Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1920 — Page 2

SHURT Dw ”' XPLAINING before tbe triIfV state forestry conference how 1110 United States is rapidly exhausting its thnggr’ber resources igd at a comparatively’ dariy date ■nay find Hdaf largely dependent upon foreign sources. Lieut Got Henry A Graves, chief of the forest service. United States department at agriculture, told the remed»o &at can beapplled, and the measures that can be adopted, particularly in Indiana, Ohio and Illinois, tbe three states for which the conference was held. "Tbe solution of our forestry problenj,” said Colonel Graves, “consists tn stopping destruction by fire and other agencies, by using methods that make possible natural reproduction after logging, and by restocking the tree growth of lands that have bedh made economic wastes. The fear has been expressed by some that such an objective conflicts with the expansion of agriculture and stock raising. Exactly the contrary would be the reaoit. No sane program of forestry -would propose the use of lands for forestry that are better adapted to agriculture and settlement Forestry, agriculture and stock raising go hand In hand. "In Illinois, Indiana and Ohio our problem Is essentially one of the farm woodland. Here we have to do with small tracts and operations. In aome ways the problem is a simpler one than in the great lumber regions. Tn the first place, the fire danger is easily controlled. Then again the work can usually be brought into close correlation with other phases of farm management Of great value, also, la the fact that the owner himself is often the manager and can give per•onal direction to the work of forestry. "In such circumstances the aid of the states may be directed to* showing the farmer how to cut his woodland in order to secure natural reproduction, how to thin the young stands ao as to increase their growth and value, how to reforest the lands now waste, how beat to market his woodland products, and so on. Advice should be afforded through the state forester and the agricultural field agents. Planting stock should be offered at cost with assistance in establishing successful plantations. Co-op-erative marketing enterprises should be encouraged when this Is practical.” Discussing the function of the fedoral governmoit in meeting the forestry problem. Colonel Graves said: "The federal government has not given adequate assistance to the states. Direct aid to the states by the gov- ■ ernment, made contingent on adoption by the former of acceptable programs of forest legislation and administration, would help to secure concurrent action in different states, enable the standardisation of methods, and enable the achievement of results impossible without such aid. “The first step in Inaugurating a national policy of forestry is a federal law providing the authority to cooperate with the states in formulating and carrying out a program of forestry, and carrying an appropriation that can be used to assist such states as inaugurate and put into effect a program determined to be adequate by the secretary of agriculture. A greet deal can be accomplished pending such substantial co-operation, but -with the aid that the nation might offer, results that otherwise would be Impossible could be accomplished.” The forest situation. Colonel Graves pointed out, is of peculiar Interest to Indiana. Illinois and Ohio. All three States have a pressing problem of producing home-grown forests. They are also vitally concerned in the forest actuation in other parts of the counlay, for they are large consumers ot lumber and other wood products and the greater part Of . what they use already Is brought in from other states. -Iflinols, Indiana and Ohio,” he said, -together with the neighboring portiops of Michigan and Wisconsin, constitute the most Important center industries in the country—that is, the Industries makf Soig Vehicles, furniture, railway care.

SUN'S RAYS FOUND HELPFUL

Beneficial in the Treatment of TuberO"* Va, “* l " ;tl ' ne almpleet treatment for tuber nothing more than fexpttuire to the raja of the mm in the which haa been practiced sw ba* recently received an impeby the suggeetion Bhrndale, calling attention

A Sane National Forestry Program

tools, planing-mill products and the like. About one-third of the total capital Invested in the wood-manufac-turing industries of the country and about one-third of the wage earners in Ahese industries are found in this section. They use five and a half billion feet of lumber a year, or about a quarter of the aggregate used in this country for such enterprises. "Today the home product does not nearly meet the annual requirements, but, further than that, the cutting that is done far exceeds what is grown each year. It Is probable, from the best' estimates that I have been able to secure, that the annual growth of material of potential value in the three states is not over one-quarter of what is cut each year. This means that the forests are progressively losing ground with considerable rapidity. “This deficit is due only in part to the clearing of land for agriculture. It is due also to the failure,to handle the lands In a way to secure good reproduction and properly to protect the ybhdg trees that become established. With better carb and management the forest land§ of these states should yield two or three times the present growth, and. this would, L believe, be possible without checking the extension of cultivation over lands suited to that purpose. There are many convincing reasons why these states should produce as much as possible In the way of forest growth from land that is best adapted to that purpose—and in the aggregate these areas amount to a great deal.”

