The Yale expositor., 1912-04-04

that many congressman owe their re-
turn TO Washington to the fact that
they have done so much for their
districts"
1t is possible for member to make
no effort to familiarize himself with
matters of great national concern, and
to take no active part in the debates
on momentous questions, and yet to
commend himself to his constituents
because he has been SO active in send
ing them garden seeds, looking after
private pension matters and above all,
being active in getting appropriations
for federal buildings which would be
an ornament to the public square"
The real trouble seems to be 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 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 duties. Some mep
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 tc
time in Washington that there is
possibility that the progressiyes and
the conservatives of the Republican
party, IL they should get into a dead.
lock condition at Chicago over the
nomination for the presidency, might
turn for compromise candidate to
the supreme bench and nominate AS
sociate Justice Charles Il. Hughes.
There is not one chance in thou.
sand, perhaps, that this will happen.
for 1t is said that Mr.. Hughes has
heard the rumor that such q thing
might be proposed and has handed
down a decision" against it in ad.
vance.
Charles L. Hughes is the only man
of pure Welsh descent who has a
seat on the supreme bench. Ii 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 1890 and 1870. There are five
or six Welsh churches in Utica alone
guage is heard from the pulpit.
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
bill which gives Uncle Sam the
right to take over for forest re-
serve purposes tracts ef lands in the
White Mountains of New Hampshire
and in two or three states OF the
southern Appalachian region. In q
week or two the commission which
has this matter in charge will report
on certain sections which it 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
startle anyone by its 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 $S,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
Uountain streams were losing their
waters, the rapids were becoming
rills and the depths were becoming
murmuring shadows. 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 100000 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
land owner in the Appalachian re-
gion north and south. 1t does follow,
however, that only such numbering
operations will be allowed as will in
crease rather than decrease the sup
ply of wood for commercial purposes.
This statement may seem to contain
cOntradictorv nronOsitiOnS but IL