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...Russia, the hope of her is in Russia, and if permitted to express that hope, she could recuperate from her late losses within twenty years and prepare for an indefinite period of war. From Russia's mines unlimited coal and iron could be extracted, from her soil foodstuffs and timber to supply the entire German nation. No longer would she be dependent upon England and South America, but quite self-sufficient. If allowed to press on in this direction she would have every incentive to attack Great Britain, France and Italy, then Further India and China...
...comes a recurrence of the threat against the nation's future welfare that was felt fifteen years ago. The lumber and water-power interests have been chafing under the restraint that has held them back from a rapid road to fortune at the public's expense. They want the timber and latent power now kept from them in the National Parks and Reservations, and they want a Secretary of the Interior who will back their interests...
...these ideas. Appearances seem ominously to indicate that he wishes to reward his backers in the West by laying open the national reservations to depredation. Weak men or puppets in the Departments of the Interior and of Agriculture, could do irreparable harm to the nation's reserve supply of timber; to say nothing of the concurrent destruction of the few spots of primeval beauty that remain in the country. Herbert Hoover is one of the few men who is fit by previous experience to hold this position and who can be relied upon to preserve the integrity of the nation...
...made by the University track team during the past season, prospects for next year seem unusually good. Out of its three scheduled meets this spring the Crimson runners were successful in only one, that with Tech. In this contest the University hurdlers captured every place in both of the timber events and so enabled the Crimson to receive the large end of a 65 1-2 to 51 1-2 score. The hopes raised by the victory over the supposedly strong outfit of the Engineers were soon brought down, for on Saturday of that week the Eli combination administered...
...with is that which calls for the growing of home gardens. It is not too late even yet to start a bit of backyard cultivation that will bring good food at a cost to make that over-grown rascal, Costoliving, blush for shame and slink away into the tall timber. --Boston Traveler...