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or pamphlet, in order that when you come to hold your institute you 

 will have all these programs for these different places on the one 

 pamphlet or sheet so that all the people who attend the institute 

 will see that you are to hold an institute at such a date at the other 

 places in your county where you intend to hold them, whether it be 

 at Marion or Chambersburg or elsewhere in your county, and in 

 that way those who attend each meeting will see what is to be done 

 in your other meetings and it will be an advertisement and they 

 will then know what is going on all over the county. Do you see 

 the point? 



ME. HEGE: Yes, I see the point. One of the chairmen told me 

 once that we could save money by having our programs printed 

 all by one printer. Now I am a subscriber to all our county papers 

 and two or three years ago they took a program for the institutes 

 all to one office; they got the four programs all printed for $10.00, 

 whereas they often charged me from $4.50 to |5.00 for a single pro- 

 gram. When we came to get our institute advertising in the papers 

 usually they put in a local for us naming the dates when our insti- 

 tutes were to be held, etc., and the lecturers expected and so on. 

 Now there are four printing offices there and they complained and 

 said to somebody that we gave all the printing to one office and they 

 never put a single local notice in the papers that did not get any 

 of the printing, about the institutes. Now that is one reason why 

 we get them separate if it does cost a little more. 



DR. CONARD: Mr. Chairman, the amount of money not being 

 sufficient struck me rather forcibly. I thought our brother from 

 Somerset seemed to think he was a little short of funds to carry on 

 the institute work. I think that the plan our good friend Martin 

 has outlined is an excellent one, and I think it will very materially 

 reduce the expenses. , 



MR. MILLER: I vrould say that we always do that. 



DR. CONARD: And I believe also that twelve dollars and a half 

 a day is plenty. I do not think we need any more than that amount 

 to carry on the institute work. If it cannot be carried on for that 

 amount, I think there are plenty of local contributions which will 

 be made to meet the deficiency. 



In our own countv of Chester I have had institutes held, the verv 

 best institutes we have had, for much less than twelve dollars and 

 a half a day and I have had some that cost a little more than twelve 

 dollars and a half a day. Right there seems a condition, and I would 

 like to call Mr. Martin's attention to it as well as the rest of those 

 present. We have one organization in our county who own their 

 hall; they are a good live organization and they have an institute 

 every year. They own the hall and they expect their |25 every year 

 if they hold a two-day institute. They say they are entitled to it 

 by the bulletin; that it is so stated in the bulletin that they are 

 entitled to it. 



While they do not say it in these words, they give us to under- 

 stand that it is none of our business whether they pay $5 or $20 for 

 the rent of the hall; they furnish the hall and they want the $25. 

 They hold the institute, they make the program and furnish the 



