information against
his then unknown future. Soon he
was o member OF the famous Cosmos
Club OF Washington. whose plain food
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