The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-07-25
AIR TRAVEL ADDS
TO FOREST WORK
Giant Propelleta and Many
Planes to Cut Into Worlds
Supply.

WARRINGTON. July 25.-To say that
eight pieces Of wood will revolutionlze
the world. It's business It's method Of
living, and even its method Of think
ing. seems like a big order, but that
Is Just what the eight propeller blades
on the R-s4 viii do, in the opinion of
Charles Iathrop Pack, president Of the
! American Forestry association, With
over-ocean transportation demonstrated.
MT Faek says the peace burden placed
upon the forests Of this country viii
make the call upon them due TO war
seem insignificant, and he adds that
one Of the biggest reconstruction prob
lens before the country today is a ma
ttonal forest policy,
peller blades take the giant dirigible
R-S4 across the ocean and back" says
Mr.. Pack. Mans dream Of centuries
is now realized. for he can go over or
around a storm In world-round air
travel These eight blades are made OF
wood. and It is we'll to remember that
the experts have found nothing Go take
the place OF wood in those blades. !
do not believe they ever will. In air
plane construction most Of the material
is wood.
Those blades are but seven feet long,
but much more wood than that Is used
in turning them and finding just what
IL wanted that will stand the terrific
tests. A propeller makes AAout LOO
revolutions a minute, no IL IA easy to
see that the blades must be right be
fore men risk their lives with them
with this new method Of commerce
opening WondTOuS opportunities I'M
mediate attention must be given TO a
national forest policy in this country,
Wood Is used in everything, even in
the making Of this paper you are read
ing. The cost Of this Is mounting
steadily In ths matters OF exports the
business world faces its greatest oppor-
tunity. and a national forest policy must
be adopted now to provide for the flu
ture. The lake states now import lum-
Der from other sections o. tho country.
Experts estimate the supply Of southern
pine win be exhausted within the next
is years. New England no longer pro-
duces enough lumber for her own needs.
The center OF Che lumber industry is
rapidly moving toward the Pacific coast
an the wood using industry there are
few concerns that can point TO a i've
year supply. They give work to thou
sands Of people n export products
valued at tt50, 600, 900 every year, TO say
nothing OF the home market. The United
states exported three and one-hAlf bill
lion feet Of lumber and saw logs a year
before the war.
"Europe's need now Rill be around
seven billion feet a year for some time.
Many OF the forests OF France have been
! NfHAft4 VI aiAh ~ ~ ~ NANEHtt
association il collecting a fund to help
r~eforest the devastated areas. This,
however, will be of no help In the pres
emit emergency, for that work is for the
future. Just 70 in America We must
! look 10 the future,
"There Is an end to all things, and
there is certainly coming an end to our
forest supply II the question Of q ma
tionai forest policy is not solved and
solved quickly, The forests Of France
saved her and civilization. The same
call viii be made upon the forests Of
the United States, because OF the drain
OF business. win we meet that calf
The airpiane and the dirfgible have
drawn the countries OF the earth closer
together than ever In history, No long.
err can we live apart The whfr or
eight propeller blades will soon be mut-
tiplied by a million more, n they
carry a message TO the business world
that muAt be answered.