THE REPUBLICAN , OUSTER COUNTY , NEBRASKA.
PRESIDENT SETS
DAY OF THANKS.
ISSUES ANNUAL PROCLAMATION
FROA\ WHITE HOUSE.
TELLS OF PROGRESS OF U. S ,
Asks Every American Citizen to Make
November 26 a Day of Thanks
giving for the Many Favors
Given them.
The president issued tJie an
nual Thanksgiving proclamation
last Saturday. He pointed out
the steady yro\Uh of the nation
in strength , worldly power ,
wc.ilih and population , and that
our average of individual comfort
and well b'ring1 is higher than
that of any other country in the
i
world. For this , he declares ,
Americans owe it to the Al-1
(
mighty to show equal progress ,
in moral and spiritual things. j
The proclamation follows :
My the President of the United
Stales of Amoric.i A Procla
mation :
Once again the season is at
hand when according to the
ancient custom of our people , it
becomes the duty of the presi
dent to appoint a day of prayer
and thanksgiving to God.
Year by year this nation grows
in strength and worldly power.
During the century and a quarter
that has elapsed since our entry
into the circle of independent
peoples we have grown and
prospered in material things to a
degree never known before and
not now known in any other
country. The thirteen colonies
which struggled along thcseacoast
of the Atlantic and were hem
med in but a few miles west of
the tidewater by the Indian-
haunted wilderness , have been
transformed into the mightiest
republic the wor'd baa ever seen.
Its domains stretch across the
continent from one to the other
of the two greatest oceans and it
exercises domain alike in the
Artie and tropic realms. The
growth in wealth and population
has surpassed even the growth
in territory. Nowhere else in
the world is the average of indi
vidual comfort and material well
being as high as in our fortunate
land.
For the very reason that in
material well being we have thus
abounded , we owe to the Al
mighty to show equal progress in
moral and spiritual things.
With a nation , as with the in
dividuals who make up a nation ,
material well being is an indis
pensable foundation. But the
foundation avails nothing by
itself. That life is wasted , and
worse than wasted , which is
spent in piling , heap on heap ,
those things which minister
merely to the pleasure of a body
and to the power that rests only
on wealth.
Upon material well being as a
foundation must be raised the
structure oi the lofty life of the
spirit , if this nation is properly
to fulfill it great mission and to
' accomplish all that we so ardent
ly hope and desire. The things
of the body are good ; the things
of the intellect b-tter ; the best
of all are the things ot the soul ;
for in the nation as in the indi-
jvidua ) , in tie long run it is char
acter that counts. Let us , there
fore , as a people set our faces
resolutely against evil , and with
broad charity , with kindness and
good will toward all men , but
with unflinching determination
to smite down wrong , strive with
all the strength that is given us
for righteousness in public and
in private life.
Now , therefore , I , Theodore
Roosevelt , president of the
United States , do set apart
Thursday , the 26th day of No
vember , next , as a day of general
thanksgiving and prayer , and on
that day I recommend that the
people shall cease from their
daily work , and , in their homes
or in their churches , meet de
voutly to thank the Almighty
for the many and great blessings
they have received in the past ,
and to pray that they may be
given strength so to order their
lives as to deserve a continuation
of these blessiugsin the future.
Inilness whereof , I have
hereunto set my hand and caused
the seal of the United States to
be afiixed.
Done at the city of Washington
this thirty-first day of October ,
in the year of our Lord , one
thousand nine hundred and eight
and in the independence of the
United States , one hundred and
thirty-third.
THKODOKK UOOSKVEI.T
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A TOAST I
Here's to the "lioudoir"
So gratefully human ,
lluilt rugged like mnn ,
Soft-voiced liken woman ;
Iong live this new beauty ,
Give us substitutes "nixy"
When we're offered a 'Houdoir'
At the prioe of One-Sixty.
FOR SAi.rc Bv : ,
OVER VERGE OF
TIMBER FAMINE.
USING TIMER AT RATE OH 500 FEET
BOARD MEASURE PER CAPITA
TIMBER CUT IN TWO YEARS ,
Forests Are Renewable Resources and
Rightly Used Will Go on Producing
Crop After Crop. Enormous
Waste Must Be Stopped.
