hard labor on the stone pile;
they put him in a little room with nothing to do. The youngster who
plays doesn't want a dead easy game. He builds a house, and, when he has
done with it, bang, he doesn't want the house he wanted to build. And I
must confess that if it were perfectly plain sailing and you could plant
out all these nut trees and have them grow like fury, it would not be
much fun. It is a fact that men like to achieve and experiment; men
like effort. Suppose everybody in this country retired and could put up
his feet and do nothing, there wouldn't be a name in the paper the next
morning. Mr. Hughes, President Wilson, Mr. Taft, Mr. Brandies, and all
of the great men who are doing things in this world would all be gone
fanning themselves quietly. This world is run by men who don't have to
work; they work for fun. So I wish to submit that the tree--if a man
happens to be built to love plants that grow--that the tree is one of
the great avenues of fun.

MR. WEBER: Mr. President, along the same line of thought, I wish to
express my views with what Colonel Van Duzee has had to say. If we were
to attend a convention of surgeons and hear different diseases and
ailments of the body discussed, we would probably all be disposed to
think that we were standing on the tip-end of the diving board into
eternity beyond. But people keep on living just the same,
notwithstanding the knocking of the doctors, and the diseases to which
we are subject, and trees will keep on growing just the same,
notwithstanding their diseases and various other troubles, and so I
think no one should be discouraged.

THE SECRETARY: I just want to add my little encouragement. In spite of
all the failure that I have had, and they have been many, in spite of
the reports of failures of others and the pessimism of others, I have
the same abiding faith in the future of nut growing, and just the same
enthusiasm for it that I had in the beginning, if not greater.
(Applause.)

MR. KYNER: Mr. President, I came here to get information on a matter
that I am very much interested in. At seventy years of age I have become
interested in nut growing--in nut culture. (Applause.) I am not planting
particularly for myself, not that I expect to get any harvest from these
trees, but I do want to see them bear fruit--bear nuts. I want to plant
the right kind of trees. I have joined this Association; I intend to
retain a membership in it as long as the Association live