WOMAN'S NATIONAL RIVERS AND HARBORS CONGRESS 99 



quate appropriation for such pur- 

 poses." 



Mrs. Tonikies stated that Mrs. Hurd 

 of Bay City, Tex., had contributed 

 $100 toward the objects of the 

 congress. A rising vote of thanks was 

 tendered Mrs. Hurd for her generous 

 donation. 



The annual dues for membership 

 are for individuals, $1 per annum ; firms, 

 $3 ; for organizations, numicipalities, or 

 corporations, up to 500 members, $3 per 

 annum ; over 500 members, $5. Dues 

 must be sent to the recording secretary, 

 Mrs. A. B. Avery, 254 Stoner avenue, 

 Shreveport, La. 



A very interesting and well-written 

 paper was read by Mrs. A. F. Knud- 

 sen, of Hawaii, who came 5,000 miles 

 to aid in the work of the woman's 

 congress. Mrs. Knudsen spoke of the 

 importance of Pearl Harbor as a coal- 

 ing and supply station, a half-way 

 point in the vast commerce, which will 

 mark the completion of the Panama 

 canal. She said : "Deep inland water- 

 ways imply trans-oceanic commerce. 

 A deep waterway from the Lakes to 

 the Gulf contemplates an Isthmian 

 canal ; an Isthmian canal contemplates 

 trans- Pacific trade and travel ; and 

 trans-Pacific commerce contemplates a 

 way station ; and hence, as if especially 

 contemplated and placed there by 

 Providence, rests Hawaii, not only the 

 'Paradise of the Pacific,' but the Gibral- 

 tar of the Pacific as well." 



Mrs. (ilerard, of South Norwalk. 

 Conn., chairman of the forestry commit- 

 tee of the General Federation of Wom- 

 en's Clubs, told of the splendid laws 

 relating to forestry and State lands in 

 Connecticut, and said forestry enthusi- 

 asm in her State is wide-spread. 



Mr. Gififord Pinchot addressed the 

 congress and stated that he had had 

 much experience in meeting with wo- 

 men's clubs and addressing them. He 

 said that women are a power in any 

 work which they undertake. "When 

 women organize," said Mr. Pinchot, 

 "they are in earnest ; they have the mat- 

 ter at heart, and they will work for its 

 success." Mr. Pinchot made the point 

 that there should be a campaign of 



education ; that we should educate the 

 children and through them, the moth- 

 ers ; or, as he further explained, by 

 interesting the children in the schools 

 in the matter of saving what is left 

 of our soils, minerals, waters and for- 

 ests, the mothers, and fathers, too, will 

 take up the work. Mr. Pinchot mod- 

 estly gave all the credit for the con- 

 servation of resources to President 

 Roosevelt. At the conclusion of Mr. 

 Pinchot's remarks, a member rose and 

 read an extract from the President's 

 address before the National Editorial 

 Association, at Jamestown, June 10, 

 1907, in which he said: "In all four 

 movements my chief advisor, and the 

 man first to suggest to me the courses 

 which have actually proved so bene- 

 ficial, was Mr. Gififord Pinchot, the 

 Chief of the National Forest Service." 



In line with Mr. Pinchot's remarks, 

 the congress voted to appoint two com- 

 mittees, one on education, of which 

 Mrs. P. S. Peterson, of the Peterson 

 Nursery, Chicago, will be the chair- 

 man ; and a committee on publicity^ 

 of which Mrs. Lydia Adams-Williams 

 was elected chairman. 



Mr. F. H. Newell, chief of the Re- 

 clamation Service, gave an interest- 

 ing and instructive address before the 

 congress, in which he eulogized the 

 l)art women are taking in National 

 welfare work, and spoke of the need 

 of their taking up the work on a large 

 scale and the good that might be ac- 

 complished through them. Mr. Newell 

 showed the inseparable relation be- 

 tween forests and streams and the 

 reclamation of the arid lands. He 

 traced the forestry movement from its 

 inception, about twenty years ago, at 

 a meeting with a handful of people — 

 "mostly women, who loved trees," 

 said Mr. Newell — to its present great 

 proportions ; from a small bureau of 

 about thirty to now nearly 3,000 work- 

 ers ; from an annual appropriation of 

 $30,000 to now over $3,000,000; from 

 1892, when the first forest reserve, of 

 about 50,000 acres, was created, to the 

 present, with 155 National forests, 

 embracing over 160,000,000 acres. Mr. 

 Newell told of the great strides made 



