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and popular articles, following the plan of the National Geographic 

 Magazine. The tremendous field of usefulness of the magazine for 

 furthering forestry was recognized by directors and foresters alike. 

 The latter, however, as a class, felt that popularity alone was not suf- 

 ficient, and that purpose and constructive policy were needed to justify 

 the magazine. During 1916 and 1917. up to October of that year, the 

 writer contributed anonymously practically all the editorials published 

 in the magazine. With his employment during the war as a member 

 of the U. S. Forest Service, he was forced to discontinue these contri- 

 butions and the editorial policy dwindled and in 1918 ceased altogether. 

 In the opinion of many foresters the magazine and association during 

 these years ceased to stand for any real forest policy. In 1918 the 

 practice of holding an annual meeting at which papers and discussions 

 of forestry topics were held, was permanently abandoned. The busi- 

 ness meeting advertised that year failed to draw a quorum, and in 

 1919 none was arranged for. 



A widespread dissatisfaction with the apparent lack of purpose and 

 policv of the Association found expression among foresters in the 

 summer of 1919, which led to a protest voiced first by Mr. Elwood 

 Wilson and Prof. J. W. Tourney at Boston in February and later, in 

 July, by the Association of Eastern Foresters, and an attempt by Direc- 

 tor Gaskill to arrange for closer co-operation wnth the foresters and 

 a new slate for directors, in co-operation with ^Ir. Pack. The entire 

 Board came up for re-election, owing to the holding over of officers 

 due to lapse of meetings for two previous years. But in arranging for 

 this meeting Mr. Pack made his own plans, selected his own nominat- 

 ing committee several weeks in advance of the meeting, and picked his 

 own slate for directors. 



When these facts became known, as they did. to some members of 

 the Association about two weeks before the meeting, they organized an 

 opposition ticket to prevent the Association from falling completely 

 and finally into the hands of Mr. Pack. Mr. Gaskill. who felt that 

 Mr. Pack should be re-elected and was unaware of his intended refusal 

 to consult the Board or the members as to directors, on the other hand 

 did not know of this opposition. He was elected a director on the 

 Pack slate but on March ?, 19?0, decided not to accept election, in 

 protest against the management of the Association. 



