. Annual report of the Missouri State Board of Agriculture. Missouri. State Board of Agriculture; Agriculture -- Missouri. Missouri Country Life Conference. 225. W. F. Hupe. ADDRESS BY W. F. HUPE. (Mr. Hupe is superintendent of schools in Montgomery county and is a real leader In Agri- cultural and country life work.) I came here to make a great speech, but now I can't do it. You will know I had a great speech when I tell you that Mr. Wright stole it and delivered it just now. In the second place, I am informed that I am limited to five minutes when I expected to use fifteen minutes. So I shal
. Annual report of the Missouri State Board of Agriculture. Missouri. State Board of Agriculture; Agriculture -- Missouri. Missouri Country Life Conference. 225. W. F. Hupe. ADDRESS BY W. F. HUPE. (Mr. Hupe is superintendent of schools in Montgomery county and is a real leader In Agri- cultural and country life work.) I came here to make a great speech, but now I can't do it. You will know I had a great speech when I tell you that Mr. Wright stole it and delivered it just now. In the second place, I am informed that I am limited to five minutes when I expected to use fifteen minutes. So I shall have to hurry and touch only high places. When I used to sit in this audience as a student, when I attended school here, I longed for the time when I might have the honor of standing on this platform or speaking from it. Now when I have the privilege I am afraid to get up there. I wish I did not have the opportunity. It seems to me that this problem of rural life improvement which we are discussing this afternoon is largely one of education —education through the schools. I do not want to repeat Mr. Wright's speech, but I do want to suggest just one or two things in connection with it that he may have left unsaid. In the first place, it seems to me, as he has already so forcibly argued, that we need a change of ideals, need to hold up before our boys and girls different ideals. We have held up long enough the ideal of the president, the governor, the states- man, or the doctor or the teacher, or of the lawyer, as Mr. Wright said, but we have left unsaid, untaught, those things about the country men who were just as great as our presidents, or our governors or our statesmen. We need to teach in our schools, in our rural schools, something about the things that surround the boys and girls on the farm—some of the things that savor of the country life and country interests. And the boy or girl that learns to interpret the grass that grows in the' field, the flower that grows
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