GET TOGETHER “The United States must decide upon a national forest policy in order to perpetuate its timber supply,” says CbartPK Lathrop Pack, president of the American Forestry association. We are far behind France, Great Britain, Germany, Japan and other nations tn this respect. The United States has only about one-fourth of its original forest and this is now’ disappearing three times faster than it is being reproduced. We must, before it is all gone, provide for a timber supply for our future needs and we can do so if foresters gbt together with the men and timberland owners and agree upon a practical, workable forest policy; The country is grateful to Col. Henrv S. Graves. United States fm> enter: for demanding a national forest, policy at this time, and the foresfere are the men whom the country «*

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pects to formulate this forest policy. It is their business to do it and to do it well. The national and state governments hold only some 3 per cent of merchantable timber. Therefore, the majority of thp owners ot the timber must be in accord with any policy dictating the management, the protection, and the reforestation of their land before it can be successful. You cannot compel an owner to develop and perpetuate his timberland at a financial loss; If you wish him to reforest his land, you must make it pay him, as other countries do. One most important feature of a national forest policy on which agreement Is possible is fire protection. Forest fires have this year caused millions of dollars of damage in the northwest. The United States forest service spent more than a million dollars fighting these fires in July alone. Private agencies spent lavishly in protecting their lands but the fire protection measures In neither national, state or private forests are sufficient to properly protect them. Get together then on a national, state and private forest fire protection program. It is the need of the hour and when this has been done the first step toward a mutually satisfactory national forest policy Will have been made. Other features of thia policy are cert a in_ to follow In due course.

VALUE OF FORESTS “So important are forests in. the life of a nation that Germany will find: that France will insist upon Germany’s paying in lumber for the casualties of the French forests which were destroyed during the war," declares P. S. Ridsdale, secretary of the Forestry association, who has made a tour of the allied countries. Mr.- Ridsdale went to Europe to Investigate forest losses in France, Belgium, Italy and Great' Britain, so thht the American Forestry association might determine how America could help to replace the destroyed forests of Europe by presenting forest seed to the various governments. “In northern France many of the forests,” he says, “have been so badly smashed by shell, shrapnel and rifle fire, or so badly cut for trench timbers, fuel wood and other supplies for the contending armies that they have been virtually destroyed. They can be restored only by replanting. “The agricultural land lying between the forests in various sectors of the battle front have been so torn, to pieces by shell Are that it la no nnvvieMhle for auricnlture and. to be planted with forest tree seed so that in years to come the shell holes may be filled by gradual erosion and the humus of the soil restored. “Italy, Belgium and Great Britain win make Similar requests.”

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PICKED WINNERS OF THREE BIG MATCHES

“Battling” Nelson Is Original “1 Told You So.” ' ■ 1 Hegewiach Boxer Predicted Johnson Would Defeat Jeffries, Willard to Win Over Johnson and Dempaey to Whip Willard. Z In the little but widely advertised town of Hegewisch, 111., dwells the original "I told you so" of the fistic world — "Battling" Nelson, if you please. Bat picked Johnson to win over Jetfries, Willard to win over Johnson and then, right in the face of a sea ot Willard admirers, picked Dempsey to defeat the champion. And here is the logic Bat issued on the day previous to the fight while in Toledo waiting for the big quarrel: ( "Picked Johnson over Jeffries, Willard over Johnson, and now making it three straight by picking Dempsey over Willard. Dempsey has In his favor youth and eleven years. He is in good condition and Willard is not. He has trained properly and Willard hasn’t He has been fighting regularly and Willard hasn’t Dempsey likes the game, can punch, Is over slx feetand weighs nearly two hundred pounds. These are reasons enough why the challenger should and will win.” And what the “I told you sd" did to the .doubtful ones that night in Toledo after the fight was a sin. To one bird in particular whom Bat begged to "get down” on the challenger Bat sputtered as follows: “Yes, I know all you guys say that old Bat is crazy. Just like a fox Tm crazy. I feathered my nest on this

"Battling” Nelson.

battle and what is more. Pm going to feather my nest oq others. Pick ’em? Say, that’s my biggest suit. I don’t pick from the standpoint of favoritism. i I look ’em over, watch ’em work and then 1 pick the winner. Easy for me, and still you guys say old Bat is nuts. There’s a lot of fine nuts in this country." " -

REDS SIGN WINNING PITCHER

Fred Blake of South Atlantic League Will Play With the Cincinnati Team Next Season. -- The Cincinnati Club announces the engagement for next year of Pitcher Fred Blake of the Charleston team of the'South Atlantic league. He was* a great pitcher for the West Virginia Wesleyan college team through the college season, wfoning for it every game he pitched. He and other members of the team then went to Glen White, where he played until about a month before the season’s close, when he went to Charleston.

FANS TO SHOW APPRECIATION

Movement on Foot to Buy Houae and f ‘ Lot for Manager Pat Moran of Champion Reds. Unable to show their appreciation by electing him mayor or something of the sort, the fans of Cincinnati, according to Garry Herrmann, have started a movement to buy a house and lot for Manager Pat Moran of the world’s champion Reds so that they can keep him in their city always.

