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Show m.u six kkt.ucv of AMtlil I. u KI-: u. M. J Kill K !'' i'M'lll I'.Jvin I'ooliilK'i dis-uitd dis-uitd j in 1 k tti ii t wh.-n he ael I' i't. 'I fnr tli.- ict . r S. i i' T;, ry of Ak ri'ii i i ii (', William M. Jurdin.', pres-i pres-i ;"iit nr tin. Kansas State Agricul- Tli'-rir an- f'v men in America ho vi'il j ; 1 1 f t - f j as V. M. Jardini!, for i:i- cahiiii-t. poHirion; few who rould I'avi- lak'Ti to It a rlcanT undcr-Miiii'linK undcr-Miiii'linK of the -t''T'a r--riirnt of which 1 ; to ho tin- administrative head, and fewer still who rould have car- 'rii.-d to the si-' r. tary's oHi-- a rn- y ii.ti'nat- 1::iow1i-iIk" of tin; r-!-i'.' i.f tli'- di-i-a rliii'-n t of Mjrii'iil" : ' the various state agricultural '!-!.! '!-!.! "'I'l exiierinient stations ;. : ike iui-.nse which all o fthese r:- ' are str vitiK to serve. The n.w secretary In a sense, is nroihict of the organize. 1 Tores which he is now to direct. A3 a former for-mer employee of the department., as ai mvest gator in one of its major fields of research, he had occasion to Tain liarize himself with th" iiiinr-workings iiiinr-workings of this department. More over, the extensive travel for which his position called, afforded him u wonderful opf : -jty to study apri- jmiHure in I'll or the major producing irer f the I'nited States. Thi.; position In the federal service was of special value to him hecaus.-of hecaus.-of his earlier experience and train- ; ing. Horn and reared to young manhood man-hood on a farm and ranch in the Ma hid Valley of Idaho, he came to know . . : ::: '-! ii nd w ru ai:r..-uliure . . . :. e:.i :,y i i .. r.:a t v i.h ;:..'..:: i : :: - open rj r. - ' . it : i:e I ,..;:, '.up, th'- -heep r t: ; : Mil .iit.-h untX the dry i:: a;;ricu'.i ir at the Utah Ag !'..n,,; i i , ' i . l' . a lime when v...rl-! v.;'s ju : b.'inn'ng to take a of .riu-; -s being made in l';h through the practice of irriga- iin and the development of dry fiirrateR. As the world noted this progress, it became eager to adopt !! principles underly.ng it, and the i " r .ill Agricultural college became the ' in cca of men fro'n many different -'ates an1, nations who had been as-j -irned to study l"tah agriculture. j It was a natural consequence of his xp"i'iir,ce and training, therefore. :'hat "Dill" Jard'ne should, upon his graduation from college, find him-; him-; self a leader in these newer agricul-j agricul-j tnral fields. He was appointed agronomist agron-omist at the Utah Experiment station and was serving well in that capacity capac-ity when the United States .department .depart-ment of agriculture employed1 him to iaid in directing the great expansion of cereal production made possible by the application of dry farming principles to the raw lands of -the Great Plains, the Inter-Mountain region re-gion and un the Pacific coast. It was in this position that he gained his intimate in-timate knowledge of the greater West. A few years in the department oi : '"griculture brought him many friends and much recognition, not only hecausH of his knowledge of ag- r culture but because of his striking j personality, rare forcef ulness, fore-i fore-i sight audi administrative ability. The state of Kansas recognized this j unusual combination of personal assets as-sets in the man and stratightway engaged en-gaged his services as agronomist in the Kansas State Agricultural college col-lege and Experiment station. In his new environment, thesei assets, fortified forti-fied by wholesome ambition and a will to win, carried him forward at a surprising rate from agronomist to director of the institution which, in the meantime, he had helped to make one of the greatest of its kind. By this time V. M. Jardine had won - an international reputation as aii agricultural leader. He served as president of the National Farm congress, con-gress, as president of the American Society of Agronomy, as a member of the spe -ial commission appointed by the government of Saskatchewan tu nvestigate the status of dry farming farm-ing in that Canadian province, a'nd is a member of the agricultural advisory ad-visory committee of the American Cankers' association. He has been sought, also, by representatives of various phases of their agriculture, an;! a number of his writings were 'ranslated into several different languages. Always quick to defend his convictions convic-tions he stood by them with fearlessness when taking a .stand on important issues. This trait was never nev-er more prominently shown than when he openly opposed the McNary-Hagen McNary-Hagen bill as economically unsound despite the fact that this bill was supported by the Kansas delegation in Congress and enjoyed the support of farmers over the enure Wheat Belt, of which Kansas is a big part. His standi on the McNary-Haugen bill may have brought Jardin to the attention of President Coolidge, who it will be remembered, did not favc the proposed measure. In any event, the President recognized the ability of the Kansas educator, and named him a member of the agricultural commisiosn to investigate the statu - os afgriculture in America and j made recommendations to the pres :. Congress. Following hjic.iy up-i up-i on his appointment to thij c0mnlj . S'on. "onies his appointment as secretary sec-retary of aric-i!ure. This brif review of an interesting : -"firing crreer. i :n: dequa'e I -i s' .ves to point . it the type cxpuri r.ce av.d train :-.; v hich V M Jar;! Ho cevries to i,i3 cabinet ivst '! t'lis c-orver ,: -cems that hc' !ru'-'s nothing to malte possible the discharge of every responsibility ; of his high office, and it is coinfident-i coinfident-i ly expect pi that his service will al- rays he outstanding in the history ! o fthe United States department of agriculture. roth Idaho and Utah, of course, take pardonable pride in W. M. Jar- dine, and the honor which has come i to him. We are proud of the valley ! ,,f his hiT,h- of the early training his parents gave him. of the existence of conditions conductive to the development develop-ment of such manhood, of the fact that his early schooling was obtained obtain-ed in Utah, that he married a charm- n? ;i!i unusually talented Utah srirl. and that he sti'.l looks upon the Inter-mountain west as his "home range." Pul over and above all of these things, we are proud that 'iBIT Janiire has carried from Cherry Creek to the president's cabinet, a determination to serve AmerU'anoify ? riculture honestly and courage . . in the light of his broad unuers Una i..g of this K lta dustrv a he found it from coast t f . oast' and from Canada to MoN.cO. j V- ilrc e-:ad that be is ft: miliar wnu j the West "and its peculiar problems, j but we are proud to know that he , familiar, also, with every other ma- j jor part of America and the V j lems peculiar to each of them. L-t- ah Farmer. j . i |