A SUPREME COURT OF SCIENCE 399 
income just about sufficient to make the “wheels go round” in the 
office and the surplus available wherewith to grind grain is a very small 
fraction of the funds required to keep the wheels in motion. Under 
the billing system for small dues from hundreds of members and new 
membership campaigns, often seventy-five to one hundred per cent. of 
the funds are consumed. Instead of wasting so much capital in beating 
the tom-toms and in asserting and defending from attack alleged 
scientific knowledge, one quarter of the energy would be sufficient to 
settle these scientific questions for all time if expended in bringing the 
evidence suitably before an impartial scientific tribunal whose deci- 
sion would command respect. With the same decision, much agita- 
tion and annoyance would be saved our good people, who are wearing 
themselves out trying to form intelligent opinions on all kinds of 
technical questions without proper evidence presented on either side. 
