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the georget herald wcdneaday feb 18th 1948 the georgetown he ald ervlng the oommnnttua of georgetown glen williams norval umehoum hornby 3tewarttown ashgrove ballinafad terra cotta bdwcrlpuon rata z60 a yaar single ooptaa e advertising itatc quoted on application walter c biehn pjibllaher and editor gartlald l mcquvxmy staff sag broomhaad harold qaxhton i tha florald la printed each wedneaday afternoon at tha rfga st georgetown authorired aa aecpitd clasilnlah foat offlea dajfc ottawa manners of the canadian weekly newapapera association 4noullm ontario qnabec dlvlalen or the cslk laali h cwrt corey hanugftoa jr the editors cornerj the rer6rt of the ontario commission on forestry 1947 reviewed by a g m bruyrib many canadian publications have commented on and praised the report of the ontario commission on forestry not having the time at our disposal to read the report in detail we have asked our good neighbour mr a g m bruyns to give us his view point expecting he would approach the forestry situ ation from an entirely new angle of interest to readers here is his comment judge for yourself ld we the people were thoroughly spanked by majorgeneral howard kennedy and we deserve it if we read between the lines of the report of the roya commission on r orcatryr he telli us in diplomatic language that in ontario once famous for fabulous forests at present forestry conditions nro in a mess and a muddle the waste is tremendous and incre- dible we have been and are cutting more timber than nature grows in a few years ontario may be denudedoffotsst i is nu l or c this but we the people seem to be greater enem ies of the forests than all pests diseases and fires to gether the report does not make the common mistake of blaming the different governments for this state of affairs as we are so apt to do forgetting that we our selves are the culprits we have elected the gov ernments we are responsible we have tolerated the situation to develop-as-the- report describes it what it does not mention is that we are still tolerating eco nomic conditionathalprevent ua from pjanting enough trees to recoup our forest loss of past and present and to prevent that of the future in sickening self adulation we have been kidding ourselves that we are so smart progressive and pros perous that we have conquered nature and the forest that we have such a high standard of living as compa red with other more backward nations we speak proudly of our canadian way of life but we seem ut terly ignorant of the tact that actually our economic system is like that of the sea captain who sells the tim bers of his ship in midocean regardless of storms to come we could have known that we are in a danger ous position as concerns forests had we taken the trou ble to read the 1937 canada year book which men tioned that canada had left only27 per cent of her original forest after what we proudly call a century of progress at present we probably have about 2cp per cent left we rave about our great natural resources but we squander them wantonly and the tragedy is that we dont seem to know the cause we are actually boasting about our great production of lumber and pulp our forest statistics showyig more and more millions of dollars have been chloroforming us so that we dont seem able to recognize the danger of the sit uation however it is not only ontario that is betng denuded of forest similar conditions are observed on the whole north american continent in australia in many curopejm countries and great parts of asia and africa most of our planet shows terrifying signs of dessication and desertification as one of the secondary results of ruthless forest slaughter the technical part of the report is a master piece it is a book worth having beautifully printed and illustrated by the kings printer il costs only 1 it is a standard work and should be in iery library and every school if it would wake us out of our sup reme smugness g ni ral ki nm dy could in proud of his achicvemunt a few r marks about tin non technical part may be in ord r howevi r i lu iipoil lues in its re commendations many of which an wisi uil good to adapt forestry methods to out prcaihng economic system this is called the realistic appiouh but em the- contrary our economy has to adapt it i ii willy hilly to the forest to nature if we dont do this nil manmade economy cannot but fail i rue the me dicine recommended as a cure for tlu forest problems might alleviate the situation temporarily but in the long run cough drops do not help a i b patient we have to tackle tfce cause which is an economic one to rnalce sure of permanent success the forest problem cannot be cured by spending huge sums of money even if all forestry were done in the most approved way and money was unlimited the report does not j mention that forestry despite what financial experts tou u is an inflation indicator probably of greater sen- fbility and accuracy than gold that forestry and a fclghxomt of living ure