Title: Conservation
Identifier: conservation141908amer (find matches)
Year: 1908-1909 (1900s)
Authors: American Forestry Association
Subjects: Forests and forestry
Publisher: Washington, D. C. : American Forestry Association
Contributing Library: New York Botanical Garden, LuEsther T. Mertz Library
Digitizing Sponsor: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden

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Photo Copyright by Harris & Ewing, Washington PROMINENT FIGURES ATTHE CONFERENCE Standing—Secy. Shipp, Gov. Swanson, Chief Forester Pinchot, Gov. Folk Sitting—Gov. Willson, Gov. Sheldon. Willson, Sheldon and Folk, committee on permanent organization. Swanson, and Willson, committee en ways and means of over 200,000,000 in the United States in the year 1950. The annual increase from natural growth is about one and one-half per cent each year. Adding for immigration only 750,000 a year, which is less than three-quarters of the figures reached in recent years, we shall have about 130,000,000 people in 1925 and at least 200,000,000 by the middle of the century. Where are they to go, how are they to be employed, hov.- fed, how enabled to earn a living wage? The pressure of all the nations upon the waste places of the earth grows more intense as the last of them are occupied. We are approaching the point where all our wheat product will be needed for our own uses, and we shall cease to be an exporter of grain. There is still some room in Canada, but it will soon be filled. The relief will be but tempor- ary. Our own people, whose mineral re- sources will by that time have greatly diminished, must find themselves thrown back upon the soil for a living. If con- tinued abuse of the land should mark the next fifty years as it has the last, what must be our outlook? * * * Not only the economic but the politi- cal future is involved. No people ever felt the want of work or the pinch of poverty for a long time without reach- ing out violent hands against their po- litical institutions, believing that they might find in a change some relief from their distress. Although there have been moments of such restlessness in our country, the trial has never been so se- vere or so prolonged as to put us to the test. It is interesting that one of the ablest men in England during the last century, a historian of high merit, a stateman who saw act've service and a profound student of men and things, put on record his prophecy of such a future ordeal. Writing to an American

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