AN EPIGRAPH 



by 



OTTO L. ANDERSON, 

 of Minnesota Forest Service 



This is the spot, This is the spot, 



Where once there stood, Where once there stood, 



A stand of Pine, A careless man, 



Both straight and good, Camped in the wood, 



A stand that smiled, Who threw the match, 



And laughed out loud, That burned the pine, 



And brightened the world, That flooded the world, 



Every time it bowed. With their bright sunshine. 



Newsprint Supplies 



THE FACTS AS TO DEPLETION 



Newsprint paper is one of the leading products of 

 the pulp and paper industry, which in its modern 

 development depends upon the forest for its raw 

 material. The present newsprint shortage goes back 

 fundamentally to our dependence for newsprint pro- 

 duction upon the forests of the Northeast and the 

 Lake States, where timber supplies have already 

 been seriously depleted, and where, considering the 

 remaining stands, the pulp and paper industry is 

 already seriously overdeveloped. 



Until the abnormal demands, short supplies, and 

 resulting prices of the past few months led to 

 increased newsprint production through the utiliza- 

 tion of plants designed for and formerly used in 

 making other kinds of paper, there had been no 

 expansion in the newsprint industry in the United 

 States since 1909. The demands for newsprint paper 

 had, however, been increasing by leaps and bounds. 



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