February, '11] president's address: discussion 95 



respect to education — something that looks toward the future, some- 

 thing that holds up an ideal, something that influences men by direct- 

 ing them. This committee cannot command, and say you shall do 

 this and the other thing. It can merely stand as an inspiration to us, 

 and that is the kind of work I should like to see this committee do. 

 It is the kind that would help me, and not for one moment do I believe 

 that acquaintance with plans under consideration will reduce origin- 

 ality. It will form a basis of effort. One man will find out what 

 another man is interested in, and he will look at that plan, and if it 

 appears good to him he will adopt it. We are after the advancement 

 of our science, rather than the advancement of the individual. There 

 may be a minority of men in the country at large, I believe, who are 

 firmly of the opinion that if their plans become known, they are so 

 good and so desirable, that those of us that can will take up their 

 ideas and work them out before they have finished. Now, the rea- 

 son one party gave me for the office of experiment stations not 

 divulging the plans of other entomologists was along this line. The 

 office had refused to tell him the plans because certain entomologists 

 were afraid their plans would be taken up and worked out by some- 

 body else before their work was finished. 



President Sanderson: If it is in order, I should like to make a 

 remark. I appreciate very much the cordial expressions in regard to 

 cooperation, and I might say in explanation that the idea of coopera- 

 tion I intended to convey was that it was to be purely voluntary. My 

 main idea was that we could further this work through greater pub- 

 licity, and Dr. Headlee has expressed the idea very clearly. There 

 is one other point — with all due deference to originality, and I think 

 I do not want to do anything which would retard originality, I feel 

 that we have sometimes suffered from over-originality. If all the 

 chemists were working by individual methods, we would have a very 

 sad state of affairs. Now take in entomology, as a matter of com- 

 parison, the results of the codling moth work, which we have alluded 

 to previously. I would not say we must all work alike, but at least 

 try to get together. And then, this matter of team work, which Pro- 

 fessor Headlee has spoken of, I think any of you whp have had any- 

 thing to do with station work, will appreciate that fact. Team work 

 is the coming thing. Some of the biggest men in the Department of 

 Agriculture have done their best in team work, and yet we have men 

 in every station who do not want to pull with the other fellow because 

 they are afraid he will get ahead of them. We do not want to frus- 

 trate originality, but men must be brought to realize the importanci 

 of working together. If we have to put a horticulturist, a botanist, 

 a chemist and an entomologist on a problem all together for the proper 



