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Editorial 

 Nature Not a Member of a Union 



To read about strikes in the newspapers and to be in one ac- 

 tively or passively are two quite different matters. We do not 

 know how it seems to be in a strike actively for during a long career 

 we have never struck for anything whatever. If the powers above 

 us seemed to treat us unjustly we just plodded on and consoled 

 ourselves with the thought that the hepaticas were sure to bloom 

 in April and Iris in June. However, during the past m.onth we 

 have been suffering passively from the printers' strike and we 

 wish to announce emphatically that the effect is demoralizing. 



The complete manuscript for the May Number of the Nature 

 Study Review was in the hands of the printer in April; what hap- 

 pened to it*the unfortunate subscribers of the Review know. The 

 strike is still on and it is with sodden discouragemert that we get a 

 nvimber of the Nature Study Review ready to print ; meanwhile an 

 earthquake could not increase our feeling of helplessness. 



There is probably no factor more important as a moral force 

 than regularity in business routine. If a m.an of great importance 

 in the business world and of absolute integrity were suddenly placed 

 where he could have no regular duties or regularity of eating and 

 sleeping, he would surely become frivolous, crooked, or insane. 

 Therefore, no one need be surprised to learn that the editor of this 

 periodical has turned to aviation or become a football fan. 



This result may only be avoided through the contemplation of 

 Nature. October has brought the vivid scarlet to the simaachs. The 

 old shag-bark is glowing yellow and the white ash has spread a 

 purple veil over her golden foliage. The tall monkshood 

 racemes stand intensely blue in the garden border. All these 

 things are reassuring. Mayhap the time will come again when our 

 little magazine which tries to represent Nature's ways faithfully 

 may again appear with the months to which it purports to belong. 



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