Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-09-01
THE LIBRARY TABLE
BY SARAH C.. BOWERMAN.

FORESTRY ALMANAC. 1888 Edition.
Washington: The American Tree
Association.
eff the Nation saves the trees, the
trees will save the Nation" is quoted
from Charles Lathrop Pack, president
Of the American Tree Association, at
the beginning of this 1888 almanac,
veritable encyclopedias of recent in
formation about forestry, in which the
past three years nave brought i'm
portant new trends. But, says Mr..
Pack in his Introductory essay, THE
Progress of Forestry" the need for
sound forestry is still with U.S." Tree
planting is not the whole of forestry.
Constructive activities are not enough;
destructive forces must also be de-
feated, such as fire and wasteful lum-
bering. When the time comes In
which the public as whole takes
the safeguarding of our woodlands as
part of its own personal prerogative,
then we can feel that all danger of
selfish and unintelligent legislation is
passed, our fire hazards controlled
and our forests safe to play their
permanent and helpful part in the
great social and economic develop
ment of this growing Nation"
The almanac for 1888 gives 80 pages
to the United States Forest Service,
20 to national forests and several
pages to other Federal forestry &C
tivities and forests in the territories.
State forestry associations are treated
in 81 pages and cooperating organ
izationS in 20 pages. Among the CO.
operating organizations are the Boy
Scouts and the General Federation
of Women's Clubs. Eight demonstra-
ton forests are listed and described,
among them the New York State Col
lege of Forestry tracts In the Adiron-
dacks. Forestry schools, foreign for
estry organizations, State facts and
statistics, forests and taxation, State
parks, the National Park Service, as
sociations of forest industries and di-
rections for tree planting are some of
the other subjects included in this
useful handbook.
INTRODUCTION TO WORLD ECO
NOMICS. BY Kemper Simpson.
New York: Harper & Bros.
The author of this scientifically
conceived and open-minded treatment
of world economics is a consulting
economist, formerly with the Tariff
Commission, the Federal Trade Com
mission, the Department of Com
merce and the Department of Agri-
culture, Senator Costigan writes the
| foreword and commends DR.. Simpson
as exceptionally equipped to advance
1 from known conditions to reasonable
| conclusions" and his work as essen
| TALLY practical" The central idea of
the book is that recovery is impos-
Sible for any one country alone. This
| is a challenge to economic national
| ism. The facts on which this judg-
ment is based are marshaled in great
number and in several groups. Out
lines are given of the basic industries
of the three leading European econ
omies, the United Kingdom, Germany
| and France, and of the United States.
Banking and currency in the four ma
tons are discussed, also national price
levels and cost levels, the trade bal
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and international control of industry,
including tariffs and other trade bar
riers.
The striking conclusion from all the
investigation is that the four nations
are to an extraordinary extent eco
nomically interdependent. The cur
rency question, admittedly one which
must some time have international
treatment, is held to be vital to recov-
cry. ITO maintain that the gold stand
ard has not worked since the World
War shows a misunderstanding of the
facts. The gold standard for two
decades has not been allowed to work
and the gold exchange standard, gold
embargoes and other make-shifts may
have seemed easier, but in the end
they have proved more costly. Each
nation, in trying to evade paying for
the crime of war, has been hugging
its gold and struggling to maintain
or raise its price level, but in the
struggle for gold no thought was
given to the rules of the game under
which possession of gold is useful"
Efforts to stabilize currency and to
raise or stabilize prices in one coun-
try alone must, DR.. Simpson believes,
be Ineffective.