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South. The methods in general use are still very 

 wasteful, although progress is being made in intro- 

 ducing methods of tapping trees for naval stores 

 which not only return greater profits, but at the same 

 time are less destructive to the pine timber. 



In the redwood region of California many timber- 

 land owners are providing for second crops of timber 

 by planting the open spaces after logging. In the 

 great white pine region of the Lake States, although 

 the forests were for the most part cut long ago and 

 the land left devastated, a beginning has been made 

 in the work of conserving the remaining timber and 

 reforesting denuded areas. In almost every great 

 forest region of the country, in fact, there is at hast 

 the beginning of interest in timber growing. This 

 is due partly to the educational work of the Federal 

 and State forest agencies and partly to the unmis- 

 takable diminishing of local timber supplies. 



10. TREES 



(Courtesy of Small. Maynard & Co.) 



In the Garden of Eden, planted by God, 



There were goodly trees in the springing sod — 



Trees of beauty and height and grace, 

 To stand in splendor hefore His face. 



Apple and hickory, ash and pear. 

 Oak and beech and the tulip rare, 



Th? trembling aspen, the noble pine. 

 The sweeping elm by the river line ; 



Trees for the birds to build and sing, 

 And the lilac tree for a joy in spring ; 



Trees to turn at the frosty call 



And carpet the ground for their Lord's footfall ; 



Trees for fruitage and fire and shade. 

 Trees for the cunning builder's trade ; 



Wood for the bow, the spear, and the flail, 

 The keel and the mast of the daring sail ; 



He made them of every grain and girth. 

 For the use of man in the Garden of Earth. 



Then lest the soul should not lift her eyes 

 From the gift to the Giver of Paradise, 



On the crown of a hill, for all to see, 

 God planted a scarlet maple tree. 



— /?//«<? Carman. 



11. WOMEN'S ORGANIZATIONS AND FOR- 

 ESTRY 



Not long ago the able leader of one of the gnat 

 organizations of women spoke of what she termed 

 " woman power." " Never before was there a time." 

 she said, "when 'woman power needed more to be 

 harnessed to the concerns of life. It is generally 

 recognized that one of the greatest driving forces in 

 this world of affairs, dynamic, tempered with a spir- 

 itual quality that enhances its value for good, is 

 woman power."' Women's organizations, which have 

 grown astoundingly during the last decade, offer a 

 most promising method of harnessing woman power 

 to the concerns of life. The next decade bids fair to 

 be a testing time for these organizations, and they 

 will be judged not by what they are but by what they 

 are doing. Size alone will not count. 



