Proceedings of Sixth Annual Meeting 



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We are now, as I said, on the threshold of the third stage. We 

 have faith enough to feel that if it is not this year it will be next 

 year, surely very soon, when the people in this state will recognize 

 that it is no longer wisdom to delay; that every year of delay 

 means loss, a serious financial loss to the State of New Jersey, 

 and that he who may help towards finding the larger means and 

 who may help to expedite this service will do, perhaps, more than 

 we have done in a smaller way towards bringing prosperity and 

 happiness to a section of the state, and to somehow make this part 

 of the state relatively as important in population and wealth and 

 progress as is the northern portion of New Jersey. 



I wish to congratulate the active workers in this association, and 

 I want to make a plea for harmony — there is harmony, but what 

 I mean is greater harmony, a greater cooperation and the for- 

 getting of any sectional jealousies that you may have, and the for- 

 getting of the little things that do not count, and to do everything 

 we can to expedite the work, to feel impatient of delay, and to lose 

 no opportunity to make our friends and associates and people in 

 the state at large recognize that delay is no longer wisdom and 

 no longer true devotion to the interests of the State of New Jersey. 



President Engle: The next paper is by Mr. Gaskill. 



