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Show PROGRESSIVE OPLftlOX ' Vol. 8, No. 38 - - Oct. 6, 1944 Sees Forest Conservation Need: Vast Areas of Spent Timberland Attest to Careless Practices example, were built of yellow pop-lar. Yellow poplar grows almost as fast as any of our softwoods and is just as easily worked. But today it is far too precious to put into barns. It is no longer a significant part of the stock of the local lumber yards. All the big pine operations are now gone from the Missouri Ozarks. Out-put of softwood lumber in Missouri in 1942 was only 30 million board feet. Yet in. 1899 most of the three-fourth- s billion board feet of lumber cut in that state was softwood. Throughout the hill country from eastern Ohio to western Missouri, millions of acres of once magnificent hardwood forests have degenerated into mere brush cover. Many of the contributed so bountifully to the de-velopment of the Middle West are now little more than memories. Al-though some old growth chieflj hardwood still remains, the most significant aspect is the large pro-portion of inferior species, notably jack pine and aspen, in the second growth. Having looked in vain for timber surpluses in other important forest regions, we turn at last to the West coast. The timber of Idaho and Montana was almost untouched up to 1900. But the wave of depletion is rolling through this country with startling speed. In Idaho the five northern counties were opened up first and were soon pretty thoroughly ex-ploited. Output reached a peak of 705 million board feet in 1925. In 1937 it was only 292 million. Obviously payrolls in these northern counties declined in about the same ration as lumber production. Towns like Sand-poin- t and Coeur d'Alene were hard hit and Spokane turned its eyes from the panhandle of Idaho to the Grand Coulee dam. The increased output now coming from the five counties farther south rests on a precarious base. Only one-tent- h of the 10 million acres of for-est in North Idaho is in white pine sawtimber yet this tenth is bearing the brunt of current cut. White pine output is now 2Vi times what the for-ests can sustain. But even within this region, the apparent surplus is local in charac-ter. The only area still largely un-developed is a portion of southern Oregon. In the older districts, notably around Puget Sound, the bulk of the readily accessible saw-timb-has been removed. Sawmills have shut down and pulp mills have assumed greater importance. The available stand is no longer as large as the growing stock needed to sus-tain a cut commensurate with the growth capacity of the land. The lower Columbia river district with 170 large mills and 40 billion feet of sawtimber is already feeling the pinch of scarcity. About half of the private sawtimber belongs to two large companies. Most of the other mills face difficulty in getting the timber they need for long-tim- e operation. I want to close by stating my con-viction that a comprehensive legis-lative charter is needed to give ef-fect to a d national for-est policy and to strengthen the foundation for timely postwar action in the forestry field. r j j By LYLE F. WATTS (Chief U. S. Forest Servicp) Recently, in an address be-fore a section of the Society of American Foresters at Mil-waukee, Wis., I discussed the nation's forest situation and presented the need for rea-sonable public control of the treatment of private forest lands. In commenting on that paper, a friend of mine ... al-leged that, "In normal pe-riods the basic American for-estry problem is not one of scarcities but of surpluses, not of timber famine but of timber abundance." I want to explore that philosophy be-cause, if it is true, there is really no occasion for much concern about forest conser-vation. In discussing this question of scar-city versus abundance, I want to make it clear that forestry is some-thing more than boards, ties, cord-woo- d and other forest products. To me forestry has a human side. It encompasses permanent communi-ties with prosperous industries and a stable tax base. It means good schools, public health and attractive homes. It means security for the worker to invest in a home and for the butcher, the baker, and beauty shop keeper to invest in a business. Seventy per cent of New England Is forest land, but 75 per cent of all the wood products consumed in New England comes from outside the re-gion. The only evidence of surplus, so far as I know, is in small e material which cannot be marketed even under the intense de-mand of the huge industrial popu-lation. The hurricane of 1938, followed by abnormal wartime requirements for box boards, has left only scattered remnants of merchantable white pine in central New England. Scar-city of stumpage forced several of the leading operators in Massachu-setts to move out of that state re-cently. Even in the wild lands of Maine, most of