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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-18
THE FIGHT OF THE SPECIAL
INTERESTS.

The natural result OF this new attitude
vas the assertion in every form by the
representatives Of special interests that
the Forest Service was exceeding It's Legal
mowers and thwarting the intention OF
Congress. suits We're begun wherever In"
chance arose. IL is worth recording that
i'm spite OF the novelty and completely OF
the legal questions it had 10 face no count
If last resort has ever decided against the
Forest Service This statement includes
two unanimous decisions by the Supreme
Cour' Of tho United states. (U. :. VS..
Grimaud. go L. :. 800, and Light vs..
L. =. 220 L. :. 523D
In it, administration Of the national
forests the Forest Service found that
valuable coal lands were in danger OF
RAISING into private ownership without
adequate money return to the government;
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-18

solved the housing problem as nearly as
is possible in this era.
81 should like to mention a little obser-
vation.I made in Philadelphia, because.
insignificant as it may seem in itself, it
dscloses a fact which might well encour-
age the progressive social worker and
legislator i'm the housing field. went into
some OF the worst shacks i'm the city,
their windows broken. ceilings falling,
stairways. rotten and dangerous, and
asked what the rents were. found that
they ranged generally between IS and
SO for four or five rooms a month.
asked my guide what people had 10 pay
for the same number of decent rooms and
found to my amazement that the rents
i'm that case were no higher than those
paid by these cave jewellers. Thinking
over the matter. / could find but one eX-
planation-t the cave dwellers live
there not because they can afford Moth
ing better but because they can be in
duced TO be satisfied with such bad con-
ditions. The men whom found in these
worst places were generally negroes. who
liked TO collect in a quarter OF their
own. whose sregarious instincts were
stronger than their recently superim-
posed ideas of cleanliness. This shows
that by establishing a certain standard
for homes not too high. OF course there
would be no danger OF putting these peo-
pie on the street. they would get their
good houses for the same money. The
example OF Philadelphia, therefore is a
valuable piece OF information with which
To refute the fallacy OF reactionary poliu-
clans that slums are necessary because
they are only dwelling haunts the poor
800.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-18
SOME GOOD AND BAD FEATURES
OF PHILADELPHIA

Through the good Offices of Mr.. New
man | saw the worst as well as the best
features of Philadelphia housing. in
spected the neat IL somewhat monoto-
nous rows OF cottages that run through
hundreds and hundreds of streets, con-
trasting so remarkably with the tene-
ment districts OF New York And / saw
dark and narrow alleys, with surface
, drainage. and surrounded by dilapdated
frame shacks which seemed TO be utter
ly out OF place in a modern city OF
Homes" Philadelphia teaches this great
lesson TO all American cities i'm the max
ing: IL is impossible 10 deal efficiently
with the housing problem by regulating
merely tenement conditions. The time
has long passed when there is no need
for the state to look after conditions i'm
cottages on the assumption that the own
er will exercise this function. 40 city
can afford to leave this type of dwelling
uncontrolled.
Philadelphia is "A city Of extremes.
The predominant type Of dwelling is that
which is regarded as the ideal home and
know OF no other large city i'm the " orld
that has maintained to date such ssni-
tary general type OF dwelling II is "A
matter for regret that high rents already
begin TO endaneer this unique advantage
that Philadelphia. has over New York. and
more and more tenements are being built
for those who cannot keep pace with the
Increase in rents. However. the city
seems TO be aware OF this danger and will
certainly meet il with adequate industrial
and transit policies.
When | saw Philadelphia after having
seen New York ii occurred TO me that n
there were a city that could unite i'm
itself the advantages OF these two mag
nhcent communities the cottage garden
sys. m of Philadelphia and the sanitation
Law OF New York that city would have
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-18
CONDITIONS IN SToCKYARD RE
ClON OF CHICAGO.

