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can) to vote for the Appalachian forest 

 reserves. I ask nothing for my state that I 

 am not perfectly willing to grant to any 

 other sister state in this Nation. 



The President paid a tribute to the 

 patriotism and energy of the early 

 settlers of Utah who transformed the 

 desert into a garden, and then intro- 

 duced Mr. Gifford Pinchot, whose de- 

 lightfully reminiscent remarks" are re- 

 ]3rodiiced in another place in this 

 magazine. 



The next speaker was Mr. G. Gros- 

 venor Dawe, managing director of the 

 Southern Commercial Congress. . Mr. 

 Dawe spoke eloc]uently of the value of 

 high purpose in life and of the spirit 

 called out by the forestry movement. 

 Said he : 



- I happened todaj' to go into a stock-selling 

 shop in this town. I was not there to buy 

 stocks, by the way. I looked at those men 

 who were watching certain figures go upon 

 the board. I heard the clamor of a man 

 calling out words from a ticker. I saw men 

 rushing here and there, and the faces of 

 those men impressed me as being foxy. 

 They were not such faces as are here tonight. 

 Those men were eagerly watching the mo- 

 ment. They were seeing the opportunity for 

 personal gain in someone else's damage. 

 These men and women here are not seeing 

 the moment. They are seeing the everlast- 

 ing future of the United States, and giving 

 their thought and their prayers and their 

 work to make tliat future as" glorious and 

 more glorious than the past. 



And that is my word to you. It is my 

 word to the men younger than myself here, 

 to be seized by a purpose that- is bereft of 

 selfishness ; to kneel before God in whatever 

 way w"e may choose to picture Him in our 

 hours of devotion, and to say that our lives 

 are to be given to something broader than 

 our own pocket books. Wider than our own 

 little circle, and something that shall make 

 a greater nation out of our little, petty, van- 

 ishing- lives. To be grasped by such a 

 thought is to lift our petty humanity up into 

 divinitv. And that has been the kind of 

 thought that I have had in these recent years, 

 when I have come under the influence of the 

 thought of some of these men who have been 

 blazing the way for a greater and an endur- 

 'ing nation. And you are some of them. You 

 are ministers of a new gospel. Our race 

 carefully and painfully climbed upward to a 

 comprehension of God, and then there came 

 a comprehension of our neighbor, and these 

 preachers of the new gospel are preaching 

 the gospel of duty to the race whom we 

 shall never see. It is a culminating thought 

 actuating the souls of men in this century. 



whose work and whose benizens will come 

 from generations yet unborn. 



And that is all I have to say about for- 

 estry tonight. It is. a summons to a broader 

 thought, to truer patriotism, to absolute un- 

 selfishness ; and some of these men who have 

 led the way in it have been willing for the 

 moment to sacrifice themselves that the idea 

 might be lifted up out of petty quibbles into 

 a National issue. And if in this great for- 

 ward movement, an humble disciple of which 

 I am, there is to be one to stand as a leader, 

 'et it be the Sir Galahad of the forest work, 

 a man whose heart is pure and who there- 

 fore has the strength of ten. 



The closing address of the evening 

 was given by Mr. George H. Maxwell, 

 of Illinois. Mr. Maxwell discussed the 

 White Mountain and southern Appa- 

 lachian bill in its National aspect.* The 

 need of reforestation and tree growing, 

 with National, state, municipal and pri- 

 vate forests. In closing, he spoke of 

 the work of the association, its impor- 

 tance, and the need of large expansion. 



The singing of "America" and drink- 

 ing of the health of the President of the 

 United States closed the evening. 



Those present were : 



A. A. Anderson, Philip W. Ayres. W. H. 

 Andrews, Chas. S. Bradley, Ernest Brunck- 

 en, Joshua L. Bailey, Elbert F. Baldwin. W. 

 R. Brown, Henry E. Burnham, Elmer J. 

 Burkett. William' Brosmeth, B. Franklin 

 Betts, B. "Si. Caldwell, Aubrey L. Clark, 

 j\Irs. James B. Case, Miss Case, William W. 

 Cocks, J. Harry Cunningham, Jas. H. Cutler, 

 Pleasant T. Chipman. G. Grosvenor Dawe, 

 H. S. Drinker, Mr. Guest, Don Davenport, 

 Lewis Dill, Allen Farquhar, A. B. Farquhar, 

 Henrv Farquhar, John H. Finney, Henry W. 

 Farnam, J. A. P. Farnham, Mrs. F. W. Gerard, 

 Curtis Guild, Jr., John T. A. Hussey. Thos. 

 Hvde, Samuel L. Hartman, Stewart Harts- 

 horn ' Wm. S. Harvev, Wm. S. Harvey's 

 guest. L. B. Hanna, :\Irs. Allen Hollis, H. A. 

 Hurt, Frederick W. Kelsey, :\Iiss Florence 

 Keen, George M. Kober, Jasper M. Lawford, 

 Robt. C. Lippincott. Otto Luebkcrt, Mrs. 

 Otto Luebkert, Barrington Moore. Geo. H. 

 Maxwell. John Mcllrey, Willis L. Moore, 

 M. T. McCreight, C. L. Marlatt, J. Horace 

 McFarland, John W. T. Nichols, E. F. Perry, 

 M. M. Parker, Chas. Lathrop Pack, 

 Gifford Pinchot, Ulysses G. B. Pierce. ATiss 

 Ruth Putnam. E. Bertram Pike, J. T. Roth- 

 rock, Cuno H. Rudolph, F. W. Rollins, F. 

 W Rane, Miss Louise Rowell, Miss Mary A. 

 Sharp. ]\Iiss .-X. D. Slocum. Edwin A. Start, 

 Reed Smoot, Ed. R. A. Seligman, Mrs. ]\I. I. 

 Seligman, Willard Saulsbury. H. St. George 

 Tucker. Mrs. H. St. George Tucker, W. H. 

 M. Thomas, S. B. Vrooman, John P. Viall, 



