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all get together and perfect this organization, what the advantage to this 

 industry is going to be I can't picture to you in words and when that is 

 done that will be the time when the man just referred to will feel lone- 

 some. 



That isn't all we have got to do. We have three things to do. We must 

 build not for today, or at once, but we must build for generations to 

 come, we must so organize that when you who are now at the present 

 time engaged in this industry step out, it will be so complete to those who 

 step in without knowing the change has taken place. It is just as possible 

 in this industry as in any other industry and it is going to be done because 

 it is right, because the welfare of many thousands is behind it and because 

 the best interests of this industry require it. 



I wish that everyone would reach the point where he would feel that 

 because he is engaged in one branch of this industry, that his position 

 isn't necessarily without competition to another engaged in another branch 

 over here. I mean by that every manufacturing department of this in- 

 dustry, whether on the co-operative basis, on the individual basis or on 

 the centralized basis, should see this industry in the world light and so 

 work together that neither will try to destroy the other but each to help 

 the other. Then when you have co-operated or co-ordinated into that 

 efifort, the effort of the man on whose shoulder this industry is, the man 

 who is selling his dairy machinery, and who manufactures the dairy ma- 

 chinery, the man back on the farm all get together we will put this 

 industry where it belongs. 



The man who owns cows should be working to contribute an amount to 

 help build the man who takes the products, manufactures butter, cheese, 

 ice cream, condensed milk, etc.; should be willing to pay his fair portion 

 to help build this industry. The man who sells machinery should be 

 willing to do it and the man wiio manufactures should be willing to do it. 

 When you get a gasis of contributions as nearly equal as may be, the one 

 contribution from all branches of the industry, an ideal condition will 

 result. That time is coming and when it does there is no small minded 

 man big enough, no narrowminded ideals powerful enough to even check 

 that progress. It is going to come. 



And now I know there will come from the. state of Iowa a voice 

 approving this effort and a determined growth in the effort to join in and 

 do its share towards it and when the proper time comes, Iowa, I know, will 

 not he found wanting in that respect. 



I want to thank you for your very kind and courteous attention and 

 apologize for the time I have consumed. 



DEAN C. F. CURTISS 

 Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa. 

 Mr. Toastmaster, Ladies and Gentlemen: 



A friend of mine who has something to do with a Speakers' Bureau 

 told me recently, nearly all requests that he had for speakers were for 

 men that had been gassed or wounded. Unfortunately, I can't put myself 