From Philadelphia | went West To
Tulsa and thence back TO Chicago. Con-
ditions i'm many parts OF the stockyard
region there are still very bad, though
il is claimed many improvements have
been made since The Jungle was writ
ten. However. the city il energeticany
going To work TO right matters. The
interest of the individual citizen (the man
in the street. as they call him In Engand)
in municipal affairs which is so charac-
teristic OF the American. Is as notice
able there as in New York. II is this
spirit that has made civic life 50 inten-
sive in all American cities, and II ~. |
think. the key TO the marvellous growth
OF American efficiency I'm Europe public
opinion is centred on national Affairs. TO
the detrment OF proper attention to local
matters
AT Cleveland / found much TO interest
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-18
The Ex-President Tells of the Growth OF the
Movement for the Conserving Of Natural
Wealth in the Wavof Forests, Water
ways, Oil md Coal Deposits,
Etc. and Discourses Of
I.eadersin the Crusade
Leaders heCrusade.

panics and such representatives 81 their
views iu Congress az Mcssrs. Tawncy
and Bcde.
Many bills were introduced in Congress
aimed. I'm one way or another. nj re'
ieving the power companies of control
and rayment When these bills reached
me refused To sign them; and the IN
jury to the public interest which would
follow their passage was brought sharply
to public attention in my message OF
February 26 1905. The bills made no
further progress.
Under the same principle OF steward
snip railroads and other corporations
which applied for and wero gwen rights
I'm the national forests were regulated
in the use Of those rights. In short the
public resources in charge of the Forest
Service were handled frankly and openly
for the public welfare under the clear cut
and clearly set forth principle that the
public rights come first and private in
tcrest second
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-18
THE WATERWAYS AND CONSER
WALTON.

Tho conservation movement WAS di-
rect outgrowth of the forest movement. II
was nothing more than the application 20
our other natural resources Of the princi-
ples which had been worked out I'm con
nection with the forests. Without tn.
basis Of public sentiment which had been
built up for the protection Of the forests.
and without the example of public fore
sight ia the protection of this. one Of tn
great natural resources, the conservation
movement would have been impossible.
The FIST formal step WAS the creation o.
the Inland Waterways Commission. APP
pointed on March H. 1907 In my letter
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-18

And it costs little more than dwelling of
brick.
From New York I went 10 Philadel-
phia, where Bernard j. Newman, Of the
cty's Housing Commission. gave me in
valuable assistance. In Philadelphia /
found good sanitary laws for tenements,
but the condition Of the housing of the
This great and rich American city MAIN
tains fewer than twenty inspectors to en-
force the sanitary laws relating 10 tene-
ments. Laws should apply not only TO
tenements. but to one and two family
houses. which experience has shown can
be just as dirty and dark as any tene-
meut
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-18

waterway system as a unit IN the princl-
pie of correlatins water traffic with rail
and other land traffic; in the principle OF
expert initiation Of projects in accordance
with commercial foresight and the needs
Of a growing country. and i'm the principle
OF cooperation between the states and the
federal government i'm the administration
ana use If waterways, etc. the general
plan proposed by the commission is new,
and at the same time sane and simple
The plan deserves unqualified support ]
regret that it has not yet been adopted by
congress. but am confident that ulti-
mately il will be adopted"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-18

me. You hardly realize. prooa0! I
one person in sem in that great 0p
Hungarian.
In Washington I found that ~
work had been done IN recent s'N' !, |.
that the housing problem i De'n. I
died most efficiently and ensfs'' =.
Nearly an the old unsanitary amer !
been pulled down, and IN the ~
years nearly TWO thousand nous"
been demolished and more thah 0~
sand radically repaired The so'"--
local affairs in the District Of "
depends largely upon the peIs0o4--
the President and the PERSONA NV. !,
the President aud his family ID y.
perity OF the civ is greatly go -.
for the uncqualled progress ""
is making
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-18
ROOSEVELT ON SAVING, OF PUBLIC DOMAIN FOR PUBLIC US

