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Show GIlSSTS Declares Nation Using Timber Three Times Faster Than Replenishing It (By International News Service.) "WASHINGTON, May 14 And now comes another reason for the high cost of living. This time it is trees. There arc not enough trees to go round. "Production and more production is the one thing that everybody seems to agree upon as the antidote for the high cost of living, but who will pro-duco pro-duco the forests that provide the wood and the paper that keeps 10 per cent of an Industry going?" asks Charles Lathrop Pack, president of the American Amer-ican Forestry association. "We are using up our forests three times faster than we arc replenishing them. We cannot step out Into the open market and order a billion feet of lumber grown for delivery day after tomorrow or week after next, We may be able to figure on how much wheat or how much corn we can ship on a given date, Or make plans for the production of a thousand automobiles, auto-mobiles, for In theso cases the matter of .production Is but a mattor of days or weeks. Not so with trees, for with trees it is a matter of years. "Just the other day some two hundred hun-dred thousand acres of timber land was bought up by a match concern. The tons of consumption of pulp wood from which print paper Is made has Increased enormously. The war made a great drain on our timber resources. Newspaper publishers wrestled with the newsprint situation at their last meeting, and will continue to wrestle with It for some time, it is safo to predict. When we stop to think that our forests are tho basis of all national prosperity and that nothing is being done looking to a national forest policy, poli-cy, we must Us business men stop Indeed." |