THE APPALACHIAN NATIONAL FOREST 



ASSOCIATION 



By J, H. Finney, Secretary 



TWO matters of great importance the fight we are making for National 



to our work are making these action. We feel that if we can once get 



"strenuous days" for us and are the South to see the commercial im- 



engaging our utmost activity. portance of the Appalachians to it, that 



The first of these is the wgrk we are we shall arouse in these commercial 



doing and planning in connection with bodies an aggressive and powerful 



the Southern Commercial Congress, agency of good. 



which meets here in Washington, De- The other matter is also "worth 

 cember 7 and 8, during what might be while," for the Agricultural Committee 

 termed "Conservation Week," for fol- gives to us on December 9 another hear- 

 lowing their meeting the Great Na- ing on the Appalachian question, this 

 tional Rivers and Harbors Congress time on Senate Bill 4825, being the bill 

 assembles for a three-day session on which passed the Senate last session 

 December 9, 10, and 11, while the Gov- and which was referred to the House 

 ernors and their advisers meet again in Committee on Agriculture. This hear- 

 conference, this time, with the National ing is most timely, for we ought to 

 Conservation Commission on December be able to present, through the conser- 

 8 for a two or three day session. vation forces here at that time, the im- 

 The Southern Commercial Congress portance of the matter, and the over- 

 promises to mark a new mile-post in whelming sentiment in the matter that 

 Southern affairs and thought. It is the Nation is demanding this piece of 

 to be a gathering of the brains of the legislation and intends to have it! We 

 South in a program of presentation and feel that in no higher or more useful 

 interpretation of the South's resources way could these several bodies serve 

 in men and opportunity and material the country, and more effectively 

 things — topics handled by men best further the conservation idea than by 

 qualified to discuss them intelligently getting squarely behind this legislation 

 and forcefully on the broadest lines, — and making their wishes known in un- 

 not only that the South has these things, mistakable terms. 



but what they should mean to the So, in this we are working to get 



South, to the Nation, to the world at out these influences and effectively 



large. using them at the hearing. 



It is a big conception, rightly Our Association has just sent out 



planned, as to time and place, and our suggested resolutions to practically 



part in it will not be insignificant, for every Bbard of Trade or Chamber of 



we are asked to present the Appalachian Commerce in the South, requesting 



Forest Question at that time. What we their adoption and early return to us. 



are going *to do is to present it right, We have prepared and have mailed a 



and, working in cooperation with the brief review of the Appalachian- White 



Forest Service, we will decorate the Mountain project, which is quoted be- 



small ballroom of the New Willard low, giving the scope, its present statu-, 



with a complete exhibit of maps, dia- and pointing the way to success, to 



grams, pictures, transparencies, printed all the leading papers in the South, ask- 



matter, etc. and in every way possible ing for their editorial comment and 



enlist the active aid of these men in cooperation. 



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