In the November fo;iov,,,
each OF the Governors NJ s'7'.
states ana TO the president. s'es
important national societ,.. = ara
with natural resources. lnv,,,. ''nes''..
attend the conference Wit nen
May - TO Is. 1905. IN the gs., ''os ~
me White House II is doob,,s "o's Z
except in time OF var any 'aess
Ike importance has ever h,,r "a
to nation and accepted Nv /, $50
effectiveness and rapidly a. ~
with this conservation nnoven.,. - z,
was introduced to the Americas -, "a !
the conference Of Governor. .''< ~
result was the uHsalmous dee,..'s ~
the Governors Of an the s,a,.. 80 =
tories uro1 The subject Of con~,,. e.
document which ought 10 bs A. ="
every schoolhouse throughoo, A., -
fugther result was the anno,. ~
thirty-s.E state conservation ecr0'..-'
and, on june 8. 1908. Of the Ns,la.'''
seryatiOn Commission. The - :"
commission was 10 prepare an inv.,...
thc hrst ever made Tor any na,,ou !,
the natural resources which ves4,,, !
property Tho making Of th,. p
wls made possible by an Execute. -. :.
which placed The resources OF N. -,
mcni DEPARTMENTS At the commans ~.
commission. and made possibl. a.
ganization of slbsidlary comur,.,.
which The actual facts for the ln,,-.
were prepared and digestsc c..
Pnchot was made chairman o. N. 81
mission.
The report of the National con..,s..
Commission wss not only the err !
ventory of our resources. but w,.
in the history Of government 4, !.
amount ard variety Of iaforr,,-.
brought .eee-hcr u vss conple,,d |, !.
month. % laid squarely before n. Ar'.
lean people the essential facts re.,,s.,
our natural resources. when fact, ",
greatly needed as the basis FOR eor-,,.
tive action This report was pr.~n,., .
the Joint Const.vato on Congress /, \
e-mber az which there were presen, g,
erucrs or twenty states. represen,,,,,
of twenty-five state conservation oor-,
s.ons and representatives. u sir,r d.
tional organizations previously rsps~r
ed az the White House conference =
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-18

~HE idea that tho Executive is the
steward OF the public welfare was
Il Al frSr formulated and given
practical effect in the Forest Service 10y
its law officer. George Woodruff. The
laws were often insufficient and 10 be
came wcInigh impossible 90 eet them
amended I'm the pu)ic interest when once
the representatives Of privilege IN Con
cress sraspcd the fact that ] would sign
no amendment that contained ANYTHING
rot I'm the public interest 1t was neces-
sary 10 use what law was already in e%-
istence. and then further 10 supplement
10 by Executive action The practice Of
examining every claim 10 public land be-
fore passing il into private ownership
offers good example Of the policy m
question This practice. which mas since
become general was first apphsd in the
national forests. Enormous areas Of
valuable public timber land were thereby
saved from fraudulent acquisition more
than 10000 acres were thus saved I'm a
single case
This theory Of stewardship boo the inter-
est Of the public was well illustrated by
the establishment of waterpOwer policy
Until the Forest Service changed the plan.
wsterpowers ON the navigable streams. on
the public domain and in the national
forests were given away for nothing. and
substantially without question. to who
ever asked for them. AT last under the
principle that public property should be
paid for and should not be permanently
granted away when such permanent
grant is avoidable. the Forest Service es-
tablishcd the policy of regulating the use
Of power i'm the national forests in the
public interest and making charge for
value received. This was the beginning
# the waterpower policy now substan-
TALLY accepted 10y the public. and doubt
less soon 20 be enacted into law. But
there was at the outset violent opposition
10 il on the part Of the waterpOwer com
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-18
GeORGE " Woodruff

The most striking incident m the history
Of the commission was the trip down the
Mississippi River i'm October 1907. when
as President Of the United States. ] was
the chief guest. This excursion, with the
meetings which were held and the wide
public attention Z attracted. gave the de-
velopment of our inland waterways new
standing i'm public estimation. During the
trip letter was prepared and presented
to me asking me TO summon conference
on the conservation OF natural resources.
My intention TO call such a conference
was publicly announced at great meet
ing at Memphis. Tenn.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-18
A HUNGARlAN'S A0MlRA''''
PRESIDENT WILSON

