The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-04-15
PRODICAL METHODS
ARE RESPONSIBLE
For the Alarming Paper Shortage, Says
Geo. w. Sisson, Jr., to Amer
ican Paper and Pulp
Association.

New York, April l5.-Prodigal meth
ods in American forests and pspermills
have brought the industry and the
consuming public face to face with an
alarming paper shortage which can be
remedied only by adoption of com
prehensive policy of forest protection
George w. Sisson, ir., president of the
American Paper and Pulp association,
declared in his address before the asso-
Citations annual convention here to-
day.
Mr.. Sisson said program OF legisla-
tion calculated TO effect this result
would be brought before the conven.
tion for action at a later session
The speaker deplored intimations
from Canada that export OF pulpwood
from private lands might be curtailed,
limiting that retaliatory measures might
be sought by Americans in the event
of such action
Canadian industry must have coal, y
Mr.. Sisson said. Common fairness in
dicates that ACCESS to raw materials
needed should not be denied on either
hand
Mr.. Sisson charged that government
al control of, or interference with, in
dustry in general was one Of the prime
causes of the general lowering Of eff
cheney in man power and urged that
only such governmental restrictions be
placed on business as are necessary to
ppSteet the public.
t4Tf n,rr rnparpfpapt and civil
ants and commissions would not SO
often misinterpret their functions as
10 become irritant rather than helpful,
Dur entire business structure would be
more stable and efficient" he said.
He declared conservative Americans
were displaying a shocking apathy
toward the spread OF radical propa
yanda and urged that more effort be
made 10 offset il. Especial attention
should be given, he said, to the nations
schools. which are facing shortage of
100000 teachers next year. Many poor
Y paid teachers. he declared. are rest
ess and out of sympathy with the
they serve and are open.
because of this, to the propaganda of
adicals.
A letter TO the association from y.
T. Meredith, secretary of the depart
nent of agriculture, said the pulp and
,aper situation sis the most critical in
he history of the United States.
Our demands for newsprint in
reased very uniformly from 500 600 /
ons in 1899 to 100000 tons in 1919"
,lr. Meredith said. present demands, /
.bnormal though they may seem be
ause OF the greatly increased adyer
Using. arc merely an incident in the
apidly growing demand for newsprint
'aper.
The most disturbing phase of the /
natter is that 10 years ago. when the
evelopment OF our industry stopped, 1
he United States was practically self |,
in Bewsprint production.
'o-day we are dependent upon other
ountries for the equivalent of two
birds Of the pulpwood. pulp or news
rint which goes into American news
apers Our newspyint industry j. con
largely IN New England. New
'ork and the lake states | am told
hat 90 per cent Of the pulp and paper
oncerns in New York have no stump
ge of their own. and that less than
We have enough timberland for future
peration. The predicted life of the in
ustry in the northeastern states Is
larmingly short We have, on the
ther hand, large quantities Of suitable
ewsprint woods in the Pacific North
est and in Alaska.
"A far greater degree Of indepen-
ence in newspriut manufacture can be
by two measures, the de
alopment Of the industry in the Pa
fc Northwest and in Alaska. and the
rye fscale growing Of timber m New
nglsnd and the lake states. 4 funda
entail question j. the permanent sup
" Of raw materials through the prac-
ce Of forestry IN both Fast and West.
The capacity Of the department of
.riculture 20 serve your association
"a through Il the interests of the pub
, rests fundamentally upon two
.ings. to hold well trained and expert
ictd men under the compensation af ,
uiell BY Congress. and its financial ,
sources for undertaking or extending ;
ork II obvious importance. The pres Z
u situation of the federal depart I
emts in both of these respects is eN- I
cmely critical. :