Show A national asset the lumber industry is one of our longest employers of labor one 0 of the largest taxpayers t ax payers and one ot of the largest producers of wealth from raw material there is no greater national issue than reforesting refo resting the denuded acres not only from the logging off 0 of forests by sawmills but also from cutting forests for other national manufacturing fac turing industries the furniture industry alone puts on the market in our country worth of manufactured products annually and in 1923 the automobile industry used feet of soft and hard wood lumber at a recent national conference of editors and publishers they were startled into thinking of forestry as a national iss issue ue by the statement that acres of timber land are cut each week for pulpwood to make newsprint freight charges of 0 in 1923 were paid tor for products of pacific coast forests used in the mills and factories of central and eastern states it is not just western sawmills which are leaving logged off lands that can only be salvaged by a national enthusiasm for reforestation |