Fake of the Christmas Tree
At this season annually, is heard the wail of the destruction of forests by the marketing of Christmas trees. The fake is old and bald, but it continues to be worked with must gusts. Once Mr. Pinchot, the chief forester of the Government, took the pains to deny that the annual cut of Christmas trees was a menace to the forests and to point, but that this was a legitime and beneficial use. But the manufacturers of cheap sentiment gave no heed and the chief forester retired in disgust.
Fortunately, a majority of the reading public is well enough informed to buy its Christmas trees without shedding any tears over the forests destroyed by their production. It is not the woodsman alone who knows that all of the Christmas trees sold in the United States each year represent less forest destruction than one day’s operation of the paper mills that make reading possible…