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Sure Relief Fornia THE MOUNTAIN EAGLE, WHITESBTJRG, KY. Has Sought the Fairest Possible Distribution of Grazing Privileges By SECRETARY W. M. JARDINE, Annual Report. TJRING the last year the viewpoint has been expressed by repre sentatives of live stock industry the status of Mm the range that grazing as a permanent and desirable use of the national for- ests should be defined by legislation and not left, as at present, to the exclusive control of the Department of Agriculture through ad- ministrative regulations. Thirty-on- e thousand live-stoc- k owners range approximately 1,800,000 cattle and 6,500,000 sheep in the national for- ests for varying portions of the year. These represent about 20 per cent of the cattle and 28 per cent of the sheep in the 11 Western states, and with their dependent ranch investments constitute an important part of the economic structure which the national forests should sustain. The department has sought the fairest possible distribution of graz- ing privileges in which the old user has been protected as far as consistent with affording reasonable opportunity for the settler and small rancher to establish his home and develop his means of livelihood. It was WRKLEYS RK. felt that the settler who was engaged in developing from raw land a new NEW HANDY PACK farm unit contributing to the food supply and wealth of the nation and who in this process needed the related use of national forest 'grazing re- Fits hand sources should be granted such use even though that necessitated a re- pocket and purse duction in the privileges of the established occupants of the range. More for your money As a result of this policy the number of range users has increased and the best Peppermint Chewing Sweet for any money 6ince 1909 by nearly 25 per cent and the national-fore- st ranges now con- tribute to the maintenance of approximately 4,500,000 acres of cultivated Look for Wrigles P. K. Handy Pack land and 22,000,000 acres of grazing land in private ownership. onoureersConterG7 The Entire Nation Is Awakening to a New Traffic Fair Play Little Richard lives with his grand Consciousness father In Pasadena, but he also has another grandfather who is an artist By T. P. HENRY, President A. A. A. with a studio at Carmel-by-the-Se- In saying his prayers the other night The motor tourist is expected to understand and comply with regula- he surprised his older sister by say tions that prove a veritable puzzle even to the native driver. Until Amer- ing: "And pweas bwess my grandfathers ica reaches an accord on traffic regulation and decides on something that the one who paints pictures an' tha can be applied universally throughout the country, the visiting motorist one who doesn't" Los Angeles Times. ihould not be held strictly accountable for technical violations. The situation is complicated further when the motor tourist finds reg- ulations literally changing overnight. The A. A. A. concedes that experi- a mans Jjrmt ment has its advantages, but to hold the motor tourist responsible for larger JVZyo (1ST; 7hats health every little infringement of every new experimental regulation is manifest- in ly unfair and out of line with American ideas as to how matters should By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN evay ampt be conducted. Yet this is the situation throughout the country today. RAFFIC police halt traffic across the Michigan boulevard bridge at the The entire nation is awakening to a new traffic Anti- consciousness. mouth of the Chicago river in the quated ideas in regulation are giving way to more systematic and logical second city of the United States and methods. The ultimate and obvious aim is simplicity, but of necessity the fourth of the world. 'It is 2:30 in the The solid lines of is certain amount of complication. is to afternoon. there a overregulation and This automobiles, three abreast, come to be expected, but there is no reason why the party who should benefit by an unwilling halt, with much pro- any improvement in regulations should also be the victim of testing clamor of horns from the ever-growin- g rear ranks. Two Amer ican Flags are flying at the north end of the bridge, and between them gathers a little group Man Who Talks of Finish Fight Between River of men and women. "In the name of the Illinois Society of the weather or illness or both stopped his progress passing 42 rapids." Nevertheless, he proceeded to and Rail Is Shortsighted Colonial Dames of America," says Mrs. Holmes across the Chicago Portage, and he spent the draw a number of maps from memory. The one Forsyth. The rest is lost in the tumult of city winter on the river bank about six