II admire President Wilson gre.
merely because of his really p'','s
and genuinely democratic polin u =,
cause ne is one Of the very lev :,
men of whom know who mas ia
he absolutely independent Of p'". ..
terests and whose policy . o''. ~. 4
the sole consideration OF "'~~
their promises made TO the p'Y, ,.
~ matter to which : have s"'
attention ifs your admirable va -
ting YOUR factories out OF cue !. =. I,
fishing satellite or garden sa'I, -
ale i'm themselves seIf-coh'"". ~
We ought 10 have Gay % ~
Two sertlements Of this Kind [" }
near Budapest our enlP'V' ~
tory labor many Of them /" "a u
do no, sccm 10 realize what, "'' I,
wor. cam be- got ont Of eInple '. !.
welfare is attended o. ".o Az II
our factories are 10 cro~o'" 80
borhoods. The hungarian 4
maintains an excellent 49, $40. = !
near BUDAPEST for the emp's, .',. B
lies ',', are being moved out 'A''' , .
receive a house aud a sai'.. .....,s
| hope that by means 0. ~, -
phlct ADVERTISING. heipl" 49,
ments and governmental ''S ,'lu.,
, to man ar's We ma, 'S Ss,s, 1
to buy tracts Of srV'"' .ssr -
suburbs and erect thereon ~
and DWELLINGS for EMPLOYS, 10
tenn. am inclined to mn, ,n'ss,.,rs
ing problem -.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-18

and without safeguard against monopoly,
and that existing legislation was insult
icient 20 prevent this. When this oondi-
ton was brought to my attention / with
orew from az forms of entry about sixty
eight million acres of coal land in the
United states. Including Alaska The re-
fusaI OF Congress to act IN the public in
terest was solely responsible tor keeping
thes. lands from entry.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-18
CHARTS s BARRETT

transmitted 20 me January II. %
January -. 1919. I transmitted the ls''
Of the National Conservation Comin's
10 Congress with a special messae
which it was accurately described Is
Of the most Fundamentally imGof1
documents ever laid before the Ainsna
people
The Joint Conservation Conieta"
December. 1905. suggested TO me me !"
ticability of holding a North Aae~'
Conservation Congress ] selee'c y
ford Pinchot 70 convey this Invita-"
Continued on fifth page
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-18
THE PASSING OF THE WOODEN
FRAME HOUSE.

Have your Investigations through the
East and Middle West shown you any
signs Of the beginning OF the passing OF
the wooden frame house which the build
ing trade confidently predicts
NO. j can't say that they have. IL VIII
pass. Of course. II must pass soon, with
timber becoming so rapidly depleted Has
il ever occurred 10 you. moreover. that The
United States might be said to bealoslns
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-18
Dr.. bartholomew .ilI,s7.,z,,a

gigantic sum yearly by the decay or
wooden frame dwellings? And in nifty
years time. when far more houses will
lie becoming uninhabtable annually. the
annual loss To the countrys purse viii he
appalling Substantial brick DWELLINGS ia
Europe have housed folks for centuries
and have been largely adaptable TO the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-18

march OF architectural progress"
$50 the brick house is the best type of
DWELLING"
Under certain circumstances. on the
whole. though. am inclined to give that
place To the house OF concrete. II is prac-
ticslly indestructiblo it is neat and warm
and dry 1t Is soundproof and freproof
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-18

Married men are s'g'p', sIpss
some OF them. tho's"
nails.
Grand Forks daily herald. (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1914-1916, 1914-10-10
ADJUSTMENTS
Ihe jungle.

h jungle.
For those who crave dramatic SEN
sation, there is an exceptional oppor-
tunity in store with the coming pres
entation Of the five-part motion pic
ture of THE Jungle" which has been
secured as the attraction at the Met
ropolitan for Monday and Tuesday.
A terrific fight on a runaway ove a
herd Of stampeding cattle, in which
a man Is thrown to seeming death:
the making of sausage, with all the
inside information accurately shown;
the rescue Of the respondent girl
from a death in the river; the fall of
a man into q vat of boiling lard; here
is but a few Of the stirring scenes
which go to make this latest produc-
ton Of the ALI Star Feature corpor-
alton one which goes down among
the best of the day. Upton Sinclair.
the author. personally appears in the
film. and with him George Nash. la''
star Of 1.-THE Gamblers" and "Oficer
sss." and Gail Kane. the star OF
"Seven Keys to Baldpate." The bal
anc of the asst has been selected
with the usual All Star painstaking.
Grand Forks daily herald. (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1914-1916, 1914-10-10
TWINE PLANT FIGURES.

