Show tS Es NOW NOV BLAMED I OR ADDING TO HIGH COST I I j d for Forests Stressed in Interview by I C. C L. L Pack I WASHINGTON ASHINGTON ASHINGTON May Ia 12 And 12 And now reason tor for the high f living Jiving This time it is trees I eare eJ are not enough trees to go dr I reduction and more nore pr production is isone I Ione t one thing that everybody seems gree upon as the antidote for the I Ot ost of living but who wilt will pro- pro the forests that provide the thea d a and nd paper th that t keeps 10 per of an Industry going asks I rl rIds rles s Lathrop Pack president of American Forestry association are using up our forests almost f f. f e times faster than we are re- re them We cannot sten outhA out hA 11 open market and order a aon aon I on feet on feet of lumber grown for der dory de- de I r ry day dav after tomorrow or week r next We may mav be able to fly fig I much wheat heat or how much We can ship hip on a given date or orko orl I l ko 0 plans for th production production- of a asand usand sand automobiles for in these thes matter of ot production is but I atter of days or weeks Not so 10 o for with tr trees es it Is s a mat- mat f ears INT I PAPER USES the other day some two hun- hun thousand acres of timber land I bought up by a match concern tons consumption of pulp wood wooda I a which print paper is made has eased enormously The war made reat drain on our timber resources publishers wrestled ed with situation at their last t and will continue to wrestle h lit lt fo- fo some time it is safe to diet When we stop to think that t rests are the basis basl of ot all na- na and that hat nothing is looking to a national for for- policy we must as business men indeed IL IMPORTED Here Iere is the situation mere Us s of newsprint has Increased pep peu- cent in twenty years Ten the United States produced entire supply of pulp wood woodS but thirds thirds wo-thirds of ot it is imported This ans ns freight rates to be added to price Of all the paper dUn he the United States States' 22 per cent ent used by newspapers Only one plant has been constructed j the United States since 1909 1900 PERS ERS NOT NOT ALONE Bin t- t newspaper publishers art arc not noti only ol ly ones hit continued Mr 1 Pack i lother other industries the need of wood LS R great Over CHer d pend on the forests for raw ma- ma ala and work Is given I In tho wood using plants The ie of the product of or these amounts to 10 per cent of ot total tal value of all an manufactures rY capital invested totals or 13 per cent of the investment production is the word as we all an allee e ee but production must be begun tone one of the prime sources o of our ourSon's I Sons ions wealth the nations nation's I forests |