The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1922-10-20
bITOR STRESSES
VALUE OF FOREST
pm Wallace Tells Students
Need of Conserving
Woodlands of State.


Richmond KY, Oct. .1l.-stressing
Re necessity for the conservation OF
lentucky forests. Tom Wallace, as
pctate editor of The Cour1er-Journal.
poke here today to the students Of
he Eastern Kentucky State Normal
Bcnool and Teachers College.
Need tell Kentucky audience
That this State possessed originally
lind until recently, vast forest wealth."
asked Mr.. Wallace. Nearly one third
lof the total area was covered with
magnificent forests. 49,. - 49,.
Il have seen land with virgin forest
upon 81 sold for less per acre than the
annual income from the land would
be nowadays II It were under conser-
walton producing an annual yield OF
timber without the stand being i'm
paired. ', " ..... ..
II have seen that land. deforcstrd
and titled, become worth less per acre
than Il was worth when sold as wood
land. have seen poplar boards sold
In the Louisville market for more than
the market value or their weight in
corn produced upon land on which
stood originally tulip poplars SIX feet
In diameter" -. -.
''NyhenevcT. and wherever forestry
Is discussed In Kentucky array your
selves with the forces OF progress and
against the force OF economic NIT
eracy." Mr.. Wallace told the students.
Bear. In mind that Gniceh6ideEs, leg
islstnrA and others are your servants.
Tell them what you want done, aud
they are likely 10 do Il II convinced
that yours is the voice Of the major
uy and that you really do want II
done, 49,.
~ sou tell your domestic servants
what you want done they may quit
Ia dealing with public servants no
such peril Is encountered. They want
above all things not to have to quit.
They do not deliberately defy public
opinion , .:....
Waste Makes Want
About all there is in the economies
Of forestry IN expressed In the simple |
nursery provcrb: Wlnfui waste makes
wocful want.
Advocacy OF forestry does not mea,. /
being sentimental about trees, ard in |
EisttDg that the .woodman spare all Of /
them. II means recognizing forest |
products as Indispensable material /
and so treating forests that the sup /
ply Of indispensable material shnll /
not run out. ..."
1t means recognizing forests as in
dispepsablc regulators OF stream Cow.
barriers against Hoods. places OF res
idencc and refuge for insect eating /
birds, without which agriculture would
be greatly handicapped, or IAN utterly.
1t means recognizing the recrea-
tiunai value % forests in an age Of In
crcAsing demand FOR places OF rrCrc-
alton.
1T 4eans treating timber as a crop. Z
and realizing that the crop Is as es-
scn;Ial a. gtaIu or kitchen garden
....
These are facts which every rdu-
Gator should consider and impress up-
on others.
"Surdry States are lnstitutiHg -foros-
try. Nothing Ia being done To renew
keutucky's timber. Ia lgl2 a Kentucky
Legislature created Forestry Com
mission and appropriated $4,000 an,
nmlly for It's use In preventing forest
1ros and otherwise. In 1920 the Ken
lucky Legislature, because II and MARY +
other citizens OF Kentucky were eco
nomicAlly iIltCratc. abolished the For
'stry Commission as a measure OF
reduced the appropriation to
$4,000 a year. made forestry Subordl-
nate to the Department Of Agriculture
md so hedEed about with specified.
Ions the expenditure OF the small ap-
that half Of 1t is turned
lack into the state treasury Thus the
state Is deprived OF national funds
which would be used, experimenting
II own, TO procure protection from
crest fires. .-...
Had kentuckians been adequately
had not economic llllteraCy
,een prevalent. no political leader
would have advocated such destruC-
Reness IN the name OF economy and
10 Legislature would have dared pur.
ue course so destructive, /
While Kentucky was being victim
2ed by this act of legislative. folly
low about the neiEhboring states? h.
Tells Of Work Elsewhere.
ohio has acquired II, 900 acres Of u
crest reserve. The last Legislature c
$4,000 10 purchase cut {
Ner lands for reforcstation, and SIO,- {
90 for fire protection, thus procuring o
'ederal aid. The next Ohio Legisla- I
ure viii be asked FOR 100000 20 ox- 5
end the state forests The Depart n
lent of Forestry is distributing to %
lrmers, free, trees to be planted un- j
er supervision. o
THE Ohio Forestry Department eX- ~
ects to procure 100000 acres of for y
ST reserves within fifteen years, and
, develop forestry on farms as 1t Is S
eveloped In European countries, Il
here the greater part OF the perma Il
entity productive forests are owned '
rivately. V
"Under the Ohio forest laws fire war a
ems may call upon any able-bodicd p
IAN between rs and SO TO fight forest