The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-06-04

WOMEN. CALL ON
CONGRESS TO ACT.
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hooks by the door will inerraase and
send forth inspired mon and women.
Apples, oranges, grapes, dates ma and nd
enable bachelors to do without cooks
and trees supply the orange blossoms
if they cannot do without them. Old
or young. sick or well, do we not need
trees externally, internally and eter-
nally9'
Enos Mills Talk.
Enos A. Mills Of Estes Park, Col,
a man who has. lived with trees for
his eompanionss.year in. Ia. and year g out,
Servant and Constant Friend, the For
est,' in Introducing the forestry hour
this morning at the biennial aof the
| General Federation of Women g clubs.
Mr.; Mills is guide at Longs peak.
and his close communion with. nature
ner that is as direct as lis own for
ests. His talk was full Of an intense
love of nature and poetic fancy that
| had much charm. @-s.E 80.
Mr.. Mills spoke Of the pine tree as
the flag of nature and referred to the
helpful service the trees give mankind
in storing up water and in anehoring
blowing filthy germ-laden dust into
our eyes and threats and the acid Of
the leaves sterilizes the soil and gives
purer water. Civilized people must do
mesticate and improve the trees and
all trees will soon receive the atten.
Arbor Day is one of the greatest days
we observe. Its spirit is as worldwide
as#poetry and, as emo bling as music.
"The wild gardens of nature are the
best kindergartens. The child who
breathesz the pure air that blows among
trees, birds and flowers has the great
est Of advantages; Children from ma
aminations of life and carry life g
richest treasures, health, individuality,
sincerity and wholesome self-reliance.
7 If baby trees and baby children grow
pp+t together e it will be a great good to
Women the Rulers. :
I Mr.. Mills also told the women that
they are rulers Of the nation. "It'J will
cost about $4,000 to save the Cali.
fornia trees,' he declared. "Tell con
gress to spend it and it will be spent
| "America sowed her wild oats in
destroying the forests. She Is finding
wild oats a poor breakfast food. A
wandering homeless tribe in the desert
is the fate of the nation which destroys
trees. Such will be our fate, If you dc
not mother the infant tree-planting in
'dustry. No nation has ever fallen TO,
having too, many trees. =
"The government has been spending
millions in trying to- curb the ,Missis
sippi river without effect. The trouble
is, the governing forests have beer
: swept away You have done more fol-
: i forestry than all other organizations
in the country, but you must do more
Man and Women's Suffrage -.
After all it was man whos brought
the much dreaded question of women )
suffrage into the biennial. George II
Maxwell, ex-chalrman OF the natfona
irrigation congress, in his talk said thai
| the status of men and women should be
: the same in regard to their rights am
. citizenship. No one contradicted him
Mr.. Maxwell places much of the re
: sponsibility Of public work on the shout
: kders of the women. "You do not real
: size = the power that is given yeue@il
: bringing about right action. Publ
I Eopilniiooall controls votes and springs oft
men s. It is the conversation of TIL
p, home circle that really controls tn
: vote. Take up one or two things a
!: the result of this biennial; agitate then
and you can accomplish great things
save the big trees of California an
secure the passage Of the bill for fores
reserve. If women would 90 home an
}, study the development Of Arizona an
$ New Mexico in regard to forestry, tn
l Infamous. joining Of the two states IN
der the bond of statehood never woul
Y be accomplished =" -. -;
8 Mr.. Maxwell s address was plea fo
the preservation of the big trees in Ca,
>: ifornia: He; spoke Of the great infir
ence which nature has on children:
d 90 If you want to make this a religion
t. knation'3 you must: put: the children bac
i into the country or surround them wit
t some evidence Of nature The appeal
u aid in preserving and pl5nting trees
Q made not only to women but to tn
= churches. ) For it is only by contae
r with nature that the child is brought
g realize the existence Of the Creator. -
cit is the woman behind the HON
It who is the most important factor in tn
l. country,' said Mr.. Maxwell in closin.