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magazine articles and literature of other kinds. Mr. Southworth, B/ev. 

 Father Burke and myself were appointed a committee. We skipped our 

 lunch hour, brought in a report at the afternoon session, and the Journal 

 was established with Mr: Campbell as Editor. Some two years age his duties 

 made it necessary for him to resign, and the Directors appointed me Editor. 

 I had many ideas as to what the Editor of a Forestry Journal should do. Of 

 course, the first thing was to get important papers from people whose opinions 

 carried weight, and I did the best I could along these lines. But I also 

 thought that as Editor I should write editorials, or go to some one else who 

 could write them. I very soon found that editorials on the lines of the reso- 

 lutions we passed at this Association could not be printed in a Forestry Jour- 

 nal. As a matter of fact we were subsidized though that is perhaps not tbe 

 proper word not only by the Federal Government, but by the Provincial 

 Governments, and our very life depended on the money we received from 

 them. That made it necessary to be very careful what we said about 

 them in the way of criticism. More than that, every one connected with the 

 Forestry Journal was an employee, either of the Federal or of a Provincial 

 Government. That meant that even if our Directors gave us a free hand, 

 we, as individuals, would have to be very careful what we should print. I 

 don't think anybody has any idea of criticizing the methods, but the Forestry 

 Journal should certainly be put before the people of Canada in such a way 

 that the newspapers could weigh, what we, as an Association, think about 

 this, that or the other thing. As a matter of fact all we have done is to print 

 articles which the newspapers may quote if they wish ; but those articles are 

 quoted as the sayings of individuals. Two years ago Senator Edwards gave 

 us one of the best articles we ever had in the Forestry Journal. If that 

 article had been an editorial backed by this Association, it would have been 

 quoted from one end of the Dominion to the other. As a matter of fact, it was 

 printed simply as Senator Edwards' own special ideas, and when quoted was 

 given as coming from an individual. As a Forestry Association we are 

 placed in a pretty difficult position. Last year I resigned the editorship 

 because I felt that I was unable to make the Journal the success it deserves 

 to be. What I had hoped to accomplish I found impossible, so I got out. 

 I think the last two numbers, edited by Mr. Jacombe, rank with the best 

 publications of its kind we have ever had in the whole world. (Applause.) 

 I say of its kind. We have had not only good articles, but notes of what 

 other people have said and done, what is being said and done in other countries, 

 and it is good ; first-class. But to my mind it does not serve the purpose of 

 this Association is spreading the ideas that we want to spread. The Journal 

 is without editorials; it is without backing; there is nothing in it that com- 

 pels anybody to say that the Association has done this or that. The news- 

 paper bulletins that Mr. Campbell has referred to are being printed all over 

 the country and doing a lot -of good work ; still there should be some way of 

 reaching the public with the backing of this Association. To my mind, we 

 cannot do this as long as we Government employees are responsible for the 

 work. I don't know whether anybody will agree with me in that, but after 



