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Mr. Pack for the policy of suppressing the auditor's statements and 

 withholding these facts from the Board, and for the re-employment 

 of the Secretary for 1920 without permitting the Board to determine 

 the terms of his compensation, a principle about which Director Pratt 

 stated on February 21, 1921, "His compensation is a matter which the 

 Board of Directors should certainly fix." He is responsible for the 

 policy, adopted in January, 1915, of adopting a five-year contract with 

 the Secretary whose terms were not revealed to the Board, and later, 

 in 1916, for suppressing the recommendations of a committee con- 

 sisting of Chapman and Ridsdale for modifying the terms of this con- 

 tract to read more favorably to the Association. His theory of a 

 Board, where finances are considered, is that of dummy directors, and 

 it has been found practically impossible for any Board member not 

 on the finance committee, to obtain the requisite information from him 

 or from the Secretary, on which to base his knowledge of the afifairs 

 of the Association. Mr. Quincy was elected a life director. 



The writer was elected as the seventh life director. 



Of the other eight directors of whom five were elected on February 

 25, J- B. White is a well known lumberman of Kansas City, Mo., who 

 has been very much interested in forest conservation everywhere except 

 on his own operations, where it is unfortunately impossible owing to 

 a number of good economic reasons. Nelson C. Brown is a forester, 

 employed by the American Wood Export Association of New York, 

 who has expressed himself both before and since the last election as 

 strongly sympathetic with the policies and methods of the above six life 

 directors. 



William B. Greeley, chief of the U. S. Forest Service, formerly a 

 Director, resigned on March 5, 1921, as a protest against the methods 

 employed at the election, and requested his letter of resignation to be 

 published in American Forestry.'' 



Standish Chard and Addison S. Pratt are lawyers in New York City, 

 who do not pretend to understand forest policies and were both strongly 

 in favor of the autocratic control of the Association, viewing it as a 

 business corporation solely. 



Emerson McMillin is a New York banker, who never attended a 

 Board meeting, but who did protest against the plan of reorganization 

 as undemocratic. 



- In place of publishing this protest of Col. Greeley's, the April number of 

 American Forestry ran an article on Alaska by him. which was contributed 

 before the annual meeting. 



