Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1913-10-24

asst few wears. The old order has
passed away, I hope forever. The
demand of the hour in our public
servants is honesty, unselfishness !
and efficiency. Men of vision and
new ideals and. high purposes are
n wv active in our social and politl-
cal life, and directing the ship OF
state. The American people have
been aroused to the economic dan
gers confronting us, and their con-
sciences quickened to sense OF
their duty and obligations to gener-
atoms yet unborn, if this nation is to
e ldure and continue a mighty in
flaence for good in the worlds at
fairs.
The people are responding with
magnificent support to all the
schemes of the National Govern
ment for the conservation of our ma
t .rial resources. The devastation of
the forests upon the mountains have
caused the mountain slopes to erode,
filing in the rivers and the streams,
destroying our splendid WATERPROOF
er, and causing the disastrous floods
that have become of so frequent oc
currence in recent times. In an ef-
fort to prevent these conditions
twelve millions of dollars have beer
appropriated by the Congress fol
1.-THE acquisition of lands along ano
upon the watersheds of the Ap
Ipalachian and White Mountains fol
Ireforestation. AS evidence of the
peoples appreciation of this work Of
1.-The National Government the legis.
latures of all the States, wherein
these lands are being acquired, have
passed laws for cooperating with
the Federal Government in this I'M
|dertaking.
| This work, my friends, is the off
lspring of magnificent vision that
in its sweep contemplates the TEEN
ing millions that are destined to &C.
cupy this continent within the next
fifty years. Its inspiration is a con-
scious sense of duty and response
bility to posterity, that speaks well
for the spirit of our times, and gives
hope for the future of our country
and her inhabitants.
You, my friends, are a part of and
co-laborers in this great work. Yours
is the rough part, filled with labor
and responsibility, discharged, some
times without much evidence of APP
preciation, and far from the mad
dening crowds ignoble strife amidst
the solitudes of nature in the eternal
hills, without the voice of com
Ipanionship save the music of the
forests, and the multitudinous voices
|of the creatures of God that make
their homes within them.
! Life, however, is not measured by
1.-THE kind of work we do, or by the
environment in which we labor, MOI
lyet by what we get out of it, but il
the final analysis the joys of life anc
its greatest compensations come
from what we put into life, and ou
mental attitude towards the tasks al
lotted US by Providence. Approach
Iyour work with something of tn,
vision of the men who conceive it
Think of the benefits you are help
ing to bestow not only upon the liv
ing, but especially upon those VIII
shall come after you, and posses
the land. Project your Imagination
into the future and see as the resul
of the work with which you ar,
identified our splendid rivers pre-
lserved in their beauty, and dottet
with mills and power plants furnish
ling employment to thousands ant
increasing the sum total of the pros
lperity and the happiness of the land
Think of the awful and desolatins
floods that have been of such fire.
lquent occurrence in the past sweep
ling before them happy homes with
their inmates, and destroying in Z
moment the hardly won treasures anc
labor of years, and then remembe,
THAT you are helping to avert these
lavenging calamities of nature. With
this view and vision of your work
life will have for you a new, deeper,
land fuller meaning, and will not re-
Igard your employment as a mere
means of livelihood, but will look
upon it with joys and the compensa-
tons that come to the good soldier
enlisted for the commonweal.
WHEN YOUR LIVER