THE CITY OF PARIS THE PRETTY, INDUSTRIOUS CAPITOL OF EDGAR COUNTY, ILLINOIS Paris is situated upon rolling land and is a clean, beautiful city of about 12,000 inhabitants. It has three railroads operating thirty-six passenger trains daily; it also has an interurban line operating forty-four trains daily. It has fifteen churches, seven public schools, an academy, and a commercial university. The combined deposits of its three banks amount to $2,300,000. Paris is fortunately situated with reference to markets, being almost equally distant from the cities of Chicago, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Louisville and Indianapolis, while her transportation facilities are of the best. As a manufacturing city Paris is admirably situated, and now has twenty flourishing manufacturing plants. The natural resources of Edgar County are many, and the commercial and social advantages of its capitol are seldom equalled; the people are enterprising and hospitable; they have cordially invited the Illinois Farmers' Institute to hold a meeting in the center of this garden spot of Eastern Illinois-the invitation has been accepted and the following pages of this pamphlet contain a three-days program of entertainment and instruction, that will be highly appreciated by all who visit this pretty little city and attend the sessions. LOCAL ORGANIZATION FOR PROMOTING THE CENTRAL ILLINOIS FARMERS' INSTITUTE AT PARIS, ILLINOIS, OCTOBER 15, 16 AND 17, 1912 COMMITTEES Executive-Geo. W. Brown, L. L. Canine, U. O. Colson. Entertainment-C. S. Sellar, A. E. Woods, S. I. Headley, J. D. Shoaff, N. Sam Archer, M. B. Wilson, W. E. Redman, J. E. Musselman, Edward Levings, James Eads, Grover Sholem, D. D. Huston, Alvah Cline, J. Grant Brown, Mrs. William J. Hunter, Mrs. Douglas Merkle, Mrs. Simon Risser, Mrs. Chris Link, Jr., Mrs. John Bumgardner, Mrs. Harvey Clark, Mrs. Albert Gatz, Mrs. Agnes Huston, Mrs. E. B. Blackman. Reception-0. S. Jones, C. P. Hitch, A. J. Hunter, W. J. Hunter, J. Wm. Snyder, D. S. Perkins, E. E. Parrish, R. G. Sutherland, Dr. J. E. Adams, Prosper Stoneburner, W. S. O'Hair, Joe Henning, Dr. W. H. Hoff, Dr. E. E. Jones, A. B. Huston, E. E. Gregg, J. D. Barr, W. E. Dorsett; Mesdames A. D. Huston, J. D. Hunter, Stella Christie, Edward Vance, W. H. Hoff; Misses Mary Bell, Adelia Cole, Mary Woods, Marie Wright, all of Paris, Illinois. Mesdames W. E. Ferguson, Nevins; Frank Parker, Scotland; Henry Woodyard, Will Henn, Redmon; Lizzie Clark, Edgar; Frank Newland, Chrisman; Robert Bines, Ridgefarm; Frank Page, Arcola; O. N. Wilkin, Vermilion; Scott Bergett, Newman; C. M. Clark, Metcalf; Howard Winn, Hume; H. F. Pinnell, Kansas; Miss Mary Callahan, Robinson. Bureau of Information located in Paris House Lobby. ADDRESSES GIVEN AT THE CENTRAL ILLINOIS FARMERS' INSTITUTE, PARIS, ILL., OCT. 15, 16, 17, 1913 ADDRESS OF WELCOME (Hon. Geo. W. Brown, Paris, Ill.) MR. CHAIRMAN, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN-I am not accustomed to making public speeches, but the men that live here will know that I am chairman of the Executive Committee and am supposed to do anything whenever the program breaks down, and for that reason, on account of the absence of our mayor, I will have to shoulder the burden, although to me it is a pleasure, of making what may be termed the 'address of welcome.' I promise you to do everything but sing and play the pipe organ. [Laughter.] Those things I cannot do. We welcome you in our city for several reasons. We could point to you the material things which we have here. We think we have streets that are comparable with the streets of other cities of our size, and larger, but it is not to those things that we care to point so much, as those things are only temporal. The things we could show you, if we had the time, is some of the work done in our schools and our homes and our churches, as we do think that our city is blessed with a large number of excellent homes. Our people have thrown their homes open to you without stint. The best homes of our city are open to you. You will find a welcome in our homes. We want to welcome you as representing a generation of farmers. It is said after a man passes forty-five or fifty years of age he takes new ideas slowly, but there is a generation growing up that is taking these ideas rapidly. We as a whole have added very little to the cause of agriculture compared to what can be done toward its advancement. Of course, I refer to scientific agriculture. We welcome you as a Farmers' Institute that has done much toward the advancement of scientific agriculture and helped our people. We would like to welcome you again as representing not the experienced farmer, but as the experimental farmer. The expression is used a great deal, that if a person is engaged in a line of business and has been in that business for a long time, he is an experienced man in that particular line of business. When I was a real young man, many years ago, there was a man noted as a surgeon and he was invariably referred to as the army surgeon. The reason he was such a good surgeon was due to the fact that he was in the army and performed a good many operations very rapidly. He learned to be a surgeon at an awful cost. He did things because he had to do them He had to experiment in many cases. A farmer in many cases just does things because he does them. We want to know the reasons for all these things. We are passing from the man today who relies upon experience to one who relies on intelligent experiments. You feeders don't feed stock blindly. In choosing a minister you don't simply choose a minister that has been one year at such and such a charge --13 F I and six months an another charge, but you want a man that has been tried out in the great field of experiment. The man that follows the experimental side of the business is a man that has in mind an ideal and something he would like to do. We welcome you as a group of men who have in mind an ideal and that ideal is before you. We welcome you as a group of men who have not forgotten their fellow man and gone out exclusively after the profit. You of course have to have your profit, but you have not forgotten your duty to your fellow man. You must have your profit, and nobody blames you for that, but you have not forgotten the duties you owe your neighbors and those about you. Most organizations are organized to assist the organization. You have in mind the great people about you. You have in mind your duties to others. We would welcome you as a group of men who have in mind, and keep in mind, the great human problems. You must talk about better crops and better live stock, but your work is chrystalized in this statement "All for each and each for all." I found a little poem by Edwin Markham; the title of which is "Earth is Enough." "We of earth have here the stuff, Of paradise-we have enough. No other cedars for the beam And dome of man's immortal dream. Here on the common human way Is all the busy gods would take To build a heaven, to mould and make New Edens. Ours the stuff sublime To build eternity in time." As we welcome you to our city, you will find the doors open and our people ready to care for you in every way possible. We are all glad that you are in our midst. We thank you for coming and earnestly want you to come again. [Applause.] SHORTAGE OF LIVE STOCK IN ILLINOIS · (Phil S. Haner, Taylorville, Ill.) MR. CHAIRMAN, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN-I am going to stand down here in front of you, as I am not in the habit of talking in church anyway, and I feel more at home by being on the same elevation with you. I am glad to be in Paris; it is my first trip here in an official way, and I want to say to you at the beginning, if any of you want to ask any questions as I go along, I will be glad to have you, as I have no set speech; I got over that habit long ago. I heard a friend of mine say that he had prepared a speech and committed it to memory and nobody knew it but himself, and one other, and when he got up to deliver it, nobody knew it but the other fellow. [Laughter.] My subject today is a 'live' one in a great many ways, and especially on account of the shortage of live stock there is at the present time. A week ago last Saturday the statistics showed that on the five leading markets of the United States there was a shortage of 695,000 cattle under the year before.. That has increased in the last two weeks so that it will run over 700,000 cattle. |