FIFTY-FIRST ANNUAL CONVENTION 43 



TUBERCULOSIS ERADICATION 



Dr. J. J. Lintner. 



Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: It surely is a 

 pleasure to be with you. I always like to attend meetings 

 of this kind. You carry away from them constructive ideas, 

 because there are none of us who knows so much that he 

 cannot profit by the other man^s ideas. 



As your president said, let us apply the ideas that 

 have been covered here and not go home with good inten- 

 tions and then forget all about them. 



The previous speakers have said nothing regarding 

 the ladies. Although this is a dairymen's meeting, I believe 

 that in the dairy interests, as well as any other, we need 

 the ladies. In our particular line of work we find that 

 sometimes the men are slow, while the ladies prompt the 

 men to action. 



It reminds me there was a meeting of this kind and the 

 president of the meeting criticized the men because he 

 didn't think the men were giving their wives the considera- 

 tion they were entitled to. While it was going on, some of 

 the men evidently felt guilty and did some thinking. One 

 of them on his way home stopped at a florists' shop and 

 bought a bouquet. Upon arriving at home, he presented it 

 to his wife, and she started to cry. He inquired what the 

 trouble was and she said: ^'Everything has gone wrong 

 today. The baby fell down the stairs, the line broke and 

 my washing fell down, and now you come home drunk. 

 (Laughter) . 



The subject assigned to me needs no introduction to 

 you. It is a subject that is receiving more and more atten- 

 tion all the time. I hardly know what to say to you people 

 on it, because there has already been so much said and 

 printed about it. 



When I say that the program here today has brought 



