THE MAGIC CUP 



By Arthur Newton Pack 



European Commissioner of the American Forestry Association 



THE legends of almost every race and people are full 

 of references to a magic cup which refilled itself 

 as fast as it was emptied. It was a charming idea, none 

 the less attractive in these present days of prohibition, 

 and while science has as yet found no way to fulfill this 

 particular dream, in other fields at least there has been 

 a pretty close attainment of the ideal. At the gates of 

 nearly every city and town of Continental Europe lie 

 coimtless pleasant looking woodlands which from year to 



with lumbering or forestry about them." 



Nevertheless, it is forestry, as developed by a nation 

 with two hundred years of practical experience, that 

 permanently maintains those very woods my friend saw, 

 and for no other reason than that the profit derived there- 

 from pays all the costs and carrying charges. It is as 

 much a misconception to interpret forestry solely as the 

 science of setting out regular rows of little tree seedlings 

 as to consider the forester merely as a student of tree 



OLD STUMPS AND NEW TREES 



If wc can only make every' man, woman and child appreciate the danger of fire and eliminate it to the degree that European 

 nations have done, we will soon find ourselves well on the road to realize the perpetual forest dream. 



year appear but little changed, yet forming a permanent 

 source of supply for regular assured quantities of fuel 

 and lumber free of freight charges. 



The trouble is that most of those who travel abroad 

 see only the forests and miss the magic of it entirely. 



"Ves," said a friend of mine the other day, "I remem- 

 ber .seeing some very beautiful woods near Paris, but I 

 (Imi't suppose they interested you, as they all looked 

 naturally grown and I suppose there was nothing to do 



diseases and Latin names. Forestry concerns itself with 

 every phase of forest propagation and use, just as farm- 

 ing with the annual crops of the field and garden. 



The story of the town, city or state owned forests of 

 Enrope is not new to many of us. .-Mthough the exces- 

 sive advertising given to a few such plans in Germany 

 and Switzerland tends to obscure the general character 

 of the development, the movement in all probability 

 originated in France, and has there for more than a cen- 



