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wise. 
Jong one. 
pico incident. 
will lead us! 
country has been begun under 
ly judged. 
President Wilson had power by the Constitution 
of the United States to use the armed forces of the 
Nation, but our level-headed President recognized the 
value of the moral support of Congress in the policy 
Huerta ought to realize 
he had determined to pursue. 
‘The Cruel War is Over’’ was the title of the 
leading editorial referring but a week ago to the Tam- 
But the week’s events have been other- 
No one knows how far the present difficulties 
Every war that has embarrassed our 
circumstances that 
seemed to indicate that the struggle would not be a 
Eyen the attack upon Sumter was not right- 
Little did either side, north or south real- 
ive that a long four years’ war had opened. 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
Harvard and Tee 
by the vote in the lower House that his supposition 
that President Wilson is not sustained in his policy 
Huerta is a shrewd, unscrupulous man and 
Wilson has shown himself to be a man of patience, 
is false. 
courage and judgment. 
The New York Man who received a five-dollar bill 
for the return of jewels and money to the amount of 
$5,300 must have an exalted idea of the generosity of 
the careless hotel lodger who lost the bag. 
The Senate Committee has reported a two-winged 
Now that building opera- 
r and better that 
addition to the State House. 
tions are assured on the Hill it is wise 
the wings be built eontemporaneously. 
in Mexico. 
13 
The Plans of the Institution of Technology for a 
group of academic buildings along the Charles River 
‘on the Cambridge side are beginning to mature. 
turned sod, the tall powerful derricks, the moving 
throng of working men and stone foundations are trans- 
forming the Cambridge shore. 
hnology will be a University City un- 
rivalled in America. 
The 
Cambridge with both 
What a Study in Human Nature the Villa-Huerta- 
Wilson controversy presents. 
tion anxieties incident to diplomacy with an ignorant 
nation of men are new. 
were skulking about in the woods all round, one would 
then begin to appreciate the burdens the early colonists 
bore in New England. 
To the present genera- 
If these Mexicans, half breeds 
With the Probabilities of trouble in Mexico the 
war value of the Panama Canal is evident. 
short week it is believed that the canal will be naviga- 
ble for war vessels. 
In one 
It is a Significant Fact that the veterans of the 
Civil War, who have had experience in armed conflicts, 
are not enthusiastic over the prospects of blood-shed 
1914 is the Tercentenary of the naming of New 
England by Captain John Smith. Here is an opportun- 
ity for a pageant celebration. 
Pine Makes a Hit in 
Monterey 
New Zealand. 
Foresters in the United States are 
much surprised by the statement in 
the January issue of the J ournal of 
Agriculture of New Zealand, just 
received in this country, that Mon- 
 terey pine ‘‘is by far the most val- 
uable and profitable timber tree 
that can be planted’’ in New ZLea- 
land. 
This pine grows naturally in a 
few very restricted areas in south- 
ern Galifornia, principally in the 
neighborhood of Monterey Bay, 
with one or two isolated areas to 
the south and-on Santa Catalina Is- 
land. While foresters have known 
that its growth is comparatively 
rapid, the tree has been regarded 
as practically valueless for timber, 
though it has been planted to serve 
is a windbreak for orange groves. 
The reports of its behavior in 
New Zealand, however, seem to 
make a further investigation of its 
value in this country well worth 
while. In view of the extraordin- 
arily rapid growth which the tree 
has made in their country, New Zea- 
landers have given it the common 
name of ‘‘remarkable pine,’’ and 
from the figures reported by the 
New Zealand department of agri- 
culture, industry, and commerce, 
this seems to be well merited. The 
claims for Monterey pine are based 
on the phenomenal growth which ‘t 
has made in plantations and the 
many uses to which the wood seems 
adapted. 
In one plantation, for example, 
in which the trees varied from 26 to 
29 years old, one tree gave a yield 
of 1,400 board feet of saw timber 
and the average yield of the plan-~ 
tation was approximately 100,000 
board feet for each acre. White 
pine, the tree best adapted to for- 
est management in the northeastern 
United States, will scarcely yield 
more than 20,000 board feet per 
acre at this age. Loblolly pine, the 
most rapid-growing pine of the 
southeast, makes not more than 16,- 
000 board feet per acre in equal 
length of time. Another 27-year-old 
plantation of Monetery pine in New 
Zealand yielded 75,000 board feet 
of saw timber and 60 cords of fire 
wood per acre, yet both of these 
plantations were on pure sand not 
suitable for farming purposes. 
An individual tree, only 46 years 
old, was estimated to contain more 
than 6,000 board feet. Average 
white pine trees of the same age in 
this country, when grown in the for- 
est, seldom contain more than 125 
board feet, so that the figures given 
in the New Zealand report seem 
almost incredible. It is known, 
however, that certain trees, outside 
at 
of their native habitat, make re- 
markable growth, particularly im 
their earlier years, as has been 
strikingly shown in some of the 
Australian eucalypts in California 
and in Brazil. 
On the basis of the tremendous 
yields of Monetery pine reported 
for New Zealand, the author of the 
article in the Journal of Agricul- 
ture believes that Monterey pine 
ean be grown profitably in that 
country on land worth upwards of 
$50 an acre, even when there is a 
comparatively high cost of plant- 
ing. 
In New Zealand the wood is said 
to be used for practically all build- 
ing purposes except flooring. It 
makes excellent lumber for boxes, 
fruit packing cases, and for other 
similar purposes. It is not durable 
in contact with the ground or when 
exposed to the weather unpainted. 
The behavior of this pine in New 
Zealand has been so remarkable 
that the forest service considers 
that a further investigation of its 
value in this country would be well 
worth while. 
In many parts of the west snow 
is leaving the mountains earlier 
than usual. Foresters say that this 
may mean a bad fire season, and 
they are making plans for a hard 
campaign. 
