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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



WHAT THEY SAY AS TO A FOREST POLICY: 



r PREE culture and tree conservation 

 should be taught and practiced. — Chi- 

 cago Tribune. 



The American Forestry Association is 

 doing good service in linking the causes 

 of roads and forestation. — New York 

 Times. 



It is a subject calling for a national 

 forest policy. — St. Louis Globe-Democrat. 



The statistics are certainly alarming.— 

 New York Tribune. 



We must plant trees as we plant corn. — 

 Hamilton, Ohio, Republican-News. 



We still refuse to learn from the coun- 

 tries of the Old World. — Florida 

 Times-Union. 



An appalling indictment of Ameri- 

 can carelessness. — Cleveland Press. 



This is a matter of first import- 

 ance. — Rochester Democrat and 

 Chronicle. 



In times of peace the loss of fifty 

 millions in property at a single time 

 would stir the world. — Cincinnati 

 Times-Star. 



From every side is heard words 

 of praise for the American Forestry 

 Association. — Chicago Evening Post. 



The increase of trees and shaded 

 highways will add millions to the 

 scenic value of the country. — Minne- 

 apolis Journal. 



Nor have we been able to think of 

 a more lovely memorial than a col- 

 lonade of trees. — Cincinnati Enquirer. 



We should seek to have the two 

 improvements go hand in hand — re- 

 forestation and road construction. — 

 New Orleans Times-Picayune. 



The American Forestry Associa- 

 tion earnestly aims to promote the. 

 beautification of public highways. 

 — Salt Lake Tribune. 



The American Forestry Associa- 

 tion's efforts should be pushed and 

 in the South especially it should be 

 given the encouragement which it merits. — 

 Charleston, S. C, News and Courier. 



It is to be hoped the American people 

 will take kindly to the plan of the American 

 Forestry Association, not only as a matter 

 of sentiment, but as a matter of comm<sh 

 sense. — Lincoln, Neb., Star. 



following a trip to the battlefields, writes : 

 "It is the silence I can't get over. Heaven 

 knows Chateau Thierry and the villages of 

 the Marne were not silent places in '17 and 

 '18. There were men and noise there 

 then. All round about you on this lonely 

 road are the dancing poppies and above 

 you is the Chemin des Dames with its 

 silent and suffering trees. The trees, in- 

 deed, seem to feel the woe of war more 

 than any other thing in nature. Gas almost 

 seems to break their hearts, so sad and 

 broken is their appearance. These pale, 

 withered birch stumps and the joyous, 



IMPROVING THE SCENERY 



Development of a practical highway sys- 

 tem and regrowing of our vanished forests 

 are two cardinal points of the Chicago Tri- 

 bune's "Middle West Program" as outlined 

 in a stirring editorial on the need now of 

 waking up and going to it in a business 

 way. Contrasted with the picture the 

 Tribune paints is the view of a writer in 

 the London (England) Morning Post, who, 



(San Francisco Chronicle.) 



careless poppies are strangely contrasted 

 legacies of war." 



With this picture in mind turn again to 

 the Tribune which says : "The forests of 

 Wisconsin and Michigan were once the 

 source of great wealth and throughout the 

 Mississippi Valley can be profitably restor- 

 ed and new areas of growth established. 

 The drainage and climate of the middle 

 west call for trees. We know what de- 

 forestation has done for such countries as 

 China. The states should include this sub- 

 ject in their public policy and carry on 

 well considered programs suitable to their 

 own conditions. Planting along roads 

 should be encouraged, on hill tops and 

 slopes, and on land less available for crops. 

 Public forest preserves should be increased. 



Tree culture and tree conservation should 

 be taught and practiced." 



For the economic side of forestry we 

 find the editors most keen. From the 

 Scientific American we find the Boston Post 

 quotes this expression of opinion : "And 

 finally to meet the domestic and foreign 

 demand at the same time, we are clearing 

 out our forest resources at a rate which 

 brings the end of our wood-using industries 

 plainly in sight — not in the next generation, 

 but in this one— not in the next 50 years, but 

 well inside the next 20 — and all because 

 we have no government forest policy big 

 enough or broad enough to handle 

 the situation." Commenting upon this 

 the Post says : "Surely there ought 

 to be wisdom and energy enough in 

 the land, and especially in its Con- 

 gress, to act upon these valuable 

 suggestions. Treeless China should 

 serve as a plentiful warning." The 

 Globe-Democrat of St. Louis calls 

 for a national forest policy, basing 

 its editorial on figures sent out by 

 the American Forestry Association. 

 "Conservation of our forests still 

 left, and the methodical planting of 

 trees," says the Globe-Democrat, "are 

 clearly demanded. It is a subject 

 calling for a national forest policy 

 and the steady attention of Congress. 

 Timber is as essential as wheat for 

 the general welfare of the country, 

 perhaps more so as a fundamental 

 economic matter." In the Hamilton. 

 Ohio, Repvblican-Newt we find that 

 "we must plant trees as we plant 

 corn." The editor points out that 

 "there are limitless tracts that will 

 grow timber but will not grow food 

 crops, and the scientific preservation 

 of these forests by replacing all cut 

 trees is a form of conservation to 

 which our horse sense ought to 

 direct us to turn without further de- 

 lay." The importance of forestry to the 

 high cost of living is taken up by the 

 New York Tribune which calls attention 

 to the statement by Charles Lathrop Pack 

 on the need of a national forest policy and 

 uses figures in the call, "What Shall We Do 

 About It?" on the front page of the 

 American Forestry Magazine. "The sta- 

 tastics are certainly alarming," says the 

 Tribune. "Of 850,000,000 acres in our origi- 

 nal forest area but one-fourth now re- 

 mains. Nor is an adequate supply being 

 grown. So it is up to the people as in- 

 dividuals. Apparently despairing of getting 

 a national forest policy, Mr. Pack makes 

 an appeal to his fellow-citizens." Accord- 

 ing to the Florida Times-Union, "we still 

 refuse to learn from the countries of the 



