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Show I IETIOML (ML I g AMS1 i ' J j "Clean Up as You Go" Motor Gypsying WASHINGTON. It's up to the American motorist who would a gypsying go to ! , , adopt a new slogan and live j np to it"Clean up as you go." Other- r wise the "No Trespass" signs that are j already too many will Increase to such j an extent that he'll have few pluces to go. In short, with America's natural ' ' scenery Just coming to be recognized ! aa an Important basic source of wealth, the motor tourist Is being reminded re-minded that he. is not doing his share i toward conserving it j Motor camping and picnicking can b enjoyed without defacing the seen-J seen-J erjr for the next fellow who comes j along, If everyone would refrain from I Uttering up the ground with picnic i rubbish, tin cans and papers. ,-Wirntheo1ortHrsee"TRile'a to , blame for this nuisance, which affects him more than anyone else, and pre-" pre-" aerve the natural beauties of the country as seen from an automobile, a movement has been atarted under the name of the Motorists' League for Countrywide Preservation. Its aim Is to give the motoring public of the United States a new sense of responsibility, respon-sibility, best defined by the league's slogan, "Clean up aa you go." The National Motorists' association of Washington, one of the organizations organiza-tions behind this movement, is urging Its members to pledge their support. No Initiation proceedings other than the will to preserve the-rcountryslde are necessary. "I will make every effort to leave the roadside in such condition that the pleasure to be derived from it by others la not lessened through any careless act of mine," pledges the motorist. mo-torist. It la believed that by putting the matter up to the motorist squarely more can be accomplished than by legislation against the habit of not leaving leav-ing picnic and camp sites dean and free from papers or litter of any sort. President Harding waa among the first to accept service on a committee In charge of the league's program, while the naturalist, Luther Burbank, Secretary of Agriculture Wallace and many mayors and governors have earnestly Indorsed the movement. Since membership entails the pledge to be careful of trees and shrubbery, and in the making of campfires, much that la of very practical value In the conservation of natural, acenery and property should be accomplished. 1 i i Larger Use of Substitute for Wood SUBSTITUTES for wood, according accord-ing to the United States forest service, are gaining ground, the rate at which their use la ln-1 ln-1 - - treaslng being conservatively placed 1 at 800,000,000 ctiblc feet a year. One- half of thla ia in the form of firewood. Wood aubatltutea, says the forest serv- ice' In a review of this aspect of the timber question, have tended more to take up the normal expansion In de- ! mand for timber due to growth In pop- illation and industrial progress than I to lessen the actual volume of wood i consumption. Had there not been i other materials to take the place of wood, it la stated, Its consumption would have Increased at a much more rapid pace. "The introduction of substitutes," declares the review, "has often been j directly due to the growing scarcity of the kinds of wood needed for particu- j lar purposes or to the rising cost of lumber. In other cases It has been j due to the inherent superiority of the ) substitute for a specific service, or to i cheapened cost of production which enablea it to supplant wood. "Obviously, substitutes thnt replace j one material with another Inherently superior are economically advantageous; advanta-geous; those compelled by shortages and high prices are an economic hardship. hard-ship. It Is also true that In the very process of displacing wood from Its former for-mer use for construction purposes the substitutes have Involved new or enlarged en-larged uses of wood incidental to their employment "Furthermore, aa wood Is being replaced re-placed by other materials in one field, new nses of wood constantly arise In other fields. The extensive use of pulp wood not only for paper products of various kinds, but also for fiber containers, con-tainers, wallboard and similar forms of material, and recently even for making mak-ing artificial boards, is one example. The chemical utilisation of wood for the production of varloua by-products Is still In Its Infancy; the next few years may see the use of wood for the production of alcohol on a large scale to take the place of gasoline. Wood Is already used for the manufacture of artificial silk, rope and of carpets and other fabric Chemical research is revealing new uses for wood that were not dreamed of a few years ago. The age of wood has not been left behind us it may well lie ahead of us. Advice for G. 0. P. National Committee SOME of these days and apparently appar-ently it will not be long-Mhe