Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-17
Children Aid in Big National Campaign
To Restore Tree Resources of Country

primers are being distributed in that
State as a feeder leading up to
American Forest week.
To turn public thought to the i'm
portance of a tree crop every year,
just as we have other crops, is the
object OF the American Tree Associ-
alton. Counting use in thousands of
ways, together with destruction by
insects and forest fires, our forest
resources are being depleted about
four and one-half times faster than
the forest areas are being regrown.
But why try to make the American
people 'forestry-minded," as Mr.. Pack
is doing in this campaign of educa-
ton, which is his life work? 1t is a
dollar-and-cents proposition, in which
he says the future prosperity of the
country is bound up. If you ask any
publisher, he can tell you about the
cost of print paper that is made from
pulp wood. BY reason of the fact
that timber supplies are almost ex.
hausted in the sections where most
timber is used in manufactures of
various kinds the annual freight bill
on lumber is approximately $3.50, 000,-
900. This, OF course, is passed on to
the consumer, and the consumer, in
many cases, is the careless individual
who goes touring or camping and
leaves a smoldering camp fire or cigar
or cigarette butt that starts confla-
grafton that not only adds to the
freight bill on lumber but makes lum-
Der scarcer and increases its cost.
The Southern States. just overnight
from the great manufacturing centers
of the Central and New England
States, could provide a great bulk of
this lumber.
There are 81 ,0O0,0 900 acres of idle
land in the United States that are fit
for nothing save to grow timber.
We use about $4,000, 100000 cubic
feet of wood year. while forest fires
and insects destroy an additional
1000, 100000 cubic feet.
In the United States news print con-
sumption has reached almost 100000
tons year. In one sheet this would
cover 10000 square miles. Practically
all of the raw materials must come
from the forests.
Industry uses 2O,0000O0 cubic feet
of timber every year in mining and
excavation operations. approximately
5000, 900 trees must be cut each year
to supply the demand for telegraph
and telephone poles. Estimates show
that we use about 100000 fence
Railroads require some 5000 ties TO
the mile and all the railroads of the
United States use about 125, 900 900 new
wood ties every year. The annual de.
mand of the cooperage industry is
for ESQ, 900 900 cubic feet of wood. At
least a billion lead pencils are con-
sumed in year and that means
large amount of wood
In the neighborhood of 45,0O0,0O0
pounds of maple sugar products are
marketed in this country annually, and
the value of the turpentine, rosin and
like products reaches $40,000000 every
year.
At cur present rate of consumption,
waste and replacement, the United
States will be poverty stricken so far
as timber is concerned in 1876, when
the centennial of American forestry Is
to be celebrated.
This situation. Mr.. Pack insists, is
national economic menace that threat
ems the Nations future. A timber crop
every year much closer to the section
of greatest consumption, the manufac-.
turing centers, is another term for
national forest policy, for that timber
crop is what a national forest policy
would create.
To bring this about, the American
Tree Association is enlisting the inter-
est of hundreds of thousands in trees.
To join this organization you have
only to plant tree and register it
with the association at Washington.
There are no dues.
A national program of forest re-
search, embracing the needs of. the
grower of timber as we'll as the pro-
Queer of lumber and other forest
products. has just been published by
the American Tree Association for the
Society of American Foresters. The
publication outlines what is being done
in forest research in France, Great
Britain, Germany, Austria. Sweden,
Finland. Norway, Switzerland. Bel
gium, Netherlands, Canada. India,
Union of South Africa, Italy, Russia
and Australia.
''The United States must give it's
best thought to- where it's future tim
Der supply Is coming FROM says Mr.,
Pack. The best economic situation
would be that where the millions of