The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 10, 1904, Page 38

38 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JAN MRS. ANTHONY S VINDICATED Court Finds Decree of Divoree Granted Her Spouse Was Ob- tained by Fraudulent Methods W JUDGMENT —— Hebbard Rules That the South SETS ASIDE African Heiress Was Made Vietim of Scheming Husband IR Justice has at k n meted out to Christina, the of Dr. Richard 8. Anthony ardy, it is com- plete, and she it in her pawer 1o meke arm for the man whose life she saved and who repaid her for her devotion by restraining her of her ty and branding her as an unfaithf wife, and who then, by means of threats violence and ap- peals to her love her children and by playing ur s en dered by Y ire a decree of di- vorce When free s infleence and s < Mrs Anthonv set aside the decree of din ground that it had been fr nt b ed. The suit was trie Hebbard—as was a v ce—and he in deciding = ay, found that the s deceived by and that Mrs. Anthony was ¢ b of the he to nd € trained nurse h had met the sanitarium in which he had kept his wife while he prepared his din 1 ere, when he was not busy s and sprockets, he filled the of missionary. She me inter- nd ame his wus and wealthy d not lack in- short time'her husband position in the largest South Africa, a sanita- | the We family all her time and means and when he an- would like to study . gly converted her securities i cash and brought him to this country She took him to at- tie Creek, Mich.. and gave him a paratory course and then brought him to this city and def d the expense of his four years’ course at Cooper Med- ical College Then she took him to Ann Arbor and gave him a post grad- uate cours EDUCATED ANTHONY. Then they returned to South Africa. where Mrs. Anthony succeeded in again securing fc Anthony a fine berth in her family's sanitarium. Up to this time their married life had been a hap- py one, and Mrs. Anthony had no ink- ling of the troubles in store for her un- til Anthony suggested that for the sake of their children she should return to this country. Because of her love for them she consgnted to come here, with the understanding that low her. She had been he b a very short time whe> w notified that her husband, because of his Canadian birth and espousal of the Boer cause, had been apprehended by the British au- thorities and senteneced to be shot for treason. Upon the receipt of the ca- blegram she went at once to Wash- ington. where, by means of the influ- ence she, as a Wessels, possessed, she interested the Government officials and the fiat went forth that Anthony was not to be harmed. With heart gladdened she returned to this city and awaited the coming of ADVERTISEMENTS. THE PUBLIC. America’s Authority on Beer. Always the Same Good Old- Blatz. . MILWAUKE, (Signed) e = — = : i s i | ! @ “‘The beer with an honest backing—quality. Has no equal in this or any old country.” he would fol- | Which The Call For some time it has been known in this city that a movement was on foot to organize a third force in the conflict between employers and union labor or- | ganizations. The matter has excited the deepest interest in industrial ecir- cles, and new developments have been anxiously looked for. The organization has so gressed that an executive committee | has been formed and a statement of the aims of the néw organization has, Jbeen drawn up by the committee. The | Call has been able to obtain the state- | ment from a member of the committee, | and as a matter of supreme interest to its many readers presents it in full. It| is as follows: xcessive industrial diverted from its profesged | purpose into an instrument power, often used willfully and in denial of natural rights. in this ect the labor union has usurped anc ded the sovereignty of the State, | iperior to the eivil | ns of citizenship. | far pro- organization b mate arbitrary sumes to be ral obliga These conditions have naturaliy | roused antagonisms which seriously disturb the commerce and block the| progress of the country. The misuse of | the power of organization in the hands of the agitators has not only caused | serious and defiant violation of law and destruction of life and property, but it has gone further than present in- ng at the future welf in certain mattel ortance that it ach vital is :¥ folly to ignore them. The limitation of a ship to the handicrafts ically outlawed our native y Forbidden the right to learn a trade, | they must either overcrowd the profes- | sions or fester in the vices of idleness | until they require the restraint of re- form schools and prison; “With our. youth forbidden