Show AWN a a 0 ps s 45 row lo 10 M ap a Z qa ftak g ayd butak ey by ELMO SCOTT WATSON a few weeks president coolidge will le be I 1 issuing liis his annual proclamation for american forest week luring during which thinie al a americans are urged to turn their attention to the lie problem of our vanishing of forests orests and to operate cooperate co ly by every means possible to that end As usual the leaders in ili tile lie observance of tills week will vill be the officials of tile lie american tree association headed by bv charles lathrop pick pack the president in anticipation of that observance tile the association some time liine ago announced a cartoon contest in ID which a i series of prizes were ere offered for the best cartoons drawn by the judges of the contest were mrs join john dickinson sherman Sli erman president of the genet general at federation of women S clubs john hays hammond ammond ll jay N darling ding noted cartoonist of the new york herald tribune col william B breeley Cre elcy chief forester fu rester of the united states forest sen ice Ace and dr jolio joba T finley finaev of the lie nev kev york times these judges recently a an n flounced lioun ced the llie prize w liners camers among tin cartoons which acre ere entered it in the contest and come came froin frimin every stale in tile the union and two fur for eign countries the seu seen 11 winning will III be used in the associations arite during american forest week in april and will lie be e specially especially because the pictured les on which they will nil midi call be under understood lood ty toy eNe rhody een those wlm who tire are unable to read bior that leawn the lie acen winning cartoonists will liae hue the slit of knowing that their effin is were not only rewarded with nith asli rash fit izes lut but with the rile satisfaction of knowing that they hae performed a duty in helping sae our barets they ore lire lie following foll oming prize arlsie irl sie sam U E nasli babli jr tiler texas second buu floyd Colli redson utah third t it M 11 tipper Ti iper toll toil D C foul fourtly fourt ill li 25 2 james T shaffer Sli alTer Lo I acaster N X Y fifth 2 F D idiller denver colo olo sixth sa I truce ru ce russell alet slet sierra ra madr calif seventh 2 william L addkinson Jac ligon hiss saving tile llie forests which we now n ow bave Is only one part of th effort of the lie american tree association lon more important Is the matter nt ff f f bringing to the attention of the nation the amount of idle land in ahli country und liow how this land can be utilized in it forest production tills this part of the llie problem Is bring being talen taken rare care of by the he educational work of the he ch charles arles ruck puck forestry trust one phase of tills this work hns has been beed the distribution of Io forestry restry primers Irl mers to the schools of the nation the millions of acres of idle land in tills this country mr pack says must be put to growing trees because tile llie economic structure tare of tile the country depends upon wood in its thousands ards of uses the printed word and the alie cartoon make up part of if the ammunition in the llie united st slates lies tile t lie center of the lumber industry Is in the rocky mountain region far removed from the preat great manufacturing centers th the e points of great consumption of forest products lets the llie american tret Rs association acla points out states like 1 C new york michigan once the HIP cen ter of the llie industry now import lumber over ion long hauls to keep their factories going in ID contrast with buch a sli nation I 1 Is that thai in sweden the annual growth of timber in Sw edens forests now exceeds llie file annual cutting by nearly cubic feet toc according cordIng to a study of the forestry system pal 9 ib tr F tyla tex 4 0 41 0 p 10 fra SF by trade commissioner rin eigil I 1 kelleh of the department of if commerce this result the report declares has been accomplished through forestry practice milking making ext exten enske she areas more productive and through closer utilization which has relatively reduced cutting without question timber growing Is the outstanding feature in the industrial economy fit 01 sweden at the present ame and it Is constantly becoming of greater importance chei one half af the land area is especially adaptable to forest growth with the soil possessing little or no fertility as agricultural ri land tile bulk of the forests belongs to private owners and tile the forest policy of the countr country has been essentially one of the economy of private holdings the owners of these private forests are divided into two groups hie farmers large and small smail find and large corporations which operate on large scale forest methods the swedes were among the first to realize that some measure of restriction in the large private forest areas was necessary and among the first if not the lie first to actually apply rema rem dies to and incidentally point tile way for other countries practically all the large lumber paper nd pulp corporations operate forest departments of their own which work in close harmony with the royal conservation boards the government forest serice sen lee and the colleges and schools from the forest experiment station tion at stockholm comes dr lars G bornell to take the charles lathrop pack research professorship of forest soils just established at cornell