HOME AND EDUCATION

...Every one who listened was not only thrilled with patriotic feeling for the principle of conservation, but was filled to the brim with enthusiasm for specific and definite lines of work...

...Senator Beveridge of Indiana made it the text of a brilliant speech in which he outlined its history and drew a parallel with telling effect against the anti-conservationists...

...James J. Hill of the Northern Pacific, who boldly and vigorously opposed national control and defended individual and corporate ownership on the ground that it was more economical and profitable, denied that the question of states' rights in any way entered into the problem...

...Her first lecture will be in Washington before the International Demo-graphical Society on September 23...

...Roosevelt made good...

...If the emphasis placed on the political and social significance of the Congress conveys the impression that conservation itself was overlooked, it is an entirely wrong conclusion...

...I felt, t»o, th&t if I were going at all, I Wanted to be there the first two days to see for myself how the crowd received Taft and Roosevelt...

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...Some of the greatest land frauds have been perpetrated under the guise of technical compliance with laws which, in fact, did not apply to the character of the land obtained or the use to which it was put...

...There was the reception to the President of the United States and there was nothing more...

...Miss McMillan has a message not only for educators but also for those who are interested in woman's suffrage and organized labor...

...Pinchot as United States Forester, covered the question of national conservation with great care, and all through the Congress, conservation was defined and practically discussed...

...It seemed to me only an expedient used by the anti-conservationists to strengthen and defend their position...

...I have always regarded the election returns, whether for or against us, as a precious family experience, to be shared together...

...It was with this thought in mind that I watched the crowd as the parade on Labor Day, led by the troops from Fort Snelling, passed the President on the reviewing stand...

...Roosevelt's reception: "There is no escaping what is in every mind and on every tongue today—the significance of the difference between the respectful and conventional greeting accorded the President of the United States yesterday and the tumultuous and enthusiastic welcome showered today upon that foremost citizen of the Republic, Theodore Roosevelt...

...Often the most perfect paper proof of claims covers the grossest violation of law...

...Such cases as these can only be prevented by vigorous action aid unceasing vigilance of executive officers," There is no mistaking the application of this to the Alaska coal claims: "The practical need and value of vigorous executive action has been clearly shown in public land matters...

...our forests,—to prevent erosion, to hold moisture, furnish lumber and fuel, and keep the earth livable—their protection from fires, and insects, reforestation, reformation of our tax law in order to encourage forestry...

...Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE L. HUNT Impressions of the Conservation Congress THE Conservation Congress held in St...

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...Taken out of its setting, read without reference to recent political history, Garfield's address might be regarded only as a strong, convincing argument for full exercise of executive power in the handling of the nation's wealth...

...It marks the advent of a new patriotism wherein love of humanity becomes an integral part of love of country and where the conservation of our 'rocks and rills' our 'woods and templed hills1 is not more sacred a trust than the conservation of those ideals and principles through which we hope to attain our ultimate national purpose;—a government of enlightened people, enjoying equal opportunities, sharing equal burdens and rejoicing in the freedom of an Industrial and Political Democracy...

...The rousing of emotions on a subject like this, which has only dim outlines in the minds of the people affected, after a while ceases to be useful, and the whole movement will, if promoted on these lines, die for want of practical direction and of demonstration to the people that practical reforms are intended...

...His address was not on the plan of the square deal, a balancing of the scales to one side and then to the other, but was a sustained appeal that came from inner conviction, for the policies on which, it is said, his place in history will most securely rest...

...Editorially, the St...

...The duty of the executive is neglected and the rights of -the public jeopardized unless the spirit as well as the letter of the law is enforced...

...There is no real conflict between national and states' rights in dealing with the public lands and the use of natural resources...

...He said among other things: "The executive is the custodian of public property...

...If Miss Seawell will come in out of the darkness of the eighteenth century for a little while, we will show her around...

...IN MY judgment this difference in the attitude of the people was justified by the difference in the attitude of the two men on the issues at stake...

