The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-01-14

rs vice c1airfli en q tllf Ky
,Iay tfii coniI,iit fee ii nee 81! urday
afternoon ID the assembly room Iot the
Piedmont Hotel for the diseus5ion pr
details. AIN organized women Of the
state are committee Of the whole
to assure the general success Of the
meeting.
The Governors Letter.
Together with the letter being sent
out urging a general attendance upon
the mass meeting is one from the gov
ernor OF Georgia indorsing in the
strongest terms the meeting and It's
aim. This letter given for publica-
ton by MIR. Finney is as follows:
Mr., John H. Finney, Secretary APP
pslachian National Forest Association.
Atlanta, Ga.-My Dear Sir: In ac-
cepting as I do with great deal of
pleasure your invitation to preside ov-
er your forestry mass meeting to be
held here in Atlanta January 16, de-
sire to express most heartily my com.
mendation of the patriotic service to
the south and to the nation which
your association is rendering SO thor
oughly and so effectively.
/ deem it duty as well as a distinct
privilege to cooperate in this work. l
have deep interest in the subject
of forest preservation. based on an in
innate knowledge of what the contin-
ual misuse Of and Indifference too ur
forests means to the south and to the
nation at large. AS secretary OF the in
terror under President Cleveland, 1t
was my privilege to set aside nation
al forests, a policy the wisdom of
which is apparent to every thoughtful
man. 1t has been followed by national
forests in the west. aggregating 1907
100000 acres. 1t must be followed by
slmilaf national forests here In the
south and east IL our splendid heri-
tage OF hardwoods and water supply
and water power is to be perpetuated.
l consider the whole subject of par
amount and supreme Importance; one
OF vital Import to the south.
1t presents an opportunity for real
and. lasting constructive work for the
whole southland and the time and op.
l,ort,nity is ripe for immediate action.
This pass meeting should commend
itself to the entire south as means of
definitely crystallinzing sentiment for
the perpetua1tion of the Appalachian
forests. and there should gather to 1t
the enthusiastic and tremendous force
Of an awakened spirit, which will urge
that congress save our forests.
This 1nceliLg should cause the at
tendan.' OF representatives of all the
commercial bodies of the south; of it's
creative and active manufacturers; of
it's scientific men and engineers; of
every one who has at heart the best
interests Of TIE south.
| am most heartily in accord with
you in this matter and Only wish that
my voice could be of greater value to
you in making this meeting what it
should he. an embodiment of the spir-
1t Of the new south, and tremendous
and Irresistible force for the advance
yours, HoKE SMITH,
Governor
state cf Georgia. Executive Depart.
nent, Atlanta.
The EIensricai Engineers Interest
1omes r Gordon one Of thu. man.
ogors Of tho American Institute of
EIectrica1 Engineers IN sneaking of
tbo interest which the engineers are
telling IN tb,s nronosed AnnalacbIan
rosorra cave that Tho American Init.
t,,to :, EIactr,col Enpineers with n
,,ornharshin of over Ave +bonsand in
oo,,r,on With ether scientific engineer.
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