Connecticut western news., 1921-09-15
CHIEF FORESTER TALKS
 AT NEW STATE PARK
Famous Authority Addresses Connecticut Forestry
 Association.

cut roreStry ASSoclation was held at the Mohawk State Forest, between Goshen and Cornwall, Saturday morning and afternoon. It was one of the largest meetings the association has ever had, about 300 being present The society gained many members. Clifford Pinehot, chief forester of Pennsylvania, was the principal speaker of the day. He was introduced by the president Of the association, P. P. Wells of Middletown.
 His address aroused great enthu- siasm among those present and, as a result, the association gained many new members. MT. Pinchot em- phasized the fact that the products of the forests are of vital need to the civilization of today. His speech of about an hour was listened to with intense interest. He said in part, "The men and women who live in the city are more truly interested in the forest and will be more affected by it's destruction than the man and woman who lives on the farm.
 Wood is a necessity of modern life, from the need for which none of us is free. But those who need it most are, strangely enough, those who are farthest from the supply.
 "To grow his crops a farmer must have wood--wood for fences, barns, parts for tools, and thousand other farm uses. So true is this, that half the lumber consumed in the United States is needed and used in the growing of food on the farms.
 "But food on the farm is of no use to the man in the city unless 1t is transported, and transportation means wood. One fifth of all lum- Der used in the United States goes into packages, and, no small part of this is used in making packages for food.
 Thus food for the city man re- quires not only wood necessary to produce it, but also the additional wood to box and transport it.
 "lt will not do to forget that rail- roads run over wooden ties are enor- nous consumers of wood for other purposes. The Baldwin Locomobile Works uses 10000 board feet of lumber to ship an engine abroad.
 Wood is an essential of civilized life. Robustness man could do busi- ness for any day without a re sson- able, cheap supply of the products of the forest. -t. .A.
 Without the forests civilization as we know it now is impossible. Agriculture, industry, transporta- tion, and daily living in the United States are organized on the basis of yearly consumption of 300 board feet per capita. To reduce that amount materially would mean such dislocation of our fundamental in- dustries, as would bring with it loss and privation to every household in this land.
 "This forest question touches everyone. No one can escape. and there IS no one who would not suffer from a shortage of wood products. This state of Connecticut produces less than one fifth of the wood her industries and agricultural interests must have to prosper. At present most of Connecticut's lumber supply comes from the, South. Soon the Southern supply will be exhausted and then the wood Connecticut must have, will have to be transported from the Pacific Coast, 5000 miles away.
 Connecticut, therefore, is vitaIly interested as to whether or not the forests of Washington. Oregon and California are properly protected and conserved for without the supply they must furnish, Connecticut as an industrial commonwealth some day will find her farms abandoned and her factories closed.
 Ut is just because these great agricultural and industrial common wealths like New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Massachusetts and Connec- tlcut are unable to supply the needs of their own pople for wood products that this forest question is a national question, and cannot be left 60 the individual states.
 "Those who have believed that the states could settle it, have been ad- vocating the passage in Congress of the Shell bill, while those who be- lieve as l do that only the nation can handle this nationwide and inter state problem, have been supporting the Capper bill.
 Progress enough has already been made, so that we know the Shell bill IS out of the question. No congress man from a timber importing state like Pennsylvania and Connecticut, could vote for a bill that would leave to a Legislature 5000 miles away, the decision as to whether or not their own people should have the lumber without which they cannot prosper.
 "The Shell bill being dead, the fight is taking shape, between those who bplieya that national uaada ra