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by any manner or means. Our army may believe in democracy, but 

 that fact is not going to win over an autocratic army. They must work 

 as a uriic and all push at once, and we have got to do the same thing 

 here. The fact that we believe in democracy is not going to beat the 

 Prussians. We have got to work as a unit, and not as disorganized 

 groups. If a pig is worth as much as a shell in winning this war, then 

 we' out here in Iowa ought to do our part toward supplying the pigs. I 

 am confident that that will be done. Personally I feel that the partriotic 

 sentiment in this country is going forward rapidly now, but it needs good, 

 strong, whole-souled, patriotic fellows in every locality to get back of it 

 and push it. I don't look upon it as being particularly patriotic to grow 

 these crops and try to meet the government program; I look upon it as 

 a case of loyalty. It is a case of being loyal to the government in the 

 present emergency, and I venture to predict that when this year rolls 

 around, you will find Iowa coming up to the harvest time with her usual 

 good crop. 



In conclusion, I want to say that we of the extension department are 

 at your service; we want you to use us just as much as you possibly can. 

 We are for the government program; we are bending all our energies in 

 order to further it and beat the Prussians. If you can aid us in any way, 

 we v»-ill be glad to have you do it. That is our purpose and object during 

 the coming year, and we hope we may be of some help to the national 

 government in accomplishing that end. 



The Toastmaster: One of the finest things about our association is that 

 as the older members, who bore the brunt of the work in the earlier 

 years have been going on, a large number of young men have come into 

 the association. We want to hear from a few of those men in a few words 

 tonight. We want them to get acqviainted with the old members. 



Brief but pointed responses were mada by Mr. Harry Fox and Mr. 

 Drury, of Sac county; H. S. Martin, of Monroe county; U. S.' Baxter, of 

 Ida county, and Mr. Hileen, of Cherokee county. 



The Toastmaster: I Avish we had time to call on more of these 

 younger members; it is an inspiration to those of us who have been in 

 the work longer; but v/e have our election of officers to attend to, and 

 I think we had better begin on that. I will entertain nominations for 

 the coming year. 



ELECTION OF OFFICERS. 



Mr. Eiscle : AVe have a man among us who is known all over 

 the United States, and is talked of wherever yon go, and I believe 

 that he can do us more good than any other man whom we could 

 nominate here this evening. That man is Mr. Sykes of Ida Grove, 

 and I put him in nomination for president. 



(Upon motion, the rules v/ere suspended, and the secretary 

 cast the ballot of the association for President Sykes, who was 

 thereupon declared duly elected for the ensuing year.) 



