THIRTY-THIRD ANNUAL CONVENTION


OF
Wisconsin Cheese Makers'Association
Meld at the Auditorium, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
December 10, 11, 12th, 1924.
ADDRESS OF WELCOME
By MR. ROBT. L. SCHIRMER, Milwaukee Association of Commerce
Mr. President, Gentlemen: It is a rather strange coincidence that
one who was born about the same time as your Association came into
being should have the privilege to extend a most 'hearty welcome to
you this morning, in behalf of the Association of Commerce and the
several thousand business and professional men it represents. I
presume that you will be crowning your charter members who have
stuck by the ship since its start thirty-three years ago with the last
and honorary degree.     -
It is also significant that your association for perhaps many years
before our records were started, has met as you are now meeting
in a city which has through the forces of destiny, became known as
MILK-waukee thereby reflecting towards itself some of the glory your
Association has built up through your uncanny ability to foresee
the great advent of MILK as one of the builders of Wisconsin's
permanent agricultural supremacy.
Although I've been a resident of Wisconsin for some twelve years,
I did not know until I heard Burt Williams address at the first
annual meeting of the Land-o-Lakes Association at Antigo last year
that Wisconsin produces more cheese than all the other states com-
bined. And it remained for me to notice that during the recent Dairy
Show awards were cleverly given to cheese producers from other
states to encourage them to carry forward an industry which has
made such a glorious name for itself right here in our own great
state.
The program says "Short Talks are Best." I'm going to set
the
pace right now and simply say that it seems to me that a Wiscon-
sin Association which has so gloriously set such high standards for