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I also appreciated very much the general discussion regarding co¬ 
ordinating the work over the country. We feel the need of that in our 
state and are getting matters adjusted just as fast as we can, but a 
great nation-wide coordinating bureau will mark a great advance in 
practical entomology, the kind that the farmer wants and the kind that 
he pays taxes for, and that he thought he was going to get when the 
experiment stations and the bureaus of entomology were established. 
Mr. W. C. O’Kane: We are fortunate in having set before us at 
this time the keen and the valuable analysis that President Cooley 
has given in his address. I think it is never harmful to make changes, 
when those changes represent progress, and it doesn’t make any differ¬ 
ence what condition or circumstances gives rise to the changes; whether 
it be war or something else. 
We have had brought home to all of us certain things that we can do, 
because the war has emphasized those things. President Cooley has 
analyzed the situation and has pointed the way. It is inevitable that 
practice should fall a little behind research, but it is our ambition to 
balance them so far as our human abilities will let us, and we know that 
we have a long way to travel in many of the problems. 
A war brings many difficulties, but it brings privileges, and the en¬ 
tomologist who will rise to the opportunity presented by the present 
world situation will only be rising to a privilege. 
Mr. S. J. Hunter: The President’s address in a very timely and 
fitting way has presented to us the advantages at this time of coordi¬ 
nation first, cooperation next, and personal contact last of all. Through 
the management and organization set forth there, we can get results 
which are comparable in the degree to which they are carried out. 
We have organization in other lines at the present time in this crisis. 
Why should we not have it in entomology? 
The extent to which the President has outlined the degree to which 
this should be carried between the state and federal and the local 
authorities is along the lines of the highest efficiency, and I believe we 
will go away from here, each one of us in the work that is assigned in 
each one of our states, with a clear idea of the possibilities of carrying 
out to the fullest degree this line of organization. 
Mr. S. A. Forbes: I was particularly interested and pleased with 
the President’s address this morning because it makes quite unneces¬ 
sary the little contribution which I had in mind to make in the dis¬ 
cussion tomorrow forenoon: the fact that President Cooley said vir¬ 
tually everything I had in mind. 
There is one thing, however, that I may add. We all appreciate 
the great privilege and opportunity which has come to us out of the 
desperate conditions growing out of the war; in the fact that we not 
