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the landowners are taught how to set out and 

 raise trees. Everyone has learned to respect the 

 timberlands. The woods are thought of as treas- 

 ures which must be carefully handled. The 

 average man would no more think of abusing the 

 trees in the forest than he would of setting fire 

 to his home. The foreign countries are now busy 

 working out their forestry problems of the years 

 to come. We in America are letting the future 

 take care of itself. 



Our States should aid generally in the work 

 of preventing forest fires. They should pass 

 laws which will require more careful handling of 

 private forest lands. They should pass more 

 favorable timber tax laws so that tree growing 

 will be encouraged. Uncle Sam should be the 

 director in charge of all this work. He should 

 instruct the states how to protect their forests 

 against fire. He should teach them how to re- 

 new their depleted woodlands. He should work 

 for a gradual and regular expansion of the Na- 

 tional Forests. The United States Forest Ser- 

 vice should have the power to help the various 

 states in matters of fire protection, ways of 

 cutting forests, methods of renewing forests and 



