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income just about sufficient to make the " wheels go round " in the 

 office and the surplus available wherewith to grind grain is a very small 

 fraction of the funds required to keep the wheels in motion. Under 

 the billing system for small dues from hundreds of members and new 

 membership campaigns, often seventy-five to one hundred per cent, of 

 the funds are consumed. Instead of wasting so much capital in beating 

 the tom-toms and in asserting and defending from attack alleged 

 scientific knowledge, one quarter of the energy would be sufficient to 

 settle these scientific questions for all time if expended in bringing the 

 evidence suitably before an impartial scientific tribunal whose deci- 

 sion would command respect. With the same decision, much agita- 

 tion and annoyance would be saved our good people, who are wearing 

 themselves out trying to form intelligent opinions on all kinds of 

 technical questions without proper evidence presented on either side. 



