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The President : Well, Mr. Secretary, I have associated with 

 me the champion membership getter. When we can go out and get 

 twenty or twenty-five in a month I think we can go out and get 

 the others. We are all enthusiastic now and happy. We are 

 glad we are here and we are going to do wonders this next year. 

 But I'll wager inside of a week our ardour has materially cooled 

 and it will be getting colder until about a month before the next 

 convention. We are'not going to get anywhere that way. We 

 want to get busy immediately after this convention, and if we do 

 there is no reason why we can't have a thousand members by the 

 time of the 1923 convention. I repeat that my office will have a 

 hundred members by the time of the next convention but it is with 

 the understanding that the rest of you co-operate in this movement 

 and that each of you here, and the other members who are not 

 here, be informed and instructed what is expected of them, to get 

 at least ten each. 



Mr. Bixby : I don't believe you will ever succeed, Mr. Presi- 

 dent, in getting each of the other members to get ten members each. 

 If the rest of the members get a hundred between them they would 

 be doing more than we ever did before. 



The President: Yes, Mr. Bixby, but even if the members 

 here get ten each I think if we follow them up closely and keep 

 right after them we can increase this membership to a thousand. 



Mr. Bixby : I will agree for one to get ten or else pay the 

 amount in to the treasury. 



Mr. Jones : We can get ten. 



Mr. Weber: Mr. President, I will get ten or kick in to the 

 treasury the money they would have brought. 



The President: That's fine. That's thirty right there. How 

 about you, Mr. Thorpe? 



Mr. Thorpe: I think I can get it. 

 Professor Neilson : I think I can get ten. 

 The President : I think there is no doubt about it. Mr. 

 Spencer will get ten won't you, Mr. Spencer? 

 Mr. Spencer: I will try to. 



The President : Well, you will, won't you, or else you will 

 "kick in" with the money,— $20? 



Mr. Spencer: Yes, I think so. Well, if I am going to put in 

 $20 I want to say something more on the subject. If we send out 

 this Chinese tree it would be very easy to put in a slip stating that 

 the association is very anxious to know whether this is suitable for 

 the receiver's particular part of the country. We should tell him 

 that we don't know whether it will grow in Illinois or in Louisiana, 

 and that it's an experiment on the part of the association to learn 

 whether this tree, which is desirable in China, is suitable for his 

 particular locality. We should ask him to please take care of it, 

 watch results and report to the association. Make him sort of a 

 partner in the discovery. 



