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stop to tell you all the reasons for this. I have brought here a 
number of bulletins at Air. Pope's suggestion, bulletins covering 
the subject of citrus fruits, which I have discussed with you, and 
also the mango, and this bulletin on the marketing of Hawaiian 
fruits. In the latter part of this you will find something of my 
ideas in regard to the marketing systems and the absurdity that 
appears to me to be involved in the so-called "Commission Sys- 
tem" — ''consigning system," and a better system which I think 
ought to be inaugurated. I think we will take the few minutes 
that remain to run through a few of the slides which will illustrate 
some of the things which I have said. 
A number of slides of the different fruits were then exhibited, 
with explanations by Mr. Higgins. 
In answer to a question, as to the advantage of sealing the ends 
of various fruits with sealing wax or other substances to prevent 
diseases, etc., the speaker said that it had not as yet been deter- 
mined definitely whether such sealing was an advantage or not ; 
that experiments would have to be conducted with the different 
fruits and sealing materials to decide that point. The advantage 
would be in preventing infection, but in many cases the spores 
would have gained entrance before the sealing process had begun. 
OUR THIRD NATIONAL CRISIS. 
"In the first great crisis of our history, the Revolution, another 
people attempted from without to halt the march of our destiny 
by refusing to us liberty. With reasonable prudence and pre- 
paredness we need never fear another such attempt. If there be 
danger, it is not from an external source. In the second great 
crisis, the Civil War, a part of our own people strove for an end 
which would have checked the progress of our deve^pment. An- 
other such attempt has become forever impossible. If there be 
danger, it is not from a division of our people. 
In the third great crisis of our history, which has now come 
upon us unawares, our whole people, unconsciously and for lack 
of foresight, seem to have united together to deprive the nation 
of the great natural resources without which it cannot endure. 
This is the pressing danger now, and it is not the least to which 
our national life has been exposed. A nation deprived of liberty 
mav win it, a nation divided may reunite, but a nation whose na- 
tural resources are destroved, must inevitably pay the penalty of 
poverty, degradation and decay. — Gilford Pinchot, United States 
Forester, in the World's Work. 
