Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, March 6, 1917, Page 4

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CIRCULATION 1901, aVerage.....ccccveacies 9,396 this enuual 2g to take.a hand in the driving of the Germans of their Chinese pos- session but Japan Objected to that. In the present war move, has not offered any with the probability that littl metion would be required the way of fighting, it to dlspose of a large financial trouble. THE SWISS MINISTER'S ACT. Not a little has been said rezarding the part which Ambassador Ritter, rep- resenting Switzerland at Washington, and since the break with Germany caring for the interests of that gov- ernment in this country, has playea In connection with the latter duties. In this respect particular attention has been adirected towards the efforts that were made to bring about nego- tiations between Germeany and #his country concerning the avoidance of war following the severing of diplo- matic relations, ana thére has Been some eriticism of the course that was followed by the Swiss minister, it even belps charged that\he was to blame for undue German 'propaganda for one in his position. There have been statements on the part of the German government and the Swiss government relative to that matter and in order to clear up any misunderstanding at this end, Secre- tary Lansing has had a talk with Dr. Rifter, as the result of which he de- clares: “I consider Dr, Ritter's conduct perfectly proper and regret very much the attack made upon him in the pa- pers. It Is a wrong impression of the feeling here. We ought not to have any feeling against a man doing his auty faithfully, even if he is serving for the interests of a government with which we have severed relations” This makes it evident that Dr. Rit- ter has done nothing more than as- sume the responsibilities that were placed upon him, and it is a responsi- esscssssssssass: | Dility of considerable proportions. He COWARDLY ACTION. is supposed to care for the interests of Germany and not neglect them and that frém Secretary Lansing’s state- the president has well sald, in|ment is only what has been done, and his statement to the public as the re- t of the failure of the senate to act the bill authorizing him, to arm the merchant vessels of this country for the protection of -their rights on the seas, this inability of the senate 10 act has rendered some of the most fecessary legislation ‘of the session impossible at a time When the need of f was most pressing and most evi- dent. T 1t wwas & colossal mistake of the part few members of upper house and there can be no question that it was accomplished with a full yealization of the consequences that Wwould result. While it cannot help being exasper- sting to an administration, and at the mame time to a country which does hot approve of such actions, but in- glsts that the rights of its people should be upheld on all oceaslons, the Worst effect 1s bound to result from - the imterpretation that is given to it By the foreign nations. It is doubtful Jf they will understand the exact sit- Bation and will appreciate the dlstinc- Hon between the failure to pass the legtslation called for by the president mnd the course pursued by that por- #ion of the senate which would have - been powerless but for the rule that ‘was taken advantage of. They may or may not give weight to the mani- festo signed by 75 senators which ex- the real sentiment of that and which showed that the bill would have been passed had a vote been allowed. Rather are they likely ' 0 look only upon what was_ actually done and that certainly reflects no credit upon the upper house of the national lawmaking body. It was eowardly action which should never be permitted 2 chance.for repetition. CHANGE THE RULE. Important duties are faced by the United States senate which has been galled in special session by President Wilson, and amongst the business that it should act upon thero is noth- ing more urgent than the démand that “there be a change made In the rules of that body which row permit one mem- Ber to hold up the entire business Whether it happens to be a trivial mat- ferorone of the greatest importance Buch as the armed neutrality bill which failed to come to a vote and be fa- worably acted upon because what should have beéen an ineffec- tive minority possessed the power un- fler the rules to thwart the will of the senate, of congress and without question the whole nation. There are matters which come be- fors the senate that ought to be fully fiebated. There are instances where many joke bills and measures which have been little understood have been made laws simply because they have been rushed through, but the peril in the idea of unlimited debate and the powsr of one member,- or a mere handful, to foree a discussion simply to kill & measure when a majority are favorable thereto has been pointed out " beyond question In the Jatest applica- tion of the rules which Senator Hite “sock cails ons of the most reprehen ble filibusters in the history of civ- flized government. = The barm which can be done by a rule has been demonstrated the senate ought'to require noth- = * " InF further