Show j I SAVE NATiONAL NATIONAL FORE FOREST FOREST- T Senator McNary of Oregon has d voiced a plea for the preservation of oi th the great forests of 01 the country by firo protection He says Over 50 per cent of the standing timber today is found in the th three ec P Pacific coast states and 61 per percent cent centis is found in that great western country count count- ry l lying ing west of the Mississippi river With the increasing distance which lumber lumper must be hauled from sawmill sawmill saw saw- mill to the consumer much of it now across the width of the continent there is is a growing scarcity of forest products which in no great length of time will be critical Markets may maj may fluctuate L one way or another owing to 10 and ana other uner temporary conditions but behind it lies a steady decrease in the supply of timber which has a very vital bearing upon our national housing situation o our our r national paper situation and nu many industries which use lumber in inman man manufactures and I might say that the statistics show that that one in every twenty persons in this country f find nd his livelihood in occupations directly directly direct direct- ly with lumbering or industries in in- that are associated there there- with The greatest cause of this s situation situa stua- tua- tua tion ion is forest fires W We c l have ve enough C I land nd unfit for agric agriculture to growall growall grow all the timber which this country re- re re quires |