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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



S. Graves, District of Columbia, Chief of the Forest 

 Service ; Everitt G. Griggs, Washington ; Hon. David 

 Houston, Secretary of Agriculture; Hon. Franklin K. 

 Lane, Secretary of the Interior; Hon. Asbury F. Lever, 

 South Carolina, United States Representative; Hon. 

 Thomas Nelson Page, Ambassador to Italy; Gifford 

 Pinchot, Pennsylvania; Filibert Roth, Michigan, Dean 

 of Forestry, University of Alichigan; Dr. J. T. Roth- 

 rock, Pennsylvania; Mrs. William D. Sherman, Illinois, 

 Chairman Conservation Department, National Federa- 

 tion of Women's Clubs, Illinois; Hon. Wm. H. Taft, 

 Connecticut, Ex-President United States ; Joseph N. 

 Teal, Oregon, Chairman Oregon Conservation Commis- 

 sion ; Theodore N. Vail, President American Telephone 

 and Telegraph Company, New York; Hon. John W. 

 Weeks, Massachusetts, United States Senator; Dr. Rob- 

 ert S. Woodward, Washington, D. C, President Carnegie 

 Institution. 



Treasurer, John E. Jenks, Washington, D. C, Editor, 

 Army and Navy Register. 



Directors for three years, John S. Ames, Massachu- 

 setts; E. T. Allen, Oregon, Forester, Western Forestry 

 and Conservation Association ; Hon. Robert P. Bass, New 

 Hampshire, ex-Governor of New Hampshire ; Herman 

 H. Chapman, Connecticut, Professor of Forestry, Yale 

 Forest School ; Dr. Henry S. Drinker, Pennsylvania, 

 President Lehigh University ; J. E. Rhodes, Louisiana, 

 Secretary Southern Pine Association. 



THE JOINT FORESTRY DINNER 



In the evening was given the joint forestry dinner 

 under the auspices of the American Forestry Associa- 

 tion, the Massachusetts Forestry Association, and vari- 

 ous co-operating forestry and conservation organizations 

 of New England. Harold Parker, chairman of the 

 Massachusetts State Forest Commission, was the toast- 

 master, in the absence of Mr. Nathaniel Kidder, president 

 of the Massachusetts Forestry Association, who was ill. 

 The speakers were Governor Samuel W. McCall, of 

 Massachusetts ; Dr. Charles W. Eliot, President Emeritus 

 of Harvard University ; President Charles Lathrop Pack, 

 of the American Forestry Association; William S. Whit- 

 ney, president of the Emerson Paper Company, of New 

 Hampshire; and W. B. Greeley, assistant United States 

 Forester. 



Governor Samuel W. McCall, who was received with 

 a round of cheers, began his address by alluding face- 

 tiously to the large demands on his time as Governor, 

 saying that he had to be in so many places that it some- 

 times seemed as if he were spread out very thin. 



"But I say that," proceeded the Governor, "not because 

 I do not thoroughly enjoy coming here. You are mem- 

 bers of an organization that represents one of the great 

 causes that are before the American people today. When 

 I was in the House of Representatives at Washington 

 I took great interest in this movement for conservation. 

 This country is in very much need of conservation. As 

 applied to material resources conservation is a good deal 



like conservatism in the field of the moral and intellectual 

 forces. It is to hold on to what is good, preserve that, 

 and go on from that and get something more by and by. 



"The problem of the American people in the past 

 twenty-five years has been to get rid of its forests. I 

 remember that as a boy I saw any number of splendid 

 trees cut down just to be burnt up and get the land 

 cleared. But we have entered upon a new era. We are 

 now developing the soil to cultivate it, and we have 

 b.ardly enough soil left on which to have forests. So 

 we are considering the problem of conserving our 

 forests. 



"I believe that our water power should be better uti- 

 lized, but under conditions which would prevent it from 

 getting into the hands of a few men and become subject 

 to monopoly. 



"Conservation with regard to forests means utilizing 

 the forests, getting crops from them, utilizing the land 

 to get other crops, for that is true conservation. 



"I am very glad you are discussing the possibilities of 

 Massachusetts in the way of raising forests. We have 

 perhaps more than a million acres running to waste that 

 might be devoted to the cultivation of forests. That 

 problem concerns the vital prosperity and afifects the total 

 well-being of the country. The cause you represent here 

 today is one that deeply concerns the Commonwealth of 

 Massachusetts. It is one upon which we should have 

 beneficial legislation, and beneath the legislation there 

 should be a public sentiment created by bodies like this, 

 such as will help on the cause." 



THE SECOND DAY 



President Charles Lathrop Pack presided at the second 

 day's session, at which some three hundred were present. 

 A paper by E. A. Sterling, manager of the Trade Exten- 

 sion Department of the National Lumber Manufacturers' 

 Association, of Chicago, on "Forestry and Lumbering," 

 was. in his absence, read by Secretary Percival S. Rids- 

 dale. W. B. Greeley, assistant United States Forester, 

 spoke on the "National Forestry Situation;" William W. 

 Colton, Forest Commissioner of West Newton, Mass., 

 had a paper on "City Forestry and Its Future," and H. 

 H. Chapman, professor of forestry at the Yale Forest 

 School, spoke earnestly on "State Forestry Organization 

 and Problems." 



At the afternoon session there were addresses by 

 Prof. J. W. Tourney, Director of the Yale Forest School, 

 on "Communal Forests;" by E. C. Hirst, State Forester 

 of New Hampshire, on "State Fire Protection Work," 

 and by Dr. H. T. Fernald, the Massachusetts State Nur- 

 sery Inspector, on the "White Pine Blister Rust Menace." 



These papers were followed by instructive discussions, 

 in which a number of the members joined, the result 

 being a most profitable presentation of ideas on the vari- 

 ous subjects. 



(Note. — Abstracts of papers read at the meeting will 

 be found in this or succeeding issues of American 

 Forestry. — Editor. 



