STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



ADDRESS. 

 Dr. Robert J. Aley, Orono. 



Ladies and Gentlemen: I am very glad indeed to have this 

 opportunity of meeting with the society and with the citizens of 

 this city. I am especially glad of the opportunity of seeing the 

 splendid exihibit and the fine products of this state. I believe 

 we need to learn two great lessons if we are to be the great 

 people that we .have seen ourselves in our dreams. I believe 

 It is true of every individual, everywhere, that if he is to realize 

 what it was intended that he should realize, he must be, in the 

 first place, the best individual that it is possible for him to be. 

 He must be able, as an individual, to seize upon opportunity, 

 and to use all -things that come to hand in the best way possible. 

 But he must be more than that. He must be able to see in 

 the work of another, simply another side of his own work. 

 He must be able to join with his fellows in the best sort of 

 team work. 



One of the hardest things that confronts the captain of a 

 foot ball team is driving the lesson into each member of the 

 eleven that he must be the best individual player that he can be, 

 but he must also be the best itea-m player that it is possible for 

 him to be. The player who can only play a star game to the 

 grand stand does not last long. On the other hand, the one 

 who can do nothing excepit in unison with others, has a life 

 equally short. The team, when it is finally in shape to win vic- 

 tories, is ,a team that has in it eleven men, each of whom is 

 capable of a great play ; but it is also a team of eleven men who 

 can become, as occasion demands, one man. And that is the 

 lesson, it seems to me, that confronts us in life. H we are to 

 make the state of Maine as great as we ever dreamed she should 

 be, we will make her that only wthen every citizen of the state 

 realizes that he must be the best individual citizen that it is 

 possible for any man to be, and at the same time realizes that 

 he must cooperate with his fellows, and must sink, when neces- 

 sity requires it, his own personal individual traits into the 

 common good. To put it another way, it is necessary, it seems 

 to me, today as it has never been before, that we all realize 



