1 nirty-three Million Acres 
 and tne University 
 
 An address delivered January 2i, 1913, at Ft. Smitn before 
 the Arkansas State liorticultural Society by Acting President 
 J. H. Reynolds, or the Univ. ' ?<ty or Arkansas. 
 
The University should vitalize 
 the whole intellectual and moral 
 life of the State and should serve 
 its every material interest. 
 
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Thirty-three Million Acres and the University 
 
 Address delivered January 21, 1913, at Ft. Smith before the Arkansas State 
 Horticultutal Society by Acting President J. H. Reynolds of the University 
 of Arkansas. 
 
 Have you eyer seen a rich man otherwise well dressed wear- 
 ing a battered hat? What did you think of him? Did you ever 
 see a man in comfortable circumstances depending on his neigh- 
 bors to educate his children? W^iat did you thinK of him? We 
 shall meet both of these men tonight. 
 
 Factors That Have Retarded the Development of Arkansas 
 
 Many factors have operated to retard the development of 
 Arkansas. In common with other Southern states, Arkansas was 
 set back many years by the ravages of the war. But perhaps the 
 state has been injured quite as much by misrepresentation as by 
 war. The Arkansas Tra/eler, Slow Train through Arkansas and 
 similar stories have been a curse to the material development of 
 the state. The unhappy routes selected by the Iron Mountain and 
 the Choctaw railroads from Memphis to Little Rock have also cost 
 the state a bad name and millions of wealth. Travellers coming 
 over these roads are greeted with unsightly swamps, stagnant 
 ponds, miasmal fogs, shacks, makeshifts for houses, hoisted high 
 on rickety stilts. First impressions linger with us. Moreover, 
 Arkansas until recent years has been largely a one-crop state — a cot- 
 ton state; and though cotton has been king, we haye found it a costly 
 despot. One-crop farming has never developed a people or a coun- 
 try; and one-crop cotton farming is the poorest developer of all. 
 It does not stimulate enterprise: it requires no special alertness or 
 energy to plant, cultivate, gather or market it; it weakens the soil 
 and the man; it developes neither. 
 
 Moreover for many years the people of Arkansas themselves 
 apparently lacked enterprise. Is it possible that the bad reputa- 
 tion of the state caused the m-ore progresssive immigrants to go 
 elsewhere? The spirit of get-together-and-do-things was absent. 
 The people lived apart. The spirit ot co-operation was not pres- 
 ent. Their motto "sv as let good enough alone. Their manufactur- 
 ing was confined to lumbering, mining and crude farm utensils. 
 These forms of manufacturing are really a consumption rather 
 than a production of wealth. The educational facilities were 
 equally as poor and crude. I can speak freely without my pa- 
 triotism being questioned because I am doubly a native, my father 
 himself being a native of Arkansas. 
 
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* Arkansas Discovered 
 
 Forces Operating to Discover the State— But the state 
 has been discovered in recent years both by itself and by the out- 
 side world. There has suddenly SDrung: to life a state conscious- 
 ness, a state patriotism, a state pride— elements notable for their 
 absence in the past. The people are coming to appreciate them- 
 selves and the possibilities of their state. The outside world has 
 also discovered Arkansas; a fact which is the resultant of several 
 forces. The Secretary of Mines, Manufactures and Agriculture has 
 been a power; his correspondence, exhibits and publications, scat- 
 tered broadcast like good seed, have taken root in many minds. 
 
 The State Horticultural Society is also among the public forces 
 to which Arkansas owes a debt of gratitude. Your published pro- 
 ceedings are valuable documents and should be given a wider 
 circulation. The University of Arkansas through the College of 
 Agriculture, though poorly supported, has been a factor in dis- 
 covering and bringing to the attention of the world the marvelous 
 resources of the state. The railroads through their advertising 
 departments have done no little in this work. Last but not least 
 the Farmers' Union has been an important educational agency. 
 Moreover, the economic law of necessity, the pressure of population 
 upon subsistence, is operating to bring to Arkansas from over- 
 populated states at the North, thousands of thrifty people, whose 
 hearts are strong with pluck and enterprise. They and their 
 strength are becoming a part of our Hfe; they have brought with 
 them the air they formerly breathed. Their presence is stimulat- 
 ing. We welcome them. 
 
