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the Association in helping to formulate its forest policies and combat- 

 ing Dr. Drinker's efforts to nullify or neutralize them. Mr. Sterling 

 has, through his connections with lumbering and lumbermen, steadily 

 become more skeptical and pessimistic regarding the real possibilities 

 of establishing a practical forest policy in America. To the writer he 

 remarked several years ago, "Forestry — there ain't no sech animile." 

 Without a fundamental belief in the possibilities of forestry it is a 

 question how far he would now go in supporting vigorous measures 

 for the establishment of an adequate forest policy. For the past five 

 years he has co-operated closely with the Secretary, Mn Quincy, and 

 Mr. Pack, and actively aided in securing the re-election of the Pack 

 ticket at New York in January, 1920. But Sterling went so far, at 

 Washington on February 25, as to register his disapproval of the meth- 

 ods by which the autocratic control of the Association was vested in 

 seven directors, by voting for the submission of the question of ref- 

 erendum to the members against the expressed desire of the President. 



He was elected as a life director. 

 . Charles F. Quincy is a dealer in railroad specialties in New York. 

 He has never interested himself especially in matters of forest -policy, 

 does not pretend to understand them and is frankly interested only in 

 the success of the Association as a commercial enterprise. His interest 

 in forestry is genuine and he believes in the Association's possibilities 

 as an agent for effecting publicity and popular education. He is espe- 

 cially desirous of preventing the Association from falling into the hands 

 of any special interest and was found to be coldly unreceptive to certain 

 advances which were made several years ago through an agent of cer- 

 tain large interests to secure publicity through American Forestry. Mr. 

 Quincy regards all propaganda or legislative activity as dangerous for 

 the Association to meddle with. Efforts to secure non-political State 

 forestry organizations are regarded by him as meddling in politics. His 

 neutrality in these matters reinforced Dr. Drinker's efforts, and with 

 Mr. Lyman prevented for three years the remaining twelve members 

 of the Board from getting a final expression of their views on the 

 National Forest question. 



Mr. Quincy's great failing is a belief that the financial management 

 of the Association is not the business of the Board of Directors but 

 should be conducted solely by the Finance Committee of which he is 

 chairman, with the President's co-operation. He is responsible with 



