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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



FOREST WASTE IS AN INDICTMENT- 



tinue the policy of "letting George do it" 

 until too late? 



CONTINUED DEMANDS for action 

 on a national forest policy are found 

 in the editorial ccmment of the news- 

 papers of the country, all of which are 

 rendering fine co-oi)eration in iht cam- 

 paign of the .Hnu-riean Forestry Associti- 

 lioit. Some of this comment follows: 



Hirmimiham .-/</ Hcralii: The American 

 Forestry Mayaziiie. which is making a great 

 fight for the preservation of America's 

 timber resources, publishes an article show- 

 ing by a series of striking comparisons 

 the appalling waste that goes on every day 

 in this country. The pro- 

 tection and conservation j ^ LIFETIME OF PROGRESS IN FOREST PRESERVATION 

 of the forests cannot be 

 too strongly urged on 



J'ulfi and I'afer Mayasine : A clarion call 

 fur action on the forestry question has 

 been issued by the American Forestry As- 

 sociation. It urges upon publishers the 

 necessity for taking immediate steps for 

 the replenishing of forest crops to furnish 

 future pulp material. 



Springfield (Mass.) Republican : The 

 American Forestry Association urges that 



than 40 years, or, putting the facts more 

 hopefully, a crop of good pulpwood may 

 be grown within 40 or 50 years, and that 

 an area as large as Ohio should be planted 

 to spruce to provide a perpetual supply of 

 material for making the newsprint paper 

 demanded in .America. One-tenth of the 

 lands from which forests have been cut 

 and which now are, mainly, valueless areas 

 of growing underbrush and dangerous areas 

 of combustible timber tops, would grow 

 the spruce. No pulp, no printing. Print- 

 ing is a necessity. Posterity might do 



without the problem 



novel, but civilized man 

 cannot do without news. 

 Forty or 50 years would 



state and national legislatures. 

 Few people realize what it means 

 to the future of this country, 

 timber being one of the most 

 indispensable products nature 

 gives to mankind. 



SCWETMIN& OUGHT TO B 



Rochester Democrat-Chronicle : 

 Doing is what counts. The only 

 way we can ever get the forestry 

 situation in the United States 

 back where it belongs is to get 

 busy and do the things needful. 

 There was a conference of the 

 Society for the Protection of 

 New Hampshire Forests. Presi- 

 dent Charles Lathrop ' Pack, of 

 the American Forestry Associa- 

 tion, wrote the governors of 

 northeastern states. In the course 

 of his letter, Mr. Pack stated 

 some facts that are more elo- 

 quent than rounded periods of 

 argument. Connecticut spends 

 $3,000,000 a year on freight on 

 forest products she should be 

 producing almost at her factory 

 gates. There are 81.000,000 acres 

 of idle land in the East and Mid- 

 dle West that ought to be grow- 

 ing trees. Three-fifths of our 

 original timber is gone, and half 

 of that which is left is west 

 of the Kocky mountains. What 

 this means in freight rates is not 

 difficult of comprehension. 



This is just an item or two from the bill 

 of indictment of the .American public as a 

 result of its criminal waste of natural re- 

 sources with no provisions for repair- 

 ing the waste. The whole bill constitutes 

 one of the most humiliating arraignments 

 ever made of a nation. 



The facts have been presented. The tim- 

 ber is disappearing. The ccst is mounting. 

 It is already almost prohibitive. .\n<\ 

 nothing adequate is done. Will we con- 



be a long time for an individual 

 to sit down and wait for a crop 

 to mature, but no individual 

 would be kept waiting for the 

 spruce crop. It would be grown 

 while we should continue ex- 

 hausting the exhaustible supply. 

 Wood pulp is only one of sundry 

 products of forests without 

 which the world cannot do, in 

 so far as the world is at pres- 

 ent informed. To depend upon 

 the genius of man to discover 

 some sort of substitute for wood 

 pulp, another substitute for an- 

 other forest product, is some- 

 what like seeking a substitute for 

 onions instead of growing onions, 

 despite the fact that a crop of 

 onions may be grown within a 

 few weeks. Until it is found 

 that we do not need forests we 

 shall need forests. Until some 

 way is found to do it more 

 quickly the best plan of produc- 

 ing a supply of wood pulp is 

 to grow it by processes known 

 and practical. 



J. N. DarliiiR. in the Waslitngton Herald 



"there are 81,000,000 acres of idle land 

 in this country that should be put to 

 work growing trees at once." Unfortu- 

 nately planting trees for posterity doesn't 

 have anything like the same appeal as in- 

 curring bonded indebtedness for posterity 

 to pay. 



Providence Journal : Accord- 

 ing to the American Forestry 

 Association, "there are 81,000,000 

 acres of idle land in this coun- 

 try that should be put to work 

 growing trees at once." Mani- 

 festly the slogan ought to be "Plant a tree," 

 or perhaps as the available idle land 

 amounts to nearly one acre per capita 

 it might be "Plant an acre." Anyway, 

 it seems that the pressing need of the 

 day is for backyard foresters quite as 

 much as for backyard farmers. 



Louisville Courier- Journal: The Ameri- 

 can Forestry Association finds that a crop 

 of good pulpwood cannot be grown in less 



Athens (Ga.) Banner: There is no more 

 important matter before the American peo- 

 ple so far as material progress is con- 



