The Alaska daily empire., 1920-08-25
CANADIAN 1 DE- PULP ||U!| LAWS UPHELD AT
 FORESTRY MEET
Removal of Restrictions on Pulpwood Exports Would
 Be Ruinous, Claim.

IN EL w I<oNDoANs ~. ii.s n hdSs Edward Beck, of Montreal, Secre- tary of the Canadian Pulp and Paper Association, told forestry conference here today that the question of removing restrictions upon the exportation of pulp wood from athe crown lands of Canada to the Emitted States was@ enc for jud- iciaI determination rather than for political agitation.
 The conference was held under the auspices of the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire For csts and was attended by forestry experts and paper makers from the United States and Canada Mir Beck was invited to present Canada S side of the pulpwoed controversy brought to notice by the passage in Congress of the UnderwOd resolu- tion calling for an American com mission to visit Canada with a view of obtaining the removal re- strictfons on pulpwood exports
 Canada Law Defended.
 MT. Beck declared that Canada had no reason to avoid inquiry into the equity of it's timber laws by any impartial tribunal He said it was not true that the present short age of printing paper in the United States was chargeable to the Can adian timber regulations but that 1t was due to worldwide conditions. T 1n of paper by both American and Canadian publishers" He declared that free access to Canadas s pulp wood would not give American pub fishers cheaper or more abundant paper, as had been claimed.
 Mr Beck asserted that the Can adian pulp-wood restrictions did not apply to privately-owned lands from which more than 100000 cords of pulpwod were anually ex- ported to the United States. In ad- dition, he said, Canada exports nearly 600,000 tons of pulp and $50, 900 tons of paper to the United States every year, comprising ap- proximately one-ninth of the Amer ican pulp consumption and one third of all the newsprin. paper in or exported from the United States.
 Consumption Upheld.
 Restrictions on the exports of pulpwood from the crown lands. he declared, were brought about solely by the desire to conserve the pulp wood resources and utilize their products for the up-building of the. pulp and paper industries within the Canadian provinces and with no intent to injure American indus tries.
 The real question at issue" he said, "is not whether this material shall be available for the use Of 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. manufacture in Canada. So far as Canada's pulpwood is being cut { high percentage of it already is going to the United States in one form or another Without very heavy increase in the rate of cut ting, involving the early destruc- tion of the supply, no relief to Am erican publishers from this means would be impossible"
 Huge Consumption.
 Quebec's pulpwoOG is now being consumed at the rate of over 1,00O,- GOO .cords a year and the best in- formed expert opinicn estimated the resources of that province would last not more than 50 years at the present rate of consumption. said the speaker, who declared that Que bees forests already are threatened with early exhaustion.
 Canada's great need today, said Mir. Beck, like that of the New Eng land states, is for the inauguration of a reforestation policy that will insure a permanent supply of timber for her wood consuming industries. Without it, he predicted the same fate for the Canadian pulp and paper industry that is now threat ening the American. To open the crown lands at t1fis time to unre- stricted exploitation, he said, would only hasten such a condition and in the end benefit nobdy.