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had committees assisting me to make programs and to run the in- 

 stitutes, that I have always had to go dowu in my pocket after the 

 expense account was rendered, when I had hnished up. For three 

 years I have had nobody to lielp and have attended to the business 

 myself and I have never spent quite all the money allowable but I 

 have had the luck to get churches, paying the janitor for cleaning 

 up in many instances. 



Now I believe this, that we want more brains put into the ar- 

 ranging and the running of our institutes, rather than more money, 

 ]t is brains we want; I do not mean that I have those brains at all, 

 but the idea I wish to convey is, that it takes a deal of arrangement 

 and management, and that arrangement you must commence when 

 your June meeting comes, and follow up to the very nights of the 

 inStiitutes, not a let up, if you want a success. I do not say that I 

 have had a success in my county; that I will leave to the lecturers 

 who h(ave been there. I do say this, I have had no trouble in get- 

 ting up my programs, and my papers have always done this. I would 

 manage some way or another to get them to publish my program, 

 which usually costs me from seven to ten dollars. Every paper in 

 the county would publish that program in detail, put it from column 

 to column; that was my advertising; besides that, drawing the atten- 

 tion of the people to it every few weeks beforehand, sometimes six 

 weeks or two months before, keeping the fact of the institutes be- 

 fore the people, and advising them of what was going on, keeping 

 it to the front, and with the posters which were put up all over 

 the county, ni}^ advertising has been effective; I have had no trouble 

 in that way. My great trouble has alwaj's been to get a place for 

 those speakers, so that they would not be obliged to go into a cold 

 room after talking for an hour or two or for the whole evening, and 

 then go into a cold room, as cold almost as ice, and there is the 

 trouble. Take my own county and I venture to say this, that it is 

 the same with many others, and Ave haven't got a good hotel out- 

 side of the county seat, and I guess, ii elude the county seat and not 

 be far wrong. Now what are you going to do? They have no warm 

 rooms, no rooms heated at all. Many times we have got to go to 

 the farmers' houses. 



The DEPUTY SECRETARY: Haven't you got a lot of coal out 

 there? 



MR. McHENRY: Yes, any amount of it, and they will let you dig 

 it yourself if 3'ou want to, but the question is, how are you going to 

 heat up a room? No fireplace, no stove in it. I have had them 

 heat irons and bricks and all those things yet it does not accomplish 

 the heating of that room, and this is a matter which has given me 

 a great deal of trouble. 



I like one idea that has been brought forward, and that idea is 

 one of the questions before us here, presented by Brother Martin. 

 T think that we want our counties organized in these societies, not 

 so much for the money that it may bring, as because it will arouse 

 our people and bring them together and when they get their heads 

 together we will get better work done, and more concentrated work 

 and more united work, and we want to get our whole people inter- 

 ested in these institutes. 



