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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
but the standards are there and a sense of industrial responsi¬ 
bility and self interest will eventually, 1 am confident, mak'e 
them universal. 
For years aggrieved persons and some of the trade have been 
agitating this question of lumber standards in Congress. Num¬ 
erous bills have been introduced. If this effort succeeds no 
leg slation will be necessary. This is keeping the Government 
out of business through the remedy of abuses by business itself. 
Another instance of great interest in which I had the honour 
to participate was the abolition of the 12-hour day in the steel 
industry through the action of the steel association. 
1 could give you a multitude of exampleh of the beginnings 
of constructive self government in industry among many other 
Associations. The very publication of codes or ethics by many 
associations instilling service as the primary purpose; the con¬ 
demnation of specific unfair practices; the insistence upon a 
higher plane of relationships between employer and employee 
—all of them are at least indications of improving thought and 
growing moral perceptions. 
All of this is the strong beginning of a new force in the busi¬ 
ness world. The individual interest is wrapped up with public 
interest. They can find expression only through association. 
’’I hree years of study and intimate contact with associations of 
economic groups whether in production, distribut.on, labor or 
finance, convince me that there lies wdthin them a great moving 
impulse toward betterment. 
If these organizations accept as their primary purpose the 
lifting of standards, if they will cooperate together for volun¬ 
tary enforcement of high standards, we shall have proceeded far 
along the road of the elimination of government from business. 
American business is never secure unless it has public confix 
dence behind it. Otherwise it will always be a prey to dema¬ 
goguery and filled with discouragement. 
The test of our whole economic and social system is its ca¬ 
pacity to cure its own abuses. New abuses and new relation¬ 
ships to the public interest will occur as long as we continue to 
progress. If we are to be wholly dependent upon Government 
to cure these abuses we shall by this very method have created 
an enlarged and deadening abuse through the extension ofl 
bureaucracy and the clumsy and incapable handling of delicate 
economic forces. The old law merchant is the basis of much 
of our commin law. A renaissance of a new law merchant 
could so advance our standards as to solve much of the problem 
of Government in business. 
American business needs a lifting purpose greater than the 
struggle of materialism. Nor can it lie in some evanescent; 
emotional, dramatic crusade. It lies in the higher pitch of eco¬ 
nomic life, in a finer regard for the rights of others, a stronger 
devotion to obligations of citizenship that will assure an im¬ 
proved leadership in every community and the nation; it lies 
in the organization of the forces of our economic life so that 
they may produce happier individual lives, more secure in em¬ 
ployment and comfort, wider in the possibilities of enjoyment of 
nature, larger in its opportunities of intellectual life. Our peo¬ 
ple have already shown a higher sense of responsibilities in 
these things than those of any other country. The ferment 
of organization for more definite acomplishment of these things 
in the practical day-to-day progress of business life is alive in 
our business world. 
The Government can best contribute through stimulation of 
and cooperation with voluntary forces in our national life; for 
we thus prserve the foundations upon which we have progressed 
so far—the initiative of our people. With vision and devotion 
these voluntary forces can accomplish more for America than 
any spread of the hand of Government. 
GATALOC'.ULS DECEIVED 
The Old Eann Nurs., Roskoop, Holland. 
1924-1925. 
(kilifornia Nur. Co., Niles, Calif. 
List of Biidwood, Scions, Cuttings. 
II. E. V. Pickstone & Bro., Ltd., P. (). Siinondiuin, C. P. 
South Africa. 
Price List. 
Robert C. Young, Greensboro, N. C. 
Lining Out Stock. 
Ashford Park Nurs., Atlanta, Ga. 
Henry B. Chase, Chase, Alabama 
Chairman of the Special Advisory Committee to Co-op¬ 
erate with the United States Department of Agricutture 
in devetoping American supply of raw material. 
BASIS LAID EOR AGREEMENT IN STATE AND FED¬ 
ERAL PLANT QUARANTINE POWERS 
After adopting a schedule of recommendations in¬ 
tended as a basis for adjusting the conflicts in Federal 
and State quarantine })owers, a conference of plant in¬ 
spection officials from some 20 States adjourned here 
today after a three-day session. The meeting was sug¬ 
gested by the Federal Horticultural Board of the United 
States Department of Agriculture. 
In outlining a basis of agreement as to Federal and 
State work to prevent the spread of insect pests and plant 
diseases, the conference first defined the scope of cj^uar- 
antine action. It next made recommendations for the 
corelation of State and Federal action along these lines. 
Adequate notice of quarantine action taken or proposed, 
and for notification of changes in personnel were also 
recommended. 
The conference voted to send copies of the recom¬ 
mendations to plant quarantine officials of States that 
were not reiiresented at the meeting, and they are to be 
presented for consideration to the confcrimce of Western 
States plant quarantine officials which is to be held May 
12-14. The results of the conference will be published 
after this further consideration. 
In summing up the work of the conference just before 
adjournment, Dr. G. L. Marlatt, chairman of the Federal 
Horticultural Board, declared that the results were of 