in the shope of DProof of dangers before bringing about the eation of the rule in the manner CHINA AND THE WAR. has been doing its utmast 5 mvoid the threatened break with It is even more anxious to a declaration of war by the try because of the un- e warfare which it and which it has uneec it will not change. jing hls apparently been moved - ceft __wcfi-mvytn- appeal which | in view of this expression the maiter should be considered closed. INDUSTRIAL PREPAREDNESS. How Well Great Britain has pald at- tention to the demand for industrial preparedness and made plans to meet the requirements is indicated by the notice which has been given by the British _government to the holders of contracts. for the manufacture of shrapnel ana all other shells in this country to the effect that all con- tracts must be completed by the end of this month and-that thereafter that country will be able to take care of its requirements in that line at home. Millions of shells have been made in this country for Great Brital Great factories have been kept bus: and some of them are still at work on orders but & number have _already completed their efforts in this line with the result-that large numbers of employes have - been discharged In such_munition making centers. Great Britain is acting in accord- ance with intimations which were given some months ago to the effect that by spring it would be able to take care of all its requirements in the way of steel. That such may not be fully realized is shown by the fact that there is still a great demand for ship plates for exportation, but this has been increased materially by the sit- uation that has been “created by the submarine warfare of Germany.® All these plates are mot however sought for England, since Japan Js secking to have large orders filled, while there is also a brisk demand for wire from all the belligerents snd many of the neutrals. This matter of preparing to handle its own orders for shells, which has been carried out by Qveat Britain is 4 leston which cannot ba overiook- ed by this government when it comes tosindustrial preparednesa EDITORIAL NOTES. Senator LaFollette constituents must be proud of such a representa- tive tn congress. A littie more international trouble and a continuation of the weather of the past week and the ground hog will quiekls be forgotten, It can be expected of course that) those twelve sénators wiil be claiming that they have been fighting for the welfars and homor of the nation. Mzrch, 1§88, lsn't €0 far back In his- tory but what every good sized storm causes the weatherwise to make refer-. | ence to the severlty of its bYzzard. It was unfortunate that when Col- onel Bryan returned to his Florida plantation he didn't take a dozen or €0 of thoss pacifist senators with him. Danfe] Willare iz being talked of as an extra member of the president's cabinet, and thers can be no question But what he would add strength to it. Tho fact that Austria maintains that it dié not sink the schooner Law gives it A o tu prevent a break in re- lations witn this country If it is real- ly =0 disposed. [t NN Even thoush this government does not insure munitions ships, they ought not to be denfed the ihsurance that goes with one or two properly manned guns for defense. o s s With the price of potatoes and on- fons on the deeline, the good resuits of the curtailment in the use of those articles of 1064 appear to be mani- festing themselves. There were many people in this country who got a jolt, not when the president admitted the authenticity of the Zimniermann nots because they were ready to doubt even him, but when it was #cknowledged by Ger- ‘many. i Y i : : Egz?s i & il i %‘z ; £ g 3 ] z B nderwear | 3 £ 3 E : ] | i l i i o %% 5 i tis i Fg ?5; it ' : i i it K £ 8 e the party clothes wanted for the sea- son were sold out a score of months before. = “I don’t know what Bloise can do uniéss she goes the debutantes of 1920 one better and appears in the advance etyles for 1925. to be horribly confusing because some of the women will be wearing - waisted directolre styles, others will have their belts around their | knees and some of the rest will wear their waistline where nature put it origin- ally. So really, people will not know whether you have on a gown five years in advance or five years old— It is going | bool is an exceedingly pretty dress but not at all suitable for pink organdie. “Along in June B e Bor m ks are running over with the most delightful summer clothes that no- body has any use for that season! And then they wonder why women get gray hairs so early in lifet” “I am deeply moved by your sor- rows,” agreed the patient listener. “It's & nice, snowy day—comeé on downtown and let's look for para- sols!"—Chicago News. LETTERS TO THE ZDITOR @ot License in Short Order. Mr. Editor: Very likely Dr. Shahan can answer what concerns him, but 1 take the liberty of saying that I, too, called at his office when it was crowded, but got my license in short order just the same, telling me, as he ald, that everybody's license was always' ready, except to write in the date of taking it out. I also remem- ber Jast January there was a good sizdll card in the papers by Dr. Sh: han, teliing us he would be at his of- fice’ for our convenience from 5 to 10 o'clock in the morning. ONE OF THE PULLED IN. Franklin, March §, 1917. 