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quate appropriation for such pur- education; that we should educate the 

 poses." children and through them, the moth- 

 Mrs. Tomkies stated that Mrs. Kurd ers ; or, as he further explained, by 

 of Bay City, Tex., had contributed interesting the children in the schools 

 $100 toward the objects of the in the matter of saving what is left 

 congress. A rising vote of thanks was of our soils, minerals, waters and for- 

 tendered Mrs. Hurd for her generous ests, the mothers, and fathers, too, will 

 donation. take up the work. Mr. Pinchot mod- 

 The annual dues for membership estly gave all the credit for the con- 

 are for individuals, $i per annum ; firms, servation of resources to President 

 $3 ; for organizations, municipalities, or Roosevelt. At the conclusion of Mr. 

 corporations, up to 500 members, $3 per Pinchot's remarks, a member rose and 

 annum ; over 500 members, $5. Dues read an extract from the President's 

 must be sent to the recording secretary, address before the National Editorial 

 .Mrs. A. B. Avery, 254 Stoner avenue, Association, at Jamestown, June 10, 

 Shreveport, La. I 97> m which he said: "In all four 

 A very interesting and well-written movements my chief advisor, and the 

 paper was read by Mrs. A. F Knud- man first to suggest to me the courses 

 sen, of Hawaii, who came 5,000 miles which have actually proved so bene- 

 to aid in the work of the woman's ncial, was Mr. Gifford Pinchot, the 

 congress. Mrs. Knudsen spoke of the Chief of the National Forest Service." 

 importance of Pearl Harbor as a coal- In line with Mr. Pinchot's remarks, 

 ing and supply station, a half-way the congress voted to appoint two corn- 

 point in the vast commerce, which will mittees, one on education, of which 

 mark the completion of the Panama Mrs. P. S. Peterson, of the Peterson 

 canal. She said: "Deep inland water- Nursery, Chicago, will be the chair- 

 ways imply trans-oceanic commerce. man ; and a committee on publicity, 

 A deep waterway from the Lakes to of which Mrs. Lydia Adams-Williams 

 the Gulf contemplates an Isthmian was elected chairman, 

 canal ; an Isthmian canal contemplates Mr. F. H. Newell, chief of the Re- 

 trans-Pacific trade and travel ; and clamation Service, gave an interest- 

 trans-Pacific commerce contemplates a ing and instructive address before the 

 way station ; and hence, as if especially congress, in which he eulogized the 

 contemplated and placed there by part women are taking in National 

 Providence, rests Hawaii, not only the welfare work, and spoke of the need 

 'Paradise of the Pacific/ but the Gibral- of their taking up the work on a large 

 tar of the Pacific as well." scale and the good that might be ac- 

 Mrs. Gerard, of South Norwalk, complished through them. Mr. Newell 

 Conn., chairman of the forestry commit- showed the inseparable relation be- 

 tee of the General Federation of Worn- tween forests and streams and the 

 en's Clubs, told of the splendid laws reclamation of the arid lands. He 

 relating to forestry and State lands in traced the forestry movement from its 

 Connecticut, and said forestry enthusi- inception, about twenty years ago, at 

 asm in her State is wide-spread. a meeting with a handful of people 

 Mr. GifFord Pinchot addressed the "mostly women, who loved trees," 

 congress and stated that he had had said Mr. Newell to its present great 

 much experience in meeting with wo- proportions ; from a small bureau of 

 men's clubs and addressing them. He about thirty to now nearly 3,000 work- 

 said that women are a power in any ers ; from an annual appropriation of 

 work which they undertake. "When $30,000 to now over $3,000,000; from 

 women organize," said Mr. Pinchot, 1892, when the first forest reserve, of 

 "they are in earnest; they have the mat- about 50,000 acres, was created, to the 

 ter at heart, and they will work for its present, with 155 National forests, 

 success." Mr. Pinchot made the point embracing over 160,000,000 acres. Mr. 

 that there should be a campaign of Newell told of the great strides made 



