purchase of more State Forests. These are two of 

 the fundamental policies of this administration. 



"The purchase of additional State Forests will be 

 an investment, not an expense an investment both 

 sound and profitable. It will not only pay in the 

 ordinary sense in returns upon the capital invested, 

 but it will be a powerful means of securing to our 

 people the supplies of timber without which, under 

 our form of civilization, there can be no assured 

 prosperity. Nor can we overlook their value for 

 conserving the health of our people, regulating the 

 flow of our streams, and for outdoor recreation. 



"Never forget that if we fail to provide for our 

 own needs in forest products no one else will do it for 

 us. The very solemn fact is that if we fail to do so, 

 neither in the other States of the Union, nor else- 

 where in the whole world, shall we be able to secure 

 what we need. The supplies of timber still available 

 in the South will be exhausted in ten or fifteen 

 years. What remains then will be in the Far West 

 and Alaska, and the $25,000,000 we are already an- 

 nually paying for freight on forest products will 

 seem small compared to what we shall pay then, as 

 long as the supply lasts. Within a generation that 

 supply will be scarce to the point of famine. 



"As with Pennsylvania among the States, so with 

 the United States among the Nations. No other part 

 of the world has or can supply us with the kinds 

 of timber we need if we fail to produce it ourselves. 

 Pennsylvania can not trust to the Nation; the Nation 

 can not trust to the world. We must grow what we 

 need or go without. 



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