DESTRUCTIVE DISTILLATION 



this juxtaposition. Washing"ton, who 

 was chancellor of the old \^irginia col- 

 lege, drew the idea of a great national 

 university in the nation's capital, an idea 

 which was never carried out, although 

 he made a bequest to the nation for the 

 purpose. This northwestern state has 

 become the heir of the tradition, and in 

 ]\Iadison it is carried out physically and 

 in spirit, for the university is the real 

 leader of thought and development in 

 the state. Its great central building 

 looks down State Street to the capitol. 

 Its library, an exceptionally fine one, 

 worthily housed, is the state library as 

 well. Educators and legislators work- 

 together for the state ; not, indeed, with- 

 out much of the friction inevitable in 

 our politics, but with good results in 

 the large. 



\\'isconsin aho still has great forest? 

 anrl wood-using industries, the latter 

 consuming annually over 900,000,000 

 feet of lumber, valued at $20,000,000. 

 fifty-one per cent of which comes from 

 without the state, the forests of which 

 are now threatened with early ex- 

 358 



haustion. This does not take into ac- 

 count large quantities of material from 

 the sawmills that is not considered 

 available for future manufacture. The 

 problem of preventing waste by more 

 complete utilization is therefore of the 

 highest importance to the future pros- 

 perity of the state. Wisconsin also has 

 a state forest service of great efficiency, 

 free from political control, which goes 

 at things in a vigorous, western way 

 and has a definite policy that is pursued 

 with steady purpose. 



The city of Madison is rarely en- 

 dowed by nature so that the environ- 

 ment is in every way favorable for the 

 life and work of the products staff of 

 the Forest Service which, as our read- 

 ers know, will now have its hea^'quar- 

 tcrs in ?\Iadison. instead of in Wash- 

 ington. 



THE OPENING EXERCISES 



The new plant, in its extent and com- 

 pleteness, was a gratifying surprise to 

 most of those who saw it for the first 



