PRESTO
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FRENCH FORESTRY A LESSON
America Is Advised to Copy Her Methods in
Occupied Germany.
French methods of handling forests in occupied
German territory are shown in a report to the Ameri-
can Tree Association. In the forest of Roetgen, near
Aix-la-Chapelle, and in that near Cleaves operations
are conducted along the most scientific lines, accord-
ing to Charles Lathrop Pack, president of the asso-
ciation, who has sent millions of American tree seeds
to help France reforest the battle areas.
"We find that the French and the Belgians have
cut something like four million board feet, with the
coming growth fully in mind," said Mr. Pack. "This
is much different from the slashing and girdling done
by the Germans in their retreats. In this French
method there is a great lesson for the United States.
With France there are always more trees coming.
"In the United States there are millions of acres of
idle land once covered with growing trees. They
could be that way today had scientific forestry been
practiced during the last forty years. There should
be a forest crop in this country just as there are
other kinds of crops. Our idle land was not made
idle by an invading army with cannon, but by an
invading army with axes. But we are in much the
same situation as France, although from different
causes. The thing to do now is to reforest these idle
acres, for our newspapers and our factories must
have forest products.
"Originally the virgin forests of the United States
covered 822,000,000 acres, while today only one-sixth
of this vast forest asset is left. It is estimated that
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the merchantable timber still standing in this country
is something over two trillion board feet. One-half
of this standing timber is in California, Washington
and Oregon. Our forests are making annual growth
at the rate of less than one-fourth of this total con-
sumption. The greatest enemy to our forest re-
sources, fire, is responsible for the loss of 56,000,000
acres, an area as large as the State of Utah, during a
five-year period. This money loss is estimated at
$85,000,000.
"•There is the situation confronting the Senate for-
estry committee now investigating this great eco-
nomic problem. France knows how to handle a for-
est. The United States must learn and soon from
that hardest of all taskmasters—necessity."
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Saxophone Is One of the Bold Devices for Attaining
Tone Effects.
In discussing military band instrumentation re-
cently, A. J. Scanlan, sales manager, Buescher Band
Instrument Company, Elkhart, Ind., said: "Instru-
mental tones are to the musician as colors to the
painter. Exactly that. Just as the painter uses con-
trast, blend, light, shade, variegation, so does the
scorer of music."
Continuing on what to him is a pleasant topic, Mr.
Scanlan said: "Sometimes one instrument in bold
relief against a subdued blending of many, some-
times two or several intervening their individual col-
ors, sometimes all in a sparkling cascade, sometimes
a uniting of all in massive splendor wherein full
orchestra, great organ, military band and vocal
chorus create a tonal picture of grandeur beyond the
power of the painter.
"Bold devices of tone-color have equal value with
rhythm and freedom of accent in the present aston-
ishing rise of American music. And the most strik-
ing factor in present-day instrumentation is the saxo-
phone. Its characteristic tone cannot be mistaken
for that of any other instrument, yet it blends beau-
tifully with strings, brasses and woodwinds. It
sings, sobs, laughs, ejaculates. It jokes, complains,
grumbles, dreams. It is a great filler, stabilizer, solo-
ist. Above all, it 'talks United States' in music."
ACTIVE SHEBOYGAN SHOP.
The Record Service Shop opened in its new head-
quarters at 827 N. Eighth street, Sheboygan, Wis.,
last week, having moved from its former location at
728 N. Eighth street. The shop has been redecorated
and equipped with seven demonstration rooms, and
the stock of records has been doubled and a com-
plete line of Sonora phonographs provided. The
shop is owned by Ed Mahnke and besides the Sonora
phonographs, Okeh and Odeon records are handled.
RADIO COMPANY MOVES.
The Phono-Radio Manufacturing Corp., New Eng-
land, distributors for the Emerson Phonograph Com-
pany and wholesalers of radio products, have moved
from its former address at 27 Court Square, Boston,
Mass., to larger quarters at 93 Federal street, Boston,
where the organization is now settled ready for the
fall trade. The Phono-Radio Manufacturing Corp.
was formerly the Phonograph Supply Company of
New England.
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The Background
A BUSY ROLL
DEPARTMENT
FACTOR IN AMERICAN MUSIC
SAVING AFRICAN FORESTS.
The Boy Scouts' principle of doing one good turn
a day has been inculcated in an African tribe by
officials of the Forestry Department of Kenya Col-
ony with the novel object of saving the remaining
forests and reforesting vast tracts formerly laid
waste by them, which had earned them the name of
"Forest Destroyers." The "Watu Wa Miti (Men of
the Trees)" is the new title the conservationists have
applied to themselves, and the prestige their brother-
hood has attained both among the white colonists and
native tribesmen is rapidly drawing recruits for this
service. The organization has banded together thou-
sands of the tribe, who have solemnly sworn before
N'gai (the High God) to plant ten trees each year
and to take care of trees everywhere.
Nothing in the Automatic field to com-
pare with it.
August 11, 1923
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652 Tell Me a Story
651 Bebe
6 50 Dirty Hands! Dirty
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649 My Old Ramshackle
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648 D o w n A m o n g the
Sleepy Hills of
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647 Laughin' Cryin' Blues
646 Don't We Carry On
645 In a Tent
644 Down Hearted Bluea
643 Lonesome
642 Beale Street Mama
641 When Clouds Have
Vanished, and Skies
are Blue
640 Mad
639 Two Time Dan
638 Eddie—Steady
637 The Waltz of Love
636 Grand Daddy
635 Louisville Lou
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