gainful occupation, it is no wonder that our | national pride is shamed by the fact| that our percentage of criminal popu- | lagtion incr and exceeds that of | Europe. Industrial training curbs li- centiousness ases the use of stim- | ulants and nargotics and forms good | r, with habits of thrift, temper- | industry requisite for good | Our criminal statistics | cent of our prison pop- ons who learned nc and zenship. that 80 ation are pe trade handicraft RIGHT TO LEARN TRADE It is not necessary further to discu: flect of denial or limitation of the it to learn a trade. It means a sen- an youth to mor effect is seen in the mul- State reform schools and teny death, and i tiplication of in the lowering of the age of criminals at date of first conviction, until now | the AV age is a little above twenty vears, showing that enfe d’ idleness | in vouth leads to crime before the vic- tim reaches his majority. This means | steady moral decay infecting society and the State. In addition to this denial of the| right of aprenticeship to American vouth, ambitious labor agitators claim the right to license Amgrican labor and to enforce the license by denying to| all non-union labor the right to work! all. This extraordinary infringement | natural right is enforced by the boy- | cott and by maiming and murder. The | undertak to control " his | at the risk of its destruction | and his ruin, and the free laborer makes his own contract and performs it at the risk of his life. | “The judicious friends of union labor | deplore these excesses, and thoughtful | citizens are alarmed because the piaces in our industries that should be filled by trained.American youth are occu- pied by ever increasing foreign immi- gration, which is immediately taken into unions and taught that it must de- pend upon the laws of the union and employer busine | thoughtful treatment than can be | organization of the communit | Just | bid men | signature, in which he said Is Now Enabled to giance. Immigration should assimilate our political institutions and become American, but under the union policy its ¥irst training is in lawlessness and digorder, and it is apt to remain an alien. increment, thankless for its asy- lum and ungrateful for its liberty. BOYCOTT ASSAILED. “By these means there has been es- tablished an absolute control of every man's private business by those who have no legal interest in it and no legal right to intrude upon it. This interfer- ence extends to manufacturers, farm crops, building material and strikes at | every point vital to community life. | Using the sympathetic strike and boy- | cott, assault and assassination, it in- | flicts loss and injury upon employes | and laborer alike, and whén no ques-| tion of hours or labor is involved fre- | quently paral transportation and husiness merely to enforce a demand for recognition, which means the outlawing of free labor and denial of the right of private contract and of freedom of cHKoice to the empl rof the aterial | he can use or th rchandise will | handl Under these conditions various organizations of empioyess, manufac- turers and others have been made in response to sudden emergency, their purpose being of necessity limited by the quality of the emergency. But the far-reaching nature of the injury in- flicted by these exces: of nower has seemed to demand a more thorough and x-| who band together to| their personal affairs. | Alliance has risen, an of the | third party, heretofore not considered | in these industrial wars, but the party | that endur their cost and loss and stands impartially between the parties to the conflict. { AUTHORITIES QUOTED. “It stands for pected of men meet a risk in So the Citizens’ law and order and for 1 the primitive rights of man. Adam Smith, in his “Origin of the Wealth of | Nations,” say: The property which | + man ha his own labor, as it is | the original foundation &f all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable. The patrimony of the poor | man lies in the strength and skill of | his han and to hinder him- from | employing his strength and dexterity | in what manner he thinks proper, with- | out injury to his neighbor. is a plain | violation of the most sacred property. | It is a manifest encroachment upon the liberty of both the workman and | of those who might be disposed to em- ploy him. As it hinders the one from | working at what he thinks proper, so | it hinders the others from employing whom they think proper.’ “The trade unions and jurandes of France, deterred by fear of the law | from denying the right to labor, by | subventions and financial contributions | to the King, persuaded him that it was | the royal prerogative to license or for- | to labor. When the great Turgot became Minister of Finance of | Leuis XVI he persuaded that monarch | to repudiate this monstrous doetrine in a decree which he wrote for the royal ““ ‘The’ allurement of the fiscal advan- tages made these money corntribu- tions undoubtedly prolonged the illu- and concealed the vast injury they did to industry and their infrac tion of natural rights This delusic has extended so far that it is asserted that the right to work at all is a royal privilege, which the King might sell, and that his subjects were bound to purchase of him. We hasten to correct this error and td repel the concliusion. God, in giving to man wants and de- s rendering labor necessary for their satisfaction, conferrea the right to la- bor upon all men, and this property the first, most sacred and imprescripti- ble of all. The King therefore regards slons | ognized and enforc | dust | trust, 'NEW INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION GIVES STATEMENT OF ITS CAUSE AND BEING| . \Executive Committee of Citizens’ Prepares Declaration of Reasons That Prompted Its' Birth, Alliance of San Francisco Furnish Its Readers free his subjects from any restriction ‘Ubun this inalienable right of human- ty.’ LAWGIVER'S WORDS. “Blackstone says: ‘Civil liberty, the great end of all human society and gov- ernment, is that state in which each individual has the pcwer to pursue his own happiness, according to his own views of his interest, and the dictates of Jhis own conscience, unrestrained ex- cept by just, equal and impartial laws.’ “One of the greatest American ju- rists, a Justice of the United States Supreme Court. in a decision says: “The equality of right, with exemption from all dispatraging and partial enactments in the lawful pursuits of life throughe out the whole ccuntry, is the distin- guishing privilege of American citizen- ship. To American citizens everywhere all pursuits, all vocations, all profes- slons are open without other restric- tions than such as are imposed equally upon al!l others of the same age, sex and condition. such regulations as promote the public good, but the pursuit or calling must be free to be followed by every citizen who is within the conditions desig- nated and will conform to the regula- tion. That only a free country, in the ‘American sense of the term, under which the inalienable right of every ! citizen to pursue his happiness is un- | restrained. except by just, equal and impartial laws. “In his ‘Faith of Our Fathers,’ Car- . Gibbons says: ‘A man enjoys liberty when he is exempt from arbitrary will of others, and when the he is governed by equitable laws, es- tablished for the genera. welfare of socitgy; so long as, in common with his fellow citizens, he observes the law ate any exceptional restraint upon him in the reise of s a citizen is so far an in- | fringement upon civil liberty. “In a subsequent publication Cardi- nal Gibbons sa *The right of a non- union laborer to make his own contract freely, d perform it without hin- drance, is so essential to civil liberty that it must be defended by the whole power of this Government.’ PLATFORM OF ALLIANCE. [hese great voie in stating the rights of man and the essentials of civil -, have uttered the platform of the Citizens’' Alliance. We welcome im- migration, bu. deny to the immigrant the ht to outlaw our native youth: We make no objection to labor unions, but demand that the equal right of all men to labor be respected, and that the laws which protect i’ be enforced impartiall We will not tolerate re- strictions oa the employer to prevent h right to employ non-union labor is of dignity and must not be re- Every restriction on Ameri- can citizens, other than those imposed by the law, must | destroved, to the end that no man in this country shall be subiect to the arbitrary will of an- other. When these principles are rec- 1 there will be In- al peace and justice. is the purpose of the equal strained. It Citizens' | Alliance to insure peace to every man in the prosecution of his business and | the performance of his labor,” and to make him safe in his home and on the street from. the insults and assaults heretofore enccuraged by agitators. “With all the resources of the law will defend those whose rights ‘are in- frin will meet every emergency in- volving danger to life, liberty and prop- erty, cauised by the lawless use of pow- er, with every legal weapon, and it will purgue such admonitory policy as will dis in a more dutifu! discharge of their These being its purpeses, it