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A "COLUMN CONDUCTOR" ON 

 FORESTRY 



Editor's Note: The following article is 

 by Don Marquis, one of the most widely 

 known "column conductor's" in the country 

 and his daily column in the New York Sun 

 IS widely read and quoted. 



THE ALMOST PERFECT STATE 

 TN the Almost Perfect State no man man 



shall be allowed to cut down a tree un- 

 less he plants at least two. 



The pig that lies down in the trough 

 wastes half of his own swill. Greed is 

 always stupid. The wanton destruction 

 of the national resources in this country 

 must be paid for not only by this genera- 

 tion, but by the next one and the next 

 one after that. 



Formerly in thoughtlessness, and now 

 in a callous disregard of the prosperity 

 of millions living and of millions yet to 

 be born, the timber owners of America 

 have wasted and are wasting one of the 

 most splendid gifts of nature in their 

 blind haste for the immediate dollar, 

 cheating themselves, cheating their neigh- 

 bors and cheating posterity. 



A gift of nature, we say . . . but in 

 reality nature has her prices, too. The 

 earth will work in partnership with hu- 

 manity and cheerfully render up her in- 

 creases, but likewise the earth demands 

 fair treatment. The soil not only gives, 

 but it exacts, and in the large economy of 

 continents and worlds the scales and bal- 

 ances are nice to the weight of an ounce 

 of potash. Let a tribe cheat the earth . . 

 coin its rainfall and its heat and its wind 

 into dollars beyond present need and 

 reason, use up within this decade all the 

 nitrates the soil was putting into a savings 

 bank for future generations, always taking 

 and giving nothing in return, always reap- 

 ing and never sowing . . . and the earth 

 will take a vengeance upon that tribe: 

 choke the streams and overlay the valleys 

 with sand, and then sulk for a century or 

 so in sullen infertility. 



Unscientific lumbering not only has de- 

 stroyed millions in present wealth and fu- 

 ture wealth of timber alone, but it has 

 done a more comprehensive work of ruin 

 than that. It makes deserts. Deserts of 

 the slopes upon which the trees stood, and 

 deserts of all the surrounding lands de- 

 pendent upon the forest reserves of water 

 for their vegetation and for the rejuve- 

 nation of the soil. 



A forest not only attracts rainfall, but 

 it conserves it; the roots of the trees and 

 of the underbrush hold it in the 

 ground, and through the springs and 

 creeks it is slowly distributed to the adja- 

 cent plains and valleys. But with the for- 

 est gone the rainfall passes off at once in 

 freshets; there is a season of flood and a 

 season of drought ; the floods carry the 

 arable soil into the creeks and rivers ; 

 where vegetation was, there is Sahara; 



where the streams were navigable they 

 are choked with dirt; where there was 

 water power, there are winding beds of 

 sand. 



And as vegetation declines throughout 

 a region the rainfall which was attracted 

 by that vegetation, and withheld in its in- 

 tricate nets, more and more withdraws. 

 The climate changes. Drought becomes 

 permanent. And so we have millions of 

 acres laid waste through the greed or ig- 

 norance of the timber slashers who killed 

 five growing trees to reach one grown 

 one because it seemed more profitable at] 

 the moment to lumber in that fashion.! 

 Was it not their own land; had they not' 

 bought that timber? Why, yes the next 

 generation be damned, and to Gehenna 

 with the surrounding country. 



And the next generation is damned with 

 poverty, and the surrounding country does 

 become a sort of arid Gehenna. For the 

 earth takes at their word and in their 

 spirit the tribes that crawl and chatter 

 upon its shaggy flanks, and the foolishness 

 of the fathers is visited upon the sons 

 even beyond the third and fourth genera- 

 tions. 



However merciful Heaven may be, this 

 earth swings onward in a humor that is 

 roughly and grimly just, and the clans 

 that are not honest with it are crushed 

 beneath the vast, impersonal revenges of 

 its going. 



The Government of the Almost Perfect 

 State will be based upon a study of the 

 earth itself, and its moods and spirit. 



DON MARQUIS. 



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W^ITH the best success, little can be ex- 

 pected in less than five years by the 

 Austrian government in its work of re- 

 constructing the lumber industry of that 

 country, reports the United States Trade 

 Commission in Vienna. The potential pro- 

 duction of lumber of present Austria is 

 estimated from 141,240,000 cubic feet to 

 176,550,000 cubic feet annually. To realize 

 this amount the entire industry must be 

 constructed from the beginning; railways 

 must be built, cable railways erected, 

 trucks purchased, sawmills secured and in- 

 stalled, camps fitted up and roads laid. 

 The Austrian government is planning to 

 push through the work in spite of all dif- 

 ficulties. 



Prior to 1914, the production and export 

 of softwoods constituted one of the leading 

 Austrian industries and importation was 

 necessary only in the case of rare woodS' 

 for special purposes and hardwoods from 

 America for furniture. Lumber exports 

 from Austria are today practically at a 

 standstill. 



