Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-07-22
WORK FOR WOMEN.
How They Can Help In the Con-
Servation Movement.
MUST BEGIN WITH CHILDREN.
To Have Town and Country Beauty
Chief of Forestry Bureau Pleads For
Support of Women to Point Out
Wickedness of National Waste.

Chief of Forestry Bureau Pleads For
Support of Women to Point Out
Wickedness of National Waste.
Hon. Clifford Pinchot, chief of the
United States forest service, pays a
high tribute to the work of women In
all branches of civic improvement and
problems looking to the public welfare.
Speaking particularly of the women of
California and the gigantic tasks they
undertake and accomplish, he says:
II have known of no case of per-
sistent agitation under encouragement
finer in a good many ways than the
fight to save the great grove of Gala
veras big trees. The government is 60
ing to have possession of that and pre-
serve it for all future generations.
Time and again the women have made
it perfectly clear what they can do in
this work. Now, let me suggest that
obviously the first point of attack is
the stopping Of waste in our forests.
Women can bring-and this is my sug-
gestion-they can bring, as no other
body of citizens can bring, to the chill
dren in the schools the idea of the
wickedness of national waste and the
value of public saving. The issue is
moral one and they are the first teach
ers of right and wrong"
If we are to realize the town and
country beautiful we must begin with
the children, and upon the women de-
wolves this duty of proper instruction.
Mr.. Pinchot says that patriotism Is
the keynote of the success Of any ma
ton, and patriotism which does not
begin in early years may, though it
does not always, fail under the sever
est trials-not always, for many men
and many women have proved their
deepest patriotism to this country, al
though they were born elsewhere. Yet,
as a rule, it must begin with the chill
dren. And almost without exception 1t
is the mother who plants patriotism in
the mind of the child. 1t is her duty.
The growth of patriotism is first of all
in the hands of the women of any ma
ton. In the last analysis it is the
mothers Of a nation who direct that
nations destiny"
While Mr.. Pinchot is chiefly interest
ed In the conservation Of our forests,
his remarks regarding woman's work,
both directly and through the child,
apply with equal force to all matters
Of public welfare. Preservation Of our
natural resources affects the town as
well as the country, and as our chief
forester says: 81 think it cannot be
disputed that the natural resources
exist for and belong to the people, and
[ believe that the part of the work
which falls to the wonderland it IS no
small parts to see to it that the chill
dren, who will be the men and women
Of the future, have their share of these
resources, uncontrolled by monopoly
and unspoiled by waste.
at is a question Of seeing what 10y
atty to the public welfare demands of
us and then of caring enough for the
public welfare not to prefer to set
personal advantage first. It is ques-
ton of having our future citizens in
spired as boys and girls with the spirit
Of true patriotism as against the spirit
Of the man who declines to take into
account any other interest than his
own. whose one aim and ideal is per-
sonal success.
"Women can, both in public and at
home, by letting the men know what
they think and by putting it before the
children, make familiar the idea of
! conservation and support it with
CONTINGENCIES that nobody else can
approach
'In practically every state legisla-
ture that held its session during the
past wear conservation measures were
I'D for consideration. If women will
support these conservation measures,
if they will put their influence behind
them, l have lived long enough in
| sem political life to know what that
! influence will mean. When I ask for
their interest in the conservation
movement and to secure the saving Of
waste I ask it with the fullest possible
realization of its value.
zone more thing. Let me ask the
| portant it may be for the lumberman
| the miner, the cabinetmaker, the rail-
| road man, the house builder, for every
industry, that conservation should OBJ
| tain, when all is said and done conser-
walton goes back in its directest appli-
! cation to one body in this country, and
! that is to the children. There is in this
| country no other movement, except
| possibly the education unconventional
/ that, after all, is in a sense only an
| other aspect of the conservation ques-
! ton. the seeking to make the most Of
what we have-so directly aimed to
! help the children. conditioned upon the
needs of the children. belonging to the
! children. as the conservation move
! ment, and it is for that reason more
! than any other that l ask the support
| Of the women of this country."-Los
! Angeles Times.