THIS WEEK'S OUTLOOK A WEEKLY OUTLINE STUDY OF CURRENT HISTORY' BY J. MADISON GATHANY SCARBOROUGH SCHOOL, SCARBOROUGH-ON-HUDSON, N. Y. America's Forests; The Tree I IN this issue Mr. Pack, Mr. Allen, Mr. Driggs, and The Outlook all write about one of our indispensable natural resources-our forests. For what reasons has the conservation of our forests not received proper attention in the past? What are forest reserves? Where are such reserves located in the United States? How are they managed? What can you tell of the efforts of President Roosevelt and of Gifford Pinchot towards the solution of our forest problem? Can you name any other Americans who have been or are vitally interested in this question? Is your own State doing anything to promote forest conservation and to assist the people in the planting and the care of trees? If so, tell what is being done. Have we a National forestry policy? What points would you emphasize in outlining a forestry policy? Explain carefully the following terms: Natural resources, corrals, sacrosanct, arboreal, primeval. The question of the conservation of our natural resources is discussed in the following books: "Foundations of National Prosperity," by R. T. Ely (Macmillan); "United States Forest Policy," by J. Ise (Yale University Press); "Conservation Reader," by H. W. Fairbanks (World Book Co.). The Jew-Eaters; Anti-Jewish Propaganda What explanation does Miss Moravsky give as to why the Jews have been objects of hatred in Russia? Does this seem to you to be a satisfactory explanation? If you were asked to sign a protest against anti-Jewish propaganda in the United States, what reasons would you give for signing the protest or refusing to sign it? One daily editor tells us that the Jews in America "have prospered and have taken a great part in the making of the Republic." What facts are there in our history which you would use-in support of this editorial comment? There are those who believe that giving publicity to the campaign against the Jews in America will do more harm than good. One point brought out by these critics is that such notice will make a National issue out of what is now mostly imagination. Do, or do you not, agree with these critics? Can you give any illustrations from 1 These questions and comments are designed not only for the use of current events classes and clubs, debating societies, teachers of history and English, and the like, but also for discussion in the home and for suggestions to any reader who desires to study current affairs as well as to read about them.-The Editors. American history which tend to show that "ideas and feelings survive the facts of which they were born"? Define these expressions: Jews, Hebrews, pogroms, imperialistic, intelligenzia, propaganda, insidious, prejudice. The First Real Test of Mr. How many members has the President's Cabinet? How do they receive their positions? What are the chief functions of the Cabinet? HARLES LATHROP PACK is President What principles do you think should guide President-elect Harding in the of the American Forestry Associ selection of his Cabinet? Is a President-elect entirely free to select whom he wishes for his Cabinet? Is Mr. Harding's measure of freedom of choice greater than was President Wilson's when he was President-elect? Why is the position of Secretary of State generally considered the premier post in the Cabinet? What are the chief duties attached to this office? What is meant by The Outlook's statement, "The payment of political debts through placement in high office"? Is such practice always to bé condemned? Do you know of any of our Presidents who have paid political debts in this way? If so, what were the results? ation. He lives in Lakewood, New Jer sey. For a generation he has been a practical forester and a pioneer ir forestry reform. He began his work as a lumberman in Michigan, and has been the owner of large tracts of timberland in the United States and Canada. He was President of the Fifth National Conservation Congress. During the late war he formed and maintained the National War Garden Commission, more than trebling the number of individual gardens in America and increasing by at least half a billion dollars the country's revenue from gardens. ARIA MORAVSKY contributed "Uplift We have taken the word "cabinet" Ming the Clown" and "The Subway from the British. What distinction should be noted between their Cabinet and ours? What conditions and opportunities, in your opinion, should make it possible for Mr. Harding to carry on a genuinely constructive administration? If you are looking for some valuable books on American Government, read "The State and the Nation," by E. Jenks (Dutton); "School Civics," by F. D. Boynton (Ginn & Co.); "American Government," by F. A. Magruder (Allyn & Bacon). Buying up Slums What do you know of the services rendered by Toynbee Hall? Have we similar institutions in the United States? If so, compare their management and activities with those of Toynbee Hall. Mrs. Barnett is quoted on page 147 of this issue as saying, "In the wider sense, home-making is neglected in the United States." If true, this is a very serious