Show COOLIDGE f UR URGES Rown American Forest Week Is Proclaimed Date Dat Is April 24 to 30 WASHINGTON March I 5 APA AP I APIA A sugg suggestion that the agricultural i pr blem might be solved to some extent if p pOor or farm lands were converted con con- Into forests was as made t today day by President president Coolidge In proclaimIng proclaim proclaim- Ing April 24 to 30 American forest forest for for- est week and Its Its Its' observance to the governors of the forty eight states One fourth ot of our s soil II the presIdent s said ld suited to to timber growing th thin n anything else r 1 cannot escape the con conviction that our Industrial lal and agricultural stability will be strengthened by bringing into full fuU productive use use this great empire or of land Although much progress has 1 been made maie In public and I hopeful beginnings in private in industry I we still have a vast aggregate gate of t idle or forest l land and another large ot of poor I farm land that might more profItably profIt profIt- I ably grow timber instead of adding I 1 Ito to the problem ot of agricultural over over- production S Our migratory forest industries would he stabilized and made per per- manent RUral industry would be greatly strengthened and vitalized Agriculture would fInd In ture a strong alI ally providing markets markets mar mar- for farm produce and for surplus surplus sur- sur plus labor Our farms themselves contain nealy a third of our wood wood- lands lands-an enormous potential farm tarm It if handled for continuous timber tim tim- ber crops ps |