Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-01-08
Open Hearings
National Forestry
Program Measure

Washington. Jan. 7.Hearings or
the National Forestry Program Bill
introduced by Representative Smell
of New York, which calls for the ex-
penditure of $11,000,0O0 a year 70,
the protection and DEVELOPMENT OF
forests. were begun today before the
ub-committee on appropriations OF
which Representative Anderson is
chairman.
Newspaper publishers, paper
manufacturers, lumbermen, timber
land owners. wood using industries
the United States Forest Service and
the American Forestry Association
We're represented
One million dollars a year for co
operating with the states in protect
ing the forests from fire and $40
ooo,ooo a year for securing add :
tional forest land for the govern
ment, is being asked as forward
step in the endeavor to secure suf-
ticient lumber and paper pulp for flu
ture needs.
Importance of the proposed legis-
lation to the industries Of the coun-
try cannot be over estimated, ac-
cording to r. S. Kellogg. chairman of
the National Forest Program Com
| mittee, made up of men representins
! many industries.
This is q paper age and in the
United States, at least, newspaper
age" said Chairman Kellogg, who is
also Secretary of the News Print
Service Bureau. From an annual
nf
| 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 this
year, if put in the form of standard
roll 70 inches wide. such as is used
by many of the large newspapers,
would unwind 100000 miles. Our
daily papers have circulation in
excess of 2S.00O,000 copies and there
are more than 100 dailies between
the Atlantic and the Pacific whose
circulation exceeds 100000 copies and
some of them have several times that
number.
! '1f paper is indispensable our for
ests are still more Indispensable, for
in addition to supplying the raw ma
terial for all the newsprint paper and
most of the material for all other
kinds of paper. except the highest
grades, our dependence upon forest
products for countless articles of
necessity and convenience is equally
evident. The supply of standing
timber in the United States is ONLY
about 40 percent of what it was 100
years ago. and this remaining stand
is being drawn upon at more rapid
rate than it is being reproduced I'm
like our other basic raw materials.
however, such as coal, Oil and metals.
timber need not be mined and ex-
hausted. but can and should be
harvested and reproduced like other
products of the soil.
For this reason, it is especially
encouraging to note the recent agree
ment of the great lumber manufac-
turing and wood-using industries of
the country with the American For
estry Associa ton and the American
Newspaper Publishers Association
upon a plan for an adequate and per-
manent forest policy in harmony with
the recommendations of the United
States Forest Service. This marks
the most constructive step yet taken
to bring about the continuous pro-
duction of timber upon all land suit
ed for that purpose throughout the
country and legislatio- to accomplish
this. which will be introduced into
the next session Of Congress will re-