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you get and would it be common sense to start them in on Greek and Cal- 
culus and Spherical Trigonometry? Law, to be of any value whatever, must 
meet average conditions and the needs of the average man precisely as the 
common schools of the country are designed to meet the needs of the aver- 
age child. The common schools are not run to cater to the boy o(r girl of 
extraordinary intelligence and brightness. If they want to go to college, 
well and good. That is their business and they should pay for it. The 
state is under no obligation to furnish it free of cost. Moreover if you 
established your common school standard on such a basis that only the 
very brightest could come up to it or do the work, you would retrograde in- 
stead of advance, and would handicap the great rank and file for the benefit 
of a few superior beings. 
No more can you establish a grade for apples that only the unusual fruit 
grower can come up to. It would be unjust and unfair. It would discourage 
rather than encourage. It would give a very few the inside track to the 
detriment of the many, and no such principle or proposition as that has 
any business to find lodgement in the mind of any man that believes in the 
square deal or has the real interest of the industry at heart. Let the very 
extraordinary and unusual man work out his own plan. He is capable of it. 
The most of us do not need to worry about him. Any man who will travel 
around the country and see the stuff that goes on to the markets will be 
fully convinced that the Sulzer Standards are plenty high enough to start 
with. They are as far ahead of the general average as daylight is ahead 
of darkness. 
I want to, say another thing — that ten per cent leeway or tolerance was 
put in there because it was necessary. The man is not born and never'will 
be who can pack the vast quantities of fruit we have in the barreled apple 
territory and pack every barrel perfect. Any talk to the contrary is sheer 
nonsense. Let me read you what the Canadian authorities say on this 
point in their law: 
“It will be seen that the packer should aim in packing Crate No. 1 to 
discard every injured or defective fruit and not to deliberately include ten 
per cent of fhferior specimens. This margin is meant to make the work 
of grading easier and more rapid than if absolute perfection were exacted. 
Ten per cent is presumed to be the margin within which an honest packer 
can do rapid work, using every endeavor to make each specimen conform 
to the general standard for the grade.” 
And that, gentlemen, is the reason this provision was placed in the 
Sulzer bill — to meet the needs of the average fruit grower under the con- 
ditions which confront him. 
Another statement has been made at various times to the effect that 
the Senate struck out the words “United States” from the brand in the 
Sulzer law because the Senate thought the grade was too poor to allow the 
letters “U. S.” upon them. The original brand as passed by the House 
read “U. SI Standard Grade,” etc. I will again read from Mr. Woods’ re- 
marks before the Virginia Society last January, Official Proceedings, pages 
89 and 90: 
