tional Forests have increased 93 per cent from 1915 

 to 1920, the total appropriation for the Forest Service, 

 exclusive of deficiency fire fighting funds, has in- 

 creased only 8 per cent. The receipts for 1920 were 

 10 per cent greater than for 1919 and an equal in- 

 crease for the current fiscal year may be expected, the 

 report states, unless too much new business has to 

 be rejected on account of lack of funds and trained 

 employees. The appropriations for the current fiscal 

 year, it is pointed out, were increased only 3 per cent. 

 In addition to the actual revenue, according to the 

 report, there is an enormous return to the public 

 through the protection of the 500 odd billion feet of 

 timber for future use, the protection of the headwaters 

 of innumerable feeders of navigation, irrigation and 

 hydroelectric power, and the recreational facilities 

 made available to hundreds of thousands of people. 

 "There will always be national resources not measur- 

 able in dollars which in public benefit exceed the 

 receipts paid into the Treasury," the report says. 



More Aid for Fire Fighting 



A meeting of the State Forestry officials was held 

 in Atlantic City on November 12 and 13 for the 

 purpose of considering the question of national for- 

 estry legislation. It was attended by representatives 

 of sixteen of the thirty-four forestry departments. 



The so-called Weeks' Law passed by Congress some 

 years ago appropriated moneys for the purchase of 

 certain forest lands on the headwaters of navigable 

 streams in the Eastern mountains and for protecting 



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