THE SPORTING APPEAL

Evening Star, Issue 18032, 28 July 1922, Page 1

THE SPORTING APPEAL

NATIONAL FORESTRY STAKES. That a public appeal is likely to find most hearers when it is couched in the terms of sporting is evidently tuo opinion of -Captain* Ellis, "Director of Forestry,-who concluded a recent address on the work of his department thus racily: “ Di the vear 1919 was bam Uio present National Forest Policy. AV ill it lastf Is it the ‘winner’ or just an ‘also ran.’ In the race to-day is a. big field. It includes the old stager ‘ National Forest Policy,’ ‘Vested Interests’ (the winner of •many races), ‘ Tho Public-Re-Damned ’ ! veteran familiar to ns all), ‘Greed’ (a norse hard to beat), ‘ Cut-Hack-Burn-Dcetroy ’ (who with tho ‘Fire-bug’ has cleaned up millions) ; last, but not least, are the horses ‘ Get-Somcthing-for-Nothing ’ and ‘ *ctTtQuick,’ which are bracketed in the biggest race of the rear. The stakes are big, I l e first prize is the £35,000,000 forest domain; the second prize is the perpetual privilege to exact millions from the. public in famine limber prices by importation of foreign limber; the third is the privilege of stealing the water of our rivers, and hydro-electric water reservoirs and climatic forest rcaerres, municipal wa;er supplies, our game, deer-stalking, and our God-Given natural sanctuaries of forest beauty, and tho right to holiday in toe great* open spaces of the 9,000.000 mre National forests. “ All these stakes are now being gambled for. ‘National Forest Policy’ has I*wn schooling well, and if the pocke.v is ‘Publie Approval’ ho will win. “The moral is obvious. Get busy, put ‘Public Approval’ on your hor.se. and back him to the limit. 'He is a winner, and the wise ones in the grandstand arc waiting to invest. Tig them oS I’’