university ver sity the unusual character of its legislation has been the principal contribution to Sw edens progress in forest management during durin abe past two decades the most important point involved in tills this legislation governing the care of the forests Is that the successful promotion of forest management depends in the last analysis on the wholehearted whole ahola hearted support of the people and its s universal application the principal feature of enforcement embodies the element of securing cooperation primarily through education it if the example of sweden wh which tell may jolly well be emulated by the united states presents the bright side of the alie picture the experience of another nation plainly shows the darker side and should be an object lesson to tills this country inless it gives the forestry problem berl barlous 0 us consideration F from rom a recent issue of the congressional con ress ional record is taken these excel excerpts apts under the title of A plea for the forests from an address by john Q tillson Tills nn majority leader of the llie national house of representatives who alio made at an extended trip through china japan and korea lust last summer no one can visit china without having th ahr lebavin of 0 forest destruct llon borne born in upon him in a most forceful f u I 1 minner m inner china has population u in area it la Is one of 0 the tn largest countries coun triet in all the world it COnt contaldi contal aln ni some of the very large rivers of the h world china has comparatively an ez ex dremely small email mileage of railroads so BO that abat its rivers should tie be relatively more important than those of any other country and yet what do we find fand the mo u the of 0 al all its rivers choked with ith sandbars up to about ten years year ago ago large ships could not discharge at the docks ot ol shanghai Shan at last the th s enormous commerce of this great port forced its improvement but it was a huge and expensive undertaking ves vea nela of 0 any aly considerable draft cannot now reach at all but must top stop outside of 0 taku bar Is situated IQ in a great alluvial plain which has been brought down from rom tle th e region ot of peking and above by the rol hoi no ho river all the little hills and mountains la in this region were denuded of their forests e ts ev evidently iden I 1 ay many centuries ago no al forests rests remain but that they were wace vace forest covered or at least are capable 0 f producing trees Is bbown by the sacred trees ab about out the chinese temples temple and the tombs of 0 their ancestors the rain now falls upon the barren slopes and rapidly rushes to the sea carrying every particle of detached earth that it can carry the sediment containing ta ining sand and and gravel Is deposited upon tb the fertile fields while the finer sediment fiedl ment Is carried into irrigation ditches the beds of streams and canals in korea the same mistake of da d inuring the hillsides hill sides has boen been made as in china with identical results so tar far as time has permitted doubtless china had been stripped of its forests for centuries while korea was still a well wooded c country but korea Is no longer well wooded having been denuded to its very mountain peaks while bile the same sad mad story Is being written w 4 of f the barren mountains being washed w 0 sh ed down to fill up the precious irrigation irr ditches dit c lies and to cover with worthless sand and OR the precious rice paddles and fertile wheat fields it Is 13 worthy of note that since japan took over korea a very ambitious and expensive program of reforestation has been entered upon and Is now being carried on there with every indication of a finally successful outcome but it will ill require many decades of time and an n unlimited amount of money to und ven even in small email part the great insull laju done don a to this unfortunate country b h t the he reckless expenditure of its great forest wealth japan herself has done dona ran much b better little in this regard in her own lettla island empire the islands are evidently of comparatively 0 ively recent geological formation so 0 o that there are many more high in mountains mount alna with precipitous slopes elopes and nd much of the land Is steeply sloping hillsides hill sides from some gome of 0 these the forests foreste were stripped carelessly and erosion to n had bad begun its deadly work but has not been permitted to run its ita destructive bocen tive a ourse course as in china and to a lesser degree in korea in fact in no other one thing are those who have directed the internal int intel einal nal affairs of japan to be so much commend 3 as tor for the masterly statesmanlike forestry policy that has been inaugurated and Is now being carried out in that country our own country Is old geologically ecologically sp speaking bakius but quite youthful in point of utilization of the land either for the timber originally standing stand lne on it or for agricultural purposes the time hike has not been sufficient in which to malts make all ait the mistakes of older countries but considering the brief period of our history we have surely made our share and the end Is not yet it Is already apparent what the end will be we must not stumble blindly on into the condition of china and other portions of the orient or even to the state at already reached by some parts of europe |