In another column is published a
summary of Irvine plant management
under Mr.. Hellstrom and under Mr..
Talcott. Mr.. Hellstrom, as the Demo-
cratic candidate for governor, bases
his claim for election. in part, at least.
on h record which he made while
warden of the state p~enitentiary and
manager Of the penitentiary Irvine
plant. Naturally, he is DESTROYS of
having his work show up as we'll as
possible, but in his anxiety to do this
he has made some statements during
the campaign which do not appear to
be fully warranted by the facts.
Mr.. Hellstrom tries to make it ap-
pear that under the administration of
Warden Talcott. an appointee Of Gov
ernor Hanna, the farmers of the state
lost some of the advantages which he
had given them while he was warden.
h price of Irvine advanced, there
fore the governor advanced 1t, and
private corporations selling Irvine
were thus able to make more profit
out of the farmers. AS the article
quoted points out. the state Irvine
plant manufactures about one-tenth of
the Irvine used by the North Dakota
farmers. During the administration
Of Mr.. Hellstrom, the price at which
the private concerns sold Irvine in
North Dakota was the same as the
price which they received in adjoining
states. 1t will scarcely be claimed that
the small output of our state plant.
distributed In this state alone, lower
ed the price in any other state where
1t was not sold.
The price of Irvine has advanced, II
Is true. 1t has advanced because the
price OF the raw material Of which It
is made has advanced, in some cases
rs much as 100 per cent. If the raw
material costs more. the finished pro-
duct must cost more, unless It is Mr.,
Heilstrom's idea to operate the Irvine
plant 1t q loss and go to the legisla-
ture for an appropriation to make M
the differences. It has been the policy
OF the present administration to buy
material in the market 1T the lowest
possible price and 70 sell the product
AZ directly . possible to the farmers
At Z y slight advanes oyer cost.
This has been done, ana ths result
ha0 I'm sfsefnc
Grand Forks daily herald. (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1914-1916, 1914-10-10

up Fritz. "Give me your overcoat.
I'll take it to the mar at the check
ing place and say I found it. He'll
put 1t away. When you are ready to
go home you go to him and ask if any
body has turned a lost ~overcoat in to
him. Then, of course, you'll get
yours"
The Customer-These grand opera
monograph records are no good. I
can't get anything out of half of them.
n Salesman-"They are u fines
achievement. You never can tell
when these records will sing. THEY'RE
SO temperamental."
Oculist (pointinE to his test card)-
Can you read these letters?
Patient-No, doctor.
Oculist-Well. then, these?
Patient-No, doctor.
Oculist (impatiently pointing to tho
largest letters)-Well. these, then?
Patient-No. doctor.
oculist-Why. hang it all, how is
that possible? :"
Patient-Because I never learned to
read. ~
Grand Forks daily herald. (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1914-1916, 1914-10-10
NOT A HERALD ARTICLE,

A friend has sent to The Herald an
article clipped from one Of the state
papers and credited to The Herald,
with the inquiry whether or not it had
actually been published in The Herald.
The article is a comment on the action
Of the state equalizing board in cut
ting down the appropriations for edu-
cational institutions, expressing ap-
prevail of that act. and stating that it
Is high time that the expenditures of
the educational institutions were
brought directly under control of
the state auditor and treasurer.
AS our correspondent surmises, the
article did not appear in The Herald,
and 1t is therefore incorrectly credit
ed to this paper. Moreover, its en-
tire tone is contrary to The Herald's
views Of the situation, and it recon-
mends what The Herald believes to be
an incorrect line of policy.
Our impression is that the leeisla-
ture OF the state, and not the auditor
or treasurer, or n other official, reg
ulate the affairs of the institutions. If,
as n would gather from the read
ing Of this stray article, it is the opin-
on Of Its unknown author that the
auditor and treasurer are to exercise
a sort Of supervisory and paternal-
istic authority over the institutions
which the state legislature has Great
ed. and to determine whether or not
money which the legislature has or
dered set aside for those institutions
and paid for their maintenance shall
or shall not be so set aside and so
paid. we dissent emphatically from
such doctrine.
Fortunately the rights Of the var,-
Gus interests affected are to be tested
Immediately in the courts, and we will
before long have the matter settled.
This is desirable. for nothing Is worse
In such a case than uncertainty.