Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-12-17

Y \ that cheerful pastime known az gong the
\ pace Americans have made the worlds record
/ Both as individuals and nation. we nave for
200 years been the horrible example of spcndthrift
folly ut which more experienced and less FORUM
ate nciglbors have held up tand incidentally, oup
their itching palms
In family life we have over and over proven the
sayings that in America it is only three generations
from shirt-slceves shrt-seercs. and that a tu-
ropcan could live what an American throws
away. III national life have blindly exploited
the richest that ever nation fell heir to
in a manner strongly suggestive of the hero In
"I3rcwstcrs Millions"
Under the doctrine of aisscz faire we have been
spending the principal as well as the interest Oh the
national patrlmony and morgaged the toll and pri-
walton OF our grandchildren for our present scllsh
qualification
Our coal has been wastefully mined and still more
wlscruly burned Petroleum has been similarly
Worst OF all, on account OF its allied effects
our once magnificent natural forests have been cut
and burned until the finish of the present sta''i Oh
timber, under the increasing rate OF consumption
is plainly in sght-some authorities say no more
than % years hence. natural water ways are
chokcd with debris from the denuded mountain SIDES
floods from unregulated rin-oif wash millions OF
dollars worth rich agricultural soil into inc ocean
and cover hundreds of thousands of acres OF larh-
Ing lands with sterile sand and gravel Tho HOOD
waters themselves lost for purposes OF irrisa-
ton or inland navigation. and each flood is followed
by period of low water
Throughout our history private extravaganza mas
been reelected in national thriftlessness But the
time of counting the and OF active measures for
rctrenchmcnt has last arrived. The increasing
cost OF the staples of life aroused the attention
OF Americans no amount of propaganda" coui"
have done the conservation policies of the
government natural corrclatve in state craft
of the economies found necessary In American homes
Conservation the Waichword
The geological survey has mapped the coal beds and
oil regions and calculated the remaining supply ana
the probable time it will last under the increasing
rate of consumption The bureau of soils has IN u
similar way chared the areas of productive FARMING
soil and drawn attention to. the heavy annual loss
through erosion The reclamation service Is engaged
in building reservoirs for the retention OF hoou
waters that they may be used for Irrigation inc
forest service is struggling to protect and perpetuatc
the natural supply timber and to prevent Hoods
ana erosion This brief statement includes very
wide range activities; it the protection OF
standing timber from fire. theft. and the dcpreda-
tons of inject pests the introduction of economical
methods of logging and milling, the Invention OF
prcservative and seasoning to make poorer
species take the place the valuable, the pro-
duction of turpcntine and resin without killing the
trees that supply the pitch, and measures for as
surfing Il continuous crop of young timber to take
the place of that which is removed. The protection
OF watersheds by extending the timber cover and
regulating grazing in itself prevents losses by floods
and erosion and the filling of reservoirs with silt
The work OF the service is so broad and so fuida-
mental In nature that 1t supplements that Of other
bureaus. strikes directly at the causes Of loss in
wood, water and soil
Foreign nations have learned at great or great
er cost than that no country can continue to DC
prosperous without comprehensive and firm policy
of forest management.
Good forestry is as Fundamental necessity In the
building of prosperity good soil good climate or
n II, or hn i
branches Of Work.
In the forest service there two distinct branches
OF work; consists OF the administration of the
FEDERAL timber lands, the other consists OF scientific
study Of all matters pertaining to the Improvement
OF our forest conditions. the utilization of forest
products and the preparation OF technical advice to
owners OF private holdings in regard to the proper
treatment OF their timber lands. Tie scientific WORK
Is carried on all the United States by specially