Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-01-30
Delegate From Hawaii
To Rivers and Harb0f
Cong eSs
GUffORD PINCHOT'S LETTER
TELLS OF GREAT MOVEMENT
Mrs. Knudsen Had Pleasant Call on
Prssident-Found Everyone
Deeply Interested in
Hawaii

turned from the states nau HOSl III
teresting experience in Washington.
teresting experience In Washington.
where she went TO attend the Woman's
Rivers and Harbors Congress at which
she represented the Territory OF la.
wall.
The sessions Of the Congress were
Of intense interest and most instruct.
i've. Mrs. Knudscn also found that ev-
cryone was deeply interested in Ha.
wall and anxious to learn Of IT, She
called on the President with Mr.. Pin.
chot and by coincidence called at
the same time that Sir Horace PUNK.
/ cit of ireland had an interview with
Mr.. Roosevelt The President re.
| marked how npnrourIate Il was that
two REPRESENTATIVES of far distant sec.
/ lions of the earth should come togcth.
| or I'm much tho same cause.
Mrs Knudsrn rs the delegate from
This TcrrItory will din her utmost 10
, interest the ladies' of Hawaii I'm the
great work which Is outlined very
clearly in the literature of Congress
md the writings Of the many cntbus.
iastic workcrs In oyery state
Hon clifford p,nchot who addressed
tho Womon.s National pivers and u,r.
bors Congress cmpb,sized tho ner.
cessi,v nj educating tho cbiIdr,u In
tho nubIic schooIs aiopp tho limos or|
forest preservation
Mr. clifford pIncho, IIn,ted S,atcs
foros,er a,atnd 4, n magazine article
| that tho cnuntr,. is n, tho ycrgo ,r ,
timber famine ,,,,t tho ,ip,h.r ,unrly
WI, ,,s, horoIv ,bir,y y.,r. tbot Tho
hardwood srrnIv 10 much pooror on.
baustIon than tbo soft wood SUNNY
and mr. onIy sourca Of bardwooJ NOW
IL the ApnaIachInn region
ON deforestation and foods no said
81 have stood with one foot On zach
side of n little brook and washed my
hands and face I'm n I'm tho summer
ltIme. when the watcr was low. and this
same brook which had ifs head in tho
steep stones on which the forest had
b.en destroyed had during ooods
carried and nIIed mn henIock logs
three feet tbrougb and tweptv fcet
long in vindrows and had movcd
boulders of many tons IN weipht This
was slmply bocausc of tho dcToresta.
ton of this steep watershed with -,
uniform grading"
Mr. pInchot stated that our national
forests arc self.gupnortinr and will nc
I'm Germany vIoId n revenuc Tho An.
paIachlan forests which no has nor.
sosally known for seyonteop voars
will he yauable Investment for tho
government
TRANSFORMATION 10 tho vital fact 4,
the commercial growth and nrosneritv
of the country TRANSFORMATION rate Is
tax upon the community The mower
of controlling that rate Includes tho
Lower of making or unmokinp any mar.
ticuIar community Tbercfore wc arc
vitality intcroated In any p,e,s,r.e that
look 10 tbe reduction or The ,ransror.
tation charge and 10 tho furnishing or
some adeo,I,te control Of transport,.
tiCn rates
Mr. PInchot was a promIncnt Nom.
her Of the PubIIc Lands Commission
which President Roosevelt pppoinicd
IN 1903 and which investigated tho
public lands thoroughly and submit.
lied a rorer.I ruhI,c I,,de noIicy Eror,
this and the existing forest poIIcv tho
DEVELOPMENT OF broader and moro
comprehensIve nIon was ipeyitahIe 49,
that Is a polIcy for tho conservation
of tho country's natural RESOURCES In
his spocch nj Jamestown Va ne,rl,
two years ago. President Roosevelt re
viewed these policies and added,
So much for what We are irving ia
do I'm utilizing our public lands Cor the
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