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SAYS THE NEW ORLEANS PICAYUNE 



and energetic consideration of the subject 

 among the Tennessee masses he will have 

 done a great work. 



of forest taxation to encourage the con- 

 servation and growing of timber. 



Green Bay Gazette: The Snell bill pro- 

 vides for a survey of forest resources and 

 timber requirements of the na- 

 tion. It contemplates forest pro- 

 tection and renewal in co-opera- 

 tion with states, federal expendi- 

 tures for this purpose not to ex- 

 ceed expenditures by the state. It 

 has the endorsement of the Ameri- 

 can Forestry Association, and its 

 passage is of concern to the en- 

 tire country and particularly to 

 those Northern States which will 

 be its most direot beneficiary and 

 which must be looked to primarily 

 for reforestation. If we are to 

 enter upon a constructive pro- 

 gram of reforestation, it is evi- 

 dent that public opinion must 

 make itself felt at Washington. 



Fond du Lac Reporter Wisconsin is 

 one of the richest States in the Union, but 

 it would be even richer and its people 



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bering activities of only a comparatively 

 few years ago are conspicuous by their ab- 

 sence. True, -we needed the wood supplied 

 by the trees that fell before the attack of 

 the loggers, but there was nothing to pre- 

 vent us from engaging in a reforestation 

 policy even while the great timber 

 mills were still in full blast. 



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Kington. Feb. 25 Pointing to 

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Minneapolis Journal: Adequate 

 protection against forest fires, co- 

 operation of the States with land 

 owners and encouragement of 

 private reforestation, are the main 

 topics of the North Central States 

 Forestry Conference in Chicago. 

 Eight States, including Minnesota, 

 Wisconsin and Michigan, belong 

 to the Conference. 



A few years ago such a meet- 

 ing would have been regarded as 

 unnecessary and foolish. For 

 America's timber resources were 

 deemed inexhaustible. But the 

 people of this country now real- 

 ize that they have been ruthlessly 

 prodigal in allowing vast areas 

 to be denuded. There has been 

 no national forestry policy and 

 Americans have already paid a 

 heavy price for this wastefulness 

 and neglect. 



The (problem of America's for- 

 ests as a heritage and a hope is 

 now pressing, and it can be met 

 only by concerted action of in- 

 dividuals, States and Nation. So 

 far as possible individuals should 

 plant trees. But the need is so 

 great and the areas are so vast 

 that reforestation cannot be left 

 to the individual or even to the 

 State. The length of time required to get 

 returns^^n money invested in replanting 

 makes' if "necessary that the Federal Gov- 

 ernment undertake this service. An ade- 

 quate forestry policy would enforce the 

 proper cutting and removal of timber, pro- 

 vide for replanting and establish a system 



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From Alaska to Tampa and from New England to the Pacific Coast 

 is the field into which the big news associations carry the educational 

 campaign of the American Forestry Association for a national forest 

 policy. 



would enjoy a greater measure of health, 

 happiness, and prosperity if the State's 

 timber supply had not been so extensively 

 depleted. Most of us have little difficulty 

 in remembering the great sawmill indus- 

 try that once thrived in Wisconsin. There 

 are sawmills here still, but the great lum- 



mterest 



Middletoivn (N. Y.) Times 

 Press: Among the important 

 measures presented to Congress is 

 a bill outlining a comprehensive 

 national forest program, includ- 

 ing better fire protection for the 

 forests. Provisions of the bill 

 have been worked out by a com- 

 mittee widely representative of 

 those directly interested in the 

 welfare of the forests, including 

 the general public. According to 

 Charies Lathrop Pack, president 

 of the American Forestry Asso- 

 ciation, it is really the first united 

 move in this direction in the his- 

 tory of the country. Endeavors 

 have long since been put forth for 

 preservation and control of the 

 forests, but not in the comprehen- 

 sive and far reaching proportions 

 that the proposed new law con- 

 templates. The bill calls for na- 

 tional appropriations of not less 

 than $11,000,000 a year. 



Chattanooga Times: Chatta- 

 nooga, with the flood menace 

 ever present, should be especially 

 and keenly alive to the necessity 

 of forest iprotection. Every for- 

 est fire in the mountains of East 

 Tennessee increases the danger 

 of disastrous overflows of the 

 Tennessee River and it behooves 

 the civic organizations and public 

 generally to give hearty and im- 

 mediate co-operation in the move- 

 ment to give better protection to 

 the mountain trees. 



Indianapolis Star: A forestry 

 bill is expected at the next session 

 of Congress and by the time all 

 the undesirables get over here we 

 may also have an immigration law. 



Boston Herald: If the con- 

 test (tree voting) awakens great 

 in our trees it will have been 



worth while. 



Saginaw Courier: For ourselves, a pref- 

 erence for a national tree which will 

 grow a really dependable and clinker-free 

 grade of good coal is confessed. 



