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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



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It is proposed, during the summer, by 

 the friends and advocates of National 

 drainage, to carry on a vigorous edu- 

 cational campaign, to the end that not 

 only members of Congress, but mem- 

 bers of State Legislatures, as well 

 as the people themselves, shall be- 

 come fully alive to the absolute neces- 

 sity of securing the passage of the 

 much-needed legislation. It is thought 



more than probable that in this work 

 of education several speakers will be 

 placed in the field, for the purpose 

 of spreading the propaganda of 

 "Draining the swamps for homes and 

 health." 



The Executive Committee did not 

 determine the place or time of holding 

 the next annual Congress ; however, 

 this question is now under advise- 



CONSERVATION— WOMAN'S WORK 



BY 



Lydia Adams-Williams 



r^ROM time immemorial when any 

 ^ ^ great work is to be accomplished 

 — any achievement which vitally con- 

 cerns the life and the welfare of human- 

 ity, any uplift of the children of men in 



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Lydia Adams-Williams. 



A writer and lecturer on Conservation, 

 and who is the first woman to take 

 up this work. 



the home or in the broader field, the 

 world — to woman's integrity, re- 

 sourcefulness, genius and capacity for 

 endurance has the final triumph been 

 due. 



Joan of Arc's patriotism and in- 

 spiration enabled the peasantry of 

 France to throw off the yoke of Eng- 

 lish oppression. To Josephine's devo- 

 tion to her husband and the cause 

 nearest his heart belongs the credit 

 for the victories of Napoleon. To the 

 intuition of Isabella of Spain, to her 

 tenacious grasp of a great idea, to her 

 foresight and her divine sympathy the 

 world is indebted for the discovery of 

 a great continent, for the civilization 

 we enjoy to-day and for the great 

 wealth of resources, the development 

 of which has made us the most pow- 

 erful nation on the face of the earth. 



And as it was the intuitive foresight 

 of a woman which brought the light 

 of civilization to a great continent, so, 

 in great measure, will it fall to woman, 

 in her power to educate public senti- 

 ment, to save from rapacious waste 

 and complete exhaustion the resources 

 upon which depend the welfare of the 

 home, the children and the children's 

 children. 



This is the inevitable conclusion, for 

 to woman has the practice of saving, 

 of conserving, ever been a paramount 

 issue. 



Man has been too busy building 

 railroads, constructing ships, engi- 

 neering great projects, and exploiting 

 vast commercial and financial enter- 

 prises, to take the time necessary to 

 consider the problems which concern 



