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Section 2. 
The membership shall consist of individuals who are 
actively engaged in the Nursery business and at least 
twenty-one years of age. 
Section 3. 
The total membership of this organization shall not ex¬ 
ceed twenty-five. 
Section 4. 
Its regular meeting shall be held annually during the 
Convention of the American Association of Nurserymen 
at the call of the President. 
Section 5. 
Special meetings shall consist of the President, Vice 
President, Secretary-Treasurer, who shall be elected by 
ballot for a term of one year at the annual meeting. 
Section 7. (Article 1.) 
Applications for membership shall he 
made in writing to the Secretary and may be acted upon 
at the annual meetings only, and voting shall be by bal¬ 
lot. Majority vote of members present shall elect ap¬ 
plicant to membership. 
(Article 2) 
In case more applicants than vacancies 
exist, the applicants shall be voted upon collectively and 
those receiving the greater number of votes shall be de¬ 
clared elected to membership. Applicants not elected 
will be placed on waiting list and voted upon at next 
vacancy. 
Section 8. 
Five members shall constitute a quorum to transact any 
business. 
Section 9. 
This constiution and By Laws may be amended by a two- 
third vote at any annual meeting. 
BY LAWS 
Article 1. 
It shall be the duty of the President to preside at the 
meetings of the organization. 
Article 2. 
The Vice President shall act as President in case of 
death, resignation or inability of the President to pre¬ 
side. 
Article 3. 
The Secretary-Treasurer shall keep a record of each 
meeting, notify each member of the regular and special 
meetings, collect all monies due, disperse same on order 
of President and render an annual report. 
Article 4. 
Each member shall pay an annual fee of $3.00 which 
shall be payable on or before date of annual meeting. 
Article 5. 
Any member in arrears for two years shall be dropped 
from membership. And it is tin; duty of the Secretary to 
notify him that his membership has lapsed. 
The “Baby Ramblers” taken in this year were 
F. S. Baker, No. Eastern Forestry Assn., Cheshire, Conn. 
George S. Harris, C. B. Burr & Co., Manchester, Conn. 
Officers for ensuing year. 
Wm. Flemer, Jr., President 
Win. Mastin, Vice President 
ITort Bowden, Secretary-Treasurer. 
We might add that eleven Baby Ramblers and two in¬ 
vited guests sat down lo a real dinner at the Hotel Drake. 
After dinner we christened these two guests (one a red¬ 
head) Tritoma Pfitzeriana, and the other (a blackhead) 
Symphoracarpus Vulgaris. They were young men and 
as they had never joined the order of the “Yellow Dog” 
were promptly and very soakingly initiated. After sev¬ 
eral rounds of real stories and songs, by the crowd, the 
party broke up. 
Remember, Baby Ramblers, Detroit next year and we 
want everyone there. 
TO THE MEMBERS OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIA¬ 
TION OF NURSERYMEN 
TAKE NOTICE—Recommendations of the Executive 
Committee of the American Association of Nurserymen 
that were adopted at the Chicago Convention June 23rd, 
1921. 
Trade Mark—Recommendation No. 3. 
Owing to the wide difference of opinion arising 
from the use of the present trade mark, we, the 
Executive Committee, hereby recommend that 
its use be discontinued and that no further 
printing of the trade mark be done by our mem¬ 
bers. 
The Membership should govern themselves accord¬ 
ingly. Truly, 
Chas. Sizemore. 
CAUSES OF DEPRESSION—THE WAY OUT 
Portion of an address by Secretary Hoover before the 
National Association of Beal Estate Boards 
If we would study the cause of this depression and the 
remedies for it we should devote our time to the examina¬ 
tion of the economic phenomena of the war and of the 
post-war boom. From the war we have the necessity to 
recover many losses and to change our productive forces 
in accordance with the tremendous economic shifts in the 
world. Spreading over all this, however, lies the fact 
that this depression is to a great degree born of the ma¬ 
levolent forces we set in motion by inflation and by all 
booms. It is in the booms that we speculate, overextend 
our liabilities, slacken down in effort, lower our effi¬ 
ciency, waste our surplus in riotous living instead of 
creation of new capital, drive our prices to vicious levels, 
and lose our moral and business balance. We must suf¬ 
fer a period of duress from war and punishment for the 
boom until we rebuild our virtues of hard work, frugal 
living, more saving, sober conduct, and higher honesty. 
These things are trite enough, but they are as immutable 
as history, and this is the only way out. There are a few 
people who will not accept these hard facts, who will 
persist in the notion that they can by various devices 
avoid reaping what they have sowed. The resistance of 
a few groups of manufacturers or dealers to lowering 
prices to tlie general level; the resistance of a few groups 
of workers to accommodation of their wage to the de¬ 
creasing cost of living and the necessity of a better day’s 
work; the refusal of some people to curtail their extrava¬ 
gance—all fhese contribute lo our undoing. They have to 
come into the cold water in the end. They can not get 
