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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



"trees in a hot country help to produce 

 rain,"' we have here nothing to do ex- 

 cept to indicate that crudities in several 

 forms are grouped together in his arti- 

 cle. His one correct position is the un- 

 disputed one that snowbanks in high 

 mountains help to maintain stream-flow 

 in summer. But if the opponents of 

 the policy of National Forests on moun- 

 tain slopes desire to continue their un- 

 equal warfare with its friends, they will 

 find it necessary to produce stronger ar- 

 guments than those found in the anony- 

 mous paper in the Pacific Sportsuiaii. 



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 Nominate Members 



A STUDY of the statistics of the 

 •*^*' membership campaign of the Amer- 

 ican Forestry Association shows that 

 few if any lists are better for solicita- 

 tion purposes than the list of nominees 

 sent in by members of the Association. 

 These names are evidently carefully se- 

 lected, and yield, on the whole, excel- 

 lent results. We again earnestly urge 

 our membership to aid the work of the 

 Association by supplying names of pos- 

 sible members for the use of this office. 

 A large and growing membership adds 

 greatly to the prestige and power of this 

 organization. It furnishes funds with 

 which to prosecute the work, and it 

 raises up a body of friends everywhere 

 to sow the seed from which the ultimate 

 harvest may be reaped. 



In the advertising section will be 

 found a blank space entitled "Nomina- 

 tions for Membership."' Post-office reg- 

 ulations curtail its size ; nevertheless, by 

 pasting on a sheet of paper it may be 

 indefinitely enlarged. Let every mem- 

 ber faithfully use this form, and send 

 in the names of all, whether few or 

 many, whom he may believe would be 

 willing to join the Association. And 

 wherever possible let him use his per- 

 sonal influence with these to encourage, 

 or even urge them to join. A few ear- 

 nest, aggressive, working members, 

 soliciting memberships, can very mate- 

 rially aid the progress of the organiza- 

 tion. The existence of the present in- 

 dustrial stringency necessitates in- 



creased activity on the part of our 

 friends to insure the maintenance and 

 growth of the Association. Let the 

 nominations pour in, and let the activi- 

 ties of individual members be multi- 

 plied ! 



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Conservation of Human Resources 



IT HAS been suggested that, among 

 our national resources, those of most 

 fundamental moment are human re- 

 sources ; and that, in fact, the reason 

 why we seek to save the land is that we 

 may thereby save the man. 



Agencies exist for promoting di- 

 rectly this man-saving work. For ex- 

 ample, The Delineator conducts 

 through its pages, a "Child Rescue 

 Campaign" for the child that needs a 

 home and the home that needs a child. 

 This work is prosecuted under the su- 

 pervision of such representative and 

 elect ladies as Mrs. Frederick Rocke- 

 feller McCormick. of Chicago ; Mrs. 

 William Jennings Bryan, of Lincoln, 

 Nebr. ; Mrs. Claude A. Swanson, of 

 Richmond. Va., and Mrs. Robert M. La 

 Follette, of Madison, Wis. Pictures of 

 bright, promising children, for whom 

 homes are sought, adorn the pages of 

 this publication in each issue, while a 

 recent number enumerates, among 

 "Waifs Who Have Become Famous," 

 Henry M. Stanley, Catherine the Good, 

 Alexander Hamilton. Rosa Bonheur, 

 Edgar Allan Poe, and Rachel, the noted 

 actress. 



Rome is said to have fallen through 

 "failure in the crop of men." Such ef- 

 forts as this of the Delineator aid in 

 safeguarding America against such a 

 fate. 



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The Forestry Fight On in Denver 



TN DENVER, Colo., which notably 

 A since the convention of June i8 to 

 20, 1907, has been regarded as in some 

 measure the headquarters of the oppo- 

 sition to the National Forest policy, the 

 fight is again on in earnest. The Den- 

 ver Chamber of Commerce some time 

 ago passed a set of resolutions endors- 



