AMERICAN FORESTRY 



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SAYS THE MILWAUKEE JOURNAL 



and, to that end, the National Forests, and 

 to promote their best use. 



Milwaukee Journal: Some politicians, 

 and strange to say some foresters, object 

 to the Snell national forestry bill on the 

 ground that it does not go far enough. 

 This opposition is ill-timed and short- 

 sighted. 



The Snell bill provides for greater fire 

 protection than the forests have yet re- 

 ceived, the most urgent need now. It also 

 provides for reforesting denuded sections 

 of the national reserves and for enlarging 

 these reserves by adding to them other 

 public lands and private lands to be pur- 

 chased. It provides for reforesting, 

 for intensive nursery work and re- 

 search work, including the more eco- 

 nomical use of forest products. It 

 offers federal aid to States which 

 protect their forests and reforest 

 their lands. 



The bill embodies what is the most 

 advanced and thorough forestry 

 policy yet expressed in a legislative 

 measure. It provides authority and 

 money to prevent the destruction by 

 fire of more of our diminishing tim- 

 ber supply and to begin the task of 

 renewing that supply. 



These things are urgent. Every 

 year our forests are damaged by fire. 

 Every year's delay in reforestation 

 means loss in time and opportunity. 

 The need is to save the trees that 

 still stand and plant new ones as 

 soon as possible. 



lion dollars a year for the extension of the 

 public forest land, for reforestation, and 

 other items in the national policy of con- 

 servation. We have been almost as foolish 

 and improvident as the Chinese, who have 

 cut off their wonderful forests and ruined 

 their country. 



Binghampton Press: We hear a great 

 deal about thrift, but as a nation we are 

 not thrifty. In the matter of our timber 

 resources, we are like a man who has been 

 living on his capital instead of investing it 

 and living on the income. If we keep on 

 cutting more than we plant, and do not 

 check the waste by forest fires, we are 



A CALL FOR ACTION 



land is giving it would be one of the most 

 wealthy States in the Union, per capita, 

 and would attract to it a much larger num- 

 ber of visitors both summer and winter. 

 It is only of recent years that any concep- 

 tion of the wasted wealth in forests has ap- 

 pealed to its citizens. The time to correct 

 the evils of former years is now. 



San Antonio Express: The Snell meas- 

 ure is in rather sharp contrast to the 

 Capper bill, which was prepared by Gif- 

 ford Pinchot, and it is believed to meet 

 more nearly the views of the interests 

 vitally ooncerned and of the public as well. 

 The Snell bill should be enacted and ap- 

 pears to have met with geenral 

 ipproval. 



Tacotna Tribune: It (the Snell 

 bill) is particularly necessary at this 

 time because it establishes a definite 

 forest policy, and will effectively 

 provide for an adequate and con- 

 tinuous supply of timber from federal 

 State and privately owned forest land. 



Moline Dispatch: Uniformed citi- 

 zens have been slow to grasp the 

 urgency of a constructive and effec- 

 tive forestry policy because a timber 

 shortage is a new thing to them. 

 They do not realize all that is im- 

 plied in the fact that it takes fifty 

 years rarely less, and in some cases 

 more to produce a crop of timber. 



Chicago Post: Hearings may develop 

 points in which the Snell bill should be 

 amended ; but in its aims and general out- 

 line it represents legislation of the kind 

 which must be commended by sound sense 

 and foresight as true economy. 



Lexington (Ky.) Leader: There is a 

 bill before Congress which should enlist the 

 sympathy and support of every intelligent 

 and patriotic man, woman and child in 

 America. It is a bill introduced by Mr. 

 Snell which provides for an appropriation 

 of a million dollars annually to be used in 

 co-operation with the several States in 

 fighting forest fires outside of government 

 forest reserves, and an additional ten mil- 



Thurlby, in the Seattle Daily Times. 



bound to destroy the supply. Not the 

 newspapers and book publishers alone are 

 suffering from this waste of timber. Be- 

 sides builders, every manufacturer in need 

 of lumber feels the increasing shortage. 

 Congress at last is prepairing to take action 

 to check the destruction of our timber sup- 

 ply and to replace what is cut. Of the two 

 bills now before it for action, the one in- 

 troduced by Representative Bertrand H. 

 Snell is much the more comprehensive and 

 effective. It \, an ambitious program, and 

 a wise one. If enacted into law it will 

 open the way for putting an end to the 

 wanton waste of our timber resources and 

 eventuailly will enrich the nation in amounts 

 far beyond the relatively small sum expended. 



Bayonne Review: Every newspaper 

 in the country is personally interested 

 in the adoption of a national system 

 of forest protection and preservation 

 ind last year's experience in the high 

 cost of news print, a part of which 

 is now being paid by every newspaper 

 reader, makes welcome the promise 

 which is held forth in the program. 

 The committee named is made up 

 of prominent leaders in the wood- 

 using industries, of famous technical 

 foresters, members of the American 

 Forestry Association, newspaper pub- 

 lishers, and many other industrial 

 leaders. Newspaper readers who want the 

 price of their favorite paper brought back 

 to pre-war rates should urge the Congress- 

 man of the Eighth New Jersey District to 

 vote favorably for the Snell bill. 



Portland Herald: If Maine gave the 

 same attention to the forests that Switzer- 



Missoula Sentinel: The national fores- 

 try program, now before Congress, calls 

 for $11,000,000. That seems like a lot of 

 money, but, really, it is a mighty small 

 sum when the importance of trees to 

 America is considered. The Western 

 States are especially concerned in the for- 

 estry program. Millions are starving in 

 China because great portions of that coun- 

 try have been denuded. No matter what 

 the urge for economy, w'e cannot sub- 

 scribe to any plan to cut the $11,000,00 

 asked by the forestry program. The whole 

 oountry needs it. 



