The Cordova daily times., 1921-10-04
PAPER SUPPLY HUCEPROBLEM
 TONEWSPAPER
'I}v Associated Press)


 eliminating waste in the printing busi- ness, shown in the report just issued by the committee on elimination of waste in industry of the American en- gineering council. is one of the most powerful arguments ever put forth for national forest. says a statement by the American Forestry Association, which has made it the occasion to call on the World Press Congress which meets in Honolulu in October to take some action on the forestry question.
 Upon what does the newspaper de- pend for existence?" says the state ment Tt depends upon paper made from wood pulp. There are about 2,500 daily newspapers in the country. Our annual consumption of two mil lion tons of newsprint year means strip of paper as wide as the regu. lation daily paper and about forty mil l lion miles long. Just as a measure of distanct. remember that the sun is | ninety-two million miles away. It would also make a twofoOt wide riff. | bon of newspaper around the world 1900 times.
 The time is coming when the eco | homie law of necessity will bring our own publications to some sort of re- trenchmeOt The editors of the Unit | ed States and of the world must take up this question Already more than one third of our pulpwood comes from across the Canadian border, and Can. ada, profiting by our mistakes, is now taking steps to forbid the cutting of | timber at a rate more rapid than it's | growth That means primarily that our annual importation of Canadian pulpwood has practically reached the maximum, and for the other two. thirds at least we will have to look after ourselves.
 "If we once sQuarely face the facts, the solution of the problem Will not be difficult It is estimated that about three million cords of wood per year are manufactured into paper for maga- zines and newspapers. At ten cords per acre this would mean three hun. dred thousand acres Supposing that it takes about forty to fifty years to grow good pulpwood spruce, and al blight or failure of seeling, tract of thirty thousand square miles plant ed with forty successive crops of tim ber. each crop coming to maturity at one year intervals, would under pro. per care and management, furnish a perpetual supply of pulpwood for news print. This means and area a little smaller than the state of Ohio, but represents less than one-tenth of the area of our cutoyer lands. most of which are now almost entirely unpro. ductive
 There is no question but that a perpetual supply of pulpwood for all needs is a possible and practical scheme. It will not, however, come merely for the asking. There must be, first. q proper national forestry law with adequate provisions for fire pro- tection and government of reforesta- .. tn onstrate the economic soundness of the idea. second, every state must adopt thorough going forestry prin- ciples with provisions to protect grow, ing timber from cXorbitant taxation ; and finally. with these laws as a basis the pulp and paper industry, together with all other wood using industries must he made 10 see that in practical reforcstation and conservation lies their only salvation. To accomplish these three things will require the united efforts of every man and woman We should not leave to any group of foresters and legislators the sole initiative in solving such an important economic problem; but, by the continued expression of our thought and conviction. we can urge those groups to supply our imminent need.
 Here is waste that staggers the imagination. Forest fires annually de stroy two million feet of timber or material enough to build fiveroom frame house every one hundred feet on both sides of road extending from New York to Chicago. With four peo' pie to a house, these OO,OO0 or more buildings would provide home for