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resolution further urged the Federal 

 Congress to adopt such changes in the 

 coal-land laws as would authorize the 

 Government to hold and lease the min- 

 ing rights separate and independent of 

 the surface rights, the latter being sold 

 or leased independently for home- 

 steads or other agricultural or graz- 

 ing purposes. 



The Trans-Mississippi Congress, 

 which was in session November 19th 

 to 22d, inclusive, at Muskogee, I. Ter., 

 passed resolutions similar to the above, 

 and also resolutions commending the 

 administration's forest policy, and 

 urging the leasing of the grazing lands 

 under Government supervision. 



A b D '^^^ Governor of Hawaii 



in Hawaii proclaimed the 15th of 

 of November as Arbor 

 Day for that island Territory. Trees 

 are important to the life of the people 

 there, as elsewhere, and since lumber 

 is growing high-priced elsewhere, 

 there is all the more reason why they 

 should, as they can, supply their needs 

 from home material. In fact, the is- 

 lands are now exporting lumber in 

 considerable quantities. The Honolulu 

 Coimnercial Advertiser mentions some 

 of the elements of commerce affected : 

 "Leaving out the raising of tree fruits 

 we already have companies incorpor- 

 ated with a large amount of capital to 

 develop three distinctly new exports — 

 namely, lumber, rubber and copra ; all 

 from different species of trees. There 

 are millions for the future to be deriv- 

 ed from the systematic forestation now 

 being conducted. Arbor Day has a 

 distinctive value also in the cause of 

 city beautification. For a country 

 where tree growth is so rapid as here, 

 it ought to be the greatest day for pub- 

 lic observance in the calendar. 



Newspapers Elsewhere, editorial 



Raising mention is made of news- 



Irrices 



papers raising prices. 



Additional items come to the editor- 

 ial desk. The Indianapolis Morning 

 Star, the Terre Haute Star, and the 

 Muncie Star, the three comprising the 

 Star League, have raised their prices. 



their manager declaring, "The best 

 way we knew of meeting the increase 

 in white paper by the press was to in- 

 crease the price of the paper. * * * 

 Publishers have got to do something, 

 and I understand that they are raising 

 prices all over the country." 



Joliet daily newspapers have recent- 

 ly advanced their prices from five 

 cents to ten cents per week. A Perth 

 Amboy paper has increased its price, 

 its manager stating that "the present 

 cost in the production of a daily paper 

 has doubled that of five years ago." 

 and that "its only salvation was the 

 increase in price." Its editor added, 

 that "he did not believe that the reduc- 

 tion of the tariff on wood pulp would 

 help, because he believed that as soon 

 as it is done Canada will put an ex- 

 port duty on the product." 



The Drainage The plan of the Na- 

 of Southern ^joj^^i Drainage Asso- 



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ciation to convert more 

 than 65 million acres of Southern 

 swamps into agricultural lands is 

 part of the general project to con- 

 serve and develop the natural re- 

 scources of the country with economy 

 and foresight entirely unknown in the 

 past. 



Not long ago Mr. James J. Hill 

 pointed out the distinction between 

 our lasting and our transitory sources 

 of prosperity. Mines are destined to 

 be exhausted. Agriculture, grazing, 

 and lumbering, on the other hand, are 

 permanent industries. The prosper- 

 ity which is based upon them is the 

 only prosperity of which the future 

 is assured. But farm crops, pastur- 

 age, and forest products, though con- 

 stantly renewed by nature, are threat- 

 ened by excessive use — the hasty, 

 shortsighted sort of use which is 

 termed "exploitation," as disting- 

 uished from development. 



President Roosevelt has clearly 

 formulated the general public pol- 

 icy of conserving the natural re- 

 sources of the country. Lasting gen- 

 eral prosperity will depend in the long 

 run upon putting to its best use every 

 acre of farm, pasture, and forest land. 



