1908 



NEWS AXD NOTES 



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 >e^ion November igih 

 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. 



Arbor Day The Governor of Hawaii 

 in Hawaii proclaimed the I5th 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 

 Commercial . -/</; crtiser 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, 

 ght to be the greatest day for pub- 

 lic observance in the calendar. 



their niaiuiL daring, "Th<- : 



way we knew of i 



in white paper by tin- j n - 



crease the price of the ; 



Publishers have got to d< 



and I understand that they are r 



price- all over the country." 



Joliet daily ne\\ ; ve recent- 



ly advanced their price- [ 

 cents to ten cents per week. A Perth 

 Amboy paper has increa-. 

 its manager stating that "the pre- 

 cost in the production of a daily pa- 

 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 so< m 

 as it is done Canada will put an ex- 

 port duty on the product." 



The Drainage The plan of the Na- 

 tional 



Newspapers 



Raising 



Prices 



Elsewhere, editorial 

 mention is made of news- 

 papers raising prices. 

 Additional items come to the editor- 

 ial desk. The Indianapolis Morning 

 Stnr. the Terre 1 1 ante Star, and the 

 Muncie Star, the three comprising the 

 Star Lea-ue. have raised their prices, 



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 

 scources of the country with economy 

 and foresight entirely unknown in : 

 past. 



Not long ago Mr. James J. II ill 

 pointed out the distinction between 

 our lasting and our transitor 

 of prosperity. Mine- are d< 

 be exhausted. Agriculture, grazii 

 and lumbering, on the othei hand, are 

 permanent industries. Th. 

 ity which is based upon them is the 

 only prosperity of which the future 

 is assured. Hut farm crops, pastur- 

 age. and forest product-, though o 

 stantly renewed by nature, are threat- 

 ened by excessivi ' hasty. 



shortsighted sort of A'luVh 



termed "exploitatii di-ti- 



iii-hed from development. 



President K It has clearly 



formulated th< '-a! public pol- 



icy of conserving the natural re- 

 sources of the country. Lasting gen- 

 eral prosperity will 1 in the Ion- 



run upon putting to its bc-t u-e every 

 acre of ("arm. pa land. 



