AMERICAN FORESTRY 



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EDUCATION BY THE ASSOCIATION 



'Whatever part of this the United States 

 supplies,' says the Wall Street Journal, 

 'will be at the expense of the future;' and 

 it goes on to point out that Britain is 

 planning to plant nearly 2,000,000 acres of 

 forest land, and that France, Norway and 

 Sweden are preparing restrictions to pre- 

 vent cutting in excess of the annual growth. 

 It urges the public 'to insist upon appro- 

 priate legal measures to keep cutting within 

 the limits of annual growth and to extend 

 reproduction.' " 



The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle 

 calls attention to the figures set forth by the 

 Forest Patrolman, which says that forest 

 fires are costing the West five or six mil- 

 lion dollars every year. 



Following are other editorial opinions : 

 Colonel Roosevelt was a lover of all that 

 pertained to the great out-of-doors. This 

 being true there can be no more suitable 

 tribute paid to the former President's mem- 

 ory than the planting of trees and the pres- 

 ervation of forests. Forests are among the 

 greatest national resources. Forests are like 

 banks, as Mr. Pack told the foresters, lum- 

 bermen and wood users generally at the In- 

 dianapolis meeting, you must deposit them 

 if you want to take anything out. Then, in 

 addition to the material benefits to be 

 derived from the restoration and conserva- 

 tion of forests, the planting of memorial 

 trees is one of the greatest forces for 

 Americanization and keeping aflame the 

 community spirit, born of the war. Tren- 

 ton, New Jersey, Times. 



Illinois is a tree-growing state. As such 

 it is interested in the work of the American 

 Forestry Association and that interest 

 should be encouraged. The association is 

 carrying on a campaign designed to bring 

 about a general forestry policy. In the 

 meantime, each individual can do some- 

 thing to help out in the matter of replacing 

 American timber. No bit of land should 

 be permitted to go to waste, simply because 

 it is not suitable for the raising of grain 

 crops or for gardening purposes. It will 

 grow trees. Springfield, Illinois, Journal. 



The Sentinel has called attention before 

 to the imperative need of a broader and 

 more definite forest policy in this country. 

 We have contrasted conditions in America 

 in that respect with those prevailing in 

 foreign countries, the comparison being 

 decidedly unfavorable to the United States. 



A broader policy on the part of the na- 

 tion and of individual states is needed 

 not only because of the demands of the 

 wood pulp industry, naturally of much in- 

 terest to newspapers, but for other rea- 



sons as well. The Manufacturers' Record, 

 in the current issue, gives some of these 

 reasons as follows : 



"Failure of this country to adopt a na- 

 tional forest policy in past years is re- 

 sponsible in large part for the unpleasant 

 situation which the lumber industry finds 

 itself in today, according to Charles L. 

 Pack, president of the American Forestry 

 Association, in keeping with other com- 

 modities lumber has advanced greatly in 

 price due largely to increased demands for 

 war needs." 



The matter is one of immediate import- 

 ance. It cannot be deferred indefinitely. 

 Something should be done, and done now. 

 Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Sentinel. 



Charles Lathrop Pack, president of the 

 American Forestry Association and during 

 the war the guiding spirit of the National 

 War Garden Commission, is out in a new 

 campaign before the American people. He 

 has a gospel of four words and he is 

 preaching it mightily and unceasingly : "Let 

 there be trees." 



Mr. Pack recognizes the manner in which 

 trees enter into our every-day life. To 

 him, as he would put it before the people, 

 the tree is a friend, a companion, a de- 

 fender and a comforter. 



Mr. Pack has launched a drive for the 

 planting of trees. He would have every 

 person in the nation become responsible for 

 the planting of at least one tree. His pro- 

 gram includes planting memorial lanes in 

 honor of dead soldiers, community parks 

 with each tree named in respect of a de- 

 parted or wounded hero; reforestation of 

 cut-over areas; orchards on the roadsides, 

 and so forth. 



We might suggest a slight addition to 

 this ambitious plan. Let every person in 

 the nation become responsible for two trees, 

 one of the long-lived hard-wood types, 

 which will exist in some suitable locality 

 for many a year after the planter is gone, 

 and the other of the food type, such as 

 apples, plums, peaches or other fruits in 

 other sections of the country, or a nut- 

 bearer, each of which will add to the food 

 supplies of the world and help cut down 

 living costs for the coming generation. 



But even if the tree planted is of neither 

 of these kinds, but purely ornamental, it 

 will have its value and it ought to be 

 planted. 



Let there be trees. Pontiac, Michigan, 

 Press. 



That is a praiseworthy project of the 

 American Forestry Association which seeks 

 to have memorial trees planted and "Roads 

 of Remembrance" created as a means of 

 reforestation. The association is spreading 



the idea throughout America and pointing 

 out that when it interests the people of the 

 country in trees it has brought to their 

 attention something that is likely to ad- 

 vance far a national forest policy which will 

 mean a great deal to the country in the 

 years to come. 



In a country in which already the scarci- 

 ty of timber is keenly felt and where the 

 woodlots on the farms have practically be- 

 come a thing of the past as any consider- 

 able factor it is time that some such policy 

 were adopted. If we promote an abund- 

 ance of trees for no other reason than soil 

 protection and to perform service in the 

 matter of moisture storage we have done a 

 very great deal. 



Something must be done to replace these 

 forests, if not in a mass tract along the 

 highways. No more appealing suggestion 

 has been made than that just advanced 

 by the Forestry Association. In a com- 

 paratively short time the trees would reach 

 maturity. 



Wouldn't it be pleasurable today to ride 

 for miles along a country road lined with 

 trees and realize that those trees were set 

 out in the late '60s as memorials to those 

 men who fell in the Civil War? Water- 

 town, New York, Times. 



The American Forestry Association has 

 issued an appeal to every school in the 

 country to plant a tree this fall. It will 

 send free tree planting instruction, and 

 suggest an interesting program for a tree- 

 planting observance. Tree planted school 

 house grounds will serve several ends. 

 Children will take pride in their school 

 when thus adorned, and different classes 

 will emulate each other to see which can 

 do the most in beautifying it. If every 

 school house could be made a center of 

 pretty landscape gardening, the idea would 

 spread from the children to the homes. 

 Staten Island Advance. 



The seriousness of the forestry situation 

 in this country is being brought to the at- 

 tention of the people by the American For- 

 estry Association and there is hope that 

 their work will have the effect of awake 

 ing a genuine interest in saving and re- 

 couping our timber interests. Florida 

 Times-Union. 



The American Forestry Association has 

 issued an appeal to every school in the 

 country to plant a tree. It is a suggestion 

 that might well be taken up in New Haven, 

 where most school grounds are barren of 

 grass or shade. Most recess playgrounds 

 are paved with brick and no more desolate 

 places are to be found anywhere. New 

 Haven, Connecticut, Union. 



