quires teamwork if ever a national problem did.

The forestry movement toward the solution of the forestry problem has gained rapid momentum. Progress has been made to a point where the vital need of a definite forest policy, coordinating the work of the nation and the states, is beyond question. The necessity of tax adjustments that will encourage reforestation is plain. The need of redoubled efforts to protect the forests from the drain of fires and disease is obvious. Reforestation, more careful management, elimination of waste, are among the items that must be incorporated in such a policy.

STEVENSON

IN THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE

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UR forests are being depleted at the rate of 25,000,000,000 cubic feet annually, while the growth of our forests is only 6,000,000,000 cubic feet annually. "How long can we stand this drain?" writes Frederick Boyd Stevenson in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.

"It has been estimated that the original forests of this country consisted of 822,000,000 acres. Today there are 138,000,000 acres of virgin forest; 250,000,000 acres of second-growth timber or young trees. Including the second-growth timber and young trees, which, of course, are now of no commercial value, it will be seen that about 42 per cent of our original resources remain.

"But there are 81,000,000 acres of land suitable for no other purpose than forest growth. These acres should be utilized by the government and steps at once taken to make them productive of future

trees.

Unless we do provide for the future in a commercial way the timber supply of this country-like the oil supply-will become exhausted in a comparatively short time.

"What are we going to do to meet this situation?

"The fact that we are using our remaining forest resources about four times as fast as they are being produced calls for prompt action.

"Charles Lathrop Pack, president of the American Tree Association and one of the best authorities on forest preservation, says:

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“In addition to the condition of depletion there is a serious dislocation of our remaining forest assets from the point of view of geography. Three-fourths of the land classed as actual and potential forest land lies to the east of the Great Plains. In this section, where industrial enterprise has been built with a large measure of dependence upon wood, however, are found only 25 per cent of the virgin timber and 40 per cent of the merchantable stand. Thus 75 per cent of the virgin timber and 60 per cent of all the timber is found in the Rocky Mountains and in the states of the Pacific Coast.

"We have, then, a problem of dependent states, of dislocated sources of supply, of idle lands, and of continued rapid inroads into our remaining assets.'

"Here is the answer:

"Cooperation between the Federal Government and the State Government not only to preserve the forests but to create forests.

"No man in this country has been more interested, has devoted more time to the subject, and has done more for the preservation and expansion of forestry in the United States than Charles Lathrop Pack. He organized and is President of the American Tree Association. He has established forestry foundations in seven schools of forestry and he has presented 1,000 acres of forest land in the Adirondacks to the New York State College of Forestry at Syracuse University to be forever dedicated to demonstration and research and the forest uses of the college.

"In addition to his donation to Syracuse

University, Mr. Pack has for years been writing and talking about the preservation of our forests. He has just issued through the American Tree Association "The Forestry Almanac,' which is replete with data and information concerning our forests. This is one of the most useful books every published on this subject and will have a great influence in bringing about greater preservation, conservation, and creation of American forests.

"Suppose the Federal Government, at the head of a United Forest Policy, should get all the states and all the universities and all the private forestry associations to cooperate and have a single definite forestry plan-would not much greater results be accomplished?

"Suppose, now, that the scope of this National Conference be enlarged and that it unite with the National Forestry Program Committee in an earnest endeavor to have all the states and the Federal Government combine in a cooperative movement to save and increase the forests of the United States to meet the growing demands for timber in numerous lines of industry.

"Would not practical results follow if these two organizations should appoint an All-State Committee with Charles Lathrop Pack as Chairman, this committee to have authority to call a Congress to devise ways and means to bring about direct Federal and state cooperation with the one object in view of

"Conserving, preserving, increasing, and creating forests in the United States? "Is not some such move worthy of attention?"

New York Herald-Tribune.-There is sound sense in the suggestion of Charles Lathrop Pack that agreement instead of argument is needed in the forest policy of the nation. There must be law, there must be education, there must be public agitation, and all efforts must be co-ordinated in one consistent and persistent forest policy.

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Houston Post.-Charles Lathrop Pack, presiIdent of the American Tree Association, told the New England Society that the people of that section of the country were paying $3,000,000 per year in freight rates on forest products which they formerly produced at home. At the present rate of cutting and in the absence of a comprehensive effort to replenish the timber areas, the time cannot be far distant when we will be following the New Englanders in buying lumber at distant markets and adding millions in freight bills to our building costs.

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Manchester Herald.-New England is paying about three million dollars a year to import lumber to keep her factories going, according to Charles Lathrop Pack, president of the American Tree Association. The statement, coming in terms of dollars, should appeal to Connecticut people as a fit subject of economic discussion. Eighty-one million acres of land lie idle. We must put those acres to work growing trees, he says, for "the economic leadership and even the future safety of the country depends upon it."