Show F Fears ears Shortage of Lumber Urges Planting of Forests S v S I 4 S S SS S S Sr r r S Sa a 5 S 5 5 i 5 5 S ZM f 1 S S 4 tf 7 I IS S Just back from the dentist A botanical operation saved the life of this huge boxelder r in Liberty park Salt Lake City The tree is said to have been planted by Brigham Brigham Young S I SAVE TREES S By NEA Service t 11 The future economic Independence of the United States depends upon the saving saying of trees and planting of or more forests Charles Lathrop Pack president of the tho American Nature association warns warns' that it will vili take y years ars to correct a timber shortage This year is tire the of forestry activity in this country and marking the event Pack lack has published copies of the Forestry Primer He will send you a copy for tor a stamp for postage Th The Tho Forestry Primer Priner gives the present threatening forestry forestry forestry for for- estry situation and the remedy that must II applied to prevent lumber shortage By writing to the American American Amer Amer- ican lean Tree association 1214 Sixteenth street N. N W. W Washington D. D C. C and inclosing a tamp stamp you can cnn get gete the e Primer S Millions of acres of idle lands through ut the United States must be put to work or the tho country faces races a timber famine This is the message me age of gf Charles C rles Lathrop Pack pr president ol of oJ the American Nature association A food rood shortage could bo qc cor reeled within a year or two sa says s 's Mr Pack but a wood shortage would take years to remedy S Economic strides taken talen by this country in the he last fifty tty are staggering when set down in fig fig- ures urea The future holds f forth rth promise promise prom prom- ise iso of even greater thIngs th-ings but the future economic Independence e of the rhe United States depends upon its trees S one Eighty millions of acres of Idle lands William Penn foresaw this need when Nhen he cautioned the colonists to to plant one acre of every five In I trees But his advice was not heeded S Pennsylvania Is an nn example Penns Pennsylvania's annual lumber cut Is board feet But annual consumption of the state Is more snore than feet six times what Pennsylvania forests produce IDLE ACREAGE Yet Pennsylvania has more has more than acres of this idle land New England has a great deal of It so has Michigan New ork dork Minnesota Min Mm- Wisconsin Ohio Indiana and andall andall andall all our oum great gleat manufacturing states I Three states he pointed out will vote on forestry conservation legislation legislation leg leg- I in November Mr 1 Pack be believes believes be- be leves that toot 1926 will vili be a II record year for losses from forest fires I M Mr Pack rack spoke e of the problem m. m most ast t of the Eastern states faced Inthe in inthe inthe the matter of f freight rates in n the future and said this tiis could be overcome overcome overcome over over- come only by planting forests on the idle lands |