The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1922-06-06

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country to be given what is coming
TO him. ~ r Il
~. Endless Conservation Battle. I
It was a: long while ago, as time
ordinarily is counted by a feet,
Ing generation. that Theodore Roose-
Welt called the :. governors; of the
states together In the east, room of
the White House to consider ways and
means to conserve the: natural re-
[spyFees ~: :sthe country. Some good
tame out III the conference. The con-
||sctxst tiie,fs INT howsvSr, is % just as
sttt ~ oday Jin congress al ever It
ssYssSa lear Anything pu want
to: In on on, ,5kis sub hct. Men
win TIL 3Su Stat h45consekS Sationists
are ! p b went to. q hte every,
thing slmplSfor tiS purpose
of lookfH af II aandssiving He people
la chail 4o admire ilts beauty. Other
persona svilI tell youfithat e preda-
tory interests are bent on getting rich
quick by. using up everything that ma.
tire has provided for @man, and allow
Ing posterity to 90 hang. There is
middle ground somewhere, but the
thing is to find it. -,
@. Once on a. time, not so very long
ago, two men, one Of whom. reached
the: eminence OF second officer Of gov
,ernment and the other the eminence
Of third officer Of government, de-
clared In public speech that there was
no necessity OF trying to save any
nthing-that posterity could pull down
out Of the air everything; shat was
needed for its comfort, its safety and
Its progress. THAT ,theses two men
made this statement is a literal truth.
One Of them did not hear the last Of
itsuntil he died, and the other at an
advanced age Z still hearing about It.
i: Z. sTryino tossavs the Forests. =
Just now There is q: movement In
Washington; I'd secure the transfer of
the bureau ofs forestry from the Depart
lnent OF. Agriculture to the Department
OF the. Interior. The proponents of
the plan say that If the change is
made the forests will be saved, and
the opponents say that II the change
Is made the forests will disappear.
= A. country without a tree is q pretty
poor country. The hope Of people who
can see not only utility but beauty in
the branches Of a dropping elm, is that
whether the, forestry bureau Is left
where 1t .is or moved elsewhere, elms
will continue to- grow, and with them
oaks, pine, Eastwood, ash. and all the
other forest growths. IL y .,
Some statements have been made re-
Gently by Secretary Wallace of the
Department Of Agriculture, and they
are somewhat startling. They prob
ably will be met by counter state
'ments. r Then the counter statements
must be read. digested, and compared
with the original statements for the
purpose Of arriving at something like
the truth. u In an article by G. Gould
Lincoln Of Washington, Secretary Wal
lace is quoted as saying this: =,
T''The United States is$ now consum-
ing. wood, nearly four and, half times
as fast as 1t is being grown. We are
steadily eating up what 3iSI left of our
forest capital. As result the coun-
try now faces the definite prospect
'of b growing, scarcity and increasing
cost Of everything made from wood. 1t
is problem which in the long run af-:
fects every class of American citizen.
It, affects the manufacturer, the home
builder. and the farmer to an almost
equal degree" .s'' y " '''sS' =.
The country is told that the remain
Ing forests, of the United States are
being cut at the rate of about 5,O0O,-
600 acres annually, and from 100000
to 1O,OOO,O0Ot acres are being burned
each year by forest fires. ~4,sr.. ~
Tarlff psbats Dragging,
The tariff bill is dragging Its way
through the senate. Seemingly 1t will
be the day after the end Of all things
that it gets through. 81 $780,,
Every night now light throws Its
beams into the darkness from the
dome lOf the capitol IT. slgna1izes the
fact that, the senate Is in session.
Those who know that the light means
the senator's are discussing thettarif,
do not think its brightness IS consis'
tent with the reason for "the hanging
Of the lantern" .. = 3E&j
The night sessions have helped not
at all. Chemicals which no layman
ever heard Of are discussed on the
floor with an entirely fictitious ap.
pearance Of familiarity with the sub
Ject. 1t Is noted that whenever any
senator. leader, or otherwise, talks
about this drugstore product. or that
drugstore product. he sticks close to
his manuscript. Henbane. digitalis
and a lot Of other, things may need
protection, but, seemingly the reasons
for the need are not SO. great that
three days time must be taken to