The Cordova daily times., 1921-05-11
LARCEAMOUNT LUMBER USED
 MUSIC TRADE

CHICAGO, May 10.--A convention of music men, the most important in this country in the history of that in dustry, opened here yesterday and will be in session several days. Music Trades, the official newspaper organ of the music men, devoted it's leading article in the last issue to the import ance of a national forest policy on the music making industry. The article, by Charles l.. Pack, president of the American Forestry Association, shows 210,000,000 feet of lumber is used in the music trades every year. In part the article follows:
 Take music out of the world aud what would happen? Since the ear Hest record of man he has attempted to express himself by tunes. A sing ing army won the war How the aav- age would stand and wonder could he have listened to the voice of President Harding at his inaugural thrown a half mile by the amplifier, tte voice being projected by twelve wooden horns. Wood, wood, wood! It has played the major part in all history from the time the farmer of biblical times stirred the earth with a wooden prong to gan his food down to the wonder notes a Kreisler draws from a wooden violin or a PaderewSki mak- ing magic sounds come from a piano of wood.
 Forest products play the big part in the world of music. In fact, with out wood there would be little music Maple leads ali wood in this gigantic industry, in which something like 21O,O00,000, feet are used every year. j Five feet of hardwood is used to one of soft. It is seen from these figures that the music world is tremendously concerned as to the continuation of a supply of forest products But what is happening? We are using our for ests or Destroying them by fire about four and one-half times faster than we are replenishing them.
 "The music trades should get be- hind the Shell Bill, at the extra ses- sion of congress, for the trade should remember that one forest region in the United States after another has been cut out until three-foIrths of our primeval forests are gone. Look at the cost of forest products to the consumer the shortage of dwellings, the inadequate supply of newsprint paper, and in the scarcity of certain kinds and grades of lumber which is a serious menace to many American manufacturers. Steadily rising cost of transportating lumber and pulp wood fro mthe forests to the mill or consumer is imposing a heavier bur den upon the consumer of forest prod ucts every year, particularly with the approaching exhaustion of the pine forests of the southern states, which will leave the nation largely depen- dent on the supply remaining in a single region-the Pacific coast. This all means higher and higher freight | rates.
 Forest protection and forest re- production are the two essentials aimed at in the proposed national for l est policy. There must be protection | against fire and against reckless GU | ting of the standing resources; and the adoption of means which will en- | courage the growth of new timber. 1 It is aimed to secure considerable extension of direct federal activi- l ty in forest ownership and produc- tion, and also the development with | federal aid and encouragement Of such systematic policies in the sev- eral forested states as consistent with local conditions, will bring about ade- quate forest protection and reproduc- tion in the interests of both of these states and of the public at large. "To the music trades comes a great opportunity for service in en- l listing with the American Forestry Association for it's educational cam paign awakening the public to the facts. Millions of dollars are invested in that business. But there is that other, greater side-for what would the world be without music?"