Paragould soliphone., 1921-07-20
PLANNED TO REFOREST
 THE SOUTH
Forestry Congress to Con- vene in Washington in September to Fight Tariff on Lumber.
unternationar News, service,

Washington, July 19.-In refor-
 estation the South has one of its1 biggest opportunities for wealth and national service. said Charles Latin TOD Pack, president of the American
 Forestry Association yesterday. in al istateme1it on the importance of the Third Southern Forestry Conference, which opens in Atlanta tomorrow Pack has called forestry confer- ence for Washington in September, and big representation from the South is expected.
 The South needs reforestation badly, Pack points out. Power ex- pertst employed in developing the powers from some of the streams in the South testified. before the Agri- iculturab Committee of the House of Representatives some time ago that the capacity of certain reservoirs was so muehe reduced that in few years only the flow of the rivers would be available for power. report l from the Geological Survey on the amount of silt carried by some Of these rivers states that the Sus- auehanna earriese to the sea, an nually, 240,600s tons; the Roanoke, , 3,O00,0 ,000 tons; the Alabama, 3,039,- 1 900 tons; the Savannah, 100000 and the Tennessee, 11,000,000 tons. It is but reasonable to assume that at least half of this wastage of soil mteral is preventable.
 Reclamation is of two classes lands reclaimed for cultivation and those for forests. AS to need of forests few figures will show the l importance of the work the Southern
 Forestry Conference can do. Pack said:
 | When the state of Florida gets ! two carloads of forest products a month from the states of Washing
 ton and Oregon the freight bill adds
 much to the cost of lumber. When
 the state of Minnesota gets 3,615
 carloads per month from these states
 the freight is also a considerable l item. The figures show the normal freight shipments of forest products from Oregon and Washington to be l32,340 carloads per month, and of this amount 21,270 carloads were l forest products and adds to the cost of lumber used in the East, lum- Der which an adequate forest policy
 would result in growing in or near lthe state in which it was used, there 1 by greatly reducing the cost as Iwell as increasing the supply. | As to transportation of lumber, the fact that the center of the ium- her industry is nearing the Pacific Coast means higher freight rates as
 well as bulky material taking up the car space of other commodities. l We must have national forest policy in this country. It is sim lple business proposition that would put the idle land nearer the centers of population to work growing tim
 Der and thereby reducing the cost of construction. The Shell bill has the backing of the American News l paper Publishers Association, the
 Association of Wood Using Industries
 and hundreds of similar organiza- tions, as well as the American For Eestry~. Association. To the South
 comes q 'great opportunity. All success to the Conference in Atlanta | Tomorrow!"
 With the transportation condition lin regard to forest products as out lined Pack is opposed to any tariff
 on lumber. He believes that, with the country in vital need of at least
 a million homes and quite as many
 if not more farm buildings for agri- cultural purposes, now is the time to build. because it is certain that prices of lumber will increase as the years go by to such an extent that unless adequate housing is now provided it will be seriously retarded by growing costs.
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