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if the buttons were depended upon to des- 

 ignate members; but my plan would be 

 to use numbers for this purpose. Num- 

 bers can be furnished for not more than a 

 cent apiece. I have furnished them 

 myself, at two or three conventions, and 

 made no charge for them. By the way, 

 these numbers can be made to answer 

 two or three purposes for which a badge 

 is of no value. The first man who pays his 

 dues, or informs the Secretary that his 

 dues are already paid, is given No. i; the 

 next is given No. 2; and so on. The 

 numbers are printed on cards, in figures 

 perhaps an inch and a half in height. 

 Each card has an arrangement for at- 

 taching it to the buttonhole of the coat. 

 It can be slipped off and put in the pock- 

 et after each session. The wearing of a 

 number shows that the wearer is entitled 

 to the floor, and it furnishes the reporter 

 and everyone else, an instant clue to the 

 name of each speaker, provided the list 

 of names and numbers is put into type at 

 some nearby printing office, and proof 

 distributed among the members. As 

 new members are added the list should 

 be corrected and new proofs taken and 

 distributed. Time and again have I gone 

 home from some convention, and then 

 found that some one whom I would glad- 

 ly have met, was there, and I didn't 

 know it. This number scheme, carried 

 out as I propose, would allow everybody 

 to meet everybody that everybody wished 

 to meet. Then again, if the members 

 are photographed in a group, the num- 

 bers enable us to determine which is 

 which. Let's carry out this number 

 scheme, in its entirety, out at Denver. 

 Let us also have some buttons, neal and 

 appropriate, but not not necessarily ex- 

 pensive, and let's wear them all the year 

 around. They will be a good adver- 

 tisement, giving people the idea that 

 bee-keeping amounts to something. 



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NOMINATIONS AND BUTTONS. 

 Here are the views of some of the Di- 

 rectors, and others, regarding the above 

 subjects: — 



Mr. Doolittle says — Replying to your 

 card of the 26th, I would say, I am pleas- 

 ed with your proposed plan (on pages 144 

 and 145 of May Review) for nominations, 

 and think it the best thing proposed. 

 About the buttons, I am not an enthusi- 

 ast for those, nor for badges, but, of the 

 two, think the button the better. 



Brooks D. Cook of Wilton, N. H. says — 



I'm glad to see an editorial in the Re- 

 view in regard to a button for our Asso- 

 ciation. I've given it some thought for 

 some time. The motto you suggest is 

 the very one I had chosen, and the design 

 of the button is one I had thought of. I 

 hope you will keep this matter before 

 your readers until we get the button. 



Dr. Miller says — You're sound on the 

 button business. Whether your plan for 

 nomination is best I don't know, but 

 anything is better than to give no chance 

 for the old ones to get out only bj' dying 

 out. A vote at the convention ought not 

 to have too much weight, but a formal 

 ballot without any previous nominations 

 would be a help. I'm afraid it was not a 

 good thing when the change was made to 

 such a large board of directiors. It's un- 

 wieldy. 



E. R. Root says — In answer to your 

 card of May 26th, will state that I am 

 much pleased with your plan of a button 

 to be used permanently by the National 

 Bee-Keepers' Association. I doubt 

 whether you can get it in hexagonal form 

 without paying a larger price. It strikes 

 me that perhaps it would be better to 

 have it in the form of a circle, but a hex- 

 agonal design on the button itself. Mr. 

 York had some buttons prepared a year 

 or so ago that were very neat and pretty, 

 except that the engra%-ing of a bee, or 

 queen bee, was rather poor. 



P. H. Elwood says — The button is all 

 right to those that want it. The nomin- 

 ations by the convention places the power 

 or choice of officers in the hands of those 

 from a particular locality largely where 

 the convention meets. The tail will wag 

 the dog. The way out is for the directors 

 to elect the manager. He is their ser- 



