PART VI 



IOWA STATE DAIRY ASSOCIATION 



Proceedings of the Fortieth Annual Convention, Held 

 at Waterloo, October 4-5, 1916 



Tile fortieth aiimicil eonveiition of the Iowa State Dairy Asso- 

 ciation, held in connection with the Waterloo Dairy Congress, con- 

 vened at 10 A. M. Wednesday, October 4th. The meeting was 

 called to order by President W. B. Quarton. After a few prelimi- 

 nar}'^ remarks he introduced Mayor Law of Waterloo, who deliv- 

 ered the address of welcome. 



ADDRESS OF WELCOME. 

 BY MR. LAAV. 



Mr. Chairman and visiting friends of the Iowa State Dairy Associa- 

 tion: It is a matter of real pleasure for me to have the opportunity 

 of being present and extending to you, on behalf of the people of Water- 

 loo, the welcome which they have for you. Personally, I cannot under- 

 stand why a formal address of welcome should be given. You, no 

 doubt, have heard of Eugene Field's experience with the burglar. If you 

 have not, it runs something like this: 



Eugene Field was awakened one night by his wife with the state- 

 ment that there was a burglar in the house down stairs. Apparently, 

 Eugene did not pay enough attention to it for, with the same persistency 

 with which the average wife is gifted, Mrs. Field asked him if he was 

 not going down stairs, to which Eugene replied that he was not. Mrs. 

 Field then asked him why not, to which Field replied that if there was 

 a burglar down stairs he did not want to go and if there was not a 

 burglar down stairs there was no need of his going. 



A formal address of welcome has always seemed to me to be some- 

 thing like Eugene Field's attitude, viz.: That if thfe people of Waterloo 

 were not ready to extend a welcome following this formal address of 

 mine, I would not want to deliver it, and if they are to extend a cordial 

 welcome, then there is no need of my delivering it. In other words, 

 I might stand here for hours and deliver all that I have in my system, 

 and I might talk to you until you were exhausted with listening, of the 

 greatness of Waterloo and of the hospitality of its people and if you 

 were to go from here and find that what I had told you was not in 

 keeping with the facts and that the people were not cordial and hos- 

 pitable, you would feel that all that I had to say was ill-timed and 



