THE CHANGED ATTITUDE OF LUMBER- 

 MEN TOWARD FORESTRY 



BY 



J. E. DEFEBAUGH 



Editor American Lumberman 



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ECALLING the history of the lumber industry of 

 America and of forestry in this country, we are 

 filled with mingled emotions of pleasure and surprise as 

 we attend the sessions of this Congress and behold the 

 character and diversity of this assembly. It reminds 

 me of the story told by Dr. Henry Van Dyke of the 

 little girl who asked her father : 



"Papa, where were you born?" 

 "In Boston, my dear," he answered. 

 "And where was mamma born?" 

 "In San Francisco, my dear." 

 "And where was I born?" 

 "In Philadelphia, my dear." 



"Well," said the little one, "isn't it funny how we 

 three people ever got together!" 



There are present, through the most altruistic mo- 

 tives, not only men to whom forestry is a science and 

 an occupation, but men whose business is the cutting 

 of the forest, and men who are neither lumbermen nor 

 professional foresters, but who occupy high places in 

 our national life and are interested in the forestry 

 movement because it is for the national good. 



There is to participate in the proceedings of this 

 convention the most distinguished forester in the nation 



