The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-03-02
BY ELMO SCOTT WATSON


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~VrE dent Coolidge will be is
HVf suing his annual procla-
w NM nation for American For
NJ" est week, during which
lSHS time ali Americans are
urged to turn their at
tention to the problem
of saving our vanishing
forests and to cooperate by every
means possible to that end. AS usual,
the leaders in the observance of this
week will be the officials of the Amer
lean Tree association, headed by
Charles Lathrop Pack, the president
In anticipation of that observance
the association some time ago an
nounced "a cartoon contest in which
a series Of prizes were offered for
the best cartoons drawn by amateurs.
The judges of the contest were Mrs.
John Dickinson Sherman, president of
the General Federation of Women's
Clubs; John Hays Hammond, Jay N.
Darling Ding), noted cartoonist of
the New York Herald-Tribune; Col
William B. Breeley, chief forester of
the United States forest service, and
DR.. John L. Finley of the New York
Times. These judges recently an
nounced the prize winners among the
210 cartoons which were entered in
the contest and which came from
every state in the Union and two for
eign countries.
The seven winning drawings will be
used in the associations educational
drive during American Forest week in
April and will be especially valuable
because the pictured lesson which
they will teach can be understood
by everybody, even those who are un-
able to read. For that reason the
seven winning cartoonists will have
the satisfaction of knowing that their
efforts were not only rewarded with
cash prizes but with the satisfaction
of knowing that they have performed
a patriotic duty in helping save our
forests. They are the following:
First prize, $3.50, Sam E. Nash, Jr,
Tyler, Texas; second, 500, Floyd
Gottfredson, Richfield, Utah; third,
500, Richard W. Upper, Washington,
ID. c.; fourth, $25, James Il. Shaffer,
Lancaster, n. Y; fifth, $25, F. d.
Miller, Denver, Colo. sixth, $50, Bruce
Russell, Sierra Madre, Calf. seventh,
S25, William L. Atkinson, Jackson,
Miss.
Saving the forests which we now
have is only one part of the effort
of the American Tree association.
Even more important is the matter
of bringing to the attention of the ma
ton the amount of idle land in this
country and how this land can be uti-
LIKED in forest production. This part
of the problem is being taken care of
by the educational work of the
Charles Lsthrop Pack Forestry trust.
One phase of this work has been the
distribution of 100000 forestry
Primers to the schools of the nation.
The millions of acres of idle land in
this country, Mr.. Pack says, must be
put to work growing trees because the
economic structure of the country de-
ponds upon wood in its thousands of
uses. The printed word and the car
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In the United States the center of the
lumber industry is in the Rocky noun
tain region, far removed from the
great manufacturing centers, the
points of great consumption of forest
products, the American Tree associa-
ton points out. States like New York,
Pennsylvania, Michigan, once the GEN.
ter of the industry, now import lum-
Der over long hauls to keep their fac
tories going.
In contrast with such situation is
that in Sweden. The annual growth
of timber in Sweden's forests now ex-
ceeds the annual cutting by nearly
10O,000,000 cubic feet, according to
study of the Swedish forestry system