in- tends to fearlessly administer a lesson, useful alike to the oppressor and the the union oath, and not upon the laws | it as the first duty of his justice and | oppressed, when rights are imperiled of the country and its oath of alle-|the worthiest act of benevolence to land laws are defied.” TESER = = L b - ¥ her husband. He came in due time and joined her at the home of his sister, where she had been residing since her ! arrival from'South Africa.. He greeted her effusively, and she thought that here in this land of the free, undis- turbed by war or rumors of war, theirs would be a happy life. NOTICES CHANGE. But it was only a dream. He had | been here but a short time when she noticed a change in his demeanor. She grew nervous and excitable because of | the change, and soon her mind weak- | ened under the strain, She realized | that treatment was necessary, and | when her husbdnd suggested that she g0 to a sanitarium she readily consent- | ed, little knowing that her removal to | a hospital was the first step in her husband’s plan to rid himself of her. It was while she was in the hospital | that the papers in divorce were served but her friends rallied to her side and told her that such an infamous pro- ceeding could not be tolerated in the by these friends, in ‘which Anthony's | knavery was exposed, and they were | filed with the County Clerk. But they were never presented, for Anthony, learning of the care exercised by his wife’s friends, went to her and by rep- resenting to her that” unless she de- nounced her friends to be victims of mistaken zeal in her behalf he would withdraw his charge of desertion and sue on the ground of infidelity. With her mind weaken®d by iliness and by the worries consequent upon hér husband's actions, Mrs. Anthony consented, and when Anthony promised her that with- in a period of six months he would again make her his wife if in his opin- jon the good Lord had sufficiently pun- jshed her for her crimes against him, | personally paid a visit to the chambers of Judge Hebbard, where the divorce ! action was pending, withdrew her con- test of the suit and informed Judge Hebbard that her friends were mis- taken—that she had deserted her hus- upon her. Thg shock almost killed her, | PASTORS SELECT SUBJECTS American courts. Afiidavits were made |- band and that he was entitled to a divoree. It was enly after Anthony had ob- tained his decree that Mrs. Anthony ‘was able to call upon her friends. Even after she had sent for several of them Anthony, though her husband no long- er, exercised his control over her and persuaded her to send them away and to refuse them an audience. But they persisted, with the result that a suit was filed to set aside the decree of di- vorce on'the ground that it had been obtained by methods calculated to de- ceive the court. A short time after getting the decree of divorce Anthony left the city ‘and went to Los Angeles. From there he went to Yuma, Ariz., where he took unto | himself a second wife. With her he went to the Orient, only returning in time to appear and defend himself against the charges made by his real wife, Anthony has rendered himself liable to | prosecution on a charge of perjury, for when he filed his action in divorce he swore that he had been a resident u(l this country one year, a statement ut- tery disproved by the testimony taken in the proceedings instituted by his wife. ————— FOR SERMONS ON SABBATH Bishop Nichols Will Attend the Morn- ing Service at the Church of St. Mary the Virgin. o Services to be held at the local churches to-day are as follows: Grace M. E.—Morning, “God’s Free evening, “God’s* Universal De- mand.” Pastor, Rev. F. M. Larkin. California-street M. E.—Morning, “The Example of Christ’ evening, “Social Problems.” Pastor, Rev. Clarence Reed. Hamilton M. E.—Morning, ence After Death”; evening, “Influ- “Lot's Choice.” Pastor, Rev. Charles O. Ox- nam. Central M. E.—Morning, preachihg by pastor, Rev. George W. White; evening, same. First M. E.—Morning, “How sto Make the World Happy"”; evening, preaching. Pastor, Rev, E. F. Brown. Trinity M. E.