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Front of the Americans when strong and light when private enterprise undertake to participate in the Pan American program of hemispheric solidarity we haven't listed a most effective ally the inauguration of the school of found American agriculture at somewhere around no Doris on this Columbus Day evidences of such an enlistment private enterprise in this great program today with all the world at war. It is more than ever evident that education is one of the most important probably the most important means for building and perpetuating a lasting peace. Throughout this hemisphere we need more and better schools to help American youth find a way to win during peace and more abundant life. This new school upon American agriculture dedicated to aid all of this hemisphere is a fundamental step to advance education and peak but there is an agricultural school and as such carries greater significance our hemisphere and particularly the American tropics is notable for its undeveloped land and resources. And why of development including the destruction of our porous would lead to the same problems that have impoverished so much of the agriculture of southern Europe the Near East and eight yet they seem to learn what lead to covetous or neighboring resources which if breaks you know has led to war they school is up in work against waste of resources against covetousness and war. It stands for Prosperity and higher standards of living this is an agricultural school designed to respect and advance that dignity of the farm boy who worked with his hands. I don't hands make porcelain. I am happy to know that here you are suppressing the value of using the hands to make many things. Every boy should not only know how to work affectively with his hands but he should also be so efficient that he has time to read and think and then go into the society of his neighbors I like your idea of having all the boys spend four hours each weekday at manual work four hours of study and at least two hours at games and other recreation I.P.L. the trick school is dedicated not only to technical agriculture but also preeminent late to education and good citizenship. Therefore it is close to my heart. This school I am told select boys from citizen families of no special privilege teaches them civic loyalty and self-respect and provide technical education to Purcell of tape their material success these boys who are receiving free education here at the school of an American agriculture come from farms most of them are poor boys who could not otherwise attend school. The education conferred here will make them outstanding citizens when they return to their home communities. All our youth of proven character intelligence and talent for work enlighten you can and will expand the benefit of their education in better citizenship and better agricultural practices for their fellow Americans bringing together here students from many different American republics to form boyhood lifelong friendships is also a contribution to goodwill among our nations in the American in the Americas these friendships in later years will afford channels for an interchange of viewpoints but between outstanding citizens of different countries leading to peace in this hemisphere one of the object is of this school is to develop new crops not previously grown in the American crop just such new crops will call for clearing new lands stablish a new era geisha and systems and the starting of many new types of farm operations such new developments will inevitably rails the living standards of proper Can America and will furnish the basis both for increased industrialization in Latin America as well as purchasing power for imports from North America leading the activities of the school I find old friends of mine who are men of character experience and ability in the field of tropical agriculture they are also interested in the development of the interim American Institute of Agricultural Sciences at Torrey about Puerto Rico the institute devoted to training graduate students and fundamental research compliments the school here to institute can and will work together to forward all phases of the agriculture of this hemisphere. We are fortunate to have two such centers of agricultural education so well designed to cover the entire field of agricultural education corn the foremost crop of the United States originated in America it happens that I lived most of my life in the great point out of the United States and I spent much of my time trying to breed higher yielding strains of corn during the past three years the yield of corn flake in the United States has been three times that of Central America. I know that my friends at the school can take the corn of Central America and from it evolve superior types for feeding the people I hope that this school of Pan American agriculture is well the one study and work to the improved production processing and marketing of milk so I beams and other nutritious products so that families of moderate and low income in these countries will have the same to question all advantages as those of higher incomes there are many other great contributions that this school. And questionably will make to the American my friends they I state my heartfelt appreciation of your invitation to participate in this inauguration work is a milestone in the development of hemispheric solidarity. To the president of this beautiful Honduras a strong proponent of the good neighbor policy may I expressed my thanks for his cordial hospitality and my good friend Samuel Zamora which had the vision and the book to conceive and found this school of Pan American agriculture congratulations and may God speed your work.