The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1910-09-06

projects, and more than 800 power
projects. not counting the nse OF wa
ter for these and. other purposes by
Individual settlers. l think that here
after we may caEely disregard any
statements that the national forests
are withdrawn from settlement and
use.
A Country Life Institute.
The Investigations of the Country
Lie Commission have led the far
mers of this country to realize that
they have NOT been Seating their fair
share of progress: and ali thar it
brings. Some of our farming ccmmu-
mites in the Mississippi valley and In
the Middle West. have made marvel
GUS progress. yet even the best of
them like communities of every other
kind, are not beyond Improvement,
while much needs to be done in some
other sections to improve country life.
AS yet we know comparatively little
of the basic facts OF rural civilization.
The means for better farming we
have studied with care, but to better
living on the farm and to better bus
mess on the farm the farmers them
selves have given scant attention
one of the most urgent needs OF our
civilization is that the farmers them
selves should undertake to get for
themselves a better Ispowledge along
these lines, and then to. apply 1t. Sir
Horace ,Plunkett, for many years a
wyoming cattleman. and now deyot-
ing himself in ireland, TO the country
life problem there, has suggested in
his recent book on the Country Life
Problem In America Alhe creation of
a Country Life Institute as a center
where the work and knowledge of the
whole world concerning country life
may be brought together for the use
OF every nation. / am strongly in
sympathy with this idea, and hope
to see it carried out with the coop
Grafton and assistance of our own peo-
pie. Last spring, while visiting tho
capital OF Hungary, BUDAPEST, was
immensely impressed by the Museum
of Country Life, containing an extra
ordinary series of studies in agricul-
ture, in stock raising, in forestry, in
mining: the exhibits were Of the ut
most practical Importance and were
also intensely interesting and instruc-
tive. greatly wish we had such a
museum in washington; and some
of your farmer congressman ought to
get full and detailed report OF this
BUDAPEST museum to be printed for
distribution in a public document.
Human Efficiency.
AS a people we have not yet learned
to economic. One OF the virtues we
Americans most need is thrift. 1t is
a mere truism to say that luxury and
extravaganza are not good for ma
ton So far as they affect character.
the loss they cause may be beyond
computation. But in the material
sense there is a loss greater than Is
caused by both entravagance and lux
ury put together. mean the need
less, useless, and excessive loss to
our people from premature death and
avoidable diseases. Wholly apart
from the grief, the suffering. and ttS
wretchedness which they cause, the
material loss each year has been cal
culated at nearly twice what It costs
to run the federal government. In
addition to the state and city health
officers and organizations. there Is ur-
gently needed a Federal Bureau Of
Health. to act, so far as the national
government properly may. to relieve
our people from this dreadful bur
den.
The Naf1onnf Conservation Come
mission.
one of the most Important meet
inEs In, our recent history was that
OF the governors In the White House
in May. 1908, to consider the conser-
walton question. BY the advice OF the
governors the mGOsting was followed
by the appointment of national con-
servation commission. The meeting
Of the governors directed the atten-
ton OF the country to conservation -
nothing else could have done, while
the work Of the commission gave the
movement deRnitenesa and supplied
it with a practIceo program. But at
the moment vixen the commission was
ready to begin the campaign for put
Ding it's program into erect an amend
ment to the Sundry Civil Service bill
was introduced by CONGRESSMAN
from sNIinuesota with the purpose of
putting a GtoP to the work so adj
nirablv begun, Congress passed the
amendI.ent. It's object was to put an
end to tie work OF q number OF cenl-
rafasionss yyhich had been app ointed
BY me trosfdetE ana whose co6trI-
button 70 the public welfare had
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