THE LUTHER BURBANK SOCIETY 



like to have made, and the whole thing is set into 

 hard, cold, unalterable type, and must stand or 

 fall on the goodness of the guesses which the 

 author and the publisher, having no expression 

 from the ultimate consumer, made. 



At the outset, the management of The Luther 

 Burbank Society felt that here was a work so vit- 

 ally important that there was no man living who 

 would be competent of his own knowledge to say 

 whether or not its presentation was perfect; but 

 that instead, irrespective of delay or expense, the 

 public itself, which was to use and benefit from the 

 work, must decide the manner, form and detail of 

 its presentation. 



It was this feeling, in fact, which led the found- 

 ers of The Society to choose its present form of 

 organization instead of enlisting the aid of a single 

 philanthropist. 



For the members of The Luther Burbank Soci- 

 ety, as it was organized, performed a vastly 

 greater service than the provision of funds for the 

 work, great as that service was; the members 

 themselves, some sixty-five hundred of them in 

 all, representing every walk of life, farmers, bank- 

 ers, scientists, college professors, business men, 

 city dwellers, suburbanites, small town residents, 

 and open-country farmers, all vitally interested in 

 the work, to these men and women was submitted 



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