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CONSERVATION 



WOMEN AS WORKERS 



The effectiveness of women in pro- 

 moting the work of forestry and con- 

 servation was recognized at the annual 

 meeting in several ways. Of these, one 

 was the provision for the address by 

 the President General of the Daughters 

 of the American Revolution, Mrs. Don- 

 ald McLean, and the cordial reception 

 given it when delivered ; another was 

 the resolution welcoming the assistance 

 and commending and endorsing the or- 

 ganization and work of the Women's 

 National Rivers and Harbors Congress ; 

 and a third, the tribute paid by Dr. 

 Rothrock to the women of Pennsyl- 

 vania in securing the enactment, by the 

 legislature of that state, of the law es- 



tablishing the Pennsylvania Department 

 of Forestry. He said : 



I want to say right here that the State 

 of Pennsylvania never would have had that 

 department if it had not been for the organ- 

 ized efforts of the women of Pennsylvania. 

 They made it possible. Somehow or other, 

 it is not necessary to state how — it was per- 

 fectly clean and straight, however — but 

 somehow or other, on the morning the bill 

 for this matter was under consideration 

 every desk in the house of representatives 

 and in the state senate was flooded with 

 petitions from the women and their hus- 

 bands. I do not know how they got there 

 exactly so nicely on time, but the president 

 of the senate told me the bill never would 

 have become a law if it had not been for the 

 fact that the women of the state had made 

 it impossible to kill it. 



REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON NOMINATIONS 



On the morning of the second day of 

 the annual meeting the report of the 

 Committee on Nominations was pre- 

 sented by Mr. Edwin A. Start, Chair- 

 man, as follows : 



To the American Forestry Association : 



The nominating committee presents the 

 following nominations for officers of the As- 

 sociation for the ensuing year: 



President — Curtis Guild, Jr., of Massa- 

 chusetts. 



Vice-presidents — N. J. Bachelder, An- 

 drew Carnegie, Charles W. Eliot, B. E. Fer- 

 now, W. W. Finley, David R. Francis, Ed- 

 ward Everett Hale, Rutherford P. Hayes, 

 James J. Hill, S. Weir Mitchell, George T. 

 Oliver, George C. Pardee, George Foster 

 Peabody, J. E. Ransdell, J. T. Rothrock, 

 Albert Shaw, Charles P. Taft, Charles R. 

 Van Hise, Andrew D. White. 



Treasurer — Otto Luebkert, of Washing- 

 ton, D. C. 



Directors — Philip W. Ayres of New 

 Hampshire, Joshua L. Bailey of Pennsylva- 

 nia, James H. Cutler of Massachusetts, 

 Henry S. Graves of Connecticut, Curtis 

 Guild, Jr., of Massachusetts, William S. 

 Harvey of Pennsylvania, George H. Max- 

 well of Illinois, Charles F. Nesbit of Dis- 

 trict of Columbia, Henry A. Pressey of Dis- 

 trict of Columbia, Henry Riesenberg of In- 

 diana, Cuno H. Rudolph of District of Co- 

 lumbia, George K. Smith of Missouri, Edwin 

 A. Start of Massachusetts, James S. Whip- 

 ple of New York, George P. Whittlesey of 

 District of Columbia. 



It will be noticed that for the first time in 

 many years no official of the National Gov- 

 ernment is included in the list. This is not 

 accidental. The Government officials who 

 have been connected with the board in the 

 past have been relieved from service at their 

 own earnest request. It is agreed by those 

 who have been closest to the work of the 

 Association, in the Government departments 

 as well as out of it, that the Association 

 should be completely independent of these 

 departments, so that it may be a helpful ally 

 of the Government forestry and conservation 

 work, and that neither may be hampered by 

 the needs and obligations of the other. 



In the early days of the Forest Service 

 and the Association, when both were young 

 and weak, their close connection was useful 

 and inevitable. It has been good for both, 

 and the debt of this Association to Secre- 

 tary Wilson and Mr. Pinchot and their asso- 

 ciates, who have borne so many of the offi- 

 cial burdens, is great. Now, however, the 

 Service is a great administrative division of 

 the Government, and it cannot afiford to 

 carry, through its officers, any responsibili- 

 ties of an outside organization. The Asso- 

 ciation, on the other hand, has also grown to 

 be a power, and its mission has grown in 

 even greater proportion, and it cannot be 

 bound by limitations of official relations of 

 the Government. The two must therefore 

 be dissociated officially, while in spirit and 

 purpose they continue to go hand in hand. 

 We have depended much upon our officers 

 in the Government service, who were per- 

 manently in Washington, and it has not been 

 easy to fill their places. We have endeav- 



