Show THE NATIONS NATION'S FORESTS I BRILLIANT ADDRESS AT ANNUAL CONVENTION AMERICAN FORESTRY FOR ESTRY ASSOCIATION Secretary Wilson Sounds Warning Note on Forest fore De Destruction Million Destruction-Million Million Acres cres Should Be Tree planted Everett Hale ale in I Vigorous orous S b ted Secretary Wilson has more than once manifested a deep interest in the question of ot American Forestry Mr Wilson has in fact for some years been elected and reelected elected President of the ilie American Forestry Association a powerful pow erful organization composed of public- public men Ulen throughout the country which has probably done more than any other one influence to awaken national Interest in the enormous destruction of ot the forests and the necessity necessity necessity sity for their like business-like management and preservation ev even n to the reforestation reforest ati n of ot denuded areas and the plantIng plantIng planting plant plant- ing of ot trees upon barren prairie lands That the tile movement In the United States is coming to be considered an important one Is to some extent evidenced evidenced evi evi- by the Increased recognition of ot the subject by Congress which is also due Inc largely to Secretary Wilsons Wilson's en en- When Mr Wilson was ap appointed aP ap- po pointed ted Secretary of ot Agriculture turc by President McKinley his forestry divIsion division di di- vision consisted of ot one forester an assistant forester and five clerks and with vita an annual appropriation from 1 I 1 T r m Congress for tor forestry of ot Since then forestry division has been advanced ed into a separate bureau of ot the Department Depart ment meat of Agriculture employing over men men and having an annual appropriation appropriation from Congress of ot upwards of ot one-half one a million dollars Fully a million acres of ot forest lands in the eastern castern part of ot the United States SUItes have been turned over to the Bureau of ot Forestry for management on a practical cal and scientific basis which will enable enable en en- able the cutting of the forest for lumber lumber lum mm- ber her berand and at the thes s 's same same me time insuring succeeding crops of br t timber while over of the acres of ot gover gover- ment For Forest st reserves in the west have also been turned over to the Bureau of Forestry for administration It Is probable that at least another land will be acres of public timber placed in federal reserves v Secretary Wilson in his opening address address ad ad- address dress at the recent annual meeting of ot the American Forestry Association In Washington uttered a clear note of warning against the whole-sale whole reduction reduction reduction tion of the woodland area in the country I No nation on earth is as successful In the work of ot destroying its forests as the United it d States he declared The Indiscriminate mutilation of ot the forests must be stopped th the matter has become become become be be- which come one of national interest can not much longer be ignored by the people or by our legislators After advocating the broadest kind of ot protective forest policy he touched on the subject of reforesting certain sections He thought that every day should be an an n arbor day that every year should mark marI a n notable table advance in the effort to recover lost ground Plant A J Million Acres We should plant he said not 10 GOO acres nor stop at acres but should plant acres acres In trees and this would be viewed from several points the very best best Investment which the United States ever made It would rould be a paying m money ney Investment to the government and it would be a n. tremendous help to our agriculture The price of merchantable timber is increasing increasing in in- creasing with great rapidity while beneficial every one knows the very effect that has resulted from the planting planting plant plant- ing lag of wind-breaks wind in the prairie states Another address before the Association tion Uon by the venerable Edward Everett Hale now the Chaplain of the United States Senate constituted a cut clean-cut statement of the tho great necessity of prompt action to protect tb the forests Dr Hale Is around eighty years 01 ot uge he remembers when the saw and the ax had scarce touched the giant monarchs In Ohio Valley when the forests of northern Michigan and Minnesota were unbroken wildernesses and when those of the far northwest in that marvelous country where rolls the Oregon were a terra tery-a incognito incognita He has seen Been een whole states denuded of their valuable timber Umber and burned over by devastating fires tires due to reckless and wasteful methods S he has seen the axman and the millman millman mill mill- man move westward swiftly and surely surely sure sure- ly mowing down everything in m l his s course until there Is practically no j Uon tion he has left At th the present rate of ot timber cutting in inthe in 1 the United States 40 years from from day day to-day there will be not ax an acre left of ot merchantable mer mer- merchantable Umber timber Common Forestry What are we going to do asked Dr Hale in his deep voice We w must Jt use both common sense and sentiment r in dealing with the forest question f It is a a. very great question The individuals individuals in in- interested in American forestry for for- S I estry even though they be millionaires s or multimillionaires multi can not accomplish S anything definite and lasting unless unless un un- less the states and the general government government govern govern- ment meat can be awakened to the necessity of giving the cause large and substantial assistance which it merits Com Coth Common mon sense In forestry means means that tho the forestry question should be put upon a business basis In order to make a large Immediate profit forests are destroyed de do destroYed they should be cut with some reference to the future In other words they should be All cropped the governments gov gov- of ot Europe rely largely upon S their forest lands for revenue A aim sim S j lIar ilar condition should and could o B brought about In this country a |