WILLIE HOPPE GOOD PUTTER

Display* Same Consummate Skill Over VelvePTurf aS He Shows bn There are few better gutters than Willie Hoppe, the bDllard-champion. On several of his trips to Boston he had a round over the Wellston links, and there has displayed over the velvet turf the same consummate skill which be shows on the green carpet Indoors. '■ "

TO ERECT NEW CLUBHOUSE

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MARE ISLAND GOBS TAKE TO BLIND BOXING

Blind boxing contests, in which all contestants are blindfolded, te the latest fad among Gobs at Mare Island, Cal. Each fighter hits and swings without knowing who the recipients of iris blows are. Knockouts are usual, and of course the side left with the most fighters is victorious.

MIDDIES MUST KNOW VARIOUS ATHLETICS

The Naval afeademy is probably the only collegiate institution in die world which has a course of athletics requiring every student' to participate in all the sports in general vogue. The first class to observe this rule includes the 700 members of the new fourth class. f i 7? The academy, officials believe thoroughly in competitive athletics as a physique and character builder and an, aid to discipline. Moreover, since athletics has taken such a big place in the navy at large, ft is considered desirable to send from the academy officers competent to handle sports in all phases at the stations and on the ships. The course is also being arranged with the special idea of inculcating ability to command team play. The system has been inaugurated through the initiative of Commander Douglas L. Howard, athletic officer, and Lieut Commander W, A. Rlchardson, gymnasium officer and assistant athletic officer. A strong effort is being made to improve the position and Increase the pay of the instructors of athletics. t : The schedule for the midshipmen is progressive in nature. In such sports as baseball, football, basket ball, lacrosse and rowing thorough knowledge of the rules and ethics is required and actual participation in each of them for a certain time, the more expert going to the regular squads in these branches. , - - -—

PITCHER DUSTS OFF SUNDAY

Plays in Exhibition Gamo at Chat, tanooga and la Forced to Retire After Being Hit. ’ T Billy Sunday returned to the role which first gained him fame ln an exhibition game at Chattanooga recently, and as captain and centerfielder of a picked team including Doc Johnson of the Indiana Jimmy Johnston of the . ■ . ■

Billy Sunday.

Dodgers, Johnny Dobbs, manager of the New Orleans Pelicans, and Fred Graff of the Lookouts, trounced a semi-pro aggregation, 5 to 4. Sunday was hit on the arm by a pitched ball and forced to retire. i J

BEST PITCHING BY JOHNSON

Washington Twirier Held New York Yankees to Two Hita In Twelve‘f ' .t The best piece of work done by Walter Johnson, pitcher of the Washington team, this year, was on May IL when he held the New York Yankees to two The game ended In a draw nettner side scoring a , Jo “? the

RECORD PRICE FOR AN AMERICAN BRED HORSE

A record price for an American Dred race horse was paid by Gifford A-Cochran of New York for Major August Belmont’s stallion, Fair Flay, sire of Man o’ War and Mad Hatter. S The apimal was apld for SIOO,-_ ' 000 in cash. The previous highest price paid for a horse bred in America was $70,000, which William a Whitney gave for ' Hamburg. ~ Thi imported racer, Rock > Sand, was sold by Major Belmont In 1912 for $150,000.

LITTLE PICKUPS OESPOET

Atlantic' City high plans a athletic stadium at the Inlet. -• • i University of Pennsylvania boxing squad numbers 124 aspirants. *_•• ■ • • Philadelphia bowling alleys will charge 20 cents a game for ten pins. • • * s \ ' Stanislaus Zbyszko, older brother of Vladek, will shortly wrestle in the United States. > * * * ' / -7Eastern intercollegiate swimming championships will be decided in Yale pool March 20, 1920. Cornell will have basket ball quintets for every college section competing for the intramural title; *. * * Frank Isbell, owner of the Wichita club of the Western League, has purchased a home at Long Rfeach, Cat. Del Howard spiked the rumor that he would retire from baseball. He will continue as manager of the Oakland team.* • • The election of Jim Robertson as captain of the Dartmouth eleven gives the Green a mighty leader for the next campaign. ; •• • • Coach Jim-Ten Eyck’s Syracuse varsity eight-oared shell crew will row against Dick Glendon’s Annapolis crew on the Severn river May 8, 1920. * * * - ' The British Olympic council has decided to accept the invitation of the Belgian Olympic committee to take part in the Olympic games of Antwerp. ' .•• • - - Mike Kelly, manager of the St Paul team of the American Association, denies a report that he is negotiating fbr the Minneapolis clnb of the assoXi ... • Plank are <9l foot tor the erection of a spacious SBOO,OOO to Los Angeles, of Roman architectural design, which will be a cower of aquatic activities. , John F. Daley, Purple left tackle, who tooted the drop kiek which capfared the only Northwestern victory of the season, has been elected captain of the football squad for M2O. well under way of construction. The date set for the track and fieldevents is from August 15 to September 1. Cliarlcs E. RdupaLii. idiuumj gis* tance runner of Olympic fame, bas the AltDOUgn CXpcTTS L»•»