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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



"THE AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION 



IN the words of an editorial in the 

 Buffalo Courier "the American For- 

 estry Association still sticks pluckily 

 to its fight" for a national forest poli- 

 cy. This is but an example of the 

 hearty co-operation on the part of the 

 newspapers of the country with the 

 American Forestry Association. They 

 too are "sticking" with a right good 

 will and are taking up forestry from 

 every side. The Buffalo Courier puts 

 this head on its editorial "What's the 

 matter with Congress?" and says: 



The American Forestry Association 

 sticks pluckily to its fight for the passage 

 of the senate bill authorizing the Secretary 

 of Agriculture to make a survey of pulp 

 woods on the public domain. It refuses to 

 be discouraged by the failure of the last 

 Congress to do anything in the matter. 



In view of the increasing paper shortage 

 the indifference of Congress to the whole 

 paper question is hard to understand. 

 Weeks ago the senate adopted a resolution 

 authorizing the President to appoint a com- 

 mission to take up the paper question with 

 the dominion as well as provincial authori- 

 ties of Canada, but the house has done 

 nothing about it. 



The proposed senate bill authorizes the 

 Secretary of Agriculture (that means the 

 forestry bureau) to make a survey of the 

 classes and kinds of timber on the public 

 domain (including the national forest, 

 Indian and other reservations), which are 

 suitable for pulp wood for newsprint and 

 other forms of paper ; also to report to 

 Congress upon the present conditions in 

 respect to the current consumption and 

 protection of pulp woods. 



Ten years ago the United States pro- 

 duced nearly all its supply of pulp wood ; 

 now two-thirds of it is imported. So 

 rapidly has a change come about that only 

 one-third of the newspaper issues last year 

 in this country were printed on the product 

 of American forests. 



This fact alone should stir Congress to 

 action at least to the point of finding out 

 "where we are at," what will be the proba- 

 ble condition in the near future and what 

 it is possible to do to better the outlook. 



Some of the other editorial opinions fol- 

 low : 



Detroit Free Press: The American 

 Forestry Association has issued an appeal 

 to the Federation of Women's Gubs of 

 several States urging a special tree-iplant- 

 ing campaign for Arbor Day. The 

 rapid disappearance of trees along our 



city streets, due to the natural processes of 

 decay and death and the inroads of the ax 

 clearing the way for business suggests that 

 Arbor Day should be observed in a practi- 

 cal way. 



Xashville Banner: The late Senator 

 John H. Bankhead, of Alabama, was the 

 author of legislation that provided Federal 

 aid to road building. The senator had a 

 practical turn of mind and always took 

 great interest in projects of public im- 

 provement. He recognized the necessity 

 for good roads and devoted much of the 

 energy he put into his work in Congress to 

 measures favoring highway construction. 



It is natural and altogether proper that 

 a Bankhead Memorial Highway should be 

 suggested. In a telegram sent to Judge B. 

 M. Allen of Birmingham, Alabama, presi- 

 dent of the Bankhead Highway Associa- 

 tion, Chas. Lathrop Pack, president of the 



WHEN YOU ARE GONE 



Fort Lauderdale Herald. 

 Plant a tree. You found several 

 here when you landed on this old 

 earth and you've seen a great many 

 cut down during your time. You 

 have probably cut down a few your- 

 self. The children who are born 

 after you have passed on have a right 

 to find a few trees standing. But 

 they will not if every person who 

 passes through this vale of tears cuts 

 down a few and forgets to plant any. 

 Plant a tree. Plant a dozen of them, 

 and then you will have done some- 

 thing for the generations who follow 

 you, even as some one did something 

 for you ages ago. 



American Forestry Association, urges that 

 the Bankhead Highway be made a "road 

 of remembrance" in honor of the late 

 senator, who did so much for good roads 

 not only in the South, but throughout the 

 country. The suggestion is apt and appro- 

 priate. John Hollis Bankhead did Alabama 

 long and valuable service, and in the matter 

 of highways, as well as in other respects, 

 the nation is his debtor. 



Rochester Democrat and Chronicle: 

 Interest is being renewed in the project of 

 planting trees in memory of those who 

 gave their lives for civilization and the 

 safety of their country in the World War. 

 This movement, which has the active back- 

 ing of the American Forestry Association, 

 has reached proportions far in excess of 

 what seemed likely at its inception. Nor is 

 it necessary that tV>c trr* memorial be to 



the soldier dead. Boy Scouts are planting 

 trees in honor of Theodore Roosevelt. 

 Families are starting memorials to their 

 loved ones which may well be flourishing 

 monuments of living green long after cun- 

 ningly cut stones would have crumbled into 

 dust. 



Generally speaking, there is nothing 

 and no person deserving of a memorial 

 monument that cannot be appropriately 

 marked by a tree of remembrance. And 

 there is something peculiarly fitting in such 

 a memorial. When a memorial stone is 

 erected, the . only close relationship those 

 erecting it have with the object itself is 

 through the medium of the pocketbook. 

 Their share in the memorial begins and 

 ends with paying for it. Even in choosing 

 they are generally limited to a few patterns, 

 much as if they were out to buy a suit of 

 clothes. 



With trees it is vastly different. In the 

 first place there is the selection of the kind 

 for planting. In this there is an oppor- 

 tunity for planting a tree which will reflect 

 the characteristics of the one or ones whose 

 memory it will keep green. Then there is 

 the opportunity to cultivate this tree from 

 year to year, to make it develop the best 

 that is in it in the way of beauty. In doing 

 this it is as if one were working day by 

 day and year after year in building a monu- 

 ment worthy of the object of such atten- 

 tion. 



And when it comes to a memorial to the 

 soldier dead, what on earth could begin to 

 equal a fine parkway with its array of trees 

 of remembrance? Not only would such a 

 memorial be a thing of beauty and a joy 

 for many generations, keeping fresh the 

 memory of heroes of the world's great 

 crisis, but it would be a source of comfort 

 in the heart of summer to countless thou- 

 sands ; perhaps it would save the lives of 

 many in the course of its existence. The 

 soldiers died that those whom they loved 

 might live. This memorial to them would 

 live and bring new life to those whose free- 

 dom was won by the death of heroes. 



By all means let us have trees of remem- 

 brance. Let us have them abundantly and 

 for every possible memorial. They are 

 the true monuments, the living memorials 

 God has provided to hallow the holiest 

 memories of every person and of every 

 race. 



Salt Lake Tribune: For several years 

 past the American Forestry Association has 

 been trying to prevent waste in the forests. 

 Some improvement has followed the good 

 work, but reforestation has not become 

 general by any means, and much remains to 

 be done. A Minnesota lumberman calls at- 

 tention to the situation in these words: 



