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TOPICS ASSIGNED 



1. Publicity at the meetings of various popular and technical 

 organizations. 



3. Publicity of the forestry work of the Conservation Congress, both 

 of the general congress and of the Forestry Committee. 



3. Publicity through the press, looking particularly to the arousing of 

 public interest in fire protection, taxation, and State forestry. 



4. Publicity methods and devices useful to fire associations and other 

 forest protective agencies. 



The full report of this committee as printed, covers the four topics assigned. 

 An introductory chapter presents in a new way the necessity for publicity since: 

 "Public education is the chief measure of progress in forestry." 



Some of the conclusions of the committee are that : 



1. Progress in forestry depends more on what the public will permit 

 than upon foresters and lumbermen. Consequently, public education is ot 

 primary importance. 



3. Education is a matter of publicity and publicity is a trade in itself. 

 It cannot be practised intuitively. 



3. Since no one else has the interest or the requisite forestry knowledge, 

 foresters and lumbermen must learn this trade. 



4. It is not forests, but the use of forests, that we seek to perpetuate. 

 Therefore, to be sound and convincing, educational publicity must include 

 the lumber business. So long as the public believes forestry good and 

 lumbering bad, there will be confusion and no real progress. 



In addition to presenting a full report, the sub-committee assisted during the 

 year in preparing the forestry program and arranging section meetings, and in 

 giving publicity to the forestry features of the congress. 



Committee 3. 



FEDERAL FOREST POLICY 



Chairman, Jos. N. Teal Chairman, Oregon Conservation Commis- 

 sion, Portland, Ore. 



Hon. A. F. Lever Congressman, Lexington, S. C. 



Robert P. Bass Ex-Governor New Hampshire, Peterboro, 



N. H. 



E. G. Griggs President, St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Co., 



Tacoma, Wash. 



F. E. Olmsted Consulting Forester, Boston, Mass. 



TOPICS ASSIGNED 



1. Needed legislation in national forestry. 



3. National versus State control of national forests. 



3. Economics of timber supply in relation to production and con- 

 sumption. 



4. Details of national forest administration. 



The first three topics as above listed are covered by separate sections in 

 the report. The subject is one of the broadest and most important before the 



