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financial policy has caused this prospect to disappear so utterly that 

 I now see no use in expecting it for ten years, and with it goes the 

 hope that this work can be done by the Association in the way I had 

 in mind. The other great criticism which I have had is practically 

 removed by the final adoption of the plank defining the policy on 

 national forestry. It is specifically that we can not hold our members 

 or even hope to survive at all on the mere basis of printing a good 

 magazine. The life blood of the Association is the principles for which 

 it stands, the cause for which it is working. If this is not abundantly 

 evident in the magazine, the members will drop out at such a rapid 

 rate that our efl:"orts to maintain our membership will absorb not only 

 our surplus, but Vv-ill cause an annual deficit. Please note this point 

 particularly in my analysis. I feel like congratulating Mr. Quincy on 

 his unselfish intentions, and Mr. Ridsdale upon the truly wonderful 

 progress which the magazine has made, but neither Mr. Quincy or Mr. 

 Ridsdale working alone, or permitted to work entirely on their own 

 lines, will make a financial success of this Association. That is why 

 I shall continue to strive for a true and full co-operation of a large 

 circle of board members, and for the adoption, not only of a different 

 and more aggressive policy for the magazine, but for more thoughtful 

 consideration of financial measures previous to their adoption. 

 Most sincerely, 



H. H. Ch.^pman, 

 Professor of Forest Management. 



The rapid decay of the authority and functions of the board which 

 began in 1917 and culminated on February 25, 1921, was attributed by 

 the President to the war, which served as a reason for omitting even 

 the annual business meeting in 1919, after the 1918 meeting had not 

 produced a quorum. But in 1920 the old custom of a big public 

 meeting with discussions of forestry topics was not revived — instead, 

 it was plannefl to hold only a routine business meeting in New York 

 for the election of officers, the results of which meeting have been 

 described. Again in 1921 at Washington the meeting was purely 

 routine in character. At both of these meetings a great many persons 

 appeared and voted for the President's ticket and program, who by 

 no stretch of the imagination could be regarded as members who had 

 joined the Association because of their interest in forestry. At the 

 New York meeting there were numbers of young men who voted 

 without removing their overcoats and promptly returned to their 

 various occupations. It has been mentioned before that practically 

 none of those who voted for the President's slate on this occasion 