incompatible in other words jnthe long run constructive forestry is impossible nigh and rising consumers price level forests will inevitably vanish when it does not pay to plant replant tend and maintain them as they should be dur ing the forty to a hundred years of their growth to ma turity it is not generally recognized that adequate maintenance of young forests demands far more capi tal care and labour than just the planting it isnt enough to plant and forget about it maintenance can not be but neglected under an economic system where the cost of living is constantly increasing the consu mer price level regulates the wage and salary level in cluding that of the maintenance staff in the forest when the cost of living is riot excessive profei ajonal woodsmen can be ppid a living wage when the cost of living is too ngh the forester has to be conteiv v ted with a haphazard and unskilled labour supply for cutting often doing considerable damage to the for est as the report affirms the incredible waste men ironed m the report is simply caused by our excessive ssst of living the amount of waste excluding forest fire4v beininlnver8eratio to the puchasing power of the dollar waste was negligible in those countries evhere the cost of living was low because the people had the fifth freedom to buy there wherp the buying was best sweden for instance exported lumber and other wood products in enormous quantities to many other countries for many centuries the population used about 30 per cent of the cut as fuel much wood was also used for building frame houses being in the maj ority wood ptoducts in 1939 were 38 penrcent of the total export but the acreage and yield of the forest did not decrease as it did in north america for every acre cut another one was- planted and maintained there was no slack little jire hazard no waste it even paid to burn the smallest twigs into charcoal all this was possible because the consumeris prices were low compared with ours then the wage level could be low the overhead was low so was the transportation and so were the taxes profits did not have- to be excessive because investment in forestry was as safe as the bank of england it is a cuestion whethei sweden will be sblc io keep u up i ler price level is also rising fast in 1939 the usa import of newsprint from sweden had already mounted to 54487 tons if things go on as they do we in canada to our eternal shame will have- to import ncwsprmtinstcacl of exporting it nature has to do maybe 95 per cent of the work in the- forest and constructive forestry can no more be industrialized than the maternity ward of a hospital i he wages of the highly skillcd or experienced woods men required for preparing planting and maintenance have a ceiling and a floor i he man cinnoti earn less than the amount necessarjtejerp lum his wife and family in decency he cannot earn more than the equi valent of the service he renders to nature in growing the forest nature herself decrees that forests have a maxi mum yield minimum wages are therefore incompat ible with constructive forestry however we in our ignorance have been trying to adapt forestry to our wage scale it cant be done nature is more power ful than dollars to prevent our forests from disap pearing we should adapt our wage scale to the forest if we dont well lose them if consumers prices rise by any reason whatso ever the forester cannot do anything else but lay off woodsmen but he has to keep his wood cutters work ing forestry becomes forest slaughter to increase the price of wood products will not help theiforest nor will government subsidies tariff protection export premiums grants and bonuses be cause all this carries the virulent and deadly germs of rising consumers prices re- and afforestation are not unprofitable be cause the price of lumber is too low but because the cost of living is too high woodsmen will not be poor becausciwages are too low but because the cost of h- vincrms too high 1 he price of lumber does not have to lie increased by artificial means it rises faster auto maically than any other commodity if the demand is heavy when industrial products are in such a condi tion the manufacturers can catch up with the- demand in a eouplc of months i hi v ean increase their pro duetion it takes agriculture from one to three years tt do this but where forestry is concerned mother naj ture laughs at mass production tune studies indus trial in uifl modi rn busmi ss methods hie nt eels at least 40 years to grow ripe timber demand or no d in mil j hi nuvilileiisiiilolcssi hmhcrpncis is tliil ioic ts jit cut hi lou they have re idled full in limit i in tut will in jltalit th m tin mi ii mi n i hu i lli ion yts w ill chsippiai he land will dry out flood imsiim mil dust sloinis niaki lluu appcaiaiuc not i n cjod but t niui niicli c liuiutii i liu i ntall the jiiioi iuilt limilui usi d tin ihiiisiii will in its linn me nasi llu cost of living as n i in io i wll in i imsiclc iilil lulie i 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