For these alignments the men who are to determine the future course of events are getting ready.

There will never be a larger field for constructive statesmanship than will be offered to the Thirty-fifth general assembly.

Iowa herself is in a transition period.

She is just where the old days of the frontier, with its volunteer road work, and volunteer school, and volunteer railroad, and volunteer water company, must go with the volunteer brass band and volunteer hose cart.

She has not yet entered fully upon the new period of intensified farming on $200 land, the public service no longer a doubtful speculation but an established monopoly, when the school and road, and tele- phone, and everything, else must be made to contribute very def- initely to the prosperity of a people, who must make every step count.