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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



TOO much talk and too little action 

 coupled with the call, "Don't quib- 

 ble now grow trees," is an example 

 of the editorial comment that has be- 

 come a torrent since the American 

 Forestry Association took up the 

 direction of an educational campaign 

 for a national forest policy which cul- 

 minated in the introduction of the 

 Snell Bill in the House. The measure 

 makes a fitting base upon which to 

 work in the new Congress. The 

 stand of President Harding for 

 forest conservation has been 

 widely commented upon and 

 eagerly taken up by his fellow 

 editors. Some of the editorial 

 expressions follow : 



Philadelphia North American: Of 

 course the success of such a move 

 depends primarily on the measure of 

 co-operation that will be forthcom- 

 ing from the various States, and in 

 order to make the bill highly effec- 

 tive, if it is enacted into law, each 

 State would have to match from its 

 own financial resources any assist- 

 ance offered by the federal govern- 

 ment. Need of public action in this 

 direction is beyond question. 



will be developed and regrown under ex- 

 pert supervision. The sooner a start is 

 made the better. 



Bangor Daily Commercial: The Snell 

 bill for the preservation and development 

 of the forests of the country has been re- 

 ceiving a thorough discussion at the hear- 

 ings before the Department of Agriculture 

 and has been so generally endorsed that it 

 is predioted that it will receive an early 

 passage by the incoming Congress. The 

 bill, as we have already noted, provides 



of the Pinchot thesis and the improbability 

 that sufficient support could be obtained 

 for such a wholesale program of national- 

 ization is a practical answer to the other 

 half. Little support is noted for the dras- 

 tic proposal of Mr. Pinchot who argues 

 that the government shall acquire all stand- 

 ing timber and operate the forests as na- 

 tional property, a step in socialism that is 

 not regarded as desirable in this country. 



What Will Mother Say When She Finds 

 He Had It "Clipped?" 



Chicago Tribune: The Tribune urges the 

 passage of the Snell Bill as a wise conser- 

 vation measure needed not only in 

 our present situation but for the sake 

 of the future. 



Duluth Herald: Unless this coun- 

 try wants to leave its children the 

 cruel legacy of timber lands wholly 

 bare, the nation and the States will 

 take a hint from France and speed 

 up the work of reforestation. 



Providence Bulletin: The new bill 

 in Congress is sponsored by the 

 American Forestry Association and 

 favored by several large groups of 

 users of timber bodies with interests 

 so large and so_ wid'espread they are 

 not likely to want to mislead the govern- 

 ment into an unprofitable venture. Re- 

 forestation is insurance against a form of 

 bankruptcy in national timber resources 

 that is undoubtedly in prospect if the coun- 

 try does not mend its ways. 



Washington Star: There is a meas- 

 ure before Congress, under the title 

 of the Snell Forestry bill which, if 

 made a law, would be a long step in 

 the right direction. It may well be 

 that, aroused to an appreciation of 

 the indicated menace Congress will 

 see the expediency of making the 

 step even longer, of appropriating 

 more than four million dollars for 

 work contemplated under the bill 

 during the coming fiscal year. Sev- 

 eral times that sum would be none 

 too much to make an effective start, 

 in co-operation with the States, in 

 rehabilitating one of the most im- 

 portant of American resources. But 

 whether final action when taken is 

 to be on the Snell bill as drafted, or 

 on some measure of larger scope and 

 more generous appropriation, let us 

 have action, and that soon. 



New York Times: Supported by the ulti- 

 mate users of wood or of wood products, 

 as well as by members of the Paper and 

 Pulp Association, the American Forestry 

 Association and other kindred bodies, and 

 based upon its own inherent soundness, this 

 measure should promptly become a law of 

 the land. Under such a plan our forests 

 will not only be safeguarded against a 

 repetition of the ravages of the past, but 



Darling, for the New York Tribune Syndicate. 



for a national policy of fire prevention, the 

 stimulation of production, proper conserva- 

 tion and federal assistance to these ends. 

 A rival bill prepared by Gifford Pinchot 

 and introduced by Senator Capper of Kan- 

 sas, proposes that the government shall 

 acquire all standing timber and operate the 

 forests as national property. This would 

 be heroic treatment indeed and only to be 

 justified upon Mr. Pinehot's somewhat 

 cynical theory that private interests are 

 virtually indifferent to the destruction of 

 the forests and that the States, even with 

 federal aid of cash and expert advice, 

 would be unable to meet the situation. The 

 personnel of the advocates of the Snell bill 

 is a sufficient refutation of the first part 



Portland Orcgonian: Two oppos- 

 ing forestry policies are before Con- 

 gress. One introduced by Repre- 

 sentative Snell which was prepared 

 by users of timber and its products 

 with the aid of National Forester 

 Greeley, would enlist government aid 

 and co-operation with the States and 

 timber-owners in preserving timber, re- 

 planting the forests, consolidating all land 

 in national foresits in the hands of the 

 government, and investigating and en- 

 couraging the best use of timber. The 

 other, introduced by Senator Capper and 

 prepared by Gifford Pinchot, proposes that 

 the government shall acquire all standing 

 timber and operate the forests as national 

 property. 



The Snell bill, being the combined work 

 of timber-owners, lumbermen, wood-using 

 industries, paper manufacturers, publishers, 

 forestry and conservation associations and 

 of the United States Forester, is convincing 

 evidence of the desire of these interests to 

 preserve and perpetuate the timber supply 



