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be and however correct his poHcy, are severely hmited — the 

 merest fraction of what they can be made to be under more 

 favourable circumstances. I do not, I hope, underestimate the 

 difficulties ; I am convinced that I do not overestimate the 

 importance, especially here, where one of our greatest problems 

 is concerned with protection from fuel gatherers and from theft. 

 Without popular co-operation this difficulty, at least, seems 

 well-nigh unsurmountable. In the Philippines we had much 

 the same situation, although obviously on a very much smaller 

 scale ; and there it was necessary to reach the wild tribes of 

 certain mountain regions no less than the civilised Filipinos of 

 the plains; but the desired results were accomplished, and the 

 attitude of the great body of forest users and forest dwellers 

 was changed from active or passive resistance to at least passive 

 acceptance of the new conditions Among the practical and 

 almost immediate effects were a clearly appreciable increase 

 in the collection of just forest dues, a decrease in violations 

 (especially those due to ignorance), and a very notable change 

 for the better in the attitude of the Filipino Assembly. I feel, 

 therefore, that in emphasising the importance and practicability 

 of an active pro-forestry propaganda, I am not indulging in 

 mere hypothesis. The remarkable propaganda undertaken by 

 the United States Forest Service some years ago, and its even 

 more remarkable results, are well known to all foresters. 



Division of Education. 



The greatest, the most pressing need of the Chinese Forest 

 Service at the present time is an adequate and properly equipped 

 personnel; and as it is obviously impossible to secure the 

 desired number of men who have already been properly trained 

 both technically and in the school of practical experience, our 

 only recourse is to train for ourselves the men we need for the 

 secondary or ranger grades, or at least to have them trained 

 under our supervision in independent educational institutions. 

 It is not a task that can be left wholly or even largely to others. 

 'The permanent success of the Forest Service will largely depend 

 upon the training, and especially upon the attitude, which the 

 forestry students acquire during their studies, and hence their 

 education is of so vital importance to the cause of Chinese 

 forestry that it cannot be wholly entrusted to any other body, 

 even if there were an institution able and willing to give 



