Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1920-08-14

New York State will lead the nation in in
tensive application of forestry to idle lands
under plans now being formulated in Otsego
county. This country, whose hills and val
leys lakes and streams formed the setting for
Cooper's Misunderstanding tales, is organizing
a system of county and township forests, on
the basis of survey by the New York State
College OF Forestry at Syracuse. The plan is
for each township to plant forest of rough
ly 100 acres at starting point The several
forests will be part of the county system and
will be connected with the highways to make
them accessible from all parts of the county.
The standard Of value in Potosi, Bolivia,
for everything from sweethearts to cities is
the Silver Hill of the Thundered Willis
Knapp Jones in the August Travel gives a
picturesque history Of the wonderful Bolivion
silver mine and the town which spent ten
million dollars celebrating the coronation
of King Philip II of Spain. AS the legend
goes, when the early Indians started digging
there for silver the mountain shook and
Numbered, "This hill is not for YOU It
belongs to race which will come later''
In this strange town silver was more plenti-
full than bread.
munication is as old as Biblical times' With
this statement the National Geographical So
ciety at Washington quotes from commune
cation by John A. Kingman, who sets forth
the interesting theory that the island of
Capri was an imperial wireless sation Of an
cient Rome. "We know that the ancents
signaled in various ways and over long
distances he says 'FThey signaed by bea-
con fires, by beacon smoke, by pigeons, by
fage, and by shouting from one sentinel to
another.'
United States mail for the Orient is to be
carried by the Empress steamers of the Ca
madam Pacific ocean services if the DOmin-
ion government approves the contract just
concluded by the steamship line and the
American postal authorities. A feature of
the proposed arrangement is the transporta-
aion of American mail from Seattle to
Victoria by airplane.
The historian Buckle says somewhere that
European civilization was born in Belgium
and that it is likely to die in the Balkans,
a summary not without it's significance when
we remember that the war began in Belgium
and that it's fires are still burning fercely
along the whole length Of the old eastern
'front.' Tacitus, too, said something OF the
same sort thousand years earlier. lie
pointed out that the Balkan area had al
ways been the scene Of fierce fighting for It's
narrow gangway between Asia and Europe
The hostile hordes sought the valley OF the
Danube because the great river gave them
water and transportation. II Iacltus coulo
have forseen the present evolution OF Europe
and the aspirations of Asia he would have
looked forebodingly toward the future OF
that same gangway uniting the two CONT
nents, he would have predicted a continual
ton of the bloody struggle that even then
was age old It is before our eyes today.
Behind all the wretched little quarrels Tor
areas for mandates and for domlnlons, the
colossal forces of two continents are pre-
paring for struggle greaer than any that
we have yet seen.
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