WOMAN'S WORK FOR CONSERVATION 



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SOME WORK DONE AND WORDS SPOKEN 



Mrs. A. B. Avery, secretary of the 

 Louisiana Forestry Association, is one 

 of the tireless and efficient forestry and 

 conservation workers who was present 

 at the biennial. Mrs. Avery secured the 

 passage by the Yellow Pine Association 

 at New Orleans in January of a reso- 

 lution relative to regulation of the cut- 

 ting of timber to meet conditions of sup- 

 ply and demand. Mrs. Avery maintains 

 a small nursery of her own, in which 

 she planted 2,700 seedlings last year. 

 Her object is purely philanthropic, the 

 trees being furnished for public im- 

 provement. She recently donated forty 

 trees, in pairs of different species, to be 

 used on the grounds of a public school. 



Mrs. Herbert M. Bushnell, of 1942 

 South Seventeenth Street, Lincoln, 

 Nebr., who is general secretary for her 

 state, takes a great interest in forestry. 

 She prepared and read the first paper 

 on forestry that was ever presented at 

 her state federation. That was over 

 twelve years ago. "I didn't know much 

 about forestry then/' said Mrs. Bush- 

 nell, "but I began to study up, and since 

 that time I've done everything I could 

 for the preservation of our forests." 



One of the many bright women from 

 Indiana, Mrs. Virginia Sharp- Patterson, 

 who is chairman of the Forestry Com- 

 mittee of the Indiana Federation, has 

 written a play, "The Lady of the Green 

 Scarf," which embodies the need for 

 conserving our country's natural re- 

 sources, and which may be used as an 

 entertainment exercise for schools, 

 clubs, and Arbor Day programs. The 

 book is prefaced by the following quo- 

 tation from the writings of Mrs. Lydia 

 Adams-Williams : "By inculcating in 

 the children the precepts of economy in 

 relation to natural resources, the entire 

 sentiment of the nation may be changed 

 in a single generation and convert this 

 people from the most wasteful and ex- 

 travagant to the most prudent and con- 

 servative." 



All the friends of conservation, for- 

 ests, and waterways, especially the of- 

 ficers of the Woman's' National Rivers 

 and Harbors Congress, were delighted 

 to welcome back, safe, happy, and in 



perfect health, from her round-the- 

 world tour, their national vice-president, 

 Mrs. Charles Warren Fairbanks. In 

 company with her distinguished hus- 

 band, she visited many foreign lands 

 and was strongly impressed by the dif- 

 ferent forestry conditions in each of 

 them. "In the Hawaiian Islands," said 

 Mrs. Fairbanks, "I noticed particularly 

 that there is a great deal of planting 

 of trees, especially on the high moun- 

 tains. Also in some places in China 

 they are planting trees ; but the condi- 

 tions there are very hard ; the people 

 are poor and wood is scarce, and the 

 soil has much of it been washed away 

 by erosion. In Korea they are also 

 planting trees. I was much impressed 

 by the beauty of the German forests 

 and the care which seems manifest in 

 their management. I take an intense 

 interest in all vital subjects for the bet- 

 terment of humanity ; consequently, I 

 am much pleased with the work that the 

 general federation is doing for con- 

 servation, and I congratulate them and 

 the country in general upon the stand 

 they have taken in this great move- 

 ment." At the general federation 

 meeting, Mrs. Fairbanks spoke in favor 

 of the mountain laurel for the national 

 flower, and suggested that the federa- 

 tion would aid the movement if it would 

 endorse the laurel. 



Another one of Louisiana's enhusi- 

 astic workers is Mrs. John Dallas Wil- 

 kinson, national chairman of waterways 

 for the general federation, and state 

 chairman of forestry for Louisiana. 

 Mrs. Wilkinson is also chairman of the 

 executive committee of the Louisiana 

 Forestry Association. At her water- 

 ways conference she gave a very full 

 report of the year's work, and said that 

 thirty-nine states, including the Canal 

 Zone, have taken up the work for water- 

 ways. The other ten states are inter- 

 ested and sent in reports showing act- 

 ivity and a desire to know more of the 

 work. 



Mrs. Samuel B. Sneath, of Tiffin, 

 Ohio, the able state chairman of con- 

 servation, which includes forests, water- 

 ways, and mines, at the waterways con- 

 ference, reported work for purifying, 

 beautifying, parking, and making sani- 