miles from reproduced In part calls the region "La Colber-tie,- " noises. A man, to By DWIGHT F. DAVIS, Secretary of War. heroically baring his head the its mouth. With the spring he reached the In- after Colbert, minister of Louis XIV. Thg. BAKER'S driving snow, says something in reply. He Is dians and taught them. His health and strength "Baye des Puans" (Green Bay) he names after The man who talks of natural competition and a finish fight between Maj. A. A. Sprague and he speaks for the City of giving out, he started for Mackinac. He traveled an Indian tribe. The "Mislonde St Fr. Xavler" on BREAKFAST Chicago. Then a sheet is drawn aside and there Is river and rail is shortsighted. There's not the remotest danger the around the head of Lake Michigan, working his Green Bay was Marquette's chapel. "Mlsconsing," that revealed a bronze tablet, thus inscribed: way up Is course, Mississippi Is river carrier will the east shore. He died on the way. The of the Wisconsin. The COCOA drive the rail carrier from the field. As an example, I In honor of Louis Joliet and Pere Jacques next year his bones were taken up and carried to marked, "River that discharges Into the Gulf of Marquette, pass through ' Has a full rich flavor delicious need only point to our most extensively developed river the llonongahela. the first white men to Mackinac. 0 Mexico." "Riviere de la Divine" is the Illinois. the Chicago river, in September, 1C73." to the taste;it is invigorating two-thir- "He always entreated God," writes Joliet named it after two reigning French belles: It carries 25,000,000 tons a year, and its locks are worked at about ds Father and sustaining. At the south end of the bridge, .after the same .Claude, JDablon in his journal, that he might end Frontenac's wife, who had been Anne de la capacity; yet a prosperous railroad line on each bank. n, Henry Sherman, Professor of runs Can short and formal ceremony, is unveiled another his life In these laborious missions, and that, like Grange-Triano- and her bosom friend, Mile, d' C. anyone doubt that the same situation will when bronze tablet. This one is "In memory of Rene his dear St. These two ladles were called "Les Food Chemistry, Columbia Uni- exist the commerce of Xavler, he might die in the midst .of Outrelalse. his book "Food Prod' Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, and Henri dl the woods of the map Is the Ohio, versity, in the Mississippi, the Missouri, the Ohio and their tributaries is similarly bereft of everything." Divines." At the bottom ucti" says: "Cocoa, in addition Tontl. Marquette's unfinished marked, "Route of Sieur La Salle to Mexico." developed ? Journal can be found In to the stimulating property, due The traffic police signal, the impatient motorists "The Jesuit Relations." Here are some of the It was apparently added to the map by a later to the alkaloid theobromine, and swarm upon Successful river traffic is dependent on railroads. Railroad's are and the bridge and the unheeding city things the priest has to say about his winter ex- hand. the flavor which makes it traffic hurries by. In the more sympathetic at- periences on the bank of the Chicago Here Is a resume of the career of Robert popular both as a beverage will remain the backbone of inland transportation. Efficient waterway river: confectionery, has mosphere of the Chicago Historical society an We started with a favoring Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (1G43-S7),- generally and in a traffic cannot most flourish wind and reached considerable food value." in cases without them. Interesting program Is carried out. For example. the river of the portage, which was frozen to the accepted by the historians after many years of with, and not opposition to, our railways, must always Mrs. Joseph Rucker Lamar of Atlanta, head of depth of half a foot. There was more snow there controversy as to certain points: National Society Colonial than elsewhere, as well as more tracks of animals hlA Walter Bakers Lo.ua, be the backbone of our unified transportation system that is to give us as the of the Dames, speaks and turkeys. He was born in Rouen, France, and arrived In on the value to good Americans of acquaintance The land bordering the lake Is of no valne. France in 1G66. He Is credited with the dis- Dorchester Mats, nearly an ideal transportation system as the mind of thinking man can except on prairies. New with such important incidents of our early history. the Deer hunting Is very good. covery of the Ohio river, and probably followed Motmui, Camaoa Prof. Andrew McLaughlin of the University of Having encamped near the portage, two leagues conceive.
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