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impression to the students of each succeeding class. Such 

 work can generally be easily arranged, and can be carried 

 on at but slight expense. 



We will also take steps to interest all schools — public, private, 

 and missionary — in forestry, and induce them to include some- 

 thing about forestry in their course of study, not with the idea 

 of training up foresters or forest employees of any kind, but 

 merely to impress upon the general student-body what forestry 

 is, what it means to the country, and what the Central Govern- 

 ment is doing to foster it. This I regard as very important. 

 If we neglect it we are throwing away an opportunity of great 

 possibilities. We hope that an elementary or primary text-book 

 on forestry may be prepared, popularly written and attractively 

 illustrated, printed at the Government's expense (in large, cheap 

 editions), and sent gratis or at cost price to all the schools. 

 Opportunity will frequently be made for the higher officials of 

 the Forest Service to address the student-bodies of the various 

 universities, learned societies, etc. All these activities are 

 perfectly feasible and practicable, and the resulting benefits are 

 sure, provided that there is an adequate personnel for carrying 

 them on. 



Informal talks will be given before the poorer and more 

 ignorant people of the towns and villages by the various 

 travelling members of the Forest Service, by the provincial 

 forest commissioners and their assistants, and by influential men 

 of the locality who may become sufficiently interested in our 

 work. The tea-shops present an excellent location for such 

 talks, or else the local officials can arrange places for larger 

 and more formal meetings. In such talks the audience should 

 be encouraged to ask questions and, in other ways, to take an 

 active interest in what is being said. Such informal meetings, 

 or "talks" (in fact all the methods here mentioned), have 

 proved surprisingly popular and effective in the Philippines, 

 and I see no reason to suppose that they will not meet with 

 proportionate success here. 



No matter how strongly and firmly the forest policy may be 

 upheld and enforced by the Central Government (and this 

 applies to other countries as well as to China), it can be made 

 really effective in the highest sense only with the co-operation 

 of the people ; without such popular sympathy and support 

 the forester's opportunities for good, however skilful he may 



