The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1920-01-08

spread demand that the new appor-
tlonment cut down the number "
members. probably 10 400. There VIII
he determined opposition 10 making
any reduction. and, indeed. the cen
sus committee will have 10 listen to
much argument in favor Of holding
the number up TO what II Is under
the present apportionment or even in
crensing II TO $50.
Since 1890. when the first count of
the people was made the house has
taken n Jump upward In membership
every ten years. with two exceptions.
The first house Of representatives,
which was created by constitutional
npportionment. contained only GO mem
hers. The apportionment under the
census Of 1890 increased the member
ship TO LOG. and the growth by decades
since that date has been as follows:
1900 142 members: 1910. 1856 mem
hers; 1920. 213: 1890. 242: 1910. go;
1850 237 lin these two decades the
house decreased in membership from
what II was In 1S3O) 1860. 243; 1870
293 1890 332; 1890. 357; 1900 39i
and 1910, Az.
Gain for States With Big Cities.
The greatest increase in representa-
tion has taken place in the states in
which large cities have sprung up dur
ing the last century For instance, New
York state started off In 1890 with
only ten representatives. Today that
state has 43 seats In the house. Penn
sylvania. started off In 1870 with IL
members Of the body and now has 80:
Illinois was not represented at all In
the house until 1910. and then by one
member only. That state now has %
representatives Ohio was represent
ed by one member In 1900. and through
increase In population has gained %
seats in the house.
II is interesting to note that some
of the states have no more represent
ativeS than they had when the first
house assembled one Of these il
Connecticut. which had five members
of the house that was created by the
constitutional apportionment. In 1910
that state had representatives. and
In 1870 and 1880. G. but now II Is
back to g. Virginia also has the
same number Of representatives to-
day that she had I'm the first congress.
10. In 1910 that state occupied %
seats. but along about 1910 the num-
her went down to Is. and ten years
later to 13, and little later back to
the original numb r.
National Forest Policy Needed.
The American Forestry association
is calling of national forest pol
icy that will provide for the re-
forestation of all cut-over timber
lands on the public domain and
also all such lands as may be owned
privately. Charles Lathrop Pack. presi.
dent of the association, believes the
only permanent solution of the paper
problem is to be found in reforesta-
tion on a broad scale. He would begin
the work on the lands from which pulp
wood has been taken. He points out
that in 1889 the pulp wood industry
used 1,9S6,00O cords of wood, that ten
years later 1t used 100000 cords and
that for the last five years the aver
age consumption has been around o.
100000 cords a year. During the last
nine years, according to his figures.
the mills have used 9264,000 cords OF
imported pulp wood i'm addition to the
enormous cut In the United States.
According to the view of the Ameri-
can forestry association, foresight
would have dictated the reforestation
of every acre of the cut.over land in
the United States. The annual report
of the United States forester just Is
sued shows that the rate of depletion
of the forests is more than twice,
probably three times. what is actually
being produced by growth in form
serviceable for products ether then
I irewOod. That government official calls
attention to the ever retreating sources
of timber supply. He notes that al
ready the supplies of all the great
eastern centers of production are ap-
preaching exhaustion. Even In the
South, he says. most of the mills have
not more than ten or fifteen years sup
| ply vi NlIEln llhihtl dhNdN VI Nhth.
Government Action Needed.
In the early years of the present
century IL looked as though the man
agement of forests as permanent pro
ductive properties might be voluntarily
undertaken by private owners on
large scale, but since then the situa
ton has materially changed. The need
for the adoption of an enlarged pro
gram of acquisition, the forester points
out, has become increasingly urgent
More than twenty years ago the divi
sion of forestry, as II was then called
offered TO give advice and assistance
20 private timber owners who might
wish to consider applying forest man
agement TO their properties. BY the
middle of 1905 requests had been re
ceived for the examination Of private
holdings, large and small, comprising
in all 10,900OOO acres of land. Many
of these requests were from large lum
Der companies and other owners OF
extensive timber tracts. On th'
strength of the showing made by the
, preliminary examinations, number OF
these large owners entered into co
operative agreements for the prepare