AMERICAN FORESTRY 



ran) to vote for the Appalachian foresl 

 eserves. I ask nothing for my state that 

 .m not perfectly willing to grant to any 

 ther sister state in this Nation. 



The President paid a trilmte to the 

 )atriotism and energy of the early 

 ;ettlers of Utah who transformed the 

 lesert into a garden, and then intro- 

 luced Mr. Gifford Pinchot. whose de- 

 ight fully reminiscent remarks are re- 

 )roduced in another place in this 

 nagazine. 



The next speaker was Mr. G. Gros- 

 -enor Dawe, managing director of. the 

 Southern, Commercial Congress. Mr. 

 3awe spoke eloquently of the value of 

 ligh purpose in life and of the spirit 

 :alled out by the forestry movement. 

 he: 



I happened today to go into a stock-selling 

 hop in this town. I was not there to buy 

 locks, by the way. I looked at those men 

 vho were watching certain figures go upon 

 he board. I 'heard the clamor of a man 

 ailing out Words from a ticker. I saw men 

 ushing here 'and there, and the faces of 

 hose men impressed me as being foxy, 

 fhey were not such faces as are here tonight. 

 I hose men were eagerly watching the mo- 

 iK'iit. They were seeing the opportunity for 

 icrsonal gain in someone else's damage, 

 fhese men and women here are not seeing 

 he moment. They are seeing the everlast- 

 ng future of the United States, and giving 

 heir thought and their prayers and their 

 vork to make that future as glorious and 

 nore glorious than the past. 



And that is 'my word to you. It is my 

 vord to the men younger than myself here, 



be seized by a purpose that is bereft of 

 iclnshness ; to kneel before God in whatever 

 vay we may choose to picture Him in our 

 lours of devotion, and to say that our lives 

 ire to be given to something broader than 

 uir own pocket books, wider than our own 

 ittk- circle, and something that shall make 



1 greater nation out of our little, petty, van- 

 shing lives. To be grasped by such a 

 bought is to lift our petty humanity up into 

 livinity. And that has been the kind of 

 hought that I have had in these recent years, 

 vhen I have come under the influence of the 

 bought of some of these men who have been 

 <l:i/in- the way for a greater and an endur- 

 ng nation. And you are some of them. You 

 ire ministers of a new gospel. Our race 

 a iv fully and painfully climbed upward to a 

 omprehension of God, and then there came 

 i comprehension of our neighbor, and these 

 preachers of the new gospel are preaching 

 :he gospel of duty to the race whom we 

 shall ncvci see. It is a culminating thought 

 actuating the souls of men in this century. 



whose work and whose benizens will come 

 from generations yet unborn. 



And that is all I have to say about for- 

 estry tonight. It is a summons to a broader 

 thought, to truer patriotism, to absolute un- 

 selfishness; and some of these men who have 

 led the way in it have been willing for the 

 moment to sacrifice themselves that the idea 

 might be lifted up out of petty quibbles into 

 ,i National issue. And if in this great for- 

 ward movement, an humble disciple of which 

 1 am, there is to be" one to stand as a leader, 

 Yt it be the Sir Galahad of the forest' work, 

 a man whose heart is pure and who there- 

 fore has the strength of ten. 



The closing address of the evening 

 was given by Mr. George H. Maxwell, 

 of Illinois. Mr. Maxwell discussed the 

 \Yhite Mountain and southern Appa- 

 lachian bill in its National aspect. The 

 need of reforestation and tree growing, 

 with National, state, municipal and pri- 

 vate forests. In closing, he spoke of 

 the work of the association, its impor- 

 tance, and the need of large expansion. 



The singing of "America" and drink- 

 ing of the health of the President of the 

 United States closed the evening. 



Those present were : 



A. A. Anderson, Philip W. Ayres, W. H. 

 Andrews, Chas. S. Bradley, Ernest Brunck- 

 en, Joshua L. Bailey, Elbert F. Baldwin, W. 

 R. Brown, Henry E. Burnham, Elmer J. 

 Burkett, William Brosmeth, B. Franklin 

 Betts, B. M. Caldwell, Aubrey L. Clark, 

 Mrs. James B. Case, Miss Case, William W. 

 Cocks, J. Harry Cunningham, Jas. H. Cutler, 

 Pleasant T. Chipman, G. Grosvenor Dawe, 

 11. S. Drinker, Mr. Guest, Don Davenport, 

 Lewis Dill, Allen Farquhar, A. B. Farquhar, 

 Henry Farquhar, John H. Finney, Henry W. 

 Farnam, J. A. P. Farnham, Mrs. F. W. Gerard, 

 Curtis Guild, Jr., John T. A. Hussey, Thos. 

 Hyde, Samuel L. Hartman, Stewart Harts- 

 horn Wm. S. Harvey, Win. S. Harvey's 

 guest. L. B. Hanna, Mrs. Allen Hollis, H. A. 

 Hurt, Frederick W. Kelsey, Miss Florence 

 Keen, George M. Kober, Jasper M. Lawford, 

 Robt. C. Lippincott, Otto Luebkcrt, Mrs. 

 Otto Luebkert, Barrington Moore. Geo. H. 

 Maxwell, John Mcllrey, Willis L. Moore, 

 M. T. McCreight, C. L. Marlatt, J. Horace 

 McFarland, John W. T. Nichols, E. F. Perry, 

 M. M. Parker, Chas. Lathrop Pack, 

 Gifford Pinchot, Ulysses G. B. Pierce, Miss 

 Ruth Putnam, E. Bertram Pike, J. T. Roth- 

 rock, Cuno H. Rudolph, F. W. Rollins, F. 

 W. Rane, Miss Louise Rowell, Miss Mary A. 

 Sharp, Miss A. D. Slocum, Edwin A. Start, 

 Reed Smoot, Ed. R. A. Seligman, Mrs. M. I. 

 Seligman. Willard Saulsbury, H. St. George 

 Tucker, Mrs. H. St. George Tucker, W. H. 

 M. Thomas, S. B. Vrooman, John P. Viall. 



