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Show National Forest, a beauty spot known to tourists all over America. Ameri-ca. The forest movement is growing in America and deservedly so. Less than a generation ago it seemed that our forests were to pass entirely out of existence and that we would become a treeless nation. Then the conservationists began to raise their ! voices and following this the moves for the preservation of our ' forests and for the reforesting of waste places was put under way. Today, as the average tourist well knows, the national government gov-ernment is developing forests in all parts of the country and the state governments are following suit, by developing state parks, a number of which include state forests. All of this as it should be. We need the forests because we will always need wood for certain purposes and cannot afford to depend on importation altogether. Then we need the forests from the ethical side of life, too. There is nothing more restful than ,a great forest, nothing which tends to give man greater confidence in the wisdom of his Creator. A trip through a magnificent forest for-est is as good as a sermon. We need the trees and every good I citizen should give the forestry movement all possible assistance. MORE FORESTS. President Coolidge acted wisely, as usual, recently in signing the McNary-Woodruff bill, appropriating amounts aggregating eight million dollars for the purchase of national forest lands during dur-ing the next three years. The bill is regarded as a signal victory for the national forest movement and will, it is said, be of great benefit to the people of the north, the south and the east. The passage of the bill is said to be of particular moment to the people of Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, and the pine and hardwood states of the South, and will also make it possible, it is said, for the national government to purchase the famous Wat-erville Wat-erville area of New Hampshire and add it to the White Mountain |
