The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-12

families if necessary. It is important this fund should have the prompt and cordial support of all lumber men and all timber interests. I hope this will take the form of generous contribu7 ttons sent at once to the Headquarters or the American Forestry Association in the, Maryland building here.''
 The fund was organized by men widely known in forestry and lumber fields. The committee is: Charles La- throp Pack, president American For estry Association; Albert F. Potter and William L. Hall. U. S. Forest Service; w. P. Brown, Berlin Mills Co.,, Berlin. N. H.; P. S. Ridsdale, edi- tor American Forestry Magazine, and MT. Downman.
 J. W. Tourney, director of Yale Uni- Versity School of Forestry, points to the great importance of forestry work and the lesson of denuded France as sign post to this country. He views the situation this ways
 "The war is bleeding Europe dry of the forest growth of century. Eng land, whose chief dependence for wood for two centuries has been from l beyond the seas, is destined to be stripped as bare as China before the
 end of hostilities. She now sees her
 great mistake in the neglect of her absolute forest lands and the great
 enocomic advantage in times of war
 when lumber-laden ships are swept
 from the sea, in having adequate re-
 serves of lumber. Many decades must
 pass after the dawn of peace, before
 Great Britain can re-eStablish produc. tive stands of timber She has learn
 ed her lesson, and her meager and scattered forests and neglected abso.
 lute forest land of the past will, I be.
 lieve, give way to g glorious renais- sance and a development of weu-man. aged forests beyond even the dream of the past.
 ''The well-managed forests ol
 France in those parts of the country
 not devastated by the nations of mid de Europe are being depleted witt
 startling rapidity. The French, how.
 ever, with the assistance of American iforesters, are felling the forests witt
 an eye to the future and the secur.
 ing of reproduction 50 that wher peace comes the reconstruction vii
 bring back the production of the abso
 lute forest lands to their normal ca.
 pacity. The forest capital of all Eur. tope, however, will be enormously cu
 into when fighting ceases and the not over-abundant forest resources O.
 the rest of the world will be required to rebuild Europe.
 These lessons of the great war tha !, so clearly show the necessity of for
 ests of the existence of national life should be taken to heart by the peo pie of America. Our slogan should , be, Make the land productive.' Thi slogan should ring from every school , house, from every board of trade 7 from every organization from Main, to California that is striving for tn betterment of the nation.
 Mot only should America work to ward the conservation of her forest 5 in all of her mountain areas, but tn 5 patriotism of the farmer should flint t expression in making the woodlot } far more productive part of the farn , than it has been in the past. At thi time of national stress and emergency when ever resource of the nation i 3 scrutinized and adjusted to take 1t 5 place in national defense, the Ameri , can woodlot should not be overlook r ed"