The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-04-12
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BY Vandea Varnum WelLknown
DeFuniak Springs Florida.

100000, largely in real estate, and he
is the financial head. He handles 1t
as he would a plant" with little in
common with it, but to make ends
more than meet | wondered what We
would talk about and f | could be-
reasonably courteous and at the same
time listen to the flashes of VT that
Sllnted from side to side and across
the other end of the table. Finally
| thought of the vineyards of the
thousands of acres in the great estates
that Minister to the university. l
know something of grapes as they
grow on the slope of old ChautauQua
county, New York, but We market
them for domestic use. Those who sell
to the winery there are marked men.
with renters reads and TO grapes on
they have lost caste. Our contract
the place, marketable Or reuse. shall
be made into fermented wine. and
to make Il more sure a money consd-
Grafton is rendered the renter.
Well, this is gossip, but somehow
| wish the Leland Stanford estates
could have wandered in the same
path. | could not place wine money
in university. any sooner than IN
church or in a wardrobe.
There is such a thing as tainted
money.
The Appalachian forest bill still
Slopes. January, February and March
have passed. "Snowstorms of letters
kilograms, resolutions and petitions,
begging. pleading. and praying for,
and demanding, its passage, have
poured upon congress" So writes the
secretary of the forestry association.
Speaker Cannon is supposed TO be
the great rock against which this
measure beats in vain At recent
meeting in Washington he sCUffed at
the idea of preserving our forests.
though he suggests that they be cut
with less waste" adding, YOU viii
do so because it is to your interest
to do it. and that is greater than
anything else. 1t is greater than
law"
He speaks his convictions honestly
here. Self-interest has been his
guiding star and was when he w3;
addressing the lumbermen of Wash
ingtOn- He would not say this y the
thinking men who know the neces-
sity of using our remaining forests
Alright. in order to assure new growth.
nor would he use this language tC the
mill men of New England and the
Southern states who know the ciTse
of the gradually receding waters
Neither would he speak slightingly
of this measure to the intelligent ag-
ricufural classes in these sections
who see their fields flooded and torn
one week and parched another week
because, through the stimulation of
the forests, the waters have no sur
face resistance to bold them in check
And last of all the Honorable Speaker
Cannon would have more pride it
not sense than to pose as such an
idiot before the intelligence of other
and foremost nations that find in
their national preserves d source of
handsome revenue, as we'll as
means of helping lumbermen, mil!
men. graZers, farmers, now and saw
ing the country for all time from de-
structive floods and, drouths, erasions
of mountains and destruction of soil.
Each state in Germany manages Its
own forests and some realize as h Gh
as Sc net per acre each year. burt
Germany all told averages $40 per
acre with timber lands constantly III
creaSing in value.
Through forestry work France has
TeOeeneQ Z,UUO,UUU acres from SdHu
dunes, has 1913 of the torrent streams
under control, reclaimed many thoUs-
and acres of arid wastes and receives
a net revenue of S4,700,O00 annually.
In Switzerland each canton owns
and cares for its own forests and
the annual net returns range from
So to SO per acre.
The state forests of Hungary yield
an annual net revenue Of 5000. 600.
Sweden receives 100000 net, Japan
SS, 000,0 900.
Only II countries export foot of
wood today. and but six send but
little abroad. OF these six Russia is
first. then Sweden. Austria Hungary,
Canada, Norway and the United
states, the last exporting 100000
tons year, which, with our home
consumption is three times as much
as our forests produce.
President Roosevelt Save