 A Larger Patriotism— The result of the operation of all 
 these forces is the discovery of Arkansas. There is growing 
 among us a larger patriotism and a healthy state pride. We are 
 beginning to see and reach out for the bigger things. We are be- 
 coming citizens, neighbors, brothers. Get-together organizations 
 are the order of the day. In the fruit industry the State Horti- 
 cultural Society and the Ozark Fruit Growers' Association are de- 
 veloping a state horticultural consciousness and solidarity; fifteen 
 hundred teachers now gather annually at the State Teachers' Asso- 
 ciation; other professional and occupational associations are doing 
 equally effective work; commercial leagues and farmers' organiza- 
 tions are co-operating. We are dreaming dreams, and seeing deep 
 m the future visions of larger things; and as we go up the path of 
 progress our perspective broadens and our horizon widens. 
 
 Climate and Crops— The outside world has discovered that 
 instead of being a miasmal swamp, two-fifths of the state lies 1000 
 feet above sea level; that a greater part of the rest of the state 
 has good elevation, ranging from 300 to 1000 ft., and that only a small 
 area is swampy. It has become noised abroad that we have a mild 
 climate, long summers and long growing seasons and short win- 
 ters; that the soil is wondrously fertile; that the great swamp belt 
 along the Mississippi, yet undrained and including such counties as 
 Mississippi, St. Francis and Crittenden, is as rich as the valley of 
 
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the JSJile, and that in days to come, when engineers have done thf ir 
 work, it will support prosperous millions. 
 
 Between the extremes of altitude from 134 feet on the Miss- 
 issippi to 4000 feet in the Ozarks, Arkansas can produce every 
 kind of crop. It is fruitful in everything- that flies in the air, 
 swims the waters or hides in the soil. Alfalfa grows to perfec- 
 tion; all sections produce a good yield of corn; in parts of the state 
 a go:'d yield of wheat is reahzed; in all parts except the north- 
 west cotton is a paying crop; Eastern Arkansas produces from 50 
 to 100 bushels of rice per acre; in the south grows cane from which 
 the best grade of sugar and molasses are made; in the northwest 
 fruit grows to perfection in color, size and flavor; truck farming 
 is profitable everywhere. Arkansas has all minerals from coal to 
 diamonds except gold. 
 
 Indeed Arkansas is a state of marvelous resources. Her de- 
 velopment within the last ten years has been remarkable. The as- 
 sessed value of her property in 1895 was $180,568,946; in 1900 
 $201,908,783; in 1905, $299,730,877; in 1910, $374,845,239; in 1912, 
 $425,000,000. The increase in land values has been equally as 
 rapid. There was an increase from 1900 to 1910 of $218,000,000 or 
 120.5 percent. The increase in acreage land value was from $6.32 
 to $14.13, The value of farm products increased in the same de- 
 cade from $79,000,000 to $143,000,000 or 81 percent. The value of 
 farm products in 1879 was $43,796,261. Of the 33,616,000 acres in 
 Arkansas, 17,416,075 or over 51 percent are in farms. Of this 
 amount about half is improved and the other half woodland. Farms 
 constituted 7.7 percent of the area of the state in 1850, now 51.8 
 percent. The total value of farm property of the state in 1890 was 
 $155,019,702; in 1900, $181,416,001; in 1910, $400,089,303, a leap of 
 over 115 percent in the last decade— the first decade of our awak- 
 ening to the Twentieth Century. 
 
 A State of Small Farms— For the most part the owner of 
 the farm cultivates it. It is a state of comparati v^ely small farms, 
 and the size of the farm is getting smaller with succeeding years. 
 The average number of acres per farm in 1860 in Arkansas was 
 245.4; in 1890, 110.4; in 1900, 93.1; in 1910, 81,1. The farmers of 
 Arkansas are predominately native whites, only 1.1 percent of 
 them being foreign born, but 29.6 percent are colored. Arkansas 
 is distinctively an agricultural state; 87.1 percent of her people 
 live in rural communities; 12.9 percent m cities above 2500 inhabi- 
 tants. In contrast with this 46.3 percent of the people of the con- 
 tinental United States live in cities or urban districts. 
 
 Arkansas has 11,000,000 peach trees or about one-tenth of the 
 peach trees of the United States, and one- twentieth of all the 
 apple trees in the United States. Stories of how men have made 
 fortunes here in fruit growing read like a romance. In 15 years, 
 E. N. Blank and his wife, both of St. Louis, have made $100,000 
 near Decatur in Benton County raising fruit. The peach orchard 
 of our distinguished president, Mr. Bert Johnson, is known all over 
 the United States. What apples excel the Arkansas Black, the 
 
Grimes Golden, the Jonathan, the Mammoth Black Twig? Where 
 is the peer of the Elberta among peaches? Of the Bartlett and 
 Kiefer among pears? 
 