which have been Even in New England, where this huge red oak towering 130 feet up and measuring almost 20 feet in circumfer-ence was cut, there is no real timber surplus. v hardwood industries of the Ohio and Mississippi valleys must now pay heavy transportation charges for raw material from other regions in order to continue operation. Some of them face extinction. The lake, states affords one of the most serious chapters of our forest history. Here are some 52 million acres of generally level forest land, favorably located with reference to important in-dustrial and agricultural sec-tions. Extensive clear cutting and uncontrolled forest fire have made a large part of this area an economic liability. The white pine and red pine which gone over several times by logging operations since colonial times, the average cut of pulpwood, taking all that is considered merchantable from the ground, is estimated at only four cords per acre. Such an average certainly implies no troublesome surplus of available timber. Not so many generations ago Pennsylvania was the leading source of the nation's lumber supply. In 1941 it ranked 23rd among the states with an output of less than 1 per cent of the total. The original pine forests have been largely replaced by scrub oak and other hardwoods as a result of fire following logging. The forest survey for Virginia showed sawtimber growth in 1940 some 25 per cent in excess of drain by cutting. So perhaps we should find a timber surplus here. But of what significance is an excess of growth over drain when lumber out-put is only about half of what it was 30 years earlier? The decline in Vir-ginia's lumber output is a reflection of sawtimber scarcity. Stands with as much as 8,000 board feet per acre occupy less than 4 per cent of the total forest area. More wood was consumed by use than for lumber in 1940. The coastal plain and Pied-mont regions of the Deep South contain over 150 million acres of land wonderfully adapted to tree growth but not well suited for other purposes. All but a small fraction of the timber has been cut so that any surplus must be In second growth. Almost three-fourth- s of this great acreage is in thrifty second growth, yet the growing stock is rated at less than half of what it should be. Some. 10 million acres, mostly in the longleaf pine belt of the coastal plain, lie denuded. Only h of the total cubic volume of pine is sawlog material and almost three-fourth- s of that is in trees less than 16 inches in diameter. In spite of the ease of reproduction and the exceptionally rapid growth of the more valuable pines, hardwoods now account for almost 60 per cent of the cubic volume of all trees. The timber supply is vital to the great agricultural states of the Mid-- . die West. The situation became so acute in 1942 that two large farm cooperatives bought sawmills in dis-tant forest regions in order to be sure of having the lumber they needed. Had the forests of this region been given proper care from the begin-ning, farmers might still be able to meet many of their needs from local timber. Most of the older barns in southern Ohio and Indiana, for 1 KNOW YE THE TRUTH! Keep homes fit for the boys to come home to. How they'll need to gather to the bosom of the kind, warm, peaceful, decent home, the finest and pur- - est sancturay known to man, from which should come all the things that go to make life true and beautiful and good. Some of the heroic boys oyer there may be likened unto John Howard Payne, author of the immorta long. "How often have I been in Paris, Berlin, London or other cities and heard people sing and play Home, Sweet Home wfthout having a cent in my pocket to buy a meal or a place to lay my head. The world has sung my song until every heart is familiar with the melody. Yet 1 have been a wanderer from boyhood." Make a good home for the boys! God bless them every one! The present deluge of destruction, the war, is the worst tV; world has experienced since the flood The flood was the earth's babtism by water, this is its babtism by fire. Those who say God has nothing to do with it rule Him out of the greatest hmmin event in the history of the planet. Was He Dot in the flood? Was He not in all the cruel wars of Bible tiistory? Yes! And fie is in this war more than He has been in any other human event. Beginning in 1914 and running to end of 1947 is ti e Battle of His Great Day, preparatory to the coming of ALL He has in store for humanity. This is not. belief merely; it is knowledge with us, based on all the prophets i CONSTITUTIONAL Mq 1 AMENDMENT A JOINT RESOLUTION PRO-POSING AN AMENDMENT TO SECTION 10 OF ARTICLE VII, AND TO SECTIONS 2, 3, 5, 6 and 12 OF ARTICLE VIII OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF UTAH RELATING TO THE SUPREME AND DISTRICT COURTS, HOW CONSTITUTED, TERMS OF OFFICE, QUALIFI-CATIONS OF JUDGES, JURIS-DICTION, JUDGES PRO TEM-PORE CHANGE OF JUDICIAL DISTRICTS BY THE LEGISLA-TURE SELECTION OF JUDICI-ARY AND EFFECT ON INCUM-BENT JUDGES. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Utah, two-thir- of all members elected to each of the two houses voting in favor there- - f Section 1. It is proposed to amend Section 10 of Article VII of the Constitution of the State of Utah, as follows: Sec. 10 The governor shall nominate, and by and with the consent of the senate, appoint all state and district officers whose offices are established by this con-stitution, or which may be created by law, and whose appointment or election is not otherwise provided for. If, during the recess of the senate, a vacancy occurs in any state or district office, the gover-nor shall appoint some fit person to discharge the duties thereof un-til the next meeting of the senate, when he shall nominate some per-son to fill such office. If the office of secretary of state, state auditor, state treasurer, attorney-genera- l, or superintendent of public in-struction be vacated by death, re-signation or otherwise, it shall be the duty of the governor to fill the same by appointment, and the ap-pointee shall hold his office until his successor shall be elected and qualified as may be by law pro-vided. Section 2. That it is proposed to amend sections 2, 3, 5, 6 and 12 of article VIII of the constitution of the state of Utah, as follows: Sec. 2. The supreme court shall consist of five judges, which num-ber may be increased or decreased by the legislature, but no altera-tion or increase shall have the ef-fect of removing a judge from of-fice. A majority of the judges con-stituting the court shall be neces-sary to form a quorum or render a decision. If a justice of the su-preme court shall be disqualified from sitting in a cause before said court, the remaining judges shall call a district judge to sit with them on the hearing of such cause. Every judge of the supreme court shall be at least thirty years of age, an active member of the bar, in good standing, learned in the law, and a resident of the state of Utah for the five years next pre-ceding his selection. The judge having the shortest term to serve, not holding his office by selec-tion to fill a vacancy before ex-piration of a regular term, shall be the chief justice, and shall pre-side at all terms of the supreme court, and in case of his absence, the judge, having in like manner, the next shortest term, shall pre-side in his stead. Sec. 3. Judges of the supreme court and district courts shall be selected for such terms and in such manner as shall be provided by law, provided, however, that selection shall be based solely upon consideration of fitness for office without regard to any partisan po-litical considerations and free from influence of any person whomso-ever, and provided further that the method of electing such judges in effect when this amendment is adopted shall be followed until changed by law. Sec. 5. The state shall be divid-ed into seven judicial districts, for each of which, at least one judge shall be selectee", as hereinbefore provided. Until otherwise provided by law, a district court at the county seat of each county shall be held at least four times a year. All civil and criminal business arising in any county, must be tried in such county, unless a change of venue be taken, in such cases as may be provided by law. Each judge of a district court shall be at least twenty-fiv-e years ot age, an active member of the bar in good standing, learned in the law, a resident of the state of Utah three years next preceding his s-election, and shall reside in the di-strict for which he shall be selected. Any district judge may hold a di-strict court in any county at the request of the judge of the district, and, upon a request of the gove-rnor it shall be his duty to do so. Any cause in the district court may be tried by a judge pro te-mpore, who must be a member oi the bar, sworn to try the cause, and agreed upon by the parties, or their attorneys of record. Sec. 6. The legislature ma; change the limits of any judical "district, or increase or decrease the number of districts, or the judges thereof. No alteration or increase shall have the effect ol removing a judge from office. In every additional district establis-hed, a judge or judges shall be selected as provided in section 3 ol this article Sec. 12. The judges of the s-upreme and district courts shall r-eceive at stated times compensation for their services, which shall not be increased or diminished dura! the time for which they are s-elected. Section 3. The secretary ot state is directed to submit thi) proposed amendment to the ele-ctors of the state of Utah at the next general election in the ma-nner as provided for by article 23, section I, Constitution of Utah. Section 4. If adopted by the electors of the state, this amen-dment shall take effect the first day of January next succeeding a determination by the board of state . canvassers of the result of the ele-ction designated in Section 3 hereo,. I, E. E. Monson, Secretary" State of the State of Utah, to hereby certify that the foregoio, is a full, true, and correct copy the constitutional amendment pr-oposed by the regular session ot u 25th Legislature of 1943, as appear? of record in my fice Iii witness whereof, 1 hf e her-eunto sa my hand and affiled t" great seal of the State this 10th day of August, E. E. MONSON, Secty. of St. CONSTITUTIONAL yy AMENDMENT 0. 