3 . proasite et Claims B Wins. Mr. Editor: In reply to Mr. Sam Dick, should say that B wins the bet. : ings has often told us about his ancestors fighting in the Revolu- tionary war. Running short of am- munition they were compelled to fight with puffs and _imprecations. This in pert accounts for the indescribable mushiness and the marrow and- vitu- peratlve distemper of the Cummings specimen who has become notorious. He is like a creeping poison ivy upon the semblance of liberty we at present enjov. Yours for the death of traitors, CAPTAIN. Baltie, March 3, 1917. , Courage of His Convictions. Mr. Editor: Certain persons who seek to blackguard me do so because I have the courage of my convictions. Allow me to say, I stand back of ev- erything I have ever written and in the future, as in the past, I intend to volce my opinion whenever I take the notion. There are some who make an excursion, now and_ then, (into rea- son and philosophy) ? and what a cu: josity shop of literature. Small cali- bre minds are disturbed from time to time and their conscience pricks them when the truth is bared. It has be- <come the fashion nowadays to calum! ate all who refused to recognize the United States as a vassal of England. Suffice to y I care nothing and I think less of the attacks upon me by the dregs of Americanis; 1 have no desire to dwell on past history, but 1 will say this, my fore- fatlers gave their all and life itself that America might be free from the machinations of her enemies. My whole life is an open book. I have no skeletons in my closet and 1 deny anyone the right to question my pa- triotism. I feel above a persona] dis- cussion with parties whose narrow mind and racial bitterness is revealed by their type of language. Here is some more truth for them to digest. An American citizen has been denfed the right to trade with neutral nations except as England permits. An Amer- foan citizen cannot send or receive a letter anywhere that is not censored and its contents noted by England. American traders have been forced to sign humiliating declarations, stating with whom they will or will not trade. Zmerican merchants have been black- listed for standing on_the rights of thelr American citizenship and ot no redress. About the onmly right an American has is to pawn his body as an jnsurance premiium for &n English | munifion shlp and tsust that on his corpse heing presented to the Ameri- can ambassador, man-American war-—will fail du; Such _are the rights of citizenship which Bngiand has pérmitted us and crawl and squitm as we have crawled and squirmed, she has never length- ened her driving rein by one inch. By all means let us go to war to help our genowd tHe;lifls. J-‘Ymn and land. ome day when s Japansse arm on the coast of California we will have that Puropean I e, & Pedce gue, for our pains. ‘ar is mot # a bad thing after all, so the munition maker tells us. .By all ménns a}fis celebrate the comifig Foufth with a miilion or more of mwui and mangled men, the flower our youth and our fatr land with l'ldnl and oghmu !: afl'e‘m jan 0 reépay Motrgan A one Lord Northcliffe retain his riches to_corrupt the American press. The common people pay the toll in blood and sacrifice in all wars. And now the press tells us war is inevita- ble we must uphold the dignity of our citizenship. Our honor ner our citi- zenship has not yet demanded that we must guarantée the right of an American tourist to ride én ini- tion ships and ing about weaning -~ their ocul “{y and seeking “1" ml“:' 1 will say n closing this: the will come when this nation will g:‘ its true patriots, and, they will not be found among those who at this time would have us participate in the quar~ reis of greedy European nations. JAMBPS H. CUMMINGS. Norwich, March 3, 1917. THE WAR PRIMER By National Geographie Soclety The Ports of England—"With a deadline of 1,800 nautical miles to guard, measured from headiand to headland, 20 miles offshore; with 119 ports, large and small, to seal up, 80 of which, at low tde, are open to vessels that can navigate 14 feet of water; with a larger number of bays and other navigable indentations to watch than are to be found anywherz else in the world in the same length of straightaway shorelines, Germany’ plan to blockade the British Isles seems as mear a proposal to accom- plish *the impossibie as anything to Which any nation hitherto has com- iteclf,” says a statement just prepared by the National Geographic Society and issued from its head- quarters in Washington. “Indeed, undertaking to combat at once the sinuosities -of a shorcline lending itself bejter to defense against blockade than ‘any other of equal length in the world and the great- est navy civilization has ever seen, it is dificult to imagine how success | could even be hoped for by those put- ting the plan Into execution. “England is so deeply indented that no part is more than 75 miles from the sea, while Scotland has the most rambling coastiine of any country in the world. *“Ireland is not as deeply indented as England and Scotland: but with all that it has shores that make the way of the blockader dificult. 