Norwich bulletin., 1920-08-26
ABOUT REFORMATION OF
 WOOD PULP FROM CANADA

New London, N H., Aug 25-Edward Beck, of Montreal, Secretary of the Ca
 nadian Pulp and Paper Association, told a forestry conference here today that the question of removing restrictions l upon the exportation of pulp wood from the crown lands of Canada to the United States was one for judicial determina- i tion rather than for political agitation. The conference was held under the auspices of the Society for the Protec- l tion of New Hampshire Forests and was attended by forestry experts and paper makers from the United States and Can ada MT. Beck was invited to present Canada's side of the pulpwood contro- versy brought to notice by the passage 1 in Congress of the Underwood resolu- | tion callinr f~- 1r'n0n commission visit Canada with the view to obtain l ing the leI.-~. ---.--O.tlviIS on pulp wood exports.
 Mir Beck declared that Canada had ! no reason to avoid inquiry into the equity of it's timber laws by any im- | partial tribunal. He said it was not ! true that the present shortage of print ing paper in the United States was
 chargeable to the Canadian timber reg
 ulations but that it was due to world
 wide conditions. aggravated by the in ordinate use of paper by both Ameri- can and Canadian publishers" He de- i clared that free access to Canada's pulp wood would not give American publish CTS cheaper or more abundant paper, as
 had been claimed.
 1 MT. Beck asserted that the Canadian | pulpwood restrictions did not apply to 1 privately-owned lands from which more than 10000 cords of pulpwood were annually exported to the United States,
 In addition, he said. Canada exports nearly 500, 900 tons of pulp and about | 650,00 tons of paper to the United States
 every year comprising approximately i one-ninth of the American pulp con- sumption and one-third of all the news
 print paper consumed in or exported
 from the United States.
 | Restrictions on the exports of pulp
 wood from the crown lands, he declared, l were brought about solely by the desire
 to conserve the pulpwood resources and
 utilize their products for the up-building i of the pulp and paper industries within l the Canadian provinces and with no in- | tent to iniure A ''erican industries. The real question at issue" he said ''is not whether tns material shall be
 available for the use of American pub fishers. but whether the material cut from these lands shall go in the form ol raw pulpWooQ 10 the united states
 or shall be put through at least one
 stage of manufacture is Canada" So
 for as Canada's pulpwood is being cut
 a high percentage of it already was go- ing to the United States in one form or another. Without a very heavy in- cre~s-e in the rate of cutting, involving | tn srly dsfruet nn of the supply, re-
 lief to American publishers from this
 means would be impossible, said Mr.
 Beck. Quebec.s pulpwood ssfs now faYiEls fconsulned at the rate of over 1,oe0, 900
 cords year and the best informed ex- pert opinion estimated the resources of | that province would last not more than l 50 years at the present rate of con sumption, said the speaker who declared 1 that Quebec's forests already are threat ened with early exhaustion.
 1 Canada's great need today, said Mir. Beck, like that of the New England 1 states, is for the inauguration of a re- i forestation policy that will insure a permanent supply of timber for her
 wood consuming industries Without it, he predicted the same fate for the Ca
 nadian pulp and paper industry that
 is now threatening the American To open the crown lands at this time to unrestricted exploitation. he said, would
 only hasten such a condition and in the
 end benefit nobody