402 AMERICAN FORESTRY 



ACTIVITIES OF THE AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION 



FOR MAY, 1921 



The Association's campaign for the passage of the Snell Bill was carried along vigorously during the 

 month by the publication in several thousand newspapers of articles showing the necessity for a forest 

 program, for the perpetuation of our existing forests and the planting of our many millions of acres of 

 waste land. A number of organizations endorsed the movement and will aid in securing the passage of 

 the bilL 



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The Association was represented at the annual convention of the Chamber of Commerce of the United 

 States at Atlantic City by Directors Charles F. Quincy and Dr. Henry S. Drinker, who are members of 

 the Forestry Committee of the Chamber, and by Secretary P. S. Ridsdale. The action of the Forestry 

 Committee is described on another page of this issue. 



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In aiding to make successful Forest Protection Week, May 22-28, proclaimed by President Harding, the 

 Association prepared and distributed to the newspapers of the country a number of articles emphasizing 

 the necessity of forest protection and also organized in Washington, D. C, a demonstration of properly 

 fighting a forest fire. 



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Bulletins oh how to teach their pupils a knowledge of trees and their uses were distributed to thou- 

 sands of school teachers to the extent that they will be able to know their values and also in their states 

 to prepare demonstration charts. This work is spreading rapidly throughout the United States and it is 

 expected that the study of forests and trees before long will be taken up in every public school. 



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Mrs. Warren G. Harding planted in front of the Association's building a tree presented to the Asso- 

 ciation by Ohio and the small spade which the President's wife used in this planting will be loaned to or- 

 ganizations throughout the United States for the purpose of planting memorial trees. Mrs. Medill Mc- 

 Cormick, of Chicago, at the same time planted a tree presented by Illinois. 



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The Association was informed by The Chicago Tribune that it had taken up the campaign for the 

 planting of memorial trees, and also the planting of trees along the highways of the United States, and 

 that it will make a vigorous campaign for this purpose. 



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The General Federation of Women's Clubs was provided, through Miss Julia A. Thorns, the chair- 

 man of the Forestry Committee, with material for the study of trees and for taking in every state a vote 

 for a national tree after the value of each tree had been carefully studied. Each club belonging to the 

 General Federation will take up this activity. 



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The Literary Digest during the month published two full pages from AMERICAN FORESTRY 

 magazine, one on the manufacture and use of shingles and the other on methods of reclaiming denuded 

 and eroded lands by forest plantings. 



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The Association received the ballots cast by the school children of Dayton, Ohio, and Springfield, 

 Ohio, in the national tree voting contest, which ballots were made after a careful study by the sixty 

 thousand school children of these cities of various irees and their values. 



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The Association urged Governor Stephens, of California, to sign the bill which has just been passed 

 by the California State Legislature appropriating $15,000 for continuing the work on the John Muir trail 

 and the bill appropriating $300,000 for the purchase of redwood timber along the state highway in Hum- 

 boldt County. 



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The Association urged and heartily endorsed the movement to preserve for the State of Wisconsin 

 the region known as "Northern Lakes Park," which is in great danger of being destroyed by loggers. 



