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"The only reason the average citizen does not real- 

 ize the importance of forestry and does not give it the u re- 

 active and intelligent interest that he gives hie home town 

 problems is that he can not see it so clearly. The very im- 

 mensity and importance of the lumber industry causes Its sev- 

 eral processes of growing, manufacturing, and distributing to 

 b^ conducted separately, and this confuses th.., public rnlnd. 

 Different communities see different parts of the whole process, 

 but get no thorough grasp of forest economics* 



"In many a little German village the whole community 

 sees the forest grown, cut, manufactured, and used* Those who 

 do not actually participate serve or supply those v/ho do. 

 Their forestry ne.-ds no propaganda. The people could not 

 understand the need for it any more than of propaganda for 



raising wheat and rial: ing bread. 



/ 

 "'7e talk too much about forests as though they were 



an end in themselves,. TVe might just as well talk only of lai.d 

 when trying to improve: agricultural conda tions , or of water 

 when urging the protection and propagation of food fishes. The 

 average- citizen must be brought to consider all forest produc- 

 tion and all forest use as little or no different from the pro- 

 duction and use of any necessary crop, obviously to be encour- 

 aged ? u nd stabilized on a permanent basis profitable to all con- 

 cerned. \7hv- thr he is a private citizen or a lav maker serving 



