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it rages as in a Chicago or a San Francisco ; and in its seething caldron 

 disappears not only the last vestige of wood but the very soil itself. 



Last of all follows the rain. This, falling upon denuded slopes, is 

 transformed from a blessing into a curse; for whatever movable tiring 

 remains is swept by it clown the mountainsides to glut the streams 

 and harbors and insure the overflows which convert the streams of the 

 south into so many Hoang-hos or " rivers of sorrow." 



In the face of this process almost every legitimate interest of the 

 south is menaced. Natural beauty disappears like the splendor of the 

 butterfly clutched by the schoolboy. Agriculture, manufacturing, 

 transportation and the industries tangent thereto are doomed to pro- 



Dinkby Engine and Geared Locomotive, Douglas Spruce District. Operations 

 of Simpson Logging Co., Mason Co., Wash. 



digious losses and, in cases, to extinction. The whole region involved 

 is threatened. 



And the remedy? President Roosevelt, quoting and endorsing 

 Secretary Wilson, has put it tersely : " The preservation of the forests, 

 of the streams, and of the agricutural interests here described can be 

 successfully accomplished only by the purchase and creation of a 

 na'ional forest reserve." A cluster of thinkers, writers and publicists 

 have borne similar testimony. 



And why should a national forest reserve prove a remedy ? 



For this reason. There are in operation in our industrial life 

 to-day two principles. The one is that of private initiative, individual 

 profit and laissez fairc; the other is that of public ownership, and 



