Show PROCLAIMS FOREST PROTECTION WEEK MEEK Governors Asked t to Arrange Educational Work WASHINGTON April 9 The The We week k kor of or May 22 has been designated In a proclamation by President Harding as forest protection week during which governors of ot the die various st sUte Stites are asked to arrange arrange educational and instructive exercises exercise to place e before the tho people the n need of ot preventing unnecessary un- un unnecessary un un- necessary necessary waste te by forest fires The presidents president's proclamation follows follow fol tol- tollow low lows Whereas The destruction by forest fires tires in the United States involves olves an annual annual loss of oC approximately and the devastation d of a I I acres cres of or timber Umber lands and and- other natural resources and Whereat When the present deplorably deplorably deplorably ably large are area of oC nonproductive land landis landIs is being greatly Increased d by or more moro forest fires tires which occur each I year and Whereas The menace pt 9 a a. future timber shortage threatens threatens threaten to Become become a present economic f fact ct seriously affecting af- af af affecting our social and Industrial welfare welfare wel wel- fare Care and Whereas Where s A large percentage of ot the forest fires tires causing the annual waste lor of natural resources may be pr prevented vented by increasing on the part of oC citizens Therefore I Warren G. G Harding president of ot the United States do urge upon the governors of ot the various states to designate and get set apart the week of 0 May 28 22 1921 as tore forest protection protE-cUon week c cek and to request all an citizens of oC their states to plan for that week such educational and Instructive exercises as all shall shan bring before the people the serious and unhappy effects of the pre present ent unnecessary ry waste by byi i forest fires and the need of oC their in individual In- In dl and collective efforts in conserving conserving con con- serving the natural resources of ot America AmerIc Amer Amer- ica Ic Io |