FIFTY-SECOND ANNUAL CONVENTION 165 



THURSDAY AFTERNOON SESSION 



January 28, 1926 — 1:30 P. M. 



President O'Hair: The meeting will please come to 

 order. 



It is just too bad to bring a man four hundred miles, 

 that absolutely knows what he is talking about, and not 

 have a thousand people here to hear him. Professor Cald- 

 well talked over in our home community last year, at the 

 farmers' institute, and they are still talking about it over 

 there, men and women. I don't think any man ever talked 

 in our county, who made a bigger hit, if you will excuse 

 the expression, with the people, than Professor Caldv^ell. 

 Now he is here and going to talk to you folks. There 

 are only a few here, but I am sure he will feel repaid by 

 the good-looking folks that are here. 



Now we have two more men to talk to you this after- 

 noon ; and this program we have had puts me in mind of 

 two boys, a town boy and a country boy, the town boy a 

 well-dressed little chap who always got good marks in 

 school, and the country boy a freckle-faced, tow-headed, 

 bare-footed nimble youngster. The country boy had a 

 stone-bruise on his heel and the town boy went out to see 

 him. They went out through an old field and in an apple 

 orchard. There was one apple in that old orchard. They 

 knocked it off, it went in the rag-weeds, the country boy 

 was after it, picked it up and began to eat it. The other 

 little fellow sat there watching him every time he took a 

 bite. Finally he said, wistfully, *'Give me the core." And 

 the other boy stuffed it all in his mouth and said, 'There 

 ain't goin' to be no core." (Laughter.) This is the best 

 program we have ever had, and I will just say without any 

 fear of contradiction that this has been the best array of 

 speakers that has been or will be in Illinois this year at 

 any meeting. (Applause.) We have brought them here, 

 and as I said this morning, the three or four boys that were 



