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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 22, 1920)
I'HE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: AUGUST 22. 1920. 8 A WELFARE OF U. S. DEPENDENT ON THE WOOD SUPPLY ' , i Country's Timber Supply Rap idly Depleted Through t Carelessness and -Ignorance. By T. W. McCULLOUGH. How much the world depends-for its progress on wood is just coming to be understood Some students of forestry go so !ar as.'o say that as wood is plentiful or scarce, just so civilization advances or stands .still. These used Kurope before the war as illustrating their point. They say that the difference in living con ditions there as compared v.itu those of our country arose mainly from the fact that timber was sc; scarce that its use was restricted in many ways among the people. The social life naturally took on the aspect1 of fixedness because Europeans were limited in the matter of lumber. Whether this is tejiable need not be argued here, but the fact that tim ber has a great and direct effect on ihe development of communities, states and nations might easily be sustained. That something of this sort is recognized by t ho older nations is shown in the efforts they have made , to preserve such f'mber as was left to them, and to propagate forests on . places denuded by former ..genera lions of tree growth. This activity is not entirely an outgrowtn of the war. While the waste of timber in cident to the enormous demands of the war accentuated the situation and served to stimulate efforts to replace the diminished tree growth, forestation was Hlready practiced extensively, particularly in Francp. Here the glovcnuiirnt had )for many years engaged in tylanting trees on the sides of fountains, thiK'protecl ing the vineyards from the effects of sudden freshets sweeping down the bare hillsides, probably in the beginning outweighing the value of the timber that might eventuallv re sult. Some 5,000,000 acres had been thus reclaimed in France when the war broke out. Realize Value of Replanting. In the United States the idea of replanting logged -off ltinds has not made a great deal of progress, al though its ivaluc- is coming to be more fully realized. When Theo dore Roosevelt w,as president he ex tended the forest reservations begun under Grover Cleveland, and really gave to conservation its first gen uine impetus. , In Pennsylvania, for example, and elsewhere in ihe Ap palachians, system forestation was taken up to renew the timber growth that the floods which ensuid each spring might be averted. The de bate that followed the, first enthu siastic burst of the consei vationists has given way to calmer counsel, but this has only deepened the convic tion that Americans have, squan dered a wonderful asset through the devastation of their forests. t Vas Forests Destroyed. It is calculated now that the United States had in the beginning 5.500 billion feet of standing timber. This has been reduced to' about 2.6J30 billion feet. That seems a suf ficient supply, but the experience of the country has been such as war rants the conclusion that our forei wealth would be extinguished in V comparatively short time were not something done to prevent. Aboflt one-half of the standing timber in the United States at present is con tained in farm woodlots, a little more than half of the remainder is privately owned, leaving the bovem- ment in possession of less than one- tourtn ot the uncut trees. tM the annual diminution, about one-third is due to forest fires, one-third to waste, one-third is cut for useful purposes. In the early days prob ably half was due to waste, for the first settlers had little thought but to get rid of the growing timber, that the trees might fwake way for grains and grasses. Many a man in the Mississippi valley region looks out over the landscape and sighs when he thinks of the great forests he could view as a boy, and of their destruction. ItVill not help matters to scold our grandfathers for doing as they did, but it might betf use to plan so that our grjnd- " children will understand that some thing was done to retrieve the great blunder of our sires. Forest Fires Costly. Forest fires in the main are pre ventable. The forestry service of the government has worked out a patrol system that is of immense use in this regard. Campers have been taught the probable effects of carelessness with fire in the woods; electric wires passing through tim ber lands are carefully watched for leaks; lightning bolts are closely watched; the friction oQone dead tree gainst Vnother, a frequent source of disaster, and many other causes of blazes are guarded against as completely as possible. . When a fire does break put, organized ef fort to check it is made and fre tiuentjy with great success, so .that the loss from this source is much less than it once was, bt yet a stag gering sum. i A blaze in the Yukon territory, re ported recently, swept both-banks of the Peel river for 160 miles, de stroying millions of feet of lum ber. The economic aspect of such calamities is now understood and the vigilance of the fire patrol in some parts of the United Stages is increased by the provision df air- planes that the observer may cover . a greater territory and move faster when emergency does arise. It may not be possible to" do away with fire loss altogether, but he total may be reduced and the liability minimized through the extension of the forest ranger service. Use Substitutes for Wood, j " Whether restriction is to be placed on the use of" lumber is another question. Other substances are being substituted for wooden ma terial in many ways. Millions of feet are still used annually to make packing cases for shipping goods of various kinds, yet the requisition . of lumber for this purpose has been greatly lessened by the employment cf steel in collapsible cases, by the. use of fibre board and corru gated paper. In building, steel and concrete beams are now employed where once woodws the only ma terial and in .many other industries