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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



EDITORS CALL BUSINESS INTERESTS 



RKSI'ONDING to the call of the 

 American Forestry Association to 

 enlist in the battle for a national for- 

 est policy and for better fire protection 

 of the forests the editors of the coun- 

 try are giving columns of space to the 

 campaign. They are treating most 

 generously all the news being sent out 

 by the Association that has to do with 

 trees and by calling the attention of the 

 public to the value of forests and trees 

 they are all aiming at the common 

 need so vital to the industry of the 

 country, namely, a national forest 

 policy. Some of the editorial com- 

 ment follows: 



Buffalo Express: "In a broad sense re- 

 forestation should be the national forest 

 policy. For every tree cut down require 

 that two shall be planted not at some 

 future time, but AT ONCE. There ought 

 not be any need for argument." 



Birmingham News: "The American For- 

 estry Association persists in its insistence 

 that every school take up tree planting. 

 Not such tree planting as is expressed 

 annually ... but such a conservation 

 of forestry as will constrain every youth 

 in the land to plant. What must inevitably 

 spring from that example is the great 

 thing ; federal forest conservation on a 

 great scale." 



Syracuse Herald: "Wood is one of the 

 chief reasons for the high cost of living 

 and the American Forestry Association 

 calls attention to this with some startling 

 figures. There is scarcely a commodity 

 that is not shipped or handled in a wood 

 container of some sort." 



Canton News: "According to the Amer- 

 ican Forestry Association, the consumption 

 of pulpwood has increased ioo per cent in 

 20 years while no systematic work has been 

 done to renew the forests. Years are re- 

 quired to grow trees so prompt action is 

 needed." 



New York Mail: "The value of the for- 

 est fire service is indicated by the fact, is 

 the American Forestry Association points 

 out, fires destroyed timber valued at no less 

 than $40,000,000 and the average loss from 

 forest fires in 1916-1918 was $21,000,000." 



Springfield, III., Journal: "The American 

 Forestry Association has suggested that 

 the anniversary of Theodore Roosevelt's 

 death be observed by all persons interested 



in the conservation of the nation's natural 

 resources. If their suggestion is adopted 

 January 6 each year, the country will re- 

 call Mr. Roosevelt's service in this cause." 



St. Paul Pioneer Press: "What a pity 

 and what an insane fury of recklessness is 

 it that finds us now with three-fourths of 

 our forests gone without provision for 

 their renewal and still not a move on the 

 part of Congress to save the country from 

 utter depletion of its remaining forests 

 upon which directly depends the living of 

 hundreds of thousands and upon which all 

 society leans for necessary articles, includ- 

 ing the materials for dwelling houses and 

 furniture ! The American Forestry Asso- 

 ciation is carrying on propaganda . . . 

 to serve as a means of publicity for the 

 larger cause the replenishment of the 

 forests." 



Rochester Democrat and Chronicle : "There 

 is much to commend in the proposition to 

 make the anniversary of the death of 

 Theodore Roosevelt a day to be observed 

 by the nation as a time to emphasize the 

 need of forest conservation. The Ameri- 

 can Forestry Association should be en- 

 couraged in its effort to have this day set 

 apart by law for such purpose." 



Florida Times-Union: "The seriousness 

 of the forestry situation in this country is 

 being brought to the attention of the peo- 

 ple by the American Forestry Association 

 and there is hope their work will have the 

 effect of awakening a genuine interest in 

 saving and recouping our timber interests." 



Salt Lake Tribune: "The American For- 

 estry Association has a message for the 

 business interests of the nation. It is, 

 'stop throwing the forests of the nation 

 in the waste basket.' Which is another 

 way of arguing against the wanton waste 

 of paper. The pulpwood situation certain- 

 ly is one which gives force to the plea." 



Cleveland Press: "Charles Lathrop Pack, 

 president of the American Forestry Asso- 

 ciation, declares that because of the drain 

 of war the warning of Theodore Roosevelt 

 as to a woodless age is ten times more im- 

 portant today than when the late President 

 expressed it. 'Our forests are like a bank' 

 is the way Pack puts it, 'for if we expect to 

 draw out we must make deposits.'" 



Los Angeles Record: "At the annual 

 meeting of the American Forestry Associa- 

 tion a resolution was adopted calling . on 

 the schools, women's organizations and 

 public bodies generally to make January 6, 



the day Theodore Roosevelt died, 'Roosevelt 

 Day' and to observe it with exercises ap- 

 propriate to the policy of forest conser- 

 vation." 



Meridian. Miss.. Dispatch : "If the Amer- 

 ican people realized the money value of 

 trees to themselves as well as the nation 

 this country would not be in the danger 

 it is of forest denudation." 



Tallapoosa, Ga., Journal: "It takes from 

 sixty to a hundred years to grow a large 

 fat log. It takes about fifteen minutes to 

 cut it down. The answer is easy. Unless 

 something is done to preserve the forests 

 of the country it is only a matter of years 

 before we will have practically no lumber, 

 and the annual floods and water flows will 

 testify to the deforestation of the water- 

 sheds." 



Atlanta Journal: "Ponder the fact that 

 the United States has barely one-fourth of 

 its original forest and that this is being 

 destroyed three times faster than it is bein;-; 

 reproduced? The situation is one to chal- 

 lenge every thoughtful American." 



Oshkosh Daily Northwestern: "If the 

 United States allows its' forests to be 

 permanently destroyed it will face a bitter 

 reckoning. And neither public nor gov- 

 ernment can plead ignorance of the dangers 

 of our present practice." 



Petersburg, Va., Progress: "The moun- 

 tains and hills denuded of trees mean an 

 economic loss both on account of the effect 

 of such denudation upon rain fall and the 

 loss of timber for building purposes." 



Norwich, Conn., Bulletin: "What the 

 outcome will be the future will reveal but 

 it cannot fail to be appreciated that a move 

 in the right direction is being made when 

 the American Forestry Association ap- 

 proves a plan of co-operation on the part 

 of the federal and state governments for 

 the preservation and development of wood- 

 lands. Great inroads have been made into 

 the forests of the country.' 



Rome, Ga., Herald: If is indeed high 

 time to take measures to stimulate forest 

 growth in the United States and take all 

 necessary measures for the protection and 

 conservation of our whole forest system." 



Findlay, O., Republican: "A quarter of 

 a century ago wood was plentiful and 

 cheap. Today it is just the reverse in both 

 cases and the time is rapidly approaching 

 when there is going to be little or no wood 

 and the big forests that have produced the 

 supply will be a thing of the past." 



