The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-18


10 printed: ION the first Sunday which
President Roosevelt spent in Washington
40 Mr.. MeKinley's successor he sent for
Mr.. Pinchot and Mr.. Newell, now the
chief of the reclamation service: and on
tnat day they made out the outlines of
the conservation policy which In less
than 10 years has revolutionized the
thought of the nation.
II is from material taken from some
Of his magazine articles and public ad-
dresses that Mr. Pinchot has made his
little book. This volume sets forth in
general terms the authors views as to
|. what should be the attitude of the Amer
y scan people with regard to the natural
resources of their country. The book has
u chapters. heads as follows: Prosperity,
Home-Building, The Moral Issue, Public
6pirit, The Children, An Equal Chance,
The New Patriotism, The Present Battle
90, with an index.
The book is a small one, including in
dex containing only 152 pages, but on
some of them most of those pages except
the index, Mr.. Pnchot has some very in
tense, even hot, things to say. Says he,
Chapter II: THE alliance between bust
ness and politics is the most dangerous
thing in our political life 1t is the snake
shat we must kill. The special interests
must get out of politics or the American
people will put them out of. business
There Is no third course.
Because the special interests are in
politics we as nation have lost con-
hdence in Congress. This Is a serious
Statement to make, but II Is true. 1t
does not apply, of course, to the men
who really represent their constituents
and who are making SO fine a fight
FOR the conservation of self-govern-
ment. AS soon as these men have won
their battle and consolidated their vic
tory confidence in Congress will return
"But in the meantime the people of
the United States believe that as a
whole the Senate and the House no
longer represent the voters, by whom
they were elected, but the special in
terests by whom they are controlled.
They believe so because they have so
often seen Congress reject what the
people desire and do instead what the
interests demand. And of this there
could be no better illustra uo.' than the
tariff
TT (tariff) has been made a DOL to
Increase the cost of living. The
Steel interests by a trick secured an
fndefensible increase in the tariff on
structural steel. The sugar trust stole
from the government like a petty thief.
yet Congress- by means of a dishonest
schedule continues to protect it in
bleeding the public.
"At the very time the duties on man
ufactured rubber were being raised the
leader of the Senate In company with
the Guggenheim syndicate, was organ
izng an international rubber trust,
whose charter made 1t also a holding
company for the coal and copper de-
posts of the world.
For a dozen years the demand of
the nation for the pure food and drug
bill was outweighed by the interests
which asserted their right to poison the
people for a profit
What is the conclusion of the whole
matter?" Mr.. Pinchot enquiries then
IN the end of this, the twelfth chapter
of his book. The special interests must
be put out of politics. I believe the
young men will do it,"
III The Hon. Jonathan P. Dolliver, Unit
ed States senator from Iowa, writing
|ISeptember s in 1.-THE Independent"
New York; 1.-THE Downward Revision
Hoax" is not quite cheerful, op-
ltimistic as Mr. Pinchot, although the
senator has hopes.
There is one thing In the favor of
IAN earlier and fuller explanation for
1--WE southerners, anyway For you see
1--we conservate and Uncle Remus at
|iAtlanta, with Mr.. Roosevelt, Mr.. Pin
|lchot and others, in October; with
lspeeches all about it, around about, In
jDixie.
"Honesty's Garden" by Paul Creswicke.
&c. P. Putnams Sons.)
This book is one of the most charming,
written out to be read in leisurely way
that this reviewer has run across in a
Hong time. This scribe began the read
Hing of "Honesty's Garden" at Warm
|3Springs, Ga, another garden of charm
listen Never mind, it'll take too long.
The English author of this novel loves
old china and old furniture, and pre-emi-
inently old books, as much as he does old
Fashioned flowers. This middle-aged
|4scribber, collector of books, china and
|ifurniture had his home adjoining pretty
miss Honestys splendidly cared for gar
den These two, both loving flowers.
while one tolerated books, We're great
jfrends, and ii is around these two prin-
icipals and some more or less interesting
minor characters that what plot these is,
(which is not a large, broad one, oper-
.ates.
Then, too, "Honesty's Garden is not
"a book to be read at a sitting, perhaps,
but to lie at hand for taking up during
THE vacant half hours that come into
ones day.
The book so read will be found most
'enpoyable, and many of the authors re-
Elections worth considering and remem-
bering.
sHonesty's Garden" through its author
gives one association with regned and
icultured personality-a gift of the gods
1.-The Sheriff of Dyke Hole, by Ridgwell
Cullum. C. W. Jacobs & Coz
This is a fair sample of the western
history that is published oft and anon,
4only Mr. Cullums book is above the av-
erage standard. Then, too, he sends over
Ifrom London a young chap to right
wrongs Of his dead adopted father, which
4also brings out the comparisons between
the effete east and wild and woolly west
lin doing which England" narrowly es-
capped being brought In, or carried out
Whatever they call 1t In Montana.
On the other hand, the book presents
1.-THE old, familiar, devil-may-care west
THAT from books we are all accustomed
Ito, and are so disappointed when we
leo west and don't find the book-west.
The young Englishman recently re-
ferred to, recklesslyy looking for trouble
on all occasions, is the hero of this story
lbut the book is correctly named, for the
Ilsheriff, Who fills the title role, dominates
\'thc tale. He is the typical westerner-
,wild, fearless. law unto himself He
lis a terror to evildoers, full of humor
heavy at times and of genuine kindness
and chivalry
The sheriff moves in world of ropes
land guns, proud of graveyard which
he has materially helped to fill and of
the doggerel epitaphs he delights to
write. The sheriff is known very appro-
priately as Tombstone Joe' II you
won't find fault with this and that in the
book. IL you wish good time" In a
L. IraIx, 20 End