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ties will bring every influence to bear to 

 establish anew the dignity of labor. It 

 must be confessed at the present time that 

 Canadians, like Americans, are abandon- 

 ing manual work as fast as they can to 

 newcomers from Europe and Asia. Either 

 the creation of a peasant class must be 

 squarely faced at this time or the dignity 

 and the vital need of labor must be duly 

 impressed on Canada's native sons. "We 

 must return to the ways of our fathers. 

 We must all work if we would be strong, 

 and we must be strong if we would work. 



FORESTRY AND FOREST ENGINEERING 



The need for the study of forestry and 

 of horticulture is becoming better recog- 

 nized. Wisconsin has a forest-products 

 laboratory built by the federal government 

 and maintained by the state university, in 

 which such problems as those which are 

 now engaging the attention of the Fifth 

 National Conservation Congress are stud- 

 ied. Every one interested in agriculture 

 needs to know about shelter belts, the care 

 of fruit trees and kindred subjects. Not 

 only for forestry in relation to agriculture 

 but for forest engineers there is an increas- 

 ing demand. In such countries as British 

 Columbia, the provincial government needs 

 them for the proper conservation and in- 

 telligent use of its forest resources, and the 

 Dominion government for its large timber 

 holdings, whilst the transcontinental rail- 

 ways have in their possession vast forest 

 tracts. ■ 

 ■ The important corporations whose opera- 

 tions are extensive in lumbering industries 

 will need men who are trained in botany, 

 animal biology, chemistry, physics, mathe- 

 matics, engineering, economics and com- 

 merce, in order that they may fulfil those 

 functions which they may reasonably be 

 called upon to perform. 



ENGINEERING, ARCHITECTURE, MINING AND 

 COMMERCE 



In Canada pioneering has spelled engi- 

 neering. We lay out and build roads and 

 railroads, construct bridges, tunnel moun- 

 tains, discover, measure and harness water 

 powers, prospect for and produce from 

 mines, and in every way possible explore 

 and develop our country, realizing at the 

 same time that as yet we have not well 

 begun. We have to develop our resources 

 and facilities for our own use and also in 

 order that we may exchange our commod- 

 ities with other nations. Chemistry, 

 physics and biology have all to be utilized 

 in our manufacturing processes in increas- 

 ing degree. Our people have to be housed 

 and so have our industries, we and our 

 products have to be transported. We must 

 fetch to and carry from other nations. 

 Naval architecture and building must be 

 improved even yet. Markets and market- 

 ing require most careful investigation and 

 report. Business needs to be put on the 

 plane of a profession and in our univer- 

 sities, pulpits and forums, only one brand 

 of ethics need be taught. The golden rule 

 brought down to date will serve this and 

 many other generations. 



For all these activities we must busy our- 

 selves in training men. Our universities 

 need no longer argue the question of 

 whether college men can "make good" in 

 the practical walks of life. The people 

 want more of them. That is why they are 

 providing the provincial and state univer- 

 sity with departments, schools and colleges 

 to develop these branches. 



Pioneering is the struggle with nature, 

 the fight with things, the adjustment of the 

 rest of the world to man. As soon as we 

 arrive at the stage when we touch elbows — 

 begin to be "civilized" forsooth — we have 



