The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1921-01-08
FORESTRY BILL BEFORE
HOUSE SUBCOMMITTEE
ASSOCIATED Press)

Washington, Jan. Hearings on
the national forestry program bill in
troduced by Representative Smell of
New York, which calls for the expen-
d;ture of 81, 100000 a year for the
protection and development of for
Ats, were begun today before the
subcommittee on appropriations of
which Representative Anderson is the
chairman
Newspaper publishers, paper man.
ufacturers, lumbermen, timberland
owners. wood-using industries, the
United States Forest Service and the
American Forestry Association were
represented.
One million dollars a year for CO.
operation with the states in protecting
the forests from fire and S10,000,000
a year for securing additional forest
land for the government, is being ask
ed as forward step in the endeavor
to secure sufficient lumber and paper
pulp for future needs.
Importance of the proposed legisla-
ton to the industries of the country
cannot be over estimated, according to
r. s. Kellogg, chairman of the ma
tional forest program committee,
made up of men representing many
industries.
/ "This is paper age and in the
/ Cnited States, at least, a newspaper
age" said Chairman Kellogg, who is
also secretary of the News Print Ser
vice Bureau. From an annual con-
sumption of three pounds of news
print paper per capita in 1880 we
have gone to 35 pounds in 1920 The
news-print paper produced in the
UNITED States and Canada last year,
if ptu in the form of standard roll
Is inches wide, such as is used by
lmany of the large newspapers, would
unwind 10000 miles. Our daily
lpspers have a circulation in excess of
LIS, 000,00 copies and there are more
than 100 dailies between the Atlantic
land the Pacific whose circulation ex.
lceeds 100000 copies and some of them
have several times that number.
eff paper is indispensable our for.
ests are still more indispensable. fol-
in addition to supplying the raw ma
! lterial for all the newsprint paper anC
most of the material for all ,othel
kinds of paper, except the highes
grades, our dependence upon fores
products for countless articles of ne
lcessity and convenience is equally evi
|. dent. The supply of standing timbe
, in the United States is only about Al
Iper cent. of what it was 100 year
lago, and this remaining stand is be
ing drawn upon at more rapid rat
than it is being reproduced. Unlik
lour other basic raw materials, how
: lever, such as coal, oil and metals
timber need not be mined and ex
lhausted, but can and should be har
vested and reproduced like other Pre-
ducts of the soil.
"For this reason, it is especially er
tcouraging to note the recent agree
lment of the great lumber nanufactul
ing and wood-using industries of tn
|: country with the American Forestr
/: association and the American New.
3 paper Publishers Association upon
3 plan for an adequate and permaner
) forest policy in harmony with til
: Recommendations of the United State
e Forest Cervice. This marks the mo!
/: structive step yet taken to bring abol
: the continuous production of timbt
3 Upon all land suited for that purpo:
! Throughout the country and legislatio
3 to accomplish this. which will be il
. ltroduced into the next session of Coz
: Ieress will receive hearty and wild
I: spread support from professional TO
q letsers, business interests and either
: Everywhere, who are alive to the Wit
! Importance of maintaining the suppl
9 of one of our most necessary ra
. materials"