to Lovejoy and Young at the Club 

 and to Sponsler and Pottinger, real- 

 izes that the old era is gone and a 

 new one ushered in. Michigan cele- 

 brates. Let us all join and thank our 

 Presidents, Hutchins and Angell, the 

 Board of Regents, and not to forget, 

 let us thank the men in the field and 



at school, who stuck to the guns, who 

 studied under difflcultieis, and who 

 made good in spite of adversity, and 

 thus made the name of Michigan 

 sound good in the far-off forests of 

 our country. 



ROTH. 



The First Forestry Club Meeting. 



Professor Roth spoke to a full 

 house at the first meeting of the Club. 

 He discussed the present situation in 

 forestry, and pointed out the fact 

 that while there semed a lull in the 

 enthusiasm, a partial slump especial- 

 ly in the Forest Service development, 

 that this was all more seeming than 

 real and all merely a temporary over- 

 shadowing of forestry by the much 

 greater movement, that for good gov- 

 ernment. 



"The whole world is stirred toy the 

 great spirit of real progress. This is 

 not the narrow and selfish patriotism 

 of old which stands ready to fight 

 for a king's whims, or defend a sel- 

 fish, useless aristocracy, creed or tra- 

 dition, but a real and intelligent pa- 

 triotiism which is guided by general 

 knowledge, 'by a right appreciation 

 on the part of the people of their 

 own rights and powers, by respect for 

 their neighbors, and a spirit of true 

 humanity. 



"Clear around the Globe, the peo- 

 ple are demanding what President 

 Roosevelt has happily called "the 

 square deal." In our country it is 

 this great struggle of the people to 

 regain the powers which they once 

 wrenched from Great Britain, and 



have again lost to an organization of 

 the selfish office-seeking crowd and 

 their dangerouis allies in corporate 

 wealth. In this struggle, forestry and 

 many other good and useful develop- 

 ments are bound up so completely 

 that it is a safe prediction: no 

 change in government, no real prog- 

 ress in forestry. 



"But the people know and are now 

 ready to act; and the most remark- 

 able campaign of half a century bears 

 witness that a new era is beginning. 

 And with this new era will come for- 

 estry, an with it general conserva- 

 tion in the broadest sense, based upon 

 knowledge, 'honesty, and right func- 

 tion of good government. To pre- 

 pare and prepare well, for the day is 

 not far off when several thousand 

 well-trained men are wanted where 

 today hardly a dozen suitable men are 

 availa'ble. Nor is it only professional 

 Foresters that are wanted. We need 

 men out of the woods ats well as in 

 the woods; we need them in legisla- 

 ture, in law office, on the big papers, 

 and in the class room; and we need 

 hundreds more in all walks of life to 

 help mould public opinion and show 

 the people the usefulness, even ne- 

 cessity, of forestry and conservation." 



Our Annual Campfire. 



The weather man was kind, the 

 camp isite was an ideal one, and 

 Chief-of-Commissary Shlapp was very 

 much on the job. As a result the one 

 hundred and twenty-five foresters 

 who gathered at Cascade Glen for 

 their annual campfire were not dis- 

 appointed in results. 



The woodsmen assembled at about 



7 p. m. Groups of three or four each 

 lighted small fires, broiled beefsteak, 

 consumed sweet potatoes, and drank 

 coffee with as great relish as though 

 they had just come in from a hard 

 day in the brush. 



After the potlatch, a huge council 

 fire was lighted in the center of the 

 natural amphitheatre That world- 



