The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-10-15
ITALIAN MONARCH
A GOOD FORESTER
Director Of American AS
sociation Tells Of Visit
to King

WAsIINGTON.- Ebert Francis
baldwin ~ New York, ono uf tho
directors OF the American Forestry
/ n-suriajiou, makes y graphic report
/ of his recent visit to the King ut
/ Italy. when he formally presented
! r, ,OOU, 900 Douglas Fir seeds for the
| rehabilitation OF ltaly's foresta de-
Iroyed during tho war. The seeds
we're tho gift OF Charles Lnthrop
| Pack OF tho association.
zone minute after ! mot King
Victor Emanuel" writes Bald
win, 81 forgot that I was talking 10
king, II had taken two months
hard work TO obtain, through our
embassy an audience with his
majesty. hut is was worth while, u
for nothing more than To discover
that, learned and experienced In
many department ~ science had
government Victor Emanuel was
also up In forestry.
AS "a hoy, ho would plant young
trees at his fathers country places
and rise at o'clock Ia tho morning
| to water the trees properly himself
ana not merely see that Il was done.
| In my own place, outside the city,
| he added, 4 have grown foreign trees
/ and | want to see how the Douglas
firs win do there lie told me ot
! HIS success with various trees ana OF
| his desire TO extend the quantity and
quality Of tree growing.
"Itaiys chief occupation Il agri-
| culture and the king IL intensely in
tcrosted In all things agricultural.
AS with an nations. so Victor
| Emauucrs great regret IN, as he said
60 me, the Country's lack OF raw ma
tcrials. The American gift being In
the line Ot raw materials. IL there
fore especially welcome tn King ana
people II should extend ltaly's
forest resources, It should ultimately
add To her food supply. II should
rQualiye the flow OF brooks ana rlv-
ors iu comforting these benefits on
u foreign country, as his majesty
pointed out the American Forestry
association Is moro than American.
10 has become international ana its
work Is a model to tho rest OF the
world.
Its duplicate would bc very ad-
vOutageous.' the king added, In
awakening Italians 20 the necessity
Of fOrcrtution our forest area is
piumily small he said, ~ YOU COM
pare its proportion 90 our total area
with the proportion IN France.
Switzerland, Australia, C2echo-Slo-
NUliu Our people need Just such "A
stimulus M the Americu Forestry
association is giving yours
THE chief query In tho King =
mind seemed 10 he whether the seed
would gcrminato I'm fairly dry soil
ana most OF Italy is pretty dry Yes
ne concluded, the great difficulty, I
think win he the drought. You
must have noticed A. just now we
need rain very much, Yet, despite
frequent clouds we have had only q
tow drops Of rain I'm long time.
40 not suppose, however. that the
Douglas nr is as dependent ON
moisture as are some trees. ! Cer-
tainly hope that it will thrive fairly
well in our soil and, whore tho con
duions OF our hlll-slopes are similar
20 those ip your states, will be as
good "a grower as it IS thcrc'
we talked Of Theodore Roosevelt
Of the GcOua conference and of the
Italians In America. But the royal
forestry expert went back to the
Douglas FIR, Personally, a thorough
going man, NO matter what parucu-
lar subject he attacked. Victor
Emanuel politically is equally no.
table, because he is one of the most
democratic rulers in Europe.
"Ono day nj Geona, the king en-
tcrtaiupd at lunch an the delegates
20 the international conference
Tchitcherin ana krassin. the soviet
delegates had TO be invited too. AZ
they were presented TO his majesty
he simply said, Ne no piacere
pleased to meet you) This very
conventional phrase. however, SO inn
pressed VChitCherin that when asked
what he thought of the king, replied
Think Why II we had him In Rus.
sla, he might be president OF all the
soyiets.'