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Canadian Forestry Journal, May, 19/9 



IS THIS BORROWED MONEY OR REVENUE? 



(A Statement by Dr. C. D. Howe, before Toronto Board of Trade.) 



"Our so-called forest revenues are not reve- 

 nues at all. They represent so much money 

 taken from the capital stock; an average of 1.5 

 million dollars m Ontario for the past ten years, 

 and nearly the same for the province of Quebec. 

 It is not revenue at all; it is borrowed money. 

 You are already paying exorbitant interest on it 

 in the steadily rising pulpwood and lumber 

 prices, and you will pay a higher rate each year 

 so long as the practice of borrowing is con- 

 tinued. Also, because we are each year re- 

 ducing our forest capital and so restricting its 

 production you contribute in the aggregate large 

 sums of money to pay the wages of lumbermen 

 in the States instead of paying our own lumber- 



men. You do this every time you buy southern 

 pine to furnish your house, and practically 

 every house I have entered in my ten years 

 residence in Toronto contains more or less 

 southern pine. 



"This borrowed capital must be restored to 

 the forest either in the form of planting or in 

 the form of regulated logging operations — prob- 

 ably both, if our lumbering and pulpwood in- 

 dustries are continuously to be maintained even 

 at their present capacities. Either method of 

 restoration will be very costly, but you or your 

 children because of your previous neglect will 

 be compelled to pay the price. The longer you 

 wait, the higher the price." 



WINNING THE PEOPLE FOR FOREST PROTECTION 



The Canadian Forestry Association is now 

 busily engaged carrying out an extensive pro- 

 gramme in rousing the pub-Hc to active co- 

 operation in forest protection. 



Our newspaper publicity bureau has had 

 uncommonly hearty aid from the editors of 

 English and French newspapers in all parts of 

 Canada. Articles and editorials on forest pro- 

 tection and reforestation are appearing with- 

 out stint and at a season of the year when in- 

 terest in the subject is most productive of 

 benefit. 



Lectures, with motion picture illustrations, 

 have been given by Mr. Robson Black before 

 many audiences in Ontario and Quebec, two 

 large and influential gatherings being arranged 

 during April under the auspices of the Royal 

 Canadian Institute at Toronto University, and 

 the Canadian Club of Kingston, Ont. 



Our Railway Demonstration Car, is now being 

 outfitted on a scale much more extensive than 

 applied to last year's car, and will make a tour 

 of scores of communities in Eastern Canada, 

 motion picture lectures being given in local 

 halls each evening. 



The Association now possesses two complete 

 motion picture projectors and ten reels of 

 picture film, the latter being used for circula- 

 tion in regular theatres where opportunity offers. 



Mr. A. H. Beaubien, who conducted many 

 successful French lectures for the Canadian 

 Forestry Association last year, will start during 

 the last week of May for Quebec points to hold 

 a series of public meetings to stimulate public 



interest in fire protection. Mr. Beaubien this 

 year will have the aid of excellent motion 

 pictures. 



Meetings will be organized by the Association 

 in Northern Ontario early in June and a series 

 of illustrated talks given. The usual audience 

 in Northern Ontario for Forestry Association 

 meetings averages above three hundred persons. 



As was done last year, hundreds of brief and 

 pointed cartoons and fire warnings, in the form 

 of lantern slides, are being sent to tlie motion 

 picture theatres m forested districts for use 

 between the reels of film. This is a potent 

 means of reaching large numbers of people. 



New forms of educational literature have 

 been issued and carefully distributed to Cana- 

 dian schools, as follows: 



19,000 to New Brunswick. 

 5,000 to Nova Scotia. 

 2,000 to British Columbia. 



15,000 to Ontario. 



35,000 to Quebec. 

 2,500 special pieces of school reading to 

 school teachers of the Western Provinces. 



The foregoing publications are being supple- 

 mented from month to month by other novel 

 reading matter, arranged in such form as to 

 gain sure attention. 



In New Brunswick, Quebec and Ontario, 

 Quebec and Ontario, many of the rangers are 

 visiting the schools personally and reading in- 

 teresting stories supplied by the Forestry As- 

 sociation, to the classes of children. 



