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A clear realization of the difficulties to be met is essential to the suc- 

 cess of this, as of most other projects. That these difficulties are great 

 cannot be denied, but the problems they involve are not incapable of 

 solution. They are being met, successfully I hope, for it was felt that 

 the work would be sure to bring about a clearer and more sympathetic 

 understanding between forest administrator and forest user, not only 

 in showing definite results in decreasing the number of forest infrac- 

 tions and in increasing just collections of forest revenue, but also in 

 bearing a reflection in the attitude and policies of the legislature. 

 Events have fully justified this optimism. 



The simplest and most direct method of conducting such a propa- 

 g-anda is, of course, through the newspapers and other periodicals, and 

 these are being used by the Bureau to the full extent permitted by their 

 very strictly defined limits. While the audience thus gained is small 

 in proportion to the entire population, it represents a very important 

 fraction — the members of the assembly, the various officials, insular, 

 provincial, and municipal, and the better educated and more influential 

 class of private persons generally throughout the archipelago. It was 

 realized that spasmodic efforts result in little or no real good, and that 

 constant reiteration is the only thing that counts, and throughout the 

 entire history of the Bureau the public press was used to the full ex- 

 tent permitted by the very inadequate funds and personnel with which 

 the Bureau was forced to work. Later, when it became possible to 

 undertake a systematic propaganda, it included an effort to have a 

 reference, however short, to some phase of the Bureau's activities ap- 

 pear in every issue of every periodical ; and although this ideal was at 

 first, and still is, far beyond the means at our disposal, the best possible 

 under the circumstances is being done. Most of the Filipino papers 

 contain two editions — the principal one in Spanish and the second in 

 the local dialect. Early in T915 an appropriation was secured for the 

 employment of an expert translator, who is thoroughly competent to 

 handle Spanish and Tagalog, and as the various employees in the 

 Manila office of the Bureau represent most, if not all, of the principal 

 dialects, no great difficulty was encountered in translations. One of 

 the most widely read and influential of the Filipino papers is "El 

 Ideal," published in IManiia, in Spanish and Tagalog, and the official 

 organ of the Nacionalista party — the party which has a large majority 

 in the legislature and other political circles. Here was published 

 serially, in weekly installments, an adaptation and translation of 

 Treadwell Cleveland's admirable circular on "What Forestry Has 

 Done," under the more clumsy Spanish title of "Los Resultados Prac- 



