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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (March 8, 1908)
10 RESERVING AME1&CAN ATHLETES VV'1 ""S, rv 7. 5 . T 1 - IN undying Tnarb! anctnt Greece has handed down to the world statues of her athletes. Arrested at the climax of their action. theFe masterpieces of theart of sculpture enable the world to today to tell what manner of athletes these men were. The atnh century will also have its ath letic souvenir to hand down to the years to come, but bronse, not marble, is the material In which this action will be shown. All that is distinctively modern in sport, the football player, the baseball hero, the hunter, the goiter, the polo player, the boxer, figured In an exhibition of sport ing Dromes recently shown at the Acad emy of Design In New York, and so much admired was the exhibition that It had to be repeated later at the National Art Club and the Macbeth Gallery. The Greek statues are ranked among the priceless rellces of the past, and it is interesting to note that some of them, found after centuries, resulted in the re vival of games that had all but been for gotten. For instance, the sport of discus throw ing, now a great feature of the Olympic games, and an es-ent in almost every big outdoor athletic meet, had passed into oblivion: many athletes had never heard of It. in fact, till some classical scholar, coming acrois the ancient statue, was 0 HOW WE SAVE THREE BILLION DOLLARS Stewart Edward White Tolls ot Some of the Work of the Forestry Service.' STEWART EDWARD WHITE comes to the defense of the Government forest service ill a characteristic ar- ticlo in the American Magazine. Mr. Wlilto never did particularly care whose head he cracked, and on this occasion his whacks are impartial and Joyous. , "Kverybody of my generation and be fore." says Mr. White, 'remembers the old time forest fires. Now. even in the heavily wooded countries, such fires are' exceedingly, unusual, and when they dp occur are almost always on private land. "For Instance, last year only one-eighth of 1 per cent of the National forests was burned over, and only three one-hun-dredths of 1 per cent actuaJly destroyed. In all 1100 separate fires were extin guished bv the forest rangers. "Any one of the.e. If left to burn itself out. as has been the National habit, would probably have developed into an old-fashioned conf lasratlon such as we re member. And the total cost of preven tion waa "If the men of the Forest Service had nothing else than this their existence on the public pay rolls would have beet more than justified. Last Summer the admin, istra-tlve and protective force tf the for ests numbered 110. This means that each field man has charge on the average of 306 square miles of mountainous wilderness that is to say an area greater than nine Manhattan Is lands. He has to patrol his district, build his trails and keep them in order, police his territory. Issue his permits, at tend to the business Interests and flglit his fires, not to speak of cooking for bimtf, attending to his animals and V JS. tilled with curiosity to see what the mod ern athlete could do at this sport in com parison with his rival of old. Hence, careful measurements wer made of the discus In the hands of the well known figure. A similar missle was pro duced, and weight throwers set to prac ticing to master this new old sport. The proper way to throw was quickly learned, for many statues of discus hurlers survive from ancient Greece, when next to the runner and wrestler", the man who could send the bat. missle furthest got the most coveted crown of laurel. Among the first Americans to win spe cial renown In this event wu Johnny Garrela, Michigan's famous all around athlete, who was starred as a football player, runner, hurdler and weight thrower. Next came Martin Sheridan, the won derful New York policeman, who is mas ter of every game, and is perhaps one of the greatest athletes this country has ever known.. Simllar'y, a hew sport was added to those popular in this country when from ancient statues some one got the idea of hurling the Javelin. This graceful form of exercise, which requires dexterity quite as much as strength, is coming Into some popularity. The United States would never have known these sports had not the Greek worker in marble, out of his admiration for the heroea of speed and muscle, turned living as a man must live In the wilder ness. "An incidental and minor' objection of the rapacious ones is that the Forest Service is an asylum for "dudes and loung ers.' I should like to take one of these gentlemen on a single day's round be hind one. any one. of our forest rangers. I should like to have him fight fire with them, as