THE APPALACHIAN NATIONAL FOREST 



ASSOCIATION 



HAVING just made arrangements essary, and with more time for plan- 



with Conservation whereby this ning, can, we beheve, do better and 



magazine becomes the official or- more effective work for the forests — 



gan of the association, giving us cer- work that must be done in both the 



tain news space each month, it is with . Nation's Congress and in the several 



pleasure and gratification that the an- states if forest perpetuation becomes a 



nouncement is thus somewhat inform- reality. 



ally made, of the renewal of the Forest The selection of Mr. Tompkins 



Fight by the Appalachian National means a great deal to us. Xo man is 



Forest Association. better or more favorably known in 



This will be of itself cheering news the whole South. He is not only prom- 



to our earnest and loyal membership inently identified with vast and success- 



throughout the South, but, coupled ful commercial enterprises, but he is a 



with the recent election of Hon. D. A. promoter of them and of the real in- 



Tompkins, of Charlotte, N. C, as our terests of the South, in the truest and 



new president ; with the removal of best sense of the term, 



our headquarters to Washington, the He is a close student of men and 



real seat of war ; with the present affairs, a man of earnest and deep 



ability of Mr. Finney to retain his con- thought on economic questions, a far- 



nection as secretary and treasurer, it sighted patriot who does not know 



must bring to us some idea of the hard what failure means, 



work that lies before us, but bring, at His letter accepting the presidency 



the same time, some vision of the sue- and outlining the future work of the 



cess and the value of the work that association, is a clarion call to a duty, 



must in time crown our patriotic and which, as he puts it, "cannot be evaded" 



unselfish efforts. by the patriotic men and women of the 



Our association is a purely voluntary South, 



one, organized last December in At- The plan of campaign proposed by 



lanta, for the purpose of awakening the association covers the strengthen- 



the South to the importance of forest ing of our state organization in each of 



perpetuation, and exerting southern the Southern States, and the extension 



influences toward the support of legis- of the same into all the Eastern States 



lation for the Southern Appalachian- of the Union. Then we plan to get 



White Mountain bills, then pending in through a vigorous lecture campaign. 



Congress." Its work of education and a large and active membership of three 



publicity in all the Southern States has classes : 



been of large importance to the forest First. — From the already organized 



cause, and has called forth the approval public and semi-public organizations 



of press and people in a remarkable now in each city, such as chambers of 



way. ' commerce, civic leagues, women's 



Our organization, hastily made as it clubs, mercantile associations, and 



was, capable of doing such work as clubs, etc., our hope being that these 



was accomplished by it, cannot be al- can be induced to become members of 



lowed to lapse, so we have girded our our association in a body, thus helping 



loins for the new campaign that is nee- to support our public work ; but more 

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