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gation is needed, when the- Congi 

 -{Hal ship has already been 1< >:i led to 

 the water's edge with information on 

 every o mceivable pertinent aspect of 

 tin- case. Meanwhile, it permits for- 

 est slaughter, soil erosion, and stream 

 impairment to proceed. 



It is understood that the Senate will 

 ignore this bill. The Southern News- 

 paper Publishers' Association, in con- 

 veniion at Charlotte, X. C.. has re- 

 cently gone on record, by unanimous 

 vole, for the proposed Appalachian- 

 White Mountain National Forests. 

 Hon. John II. Small, representative 

 from the First district in North Caro- 

 lina, in an address before the Ameri- 

 can Cotton Manufacturers' Associa- 

 tion at Richmond, Virginia, on May 

 2O. said : 



The only agency which can properly 

 preserve these mountain forests is that 

 of the United States. It is utterly im- 

 practicable for any single state, and 

 equally so for any confederation of states. 

 Any suggestion to the contrary comes 

 from an enemy and not a friend of this 

 great National resource. 



Speaking of "powerful obstacles 

 which block the way," he said : 



There are no legislative obstacles so 

 great which the American people in their 

 might cannot remove. This can be done 

 by continuing the propaganda of edu- 

 cation so insistently waged by the Amer- 

 ican Forestry Association, and by your 

 Association, as an active ally. 



The feeling of the Cotton Manufac- 

 turers is shown by the following reso- 

 lution, pas-ed unanimously on the 

 same day : 



\\ e, the American Cotton Manufactur- 

 er^' Association, in convention assembled. 

 hereby urge upon the Congress of the Vni 

 ted Stairs the pas-age, at ihis session, of 

 bill IT. R. 21357, "'" a similar bill, providing 

 for the purchase, in aid of navigation, of 

 Foresl lands in ill, Southern Appalachian 

 ard White Mountain regions, and al-o for 

 co-operation between private < \\-ncrs and 

 the Federal G< vcrnnieiit with a view 

 preserving the forests on privately owned 

 land for the regulation of stream llow in 

 aid of navigaii' n> 



Congress j> expected to ;idj.>um ' n 

 the week ending May ^oth. If SO, 



and nothing further i- accomplished 

 this session, there will -till have been 

 gained the passage of ;i ,i exrellrnt bill 

 by the Senate, and the de\ !! .pment 

 ol public sentiment which -hould re- 

 sult in the rebuke at the poll-, if not 

 the actual retirement, of congressmen 

 who have dallied with or obstructed a 

 measure so generallv recogni/ed as in- 

 dispensable to national well-being. 



Some Western Criticisms. 



The following editorial paragraph 

 is quoted from the May _' issue of 

 Field and Farm, published at Den- 

 ver : 



"It listens big to read how a mil- 

 lionaire Senator has bought 12.000 

 acres of coal land in Colorado; but 

 is it a good thing for the state, or a 

 solace to posterity : The time is com- 

 ing when the country will be owned. 

 soul and body, by the millionaire-." 



Mas it ever occurred to the editor 

 of Field and Fann that in voicing 

 sentiments such as this, and in con- 

 tinuing also to protc-t ,, gain-t tin- 

 work of the Government in creating 

 National Forests and mineral resen 

 (as proposed not long ago by Pre 

 dent Roosevelt i a clash of argument 

 occurs that speaks but poorly for the 

 editorial hump of logic? 



The proposition f extend greatly 

 tin- \\.rk of the Government in CS 

 tablishing National Forest- i-. to 

 many in the We-t. as to the proverb- 

 ial red Hag to the bull. So, tod, is 

 the proposition that the several states 

 establish within their border- -late 

 forest and mineral reserves, though 

 the latter propo-ition does n< t aron-e 

 such an intense degree of antagonism 

 the former. Probably this i> 

 because ] >ropo-it in- looking toward 

 the establishment of state fore-t- ha\ e 

 been neither frequent nor strongly ad- 

 \- .rated ; but tin- i- by tne way. 



Now. the (|Ue-tion re-ol\as itself to 

 this: \ large part of the \\Y-tern 

 press, and a great majority of the p. 

 pie of the \Vc-t. are violently opposed 

 to the acquisition by individuals or 



