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Whose Resources are they THERE has been much talk of the necessity of saving our forest heritage Why do so many of you people keep harping on that word our all the time Bell demands Our forests those that we as a body of citizens actually own and they form 85 of the total forest area of Canada are already under Embargo so far as export is concerned The forests that we are talkjng about now in relation to the resent proposed Embargo are those owned y individual fellow citizens of ours just as you own your house and lot or your farm And yet you join in the cry Our forest our land Our national heritage Have you paid good money for these lots that youre all of a sudden so generously patriotic about Have you slaved for them suffered un- hardships for themassomesettler Every time the big paper jion their wood i they speak of the Interests of our share holders but when they talk about the wood of the man who owns a little plot of freehold forest land they talk national i Wise Miserly hoarding is not conservation In the case of the forests it is merely wasting something that might as well have been A forest is not destroyed by sound cutting it is improved and made more productive The proposed Embargo is not a reasonable regulation applied to resourses in which you have a common interest It is an arbitrary interference with Private property in which you have absolutely no right These striking statements made by Ralph P Bell the chief public champion of the antiembargo forces are a forceful challenge to some popular misconceptions that have grown up around the Embargo controversy Conservation he says lies in sound cutting and utilization not in miserly hoarding and just as thinning and pruning and cultivating a garden gives that garden a chance to bo properly regulated cutting helps a forest giving the young trees a chance to grow you properly manage your forests and cut the mature growth the young seedlings will have a chance and in thirty to fifty years your land will produce its second crop That is true conservation The advocates of this Embargo Bell con tinues tell us that ninety per cent of our annual forest consumption total loss from fire winds bugs and fungi By proper cutting we not only profit by the utilization of what we Cut but while we are thus profiting we are simultaneously saving a considerable proportion that might otherwise through sheer waste have been added to that ninety per cent loss to tell you how to run your private business Its sheer presumption An assump tion that isnt supported by a shadow of right WISE CUTTING It Is asserted on the excellent authority of Dr Clifton Howe Dean of Forestry at the University of Toronto that Canada owns young forests of over 50000000 acres Dr Howe maintains that under rigid fire protection and wise ad ministration this acres will adequate tii future needs WASTE ENERGY ti private that their and that as such you have a right to in its management No they enterprises you say I tell you tnese private enter prises than the owners trees are his private enterprise As for that indiscriminate cutting that you talk about Do you think the owner is a fool Do you think he is going to throw away his capital Not much He was born and bred among trees He has spent a lifetime in making them his They are his business and by and large hes taking better care of them than any other class of timber owner You have no right to tell him what he must do with where he may sell them than he Its lillleftlltw kig itnti thiealcGs Saved from Pulp but not from BUT will the imposition of prevent the woodlot much cooked as one that is poached A given piece of material may be just as much manufactured by hand labor in the woods as by machinery in a mill and benefit to the community depends after all upon how much money is expended in the process Suppose we just examine this idea a little bit Two neighboring owners can each cut from their logs scaling thirtyfour cords One sella to a dealer by whom he has been offered rough or peeled He has agreed to deliver the latter and he and his sons cut peel and junk their wood and earn the additional per cord over the price they would have received for their wood in the rough state His neighbor takes his logs to the mill where they are sawed into rough lumber for which work he has to pay per thousand feet When his cords are sawed out he only has ft for it takestwo cords of to make a thousand feet of lumber The cost of making those logs into rough lumber therefore a cord which the mill earns The cost of turning the other fel lows logs into sap peeled is also a cord but in that case the owner earns it The one is processed at home on the wood lot by hand the other is processed in the mill by machinery The expenditure is the same The one is as much a manu factured product as the other An Unreasonable Idea But this isnt all It takes two railroad cars to carry the cords of while the feet of rough lumber which re quired the same original quantity of raw material fills only one car The railroads much freight for the pulp- selling his wood As yes as lumber no And will a tree cut for decimate our forest heritage more than the same tree cut for lumber The cases are not quite similar some one says One is a manufactured product and provides work for Canadian workmen the other is an unmanufactured product vs Lumber A popular and perhaps natural miscon ception Bell replies But erroneous never theless An egg that is boiled is just as So remember that whei imposing an Embargo you are simply saying You may not from this on sell your logs as pulpwood you may not so secure for your self and your sons employment for an idle season But you may cut your logs into rough lumber You may throw away fifty per cent of theeubic content of those logs You may load only one car where you might have loaded two You may not sell your wood to an American Paper Mill in short round sticks to manufacture into paper but you may sell it to the same mill in long or sensible If the Canadian Pulp and Paper Association is sincere in its commendable desire for forest conservation let them purchase in the open market the wood now going to the United States Let them conserve their own standing wood instead of asking the Government to apply a regulation which would place Canadian woodowners and producers at the mercy of a powerful industrial group such as the Newsprint Ring If their industry needs wood why dont they buy it Association Temporary Address P O Box Scotia President Limited of Thompson Lumber Co Quebec Quebec Quebec An Organization of Canadian 1 companies engaged In t J Smiths Falls Ont June PO of which believes In the light of Its of rapids now arranged so that even may go Into tills paradise Had lie in one of Aromas lakes where would couldnt blame him that In themselves fill about Hollywood The Break Atlantic City and other dubious foreign results with the that our own folks troop off to foreign climes and neglect own gardens When Canada does begin itself are we going to keep our I THE CREW New York April While two great liners stood by helpless as the stricken vessel capsized stolid little men officers and crew of the Japanese steamer Ilalfuku Mam sank sailors graves off the Halifax just before noon Joday Tin who died were Japanese They left their homes list Septem ber on a little freighter which hails from Kobe The Mam was iteht of degree former W JONES NEWMARKET WALL PAPERS SUPPLIED LARGE STOCK ALWAY8 ON HAND OIL COATED AND DYED BURLAPS Practical Painter and PaperHanger PiUaTCLASB AND ART DECORATOR