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TWELFTH ANNUAL, REPORT OF THE 



by paying- fifty cents, but that if he 

 wanted to be a member of the National 

 at the same time, he would have to pay 

 $1.50; and we have heard nothing in 

 the way of protest from the National. 



Mr. Moore — I think that is the way 

 it should be. 



Pres. Dadant — That matter ought to 

 be settled here. If Mr. Tyrrell comes, 

 as has been mentioned by our secre- 

 tary, I think that would be the time to 

 take this matter up and settle it in a 

 definite way;* 



If the National will not take those 

 of our members who pay the one dol- 

 lar and refuse to pay $1.50, and^ still 

 want to be members of the State As- 

 sociation, I think there would be a 

 clash. 



I believe we ought to be able to make 

 such of our members as we see fit, 

 members of the National — those who 

 pay enough — and still retain those of 

 our association, without charging them 

 the full sum, who do not care to be- 

 come members of the National. 



Mr. Kildow — I want to ask a ques- 

 tion! I would like to know if we get 

 the Review after we become a member 

 of this Association, or do they send out 

 duns to pay for the Review? 



Mr. Moore — I got one. 



Mr. KildowT-I got one a short time 

 ago, stating that, if I wanted the Re- 

 view, I must send my dollar. I have 

 been a member of the National many 

 years — Why do they send me a notice 

 to pay $1.00 for the Review? 



Pres. Dadant — ^I believe it would be 

 a good plan to delay this question 

 and the one asked by Mr. Baxter until 

 the Secretary of the National is pres- 

 ent; that is if he comes by tomorrow 

 morning, or take it up this after- 

 noon. 



Mr. Stone — He will surely be here to- 

 day; he wrote me that he was com- 

 ing; that he had been wanting to 

 meet with the Illinois State Associa- 

 tion, for a long time, because he rec- 

 ognized the Influence of the Illinois 

 State Association — and now I want to 

 say, that Mr. Kildow's case was exactly 

 like mine. 



I went into the National for fifty 

 cents, because we joined before the 

 first of January. Well, after they 

 adopted this Review, the Secretary 

 sent me a letter asking me if I wanted 

 to get the several benefits of the Na- 

 tional, and, if so, I would have to ad- 



vance one dollar for the Review; and 

 that would make me a member of the 

 National. 



The rule had been that if the money 

 was sent in before the first day of 

 September it only gave membership 

 for the balance of the year, but after 

 the first day of September, member- 

 ship continued for the balance of that 

 year and the whole of the next. 



Well, this came along in August, I 

 know it was before the first, of Sep- 

 tember, and he said if I would send 

 one dollar, or recommend anj- mem- 

 ber to send a dollar, we would be 

 given membership for the balance of 

 the j-ear and for 1913 as well, and I 

 sent my dollar. 



Mr. Kildow — How much did you pay 

 altogether? You paid one dollar last 

 year ? 



"Mr. Stone — No, I paid but fifty cents. 

 Everybody that paid here at our As- 

 sociation last year, and all those who 

 answered our notice, according to my 

 report, paid but fifty cents. — (Mr. 

 Baxter knows that was in the Minutes 

 of the last meetimg — Mr. Baxter made 

 the motion that a notice be sent out, 

 that every one joining the State As- 

 sociation and the National before the 

 first day of January would get into 

 the National for fifty cents.) This no- 

 tice was sent out, and every one who 

 came in before the first of January 

 got in to the National for fifty cents. 



Mr. Baxter — But they didn't receive 

 the Review. 



Mr. Stone — I did. I ana getting it 

 right along. 



Mr. "Vaughn — ^I happened to get in 

 for fifty cents but I received notice 

 that I should pay one dollar and a 

 half — that that would put me in the 

 Association and give me the Review. 



My neighbor took the paper (the 

 Review) and we were swapping litera- 

 ture, so I didn't send the money. It 

 seems to me I was told it was one 

 dollar for the paper, which included 

 membership in the National. 



Mr. Stone — If they had known you 

 were a member of the State, they 

 would have said, one dollar; that is the 

 way they put it to me. 



Mr. Moore — I cannot understand 

 why some of us put in one dollar for 

 membership in two associations — fifty 

 cents to go to the National, if a mem- 

 bership in the National includes the 



