San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-23
Lord or World War or a japanese
disaster TO net him profit.
Has q Big Job.

Lord or World War or a Japanes
disaster TO net him profit.
Has Big Job.
He must be timber estimator. sur
veyor, machinist, logging economist
railroad man, mechanical engineer
grader, fire insurance specialist, book
keeper, high-power salesman and ex
perl traffic man.
And for years. b'gosh, the people n
large. you and /, have been hollerins
our heads off at him for vandal. and
telling him in the same breath that he
ought to take the place of an AL
mighty Creator and put the trees
back.
How we, after we ourselves have
used this timber. can 20 twist the arg
ument as to claim il is the duty of one
industry to replace what we have
taken as a whole is a masterpiece in
the realms of polemics.
We hired him to tear the trees
down, now in the place of trying to
force him to put them back, let's try
hiring him again.
Make it worth his while in fire con-
troll assistance and reasonable taxa
ton and this expert in timber will sec
that we have n supply forever.
And the great, glorious, scintil,at-
ing, ever present beauty of the whole
thing Is that we have the best refor-
esting possibilities in the South OF
any place in America.
The mild climate allows the growth,
it is native to our soil, and fires are
easily controlled.
Fire Kills Young Trees.
More than that. fire docs not de-
stroy Southern pine. You cannot
burn down a sound. unsecured Southern
pine tree. In the North, fire in a few
hours can lay waste country; in the
South all it will burn is the debris. UNI
less we remember that it will kill the
little pines just popping their heads
out of the grass.
And that is why we must prevent
the fires.
Fire control is the first step in re-
fOresting.
Lowering and stabilizing of taxes on
land is the next step. as this
will make timber growing attractive
to capital.
No land owner cares to carry large
tracts that may be assessed at So an
acre this year, then jumped to So next
year by a new assessment board. Life
that way is too uncertain.
But this is the big point-land
doen't care who owns it and once We
straighten out our taxes; il you and
will see that our Southern forest land
is protected from fire, Old Lady Ma
ture will cover that land with new for
ests whether it is owned by lumber !
man or a dentist.
Talk fire prevention.
No Sob Stuff, Please.
But cut the sob stuff, the ''ain't it a
pity" style of conversation.
Before us right now are two recent |
clippings of this variety, one headed |
Lumber Waste Piles Up in Year
More Than -Four and Half Billion |
Feet Go Into Kitchen Stoves and |
the article states that 1900 million |
feet of lumber is cut into box and |
rate material yearly and that after
his is used it is strapped and-hor-
.ors-used to build fires.
In short, after inferior lumber,
which is the kind used, is made into
,oxes, used by a factory to case its
FOODS; after it fulfills its destiny as
safeguard for the shipping of the ne
,essities of our life, taken apart, its
Usefulness ended, the sobs go up be-
ause it then is put to the only pur-
Jose it is finally good for.
For the love of the well known
nike, Mr.. Newspaper Man, what else
hould be done with it?
Here's the other article, headed,