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Much the same happened in the West during the early days of National 

 Forest administration, and is doubtless now occurring in the more iso- 

 lated portions of the Appalachians ; but there is this difference in the 

 Philippines — the people are essentially easier to deal with, and the 

 establishment of effective control and of a fair degree of acquiescence 

 on the part of the inhabitants can be brought about more quickly and 

 more easily in the Philippines than is generally possible in America- 

 Friction and difficulties of various kinds occur, but with the exercise 

 of firmness, rigid justice, and tact on the part of director, chiefs of 

 divisions, and of the forest officers generally, and especially through 

 patient, unending explanations, in the simplest terms and using the 

 simplest analogies, a new and more satisfactory spirit is brought about 

 in a time surprisingly short when the intellectual level of the people 

 and their past history are taken into consideration. 



But it is by no means only the ignorant, illiterate laboring class int 

 the provinces who must be given a sympathetic understanding and ap- 

 preciation of the ideals and objects for which the Bureau of Forestry 

 stands. To the educated and governing class forestry means no more, 

 but no less, than it meant to the same class in America scarcely fifteen 

 years ago. Before the remarkably energetic and successful forestry 

 educational campaign was undertaken only a comparatively few years 

 ago by the Forest Service, how many graduates of American colleges 

 and universities, how many members of either House of Congress, had 

 a true and comprehensive, or rather even an elementary, idea of the 

 principles, methods, and objects of technical forestry? How often are 

 American foresters still confronted with that favorite question, "What 

 is forestry?" To the great body of the more intelligent citizens just 

 what does the term "forestry" still connote? To most it brings up a 

 vague idea of "something to do with the forests — how interesting!"" 

 To others it is a branch of agriculture, or of botany, or perhaps it may 

 mean some vague system of conservative lumbering. Since, then, for- 

 estry is still so imperfectly understood by the great body of educated' 

 Americans, who had opportunities for wide culture wholly denied to- 

 most Filipinos in the past, it is not surprising to find that a pro-forestry 

 campaign must be directed towards all classes, and not merely to the 

 simple and ignorant. 



Even now, if Filipino autonomy goes no further,^ the results of such 

 a campaign are essential to any real and permanent success in forestry. 

 The Assembly, or Lower House, of the Legislature is composed ex- 



' The article was written before the passage by Congress in August, 1916, of 

 the Jones Philippine Bill. 