...ALTHOUGH the question of states' rights was kept constantly before the Congress, I did not feel that anyone really believed the old doctrine was being seriously revived under a new guise...

...But for the most part he discussed the question not as a great issue or movement, but as a judge instructing the jury as to the legal aspects of a case, leaving it to Congress and the American people to decide as to the facts and policies...

...The best use of our national mineral resources, coal, oil, gas...

...In her own country she has the support of the Independent Labor Party of which she has long been an active member...

...It seemed very hard to me that the Congress and the Wisconsin primary elections should come in the same week...

...We will show her polling places to which men have never been obliged to "fight their way...

...He took up the challenge to demonstrate the practicability of conservation which Taft had made, and although at all times courteous, he replied to Taft in clear, incisive, unsparing terms...

...Hill was answered in a most pleasing, good-humored, philosophical, yet sincere, practical and effective Vein by Mr...

...our lands,—the keeping of our phosphates for our own use instead of exportation, a wiser method of disposal and conservation of sewage,—all these questions were presented in their various phases by experts in an authoritative way...

...to babblers of the revolution she retorts that revolution will come when we decide to feed the revolutionaries, of whom in short frocks, the schools are full...

...Exactly as the cry of executive usurpation was raised, so now the ghost of states' rights is dragged in to frighten the people...

...it appeared to me passive, if not indifferent...

...THAT Mr...

...When the President entered the great convention hall, crowded to its full seating capacity of 12,000 with hundreds standing, and the audience who had been given flags with which to greet him arose and cheered for a moment, it was a thrilling sight, but the demonstration was lacking in spontaneity...

...Pinchot, in the beginning of his talk, emphatically denied that conservation was sentimental...

...Miss McMillan was from 1894 to 1902 a member of the Bradford School Board a»d the memory of her labors still keeps Bradford ahead of other English towns in its attention to the children...

...He said every acre of public land available for homestead cultivation should be put to its highest use...

...Ray Stannard Baker of the American Magazine, when on his way from St...

...Henry Wallace, editor of an agricultural paper at Des Moines, Iowa...

...Women of the Hour Margaret McMillan THAT "the real revolutionary is the child" is the belief of Miss Margaret McMillan, an English authority on matters connected with the health of school children, who is to lecture in this country during the next few weeks...

...He lives most life whoever breathes most air.—Elizabeth Browning...

...I was glad to hear this challenge, for it made, as I knew it would, a clear-cut issue throughout the convention, which Roosevelt, Garfield, Pinchot, Heney and others, directly or indirectly, took as their text and replied to, with great feeling and spirit...

...Taft, said it was a shame to invite him as a guest and get a great crowd together and then treat him so coolly...

...c. l. * * * ¶Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by giving it a little gratuitous exercise every day.—William James...

...But he knew, and we all knew, it was only a man of straw he was pummeling...

...Taft's friends felt the lack of enthusiasm was clear...

...that you invite them to come down to details in order that their discussions may flow into channels that shall be useful rather than into periods that shall be eloquent and entertaining, without shedding real light on the subject...

...Conservation and Country Life, by Professor Bailey of Cornell University, particularly appealed to me, perhaps because of my inherent interest in the soil and conviction of the necessity of direct contact with it for the highest development of character...

...That was when he said: "I am bound to say that the time has come for a halt in general rhapsodies over conservation, making the word mean every known good in the world...

...We had been warned by Mr...

...There was a noticeable absence of anything like spontaneous enthusiasm...

...Each jurisdiction has great interests to safeguard, great duties to perform for the common good—and whenever the jurisdictions overlap neither should withdraw, but by cooperation provide for such regulation as will prevent special and private interests from escaping effective public regulation and supervision...

...Her presence in this country will be a spur to all progressive movements affecting women and children...

...Paul Dispatch confirms my impression: "In President Taft the people saw the official head of the nation and a dignified, well-liked and in every way agreeable gentleman...

...One of her English friends says: "To dreamers of a new world she points out that, in the continuous accession of children, a new world is always being born, and through our mistreatment of them always being' lost...

