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FOURTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



once. In the proposed Constitution 

 there was a motion made that the 

 National be organized as a co-opera- 

 tive and educational institution with 

 power to proceed with the handling of 

 supplies and publishing of the Review, 

 with an amendment that at any time 

 the Board of Directors see fit for the 

 best interests of the Association they 

 could dispense with the Review or 

 handling of supplies, or both. It was 

 the consensus of opinion of the dele- 

 gates of the St. Louis Convention that 

 it was a bad business policy. We 

 should not have done it; it put a heavy 

 debt on the Association. 



Mr. Townsend put up such an ear- 

 nest plea to retain the Review, and 

 seemed to have such confidence that 

 it would pay, the delegates gave him 

 that chance. 



Mr. Kildow — It appears that, up to 

 the present time, all the benefit we 

 got out of the Association was through 

 the Review, buying supplies, keeping 

 us posted and such things. If this 

 Review is disposed of, what will we 

 have left that is of benefit to us? 

 There is a suggestion that we put 

 in $2. 



Mr. Moore — $1.00 of which will be 

 for subscription to the Review. The 

 limit of that contract has expired; we 

 have to pay for that Review; it 

 belongs to the National. As long as 

 there is a National we can keep the 

 Review. As far as I am personally 

 concerned I think the National should 

 maintain an official organ; the Review 

 is our official organ; it may be kept up 

 in a manner that is less espensive than 

 it ia today, so that it will pay and give 

 us all the valuable information we need. 

 That is a matter for the delegates at 

 their meeting to regulate. We took 

 occasion at St. Louis to suggest things 

 in regard to matters of publication that 

 would make the expense of the Revietv 

 less. If the National, with an extra 

 dollar for the subscription for the Re- 

 view and a $1.00 fee to the National 

 to keep them in funds, are given this 

 amount of $2.00, Mr. Townsend seems 

 to think in the course of time — through 

 the sale of supplies and so on — the Re- 

 view will pay out, and if we can once 

 get out of debt, by economy in manage- 

 ment and publication especially, I think 

 it will not cost the Association any 

 money; there will be enough in the 

 subscription and advertising to pay ex- 

 penses of publishing the Review and 



it will give the Association the bene- 

 fit of an official organ. 



Mr. Kildow — It seems to be very in- 

 definite about the money derived from 

 the selling of the supplies; according 

 to your own say you have no report 

 from Mr. Townsend and- you cannot 

 get a report. 



Dr. Gates — I would say in that con- 

 nection, in my recommendations to the 

 delegates at the last meeting at Sb.^ 

 Louis, my recollection i^. that J recom- 

 mended that the Treasurer be vested 

 with full authority to control all funds 

 pertaining to the National. That rec- 

 ommendation did not meet with action 

 at the Convention. Thee situation is 

 this: Mr. Townsend handles all the 

 money concerning the 'Review and 

 trade and supply vouchers are' sent 

 through and O. K.'d at the office, but 

 at the same time transactions are car- 

 ried on apart from the Treasurer. ,Such 

 conditions ought not to prevail, as any , 

 business concern would advise; conse- 

 quently we are frank to admit that we 

 do not know the profit or loss concern- 

 ing supplies. That is a mere detail 

 in the management of the organization 

 that bothers us less than some of the 

 far larger problems ; we have confidence 

 in Mr. Townsend's integrity; that is a 

 mere detail in the administration; when 

 we get officers who work together and 

 keep in touch with each other and each 

 knows what the other is doing, we can 

 easily manage the matter of transfer- 

 ence of money. 



Pres. Baxter — Right there — they do 

 not seem to want to do so. I will ask 

 you. Have the officers in- the past been 

 in that condition? 



Dr» Gates — In a measure they have; 

 it is difficult on account of the wide 

 scope and extent of the country. 



Pres. Baxter — Is it not a fact that 

 the officers have utterly refused to do 

 what they were ordered to do at the 

 St. Louis Convention last fall? 



Dr. Gates — In some instances. 



Pres. Baxter — Is it not a fact that 

 the committee to whom the publication 

 of the Review was referred advised that 

 the sale of the Review take \place at 

 once and their report was not^adopted — 



Dr. Gates — Not in that form. 



Pres. Baxter — Was that not the sub- 

 stance of it? 



Dr. Gates — As Mr. Moore has already 

 explained: the committee recoihmendcd 

 that the Review should be disposed 



