Evening star., 1924-08-10
OUR SUMMER CONVENTION
Seller sand Cousun Lake Oua1uet

matter, but the lecture itself was
good. 1t was all right
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RY the next morning we had the
convention pretty well in full
swing and you could see that the
crowd were getting to know one
another. This second morning was
to be the big morning of the conven-
tion because the State governor was
to give US an address and everybody
felt that it was great honor to have
him come. They had put up a sort of
arch for him to drive under with a
motto welcome. You Big Nut" They
say the governor was awfully pleased
with it and still more when they
made him a Chief Grand Nut at the
morning ceremony.
I didn't hear his address myself,
not more than a few sentences.
couldn't stay. He had just begun a
survey of the history of the develop
ment Of the arabic land of the State
Che had 1t all in his hand and was
reading IT'D when L had to go. I had
said something to some of the boys
the night before about golf-it ap-
peared that the privileges of the
Watawetness Golf Club had been ex-
tended to us-and / felt that mustn't
go back on it 1t was disappointing.
but there was no use worrying over
1t.
They said the governors address
was great 1t was too long, every
body admitted. and a few took ex-
ception to 1t because it was not
exactly connected with the conven-
tion, and some criticized it because
it was the same address that he had
given to the Skiers and Snowshoemen
convention last February. But still
it was good.
Playing golf cut me clean out of
the afternoon session, too, as I didn't
get back till it must have been
started In this session the program
was to divide the convention up into
little groups for intensive study of
the peanuts. organized by Miss Mutt
of the botany section of the State
Teachers Association. Each study
group was to take some topic under
a special speaker and exhaust 1t. But
quite q lot of the delegates had gone
fishing. and some were playing pool
and some were scattered round. 1t
seems they couldn't make up the
groups except just the speaker in
each group and Miss Mutt herself, of
course. So Miss Mutt gave them .
talk on "The Botany Of Selling rss<
nuts" They said it was fine. 1t was
too long, they thought, and would
have been much better, ever 50 much
better, if it had been shorter-quite
short, but it was good.
That night was the big banquet
The governor stayed over for it. and
there was to be his speech and the
Secretary of Agriculture and speeches
from the grand master and from
clergymen and teachers. In fact II
looked pretty good and from all I
heard it was considered q big success
The only thing against 1t was that
! some of the delegates had brought
| in some stuff into t. g hotel, q don't
know where they g't 1t from), and q
lOC Oh IueHl were SIippiHS OuL VI Inc
banquet room and slipping up to the
rooms where they had this stuff.
Some didn't come down. They said
quite lot didn't come down I went
up there for a while, but didn't stay
long, or not so very long, and when
/ got back to the door of the banquet
room one of the guests. a minister.
was talking on the moral aspect OF
importing peanuts. So I didn't stay,
rs I am more interested in the SELL
ing aspect
The next morning I left early.
There was to be another whole day
and some mighty interesting papers
to be read. But / felt I would be
needed badly in my business at this
time, in fact I felt pretty keen to
get back to 1t. I saw many other dell
eEates come away on the same train,
lot of them. They had taken of
their badges, so I couldn't tell their
names and their religions, but they all
agreed that the convention had been
a wonderful success and q great edu-
cative influence In our business
Copyright. 1924)