 Last year, Arkansas produced 970,000 bales of cotton, ranking 
 seventh state in the Union; in 1910, 69,216,000 bushels of corn, 
 ranking twelfth; 2,700,000 bushels of wheat or twenty-eighth in 
 the Union. In rice, it ranked third, with a record of 2,400,000 
 bushels, and its production of oats was 4,730,000 bushels. In con- 
 trast with the value of i^rkansas farm products in 1910, 
 $400,089,303; Missouri farm products and live stock for 1912 are 
 valued at $750,00,000, about $200,000,000 being from ordinary field 
 crops; in Kansas the same year the value of farm products and 
 live stock was $580,155,476, of which the field crops furnished 
 about $227,834,650. 
 
 The quality of Arkansas coal is sufficiently attested by the fact 
 of its adoption for use in the American Navy. Even more sig- 
 nificant is the fact that, of the state's vast coal supply (188,000,- 
 000 short tons), only 2 percent has been mined. The coal business 
 in the state is growing by leaps and bounds, and within the last 
 few years, Arkansas, with the exception of Michigan, has had the 
 greatest increase in the percentage of coal production of any state 
 in the Union. Moreover living conditions on the farm are slowly 
 improving. Good houses and barns are making their way from 
 the towns out into the country; buggies have supplanted the wagon 
 as a method of travel; improved farm machinery is finding its way 
 out into the remotest sections. 
 
 Arkansas Facing* Changed Conditions 
 
 The picture here painted is an attractive one and is calculated 
 to stimulate our pride; but lest we boast, we should remember 
 that pride too often leads to self-complacency. "Pride goeth be- 
 fore destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall, " Too much 
 pride often blinds us to fatal defects. An apple may be red and 
 beautiful yet tunneled through at the core by a gnawing worm. 
 
 Arkansas is facing fundamentally changed conditions. Pio- 
 neer days and pioneer methods are gone and with them has passed 
 away our virgin soil. How many thousand acres of abandoned 
 farms in Arkansas?— of red and barren hills once verdant with 
 growing crops? Note how we are trying to replace the lost fer- 
 tility of the soil by increasing our commercial fertilizer bills. 
 Worst of all, while our soil remains depleted, our population rapid- 
 ly increases. In an appallingly short time Arkansas will be called 
 upon to feed and clothe several millions of people. I ask of you — 
 How is this possible? There is one answer— one only. By making 
 four and five blades grow where one grew before. Northwest Ar- 
 kansas now receives yearly about $3,000,000 from her fruit. By ac- 
 tual demonstration it is shown that with the practice of scientific 
 methods, this figure could be multiplied by ten. It has been esti- 
 mated that if all the farmers of Arkansas had last year followed 
 in cultivating their crops the instructions of the men in charge of 
 
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the farm demonstration work the state yield would have been in- 
 creased $67, 369, 128. 
 
 A few years ago when our fathers and mothers mated and 
 looked out on life, they faced conditions wholly different from 
 those which our sons and daughters now face. Then there was free 
 virgin soil awaiting them. It required neither skill nor special ed- 
 ucation to clear the land, cultivate the crops and gather abundant 
 harvests. Though conditions were primitive, the solution of thie 
 meat and bread problem was easy. But now all the better class 
 lands are under cultivation,— the soil has lost its primitive fertility, 
 and the price is high. It is also costly to provide buildings, stock 
 and farm utensils. Moreover, the young people proposing to farm 
 will have to face the competion of farmers who have either been 
 trained in our agricultural schools, or are receiving the benefit of 
 the agricultural extension work of the agricultural college. Hence 
 the young farmer today faces conditions which require of him ed- 
 ucation, training, skill and capital. The same thing is ^rue for our 
 young people who enter law, m.edicine, teaching, engineering, or 
 business. Their competitors are the men and women turned out 
 by our best law schools, medical colleges, normals, engineering 
 schools, and departments of commerce of our universities. A small 
 engine with simple equipment may meet the demands of a factory 
 in the days of small things; but with growth there comes the need 
 of more power, larger buildings, skilled workmen, expert manage- 
 ment and large capital, and the factory will fail unless these needs 
 are supplied. The poor educational facilities of Arkansas served 
 reasonably well the simple economic conditions of the past, but 
 they do not meet the demands of the present. 
 
