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including the final broadcast on June 30. Toward the end of 
the first half year the Mutual System had an opportunity to sell 
the time of the Radio Garden Club to a commercial organization 
and this terminated the Radio Garden Club. During the last 
half of 1941 seven broadcasts were given over WNYC, making a 
total of 26 for the year. 
Elementary Instruction 
As we have hitherto frequently explained, the Department of 
Elementary Instruction has to do primarily with children of 
Junior High School age, with Elementary School children, with 
the teachers of children, with garden clubs, and with other 
groups interested in elementary plant life and horticulture. 
The future of the country’s love of beauty and of its artistry 
lies in the children, said Mr. Lorado Taft, the sculptor, in an 
address accepting the gold medal of the Holland Society. The 
same thought was back of the work which Mr. Walter Damrosch 
did for many years for children in music, and which is still being 
carried on. These, of course, are only special cases, for the en- 
tire future of civilization depends upon those who are now chil- 
dren. It is well known that in the present holocaust in Europe 
the education of children in Nazi doctrine has played an impor- 
tant rdle. Science has been somewhat slow to recognize the im- 
portance of work with children, to become really and generally 
interested in it, and to act upon it. 
Our educational work with children is a means of rendering a 
much needed and much appreciated civic service to the commun- 
ity. But, even more important than that, it affords an oppor- 
tunity of giving future citizens and voters, at their most im- 
pressionable age, an elementary acquaintance with the method 
of science of assembling and objectively analyzing facts, of draw- 
ing only such conclusions as the facts warrant, and of suspending 
judgment in the absence of adequate data; of acquainting them 
with the nature and importance of botanic gardens, and their 
work in advancing and disseminating a knowledge and love of 
plants. The general public can hardly be expected to support 
institutions whose work—and the civic and social importance of 
whose work—they do not understand. The future of both gov- 