2 A JOINT RESOLUTION Pnft POSING TO AMEND SECTIO ARTICLE VI, OF THE CONST TUTION OF UTAH RELATivn TO COMPENSATION OF Mr.? BERS OF THE LEGISuS Be it resolved by the LeEisai of the State of Utah, two-tS- S all members elected to each of i? two houses voting i fav0r Section 1. That it is to amend Section 9, Artpicle" Vi Constitution of the State of Ui to reau. Section 9. The members oi ih, Legislature shall receive such com pensation and mileage as the LeT islature may provide, not ing $300.00 per year, i nd ten S per mile for the distance necessar ily traveled going to and return from the place of meeting on th! most usual route, and they st,,a receive no other pay or perquisit. Section 2. The secretary i state is hereby directed to submr this proposed amendment to the electors of the State of Utah at the next general election in the man ner as provided for by Article 2 Section 1, Constitution of Utah ' Section 3. If adopted by the electors of the state, this amend-me- shall take effect the first da. of January, 1945. I, E. E. Monson, Secretary of State of the State of Utah do hereby certify that the foregoing is a full, true, and correct copy tf the constitutional amendment by the first special session of the 25th Legislature of 1944, jj the same appears of record in m; office. In witness whereof, I have her-eunto set my hand and affixed the great seal of the State of Utah, this 10th day of August, 1944. E. E. MONSON, Secty of State. Open Letter to Dewey, Cont'd of these two types of money for they are the only TRUE, currency we have now. They represent the KEY that .will unlock the secret remedy for all our ills. They are the KEYS precisely because they represent the only satisfactory and HONEST LINK between produc- - ' tion and consumption, which alone insure JOBS. If industry, business and agriculture- - can really be freed from the usury that absorbs all the cream of enter-prise, just as Lincoln contemplated, and for which vision he was slaughtered by the very interests who dominate the worl'd through the other kind of money: synthetic, bank-cred- it money, created out of nothing the same as above money was created out of nothing, but FOR PRI-VAT- E PROFIT of SUPER BANKERS I say, if we can N ever get the statesmanship of Lincoln back on the job to finish the program of Honest Money, there will be no question about jobs or prosperity for ALL. Think it through, Mr. Dewey, and let me have your reaction to this. . Take the case of the Lincoln Greenbacks : If that $450 million he put out had been based on interest-bearin- g bonds as have all other issues of our money, the people would have paid out since Lincoln's day in interest on that small amount of currency, OVER $15 BILLION. As it is we have en-joyed the small crumbs of the circulation of the Lincoln greenbacks for the mere cost of printing and reprinting the notes. Just do a bit of figuring on the huge cost to us of the bank money circulated on the basis of bonds drawing interest, and on the artificial, synthetic bank-credi- t, which costs them nothing but bookkeeping and the mechanism of shuttling checks back and forth through banks and clearing houses, and you will readily see WHY we have depressions, panics, bankruptcies, wars and all their evils. Before you make another speech you should read Vin-cent C. Vickers, "Economic Tribulation" and also John Hargrave's "Montague Norman." Vickers sat 9 years at the mahogany table with Norman, so he KNOWS; and he admits all we money reformers have urged. May I send you these books ? Sincerely, Geo. A. Startup. National War Fund Drive : Almost Half of Money to Go Toward Cheering U. S. Fighters A "home front" army four million strong went into ac-tion October 1 in every city and county' of the United States to back up the fighting fronts in providing essential wartime services for our own and our Allies. In a single united appeal in some 10,000 communities throughout the United States, this army of volun-teer workers, enlisted under the aegis of the national war fund and united war chests, is seeking con-tributions for the support of local welfare services and to provide for the needs 'of the men and women of our own armed forces, American prisoners of war, the men of our merchant marine and civilian war victims among the United Nations. The combined