Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-06-10
BUREAU
MEN SEEKING
v|ND|CAT|0N
POINT OUT VALUE OF
SERVICE TO PEOPLE
Section Director Asserts Flood
Warning and Frost Forecasts
Have Proven of lneStimable
Value.

Department of Agriculture still feels
itself aggrieved by reason of the re-
cent scathing attacks made OF it by
Emerson Hough in Everybody's Mag
azine and severe criticism from other
quarters. The Morning Journal has
received a letter from Charles f.. Lin
nev. section director stationed at Santa
Fee. calling attention to the inestim-
able services which he says have been
rendered by the bureau to farmers
and others by its flood warnings, frost
forecasts and so on.
MIR. Linney's letter, which is ac-
companied by some literature sent out
from the headquarters of the service
in Washington, is as follows:
Santa Fe. Jun Sth, 1909.
Editor, Morning Journal,
Albuquerque.
Dear Sir: | beg to hand you here
with a little pamphlet containing a
few facts regarding the weather
bureau and its position in regard to
the recent attack upon it by a writer
in E~verybody's Magazine. Sufficient
time has elapsed since this attack for
the press and the people ito think It'll
over In the west the great freeze
Of the last of April and the first of
May has demonstrated in a remark
able n the value in dollars and
cents of the bureaus work, for. by
its watchfulness and its timely warm
ings. the fruit growers of the Grand
Valley, as one man, turned out to
fight the frost king and saved a crop
estimated to be worth $4,000, 600. In
our own territory like success at
tended the use of the smudge pot
where it was tried.
In the central valleys the seasons
food warnings, as for many previous
seasons. were issued in ample time
and with unfailing accuracy Very
soon the bureau viii be issuing its
rain forecasts to the raisin growers OF
California, and thereby making it
possible to dry their enormous crop
of fruit in safety. Shortly after ii will
be issuing its frost warning to the
cranberry growers of Wisconsin and
New Jersey, and. by its watchfulness,
save to them mar thousands OF bar
rcls, as it has done or many years.
And steadily throughout the months
from May to December it will con-
tinue its storm warnings to the yes
sclmen of the Great Lakes, making
navigation com paratiVely safe to the
freighter as well as to the passenger
service. Many other lines of useful
ness to the stockman, the ranchman
the farmer, the fruit grower, the mer-
chant. the shipper, the commissions
man, the wholesaler, the railroads II
the manufacturer will so forward
from day to day, quietly and without
noise or comment, sufficient, we THINK.
10 cause every fair minded person to
realize the value of the bureaus work,
and to stand by it with voice and pen.
The bureau has its faults, every
bureau of the government has, every
branch of business has, but with these
piled high, does it not daily demon
strate its usefulness to the nation, 10
the territory. to the individual.-Nery
truly yours,
CHARLES f. LINNEY.
Section Director.
one of the pamphlets ACCOMPANYING
Mr.. Linncy's letter is a detailed an
swcr to the attacks on the service by
Mr.. Hough in Everybody's. This
pamphlet says in part;
In considering the question Of the
efficiency of the weather bureau Il
might be pertinent to inquire o the
meteorological bureaus of other coun-
tries look upon IA weather service,
even though their views should De
found to clash with those held by the
two unnamed eminent scientists That
A.r. Hough quotes-onc from the en-
virons of Boston and the other as yet
INDICATED,
In the autumn of 1907 Or. p. Polls
director of the meteorological obserNa-
tory at Aix-la-Chapelle, Germany, Wis
tied the United States n made an
exhaustive study of the bureau, both
at its central office in Washington and
at several of its stations elsewhere. on
service, Their newly organized by the
rrussian ministry of agriculture. do
mains and forests. Doctor Polls elab-
crate report on his journey, published
by the German government. concludes
as follows:
In closing my report. | wish espe-
cially to point out hat the organiza-
ton of the meteorological service IN
tho United States is absolutely eNem-
plary. This is true above all OF the
weather service; the method Of DIS
trlhution of weather reports. weather
maps and weather forecasts may well
hc called the best in the world. Ihe
speed with which the daily weather
maps are prepared. printed and sem
ont is simply astonishing, as is the DIS
cmination of weather forecasts bytele-
graph, telephone and %placards. The
exposure of the Instruments. on plat
forms. however. differs from the
methods employed in Germany
The attitude Of the German scientist
toward the bureau is reflected in the
current writings of meteorologists eV-
%crywhere. Quotations such as the FOL
lowing are typical:
The truly mastery organization so
dense and so complete. Of the meteor
illogical service of the United states
assures 20 the storm warnings a pre-
fision far superior to that attainahls
in the far east. Froe. director OF
tie meteorological observatory IF
zikawei. china. in a pamphlet on
maritime weather signals. just pub
lished.
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Ia tho United states. whore the
Reathet forccasting service is the beti
organized. the interval between the
morning and evening service. etc
General iiykatchew. director OF the