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And so my recommendation to you, based on an experience of twenty- 
five or thirty years in teaching entomology, is that we try to give our 
students the broadest education we can, in the time given us to work with 
them. 
President J. G. Sanders: I want to thank each of the members who 
have taken part in this program. This might be called “the uplift 
session’’ of this meeting, and the keynote of Dr. Kellogg’s talk has been 
“Courage.” 
We will now proceed with the discussion. 
Mr. P. J. Parrott: I have enjoyed listening to the addresses very 
much, and desire, first of all, to express my appreciation to those who 
have had a part in this program. Then again, the paper entitled “The 
Employer’s Viewpoint on an Entomologist” was not presented, and what 
I have to say bears largely on that subject. Now and then I lose an 
excellent worker from our staff, and it is sometimes very difficult to 
find one who will fill the place acceptably. The difficulty arises largely 
from the narrow training of the average entomological worker. Many 
of the men who apply for positions are trained to approach their problems 
from the avenues of insect morphology, life-history studies, taxonomy, 
etc. In order to make any substantial progress with our problems there 
is need of men with broader training, who have some knowledge of 
chemistry or plant physiology, or soil physics, and so forth, as has already 
been pointed out. There are certainly great opportunities for men with 
high ability who can attack specific tasks of a difficult character. 
I am very glad that Mr. Moore pointed out the need of more training 
in chemistry. So many of our problems in New York relate to the 
control of insects by means of chemical substances. I think that a 
young student who shows some ability along chemical lines would do 
well to consider seriously the question of thorough training in chemistry. 
I need only point out the accomplishments in recent years with corrosive 
sublimate, paradichlorobenzene, contact dusts, etc., as indicating what 
triumphs we may expect in the future if men with technical ability 
would attack other similarly difficult problems of outstanding importance. 
And then, from the standpoint of the effects of such accomplishments 
on our profession as a whole, you cannot ignore the fact that triumphs of 
this character must make a profound impression upon the public. 
We see that in New York with regard to the control of peach borer with 
paradichlorobenzene and root maggots with corrosive sublimate. There 
is created a most favorable impression when insects of that character, 
