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Tree Planting
Is Making Strides
Forty-Two States Now Have
Organizations for the
Work of Forestry.
Washington.—Marked advance In
forestry legislation was made during
1927, says the Forestry Legislative
Survey, published to mark the close of
the legislative year by the American
Tree association.
The legislative year was made not
able because by the passage of legis
lation Delaware, Florida and South
Carolina -took their places with for
estry minded states. There are now
42 states that provide some forestry
organization. Utah, \Wyoming, Arkan
sas and Nevada have not provided for
any organization, and the state forests
of Arizona and New Mexico are cared
for by a joint agreement with the
U. 8. forest service. Forestry legisla
tion was passed for the first time in
Nevada and Utah, but no organization
was provided.
The survey, which is being sent to
editors and foresters by Charles La
throp Pack, president of the American
Tree association, shows the present
area of state forests to be 6,838,936
acres and that 73,000,000 trees were
planted during the year.
Pennsylvania Leads In Planting.
States that kept the lead in tree
planting were Pennsylvenia with 27,
916,029 ; New York with 22,000,000 and
Michigan with 10,000,000. The state
appropriation by Pennsylvania was
$1,203,485.
“The Mississippi river flood has di
rected the attention of the nation as
nothing else could to the need of pro
viding forests at the headquarters of
the Mississippi and its tributaries,”
says Mr, Pack, in announcing the pub
lication of the survey. “This phase of
fleed preventlon, while it will not stop
floods, will aid in preventing them and
is the only one I know of that will
pay dividends in future years. We
myst put idle land to work growing
“ft is obvious the American public
is becoming forest minded. People are
not only interested but active in see
ing that our trees, both in the forests,
in eur parks and on our highways, are
givem more care, attention and pro
tection.
- Advance in Reforestation.
®Reforestation has made a notable
advance during the year. The devel
opment of state nurseries and the dis
tribution of tree seedlings or trans
plants, as in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Mas
sachusetts, Michigan, New York,
North Carolina, Indiana and New Jer
sep, have resulted in many trees being
planted.
“Probably five times as many trees
were planted in the various states in
1927 as were put on ten years ago.
This, in itself, is a real accomplish
ment.
“The Clark-McNary act has stimu
lated state forestry activities, espe
cially in fire protection and tree
planting in many states. There is no
question but that this law has greatly
encouraged the formulation of forest
policies and activities in many of the
states which heretofore have been re
garded as being somewhat inactive in
this direction.”
The survey reviews by states the
legislative activity and among other
things gives the name of the forester
and his headquarters and the amount
of money expended under the Clark-
MeNary act.
Mount of Moses Was Not
Sinai, Says Explorer
Copenhagen.—Mount Sinal, where
Moses gave the world the Ten Com
mandments, is not on the Sinal pen
insula, as pepularly supposed, says Dr.
Ditlef Nielsen, the famous Scandina-
Pretty Indian Girls
in Pacific Northwest
Portland, Ore~if the fair
Minnehaha of Longfellow's po
etical Indian romance were alive
today she would have many rl
vals for the love of the brave
Hiawatha,
The Pacific Northwest has a
number of these Indian malds,
Among them is Princess Chris
tina Sherwood of Wenatchee, a
full-blood Nez-Perce-Spokane In
dian girl, Pretty Silver Star of
Pendleton, of the Umatilla
tribe, Is another, She was elect
ed princess of Chief Peo post,
the only all-Indian post of the
American Leglon,
A third is “Little FFawn” a
princess of the Klamath tribe,
who- lives in Humboldt county,
California. .
vian explorer and archeelogist, who has
Just returned from a survey of Egypt,
Palestine, Arabia and Transjordania.
The holy mountains, Doctor Nielsen
states, are in the mountains of Edom,
south of the Dead sea, in support of
which he submits scientific data, maps
and historical material,
Doctor Nielsen’s discoveries have
aroused interest in scientific, archeo
logical and religious circles. The pre
cise locality of the Biblical Mount
Sinai has long been a subject of con
troversy.
It has been asserted by archeclo
gists that the peninsula of Sinai, a
barren, waterless desert, could never
have accommodated 2,000,000 souls.
Nor does it contain a mountain rising
so sharply, they say, that its base
could be fenced in while it was easily
ascended, and its summit could be
seen by a great multitude below, as
Biblical tradition implied, ;
Silkk Hats Are Cocler
Than Those of Straw
Springfield, Ill.—The brow of a man
wearing a hard straw hat gets two
and three-tenths degrees hotter on a
sultry summer day than the brow of a
man wearing a tall silk hat, the gov
ernment meteorologist here has found
after exhaustive tests.
