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mapping, charting, plotting, and interpretation of statistics and data, 
because very few people really grasp the meaning of a mass of figures. 
It is a subject worthy of intensive study. The proper presentation 
of your data is essential to the success of your work. 
As to entomological training, unquestionably the pupil must be 
given the theories of insect behavior, classification, and control, but 
more important than that, he must be taught how to recognize the 
insects in the field, how to recognize their work. He must be an out¬ 
door man with a keen eye, and should take copious notes. The man 
who can properly place insect damage and because of his knowledge of 
insect habits can immediately advise at least temporary expedients is 
worth more than the indoor theorist who can tell you what to do when 
he gets a proper determination. We are rapidly learning how to 
identify the insect from its immature stages. The teacher can not 
too strongly emphasize all that he can gather together on this subject. 
Of course the theory of control must be taught but I would combine it 
with actual experience with the apparatus in the field. Have the 
student actually undertake the control. He won’t forget what he has 
done. He may easily forget what you tell him. 
So let us all work together to build up the future of our science. 
We stand today at the threshhold of a new era. Will entomology 
knock at the door of opportunity and ask admittance to the council 
rooms of the elect or will we slink along and greedily take the crumbs 
that are condescendingly thrown our way? Too long has it been the 
custom in entomological circles to push aside ambitious programs for 
improvement and enlargement of our work with the remarks that such 
programs are not according to precedent, or that we would be turned 
down if we made such a proposal, and so opportunity after opportunity 
has died because of that obsessing fear that defeat would result. 
Defeat will most assuredly come to him who makes a suggestion 
expecting at the time it would be turned down. 
The war has caused the world and especially the American people 
to look quite differently at the problems which face us. We see now 
that things must be done on a far more comprehensive scheme, that 
community and state or national cooperative action is necessary to 
accomplish the tasks of the new era. We entomologists, trained in a 
school of conservatism, must adjust our viewpoint to the new situation. 
Service is the standard by which all professions will be rated in the 
coming days. No longer may we sit with satisfaction at our desks 
and calmly study our insect problems with no care as to the general 
public. The nation is watching us. They know that we hold the 
keys to the problems of agricultural loss and the loss of health, or that 
we should hold them if we don’t. Now the public wants service, and 
