Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1922-10-11
WALLACE URGES
Tree CONSERVATION
And Also Urges $asteyn Normal
Students To Take Interest
In States Forests
(By associated Press)

that the Woodman spare them
all, but by recognizing forest
products as indispensable M
terial and seeing that the SUPPLY
does not run out, was urged IL
an address here Wednesday, by
Tom Wallace, associated Elitor
: of the Courier-Jouna to stu
dents of the Eastern Kentucky
/ State Normal School and Teach
ers' College.
Mr.. Wallace also touc;. ed
briefly uDon the conservat.o or
and propagation of fish and game
in his address.
Need I tell a Kentucky au-
dience that this State possessed
originally, and until recently,
vast forest wealth." asked Mr..
Wallace. Nearly one-third of
the total area, or about $1,000
square miles, was covered with
magnificent forests.
Il have seen land with virgin
forest upon it sold for less per
acre than the annual income
from that land would be nova
days if it were under conserva-
ton producing an annual virgin
yield OF timber without the stand
being impaired.
81 have seen that land, defor-
estcd and TILED, become worth
less Per acre than it was wort til
WIN sold as woodland. | have
seen poplar boards sold in the
Louisville market for more tt an
the market value Of their weight
i'll corn produced upon land on
which stood originally tulip pop
lars six feet in diameter"
Advocacy of forestry means
recognizing forests as indispen-
sable regulators of stream flow
and barriers against fools, ac-
cording to Mr.. Wallace. Timber
should be treated as a crop and
handled with as much fore
thought as grain or kitchen gar
den products, the speaker declar-
ed.
american timber rapidly is
being exhausted" said Mr.. Wal
lace. "The center of production,
from virgin forests, is shifting
to the Pacific Coasts. Sixty per
cent of the cost of lumber in
Eastern States is thte freight
cost. There is talk of drawing
next upon Alaskan forests, with
an increase of freight cost
"Sundry States are instituting
forestry. Nothing is being done
to renew Kentucky's timber. In
1912 Kentucky Legislature
created a Forestry Commission
and appropriated $4,000 annual i
ly for its use in preventing for
csts fires and otherwise"
"In 1920 the Kentucky Legisla-
ture abolished the Forestry Com
mission as measure of econ
omy, reduced the appropriation
Il $4,000 a year, made forestry |
subordinate to the Department |
of Agriculture and so hedged
about with specifications the ex-
Penditure of the small appropri-
alton that half Of it is turned
lack into the State Treasury. |
Thus the State is deprived of ma
tional funds which would be used !
supplementing its own to pro-
cure protection from for t I,
fires"
The work that is beirS done in |
other states was discussed by |
Mr.. Wallace and his heare S
were urged to aid in the conser-
vation movement of Kentucky. /!
q suggest that you help form
public opinion in this State fav-
cradle to the establishment of,
enterprise" he said.
Whenever and wherever for-l
estry is discussed in Kentucky |
array yourselves with the forests
of progress and against the force
of economic iiiiteracy," Mr.. Wal
lace told the students. "Bear in !
mind the ofice-holders, legisla-
tors and others, are your SER
wants. Tell them what you
want done, and they are likely |
to do it if convinced that yours
is the voice of the majority and
that you really do want it done"
eff you tell your domestic SER
wants what you want done they
may quit. In dealing with public
servants no such peril is en-
countcred. They want above all
things not to have to quit. They
do not deliberately defy public
opinion"