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inspection service, has not been our undoing — our destruction, rather 

 than our salvation. Have not the opportunities been too great, posi- 

 tions too easy to obtain, educational standards and requirements too 

 low for even the present good of the science, to say nothing of the 

 foundations which we must build for the future? When we compare 

 the relative training and preparations of Pathological and Entomolog- 

 ical staffs in the same institutions and note that the Pathologists have 

 about three Doctorates to the Entomologists' one, note in fact, that 

 the Doctorate is as common in Pathology, as the Master in Entomol- 

 ogy, we begin to feel anxious for the future of our beloved science. If 

 we should go farther in our analysis and compare the type of work 

 that is being put out today, by the two organizations, we might feel 

 even more alarmed for the future of our science. We should not, how- 

 ever, be discouraged; we should rather read a message of warning and 

 an opportunity for salvation. The Pathologists have been passing 

 through the stages and struggles of the early days of this society. 

 They are laying the foundations for their science. They are, today, 

 winning the support of the people. They are small in numbers, but 

 great in inspiration, in interest and zeal. They are better trained 

 because the opportunities were few and the standards high. There has 

 been little encouragement to enter the field, except for the real lover 

 of the science. They are very largely a band of choice spirits. Today 

 they are facing the problems that prosperity brings. May our good 

 wishes go with them, in the hope that they may profit by our experi- 

 ■ence, and meet prosperity with their standards still high and their 

 faith undimmed. 



What, then, is the standing of the Entomologists, as they prepare 

 to take their place in the modern world? A society whose efforts and 

 achievements have been recognized the world around, a society that 

 has not only laid the foundations of insect control for America, but for 

 every corner of the earth. We speak, today, of America as a "world 

 power." The Economic Entomologists of America have been a "world 

 power" for a generation. Our "fourteen principles" have long since 

 been accepted by all nations. Is it possible, you ask, for a society with 

 such a record, to be outstripped by one just out of its swaddling clothes? 

 Let us hope that it is not. Let us do more than hope; let us make sure 

 that the traditions of the past may be continued and enhanced in the 

 work of the future. Let us examine the situation from every angle, 

 weigh each factor, recognize error and shortcoming, if such exist, and 

 lay our foundations for an even more briUiant future, founded on the 

 achievements of a glorious past. 



There are three fundamental factors to consider in estimating the 

 productive power and possibility of development of a scientific organi- 



