The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-15
PLEADS FOR PRESERVATION Secretary J. H. Finney Is in Montgomery. TALKS WITH SECRETARY DAVE Lauds Purposes of the Southern Commercial Congress.
 ----s-- Deelare. That Mueh Depsnas upea sAe south's Activity In Pushihs tbs Appalaehi.n Bm Threush
 Congress.
TALKS WITH SECRETARY DAVE

yohn H. Finney, Secretary of the Appatachian National Forest Assccia- ton, of Washington, D. C., was n tne city Saturday in conference W1tn v Grosvenor Dawe over some detsHs 91 inc coming Southern Commercial Con Eress to be held in Washington on De- cember and s.. ,,x.., ,.. s representative of The Advertiser. MT.
 .I aouht if the South quite realizes ,,at tba tremendous value which thls Congress will mean to 1t. m com snercial way. Held in the National Cap- ttal during the historic WeeA - ,ngnsr December when there VIII pc ,~atbared there the brains of the Ne- tfion engaged in the constructive work E~Ss cow s5dertne the Nations resources Sn soiIs and waters and minerals and vorasts. the occasion is surely to marx an epoch in the South's history. TOT we .rhau have there the commerclAt 2ousls sl- E.e rasn and associations engaged in iss,slding the New South. presenting shrough it's best men, the SoNtn rkatchless resources in all these tninks
 E,varvthins seems to. assure an at- t,a1saanca that will break all recorass ahd am here to pledge our assocsA-. 9sxn,s help towards the success or tne ynteting and to aid the Committee on
 
 bs1.t be handled in Washington.
 Hzha Anpalachian National Forest AS .ortatson ie to present the Appalachian Tn.rest matter. by maps, charts. plcs- ,,rns. transparencies, etc. ana VIII uh- deStake the proper arrangement or tne dissolay in the meeting place at me 'NeW willard" ,a n,eh an,k well deserved compliment 10 the 1n1rav and ability of Mir. Dave, on whnse willing shoulders so much or thes hard work of planning this meet ing has fallen.
 s4when one considers tne heto Wo.1 involved. his accompii iishment IS not -Se,srt of wonderfully said Mir Finney. sT know of no potter work ever depe @o,s fhe South both in the conception oe enc Congress and its careful plan 1lnk, for he has caught the very aoea neelRed which is Interpretation.--nps merely that we have here m our L1vo.- . oA s5outhIaud these marvellous resources fs,t what they should mean to us of TEa nresant South and to those wno ,1oynS alter tls in the future South. S1 TTheiIeve. to be source of inepira- tion ito tlle south for all time.
 Work of the Assocantton.
 speaking of the Appalachian Nation- cSl al Fprest Association ana Us WI = -.'
 ..Tts ia aionK much the same lines and sc fSSa aaYne spirit as the Work Mf Dayv1 fa doing, our association esan8 volufSkary one, organized only l&St ysa' ,vlth, the idea of changing the prevall- ing indifference of our people eardk the forests into militant ana az sres,sive work for their preservation
 .N,pt many people knew here now ss- Ysoils, the question is, nor what apso- 1,Itel.k- hinges on them. SO we staFee in om an educational campaign to make known the fact How many peorAe know that we have o totad aao hoao ooo est area of only between S0e,0o0.OVo ana 700, oO0,O0 acres; that we are 1,sirrv 100 .000, ,000. .00e feet per annum or 1o,Ir times as much as yearly grows fn all the forests; that we lost oy TOT est fires last year (most of them pre- vent able1 10000, 900 acres (and tnis year nearly double that amounlIi ,a,s.. .na. the Appalaehians contain practlcaliy aIl me nations remaining hardwood, ana af the present rate of cutting would na e-nteirIv exhausted in fifteen years that Yhe South's water power of s,00V, 900 horse power, the foundation or its cheaao misunderstanding. was mostly seri- ouaIW menaced by the denudation or +ba hoountain forests; that intimately conn Acted with the forest was climate and "a agriculture and navigation and pure water; that upon them hinges tne dtf9erence between our present talr Southland and a desert.
 'ew have done much work in bring ing these facts out as well as In urg- ing the establishment by the National Cove Enment of the proposed forest oi E. 00O, 900 acres in the South, extending from Northeast Alabama to Pennylva' mia, sEnd of s60.000 acres in the White lnoarnitains of New England. It was not our fault that we did not succeed at the last session of Congress foI che subject was presented most lotc ZIP lS hv fine best men in the South and New England and in such manner at should have convinced even "do' nothLn Congress.
 Must Win the Fight.
 aThis year we are taking up the fght again. for there seems to be nc nistaking the trend of public opinion the whole conservation idea, so splen'