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Show Roosevelt Favors Extension Service Experiment Stations Pre si dent-Elect Franklin D. Roosevelt is very pronounced In the value of the work of the Extension Ex-tension Service and Experiment Stations, as attested by the following fol-lowing letter to the editor of The Progressive Farmer: "I believe thoroughly in agricultural agricul-tural education. I regard it as one of the most important and-essen-tinl branches of the whole educational educa-tional effort that Is being carried on in the United States. I am n firm believer also in the value of the co-operatives research and experimental ex-perimental work and the extension service, which state institutions in co-operation with the Federal government is rendering. "I think it would be nothing short of a disaster if any of this work were seriously curtailed. Particularly Par-ticularly in these times when farmers are having such a desperate desper-ate struggle to maintain themselves. them-selves. I think it supremely important im-portant that they should have the benefit of the expert advice that colleges, exXTiment stations and extension services are able to give them and it is equally important that we should continue to hold out to their children opportunities for an education that will make them something more than field drudpes. "What I have said with respect to the agricultural colleges and allied services applies with equal force to the lesser schools of agriculture agri-culture and to the agricultural education now being carried on with such excellent promise In comolidat'-d high schools in the rural communities. "I am glad that I have the opportunity op-portunity of expressing myself on this subject on which I have very strong convictions." 'Signed President-Elect FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT) |
