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hearty reception to our pest control preachments, and they in turn 
encourage and inspire our efforts to lessen and lower the heavy tax 
burden created and maintained annually by pests. The outlook for 
this field of effort is highly encouraging and once started and maintained 
for a few years should gather great momentum. At the outset the great¬ 
est care must necessarily be maintained to prepare the lessons and ex¬ 
periments so that they will be attractive, entertaining, and finally, 
powerfully instructive. To succeed in this program, the right men 
must meet the complex problems in an open-minded manner and patient¬ 
ly continue the endeavor in spite of recurring apparent failures. This 
brings me to another phase of this paper which I wish to discuss hopefully. 
The entomologist, as a trained man in natural science, is to receive 
consideration in a symposium later in our program. In arranging this 
phase of our program the speaker was highly gratified with the ready and 
willing responses to his call for the several tasks, and it is our belief that 
the selection by the association of this generalized subject for a sym¬ 
posium will be amply justified. 
Entomology is not unique among other sciences or professions, in 
that its outstanding need is for real men, with breadth of training, with 
deep convictions, with lofty purpose, with persevering ingenuity, with 
nice discrimination, with profound judgment, with generosity of spirit, 
with abounding health, and above all a reasonably tolerant attitude 
toward his fellow workers, which, however, should not leave him spine¬ 
less and inclined to tread the paths of least resistance to detriment of 
himself and staff. In all kindness to an erring fellow worker, it is better 
to call him to account early, than to permit matters to proceed to an 
unfortunate state, where drastic correction is occasionally a distasteful 
and acute solution. 
We will all agree, I believe, that many of our entomologists are incon¬ 
siderate of their health, failing to take the proper amount of regular 
exercise to maintain the dynamic force and brimming energy of body 
and mind which succeeds. We owe it to ourselves, our families and to 
our profession to take some form of regular exercise, preferably out-of¬ 
doors, and perhaps to reduce smoking when indulged to excess. Further, 
the aspiring entomologist should observe as far as is reasonable the 
habits and customs of well dressed people and maintain a presentable 
appearance on occasion. Let it not be said that entomologists compose 
any considerable part of “those queer scientists” in the common parlance, 
for there is not a single reason why an entomologist should not pass 
anywhere as far as appearances go for a successful business or profession- 