"We are now cutting timber
from the forests of the United
States at the rate of 500 feet
broad measure a year for every
man , woman , and child. In
Europe they use only ( 0 bro ; d
feet. "
Few statements could be made
which would better convince the
average man that this country
leads the world in the demand
for timber. It is made by
Theadwell Cleveland , Jr. , in a
circular which treats of the con
servation of the forests , soil ,
water and , and ail other great
natural resources , which has just
been published by the United
Stales Forest Service. In speak
ing further of the consumption
of timber in this country , Mr.
Cleveland says :
"At this rate , in less than
thirty years all our remaining
virjfin timber will be cut. Mean
time , the forests which have
been cut over are generally in a
bad way for want of care ; they
will produce only inferior second
growth. We are clearly over the
verge of a timber famine. "
"This is not due to necessity ,
for the forests are one of the re
newable resources. Rightly
used , they go on producing crop
after crop indefinitely. ' he
countries of Europe know this ,
and Japan knows it ; and their
forests arc becoming with time
not less , but more , productive.
We probably still possess suf
ficient forest land to grow wood
enough at home to supply out
own needs. If we arc not blinder
or willfully wasteful , we may yet
preserve our forest independence
and , with it , the fourth of our
great industries. "
"Present wastes in lumber are
enormous. Take the case of
yellow pine , which now heads
the list in the volume of annual
cut. In 1907 it is estimated that
only one-half of all the ) ellow
pine cut during the season \\as
used , and that the other half ,
amounting to 8,000,000 cords ,
was wasted. Such waste is
typical. Mr. R. A. Long , in
his address on 'Forest Conserva
tion'at the Conference of Gover
nors last spring , pointed out that
20 per cent of the yellow pine
was simply K'f t in the woods
a waste which represents the
timber growing oil 300,000
acres. "
"The rest of the waste takes
place at the mill. Of course , it
would never do to ? peak of the
material rejected at the mill as
"No Sand too Deep" "No Hill too Steep
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0 , H , CONRAD , liie Buick Man , Broken Bow ,
waste unless this material could
he turned to use by some better
and more thorough form of uti
lization. Hut in many cases we
know , and in many other cases
we have excellent reason to be
lieve , the most , if not all , of this
material could be used with
profit. It is simply a question
ol intelligent investigation and ,
mure than all , of having the will
to economize. "
"But there arc other ways to
conserve the forest besides cut
ting in half the present waste of
ol forest products. The forests
can be made to produce three or
four times as rapidly as they do
at present. This is true of both
the virgin forests and the cut-
over lands. Virgin forests are
often fully stocked with first
clays timber , but this stock has
been laid in very slowly , on ac
count of the wasteful competition
which is carried on constantly
between the rival trees , Then ,
too , in the virgin forests there
arc very many trees which have
reached maturity and stopped
growing , and these occupy space
which , if held by younger trees
would be laying in a new stock i
constantly. As regards the cut- '
over laud , severe cutting followed
by fire , has checked growth so
seriously that in most cases re
production is both poor and slow ,
while in many other cases there
is no true reproduction at all at
present , and there is but little
hope for the future. "
Boys and Girls to Omaha.
Prof. E C. Uishop , deputy
state superintendent oi public
instruction has announced that
the convention of the Nebraska
Boys Agricultural Society and
the Nebraska Girls Domestic
Science Assuciaticn , will meet in
Omaha December llth during
the National Corn Exposition.
More boys and Girls in Nebras
ka are interested in these ass >
ciations and the work they arc
doing than ever before and the
most conservative estimates
place the number who will at
tend the meetings of the young
> eople in Omaha between 2,500
and 3,000
The opportunity offered of at
tending the meetings and at the
same time seeing the National
orn Exposition is an unusual
one , as it will show the ) oung
people what it is possible to ac
complish along agricultural and
industrial lines of education.
I hey will see the results of the
work they are doing in advance ,
as it were , and the exposition
will doubtless be an inspiration
to the bos and yirlsol NiM.raska
Prof. Uibhi p a'so uiin unccd
thirty four cdmtii.s i N'obsus-ka
have now amfgud fur local con
tests and kc.urcs and tl.e University
vorsity of Nebraska has detailed
a niuubwTtif competent Ju ly s to
assist in ha idling the local con
tests From t hi j riuj corn in
the different K.IIUbts the coun
ties will solei their samples for
entry in the various classes at
the Natiolal Corn Exposition in
Omaha
House for rent in northwest
corner of city. Apply to Wm.
Stewart on the premises. 30 tf
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