The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-04-15
PRODICALITY HAS
 CAUSED SHORTAGE

New York. April Is - Prodtgad paper mills have brought the industry and the consuming public face to face with an alarming paper shortage which can be remedfed only by adop- ton of a comprehensive policy of forest protection, George W. Sisson, IT,, president of the American Paper and Pulp Association, declared in his address before the associations an nual convention here today.
 MT. Sisson said a program of leg islation calculated to effect this re- suit would be brought before the con- vention for action at g later session.
 The speaker deplored intimations from Canada. that exp~rt of pulp wood from private lands znisnt be curtailed, hinting that retanatory measures might be sought by Americans in the event of such action.
 Canadian industry must have coal," MT. Sisson said. Common fairness indicates that access to raw materials needed should not be de- nied on either hand.''
 MT. Sisson charged that govern mental control of, or interference with industry in general was one of 1 the prime causes of ''the general low ering of efficiency in n1anpower,' and urged that only such governmental | restrictions be placed on business as are necessary to protect the public. 1 'If our government and civil ser wants and commissions would not so often misinterpret their functions as 1 to become Iritant rather than help full, our entire business structure would be more stable and efficient he said.
 He declared conservative Ameri- cans were displaying Ca shocking apathy toward the spread of radical propaganda and urged that more ef- fort be made to offset it. Especial attention should be given, he said, to the nations schools, which are facing a shortage of 1oo,00 teachers next year Many poorly paid teachers, he declared, are restless and out of sympathy with the communities they serve and are open, because of this, to the propaganda of radicals.
 A letter to the association from F. T. Meredith, Secretary of the Depart mei16 of Agriculture. received by C.. P. WinSsOw, Director of the Federal Forest Products Laboratory at Madi- son, Wis, said the Puap and paper situation 'is the most critical in the history of the United States"
 Our demands for newsprint in- creased steadily from 5ss, 600 tons in 1899 to l 100000 tons in 19d9,'' MT. Mer- edith said Present demands, abnor- nal though they may seens because of the greatly increased dvertising are merely an incident in the rapidly growing demand for newsprint paper.
 Nhe most disturbing phase of thu
 matter is that ten years ago when the deveaoPment of OUT industry stopped
 the UHzted States was practically self supporting in newsprint production.
 Today we arc dependent upon other countries for the equivalent of two
 thirds of the pup wood, pulp of news
 papers. Our newsprint industry is concentrated largely in New England New York and the lake states. 'I am told that SC per cent of the pulp and paper concerns in New York
 have no stumpage of their own and
 that less than five have enough tim
 berland for future continuous oper-
 ation.''
 The predicted life of the industry in the northeast states is aaIuainefy
 short. We have on the other hand
 large quantities of suitable newsprint
 woods in the Pacific northwest and ir
 Alaska
 "A far greater degree of increase
 in newsprint manufacture can be ae- mplished by two measures the de velopment of the inuust-y in the Pa cific northwest and in Alaska and the large scale growing of timber in New
 England and the lake states. A fun. , damenta1 question is the per1nanen supply of railroad materials through the practice of forestry in both th&
 east and west.
 'HThe capacity of the department o1 agriculture to serve your industry and through it the interests of the public, rests fundamentally upon twc
 things, first to hold well trained ant experienced men under the compen
 sation afforded by congress; second E its financial resources for undertak , ing or extending work of obvious i'm s provenent-"
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