of men in Minnesota who are horticulturists, they are
dormant horticulturists, and your business and ours is to try to
discover them. So the problem with us is how to get out the dragnet.

You know there is a great biological principle that is illustrated in
the lower types of animals. Millions of fish eggs are produced for every
hundred that actually fertilize and amount to anything. So when you are
looking for results in a great subject, when you are trying to discover
people, when you are putting out a dragnet, you have to try a very large
number with the hope of discovering the relatively few who really show
the divine spark, who are really the men that you are looking for.

It is a very interesting thing when you come to think about it, all the
while we are looking for special ability in modern activities we do it
by fashion. Fashion is something that victimizes the ladies. They do not
care for fashion itself, it is thrust upon them from the outside. Most
women conform to fashion on the principle of protective coloring; they
do not care for it themselves, but they do not want to be conspicuous by
not conforming; so they protect themselves that way.

I consider fashion is a beneficial thing when you look at it the right
way. By fashion all kinds of new things are started throughout the
country, and you discover certain people who have a special aptitude. It
becomes the fashion to do various things, and in many cases people
become interested and develop their own special tastes and faculties.

I am tremendously interested just now in rural education. We want a
rural school that will be attractive. We are interested in getting
houses for the teachers to be built right alongside the school house.
Then there will be the garden in connection with the house, the flower
garden and the tree planting. Some of us are looking forward to the time
when the rural school will be the most charming spot in all the
countryside, not a place from which the teacher escapes at the earliest
possible moment on Friday to return reluctantly on Monday morning, but a
place where she wants to remain, where the rural school will be the
center of the community and community life. It will be an attractive
place for the best kind of teacher. When we can get to that point we
shall be able to establish in the rural regions an institution that will
be a vital part of the whole community and a thing of joy and of beauty.

That gospel might be extend