 Arkansas' Great Need— A University 
 
 Here, then, is the problem. What is our chief need if we are 
 effectively to provide for the further development of the state? 
 if "we guarantee to it for all future time sufficient food supply? 
 Certainly the state can no longer afford to be beguiled with the 
 siren strains of the old song telling of our untold natural resources. 
 Arkansas can no longer depend upon an unlimited quantity of un- 
 touched wealth; she knows that is a myth. She must rely upon the 
 skill and training of her people for the development of her resour- 
 ces. The times call imperatively for educated leadership and the 
 dicipline of exact training. Our chief need is, therefore, for keen 
 thinkers, for minds thoroughly disciplmed, for brain power trained 
 to its highest capacity. In a word we naed strong leadership — 
 that kind of leadership which is in this century impossible without 
 trained powers of thought. 
 
 But how are we to get such men and women? Either by de- 
 pending upon other states to educate them for us, or by providing 
 adequate educational facilities at home. What is Arkansas doing 
 in this respect? In the field of elementary education, the state is 
 thoroughly aroused, having in the last four years increased the 
 average school term to 117 days, the school revenue from about 
 
three and a half millions to over five millions. But in the field of 
 higher education, the state has stood still. Sometime ago one of 
 our teachers, after making a fairly thorough investigation, found 
 over six hundred Arkansas young people attending colleges outside 
 of the state. Our leading cities send a much larger percent of 
 their young people to colleges outside of the state than to colleges 
 within the state. Why? Because in mosi cases they find that 
 other states have adequately supplied their colleges and univer- 
 sities Wxth equipment and men. 
 
 The University— Her Record 
 
 Take our own state university. The institution has done some 
 excellent work and has rendered the state invaluable service in 
 spite of its poverty. On the institution the state has expended a 
 total of $1,671,404 since its foundation in 1872. The plant is now 
 worth about $1,000,000 leaving an expenditure of only $671,404 not 
 represented by assets that could be sold by the auctioneer. What 
 has the state received in return? A fair question. For over forty 
 years the University has furnished the elementary and secondary 
 schools hundreds and thousands of their best teachers. The Uni- 
 versity for years has been training the engineers to bridge the 
 state's streams, to build her railroads, to develop her water 
 power, to tunnel her mountains, to mine her coal and to construct 
 her sewers. From the University have come her ablest lawyers, 
 judges and statesmen, her leaders in public life. The agricultural 
 college has become a powerful force in solving the problems of the 
 farm and in arousing an interest in scientific agriculture. How 
 much more valuable are the farms and other property of the state 
 by reason of the University? How many of our best citizens 
 would have settled in other states if Arkansas had no University? 
 Subtract from the state's in vestment the inflaence of the university 
 upon her public schools, upon her professional and civic life, upon 
 her engineering and agricultural interests and what is left? How 
 would the abolition of the University affect property values, 
 immigration, civic pride and education? 
 
 But the business which the University has fostered has out- 
 grown the machinery. The simple economic conditions which the 
 university has been serving have passed away: they have been suc- 
 ceeded by an extremely complex industrial and social order; and, 
 as with the growth of the factory the old machinery has to give 
 place to new improved machinery, so must the crude equipment 
 and buildings of the old university give place with the growth of 
 the state to a greater university adapted to the needs of the age. 
 
 Arkansas and Missouri 
 
 As a consequence of inadequate support, the University 
 of Arkansas has for several years been standing still, possi- 
 bly losing ground, while her sister universities have been forging 
 to the front. Eighteen years ago, President Jesse went to 
 the University of Missouri just at the same time that 
 
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President J. L. Buchanan came to the University of Arkansas. 
 At that time the two institutions were practically equal; both had 
 large preparatory departments and about 600 students each. To- 
 day the University of Missouri ranks as one of the leading state 
 universities ot the United States. We are ashamed to say where 
 Arkansas stands. This contrast is in large measure_ due to the 
 failure of the people of Arkansas to furnish the institution with 
 money for development. We have had a bare existence and 
 meager at that. 
 
