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forest; hence what we have long done on that line in 

 France. 



"Our forests suffered terribly from the war as some 

 of you may have seen ; where for centuries trees waved 

 their gfreen foliage nothing is left now but barren ground. 

 As we must reconstruct our houses, so we are now trying 

 to reconstruct our forests. And there your generous 

 help conies in, most efficacious and welcome. 



"Strange it may be, but surely providential, that in the 

 same way as your boys took kindly to our population, 

 American tree seeds take kindly to our soil. The re- 

 sults are wonderful ; it seems as if those diminutive scions 

 of the American stock understood that it is a question of 

 a great and friendly country which should be helped with 

 all speed ; and trees from your seeds are conspicuous for 

 the rapidity of their growth. They are in their way 

 worthy representatives of you, kind-hearted Americans, 

 toward whom our increasing gratitude will never fade." 



Mr. Broderick in accepting the seeds for Great Britain 

 said : 



"By his gift of tree seeds Mr. Pack is aiding France to 

 maintain her century old forest policy and encouraging 

 Great Britain in making her newly adopted policy a suc- 

 cess in the belief that the inspiration and example of these 

 two countries will lead the United States to put a stop to 

 the destruction of her greatly depleted forests, to replant 

 her idle forest lands and to adopt a forest policy which 

 will provide for the future needs of all her people." 



In presenting the trees seeds to the French and British 

 governments, Mr. Pack said: 



"On the statue to Rochambeau in Lafayette Park, op- 

 posite the White House, are these words : 'We have been 

 contemporaries and fellow-workers in the cause of Lib- 

 erty.' This date, April 6, marks the day when the United 

 States threw itself into the scales of warfare on the side 

 of that cause of Liberty. I present these tree seeds to 

 your governments in order that the millions of trees that 

 will be born of them will keep ever new the memory of 



your men and ours who gave their lives for that cause 

 of Liberty. 



"I give these seeds to France so she may grow one hun- 

 dred million American trees. France needs these seeds to 

 restore her forests and woodlands in the battle zones 

 where they were cut down for war-time purposes or de- 

 stroyed by conflict. The trees will be placed on her bat- 

 tlefields and will be perpetual memorials to the American 

 soldiers who fought and bled there. They will be per- 

 petual because France in her great wisdom has a forest 

 policy which maintains steady production of lumber with- 

 out decreasing her forest area. In this she sets the United 

 States an example which we have not learned to follow 

 but which we must follow and without delay. 



"This forest policy of France made it possible for 

 France and her Allies to win the great war. The United 

 States must have a forest policy if she means to be safe 

 from war defeat in the future. So these Douglas Fir 

 seeds grown in French soil will provide timber for France 

 for all future generations and her forests of American 

 trees will forever remain as a memorial to the friendship 

 of the two great Republics whose soldiers have fought 

 shoulder to shoulder on the home soil of each. 



"Since the war Great Britain has been quick to take up 

 the scientific rehabilitation of her "forest resources. Be- 

 ing close to the scene of conflict she cut until little re- 

 mains of her famous wooded areas. War is a costly les- 

 son but Great Britain is profiting by that lesson by push7 

 ing the rebuilding of her forests as rapidly as possible 

 under the direction of the British Forestry Commission. 



"Will America learn that lesson ? It may turn out that, 

 after all, these tree seeds will be in reality a gift to the 

 American people, for seeing the great need after the great 

 sacrifice your countries made, our own people will come 

 to see that the millions of idle acres in their own country 

 should be put to work growing trees as speedily as possi- 

 ble. If it should so turn out, your countries with these 

 trees across the seas will have done a great service, the 

 greatest service that can be done this country at this 

 time." 



OUR NEWLY ELECTED OFFICERS 



\HE election, by ballot, of officers of the American 

 Forestry Association, was completed on March 25, 



and the tellers have announced the election of the follow- 

 ing new officers: 



Vice Presidents Hon. M. L. Alexander, Mr. Henry 

 C. Campbell, Mr. Fred C. Knapp, Mr. Everett G. Griggs, 

 Mrs. Warren G. Harding, Dr. John Grier Hibben, Mr. 

 k'ssc M. Overton, Mr. Thomas H. Owen, Dr. Joseph 

 Hyde I'ratt, Mr. M. B. Pratt, Dr. J. T. Rothrock, Prof. 



1 ililxrt I\oth, Mr. Harvey N. Shepard, Mrs. John 



President Mr. Charles Lathrop Pack. 

 Treasurer Mr. Robert V. Fleming. 



Dickinson Sherman, Hon. B. H. Snell, Mr. Bonnell H. 



Stone, Mr. Hermann von Schrenk, Mr. Lou D. Sweet. 



Hon. John W. Weeks. 



Directors Mr. Elbert H. Baker, Mr. Robert P. Bass. 

 Mr. F. W. Besley, Col. Henry S. Graves, Col. Wni. B. 

 Greeley, Mr. George W. Sisson, Jr., Mr. E. A. Sterling. 



