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The Florists^ Review 



August 22, 1912. 



Theodore Wirth. 



,llt ilirl ..I 111.- >...i.l> .i| Alilil ir.-lll I I'l isl-. 



^ii;i^csf(''l S;ii-at(>i:a. N\'. I'. <uicle of- 

 t'tM'cil the aincihliiH'iil tliat tlic inattoi- 

 1k' left to tlio (■X(>cuti\i' riiiiniiittcc, aiiil 

 tliis Avas alidut to lie .lone wlicii 

 it was ]ioiiittM| (Mit that tli.' iirw by- 

 laws specilii-ally |ii(i\ iilc that the mat 

 tiT lie scttk'il ]i\ ballot on the cv<'iiiii;i 

 lit' tlic first 'lay. A^ no I'Vciiiii;^ session 

 had lici'ii jilannr.l. the iirrsiilnit di' 

 rlarc(i that a iiidlidii to aiijoui'ii ainl 

 '•all an cxcuinL: scs^idii li\.' inimitt — 

 later ^\■o^llll he in (iiilei-. 'riii< iiiotioii 

 \\as maiie ami i-arrifd, ami nn rci-oii 

 \riiiii;_f (icorLic A-iiiii-; liKil, till' llimr In 

 iir;^!' ilic '•ai'ct'u! cniisiili'rat inn of tin' 

 i-ity l'(ir the iir\t izatlicrinL:. imintinu 

 I'iit that it li:i~ lit'cn niailf ijiiitn clcai' 

 that littlr it any cnt nrt ai n i ni;' is cx 

 |M'rt('i| ami that tin- bc-t intcvc^ts dt 

 the Sdcii'ty ilrniaiiil that thn i-dn\cn 

 linn be hrlil unilcr certain essential cdii 

 'litioas. lie ndininateil M i nnea |i(il i^. 

 secornled by A. II. I.aniiiahr. W. .\ . 

 Manila rem'Wf'il tin' tmition t'lU' .\11untii- 

 <'ity, but .Idhii Westrdtt ami W". 1". 

 Kastiiiu' ]idiiiteil dut that this revert 

 is ne I'lace I'^r an .\n;.;ii^t inn\cnlii>u 

 ii'ipiirinL: as nim-h s|iai-e ;i-- ddes the 

 S. A. F. nieetiiiL;. 



On motion ot II. A. Munyanl. the ^n 

 retiiry was in-t iiuteil td ra^t the unani 

 moiis ballot et' the ennxent ion t'er 

 ^^inneapolis ami tin' nintion [irevaili'd. 



K. ('<. Tlill oirer<'.l the -uu^estioii that 

 instead of liirin;,' a hall the socit'ty buy 

 .'I liijf tent, whii-h i-an lie used year 

 after year. 



Golden Gate in li)l.'). 



If the society \sas witlnnit an in\ita 

 tiiiu for lltK'i, it ^\as inure fortuntite 

 ^vith resjiect to the year of the Panama 

 Pacific lOxposition. San I'rancisco wa< 

 ropresenled at 'hica^o by tin; largest 

 deieiration that e\-er had attended an 

 S. A. 1\ conv eiii i.iu, and A. K'nssi, in 



Ixdialf (d' the San Fiancdsoo florists. 

 in\ited the society to meet at the 

 (iolden fiate in 191."). when the cxposi 

 tion will be in prooress. The society 

 never before has lieen west of (Jmaha 

 and there were those who thought that, 

 much as the invitation is apprcciateil. 

 if is tdd Idiiii !' Journey. The body 

 lit' the society, hd\ve\(>r, apparcntl.v is 

 Iddkin;; fdrward to the San Franciscd 

 trip. .-IS a lesdlution was adojjfi'd by 

 a biri^e \dte statine- that it was the 

 M'li-e lit' the meeting that the eonveii- 

 tidii III l'.t|."i shdiild be litdd at San 

 I'ra m- i'^cii. 



Secretary Still Elective. 



Till' r\e,iitisi' iiiiniiiit tee proposed tlie 

 ainenilinenl of the constitution and b> 

 la\\> to make the secretaryship ap 

 pdintive in-tead <il' electixe and to de 

 prive the ^('iietaiy el' his vote in the 

 appdinti\i' body, the e.\eciiti\e board. 