—Morning, “The Voice of God on the Duty Next Us,” “Prep- arations of a Revival’' Pastor, Rev. John A. B. Wilson. i First English Lutheran—Morning, “Word of Cheey for the Discouraged”; evening, “Unbinding Lazarus."” Pas- tor, Rev. E. Nelander. i Rev. Father Whittle will preach at St. Ignatius Church at the 10-o’clock mass this morning. Rev. Father Sa- sia will preach in the evening. His Grace Archbishop Montgomery will bless St. Peter's School this after- noon at 4 o'clock. The schoolhouse is the second one built by the parish. It is on Alabama street, near Twenty- fifth, and is intended for grammar grade children. On the first floor there are seven rooms capable of ac- commodating 350 students. On the second floor there is a large hall, which will hold more than 1000 peo- ple. ‘The Right Rev. William Ford Nich- ols, D. D., Episcopal Bishop of the diocese of California, will visit the Church of St. Mary the Virgin at the 11 a. m. service. A unique feature is being success- fully introduced into the Young Men's Christian Association Sunday after- noon service. The gathering is now known as the men’s Sunday social re- ligious hour. - An informal reception precedes the address in the audito- rium. This afternoon at 2:30 o'clock there will be a piano recital in the reception hall and selections by the Knickerbocker male quartet. The ser- vice proper will be held at 3 o’'clock and a brief address will be given by Frank S. Ford. The service is free to all men. The life-question Bible class at 4:30 o'clock is conducted by the general secretary. —————.— ‘Wants Contract Fulfilled. W. P. Fuller & Co. filed a suit yes- terday for an injunction restraining the South San Francisco Land and Im- provement Company from carrying out its threat to discontinue the carry- ing of the employes of the plaintiff by rail from the station of the Southern Pacific Company in San Mateo County to the factory of the plaintiff. It is al- leged that an agreement exists where- by the defendants agree to carry the plaintiff’s employes until such time as other means of transportation are pro- vided. — e Deny Charges of ¥Fraud. Wal J. Tuska and his wife, Clara, and W. C. Bruson, defendants in a suit brought by John G. Schwalm to re- cover money alleged to have been fraudulently obtained, filed an answer yesterday. They deny that the sale of stock upon which the suit is based was otherwise than a legitimate busi- ness transaction and say that no at- tempt to defraud the plaintiff was ever made The state may prescribe | employment of union labor, but his | ¢ | tions thaf aremot up to date and are| pline the administrators of the law | UARY 10, 1904 WORK FOLLOWS MONTH'S REST — Guardsmen Armed With New Rifles, but Department Fails to Provide the Ammunition —_— { { LIEUTENANTS AREELECTED Livermore Infantry to Shoot a Match With Battery B of the First Artillery Regiment Affer a month's rest the officers of | the local organizations of the National | Guard assembled in their respective | | armories 'on company night, and it was | | apparent that there had been a deal of | | brushing up during the month of rest. | | The men in the ranks appeared to have | | profited by the lectures they received | | during the last few months, and ap-! ! peared more like soldiers than they | ! have for a long time past. There was a | | neatness and smartness that was most | ! noticeable, and it may be taken as the ' first step in the line of improvement | for the better. The officers also displayed a change | for the better and seemed to realize the fact that when in uniform and before men in uniform the intimate friendship that exists in every day life is not con- | ducive to the best interests of the State soldiery. The officers maintained an unusual degree of dignity and the men a remarkable amount of respect for | their superior officers. | | A remarkable condition exists in the guard at this time. The several organi- zations have been furnished Krag-Jor- gensen rifles, and the old Springfields have been boxed ready to ship to the United" States arsenal at Benicia, but while the men have been furnished the | arms they have not been furnished am- | munition for such, nor have they been | furnished belts in which to carry the ammunition. In case of need the guard would find itself with a lot of empty guns, without anything to put in them and the old guns unavailable. | The Board of officers—Major General Dickinson, commanding the division: | Colonel Bangham, assistant adjutant general; Colonel Pippy, judge advocate general; Captain Simpson, Fifth In fantry, and Captain Keesling, First | Artillery—selected for the purpose of considering proposed amendments to the present military laws of this State, to the end that the same may be made to conform to the militia law as estab- lished by the act of Congres of last January and to follow as nearly as the conditions of the State will warrant the outline of the general military law sug-| gested in a circular from the War De- partment issued last October, has held | a meeting and laid out a plan for sys- | tematic work along such lines. A USEFUL GUIDE. If the board can frame a