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CONSERVATION 



ington paper has occupied column after col- 

 umn in thousands of papers scattered 

 throughout the entire country. The strong- 

 est opi.)Osition to the order came from that 

 portion of the country from which the Sec- 

 retary haled, where the P'orester was for- 

 merly most bitterly cursed, it was the growl 

 of the people when the "trusts," through a 

 branch of the National Government, reached 

 for the bone which they had always held so 

 cheaply. 



That bone is the great reasources and 

 natural wealth of the United States. It has 

 always belonged to the people, but only in 

 very recent years have they realized its value 

 or taken the trouble to safeguard their rights. 



The conservation of the natural resources 

 is now a live question. The people have 

 risen to claim them for themselves and pos- 

 terity. The forests are the most important 

 of these resources, the foundation on which 

 many of the others rest. 



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Good Roads Propaganda 



In the week of December, 6-11, the South- 

 ern Commercial Congress and the National 

 Rivers and Harbors Congress meet in 

 Washington City. During that time the 

 Office of Public Roads, in Washington, 

 will keep open house, thus enabling all 

 who visit the city to come in contact 

 with some of the most skilled road 

 engineers in the country. Mr. Logan 

 Waller Page, director of the Office of Pub- 

 lic Roads, has requested Mr. J. E. Penny 

 backer, chief of road management, to give 

 an illustrated lecture before the Southern 

 Commercial Congress. In addition to the 

 lecture the exhibit hall of the congress will 

 contain enlarged photographs of bad roads 

 and good from various southern states; and 

 photographs showing the before and after 

 of some roads that have been improved. In 

 addition there will be models of different 

 types of road construction. There will be 

 also several films of moving oictures shown 

 during the lecture illustrating the processes 

 of road making in motion, and also illustrat- 

 ing the effect of automobiles on the road 

 bed. The Southern Commercial Congress 

 will print and distribute in Washington the 

 latest information regarding road progress 

 of the South so as to encourage effort in 

 every county of the South and also to pro- 

 duce the conviction that road improvement 

 pays the county that undertakes it. Over 

 2,500 invitations have been mailed to county 

 commissioners throughout the South. The 

 first county in all the South to pay the way 

 of an official to this practical good-roads ex- 

 position is Woodward County, Oklahoma. 



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The Biltmore School Peripatetic 



The Biltmore School, which Dr. C. A. 

 Schenck has so long and successfully con- 

 ducted on the Vanderbilt estate near Ashe- 

 ville, N. C, is about to become a peripatetic 



institution. Several months will be spent 

 in study in the forests of Germany. The 

 classes in the school have closed and the 

 students have left for their homes to make 

 final preparations for sailing in the party, 

 November 9, on "The Potsdam" from New 

 York. 



The plans include many trips to various 

 parts of Germany, and adjacent countries. 

 The party includes fifty-six, forty-five of 

 whom are students. Four of the remaining 

 eleven are instructors. The remainder are 

 young ladies of the city who have joined the 

 class. More students would have gone if 

 permitted by the management. 



The requests for membership for next 

 year are equal to the number for this year. 

 The course as now planned will give oppor- 

 tunity for study in every kind of forest. 

 When the party returns in the spring, the 

 work will be resumed at Pisgah forest. The 

 school will not have its headquarters on the 

 estate, but at the same time the forests of 

 the Vanderbilt property will be the basis 

 of much of the work. 



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Hurricane Destruction on the Mississippi Coast 



Mississippi's coast is some seventy miles in 

 length and is followed closely by the Louis- 

 ville and Nashville Railroad. Says the New 

 Orleans Picayune: "The recent hurricane 

 which raged along that coast inflicted serious 

 damage upon the railroad mentioned, stop- 

 ping its operations for several weeks, but 

 other quite considerable injury along that 

 coast was the undermining and carrying 

 away of much of the shore at several of 

 the prominent coast resorts. At each of 

 those places a broad and level driveway, 

 which extended along the water front, was 

 the delight and charm of life there, and in 

 many places it was completely destroyed and 

 obliterated, so that in order to restore it, the 

 dwellers along the route must either move 

 their houses farther back from the new line 

 of beach made by the waves or a new road 

 must be built out into the water. 



"In view of the damage done and the 

 losses suffered, there has been voiced a de- 

 mand that the National Government shall 

 give protection to that coast by building some 

 sort of a breakwater to receive and fend off 

 the fury of the waves." 



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Mr, Herbert A. Smith at Brattleboro 



Mr. Herbert A.Smith, 

 Forest Service, recently 

 zens of Brattleboro, Vt. 

 forestry. In closing his 

 tional Forest.s, he said : 



"This property of the 

 whole an undeveloped p 

 of high productiveness 

 when railroads and the 

 tion have opened up th 

 ated a greater demand 



of the United States 



addressed the citi- 



, on the subject of 



remarks on the Na- 



Nation's is on the 

 roperty. Its period 



will come later, 



increase in popula- 



e country and cre- 



for the timber. In 



