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and in order to do this, of course, I believe you will get better 

 results if you do it through men who are familiar and acquainted 

 with these men — whom those men know and know the positions 

 they occupy and the people they represent. If your complaints 

 come in we will try to take care of you in the very best way that 

 we can. 



I just want to say another thing while I am on my feet about 

 Mr. Chambers. Most of you haven't heard a word about Mr. 

 Chambers. Mr, Chambers was made director of traffic under 

 Mr. McAdoo's direction. It has been a year or two since I met 

 Mr. Chambers occupying that position. I went to Washington 

 two years ago — during those months when Iowa people couldn't 

 get any cars at all — you people remember what the conditions 

 were at that time — and I got acquainted with Mr. Chambers. 

 That was my first acquaintance with him. I went to Mr. Cham- 

 bers because he was director of traffic, and I found him to be a 

 big man, a man that wanted to help us, and I stayed there some 

 ten days or two weeks, and before we left we had things moving 

 here, and we kept them moving until we got unloaded. Through 

 the assistance of Mr. Aishton, who was then regional director 

 of the entire Middle West, and Mr. Chambers, we got our stuff 

 unloaded on a market which later broke and caused us a heavy 

 loss. As I said, I didn't want to sit down until I had said a 

 word of commendation for the splendid work that Mr. Chambers 

 has done in Washington in behalf of the live stock interests in 

 the Middle West here, along with Mr. Harris. At that time the 

 office which Mr. Harris now holds hadn't been created — that's 

 the committee for looking after the live stock interests. The 

 live stock committee hadn't been created at that time and Mr. 

 Harris wasn't in W^ashington, and wasn't put there until some 

 months afterwards. 



Now, I believe I have nothing more to say, and we are going 

 to adjourn at this time to meet at 1 :30 o'clock this afternoon. 

 We want to meet the board of directors here immedaitely after 

 we adjourn — both those who were elected last night and those 

 who hold over. After lunch we will take up these other ques- 

 tions — a continuation of these live stock claims and other ques- 

 tions that afifect your interests, together wath the report of the 

 resolutions committee. We don't want to forget that. 



