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most narrowly technical kind, usually have an opening for the introduction of 

 some phase of forestry in some degree. If neither forestry nor conservation 

 along general lines, it may be in connection with lumbering, fire prevention, 

 taxation, or some even more remotely associated question. The W. C. T. U. 

 was once induced to consider fire prevention, and to work for the detail of 

 United States troops for this purpose, by being shown it would remove the boys 

 from the temptation of army posts. 



Among the most obviously needed activities in this field of opportunities are : 



1. Systematically learning in advance the nature and date of all public 

 gatherings in the territory involved. 



2. Establishing relations with their governing authorities. 



3.- Having place made for forest topics on the program if possible. 



4. Providing speakers or furnishing material for their own speakers. 



5. Preparing resolutions to be presented. 



6. Arranging for attendance, with credentials, if necessary, by some one 

 who will look out for forest interests in discussion, on resolutions committee, 

 and with the press. 



There is not much to be added to these suggestions except that in negotiating 

 for place in the program of a mixed meeting, where forestry talks are to be 

 popular rather than technical, it usually is best to have them come just after or 

 better still just before those by prominent speakers on other subjects, so as to 

 obtain a large audience. If forestry appears more than once, better spread it 

 through different sessions, in the same way and for the same reason, than to 

 have a strictly forestry session which permits outsiders to escape and reaches 

 only those already in sympathy. 



PUBLICITY OF THE FORESTRY WORK OF THE CONSERVATION CONGRESS 



A PRELIMINARY report, covering suggested organization and advertising 

 / \ of both sectional and general forestry programs, was submitted last spring. 

 *■ »-Some of the suggestions concerning forestry meetings, discussed in the 

 foregoing pages, were applied particularly to this convention. 



In addition it suggested that the entire congress be modeled somewhat after 

 the annual conventions of the National Education Association, which has but 

 one general session a day in which all factions participate. Each branch holds 

 two sessions a day, in halls or hotel assembly rooms scattered about the city, 

 treating its own topic exclusively and as technically as possible. All join at the 

 daily general session, in some large auditorium, to hear men of national promi- 

 nence on subjects of common interest to all, and also, for the broadening of 

 outlook, to hear each others' topics presented in a comprehensive, popular way 

 designed for unfamiliar hearers rather than for those who deal with the same 

 topics in their own section meetings. 



Such a plan might tend to make the congress less of a medium for inspiring 

 laymen who attend out of general interest only, but would be far more appealing 

 to the actual workers in every branch of conservation who in the past have had 

 the minimum of opportunity to deliberate with fellow workers in different States. 



