, 1925-05-06
Woman Governor Opens
( Forest Week Program
Continued from Page One)

Protection Week" held in recent years
under the direction of the U. S. For
est Service, this new project Amer
lean Forest Week" is a broadening
out of the original idea of saving the
forests from fire, and has lined up i'm
p~ortant national organizations in an
effort to rouse the nation to a need
of active interest in the National For
est program, as outlined in the
Clarke-McNary law, which is at last
a definite forest policy. This bill
puts firm ground under the feet of
those who realize the danger of the
laissez-faire policy and who see the
impending shortage in the forest pro-
ducts which would seriously hamper
the country; four-fifths of Americas
forest land being in private owner
ship, the limelight has been turned
upon the responsibility of the lumber
industry to take active steps in elm
mating waste. Instead of the Forest
Service having sole charge, the ma
tional citizens committee include re-
personalities of many and varied in
terests.
Mr.. R. W. Allen, who after gradua-
ing from the Yale Forestry School
was for several years supervisor of
the Shoshone, was selected to head up
the local activities, and while there
were pressing demands upon the club
time at the Monday luncheon, Forest
ny was the dominant issue.
Supervisor Langworthy spoke to
the honor roll of high school stu
dents, who were guests of the club
on Outdoor Good Manners" to the
end that outdoor etiquette may not be
so sadly neglected as has been by the
average American. He asked that
with the planting of trees there be
planted outdoor good manners in
every user of the outdoors so that
u great open space may be kept fit
for the use of all.
Mr.. Hammond of the Cody Trading
Company started off the window dec
Grafton with a trinity of frs and
ventured his veracity on a sign that
photograph records are made of
wood! There are now wolves at
manys windows bowling to keep the
fires out of the forest. The Three
Little Bears at the Pinery followed
close behind with their ~placards, "The
trees are the big brothers of the flor
al world, and the flowers are the lit
tie grandchildren of the forest.
The opening of Forest Week" fell
upon a flurrying snowy Monday and
the children were open-eyed with
wonder if it indeed were Christmas a.
gain, when they saw the young pines
taking their places along the streets.
They were duly edited when told
that these were martyred sentinels to
warn against the big fires that always
start from little ones; and the older
forest champions were assured that
this thinning is beneficial to the pro-
life young growth.
The Oldest living object on the
earth is a tree. A cypress in Old
Mexico is estimated to be about 5000
years old. Many of the great red
wood trees in California are from 500
to 5000 years of age.
Indeed trees paved the way for
mans coming by making the earth
habitable for such creatures. He
spent his first years in n wooden era
die and for countless ages was content
to leave the earth in wooden caskets.
These untouched reaches of forest
land have been the great storers-up
of moisture; their influence on CHI
mate is incalculable.
Not the least lesson taught is that
CLEANED from trees, plants, and flow
ers living under adverse conditions,
adjusting themselves wonderfully TO
their enviroment-our own Canon
pines growing seemingly from solid
moss-grown and suntinted bouldcrs.
A phase aside from economi; need
for forest preservation Is that Of just
ice and mercy-the aesthetic side.
From time immemorial the wild life
has been sacrificed for mans food.
has furnished his clothing, acted Ms
his beast Of burden. and has been a
target for his sport. The woods aro
fast becoming their sanctuary and our
debt cries TO be paid. We need not
hurt nor destroy in all these holy
mountains, and the click Of the
Gamer is better than the whiz Of the
bullet.