something other than wood is called Nurses at Baby Stations Boast That Omaha Infants Are an Extra 'Fine Lot Places in Four Parts of City Open One Day r Each Week. Omaha has a particularly fine lot of babies, according to Miss Frieda Johnson, head nurse of the Visiting Nurses' baby stations, where those Hot feeling just right are made to feel th;t -way. The baby stations of Omaha con ducted by the Visiting Nurses' as sociation, put many a youngster cn the road to good health. The sta tions are located in four different sections of the city and are opened during certain hours one day each week. Mothers bring their tots to the? stations for examination and when the infant is well, the mother is told how to keep it so; when it is sick, treatment in the home is supervised by the Visiting Nurses' association. When the baby needs hospital care the association sees that is U pro vided. Dr. J. C. Moore is in charge of the station located at the Third Presby teriau church. Twentieth and Leavenworth street's,. Monday; ,Dr. Newell Jones is in charge at the 'sta tion : iu the church at Twenty-fifth and Decatur Tuesdays, and Dr. An drew Dow at the' Christ Child cen ter at Seventh and William Thurs days. --'There is also a station lo cated iu the South Omaha City hall U ednesday. upon for service. Vet the extension of .industry is such that the demand l on the torests is quite as much .as can be safely met. , .v Students incline to the belief that ;i considerable portion of the lum ber of the future will come from farm woodlots yet they are careful to point out that timber must not be looked upon as a crop, but as a mine. It has this distinction, how ever; while a mine is certainly de pleted as its metal content is re covered and put to use, lumbering may. under proper conditions, be removed from the category of per ishing industries. In proof of this may be submitted the fir forests of the northwest, the greatest stand of timber in the world.; At present the annual cut is a little less than half the amount that is replaced by new growth. In other words, the out put of fir lumber could be doubted with no danger that thee ut would in time exterminate the trees. Un fori'.nately, all lumbering operations are not carried on after this man ner. Agreement between the gov ernment and the timber men may be reached, though, on a basis thnt will permit the restoration and pres- ,;-f - T iiMiiiiiiiiiiir t : TT'"' - V as could be wished. Soft, quick erowincr varieties liave had prefer ence over the more useful sort. This can be remedied by, making bcttetj. choice in tuturc, nno oy replacing some ot the standing trees with others thaf may not griw s rapidly but w hich are worth a great deal more when th?y arc grown. Should Replant Sand Hills. Alf of this connects up with the proposal that the sand hill region be taken in hand and treated to a covering of trees. Useful varieties of pine and cedar will thrive in thoce regions that now are bare and to a large extent unprofitable. Along with the tree growth - will come grasses, and .the grazing iiydustry will be fostered by the extension of available pasturage. The! one great difficulty in the way is to e the people to understand what an asset they have in the sand hill regioi. The soil ot thiit section, light though it is, is wonderfully fertile, and in days to come should be made protit iib!; productive.. This time can be has'tcned by the application of means easily within the grasp of the present. What the final outlay d,f money will be is not so much a fact to Le com-idered as to how much will be required to make the start. It must take lie form of a continu ing control,- properly supported, for the success of tke project depends on care extending over a long pe riod of years. The certainty of a return is the incentive that should urge a beginning. When the legis lature meets next winter the project ought to be presented in such a wavo Ntas will obtain he needed attention. A committee to make an examina tion and recommend a plan may be the solution. Jiut Nebraska ought to set about the,important work of developing' this great project. Bar Margaret Irene Gordon being inspected at the Visiting Nurses' association baby station in the Third Presbyterian church, at Twentieth and Leavenworth, by Miss Frieda Johnson, head nurse of the baby sta tions (standing) and checked up by Nurse L. A. Timnj (sitting) seemed rather bored with the whole business. She gazed admiringly at her little pink toes during most of the performance. ervation of the forests "by limiting cuts to the amount of replacement by new growth. , Ohly on- a plan of this nature can the future of the Itmiuv supply in America be made certain. ' Transportation Rates Involved. Another, feature of the industry at present s tint transportation rates are so high thpt a great deal of use ful materi'il is destroyed at the mills because ifr canndft be shipped at a profit. Millions Vf' feet. of "seconds" end "culls" go to feed the never dying fires at the big saw mills of the northwest. The timber might well be used fo4 corncribs, barn siding, fencing, and a tiTillion and one other purposes iii Nebraska and other sections of the great inland empire, but the freight rate is such .is tc shut the supply from the mar ket. Some time a solution for this may be found. While all this is going on, Ne braska land owners might interest themselves a little in the topic, and discover what sort of useful trees can grow on their farms without hampering the use of the land in other directions. Groves ' planted as wind breaks and for ornamental purpose, in obedience to thei man date of Arbor day, "Plant Trees 1" have not been as carefully selected Chicago Postal Employes Are Retired on Pensions Chicago, Aug. 21. One hundred thirty-live Chicago postofiile em ployes were retired from service on pensions, over their protests. Chief among those retired are Geii. J. E. Stuart, chief postoflice inspec tor, who served 40 years here, and John M. 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