EDITORIAL COMMENT G5!) 



whole. It has succeeded in stirring up a Uvely discussion upon a 

 subject of immediate public- importance and, aided by the campaign 

 of the Forest Service to the same end, has impelled the Society to 

 take an active stand in a matter of concern not only to the Nation, 

 but also to the profession itself. 



We are glad, too, that the Committee has pursued its work in a 

 dignified way, trusting to facts and straightforward arguments to 

 carry home its points ; and this in the face of f recpent ridicule from 

 the lumber industry, which regarded the Committee as a sort of "lunatic 

 fringe" of the profession. This fringe, incidentally, appears to have 

 spread toward the center. 



Report of the Forestry Committee of the Eastern Shook and 

 Wooden Box Association 



The Eastern Shook and Wooden Box Manufacturers' Association is. 

 one of the few associations of wood-users to concern itself with the. 

 problem of wood shortage. This organization, which covers the New 

 England field, has made a careful study of the situation and its, 

 Forestry Committee has made a most excellent report. This com- 

 mittee has had the benefit of advice and assistance from the various 

 State Foresters in New England. 



The report approves the present State fire laws, but urges more 

 adequate appropriations for their execution. It also recommends laws 

 to provide for the disposal of slash on logging areas and along rail and 

 wagon roads in States where such laws are now lacking, together with 

 measures for the lopping of tops after dumbering. 



Of special interest is the suggestion that all lumbering operations be 

 placed under license, and that cutting permits be required from the 

 State Foresters, such permits to contain suitable regulations for the 

 prevention of forest devastation, and the owners to receive certain 

 emoluments and benefits (chiefly through a change in the svsteni of 

 forest taxation, i)ointing toward a yield tax). 



The report is somewhat weakened by its approval of the Granville 

 Bill which, at that time, was before the Maine legislature (this bill 

 failed of passage). The Granville Bill provided for the crjeation of 

 auxiliary State forests through the voluntary action of private forest 

 owners, oflfering certain inducements to that end. Such legislation is 

 wrong in principle and has been proved wholly ineffective in actual 

 practice. Lumbermen have not stopped devastating their lands vol- 