Under the supervision of C. J. Root,
the local weather bureau head who
devised the experiment, a group of
men were equipped with hats or caps
of different styles which they wore in
the hot sun for several hours. The
temperature under the headgear was
then taken and it was found that the
heads under hard straw hats reg
istered 92.3 degrees, while heads un
der tall silk ones showed only 89.¢ de
grees,
Other types of hats and caps and
the ‘“underneath” temperature, as
recorded by Root, follow: Soldier cap,
89.6; cloth cap, 94.1; soft felt hat,
79.7; soft white straw or Panama,
70.9.
The derby was not tested.
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Mental Diseases in
Young People Increase
New York.—An appreciable increase
in the number of young people who
fall prey to mental diseases is found
by Dr. Means 8. Gregory, head of the
psychiatric department of Bellevue
hospital, 4
People are more enlightened about
the danger of letting mental and ner
vous ills gain headway, and as a re
sult more youthful cases Treach the
hospital, he says, but this does not
fully explain the increase.
“The higher standards of the pres
ent day are largely responsible,” he
states. “The demand for material lux
uries is greater today than it has ever
been, The longings of youth are more
intricate, more diflicult to attain,
They are more likely to be thwarted,
And an increase in thwarted longings
and ambitions makes for an increase
in abnormal mental and nervous
states.”
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After a perioa of use extending from the days of George Washington,
Chain bridge over the Potomac, near Washington, has been closed to traflic
as unsafe. Duilt originally as a foot bridge in 1707 and rebullt several timnes
since; it has been an important link in the highway system of northern
Virginia,
CHARLTON COUNTY HERALD
Siberian Court Ends
200-Year-Cld Suit
Novosibirsk, Siberia.—A law
suit which has lasted more than
200 years was recently ended by
a decision of the supreme land
commission,
The litigants were two Si
berian villages, Pushkarevo and
Gorbunovka, near Tomsk. The
suit arose over lund which both
villages claimed, The affair is
of historical interest, since all
documents and records have re
mained intact,
The Soviets have now declared
the disputed land belongs to
Gorbunovka. Catherine’s order
and other documents, among
them the original agreement
signed between the villagers and
the Tartar authorities of Siberia,
are said to be kept by Grechanin
in an fron chest which also
serves as his bed.
English Lobsters Come
in Many Gaudy Colors
London.—A fastidiousness in fash
ion is not confined to human beings.
Even fish, it would seem, endeavor to
do their bit in brightening things up
generally.
The lobsters, in particular, seem to
have been impressed by the bright
colored frocks which make their ap
pearance on the sea fronts whenever
the sun condescends to shine for a
few minutes.
During the past few days lobster
pots at Brighton, popular British scuth
coast resort, have yielded a remark
able collection of lobsters, which have
abandoned the conventional dress of
their tribe-—a dull slatey black. Their
taste for brighter garb has certainly
saved their lives, and they are now
living in attractive glass tanks at the
aquarium instead of providing one of
the necessary ingredients for a night
mare-producing supper,
Here is a record of the local lob
sters’ thirst for color as revealed by
the lobster pots:
Three lilac lobsters; one sky blue
lobster; one deep cobalt lobster, and
one orange red lobster. e
It is hardly necessary to add th
all these -lobsters are-*“ladies.” ‘The
mere “men” who have been caug
have been found to be ecar on
with the time-honored dull slatey
black. They have been eaten.
First Kansas Capitol
Restored by Railroad
Fort Riley, Kan.—The first capitol
of Kansas, now a roofless structure of
crumbling stone, will be restored to its
aspect of TS years ago.
A western railroad will assume the
entire expense of restoration, amount
ing to $20,000. The building is lo
cated on the ['ort Riley reservation
near here,
Hand-hewed Ilumber, like that in
the original building, will be used in
the reconstruction,
The building was completed in 1855,
The lower floor was used for the house
of representatives and the second floor
for the territorial council, as the sen
ate was called in those days,
“What is my
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present car worth
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in trade?
OCCAS!QN ALLY you hear a car owner
say: “I’'m going to buy such and such a new
car because the dealer has offered me the
best deal on my present car.”
But without understanding the economics of
trade-in transactions, you cannot be sure
that the largest allowance offered means the
best deal for you.
These are basic facts:
1 Your present car has only one fundamental
basis of value; 7. e., what the dealer who accepts
it in trade can get for it in the used car market.
2 Your present car has seemingly different values
because competitive dealers are bidding to sell
you a new car.
3 The largest allowance offered is not necessarily
the best deal for you. Sometimes it is; some
times it is not.
4 An excessive allowance may mean that you are
paying an excessive price for the new car in
comparison with its real value.
S First judge the merits of the new car in com
parison with its price, including all delivery and
finance charges. Then weigh any difference in
allowance offered on your present car.
Remember that when you trade-in your pres
ent car you are after all making a purchase,
not a sale. You are simply applying your
present car as a credit toward the purchase
price of a new car.
“A car for every purse and purpose”
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