Show J Xi i 7 f SALT fAKE S' S T K R Y SUND rH THE SALT LA KL tELE lM ORNING MAY 13 1 F Frest rest Protection Fut Future re Business Insurance Week I S St t r 1 v I WASHINGTON May 12 By NEA Service Forest Forest Protection week Is in do reality Future Business Insurance ance we week I says Charles Lathrop Pack pre president of the American Tree association who points out the tho tremendous Importance to the business life of the country of having having havinga hav hav- ing ing-a ing a stead steady f flow ow of forest products products prod prod- U s going to our manufacturing centers And that flow of forest products must originate closer closer- to the tho centers of manufacturing adds Pack In a statement ement on the Importance of Forest For For- est ProteCtion week Forest Protection week as proclaimed proclaimed proclaimed pro pro- claimed by President Harding serves to turn the attention of the people people people peo peo- to o one ono of the greatest economic problems now facing our country says Pack The week might well be called Future Business Insurance Insurance ance anco week for our entire economic life depends upon forest products WE E liA YE TIlE THE LANDWe LAND We Ve must forest prod products close to the he point of consumption and I might say sag f t o o. o b. b the factory fac- fac tory or door That situation Is not impossible for there there- are acres of Idle land in this country fit for little else elso than growing trees Much of that land Is east of the Mississippi l river where where- the tho bulk bulle of our manufacturing plants are established es es- es s- s That idle land must be put to work ork growing g tr trees The center of the lumber Industry industry industry Indus indus- try Is fast approaching the Pacific coast That means long hauls and high freight rates for forest products products products prod prod- td keep our factories going When I say factories I mean everything everything everything every every- thing from automobile to the making making making mak mak- ing of egg crates New York New England Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Penn Penn- sylvania Michigan once exporters of lumber r r and having enough o for 1 el g I Im Importing importing im- im their own u uses besides b s a are now porting forest products from distant distant distant dis dis- I tant points We are using or destroying destroying de de- de- de by fire tire every elery year board feet felt of t timber The annual growth Is at a nate of less than l n one fourth this s consumption m and nd d destruction te No p private y business business busi busi- I ness nells can continue on that basis and neither can the thC business of the country as aa a whole EDUCATING TING THE TIlE PEOPLE Tho rhe ho people are turning to tree 1 planting planting- as never before because of the educational campaigns of the American Tree ass association We are educating the tho peo people p a to the values t AM t s I A forest fire leaves a trail of waste Look what otherwise might have been used to build some substantial houses Inset is photo of Charles Lathrop Pack president of the American Tree association one of the foremost leaders lc in inthe the work of forest conservation tion 4 i of trees as a method of preparing the groundwork for tor bigger things senatorial forestry When the the committee no now holding hearings bearings In Washington makes Its report we wo will have millions of people more keenly Interested In the subject ct of trees than ever before They will be able l o better dr under understand tand the I I discussion that tt will follow the committees committee's committees committee's committees committee's com com- report When the people come tor a bier understanding of these things we win h hear ar a nationwide nationwide nation nation- 1 wide Ide or increased forest protection ad reforestation and I not before l J |