NEWS AND NOTES 



Engineers Meet 



'I he spring meeting of The American So- 

 ciety of Mechanical Engineers will be held at 

 the New Willard Hotel in Washington, D. C., 

 on May 5-7, 1909. 



A Forest Congress in Chicago 



At a recent meeting, the hoard of direct- 

 ors of The American Forestry Association 

 hy resolution agreed to hold a forestry con- 

 gress in Chicago next November. A committee 

 on arrangements and promotion was created 

 consisting of Messrs. C. A. Marsh, of Chi- 

 cago, chairman; William L. Hall, Washing- 

 ton, D. C, and George V. Markham, of St. 

 Louis. This committee was authorized to 

 increase its number to nine and to appoint 

 such auxiliary committees as may, in its 

 judgment, be deemed desirable. 



For the Appalachian Bill Next Session 



U'oodland and Roadside points out that it 

 has been demonstrated that "a bill primarily 

 designed to nationalize the Appalachian 

 Mountain forests can be passed in the House 

 of Representatives as well as in the Senate. 

 There is reason to believe that this will be 

 true of the Sixty-first as of the Sixtieth Con- 

 gress. At last there is a strong, well-organized 

 body of active friends of the measure in both 

 houses men pledged to do their utmost to 

 secure the enactment of a workable law that 

 will meet the needs and demands of the peo- 

 ple of the eastern United States; and House 

 and Senate are on record. This has been made 

 possible by the great public awakening that, 

 beginning in New England and the South, 

 has won friends and supporters throughout 

 the United States. If success is to come 

 ultimately this public sentiment must be 

 strengthened and kept at work. There is 

 no longer, as there was until a year or two 

 ago, apathy among our friends in Congress. 

 We must hold up their hands if their efforts 

 are to succeed. The opposition will be strong 

 in the present House, as the vote of March 

 I showed it to be in that which has just 

 expired. In the Senate there is a group of 

 Rocky Mountain Senators, hostile to the for- 

 est policy of the Government, inimical to 

 eastern interests, who will do anything in 

 their power to defeat any measure of this 

 kind. This winter they had the advantage 



of time or the lack of it. Otherwise the 

 Weeks bill would have become a law. If a 

 measure can be agreed upon by the Senate 

 and House committees and brought forward 

 early enough in the first regular session of 

 the present Congress there is a strong proba- 

 bility that it can be passed. We must make 

 that probability an actuality." 



What Children Can Do for a Cause 



Mrs. John Dozier Pou, an active worker 

 for civic improvement in the Georgia Federa- 

 tion of Women's Clubs, is a thorough believer 

 in having the cooperation of the children. 



"If you desire enthusiasm," insists Mrs. 

 Pou, "go to the children ; if you wish a 

 changed condition of affairs, get the chil- 

 dren's cooperation, and if we are planning 

 for a higher standard of city housekeeping let 

 us educate the children in future citizenship." 



"If an appreciation of forests and forest 

 preservation is ever to become general, pub- 

 lic sentiment must be aroused, and the most 

 comprehensive way of accomplishing the re- 

 sult is to educate the children of the public 

 schools and, through them, their parents." 

 Louise Klein Miller, Curator of School Gar- 

 dens, Cleveland. 



What the American Civic Association Does 



"Few persons realize the vast amount of 

 commendable work that the American Civic 

 Association has accomplished. Its successful 

 campaign against the commercial spoliation 

 of Niagara Falls brought its activity into 

 wider acquaintance, but it has achieved much 

 in a minor way which has gone without loud 

 hurrah or advertisement. 



"Such an organization should command 

 the good will, if not the practical assistance, 

 of all who have pride in the town where they 

 live." The Piftsburg Post. 



Work on the Coast 



Mr. Frank H. Lamb writes: 



"We have been quite actively at work here 

 on the coast during the past two months try- 

 ing to get some allowances from the legisla- 

 tures. The Oregon legislature has adjourned 

 without securing anything we desire. We 



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