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ness man who does not know that to stint productive 

 investment is to lose money. I do not believe for an instant 

 that the American people care whether this government 

 spends a million or two more or less, by itself considered, 

 but I do think they care mightily whether that money 

 is productively spent so as to bring them what they 

 have a right to expect in economic and efficient service. 

 Productiveness arising from spending is the sole basis 

 of economy, and to send men to sea in unseaworthy ships, 

 to equip a great bureau with a building which is hope- 

 lessly out of date and to require it to do that which it 

 is ridiculously without the means of doing, may be mis- 

 erly, but it is not economy." 



Secretary Redfield further deplored the fact that all 

 attempts to secure an appropriation for the services of a 

 pathologist in the Bureau of Fisheries have been unavail- 

 ing, and continued ; "I wish that copies of the papers on 

 the diseases of fishes presented here could be sent to each 

 member of the Appropriations Committee of the House 

 of Representatives with a personal letter from a lot of 

 you, indicating the seriousness of this matter and that 

 this means the adoption of measures of the same ordi- 

 nary common sense in treating this important article of 

 food, that have been already adopted with reference to 

 the examination of beef, or to looking after the health 

 of animals affected by tuberculosis and affecting the milk 

 supply. The adoption of such measures is a matter of 

 common sense. 



"If an attitude of sympathetic consideration for the 

 great work in which you have a part, which we have at 

 heart and which it is our duty to perform, can be created, 

 much will be gained. I hope that out of this meeting 

 there may come something that will awaken a practical 

 sympathy on the part of men who are anxious and willing 

 to do what is right, but who do not know as well as you 

 what the circumstances require." 



At the completion of Secretary Redfield's address the 

 regular business of the Society was resumed. 



President Ward announced the Committee on Program 

 for the meeting, to consist of Dr. Geo. W. Field, chair- 



