Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-09-07

-.-. met II brings. Some OF our farming
~ ~ 0nA.les In the Mississippi valley and
nror- 80 lliioole west have made marvellous
Posfess, YET even the best of them like
communities of every other kind are not
Desoho Improvement while much needs
- oe zone IN some ether sections to i'm
prove country life. AS vet we know com
p@tatlVely little of the basic facts of rural
~ tlon. The means for better farm
t Tvs, we nave studied with care, but to bet
ler hVlng on the farm and to better bust
ness on the farm the farmers themselves
nave given scant attention One of the
inost urgent needs of our civilization is
.tial the farmers themselves should I'M
uertake to get for themselves a better
NioWIeoge along these lines, and then to
appIy II. Sir Horace Plunkett, for many
years a wyoming cattleman and now de-
voting himself in Ireland to the country
me problem there, has suggested in his
recent book on the Country Life Prob
lem In America" the creation of a Coun-
Try LlIe institute a center where the
work and knowledge of the whole world
concerning country life may be brought
loeetner Tor the use of every nation
am strongly In sympathy with this idea,
ana l hope to see it carried out with the
cooperation and assistance of our own
people. Last spring, while visiting the
CapltaI OF Hungary, Buda-Pesth, was
immensely impressed by the Museum of
country Life, containing an extraordinary
series Of studies in agriculture, in stock
raising III forestry in mining; the ex-
hioits were of the utmost practical i'm
portance and were also intensely inter-
esting and instructive
AS people we have not vet learned to
econom1ze. One of the virtues we Ameri-
cans most need is thrift It is a mere
tru1sm to say that luxury and extrava-
cameo are not good for a Nation So far
&C hExr off 1AR II. -
cause may be beyond computation. But
IN the material sense there is a loss
greater than is caused by both extrava-
gance and luxury put together. I mean
the needless. useless, and excessive loss
to our people from premature death and
avoidahle diseases Wholly apart from
the grief. the suffering and the wretched-
ness which they cause, the material loss
each year has been calculated at nearly
twice what it costs to run the Federal
government. In addition to the state and
city health officers and organizations,
there is urgently needed a Federal bu-
reau of health, to act, so far as the Ma
tional government properly may to re-
lieve our people from this dreadful bur
den.
National Conservation Commission.
One of the most important meetings in
our recent history was that of the gov
to consider the conservation question. By
the advice Of the governors the meeting
was followed by the appointment of
National conservation commission. The
meeting of the governors directed the
attention of the country to conservation
as nothing else could have done, while
the work of the commission gave the
movement definiteness and supplied it
with a practical program. But at the
moment when the commission was ready
to begin the campaign for putting its pro-
gram into effect an amendment to the
SundrY civil service bill was introduced
by a congressman from Minnesota with
the purpose of putting a stop TO the work
so admirably begun. Congress passed the
amendment. It's object was to put an
end to the work OF number Of commits
sions. which had been appointed by the
president and whose contribution TO the
public welfare had been simply incalcu-
liable Among these were the commission
for reorganizing the business methods Of
the government, the public lands COM
mission the country life commission,
and the National conservation commits
sion itself When I signed the Sundry
civil service bill containing this amend
ment I transmitted with 1t as my last
official act q memorandum declaring that
the amendment was void. because 1t was
an unconstitutional interference with the
to remain president I would pay to 1t no
attention whatever.
The National conservation commission
tkereupon became dormant "he suspen-
sion of it's work came at a most unfor-
tunate time, and there was serious dan
ger that the progress already made would
be lost A. this critical moment 'hc M
tionaI conservation association was or
ganized IT took up The work which 9TH
erWise would not have been done, and 1t
exercised a most JscSdl influence ~ pre-
venting rad legislation, in securing the
Introduction of better conservation meas
ures at the past session of congress ard
in promoting the passage of wise laws. II
deserves the confidence and support of
eycrv citizen Interested in the TT'S2 de-
velop71ent and preservation of our nat
ural resources, and In preventing them
from raising into tie hands of uncon-
t~olled monopolies. IT joins with the Ma
tioral conservation congress IN holding
this meeting. am here by the joint IN
vitation Of both.
Pan-American Construction.
When the government of the United
States avoke to the idea of conservation
and saw that 1t was good, it lost no time
In communicating the advantages or the
new point of view to its immediate neigh
bors among the nations. North Amer1-
can conservation conference was held IN
washington and the cooperation OF
Canada and Mexico in the great problem
Of developing the resources of the CONT
nent for the benefit of its people was
asked and promised. The nations upon
orr 1orthern and southern boundaries
wisely realized that their opportunity to
conserve the natural resources was better
than ours. because with them destruction
and monopolization had not gone so far
as they had with us. So 1t is with the
republics of Central and South America.
obviously they are on the verge or a
period Of great material progress. The
deveIoruent Of their natural resources
their forests, their mines, their water,
and their soils-win create enormous
wealth. It is to the mutual interest or
+be United States and our sister Ameri-
can republics that this development
should be wisely done. Our manufacture
ing Industries offer a market for more
and more of their natural wealth and
raw material while they will Increasingly
desire to meet that demand in CONNER
cial exchange The more we buy from
them. the more we shall sell to them.
Their prosperity is inseparably involved
with our own. Thank heaven, we of this
continent are now beginning to realize.
what in the end the whole world will
realize, that normally it is a good thing
for a nation to have it's neighbor nations
prosper. We of the United States are
r-av,,ioalv and heartily pleased To see