The Forrest City times., 1912-04-12

ue iedi tIOupie seems 10 De that in hundreds of cases the buildings which have been provided are alto gether too large for the service in- tended. and costly beyond right There are some villages in the United States holding only a handful of people which have finer public buildings than places of thirty times their size. The difference in the structures represents the difference either in influence of the representatives of the different districts, or in the way in which they view their public d-.tes. Some men give their whole time to the greater affairs of state, while others are con tent to give time and energy only to local matters. AS for the quality of statesmenship presented by these two courses, the people must take their choice.
 Hughes as a Dark Horse.
 There have been hints from time to time in Washington that there is a possibility that the progressives and the conservatives of the Republican party, if they should get into a dead
 
 nomination for the presidency, might turn for compromise candidate to the supreme bench and nominate As sociate Justice Charles E. Hughes. There is not one chance in a thou sand, perhaps, that this will happen, for 1t is said that Mir Hughes has heard the rumor that such a thing init ba down decision" against it in ad- vance.
 Charles F. Hughes Is the only man of pure Welsh descent who has seat on the supreme bench. If he should by any chance be nominated for the presidency, the probabilities are that he would have the largest majority in Oneida county, N Y, ever given to a presidential candidate, for Oneida county Is largely populated by Welsh people who settled there in great numbers during the period be- tween 1880 and 1870. There are five or six Welsh churches in Utica alone and in several of them the Welsh lan- guage Is heard from the pulpit. A Welsh newspaper which is published in Utica is read by Welshmen all over the United States.
 To Save Mountain Forests.
 Not long ago congress passed a bill which gives Uncle Sam the right to take over for forest re- serve purposes tracts of lands In the White Mountains of New Hampshire and in two or three states of the southern Appalachian region. In week or two the commission which has this matter in charge will report on certain sections which 1t Is thought wise for the government to take over in order to save the forests, to pre- serve the natural scenic beauty and to keep equable the flow of the streams which are used for navigation and for water power for manufacturing pur poses.
 Thousands of people go to the White Mountains in summer to spend their vacations. This statement will not startle anyone by it's novelty, but there may be something new in the knowledge that the people who go to New Hampshire for the beauty of the scenery and the purity of the air spend sS,000.000 in that state in the months before the leaves of the for estst take on the color of the expend- ed gold
 Plans of the Government
 Congress was told not long ago that the tide of summer travel actually was beginning to turn away from New Hampshire because the mountains were being robbed of their tree glo- ries by the hand of trade, and that the mountain streams were losing their waters. the rapids were becoming rills and the depths were becoming murmuring shallows. Of course, not the entire forested mountain country of New Hampshire can be preserved by the government of the United States. The intention seems to be to take over 1,000,000 acres and to care for the reserve under such regulations as best may be provided for the re- foresting of the waste places and for protection of the water supply.
 1t must not be understood that lum- bering operations will be stopped by the fact that Uncle Sam Is to become a land owner in the Appalachian re- zion north and south. It does follow, however, that only such numbering operations will be allowed as will in- crease rather than decrease the SUD- ply of wood for commercial purposes. This statement may seem to contain contradictory propositions. but 1t does not The government maintains that when a tree is properly cut the operation makes two trees grow where one grew before
 Last year forest fires in the United States destroyed s20,0O0 900 worth of property. The government now is co- operating with such states as ask CO., operation for the prevention O.; for. est fires. Several states have availed themselves of the opportunity to get government aid. The government gives it's help only in sections where