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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



"EVERYBODY LOSES WHEN THE FORESTS BURN," 



np^ HE call of the American Forestry As- 

 sociation on the editors of the country 

 to rally to the proclamation of President 

 Harding for Forest Pretection Week was 

 answered from every section of the coun- 

 try. Data from the Association's news 

 service was carried in full by hundreds ol 



SPEAKING OF FOREST PRESERVA- 

 TION HOLLAND HELPS- 



Berryman in the Washington Star. 



them and commented on. The Baltimore 

 Evening Sun fo\d the whole sto-y in a one 

 line editorial which said "Everybody loses 

 when the forest burns." This "one liner" 

 followed a longer one that went into the 

 forestry question at length. Some of the 

 comment in part follows : 



Collier's IVeekly: President Harding's 

 proclamation designating Forest Fire 

 Protection Week will have interest for 

 you when you know some of the important 

 facts behind it. 



Whether you buy, own, rent, or build, 

 the cost of the house you live in is materi- 

 ally affected by every forest fire which fur- 

 ther depletes this nation's, supply of lum- 

 ber timber. 



Berkeley (Calif.) Gazette: Forest Pro- 

 tection Week, will result in a still stronger 

 demand for a national forest policy in this 

 country, says a statement from the Ameri- 

 can Forestry Association. In the Snell For- 

 est Policy Bill is provision for cooperation 

 with the states in forest fire pre- 

 vention and the proclamation of Presi- 

 dent Harding will, the Association says, 

 go a long way toward putting this 

 important subject right up to the peo- 

 ple. National demand for a real practi- 

 cal national forest policy is evidenced by 

 the endorsement of the Snell Bill by nearly 

 100 organizations of all types of industri- 

 al and social groups in the United States. 



Providence Bulletin: The new bill in 

 congress is sponsored by the American 

 Forestry Association and favored by sev- 

 eral large groups of users of timber bod- 

 ies with interests so large and so wide- 

 spread they are not likely to want to mis- 



lead the government into an unprofitable 

 venture. Reforestation is insurance 

 against a form of bankruptcy in national 

 timber resources that is undoubtedly in 

 prospect if the country does not mend its 

 ways. 



Vtica Telegram : We Americans are a 

 reckless sort of people, in many ways. We 

 have been prodigal of the natural re- 

 sources with which Providence has en- 

 dowed us. Especially, have we wasted our 

 supply of timber, both by wantonly cutting 

 down more than we needed and, still more, 

 by not guarding against the hazard of fire. 



I'Vashingtnn Times: That little spiral of 

 smoke for which the forest ranger watches 

 in Oregon has a direct effect upon the man 

 in Maine who likes a Florida orange for 

 his breakfast now and then. 



If the spiral of smoke breaks into a 

 roaring, scorching forest fire we are all 

 affected. Do you buy a new hoe for the 



"I've Got What I Want" 



Giljhs in the Baltimore Evening Sun. 



garden this spring the forest fire hits you. 

 The hoe handle is made of wood ; your 

 breakfast orange comes in a wooden box 

 just as do thousands of other things touch- 

 ing your daily life. The price of lumber 

 influences the cost of your breakfast. 



Philadelphia Inquirer: That we .Ameri- 

 cans have scandalously wasted our great 

 natural resources is an admitted fact. For 

 years we have acted upon the theory that 

 they are boundless. This criminal extrav- 

 agance has been nowhere more evident 

 than in the destruction of our forests. *^ven 

 now, with all that has been said ur m f'le 

 subject, with all that has been Jon^ to 

 stay further recklessness, the importance 

 of forested areas to our national life is 

 still imperfectly realized. 



The Outlook : President Harding recently 

 proclaimed "Forest Protiection Week", 



and Secretary of Agriculture Wallace has 

 written letters to the Governors of all llic 

 States asking their cooperatiiiU in a na- 

 tion-wide observance. The effects men- 

 tioned by Mr. Wallace are reinforced by 

 those noted ivf a circular issued by the 

 American Forestry Association. It de- 

 clares that "fires destroy over $25,000,000 

 worth of timber evesy yea. and k'!l the re- 

 production upon thousands of acres if for- 

 est lands." Already we have a timlier 

 shortage, but within fifty years "it will be- 

 come a blighting timber famine." Forests 

 can be protected from fire, re-growth can 

 be encouraged and conservative cuttin:.^ 

 can be practiced. But it takes from filty 

 to one hundred years to mature a timber 

 crop. "Forest devastation must be stop- 

 ped, lands now in forest mu.=it be kept 

 continuously productive, and forest lands 

 now devastated and idle must be put to 

 work," concludes the American I'orestry 

 -As'-.ociation. 



People's Home Journal: From a wooden 

 bed, over floors of wood, through a wood- 

 en door to a breakfasf table of wood that 

 is probably your morning routine. At ta- 

 ble, in a newspaper made from pulp wood, 

 you read dispatches brought over wires 

 supported by wooden poles. Wood has 

 been called the "backbone of industry." 

 A dozen years ago President Roosevelt 

 first awakened the nation to the alarming 



THEN THERE IS THIS KIND OF 

 WORM. 



Knott in the Dallas Morning News. 



consequences of forest devastation. Does 

 not even a moment's thought serve to con- 

 vince you that the reforestation projects, 

 which have been revived again in Wash- 

 ington, demand your most earnest atten- 

 tion? 



Newark Evening News: By virtue of | 

 President Harding's proclamation for I 



