a
Forests are again in serious danger.
_partment to the Department of Con-
,have been made to save natural re-
Gifford Pinchot
Milford, Pike Co., Pa.
Dear Editor: '
I appeal to you because the National
Another attempt is under way to get
the National Forests and the forest
work of the Government transferred
from the Agricultural Department,
where the forests are safe and the
work well done, back to the Depart-
ment of the Interior, from which they
were taken because of wretched man-
agement. 3
The present attempt is made under
cover of an effort (Senate Bill 2665) to
change the name of the Interior De-
servation = and . Public Works. The!
transfer of the National Forests and
the Forest Service is not mentioned in
the bill, but is planned for later on.
Conservation is too broad a subject
to be confined to any one Department
Nearly all of them deal with it in one
form or another. A Department of
Conservation would be almost as illo-
gical as a Department of Typewriting |
or a Department of Wastebaskets,
which everybody has to use.
The conservation policy itself, and’
about every important conservation
movement for the last thirty years,
originated in the Department of Agri-
culture. It has shown practical horse
sense in dealing with natural resounr-
ces intelligently, uprightly, and with-
out fraud or loss. ;
In contrast, the record of the Inter-
jor Department is far and away the
worst in Washington. Every natural
resource, without exception, that has
been held for disposal by the Interior
Department — public lands, Indian
lands, coal, oil, water power, and tim-
ber—has been wasted and squandered
at one time or another. It is one long
story of fraud in public lands, theft in
Indian lands, and throwing the Peo- :
ple’s property away.
Most of the fights for conservation
sources belonging to the people which
the Interior Department was throwing
away. The National Forests must not
go' the same road. \
Secretary of the Interior Ickes is
sincere and honest, but he cannot live
forever. His successor tried to give
away the people's water powers and
the coal lands in Alaska. The result- ie
ing scandal cost Taft his re-election.
And everybody remembers: Tea Pot
Dome, when Secretary Fall handed the
Navy's oil lands over to the dispoilers.
Fall tried hard to get his hands on the
National Forests. & 4
Ickes is my friend. Wallace is my
friend, But the National Forests
could not be better handled in the In-
terior Department than in the Depart-
ment of Agriculture, where they have
been safe for thirty years. What is
the use of rocking the boat?
The Forest Service is completely
free from politics where it is. Ickes
himself is straight, but the whole his-
tory of the Interior Department is
reeking with politics. The tradition. of
the Interior Department is to put pri-
vate interests first. The tradition of
the Agricultural Department is to put:
public interests firt. 2
Wood is a crop. Forestry is tree
farming, It belongs in the Depart-
ment of Agriculture with all = other
farming and production from the soil.
Undoubtedly if Secretary Ickes got
the National Forests he would do his
level best. But he has more work now
than any other Cabinet officer in
Washington. The National Forests are
bigger than all the Atlantic States
from Maine to Virginia, inclusive. Why
put this additional load on a man who
has too much to do already? Let the |
National Forests stay where they are. |
Sincerely yours, ‘
Gifford Pinchot.
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David Kills Geliath.—The armies of the Philistines were gathered together, and Saul and his men prepared t
battle against them. The two armies were camped opposite one another. “And there went out a champion out of
the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.”—I Sam. 17: 4
“And he stood and cried unto the armies of Israel, ‘Choose you a man for you, and let him come down to me. If
he be able to fight with me, and to kill me, then will we be your servants; but if I prevail against nim, and kill
him, then shall ye be our servants end serve us.’ ”’—I Sam. 17: 8-9. David accepted the challenge of Goliath
“And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his fors
head, that the stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth.”—I Sam. 17: 49. This illustra-
tion by Merian was engraved in 1625.
HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT $69,000
Contains 18,304 Square Feet
Of Floor Space; New
Type
' Completion of fifteen combination
storage sheds and office buildings for
district superintendents of the Penn-
sylvania Department of Highways has
been reported to secretary of High-
ways Warren VanDyke. Three addi-
tional buildings are under construc-
tion. 3
The last State Highway structure
completed is at Tunkhannock, Wyom-
ing county, which recently was for-
mally dedicated by Secretary VanDyke
in a community celebration. The Wyo-
ming building cost $69,378. ‘It contains
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Prior to 1932 the Highway Depart-
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Texas Makes Plans
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Dallas, Texas, July 18—With demoli-
tion of scores of old structures already
well underway in Fair Park, plans
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here next June 6, in commemoration
of the 100th anniversary of Texas in-
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Ring-Neck Battles
Pheasant Fights Valiant];
To Protect Her
Chicks
3 A hen ring-neck pheasant, attem
|ing to protect her peeps recently,
discovered battling two weasels on
farm near Noxen. The chicks were
saved,. the mother pheasant still liv
and the weasels were killed.
Seeing a commotion in grass stub
two men rgn to the spot and discover.
ed the struggle. ;
The men succeeded in killing
weasels. a Cg
They said when they arrived the he
pheasant was jumping, first on on
and then on the other weasel. The
pheasant peeps were safe some
tance from the battle scene.
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Kelly Petillo, off to a good star
automobile = racing's 1935 Natio
Championship rating because i
victory at Indianapolis, increase
lead ‘when he won the 100 mile
event at St. Paul, Minn, it was
nounced here by Ted Allen, Secreta
of the Contest Board of the Americ:
Automobile Association upon study
the official report. of the July
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