JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY 
OFFICIAL ORGAN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGISTS 
DECEMBER, 1923 
The editors will thankfully receive news matter and other items likely to be of interest to our readers. 
Papers will be published as far as possible in the order of reception, except that papers of reasonable 
length may be accepted in the discretion of the editor for early publication, at $3.00 per page for all 
matter in excess of six printed pages; in the case of other matter, the maximum of 2,500 words is still 
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only), sixteen page signature, or less, $3.00. 
The association is growing. The increase in membership, the demand 
for larger publication facilities, the desire for more branches and sections 
are all healthy signs. There are a number of amendments to the 
constitution to be acted upon at the coming meeting. Marked changes 
in the classification of the members are proposed. This matter should 
be given careful consideration by all interested in the welfare of the 
organization. 
The arrangement of the program is one of the perplexing problems. 
Some are certain to be inconvenienced whatever plan is followed. 
There are so many papers and such a multiplicity of overlapping interests, 
that compromises are inevitable. It is easy to make suggestions. 
They may work at one meeting and not at another, because the programs 
may and usually do differ greatly. The large meeting presents problems 
quite different from those of the smaller gatherings. An increase in the 
number of branches would assist materially in reducing the congestion 
of the program at the annual meetings and would permit men to attend 
entomological sessions who now find it practically impossible to get to 
meetings. This last means much to the younger men. 
It is gratifying to state that abstracts appearing with the published 
papers appear to be approved “in principle,” especially if the editor 
prepares them. Occasionally a paper is submitted for publication 
with the abstract. More often a request is necessary and occasionally 
authors have misinterpreted our letter and assumed that it was 
proposed to substitute the abstract for the paper. These summaries 
are valuable to every reader in indicating the nature of the paper. It 
is presumable that the author knows better than anyone else the 
contents of his paper. The day is not distant when a paper without 
an abstract prepared by the author will be regarded as incomplete. 
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