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Show I ABLE ADDRESS GIVEN I BY PROF. WORKING; I AN INTERESTING TALK BBBT, Beforo tho students of tho U. A. C. BBJ In regular chapel oxcrclsos Weduos- BBj day morning, I'rof. D. W. Working, BB of the states rotations service, United BBJI States department of agriculture, do- BBJj llvered the following address which BBBjf characterizes In a most telling way BBaj tho important co-oporatlvo work bo- BBVE fng carried on by tho fodcral gov- BBSj eminent and tho college, and points BBK tho way to sano, officlent and patrl- BBK otic service In national crisis on (ho BBVk part of our agricultural populution: BBBF Ilcodiuess to Serve. BBM , An old Ideal Is now dovoloplng a B i ! now moaning. With tho now mean-' BBB 1 tng to this old Ideal, wo are girding bH ' I BTBvl BlBBk. bbVAwBibbVJbbvBwMw ourselves for a now method in our sorvlco. Wo aro seeing larger meanings mean-ings In tho word sorvlco. Wo aro finding new applications of tho world-old functions of fathorhood and motuorhood now adaptations of tho later conception of brotherhood. Tlmo was when tho administrative units of government which wo call bureaus were dollverately organliod tor tho benefit of tho groups of Individuals Indi-viduals In responsible charge of theso governmental agencies. Honco, among am-ong peoples of democratic tendonclos there has boon a growing antagonism antagon-ism to what we have learned to call bcaurocracy au agency In govorn- mont which Wo have come to think of as existing primarily for Itself; that Is, a selfish agency or group of persons diverting a public function to selfish purposos, and exploiting tho common people to promoto tho greed of Individuals and groups of solf-sooklng Individuals. The old order Is passing away. Almost In a day tho Russian 11 u-roaucracy, u-roaucracy, which was consciously wrapped In the cloak of a pretended pretend-ed benevolent autocracy, has boon swept into the scrap-heap of out-of-date governmental machinery; and the expanding democracies of tho "West are fairly bursting with tho pride of a new hope In tho Colossus of Nations. In our own country wo are In the midst of momentous developments. A spiritual growth is enlarging our conceptions of the meaning of llfo and labor and opportunity. We aro fairly bursting with tho great conception con-ception that Is dovoloplng within U3. Tho old idea of family prldo in family fami-ly Is going or gono; tho later Idea of tho sufficiency and Independency of tho city or tho county or tho Btate Is being lost In tho conception of tho nation ns tho smallest unit In which men nnd women may bo naked to pledge their loyalty. Thoy aro not losing sight of tho meaning of the Individual, tho family, tho city, or tho state; but wo are seeing theso smaller units In their proper relation to tho larger unit. Organization is taking tho placo of un-organlzatlon. Tho man Is flhdlng his place. Timo was when his discovery of .himself was bo recent that ho could not seo his necossary relations' to other men. Time was when tho city was so new and so self-conscious that It cquld not understand that It was but one of tho playors In tho great tcam-gamo that could not be played effectively until every city accepted Its place on the flold aftor having fitted Itself for Us placo by accepting dlsclpllna under a competent trainer. Timo was, when tho state was so now and so proud of its reflection In tho mirror of its own solf-conscl-ous prldo that It believed In Its right to dlctato to tho organized group of states which wo call the United States. That prldo of self-sufficiency Is at this momont being overwhelmed by a surging devotion to tho national nation-al Idea! ami wo are now discovering that tho truo doctrine of states' right In tho .doctrine that drives tho state to bo quick and freo In Its offer of its devotion and its resources to the nation in tho nation's great hour of rising to the conception that tho national lifo Is in poril unless and until the nation Itself finds Its placo In tho great group of nations that aro struggling toward tho Great Light of World Freedom and Servlco In the intorest of the fraternity of democracy that Is yet to lend tho suffering world Into tho great white path of peace through righteousness. Wo aro finding a now patriotism the patriotism of business and Industry. In-dustry. Tlmo was when the patriot enlisted as a common soldier to fig it side by sldo with men of llko devotion devo-tion to country; and wo camo to do-spIbo do-spIbo tho man of business who mado profit out of feeding and clothing the army. Now wo aro learning that ! thoro Is a patriotism of big business as well as of personal devotion. In tho paat men with tho gift of leadership leader-ship havo onllsted as privates becauso they felt In their soul that no man had a right to ask for placo or distinction dis-tinction when the country was In peril. Now we aro realizing that tho , man of capacity nnd training and1 real fitness for leadership is wasting ono of his country's most precious resourco3 when ho fnlls to rendor his servlco whero It can bo most effective effec-tive Tho born and trained commander com-mander becomes n traitor when ho submits to misdirection by a protended protend-ed leador who lacks both tho gift of leadership nnd tho preparation for leadership. A porsonal word: In times of stress llko these, tho man moro particularly par-ticularly tho young man who neglects neg-lects to devoto his powers and to train himself for tho most effective work of which ho Is potentially capable cap-able Is a traitor to his best self and nn Ineffective among tho world's workers tho soldier of tho common woal. Your dictionary will toll you that an effective Is a soldier