and is able to live comfortably on an income from his savings, his pension from 
former employers or the state, it is my belief that he should still work. 
Mr. Hoover quoted the Divine Edict given in the Garden of Eden. ‘In the 
sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out 
of it wast thou taken; for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.” This 
is good enough authority for me. 
Among the hardest working people in America are the rich capitalists. All 
they can get in the way of body comforts is food, clothing and shelter. If they 
eat any better food than I do (good meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc) it will make 
them ill, unable to work and manage their enterprises. Their clothes may cost 
more but my pants from Penny’s are as good as theirs from Kruckenheimer 
since they clothe my legs, a custom which men have not yet forsaken. My house 
protects me from sun, rain or winds equally as well as theirs. I sleep as com- 
fortably as they do. 
I wonder if the rich may not have some other incentive for working. It 
can’t be that there is sufficient satisfaction in the mere accumulation of wealth, 
because few of them really know how much they are worth. Henry Ford could 
not have told you probably within a hundred million dollars of how much he 
was worth. It can’t be because they seek the adulation of the multitudes because 
they are only too often hated. When I look around and see the Carneige Libraries, 
The Rockefeller Foundations, their research Institutions, I am wondering wheth- 
er they may not have a higher incentive than they receive credit for. Perhaps 
they may enjoy giving even more than getting. 
There are many enterprises for research in the study of Cancer, ‘Heart 
Disease, Tuberculosis, Infantile Paralysis and other diseases. There are many 
also for scientific study and research in subjects of much importance. One of 
these I would like to mention because it may be of interest to some of you. 
Genetics and Eugenics are two Closely allied sciences. Genetics, briefly is the 
science of heredity. Eugenics is the science which deals with those controllable 
influences that improve races, particularly the human race. Theodore Roosevelt 
was much interested in some phases of this science. All thoughtful and earnest 
people should be interested in all the factors that may be either eugenic or 
dysgenic to the human race, particularly to our American section of it. 
One Californian has taken over the work of the Eugenics Society of North- 
ern California and the publishing of their, “Kugenics Pamphlets’. This man has 
been a world wide traveller; a student of history, art, literature and science. He 
is a profound thinker in my estimate. He edits and publishes the pamphlets. He 
distributes them gratis to thoughtful, studious people. 
Some of the Pamphlets might better be called magazines and as a magazine 
they could be classed with the Geographic Magazine as the editor records and 
illustrates experiences and observations in the far places of this world. Other 
Pamphlets are mere collections of unorganized notes. 
If you wish to qualify for receiving these pamphlets, please write to Mr. 
C. M. Goethe, 720 Capital National Bank Building, Sacramento, Calif. 
We believe these publications should be in the hands of all teachers in our 
schools from primary to university; all lawyers, doctors and other professional 
men or women; all editors; all officials from the country town to the national 
capital and all thoughtful students who earnestly seek truth. 
We have talked in a rather rambling way about strength, material strength 
mostly, so far. We all want America to be strong and we also realize that col- 
lective strength is but the sum of the strength of our individual citizens that 
are in harmony with our American ideals. Those who are not must be subtracted. 
But our material and physical resources alone cannot make us strong. There 
must be contributions from the arts, from education, from religion. Perhaps we 
can group them as intellectual and spiritual resources. These are the factors 
that control fear, that make us brave and steadfast, that give high incentives. 
Life should be beautiful and flowers contribute to that result. We have 
made every effort we can to help you achieve success with your flowers, by 
advice and culture information and by listing bulbs, plants and orchids at the 
lowest price possible for the quality we are able to furnish. In this catalog you 
will find several new items such as Vallota, New Nerines, Oxalis, Lilies, Daffo- 
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