Show A LESSON FOR ALL Its It's sometimes necessary to go a long way from home for an object ct lesson But Usually its it's worth it Its It's many thousands S of miles to China yet every Manti resident can leat learn alesson a lesson from China Chins and without going there For year science has of Chinese have sought ht the cause of famines in which millions peri perished hed The whole hole world has tried to keep China from stArr stArring r- r in ing without knowing the cause muse of ot their troubles trouble to tion It can be bo Now comes a report re re ort of the long Jong investigation told In a few words For hundreds ds of ot years ears China filled China felled ened h hit her r fore forests t with lavish hand A tree meant only something to to be cut down and used used- No one stopped stop a to consider that they can be destroyed d dears faster than they can be mode to grow So after barren plain This years ears of slaughter China has become Las has permitted the elements to destroy the soil rains h vew ed d off the top soil and the dirt that could have have- been be n used u ed for fo fo cultivating crops has run into the rivers and on into the sea aea Anyone J who has visited China will n tell you that her river river are ae apparently always muddy Today what might have been millions of acres acre of fertile producing crop land is nothing but hard baked clay And China cannot go back to where she was it would take hundred of years yeats to reforest the country That is is the lesson that ought t to be worth a lot to us here in a section still blessed bleed wi with h considerable woodland nd Save the trees w we now have and keep pla ting ting- ore lore trees tree or generations to come will win meet that some lome fate that has hai overtaken China E Every tree planted and every treo tie ed d Is a bullet in the war against possible starvation S Il |