law that! will come up to expectations the rank | and flle will have something that will ! become a useful guide. The present law lis fearfully and wonderfully made up, and is such that no two men if not in consultation ecan reach the same idea | as'to the meaning of many of the para- | ! graphs, and when one concludes that he has placed the right construction on a section he finds further on another ' section that upsets his former ideas, | and then still further on he will find | something that makes him greatly, doubt the meaning of the other sec- | tions. The “law” is an aggregation of sec-; ‘ < | | { | entirely at variance with the provisions | that require the National Guard to| keep up with the United States army | ideas. Tt is to make sense out of what' | now is nonsense that this board has ! been appointed. | The resignation of Captain W. A Varney, Battery A, First Artillery, has | | been accepted and an election order is- | sued for the latter part of the month | [to fill the vacancy. An election will| | also be called shortly to fill the vacancy in the signal corps in this city occa- sioned by the resignation of Captain| Selfridge. Colonel Thomas Wilhelm, U. 8. A, ! will commence the inspection of the! | guard of this State during the current week. " { The field officers of the Fifth Infan- try will hold a meeting this week for the purpose of laying out work for the year. VACANCY FILLED. An election was held last week in Company I, Fifth Infantry, to fill a va-| cancy in the position of first lieutenant. Major D. A. Smith presided, and therei were present fifty of the fifty-six mem- bers. Second Lieutenant L. Schoenfelt Corporal W. Beck was elected second ! lieutenant. The last named is a very! | popular young man, who has been wllhi the company since it was organized and is a most enthusiastic guardsman. This company will in a short time move | into a new armory, which is being spe- cially fitted up for it. After the election Major Smith talked to the members for | some time on the line of the lecture that was recently delivered by Colonel ‘Wilhelm to one of the local organiza- tions. In this way the company was instructed as to what the United States inspector expects to see. A It is stated that Company T of Liver- more will in a short time have a com- petitive shooting match with Battery B, Cantain Grattan, of the First Artil- lery. The match will be at the Liver- more company’s range, where the Krag-Jorgensen rifles can be used. Company D, San Rafael, Captain Vanderbilt commanding, will have an election January 22 for first and second lieutenants, vice Smith ahd Hawkins, terms expired. This company will soon return to its former armory in the Ma- i sonic Temple, which has been reno- | vated. The company is recruiting rap- idly and will soon have a full comple- | ment. Company B, San Jose, is doing well. It will soon have a full complement of enlisted men, and by February will have a number on the waiting list. —_——— Improvement Club Elects Officers. At the annual meeting of the Sun- set Improvement Club the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, W. W. Allen Jr.; vice president, Frank Cornyn; secretary, J. D. Bluxome; treasurer, John A. Hoey; executive committee, William ‘Bauer, | Cox, William Murray, J. A. Rutherford, S. E. Sherwood, F. C. Sunder and A. Yost. was elected to fill the vacancy, and@" é and Virginia Belle,” is above statement. the eminent pai resents two cha er, fon pictures and on the able degree they possess French call “chie,” dash, drapery which dominates black Th a pupil of Cabanel. and grace and the atmosphere Plerre iniversal expositions in framed. The readersof The Call get the latest and best art plctures in the market, and next Sunday’s offering, an exquisite pair of panels in colors, “Colonial Dame only It is a double attraction and is from the brush of Pierre Carrier-Belluese. ing and graceful yo superbly interesting figures; in fact, they are compan- same plate. a quality which attractiveness and skill. They represent two su- drawn forms, while the beauty wes Is delicately suggested under the mass of The colors are simply delightful, notes of pink and zreen being set off by contr: artist who created these beautiful women is shows Carrier-Belluese was born fifty years ago, has received the highest medals at the 1889 and in 1900 and is a member of the Society of Fren Thousands are having these beautiful art pictures Nothing has ever been given away that pos- sesses the novelty and artistié cleverness that “The Colonial Dame and Virginia Belle” closed in a neat gold frame. 