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stress its aims and merits in his business correspondence. It is the 

 personal contact which counts. 



Among the letters coming to the secretary's office, were many in 

 which reference was made to the kindness of Mr. J. F. Jones of Lan- 

 caster, Pa. He has gone to his reward, and in his death we have 

 suffered a loss beyond measure. One writer wrote "All my knowledge 

 about nut trees came through the kindness of Mr. Jones. Wliatever 

 success I have had is due to his advice and courteous instruction." 



Many others wrote of ^Nlr. Jones in a similar manner. Among 

 others who have passed on during the last j^ear, whose names were 

 sent to the secretary's office were the following: Newman Hungerford, 

 Torrington, Conn.; Admiral Francis T. Bowles, Barnstable, Mass.; 

 Charles O. Harmon, Cassopolis, Mich.; A. W. Cojieland, Birmingham, 

 Mich.; Joseph C. Miller, Marland, Okla. 



Since your secretary reached Toronta he has been impressed by 

 the politeness and goodwill manifested by all to visitors to the national 

 exhibition. 



He was greatly pleased to read in the press accounts of the League 

 of Nations convocation, that representatives of all nations present 

 were thrilled by the honorable premier, William Lyon McKenzie 

 King's description of the boundary line between Canada and the 

 United States, which stretches across three thousand miles of the 

 continent, but has no army or navy, no sailors or soldiers to protect it. 

 Yet for more than 100 years, it has been a line of peace. 



The nations of the old world may well take a lesson from the new. 

 Their boundaries may be equal lines of peace and prosperity if they 

 will but adopt the policy of Canada and the United States, namely, — 

 THERE IS NOT NOR EVER SHALL BE A TARIFF ON GOOD- 

 WILL. 