 Secretary ^'dUiiL; read the amendment 

 and II. A. Ilunyard nidvcd its adoji 

 tidii, Patrick ()'.\laia jii(mii>tly tonk 

 the lloor anil made a sharp attack on 



the executixe ciiUimiltee t'or Ullderta!\ 



Jul: the alteiatinii of the organic law 

 under whicii that coiuinittee acts. :i><serl 

 iiiLi' hi~ belief that this is a jiiixileue 

 |iurely imli\idual. lie said he ob 

 lected to the principle and lielie\('d that 

 in pr;ictice the proposed (diange \voulil 

 wdik td the iiisad\ tiiitage of the se 

 ciety. asserting that the aim should be 

 td distribute responsibility instead (d' 

 ceiitiali/ing it. (Jeorge Asinns de- 

 tended the executive Imdy, ]udnting 

 dUt that it \\a-< iii>tru(d(^il by the l^al- 

 tiniore cdii\eiitidn to tak'o the action it 

 did. b'idiert <'raig read the paragraph 

 |iro\iding lor the amendiiieMt of the so- 

 ciety's bylaws and defended the regu- 

 larity of the jirdcedure. but stated that 

 the chtiiige diil not haxi' his ajiproval. 

 There fdlldwi'd a long exchange of ar- 



guments lietween the advocates of the 

 change and those who are opposed to 

 it, wliich ended when the entire mat- 

 ter was laid on the table for one year, 

 ou motion of \V. A. Manda, seconded 

 ])y ^V. R. I'iersou. 



Pioneer Membership. 



An hour was devoted to thrashing out 

 the sub.iect of a class of membership 

 to be known as the Pioneers. At the 

 twenty-lifth annual meeting President 

 ValiMitine recommended that those mem- 

 bers who hiid attended the first meet- 

 ing and who had paid their dues con- 

 tinuously for twenty-five years lie 

 grou]KMl as a special class to bo known 

 as I'ioneer mtMubers and to be there- 

 after exemiit from the payment of dues. 

 The recomnu'udatiou was adopted by the 

 society, but no record appeared in the 

 jiublished stenographic report. Th(! ex- 

 ecutive committee asked that the record 

 be corrected to provide clear authority' 

 for the ollicers to remit the dues of 

 those who have paid dues continuously 

 for twenty-five years. The request 

 brought out acrimonious discussion, 

 some members even going so far as to 

 say that no sucdi action ever had been 

 taken. W. Ji. Pierson sought to bring 

 the debate to an eml by moving to lay 

 on the table, but this was defeated and 

 the subject thrashed out. It was 

 brouglit out by ^Ir. Valentine that the 

 intention of his recommendation was 

 not that all members become exemjit 

 from ]iaying dues after twenty-live 

 Ncars, but that those who attended the 

 first meeting be honored by btdng known 

 as I'ioneers. Jn the end a motion by 

 P. O'Mara was adopted, giving Pioneer 

 nieinbcrshiii only to those who were 

 ])resent at the first convention and wdm 

 had maintained their membership 

 through the society's first quarter cen- 

 tury. 



Express Matters. 



\\'illiani (lourlay, assistant general 

 manager of the American ilxiiress Co.. 

 \\as introduced to talK on the subject 

 (d' the relations lietween the florists 

 and the express companies. lie gave 

 an account of the s])ecial arrangenuMits 

 made to handle the shipments of florists 

 and ventured the opinion that more and 

 better service is giscn to llorists than 

 to shippers in any other line, asserting 

 his belii^f that the expi'(>ss companies 

 lia\(' done much to (Milarge tlu^ business 

 done by llorists. He said he tlioiight 

 the present rates might be considered 

 fail- and satisfactory to all ]iarties. .\s 

 a suggestion, he ]>(dnted out the value 

 • d' having every siiipment, especially if 

 P. < >. !>.. carry instructions as to the 

 action to be taken in the c;ise of in- 

 ability td deliver or rcd'usal to v:\y the 

 <.().!). 



The speaker answered ipie.stions relat- 

 ing to det.ails, put bv ,l(din \'(ning ;iml 

 \\ . P. (iude, and \vas given a vote of 

 thanks. 



The President's Kecommendations. 



.1. A, \'aleiit iiie, for the Cominilti'i- 

 td which the president's address was 

 rei'errcd, presented a repert whi< h may 

 be siiinniaii/ed ;is liillows: 'l"hc com- 

 mittee endorsed the suggestion that 

 nidie weight would be given tlu! recom- 

 mendatidiis oi' the executive^ board if 

 th(! members weie imire t'lilly advised 

 of the work of tli(> Imard. The com- 

 mittee ;ip|)roveii the suggestions for 

 the alliliation <>i' trade organizations 

 and recommended that a committee be 

 appointed to report in PM.'I. The com- 



