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I am not making this plea on the grounds of abstract altruism. 

 I am merely putting up to you as business men, a business 

 proposition. The time has come when to make the most of our 

 Hawaiian forests there is demanded the active cooperation of 

 all forest owners. The place has been reached where the owners 

 of Hawaiian forests cannot afford not to take active and united 

 steps for the better protection of the forest, both by seeing to it 

 that the appropriate branches of the government are given the 

 adequate financial support by which alone can the government 

 lands be properly administered, and also, and fully as important, 

 by themselves undertaking forest work, each on his own land, 

 but all uniting in a general plan. 



It is not enough merely to pass resolutions approving and ap- 

 plauding these projects. The time has come to put words into 

 deeds. Let every plantation manager think of the forest above 

 his plantation. Let every land owner have in mind the condition 

 of his forest holdings. Are your forests, and through them 

 your streams, receiving the protection that the best interests of 

 the plantation demand to be given them? Is there not some- 

 where a place where a short stretch of fence would shut off and 

 protect a large area of forest? Are there not areas of waste 

 land that if protected would grow up again with native forest, or 

 that could be planted with useful trees of commercial value? 

 These, gentlemen, are practical questions. I put them to you 

 because I believe they are of real and vital moment. Every one 

 can be translated directly into terms of money and everything 

 done is for your own benefit. Can you afford not to take account 

 of these realizable assets ? 



It is not within the scope of this talk to go into details of what 

 should be done in this or that place, or to prescribe ways and 

 means. By this time every one now in Hawaii likely to need 

 such service, ought to know that the staff of the Division of 

 Forestry is always ready to advise forest owners how best to 

 care for their forests and where, when and how to plant trees 

 on their areas of waste land to get certain desired results. The 

 object today is not to give such advice. What I have tried to do 

 rather, is to set each man thinking if there is not forest work on 

 his own land that if it were done would increase the value of 

 his property; that if it is not done, will result in its depreciation. 



I do not forget that much excellent forest work has been done 

 by private interests in Hawaii and that the last year has been 

 marked by a gratifying increase in forest planting by numerous 

 plantation companies. But it is not enough. Every plantation 

 companv that has waste land ought each year to plant up definite 

 areas with forest trees quite as regularly as it harvests its cane. 

 It ought also and of the two this is the more imperative to 



