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has been evolved any settled national policy of cutting or forestation 

 upon them worthy of name," and at a recent Board meeting (December 

 10, 1920) to reiterate his belief in the doctrine of quid pro quo as 

 against that of exercise of police power of the State, and his uncertain- 

 ty as to how far and how judiciously Col. Greeley would exercise the 

 very limited powers given to the P'orester under the terms of the Snell 

 Bill. He also produced some figures showing that the cost of burning 

 spruce brush was 60 per cent as great as that of logging the timber. 

 Mr. Brown may of course be right in his contentions. My purpose is 

 to indicate his general attitude toward the national forest policy. He 

 is now a life director of the Association. It was Mr. Brown who pro- 

 posed the substitute plan by which only seven of the fifteen directors 

 be elected for life tenure, instead of, as proposed by Mr. Pack, having 

 all fifteen elected for life. ^Ir. Brown favored this plan not only for 

 its financial stability but because he held that the Association existed 

 primarily for scientific and educational purposes, which required this 

 kind of an organization, and distinctly not, primarily, for the purpose 

 of agitation for a forest policy. 



Chester IV. Lyman is Vice-President of the International l^aper 

 Company, probably the largest owner of forest lands in New England, 

 with holdings in Canada. His company is actively engaged in logging 

 spruce and other timber and is directly and vitally interested in any 

 legislation affecting the management of these timberlands. Mr. Lyman 

 has been extremelv non-committal as to policy, and has never actively 

 supported or upheld the National Forests or public measures, prefer- 

 ring the theory that forestry is best practiced by private owners without 

 interference. Had he and Mr. Quincy as members of the Executive 

 Committee displayed a better grasp of the need for supporting National 

 Forests, it would not have taken three years to get this question by the 

 Execeutive Committee and decided by the Board, during Dr. Drinker's 

 presidency. Mr. Lyman apparently was not hostile to the National 

 Forests, but neither was he enthusiastic about them, and the responsi- 

 bility for this prolonged vacillation on the fundamental issue of National 

 Forests, after that issue had been won and settled in the minds of the 

 public except for a few reactionaries, must be laid to Mr. Lyman's and 

 Mr. Ouincy's support of Dr. Drinker's contentions. 



Mr. Lyman is now a life director of the Association. 



Heiirv Stiirgis Drinker. In Part I the position which Dr. Drinker 

 took with reference to a policy of continuing our support for National 



