GUARDING AGAINST EROSION 

 'RipTap" and Framework on Mississippi River. Protecting Bank from Washing and Caving Away 



the establishment of the forests will be 

 powerless to prevent favorable action 

 at the next session. 



Business Men Should Take Part 



IN ORDER to make doubly sure of 

 such favorable action, however, it is 

 necessary that business men and busi- 

 ness organizations, such as commercial 

 clubs, etc., should take a positive stand 

 and voice their opinions in decided 

 language. So far as we know, no com- 

 mercial organization in the East has as 

 yet opposed the establishment of these 

 two national forests ; but there has in 

 many instances been a lack of positive 

 approbation and decided utterance on 

 the part of such organizations. If the 

 business bodies and the business men 

 of the sections afifected will between 

 now and November 3 take a determined 

 and decided stand in favor of imme- 

 diate enactment of measures that will 

 provide for the establishment of the 



two forests, and will take the trouble 

 to let their opinions be known and fully 

 understood by their representatives, or 

 by candidates who are to be voted for 

 on November 3, it seems certain that 

 the establishment of the forests will be 

 provided for. It will not do however, 

 to relax effort; a continued program of 

 educational work and uninterrupted de- 

 mand for the enactment of such a law 

 is vitally necessary, and this program 

 should not be discontinued with the 

 election. It should go right on, follow- 

 ing the general election, until Congress 

 convenes, and should be continued by 

 able and tactful representation during 

 the sessions of Congress and until the 

 bills for such establishment have finally 

 passed both houses. 



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The Forest Holocaust 



nPHE long season of rainless 



weather, the tinder-like condition 



of woods and fields, which affects prac- 



