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Show Tin: DrsnnnT- - xr.ws. -- fC m ' ! ttY.--v?" . . K TTV - V t Ujs. t- .n f4 , t;- .. - - Ss3?esscXjrs? AZiV&'Sa , Tv ,t yBAR I nay Rjkluarr oo thro to whirh tb proMBt mil situation In Poland ns rfonty 1rloc is with rsprrd Lubomlrskl. NtnUtar tr-rn-M from Poland to th l'nttd IuIm. paaro treaty changed torn of ToUnd'a proMt-m- . but It did not wholly colt them. Poland U '!ll at war. Aral of th Th thro war now jnenaflng th young republic I th alrucgl with red Ituaala. which trad ually but aural haa been growing In InUnelty and wldoaprrad activity dur Inr th laat faw moot ha. And th ftolnhrvlki aaarrt that they bar hardfufl ly begun a yat to nert th on th atrangth of their prraaur Tb J i I 1 Ujr. n ti- ll ii To lea. :i ; With th Rede requiring aver-lrrraalng walrhfulnoea and mlllUry a'rength In th Eaat. Poland baa at th Mm tlm. In the Wra. to maintain her right a wr'l a ah ran In th paaalv atruggl with Germany, who M!I ha mll'tary control ovar th area where pleh'ecltee are to b taken n 8'laala. Germany' propaganda I a powerful today aga'nat Toland ay the role, aa It war agalr.-- t Pngland n tafi-4- . OrM- - l.irt anttls matt! lilt c !. In 1914 JM tij, Itillrond t 1 Of a llro4 1. ' ow. t; vri ffvr4 anct-- N a h TM - r. ItJ4 - jfc on- allvar, And v I'ailnrle Knitted nature, but non th Ira a fight, la Po'and' bitter struggle again.! famine wlth.n th confine of her own country. After th repeated flow of Ruaalan and German rro the land which now I armle Poland, th country U Impoveriahed beyond description. Thera 1 nothing eff n the wav of rolling atock. to Ve matter far wore Transporta -- . a.' -- ff yPtr?r&jrS rgygeo - JTrrr lh kG?jrtesjxyjZvZrJS rsc-Ca.TT.rrj, kla'ata'aug Pollah arml along tho tromn-dou- a th poor front Ua of tb railroad. And th country la d'itut of foodstuffs American eaperta who bae In that couafry condition thoroughly, aa well aa (h Pole them-salvagree that unl.l lh neat harvest season nt least, Poland la dependent on tb eutald world fur foodaluffa And to add toTh wrurgU ef tb new government. Industry tm.it be rebuilt from lb groynd up. Poland bae at rip pad ef raw materials Her fac-tohave been crippled Whatever tb Ruaatana failed to do. th Germane did with thoroughnaas. fly removing th key p'ce of th mafor chinery In many farlnrie amplt. Teutonic Ingenuity rulnrd them a effectively a If tba building bad been dynamited Th crippling of haa created a g'gantle problem In 'unemployment, nnd carlrg for th Id! population I a Iremendou burden on th atruggllng government. Bulwark Against Rrdv Acting aa Europa'g ahlald agalnat leadRolahevlk Invaalon. Poland ha ing plac In th battl line that la flung from th Baltic to the Adriatic. M!rahty equipped and underfed, th stalwart wearer of tb rol.ab gl ar fighting today along this Immense front wllb lh aam spirit that characterised their nc!ora In th long-paday when Poland wa a mighty kingdom. ven of I'berty, Always lover through tha dark period when they wer tb enforced subject of Russia, German and Austria ha Poloa ar rorca e, bn ri st c. a? r i jfr7?esm' new flgbting for th librriy. not enly f thrtaarlvea but ef their na'ghbora Not only bav our armlra thrown bark lh liolsh vtk ottr hundreds of mile of front, peeing the eppretaed Polish and Jr wish pi.pu'a1 ons. the I'ol.sh t nlstrr aa.d not ago In but the, have re'oaaed tAaahing'on a of o in tyranny from tb the UihjanUn Whl' Rueatan and l.uthrniana offcrlna term Independence and opportun't'ea fur development. ibsang. Pach day lhay may b scan marching along through th of AAaraawr. th capital of Poland, aoroe wearing lluuua ua. forma, aom Austrian, aom German, sum Amr-khak- i. Iran oin lh rrgulalloa uniBut form of lb army of Poland. most of them wear a Strang mtitur 'of lh uniform of many nation. In jib summer they make a prsrite of decorating themsetve. 'heir lodging. Ihalr wagona and Ihalr train with r The-- e But they all wear 'arge'y green and flower the result of the gen it of tb polish th polish tag', and as they march. Pllaud-kl- . Chief of ffaff Grner.