'he vast proportions of the Brit- ish shipping industry which the Ger- man_submarine blockade is attempt- ing to_destroy defies our comprehen- sion. In normal years an average of 214 ships arrive at United Kingdom fortl from foreign waters every day in the year. In addition to that, there are 780 arrivals from home ports ev- ery day in the year of ships in the coastwise trade. ‘British merchant ships have a greater aggregate tonnage than those of all the other countries of the world together. The ‘merchant marine of that nation includes nearly 12,000 ships of al kinds. Of these, about 2,800 are salling ships and 5,300 steam vessels employed in the home trade. There are approximately 4,000 ships engaged in sailing between British and foreign ports. These latter have average capacity of more than 2,500 net register tonms. = “How rapidly Great Britain has been replacing the losses sustained by her shipping as a result of Germany's submarine attacks is disclosed by the fact that at the end of 1916 there were 465 steam vessels under con- struction in British shipyards, more than baif of them being ships of more than 5000 tons burden. The agsre fate cdpacity of these ships is 1735 tons, s0 that both in tonnage and in number of the new craft are re- placing those sunk by the enemy. “FeWw coufitries in the world are so dependent on_the importation of food- stuffs as the United Kingdom, and for her not to possess the strongest navy in the world would be to leave her of all nations g@h:gs the most vul- nerable. Probabl: per cent of all the food her 45,000,000 people consume is brought in by ships engaged in “Ofi the other hand, the splendfd coal deposits and the abundant sup- piles of iron make British industries largely free from biockade dangers. Producing one-fourth of the world's coal, the United Kingdom has little to fear what from a_coal eh: no_matter the character a blockade around her. “The port of London handies approx- imately ome-third of all the exports and i of the United Kingdom. ips of the le world visit it in normal times, and there is scarce- Iy a merchant that _civilization Knows that is mi in the Thames in other than war “Liverpool has some of the most modern docks in the world. Flanking the Mersey River for a distance of seven miles, the €0 docks, having 26 n;un of :nny and c‘ovefledm “tfi‘z’x acres of ground, are équipped with every aid known to industry for the rapid handling of the immense quantities of merchandise. “Cardift {s far down the list in the number of ships arriving, but ranks third in the total tonnage—this be- ing due to the very heavy coal busi- nees from that port. Cowes has 24,000 ships & year; Neweastle, 13,000; Portemouth, 15,000, and Glasgow and Belfast 11,000 eac “With the opeéning of the Ciyde, Glasgow has been brougit into di rect munication with overse 1ands. ver, with lts great Admir alty harbor; Chatham, with its vac B ring appears - done in distractions spite of the excitement and of the game.—] Thers are no indications that the the president or the secretary of the army expressed himself as whole heartedly ondorsing it. Here is a great country on the verge of war; a country whose patriotic cit- izens are straining every nerve to serve, which is being handicapped be- cause authorities whose business it is to sufeguard the people’s interests, are evading the iss Experience has shown that universal military service is the thing which will save the country in the event that military strength is needed. It is democratic because it includes every- body, high ond low, rich and poor. No lines are drawn, hence there can be no place for the 0ld hue and cry about the poor man and the working man having to bear the brunt of military trainine. ‘We have not been disposed to criti- cise the president ftr his waiting pol- icy, since the severing of diplomatic relations. There was much to do and much depended on being able to mark time sufficiently loag to emable cer- tain things of much importance be- ing accomplished. It was not fair to nag the president when matters of such import were hangine fire. But the universal military service bill might have been rushed through for consideration by the present con- sress. To leave it is an admission of the half-hearted wav in which the president and the secretary of war re- gard it. Even with the shadow of war upon us, there are those who re- fuse to read the writing on the wall. —Meriden Record. " STORIES OF THE WAR Reconstructing a French Village. American sympathy with the civilian sufterers from the war has been given more corcrete expression in the little village of Vitrimont, near Luneville, France, than in any other part of the devastéa country immediately behind the French fighting Jlines. When Mrs. William Crocker, of San Francisco, chose Vitrimont in which to carry out her idea of reconstructing with her own means one of the vil- lages destroved by the German troops in their first rush into France, she met with much doubt and suspicion. The people of Lorraine are pfactical and hard-headed and also object to partake