New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-14

real journal of opinion. 1t reflected
the convictions as we'll as the opinions
OF ITS owner and editor, and it was n
real molder OF opinion in its influence
upon its readers and the community it
served
Forest Conservation Necessary
The editors were not always great
writers. but they were generally ra-
triots, and honestly DESTROYS to render
service And they We're generally par
tlsan and they preached party gospel
and believed in it. Sometimes it seems
10 me that the transition from the
party organ to the independent news
paper, so called. has not baen an un-
mixed blessing. The partisan news
! paper. in its editorial expression. ut
tered the considered views of large
element Of our citizenship, while the
independent paper is often the organ
solely CT its owner. or it is colorlessly
neutral
There is temptation to-day to
blend shop talk with politics. because
| know how intimately you are think
ing OF the problem Of newsprint, the
cost Of which has added so excessively
20 the expense account of every news
paper. Men speak of immediate relief,
'Permenent and ample relief must
come by going to the underlying
causes. II is obvious that we must
have a forest policy which shall make
us selfreliant once more. Forest con-
servaton is necessary accompani-
ment TO printing expansion, and mat
ter of common concern to all the peo-
PIE.
Three hfths of the original timber
this is +horo
SO,0Oo,0Oo idle acres in which we ought
to b growing forests for the future.
Planning for the future, with added
protection of our present forests from
fire, is matter of deep concern to pub
fishers in particular. but all of con-
structlve America as we'll.
Honesty Needed Badly, He Says
But | want to turn your thoughts
10 q service in our columns. There is
one service for the American press,
not partisan but patriotic, for which
there is a call to-day such as we have
never known before. America needs a
baptism in righteousness and a new
conservation in morality.
1T was stated the other day that q
reflex of the war has been so revealed
III broken obligations and betrayed
trusts that the bonding companies are
called upon 10 meet such losses that
the whole schedule for fidelity policies
must be rewritten. If my information
is correct, the security companies have
never been called upon to meet so many
and such heavy losses in all the history
cf that business.
Call it reaction if you like, we need
the old standards of honesty, the lofty
standards of fidelity. If could call for
but one distinction, l would like ours
to be known as an honest people We
need the stamp OF common everyday
honesty everywhere.
"If governments and their diplomats
in Europe had been honest there would
have been no war. II everybody con-
csrned had been rightly honest peace
might have followed the armistice
within ninety days If we could only
we could put an end to indus trial and
social unrest, and if we were only hon
est with God we would become moral
snd religious people again.
Every Hope Is Of Tomorrow
81 suppose some people will say l
am looking Backward But if we may
look backward to clear our vision we
may look forward more confidently,
and lift our gaze above and beyond
the sordid and selfish things and the
baser side OF life so horribly revealed
when passions are aftame.
IF we arc living in the past to re-
equal rights of Jefferson, the genius of
Hamilton, the philosophy Of Franklin,
or the sturdiness of Jackson; if it is
looking backward to recall the sympa-
thv~and steadfastness of Lincoln, the
restoration Of Mckinley or the awaken
ing by Roosevelt, l am happy to drink
of the past for my inspiration for the
morrow.
"Engineering is a scientific pursuit
and a very accurate one. 1t mas been
my fortune to witness some railway
SURVEYS. and l never knew an engineer
who did not turn his transit to his
back-sight to make sure of his line
bv which we were TO move on.
"Something has been said lately
about looking to the sunrise of to-
morrow, not the skyline of the set
ting sun. Every hope in life is of to-
/ morrow. We could not live yesterday
again if we would. But the glory of
ten thousand morrows was wrought IN
the wisdom CLEANED on yesterday.
Mariners and planters and harvesters
all study the sky. Sometimes above
/ the skyline, in lands where the desert
/ stretches. there is the mirage, with it's
lure to the fevered and thrsting, with
/ inviting promise of relief. In the
! horizon of RepubncanlSm ana main
tanned constitutionalis there IS no
mirage to lure the American caravan,
hut we mean to 60 securely on, over
the proved routes Of triumph for the
Republic and the people thereof.
no one agency can render greater
service in holding to the charted way
than conscientious and patriotic
American press. But it must remain
free, utterly free, along with freedom
Of speech, freedom of religious belief'
and the freedom of righteous pursuit.
i must be honest and it ever must be
rejoicing in American nationality,
which is our priceless possession.
Howe Urged as Daniels's Aid
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