I have done 50 hours out of 52. "Then I should like to hear his opin ion of Just what kind of a snap It is to take care of 206 square miles. It Is In teresting to reflect that for this area of 306 square miles Prussia maintains a force of 120 men and finds it pays. "I .act Winter in Congress there arose a wild and clamorous howl against the for est policy of the Government. All sorts of epithets Tew.' Evidentfv somebody's toes had been trodden upon? The first shriek has to do with the misnomer re serves.' Senators Heyburn. Clark. Fulton. Carter and a chorus of less vociferous voices mournfully called attention to the 'vast solitudes' withdrawn from settle ment and from progress, forever to re main unproductive. "They will come said Heyburn, 'and deliberately surround you with one of these beautiful estates this waste of Idle ness this game reserve.' "In this sentence there are five state ments, four of which are wholly false. The National forests are not estates, they are not wastes: they are not idle; they are not game reserves. These "empty solitudes' contain thousands of ranches, villains, towns, lumber camps and mines. "To herd the seven million cattle that last season grazed in them was gathered a multitude of cowboys. In Southern (Jaluifornia alone o,t)0 campers enjoyed THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, MARCH 8, -190S. Statues That a Thousand Years Hence Will Show the Manner of Our Athletic Hen and Women jffl C ' '' ' y I If- . r iit -y his genius to making memorials of the men who won In the annual revival of the Olympic games. Will the athletes of some future age perhaps a thousand years from now equally get new Ideas of forgotten games from the bronzes that are now to become a full-fledged fad? It is more than. probability. Some investigator will go delving amidst the ruins of one of our. National galleries and come across the figure of a woman, straight, well built, with Health and power showing In every line of her tall figure. In her arms she holds a stick, her beautiful head is uplifted to follow the flight of the ball the stroke of her club has just sent on Its way. His curiosity will be piqued. Anxious to And out what game this was, he will Investigate. The chronicles of the past will have much to say about golf, a game that started In Scotland, made Its way to England, and came to be played all over the world. Then the sporting goods manufacturer of that day will sot to. work making golf clubs and an old sport will be launched on Us way to a new epoch of popularity. From the standpoint of vanity the pres ent period of the world's history can ask nothing better-than that the girl of today shall be Judged on the standard of the tennis and golf devotee. While perhaps not o classic in outline as the famed the National forests In 1906. Every acre of agricultural land In the National for ests is open for settlement under the homestead laws. " "But,' persisted the astute one, grave ly, 'it Is not enough to set aside the agri cuutural land. Land that will sustain cattle is fit for homesteads, because a man can maintain himself on a home stead by raising cattle.' "It would be a pity to accuse any Westerner of such opaque Ignorance as this remark Implies. Lets see how the statement works out. A homestead Is 164 acres. On an average crazing range It takes 40 acres to support one cow. At that rate our homesteader would have to live on the produce of four head of range cattle, a manifest absurdity. "In Switzerland we find the earliest in telligent treatment of the question. Over 1000 years ago she possessed a forest sys tem, and had developed a scientific for estry by the 15th century. As early as Louis XIV France awoke to the fact thst her forests and her life were draining away together. "But It was too late. Today she ir spending PA an acre to reforest her wat ersheds. The same experience Is costing Italy CO an acre. "Italy Is not a wealthy nation, yet she la appropriating cheerfully this enormous sum in the realization that on it depends the question as to whether or not she will have to strike her tents. "If we of the United States were called upon to replace at even Italy's figures the trees now growing on the watersheds protected by our reserves, we should have to spend about three billion dollar?! "The Forest Service, besides main taining; the forests and overseeing . v' V t SSSN j II i II ima 7z 'TJ2E SIT heroine of the Greek statue,' the Ameri can girl in bronxe. . the woman athlete, presents a magnificent suggestion of health and power, and all ' that without sacrificing a tithe of her womanly charm. The investigator of the thousand years hence will have to admit the man of to day had much to live for. The polo