In condition for servlco, not one ready to bo taken tak-en to tho hospital. In tho college, by tho samo token, an offectlvo Is ono who is ready always to meet tlu tests of the classroom or tho laboratory labora-tory tho placo proparod for laborers to work with tho equipment of specialists speci-alists In training for servlco or of specialists trained in sorvlco and for servlco. Lnto In tho summer of 1912, on tho railroad platform at Cncho Junction, your former president and I entered Into a gentlemen's agreement that the Utah Agricultural college and the United States department of ngrlcul-turo ngrlcul-turo would work in partnership to develop a particular kind of agricultural agricul-tural extension work In Utah. On January 1, 1913, your proaont county coun-ty agent leader began work as tho Joint representative of tho collego and the department of agriculture. In July of 1914 the verbal agreement became what wo now call our goneral mSmorandum of understanding, by which tho president of tho college and tho socretary of agriculture bound the collego and the department of agriculture to conduct co-oporatlvo agricultural extension work under tho responsible leadership of tho director di-rector of extension of tho Utah Agricultural Agri-cultural college. That agreement grew out of tho passage by Congress of the bill which wo now know as the co-oporatlvo agricultural extension act of May 8, 1914 an act that mado the year memorablo for the agricultural colleges, col-leges, tho department of agriculture, and the agricultural Industry of tha United States. I wlah you might roallzo how vitally that congressional act and tho agreoment made under It affect tho work of tho collego and tho department of agriculture. Do-foro Do-foro wo, as institutions, had been going go-ing our separate wnys, somotimos agreeing, sometimes disagreeing, sometimes working In secret or open antagonism; now we aro working as a unit In a harmony that Is becoming more perfect every day and In a servlco ser-vlco that is becoming moro effectlvo every hour. This agricultural college col-lege ondowod by tho federal government govern-ment and supported by tho states, In nctlvo and frank partnership with tho United States department of ngrlcul-turo ngrlcul-turo are becoming In a vory vital and doflnlto senso a great and growing national educational Borvico. Tho net of 1911 endowing co-opor-atlvo extension work In agriculture and homo economics stands for moro than I havo Indlcatod; It represents a great expansion of the idea of co-oporatlvo co-oporatlvo and tho related Idea of tha responsibility of the nation to tho several states nnd of stato Idontlty with tho nation. Wo nre becoming ono peoplo, and our educational institutions in-stitutions are becoming co-ordlnatod for work and brought togother In spirit for moro effectlvo leadership. Thoy aro loamlng from each othor hotter to organize tholr force: and to harmonize their men and machinery machin-ery for effectlvo and purposotul work. Our national department of agriculture agri-culture has many bureaus the weather bureau, the bureau of animal ani-mal Industry, the bureau of plant industry, in-dustry, and others. But we are learning learn-ing to dislike certain "bureau" Implications. Im-plications. Tho Idea of Bcrvlce has penetrated and permeated theso bureaus; bu-reaus; they exist for public servlco, not for themselves. You know of tho reclamation service of tho department depart-ment of the Interior a government bureau organized for the particular servlco to people and nation; to reclaim re-claim tho desert for productive purposes pur-poses by saving the public waters' from waste; to exploit natural material ma-terial resources for the benefit of folks. You know the forest servlc9 of our department of agriculture & government bureau renamed and reorganized to express tho new Idea of servlco and to protect and make useful and to roproduct for ever the national forests. And you know that this government service Is building roads, planting trees, conserving pasture, pas-ture, contributing money to education educa-tion all in the Interest of the welfare wel-fare of tho people, no for tho personal per-sonal benefit of foresters or for tho building up of a bureau organization. Your president has told you that I am a member of tho states relations servlco of tho department of agriculture. agri-culture. This 1b the nowest bureau to take with studied dellvoratlon tho namo sorvlco; for it Is a governmental government-al administration agency purposely organized and consciously conducted to bo of direct sorvlco to the people and by means of co-operation with tho agricultural colleges and experiment experi-ment stations. When President WIdtsoo ana I mado our gentleman's agreement on tho railroad platform at Cache Junction Junc-tion there was no states relations servlco. Not Jill tho first day of January, Jan-uary, 1913, was tho first man employed em-ployed to work under that agreement agree-ment that man, your preuont county agent leader. Now, undor tho broader broad-er and more definite agreement, your oxtonsion servlco employs thirty peoplo; peo-plo; slxtoon of whom aro on tho payrolls pay-rolls of tho United States department of agriculture and under the immediate immedi-ate supervision of your extension director, di-rector, Tho partnership has become ono of tho big things In your college. col-lege. Ten county ngonts aro working throughout Utah; specialists in various vari-ous subjects aro sorvlng the country peoplo. The extension workers are tho captains, tho colonels, and the staff officers of nn army that Is at this moment being tnobllliod to make the agriculture of the country more effectlvo In a national emergency. v ' |