-- I Jo-cthey sing Till optlmlm. however. I a tradl leader of th army. Before th war he hgn the organ'sa'lon of the 'ton of th Pol h troop It la not fighting forces which und r th heavy to be found everywhere In Poland. Kor Russian oke. and dor rg the war, a the Pole know how lo ha serious, and to look farts squarely In Ike far. All th leader of th pnltvh leg on of the unanticipated ou'rom ef tb pear "Hy lh pontnrudecivon on which provided nation he ha been placed at tb head ronferrnr th 'Baof th Polish elate, a mnnifc-talln- n of, for plebiscite to detarmln f border areas claimed mlllon t'onallty of thirty-fiv- e th ronfldenr peopla. and from tho people he hasjoln'ly by Poland and her neighbor and th the Industrial partly1 organlted an army not only of sold'ers but of soul and apin' w ho have car-- h'gh ml'ltanr and political lenalon rled on undar him In ap'te of danger which have developed among lh and s'arvallon that have bead pie. j them on all aide- twmmnna Hold MleaU Wonderful Soldier Th situation In I'pper Flleeln. for The soldiers of Poland have Indeed Inatance, haa long amounted to n atat v carried on. nnd are !!! carrying on of aelge. with occasional bursts of and with th undlmlnlahed hopes bom of warfare, bet wean th Iol y la Jut th German. n conviction that tha'r cau Both Poland and consider that th possession of nnd cannot fall. poorly rlothd. but .Inspired by th tradi- th coal field of L'pptr Silesia la vital tion of n fre Poland, they display a to tha maintenance of their reapoctlv derre of moral that to tb nuf!d la countries trt cl.-er- tly I ; I l'ta J , di I I 1 peo-mise- ry ac-tl- Oer-man- Vnder-ratlone- Each nation claim th Urrltory as Por n long tlm th 0r-man- s held lh art, and fore'gnera wha have salted tber declare that tt wa obvious that tb (Jarman war taking eatrem maaaurta to latlmldat th I'oliaty euiant, in order to Una them up for a vota in favor of and to make It impowrbt for th loyal polwa to tamn.n lo cast Ihalr Its own. Gar-man- er'Vcr -- y. Jfr'CTt-jZfdcy.sA- ba Hot ornlaing th advantage coming with th cbnogo la nationality. Tb with thalarga number of gaantn Pol who r them, nr an tnfluaac d th n w natloaal-lafor rdGlnM But Poland knows that la thl district whar tber I n trag. va bitter, Oarmanto tandency among certain )mnta, ah cannot truat that bav tlamenla too far. Th Pel ta tb plenty of object of , or In war-n- ot Poland la up t bocaua aba Ilka I war. Nbdy want put nay mor atncrly, va nrdsaily, than d tb Pole! tbm-ael- v But la such n condition aa Poland la p'ncad today, tbo enly way to n aolld. lasting pane la th wytbf loads through war. All Poland look forward sagerly to lh day whan warrior can turn to th trrlBo task of peace. For Poland's paca problems ar ttrrlfle, and ta complete th beginning ef th nw republl will tak th aam dauatlaa eeurag aa Tautonla. Bom of tb tea! dent of German th Pole bav abown In every war la bar bav wot been alow In roo- - which tbev bav bad aav (bar. br armn mine-worke- f -' which might Incur lh tery maaaur dleplaaaur ef lh silled power. T discredit roland with powerful barker would b a great cklvmnt for Germany In bar bop of confounding th nw rapubtlo. ffo to b proparod for uddn rvant-oallion tb part of a aullaa mischief-makinneighbor, ns wall aa to keep her military fncs In tb West la as good condition aa pomibl under th rlrrumataneo. th nattld dispute ever th coal flld demands that Poland maintain part of bar army along this lint. Han aig Regime Prom farther north com UII snot bar call upon tb nation's peroty strained military Tb chang of boundaries In th neighborhood of Dantig. whrby Poland certain tarrltory which Germany wa required to glv up, place Inald th conflnso of th formar country n region which th csntrnt power bar overlooked no opportunity t American who slatted tht dis. tion Ut last summer puted brought back many storte of f terrorism and took n quantity photographs as tvldance. On of the showed a Pollah youth with j scars arrow hla back th reaut of n from beating which ho had th German for aelllng copiea of a pollah newspaper lo lh In I'pper Silesia- - Thl man reported a high degree of military development by lh Germans and tha Installation of elaborat fortification American and British newspaper correspondents both reported in detail on tht campaign of Intimidation being conducted by th Otrmsnt, Attempt wer being mad constantly to Infuriate th Polish troop into crossing th bordar to defend their own people, th Pollah and their famllle on tho German aid of th lln. Th opinion ha been advanced by many alien observers that th Oor-mawer deliberately antagonising th Poles with th bop that tba Tolas would lea their and b Imrveled bv reaantmew to ka retll- An rcld 1 grl m. le g rs prprdoa. lona br ' mtlr ronrei ae-qul- ra mine-work- self-contr- ol hr an-eae- . oppr. ecoal n-w':- ; n ri --- i r t..n (r I N & jf'H , . T 1 I. . . .- . i' ' - ja 4 fist' Y ta: 0 ; ViAnr's. rj . Ss$erZrjj? Hwtoi By AmrrtrM Red Oaa front.