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fellows to a college to learn about forestry he would have been ridi- 

 culed. Tliey would all have felt that there was no need of sending a 

 man to college to learn to split rails, or cut saw-logs; but we have one 

 here tonight, a real forester, who has been in college, and the account 

 that I may give of him soimds like a fairy tale — reared in California, 

 educated at the State University, then at Yale, he first took control 

 of forest matters in the Appalachians, was then called back to the 

 Sequoia forest, then to the great forests of Montana and Idaho, then 

 to Washington, and like so many of our other patriotic college men, 

 he was called to France. First he was called upon to aid in recruiting 

 twenty thousand foresters. I imagine when Alexander, Caesar, and 

 Bonaparte carried on their wars they did not recruit foresters, but this 

 gentleman who is to talk tonight did. He went over to France, and 

 there in the forests of France he ran sawmills and he ran the lumber- 

 jacks, and helped win the war. He came back and is now connected 

 with the government forestry service, the Chief of the Forest Service. 

 I take great pleasure in introducing Colonel Greeley. 