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The election was held early in the session and there was no scratching or stuffing or other ballot-box sinning. and the following ticket went through in good order: President, Mrs. Lovell White, San Francisco; v Mrs. G. J. Bucknall, San president, Abbot Kinne, Los Angeles: third vice president, H. R. Mc- Noble, Stockton, Grand President N. w. ! fourth vice president, Mrs. Berkeley; recording secretary, O'Callaghan, San Francisco: co 1etary, Miss B. M. Wilson, treasurer, Sanford Bennett, San Franeisco; financial ‘secretary, Professor Louis T. Hengst- ler, San Franeisco; general secretary, Miss Mary G, Gorham, San Francisco; literary sec- retary, Mrs. Carrie Stévens Walter. San Jose: club " historian, Mrs. Luther Wagoner, San Francisco; official artist. A. P. Hil, San Jose, Directors—Miss Kate Atkinson, San Franeisco; J. H. Aram, Boulder Creek; Mrs. A. G. Joseph le Conte, F. Charles Free- man, Berkeley; Miss Stella Finkeldey, Santa Cruz_(grand president N. V. D. G. W.): Captain e Berkeley; San’ Francisco. Then came the address—a talk upon “Forestry” by John McNaught. The address was distinctly the drawing card of the session. As a speaker at women’s clubs Mr. McNaught has grown to be immensely popular. And small wonder, since between his sen- tences of fact and fancy he adroitly introduces some sly compliment to the ladies. Now, the effect yesterday was electrical, calling forth a unanimous vote of thanks from the members of the club. The membership of the Sempervirens, Club, while not con- fined to- women, is really governed principally by them and greatly to their credit. Mr. McNaught dwelt heavily upon the necessity of Government control of forest lands, if we would conserve them with intelligence and with profit to. the future, “for,” said the speaker forcefully, “if we let our forests per- ish then we, too, shall perish. De- nuded hills and mountains mean floodeq valleys, for the trees that hold the moisture in the forest floor no longer exist. Devastation must fol- low this unholy vandalism of indis- criminate and ignorant destruction, as its blight falls upon whole com- munities and countries. And for this fundamental reason the matter of controlling the forests should be be- vond the vacillating power of individ- uals and vested solely in the Govern- ment, either State or national, for that, and that alone, will insure to the future the proper protection that we have been all too slow in recognizing. However, the fact that we amust face is this: That we must, first of all, take steps to ebtain proper forest leg- islation. and then submit the law to the Supreme Court to pass upon its validity. That done, the first great step toward scientific forestry willk have been gaken. And when framing this law the lumberman must be pro- tected in the same ratio as the pub- lic. He must be protected from fire and not taxed to death. “In France and Switzerland most stringent forestry laws in the world prevail. It is to be hoped, how ever, that an intelligent understanding by our people of the necessity of for- ests will not necessitate such drastic measures as obtain in those countries. But the fate of Spain, denuded of her trees and despoiled and impoverished by drought, carried a warning to her neighbors that bore good fruit.” Mr. McNaught closed his talk by the i quoting President Roosevelt, who em- braced the whole of forestry policy in the fololwing terse sentence: “The preservation of the forests is the wise use of them.” The address was the motive for tha passing of four resolutions om the lines suggested by Mr. McNaught, and were presented by Miss B. Wilson, Mrs. E. F. Glaser, Mrs. Bucknall and ‘W. W. Richards. After felicitating the speaker for the delightful half hour, Mrs. Lovell White declared the an- nual meeting adjourned. e ,——————— A Thur of Visits. Mrs. J. H. Griminger, grand chief of the Companions of the Forest of America, a resident of Los Angeles, will visit this city next week for the purpose of making official visits to circles of the order in San Francisco and vicinity. Her first visit will be to Oakland Circle on January 18, The following night she will visit Excel-/ sior Circle in this city; on January 20 she will be with Loreley Circle; on the 21st with &olden Era Circle; on the 22d, Imperial Circle, Oakland; 25th, Bay City Circle, this city; 26th, Contra Costa Circle, Antioch; 27th, Rose Circle, Santa Rosa; 28th, Martha ‘Washington Circle, this city; February 1, Sadi Carnot Circle, Oakland; 2d. Pride of the Forest Circle, this city; 3d, Robin Hood Circle; 4th, San Fran- ciseo Circle in Mission Opera Hall.