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Show I OR EST WEEK TO COS'TIM E American Forest "Week for 192." 'will begin Sunday, April 18. according accord-ing to announcement made l;e:e today to-day at the office of the American i oiet Week Committee. Fre-il- U.U Voll'Ute w il lj r..i: ted to coitrirni lliia date and issue the customary cus-tomary prcsiiicnlial proclamaXion followini-; li!- rustom and that of the late President Harding. This will be ithe fifth annual observance of a special week set aside for forestry education. n r.,re t W;e'.: Committee Com-mittee has now definitely arranged to continue its work on a pjrmanert basis and the eighty cooperating as-j cciations that last year contributed i . the .i.n-A-.ime of ilia week have j Eli signified ihe'r in ention of con-t'nuing con-t'nuing their cooperation. Honorable Hon-orable Frank O. Lowden of Illinois -ai re-elected Chairman of the Committee; Mr. It. 3. Kellogg of : ' -.. 'link, Clia'rtuai of thj Ex-rra:-Te Cc-nniittee; Mr. Allen of : .Washington, Managing Director; Miller Hamilton of Washington, Secretary; Ai'hur Ringland of Washington.-. Treasurer, who. make up the administrative staff. The Committee is financed by voluntary contributions, much of the work of printing and distributing literature I being by variou j cooperating asso ciations, j At the annual meeting of the General Committee, these directoi'3 re elected: Mrs. John TJiciinson 1 f lit! man, General Federation of Wo- men's Clubs; Elbert H. Baker, A-pierican A-pierican Newspaper Publishers Assertion; Asse-rtion; Win. B." Gteely, Chief of the United States Forest Service, Department Depart-ment 'of Agriculture; Wilson Comp-j ton, National Lumber Manufacturers Manufactur-ers Association; R. S. Kellogg. As. social ed Advertising Clubs of the World, and National Forestry Program Pro-gram Committee; E. T. Allen, West-j ern Forestry and Conservation Association; As-sociation; A. J. Hager, Friends of the Forest; Arthur C. Ringland, National Na-tional Conference on Outdoor Recreation; Recre-ation; Ovid 31. Butler, American 'Forestry Association; and R. Y. Stuart, Association of State Foresters. Forest-ers. Preliminary to the spring opening of fhe 19 2 6 American--Forest Week campaign, v,crk is prcci easing 'n tne compilation of a grea'; mass of ma terial Inclarns bon1.-, ,pamphlets. circulars, posters, and school p.o-grams. p.o-grams. Last year nearly a half M'U.on i,.l..js of literature were sent o I firu t!:r: -."a.,h'u;on head-V. head-V. jrtc:s, thsa'ins v. iih the protection, protec-tion, propagation, and reforestation v public and private lands suitable or timeber grow.h. Fire protection protec-tion is one of the prettiest tingle phases of this work, as a careful estimate esti-mate of the actual and potential loss from fo:est fire3 during the year 1925 is placed at five hundred million mil-lion dollars. |