V. TRIBUTES It is fitting that the credit for so much of the achievement here recorded should be apportioned among those who have been responsible for its success . While all have worked har moniously together with no thought of distinction , credit or honors , it is nevertheless true that without such harmonious participation , arbitration could not have gone so far in so short a time .

Directors . During these years of working together , there have been difficult situations to meet and knotty problems to solve . Every Director has been called upon for individual as well as collective service and the great extension of organiza tion , of legislation and of education attest th manner and degree in which they have responded . There are no dummy or uninformed directors and it is due largely to their wise counsel and business experience and constant willingness to be called upon at all times that such good progress has been made . Upon them has fallen the real responsibility and whatever may have been achieved in excellence during these years is due to their enthusiasm and generosity which has always encouraged and never retarded arbitration . To three of the members of the Temporary Organization Committee - Mr . Anson W. Burchard , Mr. Henry Ives Cobb and Mr. John F. Fowler , who later became directors and whose deaths have recently occurred —the Association owes a very great debt , for it was due to their patience , judgment and understanding of human equa tions that the arbitration ranks were consolidated into one harmonious body .

Arbitrators . To the hundreds of arbitrators , who have given their services without any compensation other than that which comes from a public duty well done , must be attributed the high esteem in which American Arbitration Tribunals are held . In almost every instance arbitrators have gladly served without compensation and they have taken the greatest care in time and competence to make a fair decision . They may justly have pride in the fact that no award rendered by them has been set aside by the courts and that their integrity has not only been