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a S7. 734.90 from lire adjustment. 



b Loss. If an item of S+.874.10 for 1921 dues paid in advance, which has apparently been 

 credited in operating: income for 1920, is deducted, this operating loss for the year 1920 be- 

 comes 316,796.82. 



During the war, Charles Lathrop Pack raised and contributed large 

 sums to an advertising campaign in connection with war gardens, dis- 

 tributing millions of posters and literature bearing his name, and in 

 this work the Secretary of the American Forestry Association co- 

 operated, devoting a portion of his time, and receiving additional com- 

 pensation from Mr. Pack personally. After the war, Mr. Pack re- 

 tained this organization for publicity which he had built up, under Mr. 

 Edwards, his personal publicity agent, and turned its energies to secur- 

 ing publicity for forestry, his own name continuing to appear fre- 

 quently. To this end he expended, in 1919, the sum of $10,595. This 

 account was not handled by the American Forestry Association. 



In 1930, Mr. Pack consolidated this publicity work with the Ameri- 

 can Forestry Association, donating the money and placing the account 

 on the books. He contributed to the Association in this year, $19,- 

 689.09, of which $8,539.86 was spent in continuing this publicity, the 

 remainder to defray the cost of supplying new members with the maga- 

 zine for the first year. 



On December 31, 1919, the five-year contract with the Secretary 

 expired, and the subject of its renewal was not acted on by the Board, 

 nor was the question of compensation presented to or raised ^y the 

 Board members who attended the Directors' meeting on December 

 16, 1919, or on February -4, 1920, at which latter meeting Mr. Ridsdale 

 was re-appointed Secretary, nor at any previous or subsequent meeting 

 ■during these two years. The Secretary, however, received for 1920 

 his salary and commissions on the same terms as under the old con- 

 tract, which, it has since transpired, was renewed by the Finance Com- 



