CanadiarTForeslri] Journal, Juhf, 1917 



1213 



We ask you to watch your camp 

 fires as never before. Keep them 

 small and see that they are entirely 

 put out. Don't take chances, but 

 toss on a few spades of earth, or a 

 couple of buckets of water. 



We ask you to watch your lighted 

 tobacco. Don't throw away a lighted 

 cigarette or the heel of your pipe. It 

 sounds like an inconsequential request 

 but carelessness on the part of camp- 

 ers hunters and fishermen forces 

 Canada to pay a tremendous bill 

 every summer. 



We have about 10,000 forest fires 

 every year in this country^ten thou- 

 sand bids for desolation and human 

 misery. 



Give us a hand in cutting that ten 

 thousand by half. An ounce of 

 "Thrift" in Canada this year puts a 

 ton of weight on the country's enem- 

 ies! Thrift starts at your finger tips. 

 Watch them. Watch them every 

 time they handle any kind of fire in 

 or near a Canadian forest. 



Yours faithfully, 

 Canadian Forestry Association. 



Reachina the Public — The Meeting Method 



The holding of public meetings for 

 the discussion of public policies re- 

 lating to the care of the forests has 

 proved a most valuable means of 

 propagandist work. 



These meetings, through wide- 

 spread advertising in advance, have 

 attracted large audiences of men and 

 women, boys and girls, ninety per 

 cent, of whom had never encountered 

 the subject of forest conservation 

 from any but a casual point of view. 

 The subject can be made intensely 

 interesting to mixed audiences and, 

 with technical phases reduced to plain 

 language, and public responsibility 

 for conservation policies duly emphas- 

 ized, the impression upon auditors is 

 direct and permanent. Particularly 

 is this so when, as with all Association 

 meetings, hundreds of interesting and 

 'live' pictures are projected on the 

 screen. 



French Lectures 



French lectures will be commenced 

 during July by the Forestry Associa- 

 tion, co-operating with the Depart- 

 ment of Lands and Forests, Quebec. 

 Mr. Avila Bedard, of Quebec, will 

 deliver from ten to fifteen addresses, 

 illustrated by stereopticon, in the 

 Eastern Townships, and points such 

 as La Tuque, Chicoutimi, Grand 

 Mere, Three Rivers etc. 



In New Brunswick 

 Another series of French lectures 



will be delivered in the counties of 

 New Brunswick where French-speak- 

 ing citizens are numerous, and where 

 the question of better fire protection 

 and the protection of non-agricultural 

 lands is badly in need of better public 

 sentiment. 



The Secretary of the Forestry 

 Association recently returned from 

 New Brunswick where nine public 

 meetings were held, with very large 

 audiences at all but one point. Earlier 

 this year, lectures were given through 

 British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatch- 

 ewan, Manitoba and Ontario. 



The cost of these lectures bears 

 heavily upon the small resources of 

 the Association, as the meetings are 

 free to the public, and expenses of 

 advertising, printing, frequently the 

 hall rent, travelling outlays, etc. are 

 given no local assistance and must 

 come from the central treasury. 



From Rev. Fred. H. Graham, 

 Diocese of Kootenay, Nelson, 

 B. C. : 'Tt may interest you to 

 know that last Sunday, the King's 

 birthday, there was a Church Parade of 

 local Boy Scouts and Cadets, and in 

 their hearing and that of a crowded 

 congregation I read the excellent and 

 timely appeal of the Canadian For- 

 estry Association to the people of 

 Canada." 



