EDITORIAL 



We Must Eliminate Waste had been productive forests, and, as the 



natural sequence, a moribund town. 



GOOD conservation consists no less j n t h e Michigan town, on the other 

 in economies of operation than in hand, a study was made of the utiliza- 

 the development and maintenance of t j on o f was te and industries were devel- 

 sources of supply. This side of the ope( j w j t h that in view. The first of 

 question must come more and more to t h e se towns represents the old, careless 

 the front, for we have been sadly waste- sp j r i t o f a country over-rich with the 

 ful in all our operation and use of bounty of nature, the second stands for 

 natural resources. To eliminate waste t h e neWj conserving spirit that is corn- 

 by greater care and economy and by m g to t he salvation of the country just 

 more thorough and scientific methods before it is too late, 

 must be our effort. "We are using ten times more lumber 



We find in several of the leading per cap it a than France and seven times 

 lumber journals frank admission of the more t h an Germany. We must not go 

 fact that there is chaos in the field of on doing it. We must provide for the 

 production and distribution of lumber, future, not only by increased produc- 

 This has been especially noticeable re- t j ori) but by eliminating waste, 

 cently in discussions of the yellow pine i n his thoughtful and instructive ad- 

 situation. Over-production and waste- dress at the "biennial of the General 

 ful milling throw upon the market a Federation of Women's Clubs at Cin- 

 larger amount, especially of low-grade c i nri ati, Mr. William L. Hall, of the 

 material, than the market really calls Forest Service, emphasized this matter 

 for. This surplus has to be "dumped" as one o f t h e important and vital things 

 somewhere, at prices often not re- m forest conservation, bringing facts 

 munerative to the manufacturer, while anc j figures to support his position and 

 the whole process is wasteful, unbusi- indicating some of the steps that are 

 nesslike, and tends to unnecessary for- being taken in the way of scientific ex- 

 est destruction. periments by the service to guide us in 



Then there is the enormous factory accomplishing the result, 

 waste so characteristic of much of our Another recent address on this sub- 

 manufacturing. That suggestive mag- ject was made at the annual meeting of 

 azine, System, in an article entitled the National Lumber Manufacturers' 

 "What Wanton Waste Means to You," Association, by Capt. J. B. White, 

 points a moral here by naming two who discussed from the operator's 

 towns, one in Wisconsin and one in point of view the utilization of waste 

 Michigan, which started on an equal in forest and mill. This address was a 

 basis but have separated on the high- real lumberman's gospel of good works, 

 road one becoming a dead town, the Captain White said that his subject led 

 other a live and prosperous one with a into the entire science of forestry. He 

 promising future. The difference lay pointed out how the production of wood 

 in the spirit and method in which their must adjust itself to the conditions of 

 resources were utilized. Both based the country, those regions, chiefly moun- 

 their industries on the surrounding tainous, which can do that to the best 

 timber supply. One wasted its forest advantage, growing forests, while other 

 products in its mills so that the local regions blessed with a rich soil will 

 supply became exhausted, and plant produce the other needs of a civilized 

 after plant had to shut down. There people, general profit arising from the 

 was left a waste country where once interchange. This, it may be interpo- 



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