of anything given in the form of charity. It was therefore neces- Royal Dockyard, where 7,000 work- men are employed even in normal times; Middlesborough, with its great shipbuilding industry; _Manchester, with its splendid canal opening up an inland city to world trade; Béifast, with its famous ship builders; Ports- mouth and Plymouth, on the south coast, with thelr ‘extensive port works; Grimsby, Hull, and Aberdeen, with the largest fishing fleets in ex- istence; Newlyn and Brixham, homes of the mackerel fisheries, and Mil- ford and Fleetwood, the ports the hake has made famous, are all places full of enterprise, which have been even more active since the war began than they ever were before a ‘suoms- rine peril’ was of. “As has been sald, the British Isles contain no less than 119 porte avail- able for com: and practicaily all of them have developed for effective use. “Even if the Gefans have 500 sub- marines constructed for the purpose of this blockade, as is ciaimed, the total makes an a of only about four submarines available for biock- ading each port. “Submarines, with even the largest radius which any of these boate pos- sess, are dependent upon a conven- ient base or uj the gservice ren dered by a ‘mother ship. They gen. erally can oarry a most limited num- ber of torpedoes, without which they are ineffective, and in addition they are severely handicapped by the very nature of their operations. “Britien domination of the sea has not come about by chance. Bngland’ geographic limitations have com- pelled her to keep the avenues of ocean open through constant readiness to render naval protection to her carrying trade; and ft is the result of her insular position that her activities have developed on sea and ‘What Nature has always dome for the children of the wild by renderi: them adaptable, through habit .fl throf Vi1 ment~in “which they arsplaced, h English have done for tl selves. cabined, and con- fined upon & of islands imit- 84 in area capable of inadequate gvflm even with the most in- nsive ot cultivation, they wers forced, Ml} to command the avenues of supply for themselves and, dor Lo mest the incressing o ml:my owe the great number A ports which they now and which, by their very numbers, render porutien tnet "+ et SASSE & rer exampl how natlons are limited or advanced by their geographic énvironment could bardly be found.” g 1 ot fghtine Age moy at ,,A,rr '15:- let- : o a is of n of re- He tely — re- Don’t_waste ink on telling me tales. You are ready to swal- STIna ae L Beve done Thar we have m‘wermm ahd don’t dream ‘l;nm good fairies are going to restore i ue.” < adminietrator of the gave printed plans and deiails of the scheme to the wives let behind. These were forwarded at once to the men at the front, who could be assured oniy by documentary evidence of this lief work of varius kinds. was chosen by Mrs. Crocker to _administer her benevolent scheme. She decided at once to live among the people 50 as to become better acquainted_with them and to learn their needs. Every house, without exception, has been either shelled or burnt. She, however, was able to find a one-roomed cot- tage which couid be repaired and here from her single room Miss Polk di- rects all the work. She interviews there the architect, the builders, the department officials and _government functionaries, and oniy recently re- ceived Ambassador William G. Sharp, who had come to lay the corner-stone of the first new house. Of the seventy houses composing the village thirty-four were shelled 4nd the remaining thiry-six burned. The government itse!f decided to re- pair the bombarded houses, which Were not eo badly damaged as those which hud been set affre. The recon- struction of these Jatter was under- taken by Mrs. Crocker. No attempt was made by the au- thors of the scheme to force Ameri- can ideas down the throats of the con- servative Lorrainers. Very little change had taken place in the village isince the fifteen century and the style of architecture was very uniform. ts- vally taking the shape of one of two atory cottages with grange-door en- trances and attached at the back the granaries and cattlesheds. The only changes insisted on by the promoters of the scheme as well as by the French government were the intro- duction ~of -sanitary _arrangements which hitherto had been non-existent, the provision of the cattlesheds and the human habitations. 1t was with difficulty that the peas- ants could be induced to accept some of these changes, but at length rea- son prevailed and the plans were fin- ally drawn up. The new village Is to have wider streets and the main road through it Is to be planted with trees, while the {town ball and school are now to o cupy prominent and spacious positions in the center of the village instead of being hiden as before the war in nar- row lanes, without any alr epace. In the Grand Duchy of Luxemberg. Little news reaches the outside world concerning the state of affairs in the Grand Duchy of Luxemberg, the little state wedged in between Qe many, France and Belgium that the first country to resound to the tramp of the German legions on their way to France. Luxemberg Is entire- Iy isolated