objective of the volunteers in this army is con-tributions in excess of $250,000,-00- Beneficiaries of this vast fund will be an estimated 60,000,-00- 0 people who, in some way, will be touched by the services of the federated war chests and the 22 member agencies of the national war fund. When the operations of this vast army have been concluded, it is be-lieved that approximately 35,000,000 individuals and family groups will have contributed to the vital work of the various organizations, both at home and in some 91 major geo-graphical areas on six continents. Out of every dollar contributed for the national war fund agencies, 46 cents will be spent to provide com-fort, entertainment and relaxation for our own armed forces. The expenditure of this propor-tion of contributions will finance the activities of the following or-ganizations: USO, which brings a touch of home to our fighting forces in some 3,000 units from Alaska to Brazil and from .New-foundland to Hawaii; USO camp shows, which carry professional entertainment around the globe to our servicemen and women in combat zones, in base stations and hospitals; United Seamen's service, which maintains a chain of hotels on six continents and rest centers in this country for the men of our merchant ma rine who see that the vital car-goes of munitions and materials of war get through to the fight-ing fronts; War Prisoners aid, which provides recreational, educational and cultural mate-rials for prisoners of war to af-ford an antidote for the boredom so aptly termed "barbed wire disease." Approximately 32 cents out of ev-ery national war fund dollar will be spent to provide emergency relief for civilian victims of war in the nations of our Allies, overrun and occupied by the Nazi invaders. Assistance for the peoples of the Axis - dominated nations includes: food and clothing for Chinese war orphans; medical kits and medicine for the Yugoslavs; subsistence rations for millions of starving Greeks; seeds to replant the scorched earth of Russia; dried milk for undernourished Norwegian school children; food packages for Belgian refugees; seed packets for British Victory gardens to ease the critical food shortage; aid for mil-lions of Polish refugees scattered throughout the world; care in this country for child evacuees from Europe; food and clothing for needy people of France; and aid of various kinds for war victims of Czechoslo-vakia, Luxembourg, Denmark, Hol-land and Italy. The remainder of the war fund dollar, including two-thir- for ad-ministration, will be held in a contin-gent fund for emergency needs and unforeseen developments resulting from the liberation of occupied na-tions. The "home-fron- t" army will take to its task with the follow-ing message of Inspiration from Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, supreme commander of the Allied expeditionary force: "All Americans know it is a privi-lege to contribute to the national and community war funds in this year of liberation. Complement-ing our military campaigns, the services which flow from these funds reach out to friends and neighbors at home and abroad and to the oppressed peoples of the world. (Signed) Dwight D. Eisenhow- er." ' Reader's Advertisement Con'd State Militia move in with machine guns and cannon. Fea-ture the union getting the State Militia for protection. Did the Deseret News write any editorials condemning that ? If so, please let me read it. 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Obtainable its CHRISTIAN SCIENCE READING ROOM 702 Mclntyre Bldg. J Salt Lake City, Utah SAVE GOOD TIMBER IN WOODLOT BY BURNING POORER STANDS Wood from poorly formed trees Usually, the cut in the woodlot . (four burns just as well as wood from future saw-le- g trees. Wood from such wee trees as ironwood, bush, and even beech, has a high heating value. The temptation is to strip the woodlot when firewood is cut, there-by destroying local and national re-sources for the future. "The Winter. Fuel and A Better Woodlot," is one slogan that has been used by many woodland owners in this state. should be no more than 30 per cent in any one year, and the sooner another cut can be made from the same woodland. Cutters should keep in mind that a d hardwood tree 10 inches on the stump is prob-ably 50 years old, but would yield only a h log containing four board feet, Doyle scale, or 0.09 standard cord of wood. Irf" eight years more this tree would be 12 inches, would contain 16 board feet times as much lumber) or 0 17 cord of wood. If left fifteen years this tree would be 14 inches on the stump, would contain 36 board feet in the first log and 8 in the second log, or cord of wood Green wood will burn, but sea sorted wood is preferred, as it is lighter to handle, has more heat value and forms less creosote fa the chimney. Most of the seasoning takes place during the first- - months after the tree is cut |