AND HER FORESTS 



live business principles, backed up by modern 

 financing. If, as Americans, we can build a 

 Panama Canal, a Roosevelt Dam to irrigate 

 the desert, and spend uncounted billions to 

 better the world's conditions, surely the rais- 

 ing of funds sufficient to finance an undertak- 

 ing bound to solve the future successful exist- 

 ence of a country whose traditions are dear to 

 us is nothing for Americans to undertake. 



It matters not, either, whether the individ- 

 ual or the State does the work. The main 

 thing is to get it done. Private forestry needs 

 to be greatly encouraged, but it is believed that 

 the State and Nation should shoulder the 

 undertaking. Where would the Allies have 

 turned had not France, to the credit of her 

 statesmen and people, in earlier time begun 

 the practice of forestry? 



We need in New England to begin not to- 

 morrow, but today, while we still have some 

 remnants to tide us over the lean period, to go 

 to work on a tremendous scale to recoup our 

 birthright. It takes time to grow a forest, but 

 we have the possibilities in millions of acres of 

 idle lands that will work for us day and night, 

 winter and summer, constantly solving the 

 basal economic problem of the future of our 

 Pilgrim lands, if only we do our duty by them. 



It is the time for all men of affairs through- 

 out New England to give this subject con- 

 structive thought. The future of New Eng- 

 land Forestry will be what we of today make 

 it in guiding its destiny. 



State House, Boston, Mass. 

 Sept. 15, 1919. 



