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Riddledy, riddledy, rollics,
I used to go on frolics
Until lumbago tied me down,
And made me moan and
hang aroun’.
Thrittledy, thritiledy, throttle,
I bought myself a bottle
Of SALICON.
And thereupon
1 frolicked, for my pain was
gone.
SALICON tablets are an efficient
and safe remedy for aches and pains
of all kinds and are commonly pre
scribed by physicians. They do not
affect the heart nor upset the
stomach.
STHMA REMEDY
His Wish Fulfilled
When Willlam C. Brunner, seventy-
one, of San Francisco, for many years
oriental agent for the old Pacific Mail
Steamship company, knew he had but
a short time to Ive he prayed that
he might last long enough to see &
history of Pacific coast shipping pub-
fished. One day recently James King
Steele, of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha,
just back from New York, brought
word that a large publishing house
would print the volume. *I can die
bappy.” said Brunner, Two hours
iater he was dead.
A Dispute
Some argue that women dress for
other women. We don't believe a
word of It. They wouldn't dress the
way they do if there were no men
around.—Tolede Blade.
Slices
Says—Golfing is pie for me.
Which—1 notice you always get
plenty of slices. Vancouver Province.
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7
By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
HE week of October 1
to 7 is Fire Prevention
week, During
geven days the
of the United States are
to be given
portunity to learn from
those
people
every op
various organizations,
both publie
how
ravages of the great
3
and private,
best to resist the
gingle enemy of pros
perity and progress,
the Fire Demon, which year
destroys more than $500,000000 worth
of American property.
The fig against this on
exemplified in Fire Prevention week,
is a nation-wide affair and it
concern of all America:
whether they be city or country dwell
ers. More than that,
every
is the
citizens,
it involves =
which are far-reaching and vitally im
portant to our whole economic
tem. Fire Prevention week
the height of the forest fea RON
and when one considers the appalling
dainsse done each year by woodland
blazes, It is evident that the preven
tien of forest fires is one of the major
projects in the observance of Fire
Prevention week. During the year
1926 there were no fewer than 91.
000 fires with a financial loss of more
than $20000000. The record since
then Is nct much better, inas .uch &s
governmz: 1 estimates place ihe loss
at an average of $100,000 a day.
How that loss can be reduced Is
indicated by the fact that 72 per cent
of the fires in 1920 were caused by
man, 12 per cent b, lightning and 10
per cent were of undetermined orl
gin. Criminally careless smokers,
who dropped ma‘ches or cigar or cig
arette stubs without extinguishing
them, were responsible for 106 per
cent of those fires and sparks falling
from engines of railroads .aused 13
per cent. Due to the efficiency of our
national forestry service with its air
plane patrols and other means of
spotting and checking fires in our na-
tional forests before they got a good
start, the inexcusable carelessness of
campers 18 somewhat counterbalanced
so that the ravages of the Fire Demon
in the nation’s preserves are reduced
to a minimum,
tut this does pot prevent a huge
annual loss caused by fires on pri
vately owned lands. In the state of
Pennsylvania this year four times as
many forest fires have occurred on
privately owned lands as on public
preserves and the burned area has
been 40 times as great. The princi
pal cause Is the inexperience of those
who attempt to burn brush on pri
vate land. The flames get beyond
their control and spread to both pri
vate and public lands for the Fire
Demon Is no respecter of land titles
In the Southern states this problem
has become so acute that the Ameri
can Forestry association has launched
a $150,000 educational campaign to
prevent such fires In the states of
Georgia, Florida and Mississippl
“In no section of the country,” de
clares O. M. Butler, executive secre
tary of the association, “are forest
fires so currently widespread and so
detrimental to forest regeneration as
&yS
comes at
fire
Forests and Taxes
That fimber growing, not timber
hoarding, will solve America’s forestry
problems 1s now the view of those who
have surveyed the question most care
fully, whether as captains cf Industry
or as masters of science. No longer
does anyone whose judgment counts
look upon conservation as a locking
up of natural resources, but rather
as the most efclent use of them, and,
if possible, thelr steady replenishment,
-
3s
XL ” . $
THE DEDIONT ST Ld4Ed
of the
fy is reflected In the fact that
80 per cent of all forest fires rep srted
in the 1
outh., The seriousness
Riuntion
nited States during the past
ten years have occurred in the south
ern states. More than one-third of
pine area embracing mil
flons of acres has been so completely
jumbered nd so
tated by fire that It lies die and non.
productive. In addition, st fires
are wiping out the and wild
life areas throtighout the
South,
“Woods burning arising from a
traditional custom of great numbers
of rural people, Ignorant of the social
and economic benefits of foresls,
places a tremendous handicap upon
efforts to renew forests on millions
of acres. To stop these fires and to
make the growing of forests a safe
undertaking Is the great and imme
dinte problem of forestry In the
South.”
