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audience. The fellow finished his lecture, finished his 

 speech and then said to the lone man sitting there, 

 "Brother, if it is not out of order I would just like to ask 

 you how you come to stay. It sure is courtesy on your 

 part, r appreciate beyond words the courtesy you have 

 shown me. I would like to know before I leave this town 

 why you stayed." **Why," said the lone man, "that is 

 easy, brother; I am the janitor." (Laughter.) 



Now if you will permit me to say on behalf of the 

 Chamber of Commerce convention committee and on be- 

 half of the Chamber of Commerce of the City of Gales- 

 burg, you have already heard from our worthy secretary 

 but I want to add to what he has said, that we are very 

 happy indeed to have had the representatives of this indus- 

 try of Illinois as our guests and will have for another day 

 at this time. 



Now I wouldn't have you think for one moment that 

 we would have had this convention at this time if there 

 hadn't two things happened. One thing is that O'Hair 

 and Louie Nielson were in Tennessee (laughter) and the 

 other is that the Pioneer Creamery Company, the biggest 

 institution in Knox County, is in the city of Galesburg, and 

 that is the reason why the Illinois Dairymen's Association 

 is meeting here today. (Applause.) 



I want to say to you, as referred to by the Toastmaster, 

 that the pioneers are Louis Nielson and Mr. Nelson of 

 Peoria, and all the rest of them, and I will tell you frankly 

 that we are indeed very happy to see this spirit of co-opera- 

 tion of you fellows that make butter and all of those dairy 

 products, that you are so friendly, that you get together 

 and come over to Galesburg, one of the best towns in the 

 State of Illinois, second to none, not even Harrisburg 

 (laughter). However, if I had anything to do with it, I 

 would like to go down to Egypt to check up on O'Hair, 

 and I would like to go down to Harrisburg, and I think 

 as long as he is president we ought to go down there 

 (laughter). 



In conclusion, now, let me say that I have never 

 through all my experience, and I have no hesitancy in 



