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AMERICAN P0M0E0GICAI, SOCIETY 
A standard grade, supplemented by the three essentials specified, are the 
keys to the whole situation. They are the first letters in the alphabet of 
success. 
The standard grade alone and of itself is a sufficient pillar of fire to 
lead us out of the wilderness, if we are willing to be led. But history has 
ever shown that mankind in the aggregate not only needs a spur to its 
conscience but a whip to its back to start it upon the straight and nar-> 
row way and to keep it walking therein. Every forward step is an effort. 
To move men and business from old ruts and practices,, even though they 
are evil and are known to be such, requires, first, conviction; and, second, 
the compelling force of authority. We have in part the standards which lie 
at the very foundation of success. Let us complete them by adding the box 
thereto, and make both effective through national or state inspection, the 
compulsory marking of all packages, and the prevention of the sale and 
shipment of diseased fruit in closed packages. In that way will the real, 
essential of packing — the square deal — be brought to pass. 
Discussion. 
President Goodman: I want to compliment you, Mr. Phillips, on the* 
exhaustive statement of this question. Mr. Woods has the floor. 
Mr. Woods: I will not detain you long. The gentleman who frankly 
differed with me on all points mentioned the fact that, as he said, the Sulzer 
bill was the creature of the Eastern Fruit Growers’ Associatidn and that it 
was due to it largely that the Sulzer bill was passed, and he led us to infer 
(and I believe thought himself) that the Eastern Fruit Growers’ Association 
approved of the Sulzer bill as it is. 
Now, Sir, I would like to call his attention to the fact that at the very 
first meeting of the Eastern Fruit Growers’ Association after the passage of 
the Sulzer bill a vote was unanimously passed to amend the Sulzer Act in 
the very matters that I have brought to your attention today. The gentleman 
who has addressed you last has admitted practically all that we have claimed 
as against the Sulzer law. He tells us about that eastern fruit, the barrel 
of Rome Beauties they got that grew in Virginia, and that condition oc- 
curs, showing of course that bad apples can be badly packed in old Virginia. 
He tells us that could be corrected to-day; but how? He does not take the* 
methods of the Sulzer Act, but he tells us all the other various ways. He 
tells us that the person who sent that barrel could have been punished un- 
der the Food and Drugs Act but was not. Now what I say is that we have 
a far-reaching law that will prevent such crimes against the apple industry; 
and if the Sulzer law only would be revoked or properly amended we would 
be able to do this. Now if you go to formulate a bill to cover it all, it may 
prove more than we can do and will not apply to half the things we see 
before us; but it is practicable to have amendments to the Sulzer Act that 
will prevent frauds that it now permits ; that will require the conditions this 
gentleman asks — and much good would be accomplished. He said himself 
that we need a law that will permit all apples to be branded and to be 
jn&rked. ’Wq wil] call for practically the same things that have been men-. 
