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things before you can put them over, and I told them this 

 story, as I have you tonight, that it was all *'bunk," this 

 stuff they were passing out about the large amount of cot- 

 tonseed oil that was used, influencing the people to stand 

 for the oleo interests, against the dairy interests. I think 

 in view of the fact that there is about two million five hun- 

 dred thousand dollars worth of cottonseed oil used in the 

 manufacture of oleo, and about thirty-eight million dol- 

 lars' worth of cottonseed product used by the people of the 

 north, that we might retaliate if they do not get busy and 

 get this thing straightened out. There are other products 

 we can use up here, in place of cottonseed products, that 

 can be used to advantage. These fellows are no good. 



I thank you again for calling on me, and I am glad 

 to be able to express my appreciation of the splendid sup- 

 port I got in Springfield, in putting this matter over. (Ap- 

 plause.) 



Toastmaster: The next speaker is the Reverend Van 

 Buskirk. 



Rev. Van Buskirk: I wondered a good deal just how 

 I happened to get into this bunch. One thing about it, if 

 this ''gang" are all Sunday School superintendents I am 

 going home and analyze my cow (laughter). I told your 

 chairman I thought he would have to put me last, and Mr. 

 Caven on before me, and let me be the last on the program. 

 I had a wonderful speech all fixed up, I have been think- 

 ing all day about this meeting. 



I think that, after all, we have got about the biggest 

 challenge to the folks interested in a big proposition like 

 ours. I listened with a good deal of interest to Miss Shehan 

 in the speech she made. It is a wonderful opportunity 

 after all, to think that when we are in a business which 

 gives us our bread and butter, the clothes we wear, so at 

 the same time we are having a real share in entering into 

 the heart and life of American childhood, manhood and 

 womanhood, because these things not only make the body 

 finer, better and cleaner, but when the body is finer and 

 better and cleaner then the mind is in a position to think 