by the Germans, and its inhabitants are, like the Belgians, ractical prisoners within their own rders, where they are sharing all the economic hardships of the Central Powers. According to information furnished to the Amsterdam Telegraaf by a Luxemburger who has just succeeded in getting through to Holland, there is pratically no unemployment in the Grand Duchy, where numeroue iron foundries, steel manufactories and en- gineering works are busily e on German orders. But ile this results in high wages, and a. lot of moneéy be- ing put into circulation, there is little to be had for money. The food posi- tion in particular s described as seri- ous. The government has tried to get food from Holland and Denmark, but the Germans refuse to let it pass, ds claring that they will not have the competition of Luxembtrg buyers on the markets in those countries. ‘The Luxemburg government bought and paid for 250,000 france’ worth of bute ter in Denmark, but it has not reach- ed_its destination. The country would itself be able to meet its own prime needs were it not for the fact that it still has to res- ularly cede a large part of its pro. ducts to Germany. As a resuit of the complaints of the government, how- ever, Germany has restricted its re. quisitions The Duchy has to feed one German ,battalion, and on the other hand German soldiers are forbidden to requisition or buy eatables there. Notwithstanding the latter regulation, however, troops going to or coming from the front are well provided with Sloan's Liniment for Rheumatism. ‘The torture of rheumatism, the pains and aches that make life_ unbearable, are relieved by Siocan's Limiment, a clean, clear liquid, that is éasy to ap- piy and more effective than musey Dhasters or ointments becatsu it trates quickly without rubbi For the many pains and aches foliowing exposure, stiglms, s and muscle Sloan’s ‘Linfment is promptly Alwnys hiave a bottle handy lumbego, toothache, back- ache, neck and all external pains. At druggists, 35c. Spring Colds Are Dangerous. and_gen- E‘:l"wl{lx symptome. A-dou of ut;: s New Discovery is supe rel this happy combination of antiseptic balsams ciears the head, sootles the irritated membranes and. what might have beéh a lingering cold is broken up. Don't stop treatment when relief is first felt, as 2 half cured cold is dangerous. 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It is true the Luxemburg soldiers serving’as cus- toms officers have recently obtained the right to search German soldlers leaving the country, but this right does mot extend to officers, and the Iatter smuggle quite as much or more than their men. The Chamber 1Is constantly urging the government to take fresh measuree to combat the smuggling, but the latter dare not g0 too far for fear lest Germany should cut off all foodstuft supplies. The Germans recently offered to supply the entire industrial region with food, on condition that all factories without ex- cepion should work for them, but the majority of the Chamber is of opin- jon that this offer cannot be aceepted. Value of Slash Pine Little Know. /A comparatively little-known but valuable tree most often calied siash pine is fast replacing longieaf pine in many sectlons of the South, says the Forest Service. In some respects this tree is consldercd a better tree than longleat. Its growth, according to the foresters, is more rapid and ite vield of ‘turpentine larger, while the wood is said to be the heaviest, hardest and strongest coniferous wood grown in the country. The term “slash pine,” it is explain- ed is popularly aplied to several outhern pines, notably the loblolly, with which the true slash pine is oft- en confused because of its close Te- semblance. The sash pine is also sometimes called “Cuban”, “swamp’ or_“she” spine. The chief causes for the rapid spread of the tree are its frequent and abundant secd production, very rapid srowth, ability to endure the shade of other trees, and its capacity to adapt itself to a wide range of environment. The fact that it can withstand ths combination of forest fires and razor- back rogs is aleo considered of im- portance by the foresters, who _say that the tree is destined to play an mportant part in the future of tne cut-over lands of the South. As an example of the high money returns obtained by turpentining the tree, it is stated that in one instance in South Carolina a twenty-year-old stand of slash pine averaged 520 trees per acre, each of which had one cup. The tur- pentine operator paid the owner te cents & cup, or & toial of $52 per for the privilege of tepping the After o rest of from three years the trees should be in good Qition for back-cupping and produce” even larger financial By using the fmproved me turpentining advocated by the est _Service, the foresters aiy such a stand could be turperti a longer period of years instes the three or four years umder crude methods now gemerally employ ed. It Js pointed out that'the se pine lands of the Bouth furmis the bulk of the naval stores of world and ‘thet th ¢ decreasing as these Jands are d of their timber and no provisior for theit restocking. 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