A WORD FROM THE PRESIDENT

Is this Society a mechanism or an organism? It makes a vast difference which. A mechanism is a whole made up of parts which function together because of some external force applied,­an engine, a dynamo, a watch. An organism is a whole made up of parts which function together because of a force contained within the parts, – a tree, a human being, a nation. 

Now a club or a society like this must be an organism to live and justify its existence. It cannot live as a mechanism receiv­ing energy elsewhere than from within itself. Each part must contribute energy to all parts as well as receive it from all parts. Every member of the society must contribute his share. All need not contribute alike, but each must give according to his opportunity. Of what specific things may this contributing consist? The payment of dues, attendance at the meetings, the giving of addresses and reports, participation in discussions, co-operation in experiment, the sending of news and other items for this bulletin, answering to president’s circular letters, making all kinds of suggestions, securing new members, etc. 

Wake up, members, wake up! Let us make the society an organism! 

H.S. PERSON.