Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1920-12-02
Banquet rendered
Col. W. B. Greeley

An epoch in the history of Boga-
lusa was made Saturday night when
Col. w. B. Greeley, chief of the u. s.
Forestry Board, met the men from
the logging camps and the mill of the
Great Southern Lumber Company at
banquet given at the Pine Tree Inn
and plans were made for an extern
sive reforestation program for the
coming years.
Several hundred men filed into the
dining room Of the Pine Tree Inn,
where the tables groaned under the
weight of the feast awaiting them.
The room was decorated with pine
trees, tops and cones, small blocks
Of loblolly pine were beside each
plate.
After the meal had been finished
and the cigars lighted, w. III. Sulli-
van, general manager of the Great
Southern Lumber Company, made the
opening address, telling of the refor-
estation program that is being in
augurated by the Great Southern,
and how all trees in the woods,
henceforth, too small to be cut for
timber, are being marked with q
white circle and in the future all
logging men will respect them.
For the first time in the history
OF sawmill town we are making
sure of Bogalusa being a permanent
city" said Mayor Sullivan. ''No
sawmil town has ever been consid-
cred permanent, but we are insuring
the stability of our town by making
it a paper-making city, and the only
way to make it SO is to grow the
trees to furnish pulp for the mills.
The men in the logging camps hence-
forth win watch after the young
trees which grow in the path Of the
big timbers they fell for the use 81
the sawmill, and where few trees are
left the Re-Forestation Department
Will see that others are planted, SO
that twenty-five years from now.
when all Of the big timber in this
section has been cut out and the
sawmill closes for good, we win have
trees enough to furnish pulp wood
to run the biggest paper mills in
the world, and keep Bogalusa on the
map"
Col. w. B. Greeley, chief Of the
U. s. Forestry Board, and honor
guest Of the evening, made a short
address, telling of the splendid repu-
tation that the employees Of the Great
Southern already enjoy among the
Ioresters OF the country. He briefly
told Of the work being done by his
department and how, in his estirna-
ton, this section Of the country
could be made to produce trees
enough to last for many years to
come.
Make your Stacker acres work as
you make your Stacker workers
work When the lumber-jaclEs of the
country realize that they are no
longer "blanket-stiffs,0 but perma-
nent citizens Of community, they
viii take an interest in their town
and their work, such as has never
been taken before"
J. X. Johnson, head Of the Refor-
estation Department Of the Great
Southern Lumber Company, told in a
few words of the work done BY his
department in the interest of refor-
estations and how, henceforth, in
stead Of preaching only the creed Of
the prOductiveness of cut-oyer land
for agricultural products, he was GO
ing to teach the farmers to put some
parts Of their idle acres to work
growing pine trees.
Adjutant General Toombs, head Of
the Louisiana National Guard, made
short address, telling of his expert
ences in seven different countries Of
Europe where not even a splinter Of
wood is wasted. When a tree is cut
down cover there" the peasants walk
for miles to carry the tops, branches,
chips, and even dig up the roots for
fuel. Over there forestry Is an im-
portant project and the sooner the
lumbermen Of this country realize
the Importance Of preserving our
forests, the better off we will be.
Following the speeches, Mr.. Sulli-
van invited the men and ladies pres
ent to attend the reception and fed
eral inspection Of Bogalusss's cavalry
troop, which was to be held in the
Elks' Hall Immediately following the
banquet.