bodies. The result speaks for itself, but I wish to say that the brewers will again take up this or any other worthy scheme for the betterment of their employees' condition whenever the latter show the least willingness to co-operate with them. Our Reports also note a more liberal tone in the press generally as regards discussion of the liquor question, and give us increased reason to feel that we have not mistaken the temper of the people, while our efforts in the way of an educational campaign seem to be bearing good fruit. In conclusion, I desire to express my heartfelt gratitude to the Chairmen of our several committees and other officers who have shared with me the labors and burdens of the past year. work has been heavy and unremitting, but the service has been cheerful and unstinted. Reviewing the first half of my administration, which has had its full share of difficulties and dangers, I am profoundly thankful for the no less notable good fortune which has attended it, and I look forward to completing it with the same fair augury. I can ask no more for the second half of my administration than the same loyalty and devotion on the part of my co-workers which have marked the first, and I promise not to stint my own measure of duty in the office with which you have honored me. (Great and long continued applause.) THE PRESIDENT:-I now declare the Fifty-second Convention open for business. COMMUNICATIONS. THE SECRETARY:-Gentlemen, there are a few cablegrams and telegrams which the President directs me to read. They are as follows: UNITED STATES BREWERS' ASSOCIATION, Boston, Mass. PARIS, Sept. 18, 1912. Best wishes for enthusiastic Convention. tions redound to the glory of our industry. COL. JACOB RUPPERT, JR., President, May your deliberaE. A. SCHMIDT. LONDON, Sept. 17, 1912. United States Brewers' Association, Boston, Mass. Best wishes for a large and successful Convention. Sorry I cannot be with you. CARL J. HOSTer. NUERNBERG, Sept. 17, 1912. UNITED STATES BREWERS' ASSOCIATION, Boston, Mass. Please accept my best wishes for the success of your Convention. BERNHARD BING. PRAGUE, Sept. 17, 1912. PRESIDENT UNITED STATES BREWERS' ASSOCIATION, Boston, Mass. Please accept my best wishes for your future success and a very satisfactory forthcoming campaign. Yours very sincerely, J. SONNESCHEIN. SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF., Sept. 18, 1912. MR. JACOB RUPPERT, JR., President, UNITED STATES BREWERS' ASSOCIATION, Boston, Mass. Kindly convey to the Fifty-second Convention of the United States Brewers' Association our good wishes, and inform them that the brewers of California renew their invitation and hope to have the pleasure of welcoming the 1915 Convention in the City of the Golden Gate. THOS. ALTON, President California State Brewers' Association. THE SECRETARY:-There is also an invitation from the Bureau of Convention Managers of Niagara Falls and an invitation from Galveston, Texas. THE PRESIDENT:-Are there any other communications, Mr. Secretary? THE SECRETARY:-No. Mr. William J. Gindler, President of the New England Brewmasters' Association, was delegated by the United States Brewmasters' Association to represent that body at this Convention. Mr. Gindler has asked Mr. Baer to present his greetings to this Association. MR. BAER:-Gentlemen, it is with a feeling of great pleasure and much honor that I take this occasion to address a few words to you, as representative of our President, Mr. Charles F. Russert, and in the name of the United States Berwmasters' Association. The interests of the brewers and the brewmasters are very closely linked, both striving to give to the American public a beverage which embodies the principles of true temperance and which should enable us to successfully ward off the attacks of the prohibitionists. It is a bitter strife which confronts the brewers, and undoubtedly the conditions are made still harder by the unprecedented high prices of all brewing materials, which go to greatly increase the cost of production. Under these circumstances we must call all our energies and powers into play in order to maintain our position in such adverse times and, if possible, to score some advances. I speak in the name of all my colleagues when I assure you that it is our earnest desire to work with you and support you in all your endeavors which lead toward the advancement of the brewing trade of our country, and I sincerely trust that the Convention of the United States Brewers' Association will prove successful and beneficial to our common interests. (Applause.) THE PRESIDENT:-Gentlemen, I have the honor of now introducing to you a man who has traveled several thousand miles to be here and whom it is our good fortune to have with us today. I take great pleasure in introducing to you Dr. Windisch, eminent in this country as in Europe for his great scientific attainments. (Applause.) DR. WINDISCH'S ADDRESS. MR. PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN: I would have liked to say the few words that I have the honor to address to you, in the English language, of which I have a fair command, but what