Canadian Forestry Journal, July. 1920. 



335 



Forestry and Friends 



By Charles Lathrop Pack, President, American Forestry Association. 



Through a curious turn of events 

 the two great English-speaking coun- 

 tries of North America are to be 

 brought still closer in friendly rela- 

 tions. The World War, of course, 

 was a great forward step to be taken 

 in that friendliness. We are now 

 about to see, I am told, a minister from 

 the land of the Maple Leaf appointed 

 to represent his government at Wash- 

 ington. This is a step in the right 

 direction. Of late there have been 

 misunderstandings, fostered by these 

 with mistaken motives, but these will 

 soon be swept away. These misunder- 

 standings have come about over the 

 pulp wood and newsprint situation, as 

 it involves the two great countries. I 

 believe it can be honestly stated that 

 out of this misunderstanding there will 

 come, yes, even now has come, the 

 right view point. It all points to the 

 need of a national forest policy on 

 bothsidcs of that imaginary line we 

 call the boundary. I think I am safe 

 in predicting that through national 

 legislation on forestry, the friendship 

 of the two countries will be cemented 

 more closely than ever. If this comes 

 about, and I am sure that it will, it 

 will certainly be a great tribute to 

 those of us both in Canada and the Un- 

 ited States who have lal)orcd so long 

 and patiently for this reward. 



In the United States the news])rint 

 paper problem has resulted in placing 

 the broad prol)lem of forestry before 

 the people. \\'ill it not have the same 

 effect in Canada? \\"\\\ the outcome 

 not I)e an awakening to tlu' \alue of 

 the torests, the l)ackl)one ol all in(lu>- 

 try. and will not this r^'sult in what wr 

 have worked for these many years, a 

 national forest jiolicy with better fire 

 protection as the first step? What a 

 great nionnnuMit suiMi a result would 

 be to the work that has ln-en doni'. 1 

 see a still greater reward lor the 

 fiiresti'r; llie l)ringin,u tii^cthrr ot the 

 two ciiuntrii-> l)ecau-e of their nuitual 

 interest in the perpetuation of the 

 f( trests. 



To the forester comes a great oppor- 

 tunity out of the present situation. The 

 publishers are hard pressed ; the home 

 builders are hard pressed, and when 

 we find this situaticjn in these two 

 great industries inquiries must natur- 

 ally result. What have we been doing- 

 with our greatest natural resource? At 

 this point the forester comes into his 

 own. His knowledge takes on added 

 value. Every wood using industry 

 cries for action. The action wil come 

 slowly, a great lesson is to be learned 

 and the forester will become the teacher 

 in the great school in which forest per- 

 petuation will be the watchword. 



The millions of acres of undeveloped 

 country in the great land to the north 

 of us cannot help but react to the ad- 

 vantage of the United States in that 

 development. We cannot live to our- 

 selves any more than can you, our 

 neighbors, live to yourselves. In the 

 working out of that development comes 

 the stiil greater friendliness that will 

 result in a united peoi)le greeting each 

 other across a dividing line that is 

 found only in geogra])hies. I feel that 

 a broad understanding of our common 

 forestry problems will l)ring that 

 about. 



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ORGANIZERS WANTED! 



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 ciation will employ, at good re- 

 muneration. Organizers in the 

 following cities : Vancouver. 

 Victoria, Calgary, Edmonton. 

 Saskatoon, Regina, Winnipeg. 

 Toronto. Ottawa. Fredericton. 

 St. John and Halifax. 

 A sterling opportunity for profit- 

 able and dignified employment. 

 Applicants must have had suc- 

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