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amounting to 550 persons at Tra- 

 cadie and without doubt a great 

 amount of splendid service to the 

 cause of forest conservation was ac- 

 complished through Mr. Doucet's 

 efforts. 



In the French Canadian communi- 

 ties to which he confined his lectures, 

 practically no educational work had 

 been done hitherto, except what has 

 come through the French literature 

 of the Canadian Forestrv Association. 



The parish priests gave most valuable 

 aid and the reception accorded Mr. 

 Doucet in all c(uarters was hearty. 



Other illustrated lectures are beinc 

 given on the Ontario and Quebec 

 sides of the Ottawa River by the 

 Forestry Association' as well as along 

 the Temiskaming and Northern 

 Ontario Railway which goes through 

 the Claybelt in which a very decided 

 fire hazard exists this vear. 



Lectures in Western Ontario 



Mr. Robson Black, Secretary of the 

 Canadian Forestry Association, has 

 been delivering a series of illustrated 

 addresses in North Western Ontario 

 including Fort Frances, Port Arthur, 

 and Fort William. The meeting at 

 Fort Frances was under the auspices 

 of the Patriotic Fund while the 

 Canadian Club at Fort William 

 sponsored the address in that city. 



Motion pictures were freely utilized 

 at all points. Other addresses have 

 been »given by the Secretary before 

 Boy Scout assemblies and such busi- 

 ness men's organizations as the Ro- 

 tary Club of Brantford which as- 

 sembled for the purpose at the 

 Brant theatre, and the Kiwanis Club 

 of Ottawa. 



A Lantern Slide Service 



There are many roads by which 

 public education may travel and one 

 of those that affords least resistance 

 can be found in the employment of 

 lantern-slide cartoons to be flashed 

 before audiences between the reels 

 in a motion picture theatre. The 

 Forestry Association this year has 

 already placed several hundred lant- 

 ern slides with motion picture theatres 

 from Nova Scotia to British Colum- 

 bia. Some of these are in the form of 

 colored cartoons while others are 

 striking statements of some out- 

 standing fact connected with forest 

 protection, the extinguishing of camp 

 fires, care with lighted tobacco and 

 matches while in the woods, etc. 

 These lantern slides have met with a 

 splendid reception and will be con- 

 tinued through the summer, each 

 theatre in a timbered district re- 

 ceiving a new assortment of slides 

 each week. As far as can be ascer- 

 tained the Forestry Association is now 

 covering every motion picture theatre 



in the timbered districts of Quebec, 

 Ontario, and New Brunswick. The 

 French slides have been used to 

 excellent advantage, the motion pic- 

 ture theatre proprietors co-operating 

 with the Association in a thorough 

 and generous manner. The Province 

 of New Brunswick is arranging to 

 place new sets of slides periodically 

 with every motion picture theatre in 

 that province. 



His Eminence, Cardinal Begin, 

 says : 



"For a long time in Canada, general 

 opinion placed an unlimited confi- 

 dence in the richness of the wooded 

 districts which were supposed to be 

 inexhaustible. But now that their 

 richness has been considerably dim- 

 inished, it is high time to save what 

 is left. " 



"It behooves governments, asso- 

 ciations, and individuals to give their 

 most serious attention." 



