AMERICAN FORESTRY 



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FORESTS OR DEVASTATION" 



does not live long enough to benefit by it. 

 This is not strictly true, but if it were, 

 every man should be glad to do something 

 for the next generation and perhaps he 

 could do no better than to plant trees. 



Association of Washington, D. C. Clearly 

 it is up to the Congress to outline and pro- 

 vide a comprehensive plan for the United 

 States Forest Service, through which the 

 future supply of lumber and paper in this 

 country may be assured. 



Baltimore Star: For economic reasons 

 the American Forestry Association is en- 

 deavoring to arouse public sentiment in the 

 interest of a national forest policy which 

 it believes to be imperative at this time. 

 The raw materials essential to a large share 

 of industries come from our native forests, 

 and figures cited by the American Forestry 

 Magazine indicate that 52,000 establish- 

 ments engaged in manufacturing are de- 

 pending solely or in part on the products 

 of the forests for raw materials 

 used in their varied lines of manu- 

 facture. The magnitude of the fig- 

 ures cited in the periodical to which 

 we refer makes their acceptance a 

 matter of difficulty. It behooves us 

 to realize, however, that in spite of 

 the propaganda which would con- 

 vince us that trees are being planted 

 in every section of the country, the 

 fact remains that old forests are be- 

 ing destroyed very much more rapid- 

 ly than new ones are planted. Amer- 

 ica is the only country which does 

 not give legislative protection to her 

 forests, and the result is wanton de- 

 forestation in many sections of the 

 country. The scarcity and expen- 

 siveness of newsprint alone are facts 

 palpable enough to convince us of 

 the need for a national forestry 

 policy. The life of a tree is a matter 

 of no small moment and it will be a 

 fortunate day for America when her 

 citizens awaken to this fact. 



Berkeley Gazette: A Hall of Fame for 

 trees is being compiled by the American 

 Forestry Association. In it are to be en- 

 rolled all the great trees from east to west, 

 from north to south, around which and in 

 whose shade American history has been 

 centered. The people of this country, 

 sprung so lately from pioneers, should de- 

 light in this Blue Book of Trees. It should 

 prove not only vaulable and interesting 



AN' PEEPUL USTER THINK I WTJZ BAD!" 



each stretch of road. It is evident that a 

 road that goes through low, wet places and 

 over high hills will require different kinds 

 of trees if permanency is desired. These 

 trees should be under the care of the State 

 forestry department. What can be more 

 suitable than splendid, shady highways as 

 a memorial to our boys who fell? 



Savannah News: There is a fine sig- 

 nificance in the news from Washington that 

 the president of the American Forestry 

 Association has suggested that along the 

 proposed Bankhead Highway, which has 

 been for some time a reality, stretching 

 from Washington City to San Fran- 

 cisco, be planted memorial trees that 

 continent-long stretch of living, 

 growing attractive trees to be the 

 monument to the last member of the 

 Confederate army to sit in the upper 

 House of the Congress of the United 

 States. Trees lining notable high- 

 ways have a beautiful sentiment at- 

 tached to them and the practical values 

 will be increasing as the living monu- 

 ments stand and grow and by example 

 occasion more systematic reforesta- 

 tion in many sections of the country. 



Brattleboro Reformer: In its gift of 

 trees to Europe the American Forestry 

 Association could not bestow a finer gift 

 for use in those ravaged countries than the 

 sugar maple. Its autumn coloring is world 

 famous, its leaves a great fertilizer and its 

 wood is probably used in utilitarian prod- 

 ucts more than any other. The more 

 maples included in the gift the better. 



Patton, in the Dallas Journal. 



from an historical point of view, but should 

 stimulate in the hearts of its readers, a great- 

 er love and reverence for trees themselves. 



Little Rock Democrat: Acuteness of the 

 present newsprint paper situation in this 

 country is emphasizing more strongly than 

 ever the necessity for a broad policy of 

 national reforestation, particularly in the 

 case of pulp wood lands. The present 

 shortage of paper, its unprecedented cost 

 and the prospect, within a comparatively 

 few years, of an actual failure of supply, 

 has awakened the nation, as nothing has 

 ever done, to the truth of the propaganda 

 started years ago by the American Forestry 



Successful Farming: The American For- 

 estry Association is doing a good work 

 in popularizing memorial trees along our 

 highways in remembrance of our fallen 

 heroes. Nothing was so impressive to the 

 Yanks as the splendid tree-lined highways 

 of France. They were properly set and 

 properly cared for. Their shade was a 

 benefaction to the traveler and also a great 

 benefit to the highways, keeping them from 

 being too wet and too dry. 



If the practice should prevail in this 

 country it should begin as soon as a high- 

 way becomes permanently established and 

 graded. Only those trees should be planted 

 which the foresters know to be suitable for 



Detroit News: Emulation in me- 

 morial tree planting is fostered by 

 the American Forestry Association, 

 which has a plan to register on a 

 national honor roll the names of 

 all trees planted as monuments. For 

 local beautification and as a patri- 

 otic incentive such a scheme is 

 wholly to be commended, and its 

 carrying out on a more pretentious 

 scale might achieve really practical 

 results in forestry. There are names 

 in American history more fittingly 

 commemorated by a forest than by 

 a tree. Nor can it longer be ob- 

 jected that forests must be remote and un- 

 visited. Automobile tourists are counted 

 upon as a reliable source of profit for most 

 out-of-the-way places, and their revenues 

 might easily suffice for the maintenance of 

 forests if thought were given to making 

 scenic regions accessible. How much bet- 

 ter that the thousands who annually tour 

 through the upper parts of Michigan 

 should be inspired by the majesty of stately 

 forests than depressed by the continuous 

 sight of wreckage which the greed of men 

 left as the sole memorial of the State's 

 former natural wealth. 



New Bedford Standard: Tree-planting 

 is in the air in Massachusetts. It is almost 

 a case of everybody's doing it. A house- 

 holder need not be shy of starting the 

 movement in his block or his street. It 

 will be good public service. 



