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will not overdraw the picture. Listen to my lamented 
friend, Elbert Hubbard, who said:— 
"When we think of the ‘Army of Bleeding Feet 1 —that 
army of homeless women and tired, hungry children of 
the aged, stricken with grief too great for tears, and the 
woes that are beyond words—will we complain of a 
“Joe” Davis Orlando Harrison 
social slight, a toothache, or a loss in trade? The high 
cost of living becomes trivial when we think of bloody 
wounds and crushed bones and starving widows and 
outcast orphans. 
Out of the waste and woe of war across the seas 
comes to us a grain of gain, and I do not have most in 
mind the gain in trade—that is assured. It will be for 
us largely to feed and clothe a starving Europe, many of 
the things we have depended upon Europe for we will 
now make ourselves, and in the making we will evolve 
men and women, and therein will lie our chief gain, for 
as a boy grows when thrown upon his own resources, 
so does a nation. Made in America is a slogan that is 
swelling into a chorus and will pass into the current coin 
of commerce. 
Another great gain from this war is in the heroic atti¬ 
tude of mind, which forgets to complain, declines to 
whimper. 
Out upon the faultfinder! Our every hour is jeweled 
with a joy, and blessings are at our doors beyond that of 
any people in the whole wide world.” 
SECRETARIES’ REPORT. 
John Hall, Rochester, N. Y. 
In order that a full expression of the wishes of mem¬ 
bers might be secured as to the time favored for holding 
the annual meeting of the Association your Secretary 
was instructed at the Cleveland convention to submit 
the question to a postal card vote. Over 260 replies were 
received, representing a substantial majority of the 
membership, favoring a permanent meeting date between 
the 20th and 30th of June. Accordingly the fourth Wed¬ 
nesday in June and two following days were announced 
as the time of holding the 40th anniversary. 
\ our Secretary is pleased to report a more prompt 
response from members to the exhortation contained in 
the announcement of this convention, and to state fur¬ 
ther that the registration in the Radge Book for 1913 is 
the largest ever published with the exception of the years 
1908 and 1913; also the amount of cash turned over to 
the treasurer is the largest during the same period with 
the exception of 1913. Four hundred and twenty-six 
names appear in the Badge Book for this year, and a leaf 
insert containing others received too late for publication, 
has been printed for use of members, thus bringing the 
total membership on the 18th day of J one to 438. 
$3,130.00 were sent to the treasurer up to June third. 
In 1906, when the membership fee was three dollars, 
the unusual registration was due to the enthusiasm of the 
Texas nurserymen in rallying local residents to join tin* 
Association when the annual meeting was held in Dallas. 
It was at this meeting that the dues were raised from 
three to five dollars. The increased registration in 1913 
was due to the campaign carried on by Mr. McHutchison. 
This year between sixty and seventy new members have 
Mr. Marshall, C. S. Harrison, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Flemmer 
been enrolled, much of which is due to the work of the 
Membership Committee under the direction of Mr. Will 
R. Munson. 
But there have been between sixty and seventy failures 
to renew, and some of you will at once wonder how, in 
view of this, we reconcile the statement of a larger Badge 
