Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-29
Of
HEALTH EXAMPLED
Henry Wallace, President of AS
ISOLATION for Husbanding Re-
sources, Rejuvenated
C0NoUERS TUBERCULAR ILLS
Gives Up Passionate and Turns to
Cultivation of Soil in
the West
coNoUERS TUBERCULAR ILLS

transformation of a sick, broken down
clergyman, entering his forties, and in
the incipient stages of tuberculosis,
to man of health and vigor and un-
told helpfulness to the community is
the present-day miracle told in the life
story of Henry Wallace of Iowa, the
new president of the national conser-
walton congress.
Today, at IA, the Iowa farmer and
editor. healthy, and as strong and as
active both mentally and physically
as he was twenty years ago, is held
up by his friends as fine example
of what can be done in the line Of
human conservation. That no one
could have merited the recognition
given him at the great gathering at
st. Paul the first week of September
more than he is the view of "Tama
JIM Wilson, secretary of agriculture;
Senators Dolliver and Cummins, and
hundreds of others Of his lifelong
friends.
Mr.. Wallace's story is simple, and
as told by his friends shows that what
he has done in the line of conserva-
tion of health others may do. Born
on q farm in Westmoreland county,
Pennsylvania, in 1886, he was educat-
ed for the ministry in the United
Presbyterian church, and during the
ten years from 1866 to 1876 he preached
in Illinois and Iowa. Tubercular
trouble ran in the family, and from 1t
he lost seven of his brothers and sis
ters not one of whom reached the age
of 80 years.
The family physician said that the
minister, who was then approaching
middle age, seemed destined to go the
way of the rest unless he Immediately
sought an outdoor life.
GIVES UP PAsTORATE
A child of the farm and retaining
sincere love of agriculture after grow
ing to manhood, Mr.. Wallace gave
up his pastorate, and again turned 10
the soil,' purchasing a number of
farms in western iowa, putting in mis-
time driving from one to the other
and giving them his close personal su-
pervision. Early in the sos he began
writing on farm topics, and finally
became editor Of an agricultural pa
per. His work attracted widespread
attention throughout the middle west,
and soon he became force in the
movement for bettering conditions on
the farm. In 1895, with his sons, H.
C. and J. P. Wallace, he established
Wallace's Farmer. publication which
has worked with the motto, "Good
farming, clear thinking, right living"
The Iowan editor was one of the
first, IL not the first, to put in prac-
tice the special train idea as relating
to agriculture, "corn specials" as they
are sometimes called. This was in 1896.
when in corhpanY with dairying and
agricultural experts he made trip
through his state for the purpose or
stimulating an interest in dalrylng
throughout Iowa.
His appointment by President Theo-
dore Roosevelt as a member of the
country life commission came unso-
licited and was entirely unexpected.
He knew nothing about the movement
to create a commission until one DAY
when he received a letter from the
White House requesting that he serve
as a member.
One of the first announcements
which he made after his unanimous
election as president of the national
conservation congress was that the
commissions report, with its enor-
nous amount of new information OF
value to the agricultural interests OF
the country, will be puoiished private
ly The commission was broken up by
the Tawney amendment to the sundry
civil bill of 1909, and its report was
left unpublished.
The new president of the national
conservation congress is past three
score and fourteen years of age, and
his friends and associates say that ne
has shown that there is hope for Sick
ly men If they will learn the secret
of right living He keeps young, he
explains, by keeping the mind young,
by eating moderately. and taking a
sufficient amount Of physical exercise.
The men in Iowa who know him pest
insist that his other conservation pol
icies are just as sound as his theories
on conserving health.
Mr.. Wallace has not confined his
- dfSnIISCinT n
ter methods of farming and how to
make more money out of tho farm,
but has felt free to discuss every sub
iect that touches the life and welfare
of the farmer Of the west. A few
years ago he overheard quarrel be-
tween a father and a son on one OF
his farms, and the thought was FUR
nished for q series of 'Uncle Henry S
Letters to the Farm Boy" in which
he dealt with the relations which
ought to exist between the farm boy
and his father, following with another
series on the subject of the farm BOY
and his mother. The letters were
continued in his paper for almost a
year, and the demand was such that
he was compelled to put them in book
FORM His was perhaps the first ag-
riculturaI paper to publish each week
an exposition of the Sabbath school
lesson by the editor. This feature OF
his work has always pleased his
friend Secretary Wilson, who wrote
on the occasion of the "Uncle Henry's''
seventy-fourth birthday, Il appreciate
the great work he has done in his day
and the great work he is doing now
in the line of agriculture-work that
is on higher plane than that of any
other writer of his day." The letter
from the secretary of agriculture was
one Of 2500 congratulating Editor Wal
lace at the time.