...The party is back of her in her work for school lunch-rooms with scientific feeding, for baths and physical training, for school clinics and school centers where children may receive medical treatment and for compulsory secondary education adapted in poor districts to the special needs of the poorest children...

...So I decided in favor of the Congress and was present at its opening session...

...Mere formal compliance with law opens the way to fraud...

...After the milk has curdled, strain it and add the other ingredients to the curd...

...Paul a few weeks ago where he had been to investigate the situation, that there was an organized attempt to pack the Congress and defeat the Pinchot policies with a sham battle on the obsolete question of states' rights vs...

...I beg of you, therefore, in your deliberations and in your informal discussions, when men came forward to suggest evils that the promotion of conservation is to remedy, that you invite them to point out the specific evils and the specific remedies...

...Perhaps then she will no longer fear that working women will become "a privileged class" even if "that socialistic association, highly favored by suffragists," by which she doubtless means the Consumers' League, succeeds in securing a minimum wage of four dollars a week for them...

...The President's voice filled the room with unexpected power and the audience followed his address with very close attention...

...It was summed up in his concluding paragraph as follows: "Conservation is the intimate and individual message to our day and generation...

...The different organizations, the women's clubs, the D. A. R. and the Red Cross Society were creditably represented upon the program, although the very great and important part which women have taken in this mighty movement was not presented in the adequate and comprehenshe form that I hope it will be in future Congresses.—b...

...The Stake the Business Man has in Conservation, by Alfred L. Baker, a broker in Chicago, struck me at the time it was delivered and stays by me since as the most satisfying expres-sion of what the public attitude—yours and mine and our neighbors—should be toward this great moral, political and economic issue...

...Women were well represented in numbers and enthusiasm and interest in the audiences, throughout the Congress...

...We will introduce her to a people who believe that "the possession of education and intelligence" is a more important qualification for voting than physical force...

...This for nearly a generation has been her consistent message...

...But that was all...

...He can not dispose of any property without authority from Congress, but it is his duty to prevent public property from being taken or being used illegally...

...From a poetical point of view, Garfield's speech was next to Taft's and Roosevelt's of the greatest significance...

...The editorial from which I have quoted says this of Mr...

...The Ladies' Battle" MOLLY ELLIOT SEAWELL tells us in the last page of her article on "The Ladies' Battle" in the September Atlantic that she was brought up "in a community where conditions more nearly resembled the eighteenth than the nineteenth century," a fact which the average reader had suspected before finishing the first page...

...Only once did he disclose any feeling...

...The best cough syrup ever prescribed for weak lungs is a ten minutes' practice of deep breathing.— George L. Bec,rdshy...

...CONSERVATION and Health, Conservation and Education, and other allied topics were interestingly discussed...

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...He made such a favorable impression upon the convention that I am sure all disinterested delegates like myself shared the satisfaction I felt when he was elected president of the next Congress...

...Listened to in the environment of the Congress with Garfield's relation to the two administrations vividly in mind, what he said was electrifying...

...We will take her to a few shops where she can gat twentieth century prices on some of the necessaries of life...

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...If Miss Seawell ever feels the need of a complete change, we suggest that she try living for a time in her own century and finding out what is going on around her...

...A man sitting next me, who evidently very much admired Mr...

...That the small land owner should be protected and encouraged and land monopoly should not be tolerated...

...But all last winter 1 had listened to the Ballinger-Pinchot investigation and was very anxious to watch its effect on the proceedings of the Congress...

...She has studied the schools of Germany, France and Switzerland and knows the best that they are doing...

...Graves, who succeeded Mr...

...Paul, September 5 to 8, which I attended as a delegate from the city of Madison through the courtesy of Mayor Schubert, was a great national event of stirring and dramatic interest...

...Not until it was over could one stop for a long breath and reflect what a great misfortune it would have been to miss it...

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...For example, timber and coal lands have been taken under the homestead act, water power reservations taken as mineral entries...

...our water,—as a supply, for power, for navigation, and for irrigation...