488 Forestry Quarterly. 



can justify private capital in engaging in forestry as a business. 

 The need of the country at large to husband its resources, to pro- 

 tect itse/f against damage by waste, and against ruination of 

 fertile areas, that need will never be met by private enterprise ; 

 it is the function of the State. Nor should it be overlooked that 

 the people will have to pay for this insurance of the future, reap- 

 ing the benefits in the long run. 



We regret to anounce that on November 20th, the well-known 

 editor of the American Lumberman, Mr. J. E. Defebaugh, suc- 

 cumbed to the attacks of a malignant cancer. Mr. Defebaugh was 

 a selfmade man of high ambitions, who exerted himself in later 

 years on behalf of forestry, giving considerable space and personal 

 discussion in his journal to the subject, thereby becoming an im- 

 portant factor in advancing forestry interests among lumbermen. 

 He was also the author of a voluminous History of the Lumbering 

 Industry in United States and in Canada, of which two volumes 

 have appeared. 



Born in Williamsburg, Pennsylvania, on March 28th, 1854, he 

 learned the printer's trade. In 1877 came to Chicago and became 

 a correspondent of trade journals. In 1885 he established The 

 Timberman, in competition of the North Western Lumberman, 

 with which in 1899, a consolidation was effected under the name 

 of the American Lumberman. Of this enterprise he became, in 

 1906, the sole owner. In him the forestry interests lose a staunch 

 and sane friend. 



