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ices to humanity which can never be evaluated in terms of 

 money. 



Third: A profession is altruistic. The professor uses his 

 special knowledge in the service of others, givinp- them instruc- 

 tion, guidance or advice, or showing others how to apply 

 his special knowledge to their art. 



One of the most important of all professional services rendered to 

 any profession is research work and the donation of the results of the 

 same to the profession for the building up of the science upon which 

 the profession depends.:}: 



By 'all these tokens then Entomology certainly ranks as a 

 profession and one of the most altruistic. Entomologists, es- 

 pecially those in the Government employ, find themselves in 

 a position to render service to the whole people and ento- 

 mology as a profession is probably the least commercialized 

 of any, with the exception of the Christian ministry. This 

 is largely due to the fact that there are very few openings 

 and no demand for entomologists outside the Government 

 service and the Agricultural Colleges, not because they have 

 striven more successfully for the attainment of this profes- 

 sional ideal. Far from it and this leads to the point of the 

 argument. 



All Entomologists and others, who hold to the professional 

 ideal and whose sense of the fitness of things has not been 

 dulled by the depressing struggle against the high cost *of 

 living, will be inclined to look upon the action of some of 

 the Entomologists of the Department of Agriculture in joining 

 the Federal Employees Union and affiliating with the American 

 Federation of 1 .abor as a backward step, and one which 

 dicapais the profession generally and lowers it in the estima- 

 tion of managers of great industrial concerns who some day 

 might come to appreciate the value of services which economic 

 entomologists can render. 



The apology for joining the Federal Employees Union was. 

 of course, the totally inadequate salaries paid to Government 

 scientific employees and the belief (doubtless sincere with 

 many) that only b\ this move could sufficient pressure be 

 brought to bear on an indifferent Congress to effect a read- 

 justment of salary schedules to meet ever increasing expenses. 



t Stewart loc. cit. 



