The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-03-07

I u.vuIzsR HE trees IL"
.ourt For various and OBJ
,,ious reasons they have new
or been able to plead their
cause and until recently no one
"n .o,,npd to think it worth while to
kSe - for them. Now all that IS
)le"U ,I They have a protector and
I Io7sta and one with an office and
s34o At that. They can now hold up
u e. loads and feel that they have been
l @";a I recognized. They have be-
)Lnyl'a - 'donartmental entity. They pos
o ors legal existence. 1t is a proud
IT, for the trees.
An American tree can now look
,,-ronaap tree in the face ON terms OF
Innaiitv. The forest monarchs OF the
l5or continent long have had special
4 NV .a.n,nont bureaus of their own. The
y,n,,oo arboreans, however, have been
i smneIIed to struggle along bureauless
/ I'd without any legal status to speak
This caused the foreign woods to
4 u.s. ON airs but they can do so no Ion
ME Yankee oaks, poplars, pines
nd their leafy brethren now nave IN
j 10 sans backing, and they are just as
srood as any tree that ever wore Dark
n orosts of all effete monarchles what
cover will please take notice.
& rIorotofore trees have been victims
h cyclones blizzards, haflstorms, rail-
4oods SaWmills, fires, possum hunters
nd greed. especially greed. The cy-
PIones hailstorms and billiards. still
Occasionally get in their work, but the
Dtbpr agencies have been arrested III
bar devastating career. Railroads are
nIan+ tie trees on their rights of way
nd +o treat the wood with some sort
& Il nrpspryative that will make the ties
ost longer and thus decrease the drain
from this source. How much OF an
tpm this is may be realized from the
statpment that if a tree were growing
If each end of every tie in the United
Etates it would require the natural
krowtb Of all these trees to supply the
Eonpw9ls alone. AS for the sawmills,
bey are still tearing off slabs, but the
umbermen are growing more careful
In their selections. taking only those
rpes that are ripe" and making a con-
ktant effort to eliminate waste. Ana,
Is TO grped-well, when the New YORK
Investigating committees force greed
Ia take to the woods it will not find
comfortable reception even there-not,
It least, if the government forest serV-
he is around.
s The head of the forest service is Gift
kOrd Pinchot, who is the best friend
sapling ever had. If the forest folk
Eaye any sort Of natural gratitude Mr..
Pnch0t should receive an ovation ev-
Rry time he sets foot in wood. Per
Raps he does. At least the trees clap
heir leaves together in sort of mar
culate applause Perhaps, too, the
rds become more vocal, the squirrels
Ough louder and the nuts fall with an
dded enthusiasm.
Mr. Pinchot was born in 1865 in Con-
B ectcut. He came by his interest in
s Ortstry legitimately, as his father had
bServed the denuding of the woods
md had sounded a note of warning.
Even his grandfather, who had been
Napoleonic soldier, had engaged in the
lmoer business in Pennsylvania, prob
Oily drawn thtther by the sylvan"
art of the name The younger Mr..
nchot graduated from Yale in 1889.
IS the father was wealthy the son was
Ven the choice Of a career. He delib-
fately chose the then practically I'M
noWn profession of forestry. To fit
llnSelf properly he studied in France
ld most Of the countries of Europe.
nen he got into the work in his ma