- - t th tion la ora!y crippled, bjr ctt , With Railroads Ruined, Factories Dismantled,Trade At a Standstill This Nation of Dauntless Fighters Is Holding Its Own Against Bolshivism In the East and Germanism In the West. M M tf 41 J Wfier Otc .Atzrrrrr &te&jrsjrarirS2&s,'Ka'Ar &?JSSs?fi( 7yrsyj5ts7S, . at T . A'---. . ' ! ;j hs r-- lv . V C1 ta Th countrys manufacturing pay out annually la tht ag- gregat lift billion dollars for raw materials, and tha part of th woodusing industries In that hug expenditure amount to more than'' on bil- ' lion dollars, or 7 par cent. Th valu of th products of tha 01,000 establishment amounts to nearly lit bit- - . Hon dollars a year,-o- r 10 par cent, of the total valu of all nanufacturara. Th valu of th products of th wood-usi- ng industries la slightly more thaS doubled by the process of refinement at th hands of mor than a mil- Hon wag earners. Th capital In- - . vested in tha 02,000 plants,' totalling v , I billion dollars, ta 12 per cent, of tb billion toy and games; turpentine and roaln; aggregate Investment of 22 dollars in manufacture. washing-machinand OBe lnhabltant of every'JOOorm-ln- g wood distillates artificial limbs; the 100 million population of th professional and aclentifio instruments; handles; clocks; playground United State (1 a wag earner whose , equipment; printing material; trunks; ekroingi depend upon th uninterruptsupply of raw material from th shuttle; spools, and bobbins; fire- ed arms; pulleys and conveyors; patterns forest. In the perpetuation ct our brooms and paving forests the publlo la vitally concerned. , It means national safety aa well a materials; plumbers woodwork. economlo prosperity and th AmeriIn round numbers 17!. 000 are engaged In manufactur- can Forestry Association welcome ing, and of thla vast number tl.000. euggestlons aa to th best Idea to be y. or II per centner establishments de- Incorporated in a national forest wood one or In another form on In the prodpending solely op part ucts of th forest for raw materials whether It.berfuel or furniture Is the used In their varied line of manu- principal raw material that enter of manfacture. In other words, nearly one-fif- Into tha making of thousands of all th manufacturing estab- ufactures and th turning out of theeof lishments throughout tha country us varied product Involves th labor tba timber in ona form or other, and they million ct persona backed up by doldecreased capital Investment of billions of would ba- - haa dteappod-h- y- . shortforest be Iara. tb Should .crop supplies and forced to cease. working ened, the'manufacturer would be deIf no wood wera obtainable. , prived ot hla raw material, and labor. Over One Million Wood Worker So In turn, jrould lack employment By theae17M0! establishment work whatever tends to maintain an abundla given to 7.600. 000 wag earners. Of ant annual forest crop la perforce an thl vast army of toiler, who keep, alfy of the public, and whatever tend the wheels of Industry moving. 1,100,-00- 0, to diminish such a crop, whether it be or 10 per cent, earn thalr wage poor utilisation, carelessnesa or Arc. In the 12,000 wood-usin- g robs labor and th public. Let us aav plant. livelihood. th foraatat eatab-llahman- lading Lake ' A Print Paper Shortage Brings Out Some Startling Fig ures Showing How We Are Using Up Our Forests Without Replacing Them As We Should. BY THOMAS VAPPING os wood baa long been a method for warding off bad Hmiuck. bat It do not occur to many of pa just bow easy It la to rap oh wood. Look around you right now and not how many different pieces of wood are within easy reach. The .paper you nr reading right now la made out of Ur Tha floors you walk on all day are made of wood. Tou are In constant contact with wood. The print paper shortage, has called theat-tentto- tt of thousands, who neyer gavs It any thought before, to the value of the forests, our greatest natural resource. If the pulpwodd used In this wer stacked on an country acre of ground It would make a pile nearly four miles high. Could the cord wood be laid end on end It would .extend from th Atlantic to th Pacific Coast and about half way to Japan. Th amount used In ISIS was five million. two hundred and fifty thousand and seven hundred and ntmrty-ftnicord of pulp wood. This Is a Jump o L more than one hundred per Cent. In SO years Th newspapers ef thweeuotey have been bard pressed to meet th situation and conservation all along the line has been called for by th American Koresiry Association which Is campaigning for a national forest fire protection. policy end-bettTJie backbone of Industry- - Is what has- Just Charles 'Lathrop Pack,-whbeen president of the associate n, calls the forests. Ha call on . Hie achools of tb country to talk of . dard any onda lnlU Inc. T aid- - , er o E. RUSSELL paper conservation and th study of th tree as a part of th campaign for thrift In - this country. Our forests ar ilk a bank," Mr. Pack aald at th annual meeting of th associa- tion, "wa must deposit In thm If ws want to draw out.