charge. Is it true? Do you know of reasons why American cities should not build homes? What reasons can you give for spending public money for this purpose? One of the points in the ten-point financial creed of the Y. M. C. A. is "Build a Home." Does home-owning tend to steady one's economic and political views? What other benefits of owning one's home can you name? Elevated, and Airplane from a Sentimental Point of View" to recent issues of The Outlook. She came to the United States in 1917 as a newspaper correspondent. Her first story was published in "Harper's Monthly." Edward J. O'Brien mentioned it as one of the best short stories of the year in his volume for 1919. "I was very glad to be thus adopted into the family of American writers," says Miss Moravsky. Her first essay was published in the "Atlantic Monthly" in 1918. W. WILSON was a member of the P. British House of commons from 1905 to 1910, on the Liberal side; for seven more years he occupied a seat in the Press Gallery in Parliament. He is now American correspondent of the London "Daily News." He was born in 1875. As an undergraduate of Cam bridge he took mathematical honors, was editor of the University magazine, the "Granta," and was President of the Cambridge Union Society, the chief undergraduate debating club. He has contributed frequently to the London "Truth," "Blackwood's," the "Contemporary," "Fortnightly," and "Guardian." He is the author of the following books: "The Christ We Forget" and "The Unmaking of Europe." in this issue his fiction hero, Arnold Adair, who has already figured in various exciting narratives in The Outlook. AURENCE LA TOURETTE DRIGGS revives GUARDING THE NATION'S WOOD-LOT F BY E. T. ALLEN FORESTER, NATIONAL LUMBER MANUFACTURERS' ASSOCIATION OR at least three decades public attention has been called to the dangerous diminution of American forest resources. It is estimated that three-fifths of our original timber supply is gone. We are using the remainder much faster than it is being replaced. Over half is on the Pacific coast, distant from the main consuming regions. The total is estimated at 2,215,000,000,000 feet board measure, while we are using and burning 56,000,000,000 feet a year. Depletion is not confined to saw timber. We have long since ceased to be selfsupporting in news-print paper and now import two-thirds of our supply, although this is partly due to neglect of Western resources. Turpentine and resin production has fallen off fifty per cent. Great wood-using industries are finding their local supplies low and cannot move readily to Western fields. They will do so to a considerable extent, with less danger of being again stranded because by reason of climate, rapid-growing species, and natural reproduction the Western forests are destined to be the Nation's great permanent wood-lot; but without help this will be an overtaxed wood-lot and it will always suffer transportation handicaps. Being mostly coniferous, it offers small solution to the hardwood problem, the most serious of all from the replacement view-point. The trouble does not lie in the use of our forest resources, but in not using our forest-growing land to replace them. We have 326,000,000 acres of cut-over lands, to which we are adding 5,000,000 acres a year by fire and cutting. Much is restocking satisfactorily, but much is not, while 81,000,000 acres are said to have practically no new forest growth. If kept producing to anything like its capacity, this enormous area, largely useless for other purposes, might together with our uncut areas supply us amply and permanently. It is not being so kept, mainly because of fire, tax laws penalizing private forest growing, and ignorance generally of the whole story of forest reproduction. Forest fires are being combated to an YOUR PROPERTY increasing extent, especially on Do you wish to sell or rent? If so, we suggest an advertisement in the Annual Real Estate issues of The Outlook. hese issues will be dated February 16, March 16, and April 20, and will contain pecial real estate sections. The Outlook has for many years helped s readers to dispose of property through mall advertisements in these special numers The cost of space is only 60 cents a line. If you will give us a description of your roperty we will be glad to prepare a sugested advertisement for your approval. Vrite us immediately in order to catch the ebruary 16 issue. Address Real Estate Department THE OUTLOOK COMPANY 31 Fourth Avenue, New York City the However we may advocate other forestry steps, they seem inconsistent before we safeguard either our merchantable timber or the one hundred and thirty million odd acres of restocking land, which alone can bridge the gap until there is adjustment to a sustained yield. Pacific coast, where in 1919 private This tremendous National resource of potential forest land that might take care of our wants is largely wasted, not through any one's deliberate selfishness, but because neither private nor public action has had opportunity to proceed in an intelligent, comprehensive way. The necessity of preventing "timber famine" has been preached until unquestioned by the veriest