EDITORIAL 



501 



help to make the coming meeting the filled with such suggestions from now 

 most memorable in the association's to the time of the annual meeting, 

 history. 



The plans contemplate the elimina- 

 tion of all dry. routine reports ; such 

 reports, it has been decided, are to be 

 submitted in printed form, and the time 

 of the meeting is to be given up wholly 

 to the actual, live work of the associa- 

 tion. It is the intention to have pres- 

 ent some of the ablest speakers on the 



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Another Form of Activity 



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PERSISTENTLY recurring sug- 

 gestion that comes to the office of 

 the Association in one form or another 

 from all parts of the country i^ that 



conservation problem, and to set be- we should enlarge our activities by 

 fore the country, in plain English un- adopting a new sort of educational 

 adorned with flowers of rhetoric, or un- work. The work suggested is that of 

 marred with long tabulations of what encouraging the organization of local 

 the Association has done in the past clubs for the study of forestry and the 

 year, exact statements of what is re- allied phases of the conservation move- 

 quired in the way of taking 

 care of our remaining natural 

 resources. It is the intention 

 to have graphic statements 

 from acknowledged experts, 

 of the exact conditions of the 

 Nation's natural resources, 

 and it is the aim of the Ex- 

 ecutive Committee to make 

 our coming annual meeting as 

 full of interest — not only to 

 our members, but to the coun- 

 try at large — as was the con- 

 ference at the White House 

 last May. 



It has been suggested that 

 the individual members of the 

 Association send to this office 

 suggestions as to what, in 

 their opinions, should be in- 

 cluded in the discussion at 

 the coming annual meeting. 

 These suggestions, it should be borne 

 in mind, should be brief and to 

 the point ; and it is hoped, from the 

 mass of suggestions, to work out a 

 profitable, as well as highly entertain- 

 ing, program. It is the belief of those 

 in control of the Association's affairs 

 that the members should be urged to 



USE OF A NATIONAL FOREST 

 Homestead Located in the Black Hills N, F,, South Dakota 



ment. While at the present time it 

 seems, for many reasons, impossible 

 for the Association to take up. actively, 

 the work suggested, it has seemed that 

 there is more than a small measure of 

 practical value in the idea. 



It is suggested that the Association's 



field of usefulness can be vastly en- 

 take a more active part in the work of larged by the adoption of some plan 

 the organization ; and it is thought that of this kind. Ours is a nation of club- 

 by following the plan suggested above, men and clubwomen ; not a village but 

 a more active interest can be aroused has its Browning or Shakespeare club, 

 and held. Suggestions along the lines and the interest in purely social organi- 

 here suggested will be gladly received, zations such as these would seem to in- 

 and this office hopes to find its mail well dicate a fertile field of usefulness for 