I have to say shall come from my heart; this is possible only when I speak to you in my mother tongue. However, I hope that you will understand me. First, I wish to express my heartfelt thanks to your organization, especially to your President, Colonel Ruppert, for the kind invitation to this meeting and for the friendly request that I say a few words to you. You may rest assured that we-my colleague Dr. Foth and myself—have responded to your kind invitation with great pleasure and that we fully appreciate the honor thus bestowed upon us. But at the same time I regard your invitation and the extremely kind reception, which was given to me by representatives of the Brewing trade of the United States wherever I have been thus far, as an honor for the German Brewing Trade and for the Versuchs und Lehranstalt für Brauerei (Brewing Institute) in Berlin, which I have the honor to represent at present, and therefore I thank you also in their behalf, very cordially. Our institution has up to the present time, sent ten men to the United States, first of all, to study conditions in the American fermentation trade, also in the breweries, and to report the best features that are considered useful to us. A number of German brewers have also been in your country for the same purpose. Many of my colleagues who had visited America before me, have brought to the knowledge of the widest circles of those in our trade the results of their observations and investigations in the form of lectures and pamphlets. I may confidently state that my German colleagues in the brewing trade are very well informed as to the technical, economical and scientific conditions of the American brewing trade. I regret to say that during my stay here I have become convinced that the American trade is not similarly familiar with conditions in the German trade. We owe our thanks to your country for many valuable suggestions and we have received from you numerous excellent and useful improvements, making them serviceable to us. But I think, gentlemen, that now the time has arrived, when the American brewer should seriously turn his attention to the brewing conditions on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, especially to Germany. Then he would observe that we have not only been faithful pupils of America, but that we have surpassed the Americans in scientific, technical and organic relations. Gentlemen!-Germany is the MOTHERLAND OF THE BREWING INDUSTRY; it is the beer land par excellence. More than a generation ago there were already many distinguished brewers and excellent beers in Ger many; the brewing trade bore golden fruit. Our esteem and admiration are due those old-time German brewers who, in spite of the excellent conditions under which breweries worked then, empirically realized that the brewing trade had to be put on a scientific basis and proceeded to work along those lines. They were alert, far-seeing men, to whom the present generation owes the greatest thanks. As early as the middle of the fifties of the last century, stations were established through the collaboration of some practical brewers and chemists, where the science of brewing was cultivated, of course in modest measure. Later a number of scientists at the high schools devoted their labors more intently to the science of fermentation, especially with reference to brewing. In the middle of the fifties, the Bavarian state, founded a Royal Brewing Academy, which is still in existence, for the scientific education of young brewers. In the middle of the seventies, by decision of the German Brewers' Association, the scientific station in Munich was established, and is still flourishing. In the year 1882, the North German breweries followed this example in founding the Versuchs-und Lehranstalt in Berlin, in which I have had the honor of membership for twentyseven years. BERLIN'S BREWING INSTITUTE. It may be of interest to you, and I believe also instructive, to hear something of the history and organization of our institution. It was founded by a relatively small number of brewers, but it grew quickly, and in the fifth year of its existence it already had a thousand members. Today, we have 4,000 members, who voluntarily pay annually M. 162,000. Since the time of the foundation, a total of about two million Marks have been paid by our members in voluntary contributions. At the head of the institution is an executive body, consisting of brewery owners, mercantile and technical brewery directors and brewmasters. The scientific management has from the beginning been in the hands of Privy. Councillor Prof. Fr. Delbrueck. At the beginning of his activities, he had, besides his scientific co-laborer, Dr. Hayduck, only one assistant. Today, there are about sixty officials, professors and doctors employed in our laboratories. Immediately at the establishment of the institution an organ of the association was issued, the Wochenschrift für Brauerei, of which I have been the editor for twenty-five years. In 1898 we began the publication of a Yearbook, which reports the progress of the year and the work of the institution during |