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FOREST PROTECTION WEEK 



WIDELY OBSERVED 



IVATION-WIDE observance was given 

 Forest Protection Week, which began 

 Sunday, May 22. The governors of 14 

 States issued proclamations impressing the 

 people with the importance of using every 

 possible precaution to prevent fire 

 throughout the year, not only in forests, 

 but in every other place endangering the 

 safety of human life and property. These 

 14 States are Arizona, California, Colo- 

 rado, Idaho, Illinois, Maine, Massachu- 

 setts, Mississippi, New Mexico, South Da- 

 kota, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Wis- 

 consin. 



In addition to this help the governors 

 of seven States; Minnesota, New York, 

 North Dakota, Oregon, Pennsylvania, 

 Texas, and Montana, prepared special 

 statements urging the general observation 

 of Forest Protection Week, while eight 

 governors declared themselves favorable 

 to the best possible form of forest protec- 

 tion, although issuing no formal proc- 

 lamation. These were Arkansas, Con- 

 necticut, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, 

 New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and South 

 Carolina. Other governors, known to be 

 friendly to the protection and conservation 

 of forests, doubtless have issued proclama- 

 tions or statements which have not been 

 received in Washington. 



Probably no previous effort inaugurated 

 by the Forest Service has received such 

 prompt and cheerful support from every 

 department of business. The Chamber of 

 Commerce of the United States ; the In- 

 ternational Kiwanis Clubs ; the American 

 Automobile Association; National Board 

 of Fire Underwriters; International As- 

 sociation of Rotary Clubs ; National 

 Fire Protection Association; the General 

 Federation of Women's Clubs in virtually 

 every State in the Union ; the Daughters 

 of the American Revolution, all have sent 

 out letters, or specially prepared circulars, 

 drawing attention to the special purpose 

 of the week. State Foresters in many 

 States have started one form or another 

 of publicity to induce talk and create con- 

 tinued interest in the one big subject of 

 the week. 



The Boy Scouts of America, considered 

 by the Forest Service to be one of its 

 most efficient allies in preventing forest 

 fires, issued a special forest protection 

 number of the monthly publication. "Scout- 

 ing," for May, and Forester W. B. Gree- 

 ley, and Chief Scout Executive James E. 

 West of New York, sent 10,500 letters 

 to scoutmasters and scout executives every 

 where in America. The Post Office De- 

 partment ran 22 fire prevention cancella- 

 tion dies in many of the principal post- 

 offices throughout the Nation so that 

 every letter sent from those offices car- 

 ried the message. 



In Washington, D. C, the D. A. R. ob- 

 served the occasion by planting trees. The 



American Forestry Association held a spe- 

 cial Forest Protection Week demonstration 

 in Rock Creek Park. The National Board 

 of Fire Underwriters sent out 160,000 

 copies of its official publication, Safe- 

 guarding America Against Fire, to every 

 city and town. In this issue it is shown 

 that in the last five years the forest fires 

 in 45 States have cost the country $85,- 

 715.747 for timber burned on nearly bG'/a 

 million acres. At least 80 per cent of 

 these fires were caused by human agencies 

 and were, therefore, preventable. 



The Red Plague, a special statement is- 

 sued last week by the Forest Service, says : 

 "Three-fifths of the original timber supply 

 in the United States is gone. There is 

 now consumed annually more than 51 bil- 

 lion board feet of material of saw-timber 

 size, and nearly 5 billion feet is destroyed 

 by fire, insects or other agencies. Our 

 depleted forests are growing less than 

 one-quarter of this total amount Not 

 only are remaining virgin forests being 

 cut heavily, but we are using up the second 

 growth and small material on which de- 

 pends our future supply. In all, the re- 

 quirements of our population are close to 

 300 board feet per capita. The answer to 

 the forestry problem is not to use less 

 wood, but to grow more to put our idle 

 acres to work producing trees. The crux 

 of the problem lies in preventing forest 

 fires." 



NEW YORK'S LIBERTY POLE RE- 

 STORED 



IVEW YORK is to get back its Liberty 

 Pole. Flag Day, Tuesday June 14, in 

 City Hall Park, a great flagstaff was 

 erected on the exact site of the old Lib- 

 erty Pole which stood there in 1766 and 

 was cut down by the British when they 

 occupied the city after the American army 

 evacuated New York. 



In the procession appeared delegations 

 from the New York Historical Society, 

 Sons of the Revolution, Society of the 

 Cincinnati, Society of Tammany, the 

 American Legion and representatives of 

 twenty-seven other historical and patriot- 

 ic societies in the city. 



It was a colorful procession. Tammany's 

 sachems appeared in Indian costume, as 

 they did upon their first appearance. 

 Flags of all our wars were carried. Sena- 

 tor Willis of Ohio was the orator of the 

 day, and President Olyphant presented the 

 pole to Mayor Hylan, while the children 

 from the public schools and the City His- 

 tory Club sang and Bishop Manning pro- 

 nounced the benediction. 



When the original Liberty Pole was 

 erected it should be understood that the 

 City Hall was then at the corner of Wall 

 and Nassau streets. What is now called 

 City Hall Park was a large space of prac- 

 tically unoccupied land belonging to the 

 city and known as the Common. 



There were five Liberty Poles in all, but 