The menace which the observance
of Fire Prevention week attempis to
combat is of importance In both city
and country in this way: Forest fires
reduce the amount of available forest
products and city fires at once cause
a new call for more forest products.
Thus the ravages of the Fire Demon
immediately become a part of our vast
economic system and a part of a
national problem. Further light on that
national problem and an attempt at
its solution is given by a recent state-
ment of Charles Lathrop Pack, presi
dent of the American Tree associa.
tion, who for years has been the fore
most exponent of a forestry policy
which shall not only preserve our
fast dwindling timber supply but guar
antee an adequate supply for our fu
ture needs. In this statement Mr,
Pack says:
the entire
repeatedly devas
fore
Fame
over vast
With one-twelfth of the world's peo.
ple North America uses about one-half
of all the timber consumed In the world
That is the economic situation this
country must solve sooner or later, Es.
timates show the population of the
United States to be increasing at the
rate of a million a year. This means
a population of about two hundred mil.
l'on in the year 2000,
Railroads use about 13,000,000 new
wood ties every year. There are about
3.000 to the mile. Something like 6,-
000,000 trees are cut annually for tele.
graph and telephone wires; we use
500,000,000 fence posts every year. Mil.
Hons of feet of pulpwood are used eve
ery year to keep the newspapers of
the country providing you with the
news of the day. About two-thirds cf
the population uses wood fog fuel A
greater amount goes to this than for
any othr purpose. There are eighty.
one million acres of idle land in this
country all of which should be put to
work growing trees,
The passage of the Important Me.
Certainly this holds true of our tim-
ber reserves. To protect them against
fires and other wastes Is a prime duty
both of government and of organized
industry. But protection alone will
not suffice. There must be also re
forestration of lands now barren and
unsuited to other purposes; and there
must ot such a system of taxation as
will encourage, Instead of virtually
preventing, the growing of timber on
a large scale as a money crop, If the
crop does not pay, It will not be pro
duced: and pay It cannot unless re
-
i the late
pneress marks for the first
nal effort to pr
of forestry
for a
nt iN BR ng per of
teed this research bes
ors have really no answer (0
questions
Co-~apers
forest
many
alse
1
tion oOming
word In fore y today ;;
Clarke-MeNary law co-operative
éxtry has
provides a powerful img
bringing together state
eral government and the priv
berland owner in a joint effort to pro-
mote forestry. It is just making a be
ginning in providing for adequate pro-
tection against forest fires. It is study-
ing the perplexing problem of forestry
taxation under a committee headed by
srafessor Falrchild of Yale, It is sup.
plying farmers, under certain condi«
tions, with small trees to plant on
their idle lands and It is advising
farmers as to the best way to handle
their woodlands,
All this has Wt come a day too soon,
We are a rapidly growing nation, An
increase In population means an in.
creasing need for wood and the cersus
bureau tells us ‘that this country fis
increasing at the rate of one million
{inhabitants a vear. This means a popu-
lation of 150,000,000 in 1253 and about
200.060,060 In the year 2000, Over
against this Is the stern fact that al-
though our population may increase,
the amotnt of land in this couniry cer-
tainly does not. Our only way out of
the problem of supplying a continually
increasing demand for wood-—a demand
that is being made upon a continually
decreasing forest-is to put every arre
of available land to work growing
trees.
For the problems of forestry are by
no means all solved. Even though in.
terest in forestry is increasing and
effective forestry Is being enacted, pro-
ductive forests in this country mre still
rapidly decrensing while the waste
acres are growing larger. It is not une
{ikely that in 1550, at the present rate,
we may have an area of idle land
larger than New York, Pennsylvania,
Now Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Vir.
ginia and all the New England states
How, in the face of all this wastage,
shall we satisfy the wood needs of
those hundred and fifty million people
the census burean tells us we will have?
We still fall far short of providing
tor the future productiveneas of the
240,000,000 acres of forest land that is
in industrial ownership.
In the life of a tree the year 2000
is not very far away. Indeed, in our
swn shorter human lives that date
is¢ not so far distant that we need
disregard it. Time goes hurrying by.
There are children in. our schools today
who will write that date. Today is not
a day too early for us to be thinking
of the welfare of those who come after
ug. For a shortage in our wood supply
is in no way comparable to a shortage
in our supply of cotton and wheat,
key -
the
for-
law itself
toward
and
ate
the
nder
de progress This
elus
the fed-
tim.
but cur great timber crop-—on whose
~requires many years to reach matur.
ity.
to be blessed with a supply of rea-
gonably ‘priced timber must be decided
within the decade. We cannot always
reap without sowing: We must grow
trees for our growing nation,
lieved of heavy taxes until its ma
turity and marketing, at which time It
should contribute its portion of pub-
lie revenues~Atianta, (Ga.} Jeurnal
Bugs Boost Lumber Cost
the price of lumber, for they cut down
the supply by tens of thousands of
frees overy year, says the Forestry
Primer of the American Tree associa:
tion, @ trees, like children, must
be kept Ir good health,
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C NERVOUS HEADACHE
Next time you have a nervous head-
ache try this—
Two teaspoonfuls of Dr.
