Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-16
SECRETARY WILSON SPEAKS
Welcomes the Delegates to the District
of Columbia.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEES WORK
DR.. Edward Everett Hale Delivers Ad.
dress and is Given Ovation
Program Of the Sessions,

The annual convention of the American
Forestry Association opened this morn
Ing at 10 o'clock in the New Willard Hotel
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson. president
OF the association, called the meeting to or
der and delivered an address of welcome,
In which he highly praised the efforts OF
the organization and predicted a greater
measure OF success in the next few years
The Secretary uttered q clear note Of warm
Ing against the wholesale reduction of
woodland area In the country. No nation
on earth is as successful In the work of de-
stroyfng Its forests the United States"
he declared. North, south, east and west,
he said the axmen have been and are yet
busy Telling trees.
He said the indiscriminate mutilation of
the forests must be stopped and asserted
that the matter had become one of ma
tienal interest which could not be ignored.
In view OF the wide clearing of timber
lands, he said. the thing to be done is
to- re-foreSt the country. To this end he
continued. the association should have the
active assistance of Congress. He thought
and that every year should mark an adj
vance OF notable significance in the effort
to recover lost ground
How to plant the right kind of trees In
the risht places is the great problem for
US for the future" he said He referred In
pleasant terms to the presence of the la
dies, and in closing told his hearers TO take
what they saw and to ask for what they
didn't see while sojourning I'm the canttaI
city. rA
Report of Directors.
Secretary Wilson was compelled tn
leave early to attend a cabinet meeting.
and Mr.. William s. Harvey Of PhfIadel-
phia was called to the chair. The next
business before the association was the
reading of the report of the board of d.
rectors by Mr.. II. NJ. Suter, the secretary
1t was shown by this paper that the assoc
citation had about doubled it's membership
in the past year and that about 300, 600
acres of private land have been brought
under the advisory direction of the asso-
citation.
The formation of two new state bodies
for the protection of forestry-one In
Michigan and the other in Ohio-was re-
ported, and it was shown that the state
associations We're receiving active encour-
agement from the national body. The
movement for the establishment OF reser~
vations of forestry in the White mountain
region Of New Hampshire and the Appa-
lachian range in North Carolina was
strongly Endorsed.
DR.. Hale Given Ovation.
The reading of the report of Mr.. OTTO
Luebkert, showing the financial affairs of
the organization TO be in excellent shape.
followed, and them amid exclamation, the
chairman presented Rev. DR.. E. E. Hale.
who delivered short but stirring address
in which he made a forceful appeal Tor
both common sense and sentiment in deal
ing with the forestry question. He SAID
that the individuals interested In the mat
ter could not accomplish anything defnlte
and lasting unless the states and the gem
eral government could be induced to give
the cause the aSsis stance which ii merits.
He decried the telling of vast numbers OF
trees for purely private interests When
those interests, In that measure, CONNECTED
he good
of Europe. he said, relied largely upon their
forest lands for revenue. In his opinion
similar condition could be and should be
brought about in this country.
Short addresses were delivered by Mr..
cambridge of New York and Mr.. Samuel
B. Elliott of Pennsylvania, the former call
ing attention to the large annual waste
in pulp-furnished by the trees. turned into
second-class mail matter and relegatet TO
the waste basket-and the latter giving
description of the forest condition in west
ern Pennsylvania.
The following committees were then ap-
pointed: Committee on resolutions, Mr.. Pin
chot, chairman, and Messrs. Harvey and
Ayers; committee on audit work, Capt.
Adams, chairman, and Mr.. Whittlesey;
committee revision OF laws, Mr.. Hall,
chairman, and Messrs. Cutler, STAR, Har-
vey and Herbert Smith: committee on nomi-
nations, Prof Graves. chairman, and Mr..
Fox: committee on utilization, Mr.. Lippen-
colt, chairman and Messrs. Gaskell Start.
Cutler and Forbes; committee on forest res
erEati0n Dill, MI. w OOOFuN, CnAiTtubu, anu
Messrs. Cutler, Harvey and Ayers.
Mr. Robert c. Lippencott of Pennsylvania
made short address. and Mr.. Clifford Pin
chot was called TO the chair to take the
place of Mr.. Harvey, who was compelled
to leave at that tuncture. Others who
made short talks on Various phases of for
estry were Mr.. E A. Start, secretary of the
Massachusetts. Forestry Association; Mr.
George X. Smith OF Missouri, secretary OF
the National Lumber Manufacturing Assoc
citation, and State Senator Stout Of Wis
conSin.
The Afternoon Session.
The morning session adjourned at 1890.
and owing to its havhg been somewhat
longer than was expected, the session this
afternoon did not begin until 2:3o. Tho
program for the afternoon session opened
with the topic, Forest and Water Prob
lens" Those contributing to the discus
sion were Mr.. Arthur p. Davis, assistant
chief engineer United States reclamation
neer United States reclamation service,
and ME- c. J. Blanchard.
At the meeting tomorrow morning the as
ISOLATION will consider the question of the
White mountain and Appalachian range
reservations. Addresses will then be de-
lyered by Senator Burnham of New Hamp-
shire, Senator Simmons of North Carolina,
former Gov. Rollins of New Hampshire.
Senator Overman of North Carolina and
Representative Currier-
A reception to the visiting members Will
and Mrs James w. Pinchot and Mr. Clifford
Pinchot at their home. 1915 Rhode island
avenue.