Evening star., 1923-11-22
TALKS and TALES
With and About
CAPITALS GUESTS
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make tree


of virgin timberlands. the fabulous
Loss of money it had caused and the
lives it had taken.
With veritable barrage of inter
estinG statistics, aided by many inn
preSSiVe pictures, this Colorado
forester, one-time ranger woodsman
and trail-blaZer opened the eyes of
his auditors. as time after time he
brought home to them the wanton
waste that had taken place in Amer
lean forests during the last two dec
AIDES. 81 per cent of which could
have been easily avoided.
First displaying a map showing
the vast timberlands that, virtually
covered the entire area of the coun-
try in 1920, step by step. through the
centuries. Mr.. Wheeler depicted the
Iavages of extravaganza. waste and
carclesSnes down to the present,
when the cry of the economist is
"IrcScrve our forests. lest we pay.
NO country can advance that fails to
protect its timber" said the westerner.
As proof of this one only has to study
the history OF Spain and other old
world nations that have allowed their
woodlands To wither and die. Germany,
Denmark-in fact. all of the Scandina-
Nian peopies--have long since learned
what Misrepresentation means to. IN
duStrial life, and woe be to the male
factor vino violates their forest laws.
And. yet:' continued the speaker,
there are certain communities right
here in America where great tracts OF
land have been barred of their timber
and left barren for many years to come.
due - nothing else in the world but
laZineSS and III gleCt."
After showing that the average loss
of timbcriand in the past seven years
tutalcd apDroXimately 100000 acres
per year. these figures going as high as
Il .0UN. .0n0' at times, Mr.. Wheeler
stressed the wonderful work now being
accomplished hy the forestry depart
meut Of the government i'll every sec
ticn OF the United States.
Touching on the beauties of Washing
ton he said that it was not so much
the stately buildings broad avenues and
weIl-planned grounds that made the
city one of the most attractive IN the
world, but the trees for which 1t Is
noted
And while on the subject of conserv-
ing resources il might be said here
that the work now being carried on
by the Agriculture Department to SIM
plify existing federal hay grades on
the basis of recent research work Is
progressing nicely.
This was learned from Maurice
Meier of Fort Wayne. Ind, former
president and for many years chairman
of the grades committee of the Ma
tionaI Hay Association, who was APP
pointed recently by the department as
consulting specialist to advise in hay
Grades work
When seen at the Congress Hall
Hotel, Mr.. Meier said that the an
rouuced policy of the department is
to simplify the grading system in a
manner consistent with good grading
practice and to conform as nearly as
possible to commercial grades now in
Under the simpifed system the
number of classes and grades will be
reduced and Il simpler method of de-
rs.I' a
the hay expert. Glasses of hay will
he determined. as heretofore. by the
percentage of grasses and leSumeS IN
mixtures. Grades Will be determined
by color. The color will be expressed
as one factor. namely, the percentage
Of green instead of as 4 combination
of brown leaf surface. brown and
bleached heads and bleached and off
color stems. as is done under the pres
cnt federal system" The work being
done is partly at the request for modi-
fcations from producers, handlers and
consumers of hay in all sections of the
country.
Mr.. Meier reported general cond-
tions as booming in old Fort Wayne,
where 10 per cent of the gas tanks
for filler stations of the country are
manufactured. and said that the big
BoWSer, Fort Wayne, Pump and Tank
Company and TOkheim works were
all running full steam ahead. The
population of the Indiana town is
We'll beyond the 100000 mark and
everybody is happy.
IF Ohio was more prosperous than
at present [ really don't believe she
could stand it," was the CHEEKY re-
sponse Of Grove Patterson. editor of
the Toledo Blade, when approached in
the. lobby of the New Willard Hotel,
just as he was preparing to make a
personal visit TO President Coolidge
Things are going along in fine
shape continued the hustling news
paper man. Farmers are busy and
happy, factory whistles footing as
never before. and folks have started
again TO dig out the old stocking
and business all around is in healthy
condition"
And the Blade. Mr. Patterson?
"FlourishinG. You know the Toledo
Blade boasts the largest circulation
per capita of population of any news
paper in these United States. Toledo
now has 250.000 inhabitants There
are $1,000 English speaking homes
homes, ] said. not persons: how do
YOU get that way?-and the Blade is
delivered at $4,000 of these. Then we
ditional $4,000. which brings our to-
tai to approximately 10000"
PRESSED Tor an opinion on the politi-
cal situation, Mr.. Patterson closed
talk about President Coolidge. hut
would rather not make a statement.
You Nigh say, however, that Ohio
10IkS are very much impressed with
the administration" and out scooted
the editor, like the hotel was afire.
with 50 much optimism encounter
cd at every turn, determined effort
was made to locate the party with a
Erouch, but such was not to be found
ut least in the Hotel Washington. for
the first man met in the lobby was ].
u. thapllne, president of La Sale
University. Chicago, the mammoth in
stltutlon that has branches scattered
in every section of the world
SO far as L can see," said the
windy city educator, the entire coun-
try is having an inning of prosperity.
Nor does this condition appear to be
ilaShy. 1t is the outcome of steady
stability that has been growing in
general business for the past eight
months. Out our way it is noticeable
al every turn. 1t is. quite evident in
the upward trend of the unit pur-
chase. Those who were buying shoes
for S3.9S last year are paying s4.9S
now. The mail-order houses show
tremendous increases, which indicates
that all classes are buying again. and
while <some farmers haye had trou-
bles over wheat. for the most part
they have recuperated by diversity
ing crops.
Mr.. Chapline, who has been on an
extended trip of inspection through
the eastern branches of his organi-
cation, said that La Sale was enjoy
ing the largest classes of it's his
tory. I'VE have at present more
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