China could well heed the suggestions and admonitions embodied in the official messages from Canada and the United States in this effort, toward permancat forests despite increased lumber consumption, President Coolidge in commenting] upon the work that is being done to conserve a great natural asset finds {that "national progress in forestry has been well begun," but that much remains to be done through both concerted and individual effort, The wide use of land is one of the main foundations of sound national economy, he says. "It is," he continues, the corner stone of national thrift, The ware or misuse of natural resources cuts away the groundwork upon which national prosperity built... fourigh, indivi duals, they must neither wastefully hoard nor wastefully: exploit," but skilfully employ and renew the sources that nature has entrusted to them.
The President takes cognizance of the fact that the Canadian government in setting apart the identical week designated by him has made possible a neighbour ly accomplishment of a common purpose. In Canada to-day the problem is one lof conservation rather than of reproduction. The Canadian Govern. ment, therefore, in its proclamation, emphasizes the need of more efficient terials during the past week in the reactionary—newspapers—would almost convince an intelligent political student that the setting of these two classes at each other's throats was a commendable and useful achievement. Although it is difficult to fathom why a consum-motion so devoutly desired by the British Communist Party should also be worked for by the extreme Tory press.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.