The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-03-30
FRANK WINSTON TALKS TIMBER
CULTURE TO PINE ASSOCIATION
Suggests That Organization Establish a Chair of
forestry at Chapel Hill-Also Advocates Course in
forestry in Every Public School.

now going. How does that sound
along side of the advice freely given
last fall that raiSerS Of cotton should
not pay their merchants unless they
were allowed ten cents a pounq for
their cotton? At the risk # taking
more time than my invitation war
rants, ! small quote an editorial from
the Detroit Times.
h il the Matter.
hat Is the matter with tho United
~StatesE As l nave been residing in
London since the beginning Of the
war, | have been hearing this uues-
ton asked on all sides. / have never
heard any satisfactory answer. No
one seems 10 know. Why are the
American factories not running night
and day? Why are the railroads not
opening up new territories and getting
ready for the millions OF immierants
who have already made up their
minds to leave Europe as soon as the
war IS over? Why are there not fifty
American dTunmers in London right
now trying to sell two hundred mil
lion dollars worth of American goods
IN place Of the goods that were bought
OF Germany and Austria? From the
European point of view the United
States Is a haven OF peace and Sc
tcurlty and prosperity. 1t has no
troubles that it dare mention to Bel
GUM, or Austria, or France, or Ser
via. or Great Britain, or Russia. Every
tenth Brlton has enlisted. Every
tenth Frenchpan is at the front.
Every tenth Belgian is dead? What
does the United States know Of
trouble?
IF | could afford It I would char
ter the Mauritania and lusitania, and
carry a party Of four thousand Ameri-
| clan adventures to Europe for a trip
Of education. [ would give them q
week in London. a week in Paris, and
E a week IL Antwerp. 1 would let
= them look at the United States from
( the scene Of war. / would give them
a look at real trouble. l would let
e them, see trains, ten at a time, five
minutes a part. packed with the
manned and dying. / would let them
hear from fragmentary survivors the
h incredible story Of battlefields a hun
= dred and fifty miles wide. and armies
that are greater than the entire popu-
4 latlOn OF Texas. [ would let them see
- graves a hundred yards long and full
a Belgium, the country that was, moth
= ing but 1900 square miles of wreck
age. Then when they began TO un'
= derstand, to some slight extent, tn,
magnitude and awfulness Of this war
would say to them-now go bacl
- and appreciate the United States
Realize your opportunities. Don
start digging trenches when nobod,
e is firing at you. Don't fall down whel
= you have not been hit. Don't be blinc
~ to the most glorious chance you eve
:. had in your life. Get ready for tn
- most tremendous business boom h
any nation ever had. Build you fac
- tories bigger. Train more salesme
: Borrow more money. Go ahead an
thank God that you are alive and tina
r. your family is alive and that you ar
- living in a land that 1t at peace, a
- a time when nearly the whole worl
is at war;
"Mr. Toast Master. [ belong to thu
class Of lunbermen who look on tn
I'd bright side Of business, who expec
at the best to happen. in every thins
as and in the lumber business in part
GUAR. I confess that there are ne
S, a great many Of my class. In tim
ms Der. as in other businesses. there ar
those who see bankruptcy ahead Whe
or every saw Is cutting to its limit. ar
Mt there are those who never expect th
st saw that is still today. to turn agai,
These men are every where, in q
at trades, in all business. in all profe:
a sions~ They remind me Of the cond
tion Of an bic friend Of mine in Snak
II Rite township in my native count.
en- He looked OF the dark side. Il
ed rarely ever said that he was we'll. Or
re day h:s wife came TO town and "
I'd asked her how her husband was. Sh
al repIied, John has been enioyin" 10
Ell health most OF his life, but just b<
he fore / left home he was ~comp!alnin
be Of feeling better"
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