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so that our Nominating Committee, in its further deliberations, 

 may decide as to the officers best qualified to fill these positions. 



(Mr. Alexander here resumed the chair). 



Mr. Geo. H. Graham, of Massachusetts: If we are going 

 to have this work carried on carefully and systematically we must 

 have somebody do the work who will be satisfied with the com- 

 pensation received. We have been coming to these meetings 

 year after year, enjoying ourselves, paying our two dollars and 

 going away. But we are asking one of our members to look after 

 the work all through the year, and to give a large part of his time 

 without any compensation, which is not really a fair proposition. 



I will admit that up to this year we have not been in a position 

 to do much financially, because we have been in debt. The first 

 thing we must do is to arrange for more revenues and the question 

 is, how are we going to do it? It seems to me that .there are a 

 great many sources of revenue we can logically call upon. In the 

 first place, I believe every state should take out a state member- 

 ship, similar to the one taken out by the State Commissioners 

 in the International Association of Game and Fish Commissioners. 

 There each state pays $25 as its state membership. You can 

 readily see that $25, if all the states join, makes a thousand dollars 

 to start with. 



Now, the work that is being done by this association is bene- 

 ficial to all the manufacturers and dealers in the United States 

 and Canada who are making or handling lines, fish hooks, rods, 

 reels, canoes, motorboats, and everything of that kind. Why 

 should we not have a membership that would take care of these 

 men. When they realize the actual benefit which they are 

 receiving from the work of this organization, they should not 

 hesitate in taking a membership. It seems to me it is a very 

 simple matter to get a few hundred of these memberships at 

 at least $5.00 per member. 



There is another live source of revenue in the libraries. Every 

 live library in the United States should be a member of this 

 association and pay at least $2.00 a year, if not $5.00. My plan 

 is this : Select a man for Secretary and tell him that for the first 

 year we will give him $300 as his salary, with all legitimate 

 expenses. At the end of the year we will see what he has done 



