The National tribune., 1907-12-12
for & man who was genuinely loved b!
those under him.


The Governors of the various States
and Territories, whom the President has
invited TO confer with him at the White
House. May 13 to Is, on the cOnserva-
ton of the natural resources of the
country, are joining in the suggestion
with alacrity.
Responses have been received from
practically every Governor invited, and
without exception they express their
suggestion that the time has come for
the country to take steps to stop waste
and to form a working plan for the
conservation of the Nations natural re-
sources. This sentiment is expressed
regardless of party affiliation or geo.
graphical location.
Dear me! In a speech the other night,
in which the boom of Senator Knox
for the Presidency may be said to have
been launched, one of the enthusiastic
speakers referred to him as the Little
Giant" 1t should be remembered that
the Little Giant" who was the late
Stephen A. Douglas, never reached the
Presidency.
The President is after 'em again.
This time the test ride of Army Off
GERS above the rank of Captain is to
be 80 miles in length and is to be a
much severer test than before. To be
sure the officers have such a long no
tice of what is about to happen that
they can be at work before the order
comes and get a little hardened to the
task, but it is a task and severe one.
BY the time the President gets thru
with the tests to his own satisfaction
there will not De a man left in the list
over so.
Speaker Cannon has now settled to
his pace, and his task of pounding it
into the head of the new NJ. c. that
the welfare of the country does not
rest in his hands, and that this old
world would jog right along in the
same old careless manner if he were
to be effaced. The man with mission,
with a big M" has no place in Con-
gress.
My goodnessi And maybe George
Washington trod them, don't you
know-the streets of Alexandria, Va,
where cobblestOne pavements have pre-
vailed since the immortal George first
landed there. 1t is said that not stone
of those streets has even been turned
since Washington was gathered to his
fathers, and now the irreverent citizens
actually propose to have the streets
paved with asphalt and to tear up
these dear old cobbiestones. 1t is just
awful, and the fear is expressed that
some new life and blood has recently
planted itself in that sleepy old Vir-
ginia town, and that this is the cause
of the innovation.
Mrs. Mary Todd Shaw, who gained
fame as a painter. and some of whose
no nf p1
White House, died at Marion, O., last
week, at the home of a daughter, Mrs.
John F. Kries. She was rs years old.
Mrs. Shaw was also well known as a
magazine writer a quarter of q century
ago.
Two bills have been Introduced so far
in the House for the placing of the
legend, I'm God We Trust on all the
coinage of the United States. The first
was that presented by Ollie James, of
Sheppard, of Texas. The first is aimed
directly at the new $40 and $40 gold
pieces, on which the motto was left off,
for it provides it sh;-il be restored"
The Sheppard bill provides that in the
future such a legend shall be stamped
on all money issued by the Government.
Both We're referred to the Committee
California never loses chance to
advertise, not she. The delegation from
the Golden State which came to attend
the Rivers and Harbors Congress
brought with it a small iron safe filled
with gold coin to pay expenses and
dues. The safe was guarded by picked
men on its long trip across the conti-
nent in a special car. and on arrival
here the California delegation had 1t
locked up for safekeeping
The Treasury Department has "15
puzzle" on its hands. If anybody can
identify Roger, Tom and Alice" the
Treasury Department will probably re-
ward them. Roger. Tom and Alice are
not folks-oh, dear, no. They are just
you know; in plain Eng
lish, elephants. They belong to a show
company, and have been all Summer at
Coney Island, and the Government is
about to sue the show company for GUS
toms duty on the critters. Roger. Tom
and Alice have Travelled much in their
day, and the Customs officials say that
they are now in this country under a
bond of the owners, amounting to
$1,000, to pay the duty on the animals.
The bond was given in 1906, when
the elephants were last brought to the
United States from a foreign country.
The owners seek to avoid the payment
of duty, claiming that the duty was
paid on the occasion of the first visit
of the three elephants to this country
The owners, however, cannot identify
the elephants to the satisfaction of the
customs officers.
Roger, Tom and Alice may have been
to the customs officials years
ago, but If so the Governments repre-
have forgotten them These
elephants spent last Summer at Coney
Island. Unless they are identified as
having once paid the duty suit will be
instituted to recover on the bond
And so they might be called white
so far as the Government
is concerned.
Davis has begun trust-busting. Who
Wis is-why, you know, he was sworn
ago, and on the roll call he is assigned
to Arkansas. He wanted to make a
speech the day he was sworn in. Yes,
indeedyi He came to Congress to do
things, and he wants to begin because
he knows he will only get one term in
all probability, and the time is short for
him to get in his work. He was pre-
vailed upon to wait until the Senate
was at least organized before he turned
loose, and so he siZZfed until Tuesday,
and the Senate had only just been
called to order when he fired in his
bill He got it in in the
wrong place, in spite of somebody pull