The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-21
PLANS LAID FOR FORESTRY M [ [ I
Savannah Plans Royal Well come For Delegates To
 Sixth Congress

NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 2o.-with January 2s, 29 and 80, 1924, definitely set as the dates for the sixth forestry congress at Savannah, Ga.' plans for the congress are rapidly taking shape, according to the an nouncement here today of Secretary R. D. Forbes.
 c. B. Harmon, secretary of the Southern Sash, Door and Millwork Manufacturers association, who was appointed chairman of the entertain ment committee for the Savannah meeting at the fifth congress, has recently visited Savannah in com pany with President B. H. stone or the congress and H. G. Spahr, secre- tary of the Georgia Forestry asso- ciation, and reports that Savannah is arranging to give the congress royal greeting.
 Greatest Meeting Predicted
 The business men of Savannah, particularly of the naval stores ana lumber industries, are actively at work through the Board of Trade to provide a welcome and entertainment for what is predicted will be the greatest forestry meeting ever held in the United States.
 MT. Nelson T. Stephens. bublicity and convention secretary of the Savannah Board of Trade, is handling the local details for Mir. Harmon. and Thomas Hoynes ts chairman or the Savannah entertainment committee. / MT. Harmon is devoting his attention to extending interest in the enter tainment to the neighboring cities of Brunswick, Charleston and Jackson vile.
 Plans are now being worked out to have a committee of the congress. in- cluding President Bonnell H. stone of Blairsville, GA., and Col. Joseph Hyde Pratt of Chapel Hill. N. C.. who chairman of the executive committee of the congress, call on President Coolidge in Washington to extend an invitation to him to come to Savan- nah and adress the meeting.
 The Georgia senators will be inter ested in furthering the appeal and delegation may go from Savannah. In the event that the President cam not attend the congress, he will be urged to send a member of his cabi- net to represent him.
 Program Outlined.
 Details of the program have not been announced, but the policy which will govern the arrangement of topics and selection of speakers has been outlined by President Stone.
 Forestry will never be effectively impressed upon the people of the the movement not only the forest industries and the landowners, but also the bankers, jurists, business men and influential citizens from all walks of life.
 For this reason we plan to ar range our sessions SO that we may call upon men of all these types for their views, either in formal presen- tation or informally through discus- sion. A smaller number of formal speakers will be presented than at previous meetings, but their interests will be more varied, and there VIII be more opportunity for the frank expression of ideas on the part of every one present.
 "Our programs have never been technical in any sense. We realize that the success of the forestry movement depends on our reaching the private individuals and com panies which own over s9 per cent of the forest lands Of tho south. We have always given prominent part at our sessions to the lumbermen themselves. and by inviting men in other lines as we'll to discuss our problems we hope to impress upon the forest industries and upon the public that forestry Is concern for our whole people"
 Results From Alabama Meet.
 When the question of the next meeting place of the congress were being discussed at Montgomery last February, Savannah was given the choice because. of it's almost central location with reference to the three states of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida, all of which have been soliciting the aid of the congress In putting across forestry legislation.
 Georgia came within an ace of es- tablishing a state forestry depart ment at the last session of it's legis- lature, and both South Carolina and Florida have considered forestry bills at their last legislative sessions. It is the object of the Southern For estry congress to second the efforts of every southern state where local sentiment has awakened in favor of a forestry program.
 Officers of the congress believe that the fifth meeting, held at Mont gomery during the past year, in the course of which delegates addressed a joint session of the Alabama house and senate, had some effect in se- curing a successful outcome to the struggle for forestry legislation in ct