New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-11-11


through swearing at bad roads.
The five gentlemen asked by the
president to serve on the commission
are Professor L. H. Bailey, director of
the New York State Agricultural col
lege; Clifford Pinchot, head of the for
estry department; Henry Wallace, ed
itor of an agricultural paper at Des
Mofnes Ia; Walter II. Page, editor Of
the Worlds Work, and Professor Ken
yon L. Butterfeld, president of the
Massachusetts Agricultural college.
Enthusiastic Forester.
Clifford Pinchot is the first real for
ester we have had in this country. He
is man after the presidents own
heart, one who is not satisfied unless
he is doing something every available
hour of the day. Even when he plays
games he puts his whole heart into IT..
He belongs to the presidents tennis
! cabinet and also accompanies Mr..
Roosevelt on tree chopping expeditions.
MI. Pfnchot's immense services to the
country in stopping the depredations of
timber thieves, in putting bounds on
greed In the cutting of lumber, in intro
ducing scientific system in the choice
of trees for lumber so that the forests
are not left depleted, in planting trees
On land useless for other purposes, in
caring for the woodlands already in
existence and in extending the knowl-
edge of forestry cannot receive too
high praise. Not till future genera
t1on will the worth of this work be
fully appreciated. Had it not been for
some such man stepping into the
breach there would have been timber
famine in this country inside Of half
century. Even as it is the peril is not
entirely past
The secret of Mr.. Pinchot's success
Is that he is one of those men who be-
lieve In their cause. He believes in it
so much that he is ready to devote his
life to it. 1t is that kind of man that
moves the world. Pinchot and others
are rapidly educating this country up
to the needs Of planting trees and pre-
serving those we already have 1t is
certain that he will take up the kindred
work of improving life on the farm
with the same fine enthusiasm.
A Work of Great Import.
Walter H. Page in his magazine.
the Worlds Work, has long advocated
such movement as the president has
put under way. His intelligent appre-
citation of the Importance of the task
may be judged from the following
paragraph, which appeared in an edi-
tOrial summing up the farmer and hIs
future:
Getting living from the soil is now
scientific and profitable pursuit for those
who know best how to do it-those who
take advantage of all the new knowledge.
AS the number ofssuch persons increases
and better and better methods are used
the profits and the joys of country life
will grow. Organization will take the
place of wasteful individual work The
Intellectual life will be cultivated The
time dreamed Of by the poets and philos-
ophers will come-may come-throughout
the great fertile stretches of our country
and 1t would come within remarkably
short time II all the forces now at work
for it could be co-ordinated and directed
right. A great common movement toward
such an end would take rank as the most
important work in our land, perhaps the
most important in the whole world
That has the right ring. With two
such men as Pinchot and Page on this
commission something worth while
will follow I do not know the other
gentlemen, but judge from what little
I have heard Of them that they are of
the same sort.
1t is the presidents desire that the
commission deliver it's report not later
! than the beginning Of the new year,
after which he will embody it's conclu-
sions and some ideas Of his own in a
message to congress.
The commission has already written
i nearly a half million letters to farmers
! and other persons connected with
! country life. Answers to these will
be tabulated by the census bureau, and
unusual or notable replies Will be read
by some member Of the commission.
Hearings are being held throughout
/ the country which will extend well
! into December