The Cordova daily times., 1920-08-30
CANADIAN SAYS FORESTS MUST
 BE REPLANTED

NEW LONDON, N. H., Aug 30 (by Associated Press) Edward Beck, of Montreal secretary of the Canadian Pulp and Paper Association, told a forestry conference here that the question of removing restrictions upon the exportation of pulp-wood from the crown lands of Canada to the United Stetes was one for judicial determi- nation rather than for political agita- tion.
 The conference was held under the auspices of the Society for the Pro- lection of New Hampshire Forests and was attended by forestry experts and paper makers from the United States and Canada MT. Beck was invited to present Canada's side of the pulp wood controversy brought 70 notice by the passage in congress of the Underwood resolution calling for an American commission to visit Canada with a veiew to obtaining the remov-
 MT. Beck declared that Canada had no reason to avoid inquiry into the equity of it's timber laws by any inn partial tribunal. He said it was not true that the present shortage of printing paper in the United States was chargeable to the Canadian tim- Der regulations but that it was due to worldwide conditions, aggravated by the ''inordinate use of paper by both American and Canadian publishers. " He declared that free access to Can- adds pulp wood would not give the American publishers cheaper or more abundant paper, as had been claimed.
 MT Beck asserted that the Cana dian pulp wood restrictions did not apply to privately owned lands from which more than 100000 cords of pulp wood were annually exported to the United States. In addition, he said Canada exports nearly 600,OOO tons of pulp and about 650,000 tons of paper to the United States every year, comprising approximately one ninth of the American pulp consump- tion and one-third of all the news print paper consumed in or exported from the United States.
 Restrictions on the exports of pulpWood from the crown lands, he declared, were brought about solely I>x ft,oi, irn fo m h. wood and paper industries within the Canadian provinces and with no in tent to injure American industries.
 ''The real question at issue" he said lis not whether this material shall be available for the use of the American publishers, but whether the material cut from these lands shall go in the form of raw pulp wood to the United States or shall be put through at least one stage of manu- facture in Canada" So far as Can adds pulp wood is being cut a high percentage of it already was going to the United States in one form or another "Without very heavy in crease in the rate of cutting, in- volving the early destruction of the supply, no relief to American pub fishers from this means would be impossible" said Mr. Beck. Quebec's pulpwood is now being consumed at the rate of over 100000 cords year and the best informed expert opinion estimated the resources of that pro- vince would last not more than 50 years at the present rate of consump- tion, said the speaker who declared that Quebec's forests already are threatened with early exhaustion.
 Canada's great need today, said MT. Beck, like that of the new England states, is for the inauguration of a reforestation policy that will insure permanent supply of timber for her wood-consuming industries. Without it, he predicted the same fate for the Canadian pulp industry that is now threatening the American. To open the crown lands at this time to unre stricted exploitation, he said, would only hasten such a condition and in the end would benefit nobody.
 
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