 Buildings 
 
 Owing to the depleted condition of the state treasury, the 
 legislature for the last eight years has cut out of the University 
 bills all building items. This, too, at a time when the institution 
 ought to have been expanding. Some five years ago the physics 
 building was burned and has not been replaced. A fevN^ years ago 
 the shops were burned and a temporary makeshift was erected be- 
 tween sessions of the legislature, It has never been replaced with 
 shops adequate to meet our needs. Moreover the state has erected 
 cheap buildings on the campus. The cities of Fort Smith and 
 Little Rock are putting more into their high school-buildings than 
 the state has put into all the buildings on the University campus. 
 While the University authorities do not hope now for all the build- 
 ings needed, yet the state should adopt a building program extend- 
 ing over a period of ten years, during which time scarcely a year 
 should be allowed to pass that does not witness the erection of a 
 substantial building on the campus. 
 
 Five Colleges 
 
 The University is made up of five colleges— Arts and Science, 
 Agriculture, Engineering, Education, Medicine and the Branch 
 Normal. It is therefore attempting to cover almost the whole do- 
 main of human knowledge; and the demands that are made upon 
 it are enormous. It must furnish ripe scholars to give the ad- 
 vanced as well as elementary instruction in all branches of human 
 learning. 
 
 Research 
 
 Moreover, in addition to teaching, the University is required 
 to ..do two other distinct and expensive lines of work, research and 
 university extension. The University is the state's only agency 
 for the doing of research work — that is, to extend the domain of 
 human knowledge. This is expected in all fields,— language, the 
 social sciences, engineering, agriculture, medicine, and the pure 
 sciences. Such work requires specialists of a high order, costly 
 laboratories and extensive libraries. It is probably the most im- 
 portant service of the University to the state. It vitalizes all 
 teaching and touches a thousand interests where teaching touches 
 one. Science, the product of research, has doubled the span of 
 
life and multiplied the productive power of man. Yet vital to the 
 life of the state as research is, Arkansas has practically provided 
 no means for it at the University. 
 
 Laboratories 
 
 To carry on successfully the teaching and research work in 
 such vast fields as the modern university is called upon to coyer, 
 requires an immense outlay in library and laboratory equipments; 
 but with us these equipments have been deteriorating for years, 
 simply for lack of replacement and repair. They are in poorer 
 condition than they have been for years. Not only have the li- 
 brary and laboratories not grown v/ith the needs of the University 
 but apparatus and books have not been replaced as they have been 
 damaged or worn out. Within the last four years equipment items 
 amounting to $158,250 have been vetoed. This has shut off our 
 laboratory supplies and explains the run down condition of equip- 
 ments. In our Department of Electrical Engineering we are using 
 for instruction a machine m.ade in 1880. In up-to-date universities 
 all such machinery has long been on the scrap heap. 
 
 Hortieulture 
 
 This society is interested in the horticultural department. 
 The University of Illinois expends on this department $100,000 a 
 year for maintenance and has thirty-two instructors and investi- 
 gators. What does the same department at the University of 
 Arkansas receive? For the last four years the small state appro- 
 priations for horticulture (about $900 a year) have been vetoed. 
 So the departm.ent has been entirely without funds. Moreover, it 
 has had only one man to do all the teaching and extension work, 
 to carry on the experiments, and to conduct the large correspon- 
 dence of the department. If you will place on one side of the 
 sheetthe vast horticultural interests of the great state of Arkansas 
 with its possibilities and needs, and on the other side Professor 
 Walker, helpless to do his work for lack of money, you will have a 
 true pieture of Jioic the state is dealing with the fruit industry of one of 
 the greatest fruit sections of the Union. And this picture of what the 
 state is doing for the fruit interest is typical of what it is doing for other 
 great interests. And what is more to the point, the legislature is 
 doing for horticalture just what the people engaged in the 
 fruit industry demand— nothing. The legislature is doing for the 
 departments of agronomy and animal husbandry just what the 
 people demand— practically nothing. Have the members of the 
 Horticultural Society ever gone to our legislature and shown them 
 the vital relation of a strong University to the development of the 
 fruit interest of the state? Have the stock breeders and the farm- 
 ers ever told their representatives that they want the University 
 liberally supported that it may help them in the solution of their 
 problems? The legislators want to represent the people. The 
 University is just as efficient as the people will permit it to be. 
 
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The people are getting just what they are paying for. We get out 
 of a thing about what we put into it. 
 