If you can get a few minutes sleep,
{/ the headache is pretty sure to be gone
©. when you wake up.
DR. MILES’
NiEnRviN
If you are subject to nervous headaches, take
Dr. Miles’ Nervine as directed,
Dr. Mile’ Nervine is recommended for
Nervousness, Sleeplessness, Neuralgia,
Nervous Dyspepsia, Nervous Headache, Neurasthenia
Weil send a gen ample for be in stamps,
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Flamboyant Patriotism Too Often Made Cover
for Governmental Misbehavior
By PROF. DAVID 8. MUSSEY, Columbia University.
HITEWASHING national heroes and wror
conceal the political rapine and thievery
way to teach American history to students wh
of their own. Too many are using flamboyant patriotism
hide their questionable behavior in government off
Hero worship is
being used to divert the American people from i
genu
I am not worrving about what anyone is thinkin
ington. Rather, I am concerned with what Washington
our beople of power today—of the thieves, seclf-seckers
have in office. We can’t begin to atone for our present-da)
phasizing the virtues of our forefathers.
If Washington had been given his choice do you think he s
that his statue be erected in every public gathering place and build
where our national leaders may kneel in adoration before enteri
offices to rob the country of millions of dollars?
ny {hpi
ME Va a
If we recognized the enormity of our debt to other nations, there
A mab : wal}
Aesthetically
would be no nation or flag in the world that we disliked.
our flag is not the most beautiful in the world. It is what we read inte
it that counts. The country right or wrong attitude should not be che
ished, but rather we should cherish the conceptic
demands a right country.
n of a patriotisn
The present educational system seems to for
twaining of the student to sell some one something he does not want
not to become a more efficient producer.
Flowing Water Has Become the Most Valuable
Servant of Mankind
By F. H. COLLIER, St. Louis Journalist.
Every considerable stream in America is being dammed; and soon
we shall burn little except waterfalls for heat or
i
something that is inexhaustible ; “so long as grass grows and water runs,”
power. Here, truly, ie
the medieval synonym of perpetuity.
The heating of houses on a large scale by an electrical current in
near ; and then the triumph cf domestic life is realizable— pressing a but-
ton to make the room warm.
his servant.
Verily, man is monarch and electricity is
Flowing water is its father and a dam is its dam.
Strange, that though simple hydraulics were known to mankin
thousands of years ago, that science should now be developed so far be
yond its early beginnings. The primary elements are the source of all
our strength, fire, water, air and earth.
found in them.
Every century new powers are
Discoveries are made that seem like necromancy. We may feel that
we do not fathom the poet’s mind; nor do we, that profit by the inven-
tions of a thousand intellects, fathom the constructive scientific mind.
Itself, it is one of the glories of man, mystic, incomprehensible creature
that he is.
Use Imagination to Take the Place of Under-
standing of Higher Things
By GEROME EDWARDS (Unitarian), New York.
All of the higher phases of life require that an abundance of imag:
tation be given in the expression of the original ideal. Consideration
of the imaginations work in the development of the mind is getting to be
of more and more importance.
Even physical scientists have come to the conclusion thai the imag
ination is an important factor in bringing about physical manifestations,
and they have to depend on the higher forms of thought te explain the
simplest product of nature. In other wprds if man would understané
the power within the universe and himself, he must rise to the large:
viewpoint.
He must relax his contemplation of temporal things. He should nol
ask to have everything explained to him for his present plane of con-
sciousness. He should be wise enough and open enough fo admit that
there are things that he does not understand yet; that there are realms of
intelligence that he has not as yet touched ; that there is » world existing
all about him that he can comprehend only through the expansion of his
mind. This requires a relinquishment of what we term “the intellectual
understanding.” Man must let go, at the same time he must take hold.
Chances in Life, Not Bright Lights, Bring Rural
Youth to Cities
By DAVID J. MALCOLM, Massachusetts School Superivtendent.
The young folk of the rural areas do not migrate to the city because
of the lure of the bright lights, but because of the greater eoruomic op-
portunities offered there.
Young people of the farm look forward to living im the neighbor
hood in which they were raised, and often look on the life of the city as
something to be avoided. However, when it comes to earning a living
opportunities for employment are lgcking in the country and they turn
their feet toward urban areas.
As far as living conditions are concerned, the youth of the farm has
most of the advantages formerly enjoyed only by his city cousin and nory
of the disadvantages which go with heavv trallic, crowded living condi.
tions and artificial recreation. -, + nm d