Republican farmer., 1920-04-16
PRODICALITY HAS
 CAUSED SHORTAGE

New York. April Is Prodigal methods in American forests and paper mills have brought the industry and the consuming public face to face with an alarming paper shortage which can be remedied only by adop- ton of a. comprehensive policy of forest protection, George W. Sisson. Jr, president of the American Paper and Pulp Association, declared in his address before the association's 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 a later session. The speaker deplored intimations from Canada that expvrt or pulp wood from private lands might be curtailed, limiting that retaIiatory measures
 might be sought by Americans in the | event of such action.
 l Canadian industry must have coal,' MT. Sisson said. Common l 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 the prime causes of "the general low ering of efficiency in manpower," and
 urged that only such governmental
 restrictions be placed on business as are necessary to protect the public.
 "1f our government and civil ser wants and commissions would not so often misinterpret their functions as to become irritant rather than help ful, our entire business structure would be more stable and efficient" 7"
 he said.
 He declared conservative Ameri-
 cans were displaying "a 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, tc
 the nations schools, which are facine a shortage of 100,o teachers next
 year. Many poorly paid teachers, he declared, are restless and out o1
 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 , ment of Agriculture, received by c
 P. Winslow, Director of the Fedora ! Forest Products Laboratory at Ma6i son, Wis, said the pulp and pape, . situation ifs the most critical in tht history of the United States Our demands for nevspri1,t in creased steadily from 5es, 600 tons i, . 1899 to 1,760,0eo tons in 1a19,' MT. Mer edith said. Present demands, abnor
 nal though they may seem. becaus = of the greatly increased adv vertisin II; 7 are merafy an incident in the rapidE 7 growing demand for newsprint paper :. ''The most disturbing phase of tn = = master is that te1 years ago when tn * develoEHr ant of our industry stopped = the United States waz practically self
 in iY1f
 Today we are dependent upon othe
 countries for the equivalent of two
 thirds of the pup wood, pulp of news
 print which goes into American news z papers. Our newsprint industry i concentrated largely in New Englant
 New York and the lake states.
 'I am told that 50 per cent of tn
 pulp and paper concerns in New Tor Il have no stumpage of their own an $ that less than five have enough tim If berland for future continuous opel if l ation.''
 B. The predicted life of the industry i Il the northeast states is alar1ningi ," short. We have on the other han, ,f large quantities of suitable newspri1 If woods in the Pacific northwest and
 Alaska.
 3a "A far greater degree of increa. S. in newsprint manufacture can be a, at compHSned by two measures, the d. ,e velopment of the inoustry in the Ps al cific northwest and in Alaska and tt <. large scale growing of timber in Ne
 England and the lake states A ful
 damental question is the permanel
 supply of railroad materials throue al the practice. of forestry in both u f. east and west.
 k. t'The capacity of the department al agriculture to serve your industr a. 1 and through it the interests of u SC public, rests fundamentally upon tv ny things, first to hold well trained al as experienced men under the compe ad sation afforded by congress-; secon nd it's financial resources for underta se ing or extending work of obvious ir
 aprovement.''