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Mr. S. J. Hunter: I would like to move that the Secretary be 
instructed to prepare an honor roll containing the names of our mem¬ 
bers who are in various lines of military service. Carried. 
Secretary A. F. Burgess: The balance of funds in the hands of 
the Journal is considerably less than last year. This is largely 
due to increase in price of everything going into the make-up of the 
publication. If we continue to publish as much material next year 
as we have published this year and get no more subscribers, we will 
have a very small balance to the credit of the Journal fund, if any, 
at the end of the year. The election of new members, in many cases, 
does not favorably affect the finances of the Journal. If 60 new mem¬ 
bers are elected and 40 of them have previously taken the Journal, 
the income of the Journal for the 60 members is $10 less than it 
would be from income of the 40 non-membeis. The reason for this 
is that a non-member pays $2.50 a year to the Journal, while a 
member pays $2.50 a year, but $1.00 of this amount goes to the 
Association fund. I am not opposed to the election of new members. 
I thoroughly believe in it, but we should understand that a large increase 
in membership does not necessarily mean a corresponding increase in 
the financial resources of the Journal. At present, the receipts of 
the Association are about $500 a year and the expenditures approx¬ 
imately $300. This leaves a balance of about $200. I think it 
might be wise, under conditions as they exist at present, to permit a 
transfer, if necessary, of a reasonable amount of money from the 
Association to the Journal fund during the coming year. I hope 
the receipts will be sufficient to meet all expenses, but as we wish to 
pay cash for everything, action along this line would seem desirable. 
It was voted that the Secretary be authorized to transfer, if neces¬ 
sary, not to exceed $200 from the Association fund to the Journal 
fund during the present calendar year. 
Mr. E. P. Felt: I would like to bring up some points concerning 
this matter as they affect the Editor, who is supposed to bear the 
burden if manuscript is carried a month or a year longer than the 
writer thinks it ought to be. As matters now stand, either the Journal 
board must determine how much shall be printed or secure an ex¬ 
pression of opinion from the Association. It is not one of the principal 
pleasures of the Editor to decline manuscripts, but during the past 
year it has been necessary to refuse what would make nearly 100 
pages of printed matter, and there are still a few manuscripts which 
have not been published. The policy has been for the proceedings of 
the Association to take precedence over everything else. Conse¬ 
quently, few papers can appear until June or later. In the June issue 
I outlined in part what seemed a fairly logical basis to follow under 
