766 JOURNAL OF FORESTRY 



To sum up the whole matter, it is evident that a very small minority 

 of the Society of American Foresters has declared in favor of direct 

 national control of the lumber industry. 



R. S. Kellogg. 



Olmstfd Replies 



The light vote of the Society was referred to in an editorial on 

 page 658 of the October Journal, in which it was mentioned that 

 former votes of the Society had always been light, averaging between 



40 and 50 per cent of the total membership. Mr. Kellogg shows that 

 the vote on Clause No. 7, relating to national control, represented 38 

 per cent of the total membership. 



It might be stated also that the vote was obtained in spite of a lively 

 campaign in several of the Sections carried on for the purpose of 

 persuading members not to vote. 



As for the 21 straight affirmative ballots, it was a decided surprise 

 to the Committee for the Application of Forestry that 31 men thought 

 best to approve the report as a whole. Several members of the Com- 

 mittee did not do so. 



A President of the Society is none the less President because he 

 is elected by a minority of the total membership (39 per cent in 1918, 



41 per cent in 1919). The vote on Clause No. 7 expressed the opinion 

 of the Society on the question of national control so far as the ballot 

 was able to bring it out. Have we any better indication of the feeling 

 in this respect ? The statement that the Society "voted three to two in 

 favor of national control" is merely a statement of fact. 



F. E. Olmsted. 



Preliminary Announcement of the New York Meeting 



The twenty-first annual meeting of the Society of American Forest- 

 ers, under the direction of the President, Prof. R. C. Bryant, will be 

 held in New York City on Monday, December 20, 1920, at the Yale 

 Club. The morning session will open at 9.30 and close at 1 o'clock. 

 The afternoon session will run from 2.30 to 5.30. In the evening there 

 will probably be arranged a Round Table conference either in the 

 form of a dinner or smoker. The program will consist of the annual 

 reports of the officers of the Society, announcement of the vote, other 

 business matters, and the presentation of papers. The members of 

 the Society were invited, through the Secretaries of their Sections, to 

 submit titles of the papers to be read at the annual meeting. Titles of 

 papers, together with a statement of the time needed for their presenta- 

 tion, should be submitted to any member of the Committee on Arrange- 

 ments — Paul D. Kelleter, Forest Service, Washington, D. C. ; R. C. 

 Hawley, Yale Forest School. New Haven, Conn. ; or J. S. Illick, De- 

 partment of Forestry. Harrisburg, Pa. The titles must be received 

 by December 1 to enable the printing and mailing of the final program. 



