SOCIETY AFFAIRS 



Kkllogg Protests 



The referendum on the report of the Committee for the Application 

 of Forestry seems to have left matters very much up in the air not- 

 withstanding a widely distrihuted statement by an eminent authority 

 to the effect that the Society "voted three to two in favor of national 

 control." 



An analysis of the statement of the Canvassing Committee pub- 

 lished in the October Journal, compared with the membership roll of 

 the Society, yields the following results : 



This shows that but 23 per cent of the total voting membership 

 of the Society voted "yes" on Clause No. 7 ; that 15 per cent voted 

 "no" and that for a wide variety of reasons, some of which are stated 

 by the Canvassing Committee, ()2 per cent of the Society membership 

 either failed to vote on the proposal as submitted, or their votes were 

 not counted. 



The Canvassing Committee reports that only 21 unqualified affirma- 

 tive Votes were cast in the referendum. It would appear therefore 

 that l)ut l.'l ])er cent of the 166 voting members gave straight affirmative 

 ballots. Moreover, the members so voting represented but 5 per 

 cent of the voting membership of the Society, and the others who 

 voted in the referendum accompanied their ballots by qualifications, 

 explanations, and interpretations, upon whicii the Canvassing Com- 

 mittee was obliged to place its own construction, in order to determine 

 whether the votes should be put in the "yes" or "no" column. 



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