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pieces, and the fabric hanging in streamers even as I 

 looked the aireron controls gave with a snap as we went 

 to turn. They had just lasted the scrap (they give lateral 

 control). The pilot's instrument board just in front of 

 his face was smashed, several flying wires were cut and 

 dangling and two struts were badly cut. My cockpit 

 looked more like a pepper-shaker than anything else, and 

 one of the Longerons (four) ribs of ash which form the 

 backbone of the machine, as it were, was cut through. 

 "The pilot throttled back to a safe speed and we took 

 our six remaining photos and then limped thankfully 

 homeward. I was never so glad to be back on terra 



firma before. When we landed we found that our radia- 

 tor had been shot through and two of our cylinders thus 

 had sized from the heat. Thank God they did not get 

 our engine. 



"This, I might say, was the 'closest thing' I had in 

 France, or want to have. Never again did I try to fix a 

 camera over hostile territory. If she jammed let her. 



"I had other fights, of course, but never at quite such 

 close quarters. We were attacked by six once, but got 

 one right at the start and that discouraged the rest. I 

 can tell you the scrap in the air is the most exciting thing 

 imaginable most too much so." 



DONATIONS TO THE WELFARE FUND FOR LUMBERMEN AND 



FORESTERS IN WAR SERVICE 



AMERICAN FORESTRY will publish each month the list of those making donations to this fund. Many of the donations 

 from members of the American Forestry Association so far received were made without solicitation and were inspired by 

 reading in the magazine that a relief and comfort fund for men of the forest regiments was to be started. Many substantial 

 contributions are being received from lumber companies and lumbermen following requests sent to them by the Secretary of the 

 Welfare Fund for Lumbermen and Foresters in War Service, by the lumber organizations of which they are members, and by 

 the committees of lumbermen which had charge in various sections of the United States of securing enlistments for the forest 

 regiments. 



In addition to the donations previously acknowledged in AMERICAN FORESTRY, there has been raised in the Forest Serv- 

 ice prior to April 1st, for the benefit of the two Forest Regiments) a total of $4,230.68 The inauguration of welfare work for these 

 regiments on the part of the Forest Service antedated the formation of the Lumber and Forest Regiments Relief Committee. 

 By the creation of that committee the Forest Service relief work was co-ordinated with that of the other organizations repre- 

 sented, but the funds raised in the Forest Service have not heretofore been shown in the statements published by AMERICAN 

 FORESTRY. They are, however, truly a part of the Welfare. Fund though directly collected and disbursed by the Service and 

 members of the Forest Service are steadily adding to their gifts. The two funds are and have long been virtually consolidated 

 and handled under a single management. It is, therefore, considered appropriate at the present time to include in the published 

 statement, as a lump sum "from the Forest Service" the total contributed up to April 1st. Contributions made since that date are 

 acknowledged with credit also to the Office or Forest from which the several amounts are received. 



Contributions to the Welfare Fund to June 1, 1918, are as follows: 



Previously acknowledged $14,748.68 



From the Forest Service to April 1st 4,230.68 



Arkansas Short Leaf Company, Pine Bluff, 



Arkansas 10.00 



Coles, John W., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.. 10.00 

 Forest Service, District No. 2, Denver, Colo- 

 rado 350.00 



Forest Service, Washington Office 2.00 



Gunnison National Forest, Colorado 27.50 



The John D. Mershon Lumber Company, 



Saginaw. Michigan 25.00 



Nelson, John M., Jr., Pottsville, Pennsylvania 5.00 



Noah Adams Lumber Company, Oakland, 



California 10.00 



Prince Lauten Company, New York City 20.00 



J. S. & R. M. Rice Lumber Company, Houston, 



Texas 10.00 



Roper Lumber Company, Employees of New 



Bern Plant, North Carolina 20.50 



Sabine River Lumber and Logging Company, 



Oakdale, La 22.70 



Sterling Lumber Company, Bastrop, Louisiana 5.00 



Total $19,497.06 



WRITE TO THE SOLDIERS AND SAILORS 



np ti E following extract is f rbm a letter written by Lieut. 

 W. H. Gibbons from France : 



"If it is not in poor taste, I would like to suggest at 

 this time that all of you write all these men often, 

 and that you pass the word along to all your friends that 

 they should write all their soldier friends often. I 

 don't know just why it is, but I do know it is a fact that 

 the American out here is a big baby when he is not re- 

 ceiving what he considers his proper ration of mail, and 

 he is a mighty hungry fellow When it comes to mail. 



"I can suggest no better way for you to help win the 

 fight. I am not thinking particularly of myself and those 

 who are serving in a similar capacity and we find let- 



ters from friends ever so much better than heat, meat 

 and drink but of those who will face the Hun at short 

 quarters. 



"Organize as you will, we are going to fight as indi- 

 viduals, and no American boy will put up his best fight 

 if he feels that the folks back home have forgotten him, 

 and he is too prone to imagine such things. 



"If it were within my power, every paper in the 

 U. S. A. would feature every day, 'WRITE.' 



"These letters will not only help them to fight, but 

 they will help keep them straight and ready. I feel truly 

 sorry for the poor devils that receive no mail. I hope 

 there are none such." 



