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DONATIONS 



FOR THE 



RELIEF AND COMFORT 



OF THE 



FOREST REGIMENTS 



COMMITTEE 



CHARLES LATHROP PACK 

 PERCIVAL SHELDON RIDSDALE 

 ROBERT H. DOWNMAN 



W. R. BROWN 

 ALBERT F. POTTER 

 WILLIAM L. HALL 



Members of the American Forestry Association and others interested in forestry are asked 

 to contribute to the fund now being raised to provide comforts and any necessary relief to the 

 members of the Forest Regiments called for service in France. 



These men, there are some 10,000 of them, have the task of supplying for the army of the 

 Allies such absolute necessities as cordwood for cooking and heating, posts for trenches and 

 mines, planks to haul heavy ordnance over, boards for hospitals and billets ; ties for railroads, 

 timber for temporary bridges and many other emergency uses. At least 25,000,000 board feet 

 will be needed monthly. This will be obtained from the French forests, the only source available 

 at present, due to lack of water transportation. These forests the French have generously agreed 

 to sacrifice, but desire them cut, as far as it is possible, along forestry lines. 



A joint committee has been formed of the lumbermen and forestry organizations of all kinds 

 throughout the country, which will solicit funds and take charge of all sums raised for the 

 comfort and relief of the men in these regiments. All such funds are to be expended to meet the 

 special needs of the men in this special industry. Immediate needs are along the lines of comfort 

 and recreation essential to physical and moral welfare, and later serious relief for soldiers and 

 dependents will be pressing. To meet this larger and more vital demand members of the Ameri- 

 can Forestry Association are asked to contribute generously. Reports of the use made of con- 

 tributions will be published from time to time in all of the lumber and forestry journals. 



We confidently ask you to stand behind the men of the Forest Regiments who furnish the 

 lumber which, next to ammunition and food, is the greatest need of the Allied army. The per- 

 sonnel of the committee will assure that every cent subscribed will be utilized to the full in 

 assistance and relief. All funds are to be sent to Mr. P. S. Ridsdale, secretary of the American 

 Forestry Association at 1410 H Street, N. W., Washington, D. C, which Association has offered 

 to give its office accommodations and the time of its secretary, free, to the administration of the 

 relief work. 



FILL OUT AND SEND THIS FORM WITH YOUR CONTRIBUTION 



DONATION TO THE LUMBER AND FOREST RELIEF 



COMMITTEE 



I enclose check for $..; _ a donation to be used for the comfort 



and relief of the men of the Tenth and Twentieth Engineers (Forest) Regiments. 



Address 



A list of Iht donors will be acknowledged in the AMERICAN FORESTRY magazine each month. 



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