Pulp^'wood Logs Dashing along a Waterslide (page 6) 



less essential for the public welfare is 

 the protection of the forests upon the 

 Southern Applachian Mountains in 

 which head the great streams from the 

 Ohio to the Savannah, which are of 

 vital importance to the South for power 

 and navigation. The interstate rela- 

 tions are so many that the individual 

 states cannot be expected to protect 

 these forests. The national govern- 

 ment alone is equal to it. They should, 

 therefore, be purchased and made into 

 National Forests, to be administered 



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as are the National Forests of the 

 West. 



The timber resources of the South 

 must be perpetuated — will be perpetu- 

 ated. W^e cannot get along without 

 them — the vSouth cannot get along 

 without them. Great damage has been 

 wrought, but it is not too late to mend. 

 Action, however, should be adequate, 

 prompt, and vigorous. The Southern 

 Commercial Congress, the exponent of 

 the new South, can devote its energies 

 to uo better cause than this. 



