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Canadian Forestry Journal, Janiiar]), 1919 



The Canadian Forestry Journal is usually 

 liked by outdoors people. You can send it to a 

 friend for an entire year for a dollar hill. 



Ontario employed more than 1000 rangers in 

 1918 at a cost of about $500,000. Ontario has 

 seventy million acres of forest land to guard 

 against waste by fire. 



Canada has the third largest forest supply in 

 the world, Russia ranking first and the United 

 States second. 



THE EASY ROAD. 



Some people like the prairie state 



Without a hump or hollow. 

 With just a highway long an' straight 



Across the world to follow. 

 With never not a hill to climb 



Nor timber go a'trailin' — 

 With never nothin' all the time 



But plain an' easy sailin.' 



Up here the country's rather rough. 



The roads are few an' narrow; 

 A man has got to be as tough 



An' nimble as a sparrow. 

 There's rocks an' stones along the way 



An' rivers to git over; 

 You see more thistles ev'ry day 



Than ever any clover. 



The roads of life are like the roads 



Of earth, the way they vary; 

 An' some of us have got the loads. 



An' some have none to carry. 

 Some thorofares are tempest-torn 



An' others built of gravel — 

 For some to rocky roads are born. 



An' some the smooth to travel. 



The prairie road is level, wide. 



An' mighty easy goin'. 

 With painted signs on either side. 



An' roses by it growin'. 

 The prairie highway hain't a tree 



Or rock your courage testin'; 

 An easy highway it must be — 



An' darned uninterestin'. 



Douglas Malloch, 

 the "Lumberman's Poet. 



The Canadian Forestry Association is a union 

 of progressive Canadians concerned in the pre- 

 servation and proper utilization of the forest 

 resources. The motive of national welfare pre- 

 dominates inasmuch as an overwhelming ma- 

 jority of the membership has not a penny of 

 selfish interest in timber limits or wood-using 

 industries. Conservation, as this Association 

 has frequently emphasized, is Community Busi- 

 ness. He who pretends to an interest in social 

 advancement cannot well consent to the under- 

 mining of the material foundations beneath our 

 national existence. 



There are now 8000 Canadians within the 

 membership of this Association. A clear addi- 

 tion of two thousand was obtained in 1918, 

 largely through the loyalty of those who sought 

 out recruits in their own neighborhoods. 



Considering the hampering influences of war, 

 the Association is making progress. The advance 

 from 2900 members in 1914 to 8000 members 

 in 1918 surely promises a splendid increase m 

 days when the public mind is unclouded by the 

 horrors of battle. 



This month each member will receive two 

 missives, one summing up what we have 

 achieved in 1918, another giving the members a 

 better perspective of their personal responsibility 

 and privilege in a national cause which can be 

 fought by the masses of people and by them 

 alone. 



Read both of these documents. They are 

 brief and becomingly illustrated. 



Then when the Association s memorandum of 

 the dollar fee comes along (covering subscrip- 

 tion to the Journal as well), you will probably 

 feel fully content to stand by us through 1919. 



Notice the improvement in this issue of the 

 Forestry Journal — fine paper, fine illustrations, 

 better articles. This will be improved upon 

 exactly as the members manifest their loyalty by 

 prompt payment of the small annual fee. 



Our advertising revenue does not meet one- 

 eighth of the cost of issuing this Journal. Our 

 paper bill alone is more than $2200 annually, 

 and when the price of engravnigs, printing, etc., 

 is added to that, it will be found that the dollar 

 fee does very little more than pay the cost of 

 mechanical production. 



