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JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY 
[Vol. 13 
Two conflicting elements are battling throughout the world: the one 
is the demand for greater and greater efficiency in production, the 
other is the demand for greater leisure and less expenditure of physical 
effort. These two demands can be harmonized by cooperation, but 
strife may cost the loss of both. 
The minds of men are tending toward the aggrandizing thoughts of 
special interest—selfish, personal interest. Everywhere we see those 
with like interests banding themselves together in one or another 
form of organization, in order to protect their own interests, and to 
get for themselves as much of an advantage as they can obtain. Such 
a tendency, unrestrained by the recognition of the rights of others, is 
dangerous to our commonwealth. 
But the tendency to organize is with us, and we ourselves contribute 
our part to it. We can get nowhere by bewailing prevailing tendency. 
The world moves on and crushes those who delay its progress. We 
must therefore look on these matters in a different light. If the tend¬ 
ency is world-wide, there must be a basic, underlying reason for it, 
and hence there must be an element of truth, right, or justice in it. 
Let us seek this kernel of good-and hold it up before the world, and 
say: “This is what all these great world movements mean, so let us 
profit by this knowledge, and turn the path of movement so that 
civilization will be improved.” 
I can see both good and bad in the overwhelming desire of every 
special group to organize, and I believe that we entomologists must 
recognize these facts and adjust our efforts to the new trend of affairs. 
We are concerned today with agricultural organization. Surely it has 
many advantages, but it can likewise become a weapon of harm. 
Recent Tendency in Agriculture 
In the last decade we have seen the organization of the producers of 
agricultural products develop with increasing momentum, until now 
the producers of many of our most important crops, and of many crops 
formerly little used, are well and efficiently organized. Now if the pur¬ 
pose of these growers’ associations is merely to gain a control of the 
price of the commodity and to maintain its prices at a high level, or 
is designed to enable the growers to gain preferential special class legis¬ 
lation, there is an element of grave danger in them. Let us hope that 
the time will never come when every group of individuals is centering 
its efforts around getting all of the special class legislation it can get, 
and forgetting all about the rights of the citizens at large. Then there 
would be an end to American patriotism. 
Let us picture a model growers’ association, with its purposes and 
ideals, and the service it can render America. It is to such an organi- 