Itepubllcan nntlonnl committee i Is going to alt up and take no tice of what the women say. Anyway, ! each member of the committee has been requested by Chnlrmnn Adams to appoint a woman In his state to serve as an associate member of the committee. commit-tee. Announcement of this action wns made In a statement issued from headquarters head-quarters of the committee, which was aa follows: "John T. Adams, chnlrmnn of the national committee, requested each member of the national committee to appoint, as early as possible, a woman j in hla respective state, who will serve ! as an associate member of the Repub- Mean national committee. This action la In accordunce with a plan agreed npon by President Harding, Chnlrmnn Adams, Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton, vice chairman of the Iteptibllcnn national na-tional executive committee, and Hamilton Ham-ilton Kean of New Jersey, chairman of the subcommittee appointed by the national na-tional committee to canvass the situation. situa-tion. The plan as agreed upon has been approved almost unanimously by the members of the Itepubllcan national nation-al committee." The question of giving women more recognition In the party council boa been under consideration for some time. The matter wns discussed some time ago at a White House conference confer-ence between President Harding and Mr. Adams, after which the latter announced an-nounced It had been determined to give women representation either In an associate or advisory capacity, on the national committee. Such participation, partici-pation, Mr. Adams explained, would be an Initial step, to be supplemented, probably, by the granting of greater authority to women by the committee when It meets next year coincident with the national convention. At the recent O. O. P. conference In Chicago Mrs. Medill McCormlck, Mrs. ! L. O. Hocker of St. Louis, Mrs. J. C. Pearson of Marshall, Okla., add Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton of Ohio were among those to pledge unlimited cooperation co-operation of their sex, providing male politicians "awaken and come to realize that women must be taken Into party councils, must be made confl-(I confl-(I antes." Forests Keep the Wheels Goinsr Round KEEPING forest products flow- I Ing steadily to the great manufacturing centers must ; te the corner stone of any In- -dustrlal.plnn for the future, says " ChhrW Lnthrop Pack, president of the ; American Tree association. In a letter j to Julius II. Dames, president of the j Chamber of Commerce of the United ' States,, who hits returned" from the Home Congress of the International : Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Pack points to the warning of ; a world timber famine In the annual report of the British forestry commission commis-sion Just Issued. Gen. Lord Lovat, the chairman of this commission, has cabled Mr. Pack be Is coming to the United States and Canada. Ills object ob-ject Is to ascertain what future timber Btipplles Great Britain may expect from North America. Mr. Vmk tins ent millions of Aitierlfnn tree seeds to the commission imd to Frunce to help reforest a reus cut down for war use and areas devastated by war. The letter to Mr. Barnes Includes the following: fol-lowing: "My dear Mr. Bnrnes: In the report of the British forestry commission there Is warning of , timber fiirnln not nlcne In the niMtlsh Isles but throughout the world. Any plans for the futire of Industry must take Into arroiuil a aternly flow of forest products prod-ucts to tb great manufacturing cen- ters. Forest products are the cornerstone corner-stone of all Industry. They enter Into and Influence every phase of our commercial com-mercial life. "In. the report of the British commission com-mission there Is a warning for the United States, where we have 81.0(H).. (XH) acres of Idle land tit for little else than growing trees. "In your comprehensive article In 'Our World' on 'American Individualism Individual-ism and European Hecovery' you state thnt between 1013 and 191:2 our population popu-lation increased 14,000,0K 'with the enlarged production which that assured.' as-sured.' You also state that In the same ! period the ton miles of service In the j transportation Industry Increased from i KW.OtK) per worker to 243,(NiO per worker. To help keep this Industry Kolng 5.iXK1.000 trees are cut down every year Just to provide poles to carry the wires over hlch hum the messages of industry, and '.'(ki.tsHi.tltifl cubic feet of wood are consumed every 1 yenr In 'tunnel' Industries such as mining and quarrying. 71ip great etie- my of forest resources fire was re- j sponsible for the loss of n ,"i;.k,(hm. acre area 'luring a te'vnt live year ; period. The center of the lumber In- j dnstry Is fast approaching the Pacific i coast and soon ymt business men will be turnlmr to A!a-I;ii. 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