ARCADIA 
XIII 
The United States Post Office De- 
partment at Washington carefully in- 
vestigated 'l'he Agassiz Association and 
because of its altruistic, educational and 
noncommercial purposes awarded a 
special low rate of postage to its official 
magazine. 
The Treasury Department Internal 
Revenue also carefully investigated and 
exempts from income tax The Agassiz 
Association and all gifts to it. 
W’e have gladly and freely helped 
many other organizations in their na- 
ture interests. We untiringly render 
free services at ArcAdiA to rich and 
poor, young and old. To us come a wide 
range of visitors. Our correspondents 
include every phase of humanity. 
We invite detailed investigation. 
We need and merit a gift of $5,000. 
Do it now. Do not wait until you are 
dead. We want to give the donor the 
joy and satisfaction of knowing just 
how advantageously the money will be 
expended. 
We always have been a lively organ- 
ization for the living, by the living. 
Faithfully yours, 
Edward F. Bigelow. 
President The Agassiz Association. Inc. 
Retrenchment. 
One of our good friends in response 
to a request for a contribution to our 
deficit of income and excess of expense 
writes that now is the time for retrench- 
ment. That is the way in which we feel 
about the great part of fool things that 
humanity is and has been doing. Indeed 
at times we must confess that feeling 
about our own work. It does seem as 
if the burden was coming on us a little 
too hard, and that retrenchment is 
necessary. But when we are about as 
discouraged as we possibly can be along 
comes a letter of appreciation of our 
work and is so helpful that we take 
hold with a grip firmer than ever before 
and we determine not to retrench to 
the slightest degree in any part of our 
efforts. 
A T o one outside of the inner workings 
of ArcAdiA and The Agassiz Associa- 
tion correspondence can understand 
how severe this burden is, and how 
much we appreciate the fact that we 
cannot let go even if we would. We 
can spare no efforts in justice to the 
work and particularly to our good 
friends, past and present. It isn’t ours 
to reason why ; it is ours to do — so long 
as we live. Good friends, the world has 
retrenched on a great many fool things 
and we hope there has come a time for 
more retrenchment in matters savage 
and warlike, but as for retrenchment in 
matters of education, that is an un- 
thinkable idea. The situation is the re- 
verse as George Washington said at 
the close of the Revolution in his fare- 
well address : 
“Promote, then, as an object of pri- 
mary importance, institutions for the 
general diffusion of knowledge.” 
The Agassiz Association and Gifts to it are FREE from Income Taxes. 
TREASURY DEPARTMENT 
Internal Revenue Service 
Hartford, Conn., April 13. 1921. 
Office of the Collector, District of Connecticut. 
Agassiz Association, Inc., Sound Beach, Conn. 
SIRS: 
With further reference to your letter of February 28th, 1921, you are advised that 
the Commissioner of Internal Revenue at Washington, D. C., has considered all facts 
as presented relative to the activities of your association and has decided that you are 
exempt from the filing of income tax returns under the provisions of the Revenue Act of 
1918. 
The Commissioner has further stated that amounts contributed to your association 
by individuals may be deducted in the income tax returns of said individuals to the extent 
provided in Section 214 (a) (’ll) of the Revenue Act of 1918. 
Very truly yours, 
JAMES J. WALSH, Collector. 
