PART VI 



Excerpts From the Proceedings of the Forty-first 



Annual Meeting of the Iowa State 



Dairy Association. 



ADDRESS OF WELCOME BY THE MAYOR. 



Ladies and Gentlemen : It is rather an unusual experience 

 when the same man has the same privilege of delivering the same 

 address to the same fellows at the same time of the year, for two 

 years, but that is the privilege I have today. I, personally, am 

 glad of it. I don't think you will be so glad after I get through 

 because my personal experience has been — at least I claim it's my 

 personal experience — that I have only about one speech on any 

 one subject and must admit at this time that it is a rather difficult 

 task to give you a brand new speech. 



However, you gentlemen are here and the people of Waterloo 

 are glad you are here. We are glad you are here. We are glad 

 that you have been coming into this community for all these years 

 and we hope the time will never come when you will change your 

 place of meeting. If you do continue to come here, I'll promise 

 you this : that if I am still mayor, once each year I will find time 

 to come out here and give you the same address of welcome. 



We realize that every patriotic citizen of Waterloo takes great 

 pride in this annual Dairy Show; at least they tell us that a 

 Waterloo man is always talking about his town. It has come to 

 be that in this city this is our big show. It's the one entertain- 

 ment which attracts the manufacturer, business man, merchant, 

 laboring man and every person around Waterloo, and we recog- 

 nize that it is to this association we owe the things we are having 

 here at this time. 



I suppose you know that the first Daiiy Show in Waterloo 

 was put on by this association. The reason for this was that the 

 association was holding its annual meeting here. The people of 

 Waterloo have developed it year after year until it has reached 

 its present proportion, and underlying it all is the fact that it is 

 your organization which it is representing. 



