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THE GUIDE TO NATURE 
WE REALLY EXTEND A “WELCOME” TO ALL. 
satisfaction we are going to have in 
five years! It will be a record of a half 
century unequalled by any other or- 
ganization that has ever existed. 
Safety Only in Nature Education. 
America’s future, the world’s future, 
the future of the race is in food, is in 
the “fruit of the earth,” is the result 
of farm life. 
Just as there can be no heaven with- 
out people who believe in heaven to 
go to heaven, so there will be no per- 
manent food supply, no permanent 
race without lovers of country 
which makes people educate children 
to believe that their best future is in 
the country. 
You can live on canned stuff, dried 
stuff, pickled stuff, in a city, but you 
can have no canned goods, no dried 
fruits, no pickles unless somebody be- 
lieved in the farm and taught children 
a generation ahead of time to believe 
in farm life. — Dr. A. E. \V inship, 
Boston. 
Wanted: A Nobler Objective. 
If joy riders and pleasure-seekers 
were forced to devote a part or all of 
their time wasted to productive labor, 
great relief would come to the rural 
district. Young men and women today 
are shunning honest labor. Our parents 
and our forefathers grew strong physi- 
cally, wise mentally and rich spiritually 
on honest labor well performed. They 
did not shirk duty because it meant 
hard work. They did not leave a task 
in order to chase pleasure. They un- 
derstood fully the nobility of honest 
toil, and did not watch the hands of 
the clock go round. Such was the 
character of the people who made the 
United States the best and strongest 
nation in the world. Now pleasure 
seeking threatens all that our fore- 
fathers established through days of 
hard work and sacrifice. They left us 
richly endowed with a vision which if 
constantly kept before us will tend to 
make ours still a strong nation. We are 
about to lose this vision and in the con- 
fusion it sometimes looks hopeless. But 
we still have faith in humanity and it 
is our belief that men and women will 
soon arouse from their stupid dreams 
of pleasure and gold and work for a 
more noble objective. — The Southern 
Fruit Grower. 
SAMUEL PUTNAM AVERY. 
In the death of Samuel Putnam 
Avery on September 25 at his home in 
Hartford. Connecticut, we have lost a 
Member and one of our best friends. 
Mr. Avery’s interests were more with 
art than nature but he had a kindly 
regard and willingness to aid all edu- 
cational and philanthropic causes. He 
always had a kind word for our work. 
He was of delightful personality that 
won a large number of friends. 
