FORESTS AND FLOODS IN CHINA 



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consciousness and a national government responsive to the other, such as caused France to lose considerable 



the needs of the people, can she hope to solve this tre- portions of her mountain forests. But it takes more 



mendous internal problem. Just as the physical laws than knowledge to secure results. China's barren moun- 



operating to destroy the plains of China as a conse- tain slopes must be reclothed with forests in order that 



quence of for- 

 est denudation, 

 are world wide 

 in their appli- 

 cation, so the 

 p r i nciples of 

 government of 

 the people, by 

 the people and 

 for the people 

 are the only 

 certain meth- 

 ods for secur- 

 ing permanent 

 prosperity and 

 c o n t entment, 

 whether they 

 apply to Cau- 

 casians, Mon- 

 gol i an s or 

 South Sea Is- 

 landers. The 

 Chinese have 

 the natural in- 

 t e 1 1 i gence to 

 distinguish be- 

 t w e e n despo- 

 tism on the 

 one hand and 

 rampant indi- 

 vidualism o n 



Photograph by Frank N. Meyer 



LARCH FOREST 



The last bit of larch forest left upon a northern mountain slope near the Tchai Ling Sze temple in the 

 Wu Sai Shan region, Shansi, China. White tailed deer and wolves live here in this secluded remnant 

 of the once extensive forest which covered all the now so appallingly barren slopes. 



equable stream- 

 flow may be 

 maintained and 

 her people in a 

 measure pro- 

 tected from the 

 terror of flood. 

 The will to fight 

 the battle for 

 true democratic 

 government in 

 which order 

 and efficiency 

 is made sub- 

 servient to the 

 c o mmon good 

 this is the 

 need of China 

 today and the 

 first fruits of 

 such a victory 

 will be the 

 creation of a 

 national policy 

 for reforesting 

 the mountain 

 slopes of north- 

 ern China. 



DEFORESTED MOUNTAIN SLOPES 

 Feeble efforts at farming may be plainly seen in the foreground. Wu Tai Shan, Shansi Province. 



