THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
is aimed at us by those who are not acquainted with out¬ 
work. Much uncalled-for annoyance might be avoided if 
we could get our patrons to keep in touch with the growth 
of horticultural work, and I believe we can secure their 
co-operation by lending our influence and support to every 
legitimate means that will disseminate horticultural 
knowledge. 
The social benefits derived from the Association must 
not be overlooked. If we remain to ourselves, engrossed 
with our cares, from year to year, we soon forget there is any 
one else in the race but ourselves, and the selfishness we 
possess by nature will gain control; but as we meet and 
mingle and lay our plans for mutual good and advancement, 
our minds are broadened, and our work takes on new 
aspects. We should seek enjoyment with our work, 
because all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, as we 
all know, and doubtless have felt sometime in our lives. 
But the rest of the adage must not be forgotten, that no 
work and all play makes Jack a mere toy. I am glad for 
the good and substantial meetings in the past and for the 
others that are to come. 
However, we can not expect that the full measure of 
good can be accomplished or wrought out during the few 
hours allotted to convention work. These meetings 
afford opportunities to render reports and summaries of 
our work, which has been, or ought to be, done between 
times. The real work should be carried on when we go to 
our homes. Carry the Association and its needs around 
with you wherever you go, and this will make it a success, 
and pay larger and oftener dividends than anything else. 
The benefits we will derive from the Association will 
depend and be measured by the effort we put forth in its 
behalf; the degree in which we co-operate with and for 
each other, for the accomplishment of one common pur¬ 
pose. 
THE CONFERENCE FOR EDUCATION IN THE SOUTH. 
The Eleventh Conference for Education in the South 
was held in the Lyceum Theatre, Memphis, Tenn., April 
22nd, 23rd and 24th, 1908. 
All meetings of the Conference were held in the Lyceum 
Theatre. The opening session took place on the evening 
of Wednesday, April 22nd. The address of welcome was 
delivered by the Hon. M. R. Patterson, Governor of Ten¬ 
nessee. Governor Patterson’s greeting was followed by 
the annual address of the President of the Conference, 
Mr. Robert C. Ogden, of New York; and by two other 
addresses. 
The session of Thursday morning was in charge of the 
Association of the State Superintendents of Education in 
the South. The President of this Association, the Hon. J. 
Y. Joyner of North Carolina, was in the chair, and this sec¬ 
tion of the program was directly under his care. The after¬ 
noon of Thursday, April 23d, was especially set apart for 
“State meetings”—separate assemblies of the visitors and 
members in attendance from the several States of the 
vSouth. 
The need for a more compact and efficient organization 
of local forces is of such imperative importance that the 
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representatives in attendance were earnestly requested to do 
all within their power to add to the interest and importance 
of these State gatherings. The name of the chairman of 
each delegation is here given: 
Alabama —The Hon. H. C. Gunnels, State Supt. of Edu¬ 
cation; Arkansas —The Hon. J. J. Doyne, State Supt. of 
Education; Florida —The Hon. Wm. M. Holloway, State 
Supt of Education; Georgia —Mr. Samuel T. Inman, of 
Atlanta, upon nomination of the Hon. J. M. Pound, State 
School Commissioner; Kentucky —The Hon. J. G. Crabbe, 
State Supt. of Public Instruction; Louisiana- —Dr. J. H. 
Dillard, of New Orleans, upon nomination of the Hon. J. B. 
Aswell, State Supt. of Education; Mississippi- Dr. P. H 
Saunders, upon nomination of the Hon. J. N. Powers, State 
Supt. of Education; North Carolina —The Hon. J. Y. 
Joyner, State Supt. of Education; Tennessee —The Hon. 
R. L. Jones, State Supt. of Public Instruction; South 
Carolina —the Hon. O. B. Martin, State Supt. of Educa¬ 
tion; Virginia —the Hon. J. D. Eggleston, State Supt. of 
Public Instruction. 
The program of the Conference included addresses by 
representative speakers on “The Progress of Arkansas,” 
“The Training of the Southern Teacher,” “The Methods of 
an Educational Campaign,” “Industrial Education,” “The 
“Schools and the Forests,” “The Christian South and Negro 
Education,” “More Efficient School Supervision” and “Busi¬ 
ness Leadership in Educational Progress.” There was on 
the afternoon of Friday, an “open forum” on the subject of 
“Compulsory Attendance,” at which Dr. B. J. Baldwin, 
President of the Board of Education of Montgomery, Ala., 
presided. The discussion was opened by Prof. W. H. Heck, 
of the University of Virginia. 
Immediately after a short business session on Frida}" 
morning, addresses were delivered by representative South¬ 
ern women on the service which is being rendered to the 
cause of popular education by the “School Improvement 
Organizations” of the several States of the South. The sub¬ 
ject of the “Higher Education of Women" also received 
attention. 
NEW POSTAL REGULATIONS. 
In the new rulings of the Postoffice Department, especially 
relating to second class matter, newspaper mail, publishers 
are required to cut off from their mailing lists all subscribers 
whose subscriptions are in arrears four months after date 
of expiration, and furthermore, compels them to limit their 
sample copies to ten per cent of their paid up circulation. 
This will prove a good thing for all legitimate publications, 
that is, for all trade and other periodicals for which there 
is a real cause for their being; but it will bear heavily on 
all advertising and other schemes in which money making 
is the prime object. Under these new rulings it is com¬ 
pulsory on subscribers to pay their subscriptions and 
renewals in advance; such a practice has, however, its 
good side; it helps the publication in a practical and en¬ 
couraging way, and promotes an all-round confidence that 
is stimulating to continued effort on the part of all con¬ 
cerned-subscribers, advertisers, and publisher. 
