FIFTY-SECOND ANNUAL CONVENTION 89 



that line, but I do know this, that the success of an organi- 

 zation depends in large measure upon the kind of officers 

 that serve it. Mr. O'Hair has been doing his bit as presi- 

 dent of the Illinois State Dairymen's Associatoin, I know 

 you will want to hear from him at this time. (Applause.) 



President O'Hair: Folks, this is the fifty-second anni- 

 versary of the Illinois State Dairymen's Association. I 

 don't want to take up the time to go into the history of it, 

 but I have been connected with it some eight or ten years. 

 We have had conventions where we have had larger 

 crowds, we may have had more people at the banquet, but 

 never in the history of a convention have I attended where 

 a town has been so loyal, so grand and so entertaining to 

 the State Dairymen folks, as Galesburg. (Applause.) 



You have simply been wonderful. Now, I have had 

 some experience in the last two years with some folks in 

 Galesburg and I will just say that there are some men here 

 in the city that have touched my very soul with their kind- 

 ness and their goodness, and I never will forget them, al- 

 though I may never be back to Galesburg. 



My first acquaintance with a man from Galesburg was 

 Mr. Louie Nielson. Mr. Nielson and I were in Knoxville, 

 Tennessee, a couple of years ago, together, and if any of 

 you folks were ever in Knoxville you know you have got 

 to travel some if you keep up with the system down there. 



One evening as we went out of the beautiful hotel 

 where we were stopping, I said to Mr. Nielson, 'I'm very 

 forgetful, I never remember anything after I sleep." We 

 were there another week, and Mr. Nielson came home a 

 few days before I did; and just as I was getting ready to 

 come home I got a telegram from him saying, *'Be sure 

 and take a good nap before you come home." (Great 

 laughter and applause.) 



A Sunday School teacher asked her boys how many 

 of them would like to be president of the United States. 

 They all held up their hands but one little fellow, and he 

 kind of began to cry, and she said, ''What is the matter, 

 Lee, wouldn't you like to be president?" "Yes, ma'am," 

 he said, "but I can't." "Why can't you?" she said. He 



