NEWS AND NOTES 



Mr. Theodore S. Woolsey, Jr., writes us: 



"Quite a few professional foresters have mistaken my meaning 

 in an article published in American Lumberman in 1916, 

 entitled "Can National Forests be made Self Supporting ?" This 

 misunderstanding was due to a number of poorly worded sentences 

 from which it might be inferred that I thought the Forest Service 

 was not increasing the grazing fees simply because it was playing 

 politics. The meaning which I intended to express was that the 

 National Administration and Congress would not permit the 

 Department of Agriculture or the Forest Service to raise these 

 fees because of the difficulty of convincing Western stock men and 

 voters that it was a fair increase. The "politics" referred to was 

 outside the Forest Service rather than within; at the same time I 

 felt the Service, itself, had not been aggressive enough in fighting 

 for an increase in the past. I do not impugn the motives of the 

 Forester. It is well known that the Forester is in favor of in- 

 creasing the grazing fees, but that he has not hit, as yet, upon the 

 proper ways and means for accomplishing this purpose. Some 

 of his subordinates in grazing may, on the other hand, doubt the 

 advisability of an increase — however, this is beside the point that 

 leads me to make this statement." 



Every publisher is in a quandary about the sudden rise of prices 

 for newsprint paper, and Trade Commissions on both sides of the 

 line are investigating the reason. And there does not seem to be 

 a limit to paper prices reached, for according to the Secretary of 

 the Newsprint Manufacturing Association, the indications are 

 that after January 1, 1917, the price of wood pulp will be practi- 

 cally double, and of chemical even three to four times what it 

 was a year before. 



In answer to a circular letter from the Commission at Wash- 

 ington, some startling statements regarding pulpwood supplies 

 are made in a letter by Mr. Frank J. D. Barnjum, President of a 

 ntmiber of timberland, lumber and pulpwood companies, to the 

 Federal Trade Commission. We have been privileged to see, 

 and have permission to divulge, its important contents. 



Mr. Barnjum, having for years dealt in New England timber- 

 lands and having lately made a close canvass from township to 



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