AMERICAN FORESTRY 



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SAYS ROCHESTER DEMOCRAT-CHRONICLE 



cerned than that of preserving the forests 

 of this country and the reforestation of the 

 country as well. The American Forestry 

 Association is doing a great work in this 

 respect. Every citizen should do his part 

 to help these agencies forward the work of 

 forest preservation and reforestation. Or- 

 ganizations cannot do this work alone nor 

 can the federal government do it by itself. 

 The need of assistance from the individual 

 citizens and all kinds of citizen organiza- 

 tions and from the several states as well is 

 apparent. 



know that the annual consumption of news- 

 print would make a two-foot strip of news- 

 paper reaching forty million miles or half 

 way to the sun? The war left us in a state 

 of mind whereby no set of figures could 

 stump us or give us pause until this state- 

 ment from the American Forestry Associa- 

 tion about the forest situation came along 

 and Ve must admit that it takes "some 

 trees" to keep industry going in this coun- 

 try. The time has come when we must 

 grow timber. 



by complete destruction. We haven't 

 taken any care of the forests, haven't even 

 thought about reforestation, yet this means 

 millions of dollars to the South every year. 



Milwaukee Journal : In considering a 

 national forest policy we must consider a 

 disease That disease is 

 fores* devastation, the 

 America)^ Forestry Asso- 

 ciation points out. Its 

 effect is a slow sapping of na- 

 tional strength through the 

 steady exhaustion of the nation- 

 al timber supply. 



The effect will become fatal 

 when, through the shortage and 

 high cost of timber, the United 

 States is reduced to the level of 

 western Europe, when wood is 

 priced as an imported luxury, 

 when not only manufactures and 

 trade are handicapped by lack 

 of it but the comfort of our own 

 people and the efficiency of our 

 agriculture are straitened by its 

 scarcity. 



It is unthinkable that the Unit- 

 ed States will accept the neces- 

 sity of curtailing largely, sooner 

 or later, its use of timber. Abun- 

 dance of wood for home and 

 farm use, for varied manufac- 

 tures and for export trade has 

 been a primary factor in our 

 commercial supremacy, so im- 

 portant right now, and it is a 

 factor which we are not going to 

 surrender. 



The problem must not be met 

 by using less and less wood, 

 down to the level of civilized ex- 

 istence, as France has been 

 compelled to meet it. It must be 

 met not by decreased use, but by 

 increased production, the association well 

 argues. It must be met in the .American 

 spirit of development of enterprise, of an 

 organized and far-sighted handling of our 

 resources that will supply the future re- 

 quirements of a continued liberal use of 

 timber in national development and indus- 

 tries. 



Oil City Bli:::ard : The American Fores- 

 try Association's call on the business men 

 of the country to wake up and join in de- 



THIS IS ABOUT THE TIME OF THE YEAR WHEN 



Paxton (III.) Register: Few of us care 

 much about the other fellow's business, but 

 it so happens this phase of the forest prod- 

 ucts situation is of a piece with a problem 

 that touches our whole economic life, for 

 without forest products, business cannot 

 go on. We cite our end of it to show 

 the tremendous consumption of trees going 

 on every day, to say nothing of loss by fires 

 that sweep the forest areas. The American 

 Forestry Association is campaigning for 

 forest policy legislation. 

 Every publisher in the 

 country should be behind 

 this campaign. 



Balaton (Minn.) Tribune: 

 Why cannot the towns in all 

 states take up such work and 

 have a municipal woodlot or a 

 community forest? There is 

 plenty of idle land that will grow 

 trees. Forest products are the 

 backbone of all industry, as the 

 American Forestry Associition 

 points out. 



Some idiot at large in the woods starts a forest fire 



Hunter (N Y.) Review: The 

 thing needed is a national forest 

 policy as being put forward by 

 the American Newspaper Pub- 

 lisher's Association, the Ameri- 

 can Forestry Association, and 

 the Association of Wood Using 

 Industries. 



which destroys vast areas of beautiful timber. 



McCutcheon, in The Chicago Tribune 



manding that Uncle Sam take a hitch in his 

 belt with a national forest policy should 

 be answered by every business organiza- 

 tion that faces mounting costs of every- 

 thing. That would make it unanimous. 



Hudson (.V. )'.) Republican : Do you 



Thomasville (Ga.) Enterprise : We glory 

 in the wonder of the pine woods, but we 

 are not ashamed of the reckless abandon 

 with which they are converted into money 



Billings (Mont.) Gaseite: In 

 other words, says The Permanent 

 Builder, which bases its state 

 ment on figures from the Ameri- 

 can Forestry Association, nearly 

 one-fifth of all the manufactur- 

 ing establishments throughout 

 the country use timber in one 

 form or other. Need of a na- 

 tional forest policy, for which 

 the American Forestry Associa- 

 tion is directing the campaign, 

 is shown by the manufacturing 

 establishments which pay out annually in 

 the aggregate $14,250,000,000 for raw ma- 

 terials, and the part of the wood using in- 

 dustries ill that huge expenditure amounts 

 to more than $1,000,000,000, or 7 per cent. 

 Indeed, trees seem to be closely related to 

 the payroll and to national prosperity. 



Waco (Texas) Times: The total num- 

 ber of forest fires exceed 30,000 a year. 



