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One other observation is pertinent in this connection. In forestry as in 

 other new professions, the first demand is met with an inadequate supply and 

 it is comparatively easy for the first comers to find places. The multiplication 

 of schools and the popularity of the work for young men who love the out of 

 doors is, however, making competition greater, and the time has already come 

 when government or private employers will demand a high standard in the 

 men they take on. The profession is not yet crowded, but it has already 

 reached the point where men must seek places on the basis of thorough knowl- 

 edge and real ability. To say that one is a forester is not enough. His 

 credentials will be closely examined and he cannot prepare himself too well; 



THE THIRD NATIONAL CONSERVATION CONGRESS 



y^r^JIB third National Conservation Congress will meet this year in Kansas 

 C_J City, September 25, 26 and 27. It will be made up as heretofore of 

 ^^"^ delegates from cities, states, and organizations, met for the considera- 

 tion of topics related to the conservation of the forests, lands, waters, minerals 

 and the vital resources of the nation. The function of this congress, if admin- 

 istered in a broad and liberal spirit, is an important one, deserving thoughtful 

 consideration. The criticism was made of the last congress that too much of 

 its time was given to politics and too little to practical consei*vation. We 

 trust that this criticism will not be made of the third congress. The able 

 and forceful president of the congress, Henry Wallace, says that there will be 

 no politics in it, and he is a leader whose personal influence will be very real 

 and effective. 



The thing that the country wants and- expects from such a gathering is 

 helpful guidance along the road to the better and more economical utilization 

 of the natural wealth of the country. There is no real reason why those who 

 still hold to the law of the pioneer should be allowed to occupy the time of a 

 congress met for considering the most serious material problems of a country 

 whose frontier has been pushed into the ocean, and who.se resources have been 

 found to have a limit. We want to hear from the foresters, the engineers, the 

 workers in all the fields to which the conservation idea applies. Let them tell 

 us what can be and is being done and how to do it ; and let constitutionalists 

 who study the Constitution as a bulwark and protection for the people of the 

 United States, and not for any interest or section, show us the legal and 

 constitutional way. 



American Forestry suggested last year that too many of these great 

 national gatherings have been mere talkfests and that in the future to be 

 effective they must be organized for definite and tangible results, as was the 

 first and most successful of them, the American Forest (Congress of 1905. This 

 view we still hold and with greater earnestness as each year our conservation 

 problems become more pressing, concrete and definite. We have confidence 

 that the able men who are directing the third conservation congress take this 

 view and will guide it in the right direction. 



NEW HAMPSHIRE'S ANNUAL FORESTRY COUNCIL 



^>^-^HE annual meeting of the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire 

 C ^ forests on the second and third of August wa.s as it has been for some 

 ^^ years past, significant of the progress of forestry in New Hampshire and 

 of the spirit of harmony and co-operation which has been a chief element in 



