AMERICAN FORESTRY GUIDES DEPARTMENT 



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Posts are subdivided into details of eight, making six de- 

 tails to a post. 



Posts are to be named in honor of some great American 

 citizen (Roosevelt, Franklin, etc.) The details are to be 

 known by number; (Detail No. 1, 2, 3, etc.) 



In working out the organization plans we have not 

 lost sight of the youth in the rural districts. We are 

 more than anxious that the young people of the United 

 States be enrolled and become one of our family of For- 

 estry Guides. Write us. Your country needs you in 

 this conservation work. We know you want to help. 



We ask the Outdoor Organizations of the country to 

 help make our program available to the youth of the 

 Nation. 



Conservationists and Foresters; will you wake up? 

 will you join us? The youth of America is more than 

 anxious to help. All that is needed is guidance and lead- 

 ership. 



"LET'S GO" 



We have searched far and wide for an aggressive, 

 fearless, man for president ; one who places cause before 

 self, and appreciates the fact that our greatest asset is our 



or young girls can organize posts under the leadership 

 of their sex. 



For full particulars write to American Forestry Guides, 

 General ofifice, Reading, Pennsylvania. 



In presenting to the Forestry Guides a picture of their 

 new president, the Honorable Charles A. Snyder, we 

 assure them that his personality is just as pleasing as 

 his picture shows. He is aggressive in whatever he un- 

 dertakes, shows good judgment, and has a ready wit; 

 in fact, he possesses just the qualities of a good leader, 

 as his success in public life proves. 



Mr. Snyder is at present State Treasurer of Pennsyl- 

 vania. He had been Auditor General of the State, and 

 made such a remarkable record in that position that he 

 received the nomination for State Treasurer without op- 

 position. Prior to that, he had served three terms in the 

 Assembly and was serving his third term in the State 

 Senate when he was elected to the higher office. In all 

 these years he was especially popular with the young vo- 

 ters, who supported him without regard to the party to 

 which they belonged. 



Mr. Snyder was born at Pillow, Dauphin County, 



DECLARATION OF PRINCIPLES OF THE AMERICAN FORESTRY GUIDES 



IT IS A VOLUNTARY SERVICE ORGANIZATION for the creation of sentiment among the youth of America to 

 conserve and preserve our forests, tree, plant, bird and harmless wild life thereby conserving the youth with the forests. It 

 aims to help the youth to become self reliant, and develop true citizens and teach to do by doing. 



IT IS ABSOLUTELY INDEPENDENT, having no official connection with any federal or state department. It is not 

 controlled by any special interest or agency. It is non-military, non-sectarian, non-political. 



It will function as a volunteer service auxiliary with our federal and state departments, promoting causes for our com- 

 mon good and offering full cooperation. It will devote itself to public service and is pledged to abet national, state and com- 

 munity welfare, progress and prosperity. 



It has for its major objective conservation of the forests and other natural resources by the youth of America. The youth 

 by making available an educational program whereby the trees can be identified without specialized training in forestry;! 

 the birds without becoming an ornithologist; the wild flowers, without detailed knowledge of botany. It promotes health 

 and body building. It recognizes that our country's greatest asset, its youth, must be conserved. 



It will know but one flag The stars and stripes. 



It has for its motto "Service to God, to Country, to Fellowman." 



youth, our greatest need conservation, that success de- 

 pends on happiness, that if one would be happy, one must 

 be active. 



We found the man. We can trust his leadership. Read 

 what he has to say. 



"Let's go" while the legislative bodies are legislating. 

 "Let's go" plant trees, stop forest fires, conserve bird 

 and harmless wild life and the youth by bringing them 

 close to nature and nature's God. 



Slogan "America First." 



We were very fortunate in having a wireless com- 

 munication expert join our Forestry Guide family. He 

 will tell us how to build, operate and care for wireless 

 outfits. His belief is that wireless will become the com- 

 munication method. 



We have many other features in our program that will 

 interest you. 



What do you think of Mounted Posts; horsemanship 

 taught by competent leaders ? 



And best of all we allow you self definition as to age. 

 Boys or girls between the ages of g and 14 can organize 

 posts under leadership of their own sex and young men 



Pennsylvania. He received his education in the public 

 schools and at the old New Berlin and Berrysburg Acad- 

 emies, and later read and practiced law in Pottsville, 

 where he has since resided. Here he has a beautiful 

 home and home-life with his wife, a daughter and a son, 

 the latter being at present a senior in Pennsylvania State 

 College. 



During the years that Mr. Snyder was in the State 

 Legislature, he supported every measure proposed that 

 aimed at conserving the natural resources, assisting the 

 industries or improving the roads and institutions of the 

 State. To him is conceded the credit of putting new life 

 into the public schools of the State by introducing the 

 first bill to increase the salaries of teachers. 



It is quite fitting that a resident of the state which re- 

 ceived its name from the magnificent forests that covered 

 its entire area at the time of its settlement, and which 

 suffered more than any other state by reason of reck- 

 less destruction of those forests, should now be the first 

 leader in a nation-wide movement to restore the forests 

 of the entire country to something of their former use- 

 fulness and beauty. 