school-child. Yet for the first time in its history, after years of agitation and controversy, and although it is the greatest wood-using and wood-selling nation, the United States seems now within measurable distance of an American forest policy which permits the private, State, and Federal agencies involved to take the 154 GUARDING THE NATION'S WOOD-LOT (Continued) steps essential to continuous forest pro- The Pratt Teachers Agency was agreement, in New York on Octo duction. We seem at last to have realized that, instead of argument and recrimination addressed to each particular offender, the real need is for such a policy, publicly indorsed, as will give each of these agencies to understand its rights and responsibilities and assurance that its efforts will be reciprocated by the others, and therefore successful. The forest problem has always had State and Federal recognition in limited and uncorrelated form, resulting in various unsystematic public activities, of which the creation and administration of the National Forests is the most important. But the situation of private forest lands continued very generally to be treated by pleas and threats, alike offering no real assistance but assuming it to be a class problem, (C) Keystone A SIGN TO WARN CAMPERS AND TOURISTS AGAINST CARELESSNESS WHILE IN THE WOODS The with lumbermen alone guilty of any delinquency. Meanwhile lumbermen were becoming themselves sincerely interested, but fearful of a movement in which they were denied recognition except as alleged public enemies. second notable step in National forest policy, the National Forest system being first, seems to have been reached in recognition that solution lies in constructive co-operation between all three agencies mutually interested-Federal, State, and private-to reach a definite programme under which the total effort required shall be clearly pictured and the distribution of effort made on a basis of equity, consistency, and sound economics assuring its permanence. Measures to this end were recommended to the Senate last June by the United States Forest Service. Notable response to the movement has been made by the other groups interested, including private forest owners, who were, indeed, the first, several years ago, to advocate it as the only solution of a problem otherwise likely to lead to hopeless conflict of State and Federal police power in independent attempts at regulation. The result, final as ar as it can be lacking action by Congress, ber 15, upon a proposed specific Federal legislative policy, closely in accord with that recommended by the Forest Service and having the full indorsement of Chief Forester Greeley, by accredited representatives of the following elements: The National Lumber Manufacturers' and American Paper and Pulp Associations on behalf of the forest-owning industries; the Association of Wood-Using Industries for the great consuming industries; the National Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association for lumber distributers; the National Newspaper Publishers' Association for the public press; and the United States Chamber of Commerce and American Forestry Association for the general consuming and taxpaying public. Primary provisions of this programme are for a considerable extension of direct Federal activity in forest ownership and production and for clearly defined methods of development with Federal aid and correlation of such Systematic State policies in the several forested regions as, being consistent with local conditions and State responsiprotection and reproduction in the inbility, shall bring about adequate forest terest of these States and of the public at large. With these aims, it provides specifically through co-operation between Government, States, and timber-land owners for adequate protection against forest fires, for reforestation of denuded lands, for obtaining essential information as to forest conditions, for study of forest taxation, for extension of National Forests, and for other steps essential to St. John's Riverside Hospital Training continuous forest production on lands chiefly suitable for this purpose. Congress will have for its considerafeatures of a complete Federal policy, tion a general bill thus outlining the while items in the Agricultural Appropriation Bill for the work of the Forest Service will be in conformity therewith. Whether or not this policy so long needed is adopted presumably depends largely upon the public interest evinced. Some expenditure is required, but the method proposed will cost far less than any other which has been suggested, and the comparatively small sum required will be more than returned to the taxpayers in the form of lower prices of wood products. GREENFIELD. MASSACHUSETTS It affords all the comforts of home without extravagance. Good sleighing, snowshoeing, and skating now. Moderate weather. ton Square adjoining Judson Memorial Church. Rooms with and without bath. Rates $3.50 per day, including meals. Special rates for two weeks or more. Location very central. Convenient to all elevated and street car lines. 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