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HORTICULTURE, 



November 9, 1907 



THE VALUE OF ART AND SKILL 

 IN INDUSTRY. 



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bor, equitable distribution of profits, 

 instruction in trades by which a man 

 can earn his living outside of a penal 

 institution, the practical application of 

 the great moral law in all business re- 

 lations, which is as much the result of 

 skilled training as anything else — all 

 these elements, with a more enlight- 

 ened treatment of the criminal when 

 apprehended, will lead to a reduction 

 in the column of crime, but not prob- 

 ably to the millennium; foi- human ex- 

 perience from time immemorial tells 

 us that the earth never was, nor is, 

 nor ever will be a heaven, nor yet a 

 hell, yet the endeavor of right-minded 

 men and women, the endeavor of 

 every government, the endeavor of 

 every element of industrial training, 

 should be to make the earth less a 

 hell and more a heaven. 



In the olden time the works of the 

 groat masters were en.ioyed only by 

 the few. Today industrial art, skill, 

 and scientific training have resulted 

 in the reproduction of all these things, 

 so that now the common man is more 

 familiar with the works of the great 

 masters than were the few in the old- 

 en time They have been reproduced 

 in various forms, and they teach their 

 lessons. The wage earner reaps the 

 rewards of his work. He is enabled 

 to cultivate the beautiful, to a small 

 degree it may be, but in whatever de- 

 gree, it is greater than of old. These 

 reproductions are giving the people an 

 opportunity to learn and to know and 

 to enjoy more fully and more com- 

 pletely, and thus add to the delight of 

 living. 



If industry today had nothing more 

 to do than the furnishing of the sim- 

 ple necessities of human life, it would 

 have little field for expansion, and 

 would offer meagre opportunities for 

 emplo>-ment. Life would be a burden, 

 so dull and monotonous would it be. 

 Trade, as we understand it, would 

 cease, and commerce become a thing 

 practically unknown. But industry 

 tlourishes because it is not limited to 

 the production of things that are 

 needed for food, raiment, and shelter. 

 It is because art has come in to in- 

 crease the wants of the race that 

 trade and commerce flourish. Art 

 carried industry beyond our actual 

 wants, and calls upon it to supply 

 those things which make for social 

 progress. The future expansion of in- 

 dustry and commerce, the future ele- 

 vation in the character of the employ- 

 ment of all classes, the increase of 

 their earning capacity, the opportu- 

 nity of increasing the standard of 

 their environment — all depend in 

 large measure upon the cultivation of 

 the industrial arts, and the eutllvation 

 of these arts depends upon the ade- 

 quacy of the training which institu- 

 tions of learning shall furnish. 



In what I have said you must not 

 understand me as abrogating in the 

 slightest degree the necessity for clas- 

 sical education. Every man is better 

 for knowing something of the classics; 

 every man is better for having read 

 and studied the great thoughts of 

 great men in different languages. He 

 can bring to his own practical life 

 the inspiration which comes from the 

 experience of the past, but the man 

 who is contented to live in the past 



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retrogrades and cannot be considered 

 as a factor in the great development 

 of the present. Bring all these things 

 into closer relation. Let the farmer 

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THE PINE TREE BLIGHT. 



White pine in New England was 

 quite generally attacked last summer 

 with a peculiar blight which the Gov- 

 ernment has been investigating with- 

 out so far solving the mystery. S. T. 

 Dana, one of the officers concerned in 

 the investigation by the Department 

 of Agriculture, in a report states that 

 the disease is very widely spread 

 throughout New England, and it oc- 

 curs practically every^vhere south of 

 the White Mountains. In most places 

 only a few scattered trees are attacked 

 by the blight, although in a few locali- 

 ties as many as 10 to 20 per cent, of 

 the trees are affected by the disease. 

 Brunswick, Me., appears to have suf- 

 fered severely. Another badly affected 

 locality is Eliot, Me. The report states 

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DECISIONS OF THE U. S. BOARD 

 OF APPRAISERS. 



No. 17137.— Sea Moss.— Protest 269612 

 of M. Herman & Co. against the as- 

 sessment of duty by the collector of 

 customs at the port of New York. Be- 

 fore Board 1, October 22, 1907. Opinion 

 by McClelland, G. A. 



Protest sustained as to sea moss. 

 G. A. 6464 (T. D. 27670) followed. 



No. 17138.— Wreaths and Crosses of 

 Moss.— Protest 269315 of J. J. Buchey 

 & Co. against the assessment of duty 

 by the collector of customs at the port 

 of New York. Before Board 1, Octo- 

 ber 22, 1907. Opinion by McClelland, 

 G. A. 



Wreaths, crosses, etc., composed of 

 rock moss, dyed and prepared, were 

 held to have been properly classified 

 as unenunierated manufacturing arti- 

 cles under section 6, tariff act of 1897. 

 G. A. 3146 (T. D. 16317), G. A. 3384 

 (T. D. 16956), and Abstract 7775 (T. D. 

 26655) followed. 



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