EDITORIAL 603 



With the enormous consumption of our value to the farmers with reference to 



forest trees now going on and rapidly in- gracing; illustrations of destructive 



creasing, and the consequent diminution of ,. , 



our forest areas, the need of tree planting and conservative lumbering ; specimens 



and tree cultivation becomes greater with of lumber ; exhibits of the naval stores 



every passing year, and the importance of and lumber industry throughout the 



Arbor Day constantly increases. South- mans inrl rrarmnarenrips 



In view of these facts, let the teachers of 



the public schools impress upon their pupils It is stimulating to imagine what 



the value of tree planting and arboriculture, might have been the course of recent 



and instil into the minds of these men and progress in the Northeast and in the 



women of the future the knowledge that m T , c , ,, , , 



the final analysis the best citizen is that man Lake States lf > at the beginning of 



who does most toward the betterment and the modern exploitation, it could have been 



brightening of the lives of those about him. possible to take stock of their resources 



Not every one may be able to plant a tree; and work Qut sys tematic plans for util- 



and yet there will be some civic duty that . . ,-/ ,, . r , 



each may perform which will add its quota lzm g them - For one thm g> the forest 



to the sum total and give the doer the satis- devastation which has characterized 



faction that comes to him who does his duty lumbering in those regions, and has 



to himself, to his neighbor, and to his state. giyen tQ thg South supremacy in the 



M M \g production of forest products, would 



not then have taken place, and an asset 



The Appalachian Exposition of immeasurable value would have been 



permanently retained as an investment. 



'THE Appalachian Exposition was Such an exposition as that at Knoxville 



I opened in Chilhowee Park, Knox- encourages the hope that the South is 



ville, September 12. Its declared pur- awake to the warning furnished by the 



poses are to emphasize the vital import- wasteful misuse of land on the part of 



ance of conserving the forests and her northern neighbors, and that she 



streams of the Appalachian region and intends to secure an orderly and sus- 



to exploit the resources and potentiali- tained development of her resources 



ties of this wonderful country. which will guarantee her future econo- 



Eight states of the middle South are m i c wea lth and efficiency, 

 represented, and in carrying out the 



purposes described the exposition aims )g & & 

 not only to show the advancement 



which the South has already made in An Important Legal Decision 

 agriculture, mining, manufacture, and 



the arts, but also, and especially, to DY A decision of a United States 

 bring out as forcibly as possible by *-) court, in a case in which the United 

 plain object lessons the natural re- States claimed damages for timber de- 

 sources of the Appalachian region, their stroyed by fires originating from sparks 

 dangers, and the means of preserving along the Missouri River and North- 

 them. It calls attention to the com- western Railroad, an exceedingly val- 

 mercial opportunities which await de- uable precedent has recently been es- 

 velopment, and at the same time points tablished, in the allowing of $12 an acre 

 to the need of guiding the economic for damage done to ninety-one and two- 

 and industrial growth of the region tenths acres of reproduction. This is 

 along sound and enduring lines. the first time that a court in this country 

 Located on the highest point within has decided that trees of such imma- 

 the grounds is the beautiful forestry ture growth as those involved in this 

 building, which contains an extensive case have a value which may be de- 

 exhibit, prepared with the co-operation terminecl and for the destruction of 

 of the United States Forest Service, which damages may be estimated and 

 There is a large relief map of the south- allowed. The basis of the valuation 

 ern Appalachians, a model with sprink- of the reproduction was the figures de- 

 ler showing erosion and the protection rived from the actual planting opera- 

 of timber cover ; exhibits of educational tions carried on by the Forest Service in 