 University Extension 
 
 Moreover, the University is now powerless to offer graduate 
 work. Young men and women must leave the state to get it. Neither 
 can the University discharge its duty to the State in the way of 
 University extension work. The benefits of the University should 
 be carried to the remotest corners of the state. The humblest cit- 
 izen should receive its inspiration and uplift. The University 
 should be carried to those of the people who can not come to it. 
 The University must draw nearer to the people, young and old, in 
 helpfulness and service. This is an old philosophy, but informed 
 now by a new and vigorous spirit. University extension is the 
 name given to this great connecting link between every part of a 
 university and the actual conditions of life in the state which the 
 university exists to aid and strengthen. The fundamental ideal of 
 university extension is the ideal of service to democracy as a 
 whole. The University should vitalize the whole intellectual Hfe 
 and should serve every material interest of the state. But to 
 carry out such a program will require a much larger teaching 
 force. 
 
 Moreover, poverty is no motive for denying educational ad- 
 vantages to our young people. If New England had waited until 
 she was rich to develope her educational institutions, she would 
 never have become the power in American life that she has. Lack 
 of proper support of the University now means the sapping of 
 the intellectual life of the next generation. 
 
 Arkansas and Her Neighbors 
 
 Our state is falling far behind her sister states in the field of 
 higher education. The whole state was thrilled with pride when 
 the United States Commissioner of Education, P. P. Claxton, told 
 the 1500 teachers at Little Rock three weeks ago how the whole 
 Nation was looking on with wonder at the rapid strides which 
 Arkansas is making in the field of elementary education; when 
 Hon. 0. H. Benson of the Department of Agriculture (U. S.) 
 congratulated the state on her splendid agricultural schools; 
 when we were reminded that Missouri and other states were quot- 
 ing Arkansas' law on state aid to high schools; and that our plan 
 of putting normal training into high schools would be copied all over 
 the United States. But when we come to the University the table 
 is turned. The poor state of South Carolina, the assessed value of 
 whose property is $150,000,000 less than that of our state, ex- 
 pended in 1911 on institutions doing the work covered by our 
 University $392,672, while Arkansas appropriated $145,195; 
 Missouri for the same year appropriated for her University 
 $670,861; Kansas, $945,670; Mississippi with less property, $296,- 
 720; the little state of North Dakota with a little over half the 
 
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 wealth of Arkansas $850,375; Minnesota $1,479,662; our sister state 
 of Oklahoma, $489,123; and Iowa, $1016,172. That is to say. South 
 Carolina with less than two-thirds the wealth appropriated over 
 two and a half times as much as did Arkansas for higher educa- 
 tion: Mississippi with less property, over twice as much; North 
 Dakota with less than two-thirds the wealth, almost two and a 
 half times as much; and Oklahoma with about the same wealth, 
 three and a half times as much as Arkansas. 
 
 What is the meaning of all these facts? They show con- 
 clusively that the University is the one neglected educational 
 institution of the state and that Arkansas has never taken a large 
 view of her university. This is state suicide, a case of stoppage at 
 the source— intellectual, moral and material stagnation. Arkansas 
 for the last six years has been spending on her University about 
 8 cents per capita or 40 cents for an average family of five. Forty 
 cents happens to be the present price of a dozen eggs. Is it- not 
 possible to raid another hen's nest in the interest of higher educa- 
 tion? At present prices one egg per capita v/ould add $50,000 to 
 the University or would put up a substantial building. Can't the 
 the state be induced to pay back to the University the $158,250 
 vetoed in the last four years? It means three eggs per capita. 
 
 Arkansas the Rich Man 
 
 We are now prepared to roturn to the introduction. We have 
 found the man whom VN^e started out to look for, namely, the rich 
 man otherwise well dressed wearing a Dattered hat. Arkansas is 
 the man and the University is the hat. Moreover, Arkansas is the 
 man in comfortable circumstances who depended upon his neigh- 
 bors to educate his children. 
 
 Now what are we going to do about it? Are we going to con- 
 tinue to wear the battered hat? Or, are we going to get a hat in 
 keeping with the rest of our clothes? Are we going to continue to 
 let our neighbors educate our children? No! A swelHng note is 
 coming from all over the state for a greater university. Both 
 political parties have called for liberal support, both the retiring 
 and the incoming governors recommend it, and many organiza- 
 tions, such as commercial leagues and agricultural societies have 
 taken similar action. The state should catch a vision of a greater 
 University, and then with energy' convert the vision into reality. 
 Such a work is worthy of the best thought and efforts of our 
 strongest men; and I know of no work which will be productive of 
 more far-reaching results than efi'orts to make our University the 
 very key-stone of all that is best and finest in Arkansas. Let or- 
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