PART VII 



Corn Belt Meat Producers' Association, Eighteenth 



Annual Meeting, and the Iowa Co-operative 



Live Stock Shippers 



WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1922 

 President Sykes : Gentlemen of the Corn Belt Meat Producers' 

 Association and the Iowa Federation of Co-operative Shippers, the 

 time has arrived when we should now open our joint convention. 

 The invocation will be offered by Dr. F. C. McKean, of the Cen- 

 tral Presbyterian Church, of this city. 



Dr. McKean: Almighty and Ever-Blessed God, Thou who art 

 the Giver of all life and health, every good and perfect gift, with 

 whom there is no variableness, neither shadow of turning, we ap- 

 proach Thy throne this day in prayer, thanking Thee for all Thy 

 boundless mercies in our lives; for health and strength and every 

 great good. We ask Thee, as we come here together as friends and 

 as citizens of a great commonwealth, that Thy blessing may be 

 upon us and upon it, and we may be true citizens of the great King- 

 dom of God, and be as loyal to Thee as to that nation. And we 

 ask Thy blessing upon these men as they come here from the great 

 agricultural districts of the state; bless them in the home life and 

 families; bless them in the business outlook. Give them happiness 

 and good cheer as we approach this glad Christmas-time, and may 

 they not forget the great Source of such gladness, when He came 

 to humanity, who was announced not as a great philosopher, not as 

 a teacher merely, but, — "Unto you this day is born in the city of 

 David, a Savior, who is Christ, the Lord." 



Let Thy blessing be with us for all our deliberations; may these 

 men enjoy every advantage of our city, and may we, as citizens, go 

 on and strive through a lifetime of citizenship, for a grander civil- 

 ization. We ask it all in His name, Amen. 



ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT A. SYKES 



We are now assembled in the nineteenth annual meeting of the Corn 

 Belt Meat Producers Association, and the second joint annual gathering 

 with the Iowa Federation of Co-operative Live Stock Shippers, and to all 



