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TWELFTH ANNUAL. REPORT OF THE 



National', but they did not have any 

 authority that could be given them un- 

 til the next Convention, and so, to cover 

 this, the Directors passed a resolution 

 making it possible, where the Officers 

 of the State Society would agree to act 

 as Branch Officer of that Association, 

 that the Association would be consid- 

 ered as a Branch of the National, and 

 all the members would be considered 

 National members of that Association. 



Then it was desired to give to the 

 members of the Association the Bee- 

 keepers' Review — and here we ran up 

 against Uncle Sam. 



A member sent in his dollar for 

 membership in the National Associa- 

 tion before the Review was published. 

 That member would naturally feel he 

 was entitled to the paper for a year, 

 and yet, according to the postal laws, 

 we could not send it to him. The postal 

 laws demanded that a publisher main- 

 tain a subscription list, and that money 

 must be received as a subscription re- 

 mittance — and when the post office in- 

 spector comes in to my office and sajs 

 — "Where is your subscription list?" 

 — and picks out of the list a card — We 

 will say it was that of Mr. James 

 Stone. That card may show that Mr. 

 Stone paid, to the end of December, 

 1913, the subscription price for th? 

 paper; he can ask — "Where is Mr. 

 Stone's original order for that sub- 

 scription ?" 



It is necessary for me to find Mr. 

 Stone's letter to prove that Mr. Stone 

 did send in a dollar, or the subscription 

 price for the Bee-Keepers' Review. 

 Whereas, if we had sent out the Re- 

 view to all the members of the National 

 who had paid up, we would have laid 

 ourselves open to the loss of the postal 

 privileges for second class mail for the 

 Bee-Keepers' Review. That we could 

 not afford to do. So the Directors 

 passed this resolution: 



If a subscriber sends in one dollar 

 as a subscription to the Bee-Keepers' 

 Review and pays fifty cents to a local 

 Branch that act will entitle him to the 

 National Benefits. 



While we were not able to send the 

 old members their Review, on their old 

 membership — we can send it to every 

 man from now on; his renewal will 

 come in as a subscription. 



Mr. Moore — A number of us here are 

 subscribers to the Review. I sent in 

 my subscription this summer. I have 

 paid one dollar and a half for member- 



ship in this association and the Na- 

 tional. 



Mr. Stone — That dollar goes for sub- 

 scription to the Review. ' 



Mr. Moore — I have paid ahead. 



Mr. Tyrrell — Tour subscription will 

 be extended. 



While we are on that, perhaps I had 

 better thoroughly explain that one 

 point: 



If we could have this paper entered 

 as an association paper, then we could 

 send the paper free to every member, 

 but to do that, we had to come in as a 

 strictly scientific or profesisional as- 

 sociation. 



I made my plea to the Postal De- 

 partment on that ground and I was 

 turned down, because they said we 

 were not strictly a professional or 

 scientific society. 



I wrote them back another letter and 

 said that I was not satisfied with their 

 decision, that I did not believe they 

 had given the matter careful consider- 

 ation, and asked them if they would 

 not reconsider the matter. 



I quoted the Century Dictionary, 

 showing them that this society was 

 a profesional or scientific societj^ if 

 you please, according to those defini- 

 tions. 



They came back at me saying that 

 we were not a "strictly" scientific so- 

 ciety because we were trying to help 

 our members sell their honey, and be- 

 cause our Constitution read: 



"The object of this society shall be 

 to assist members in the business of 

 bee-keeping." 



So that while I believe I could have 

 fought that thing through the United 

 States Postal authorities, and could 

 have gotten the paper entered possibly 

 as an association paper on those 

 grounds, it might have handicapped us 

 in business matter in the future, and 

 I thought we had not better do it. 



We must have a Igjv in such a way 

 that every single member of your so- 

 ciety is a member of the National. 



We cannot make a subscription to 

 the Review compulsory and a member- 

 ship in the association compulsory to 

 the subscribers. 



We cannot, to conform with the 

 postal laws, say, you must subscribe 

 for the Bee-Keepers' Review if you 

 are a part of the National. 



We cannot say, if you are a sub- 

 scriber to the Review, you must join 



