The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade . afew words in regard to their manage-ment. I believe that the society shouldtake entire charge of these exhibits. Ifshould appoint a manager, pay all ex-penses and receive any profits that mayarise from such exhibitions. I am wellaware that the custom has been other-wise for the reason that the money rea-lized was needed for the local people tohelp on the entertainment. Now this isall wrong. Is it not time that this s:i-ciety adopted an attitude of independ-ence and dignity? Is it not time thatthis society selected its own place ofmeeting
The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade . afew words in regard to their manage-ment. I believe that the society shouldtake entire charge of these exhibits. Ifshould appoint a manager, pay all ex-penses and receive any profits that mayarise from such exhibitions. I am wellaware that the custom has been other-wise for the reason that the money rea-lized was needed for the local people tohelp on the entertainment. Now this isall wrong. Is it not time that this s:i-ciety adopted an attitude of independ-ence and dignity? Is it not time thatthis society selected its own place ofmeeting without putting it up to beauctioned off? Would it not be possible for us to goin peace and quiet in some central pointand hold our convention and entertainourselves? There are many places thatwe could visit with profit to ourselves,where to be entertained bv the localmembers of our trade would mean ruinto them. This entertainment has in myopinion grown to be a great evil, and anunjust tax upon the communtijs visited. igo6. The American Florist. 205. H. B. BEATTY. Treasurer ol the Society of American Florists. It has reached a point in the emulationof hosts where it behooves us to stop andconsider the cost. Today there are onlya few of the larger cities that dare invitea convention, because they cannot makethe lavish preparations that have be-come customary. A reform in this di-rection is needed. SPORTS. Perhaps another reform is needed inthe matter of sports. Do we not giverather too much valuable time to ourgames? It is true that they are enjoy-able to many but it hardly seems neces-sary to travel a thousand miles to playa game of baseball or shoot a few claypigeons. I think we have gone a littletoo far, and have suffered in the at-tendance at our meetings because of thetime taken for these contests. I do notmean to decry the social value of ourmeetings but is there not a better wayof enjoying each others society and oneless embarrassing to the business of theconvention? I b
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