- - With our forest being cut down or destroyed by fire much faster than they are being replenished the end la In sight. Situation Acute The print paper situation has become so acute that It has been placed n before Congress Action on the providing for the creation ofd commission to deal with tha Canadian Government for the relief of the print paper shortage and th recall, of Canadian regulations detrimental t6 the United State publisher 1 asked by Senator Underwood, of Alabama. Th reeolutlon ef which Underwood Is the sponsor provides that a commission of five be appointed "by th President to confer with representatives of the Canadian Government and the province reio-lutlo- clothea-wrtng-er- es tariff bill ' I had Inserted Into that measure provisions which would provide for th importation of th print paper needed by the publishers of th United States 4t aa low a prlc aa .i:' possible- Underwood declared.' Would Force Paper Industry To Canada "It was at that time that I became Interested In th question of paper pulp woodheImported from Canada. The Canadian Government rulings- - or-twill eventually cause all paper manufacturer to move to Canada and to close their plants in the United States. Whan this is accomplished, by an embargo, the paper of this country could bexutoff jnd eK8BlO?jLBa.jAX to operat opr relative to th! abandonment of to defend - ourselves Order In Council Issued as far back newspaper plants.Th first action to prohibit tb exas 110. The Order In Council, In abort, pro- portation of wood in its raw state was In vide that wood cut on crown land taken by tb lieutenant-generehall not be exported unless cut Into Quebec in 1910. This prohibited th lumber, developed Into wood pulp or exportation of wood from crown landa manufactured into paper. The resolu- Underwood - ays t bl provision detion Introduced by Underwood outlines prived the- - citizens of tha United States of wood to which they had all the situation In fulL . -- "During th fight on th Underwood property rights." al -- 222 r a Th resolution was Introduced fallowing th action of th Amrlcan Association Publisher's Newspaper restoration of the asking for th property right 'of American Interest to the wood of'thlr leased lafide in Canada. Another measure Introduced by Senator Watson alma for th development of th cutting of wood for paper pulp In the United States. National Forest Policy Needed Importanc of th forest to our economic Ufa and the need of a national forest policy ar shown when w consider tha wood using Industrie of th country and th money In- ahd lllinol SP!y4 la.Qbl2indUina lumber was a billion board feet of but produced by each Stat in twenty year later thla productlon bad tr of that dropped to about What this moan in Inamount. creased freight charge la easily even. So alarming baa becomt thi aituat n that tbo newapapert have 'taken P of th Amerlc tb campaign Forestry Association and told tl wood using Industries i one-quar- l. -- west they would hav to move or quit In thirty years. Wood Enters into Nearly Every Line Of Manufacture o Just a glance at th lng and wood-usin- g Industries of the United States will show their Importance; lumber and timber products; planlng-mi- li products, sash, door, blinas and general mlllwork;- - window and door screens and weather strips; wooden packing boxes; cigar boxes; barrets and kegs; turned and carved wood; lasts; wooden furniture, including rattan and willow; show cases; blllard tables and materials; looking glasses and picture frames; aawing-macMn- q cases: baskets JtaiLfattan and willow tear; coffins and burial cases; rules; matches; pulp goods; wood carpet;' charcoal; , treated and preserved woods; carriages and wagons, airplanes; agricultural Implements; dalrymeaa, poulterers and apiarists supplies; wood for engraving, musical Instruments and materials; paper and wood pulp; phonographs and grqpba-- ji hones; tobacco plies; refrigerators wood-produ- carpet-sweeper- - a; s; establishments pot---Ic- th - ' - 4 |