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tremendous number of interesting things that people, even those who go 

 for a short time, do not see. 



On every side are places of tremendous historic interest. In almost 

 all of the public buildings are places where you can spend days with 

 profit. It is an interesting thing, an interesting life in a way. You meet 

 a great many interesting people from all over the world. But I want to 

 say to you that when the time comes to come back here among whom I 

 call real people, why I'll be mighty glad to come, and I am very sure Mrs. 

 Wallace will be, too. This little experience I have each year of coming 

 out and meeting with you and shaking hands with the men I have 

 worked with and fought with and at times have bled with in certain 

 battles that this association has carried on for so many years, this experi- 

 ence is really one of the bright spots in the year to me. 



The President : Sixteen years ago in January of this coming 

 year, as vice-president of this organization I received a letter 

 from a young fellow in the eastern part of the state who had not 

 been out of college very long, asking me if I would like to meet 

 a young man that was a chum of his in Chicago some day and 

 go over some matters with him that he thought were of vital im- 

 portance to the state of Iowa and the Corn Belt Meat Producers' 

 Association at that time. At that time Mr. Ames was president 

 of the organization, but his time was taken up in Chicago as 

 manager and president of the old co-operative that we were then 

 operating, and I was sort of acting president of the association 

 here in the state. 



Well, this letter was signed by J. M. Brockway, and I thought 

 the matter over and thought it would be a very good thing to go 

 in there and meet this young fellow that Brockway suggested. 

 I had met Brockway previous to this and was sort of favorably 

 impressed with him, and I thought we ought to meet this young 

 fellow and go over with Mr. Ames the matters that he had in 

 mind. By the way, he said, "I am going to ship some cattle 

 about such and such a time and 111 furnish this young fellow 

 a pass. He can go in with me on the stock train and it won't 

 cost the association very much." Well, of course those days we 

 did not have much money to squander and that sort of appealed 

 to me, so I wrote back to Jim and I said, "Bring him in. Let 

 me know and I'll meet you." 



So Jim set the date he was going to ship his cattle and notified 

 me, and I went in and sure enough here at the office of the old 

 co-operative I ran onto Jim Brockway with a tall, slim, young 

 guy that Brockway had written me about. I came in and he 



