Canadian Forcstr'^ Journal, February, 1920 



prairie provinces, and other enterprises invoiving 

 open agitation have well illustrated the potency 

 of our educational propaganda, when focused 

 upon special objects. 



FOREST PROTECTION PROPAGANDA. 



Educational work aimed at enlisting public co- 

 operation in forest fire prevention was carried 

 forward to the limit of the Association's purse. 

 The Secretary gave a total of 40 lectures, with 

 motion pictures, encountering large audiences 

 whether in New Brunswick or the western pro- 

 vinces. A western series of meetings in October 

 gained public support quite unprecedented in 

 the Secretary's experience, large business organ- 

 izations taking the meetings in charge and as- 

 suring excellent attendance. Newspaper co- 

 operation in the Association's objects is every- 

 where unstinted and has proved of high value. 

 In the western field particularly. Universities, 

 Canadian Clubs, Rotary Clubs, and Normal 

 schools provided the Association with many 

 more invitations for addresses than could be 

 filled'. The attitude of prairie province business 

 men towards conservation of their provincial 

 forests and the development of tree planting in 

 the southern areas has materially changed dur- 

 ing the war period and constitutes a rich field 

 for educational cultivation. 



Mr. A. H. Beaubien was again engaged by 

 the Association for French lectures in Quebec 

 and covered 20 communities with almost un- 

 varied success. Quantities of French literature 

 and good motion pictures accompanied him. 



By courtesy of the Dominion Forestry Branch, 

 Mr. James R. Dickson was secured by us for a 

 tour of Northern Ontario in charge of our Ex- 

 hibition Car. Mr. Dickson spent three weeks 

 in our service, together with a motion picture 

 operator, visiting about twenty towns in regions 

 where forest protection required stimulating. 

 He was able to deliver nightly lectures with 

 motion picture illustrations and was given a 

 happy reception throughout. 



Again, through the Dominion Forestry Branch 

 we secured Mr. R. M. Watt, of Dauphin, Man., 

 to take our Exhibition Car through the prairie 

 provinces. Mr. Watt did sterling work and 

 was indefatigable in his efforts to secure large 

 attendances and interest the people. Thus at 

 various periods of the year four lecturers have 

 been working in the Association's campaigns. 

 In New Brunswick, we were allowed the valued 

 service of Mr. Kinghorn during the visits of our 

 Car to the Fredericton and Chatham exhibitions. 



THE RAILWAY EXHIBITION CAR. 



Special attention is directed towards the As- 



sociation's Railway Car which, as has been said, 

 is a "forest protection school on wheels." With 

 no alternative other than to secure exhibits by 

 borrowing, some very attractive objects were 

 brought together from many parts of the con- 

 tinent, including a complete display of all things 

 made from pulj) and paper for war purposes; 

 a maple bush model; a model forest nursery; 

 displays of wood distillates and wood samples; 

 a ship model; entomological exhibits and wire- 

 less telegraph and telephones in operation, and 

 a score of other objects, the whole assembled 

 within the cleared space of a railway car with 

 ornamentations of transparencies and flags. The 

 car has been handed over to us temporarily by 

 the Canadian National Railways, to which our 

 hearty thanks are due. The car will start out 

 again with improved equipment in May this 

 year and, if our funds will allow, there would 

 be an excellent opportunity in the western pro- 

 vinces for a second car arranged to emphasize 

 especially tree planting in the southern prairies. 

 The route taken by the car in 1919 included 

 scores of small towns from Chatham, New 

 Brunswick, to Calgary, Alberta. 



Our custom of printing and distributing edu- 

 cational booklets for children and a variety of 

 special issues aimed at such classes as settlers, 

 was again followed with what seemed to be sat- 

 isfactory results. 



A number of large painted banners with fire 

 prevention inscriptions were placed along rail- 

 way lines. The Imperial Tobacco Company co- 

 operated wtih us effectively by placing in cigar- 

 ette packages warnings against carelessness with 

 fire in the forest. Ten thousand menu cards in 

 the dining cars of the main railway lines had 

 our sermonettes on forest protection attached. 

 We also had a fine response from lumber com- 

 panies who were supplied by us with advertising 

 copy as a substitute for their regular advertis- 

 ing in the newspapers. These are but repre- 

 sentative of other publicity devices put into 

 effect by the Association in 1919. 



Articles for the newspapers and magazines 

 have been supplied at frequent intervals and 

 have been made use of freely. Our Travelling 

 Lecture Sets, with slides and manuscript, proved 

 once more an attractive educational medium. 



IMPERIAL FORESTRY CONFERENCE. 



Although somewhat outside the regular pro- 

 gramme of our work, it may be pertinent to 

 mention the move made by the Secretary of the 

 Association to inaugurate an Imperial Forestry 

 Conference having as its object a round-table 

 discussion of the forestry problems and policies 



