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THE CREDIT OF STATES 



B^ D. E. Hulchins in "Australian Forestry." 



A state recklessly squandering its chief na- 

 tural asset, its forests, burning yearly hundreds 

 of thousands of pounds' worth of the most 

 valuable timber in Australia — its durable soft- 

 woods and blackwoods — (as Tasmania is now 

 doing) cannot, in the credit system of the 

 world, stand beside a state like Victoria that 

 is adopting modern methods of State Forestry 

 and conserving its forests. It is easy for a reck- 

 lessly governed state to disguise its sins for a 

 time. Visitors come to the towns and see 

 wonderful progress there; an unnatural and 

 forced development, if you will. They are 

 shown picked bits of prosperous rural districts, 

 but there is something behind this, and sooner 

 or later the other side of the picture gets known. 



BELGIUM AND FORESTRY. 



Belgium and England are the two most 

 densely populated European states. The Bel- 

 gian Government, before the war, had a Forest 

 Department of 750 men, and provided winter 

 employment for 32,000 men. 



JAPAN'S GREAT EXPENDITURES. 



Japan spent 250,000 pounds sterling (say 

 1 ,000,000 pounds on the Canadian wage scale) 

 yearly for many years when the wild forests 

 were being put in order. 



STANDING BY THE FORESTRY CAUSE 



There are in the membership of the Canadian 

 Forestry Association thousands of forward-look- 

 ing Canadians who are eager to assume their full 

 obligation to the future of Canada. They re- 

 gard their membership as a working force in 

 good citizenship and are eager to keep it in 

 effective condition. 



Not content to have their annual fee cover 

 only the cost of printing the Forestry Journal, 

 many of them have chosen to accept a "Con- 

 tributing Membership" costing five dollars. This 

 provides the Association with funds for its 

 national educational enterprises. 



Our lecturers, motion picture films, lantern 

 slides, railway demonstration car, travelling 

 lecture sets, hundreds of thousands of educative 

 issues, our campaigns with governments, etc., are 

 wholly in the national interest and require a con- 

 stant supply of money. Every dollar is spent 

 with maximum economy, the Association secur- 

 ing thousands of dollars worth of free and valu- 

 able co-operation month after month. 



On February 15th a number of our members 

 were asked to take a Contributing Membership 

 at five dollars. By March 11th (the day of 

 going to press) the following had gladly re- 

 sponded to our proposal; the list will probably 

 be doubled by the April issue of the Journal: 

 Sir James Aikins John D. Flavelle 



F. H. Anson Thomas Fynes 



Joseph Allison Mrs. R. C. Fisher 



W. B. W. Armstrong E. J. Freyseng 



Mark Bredin 

 A. W. Boswell 

 John Beattie 



Fassett Lumber Co. 

 Thomas Flynn 

 A. B. Gordon 



Walter A. Black 

 P. Burns 



Hon. J. P. Burchill 

 H. L. Bradbery 

 E. R. Bremner 

 Baird and Peters 

 John A. Bain 

 O. B. Brown 

 W. G. M. Byers 

 Thee. A. Burrows 

 J. B. Beveridge 

 Canadian Land and 



Immigration Co. 

 R. J. I Christie 

 J. H. Connor & Son. 

 Geo. A. Campbell 

 W. G. Clarke 

 Alfred Collyer 

 Hugh J. Chisholm 

 A. E. Cross 

 H. N. Chauvin 

 E. M. Dechene 

 G. Durnford 

 Henry Detchon 

 R. J. Dale 

 W. M. Dobell 

 Edward L. Drewry 

 H. A. Downs 

 Joe M. Dalton 

 A. L. Eastcott 

 Edward Hines Lumber 



Co. 

 C. E. Edmonds 

 Eddy Brothers & Co. 

 Hon. Sydney Fisher 

 Finch, Pruyn Lumber 



Co. 



J. N. Greenshields, K.C. 



John H. Garth 



Sir Charles Gordon 



J. L. Goodhue & Co., 



Limited 

 Rob'. F- Grppf. 

 C. S. Gzowski 

 Peleg Howland 

 J. W. Harkom 

 A. C. Hardy 

 Grant Hali 



C. H. Johnson & Sons, 

 Limited 



A. Jephcott 

 Keenan Bros., Ltd. 

 Keewatin Lumber Co, 

 Louison Lumber Co. 

 Col. T. G. Loggie 

 Jose A. Machado 

 Prof. Iva E. Martin 

 A. D. MacTier 



E. W. Mudge 

 Montgomery & Sons Co. 

 R. A. Mclnnes 



F. W. Molson 



D. McLeod 



Sir W. R. Meredith 

 Paul G. Owen 

 Albert F. Park 

 Hon. S. N. Parent 

 T. M. Partridge Lum- 

 ber CO. 

 Sir William Price 

 John Penman 

 P. D. Ross 

 Rideau Lumber Co. 