game Is one of the most thrill ing of the athletic scenes in bronxe. It has all that charm of arrested motion that never fails to stimulate and hold. There is a flash of electricty almost in the two horses and riders, side by side, battling for possession of the ball, the their wise and productive use by the public, la also busily engaged In add ing to the Nation's wealth In a dozen other ways. "As an example, take the turpentine forests of the South. Turpentine, is ob tained by cutting a hole In one side ot the tree, called boxing which In a few years kills the tree. The Forest Service has found a method ,of ex tracting; turpentine by which the trees are far less injured and the yield Is increased 30' per cent. "The Western mountains above . a certain elevation are covered with a tree called the lodgepole pine. "The p'orst Service has demonstrat ed that when treated in a certain In expensive manner it makes first rate railroad ties. When you pause to re flect that to maintain one tie In a road bed two trees must be kept growinff you will begin to see the Importance of thia, discovery. "In a like manner the swlft-growinB Southern gum timber has always warped ro badly that after a hot day you could see-both sides of a board at once. The Forest Service his found a method by cutting and subsequent treatment of obviating this discon certing' feature. "Another timber long considered use less but now raised to the dignity of value by intelligent experiment is the Western hemlock. Such experiments when successful are quite as effective as the discovery by exploration of. vast new. tracts of forest lands. "At present the service is trying out various materials other than forest woods for the production of paper pulp. It has been stated that for a single Sunday issue of a certain paper 20 acres of forest land must be cut over. Thia thought, coupled with a memory of the Adirondacks, whence a great deal of the pulp wood comes, should cause each and every one of us to wish more power to the men engaged In the researches." equine participants seeming to enter into the spirit of the contest and lending their riders all the aid they can. The. action has been caught and held firmly for future ages by the art of the modeler. It Is a fleeting instant that in an actual , game would only be seen long enough to permit one second's thrill be fore It had been succeeded by a doxen other exciting pictures. The rider on the left of the group has skillfully pushed his opponent out of the play, and the horse of the latter has reared high. In the air In an effort to get on its feet. BUSINESS MORALS THAT DON'T PAY Hard Times a Test That Many Men With a Little Money Can't stand. HERE are stories of three men who stand well, or did so stand for many years in the community In which they lived. An interesting question is. Do they deserve now to stand well, or are they enemies of the common welfare? asks the World s Work: I. , Smith (so we will call him is a pros perous man who kept an account In one of New York's substantial banks. Dur ing ths panic it waa hard even for pros perous men to get money for their pay rolls and other legitimate purposes. So anxious were many concerns not to cause Inconvenience to their employes that they paid as much as S per cent to turn their checks Into cash. Smith, knowing this and having 110,000 in the bank (which, by the way, he had originally deposited in the form of checks and drafts), cast about for some way to make money at the expense ;of somebody else. He asked the bank to cash bus check for 1.00. To get it he said he had made a pur chase and that the seller would not take even a certified check, but demanded cash, and, the bargain being a good one, he did not wish to lose it. He received the cash and straightway took It to a money broker's and got for it a check for J10.300. This check he fool ishly deposited to his own credit In the same bank from which he had drawn his money. The cashier recognized It as the check of a well-known firm of money brokers; and upon questioning the de positor forced him to admit the decep- I N B "JPGZO'JBITimRBEJiZ 72AS22LTJJN2D There Is also a figure of a mafe golfer that is strikingly filled with action, the player being at the top of his swing and ready to drive the ball from, the tee on which it is balanced. His' sleeves are rolled up for freedom of swing, he wears no coat, and everything about him points to carefully balanced and controlled power, with 'the climax ready for the in stant when it will do the most good. The artists of these memorials of mod ern sport have been denied one advantage that fell to those who pictured the ath letic heroes of ancient Greece. There is little chance to picture muscles. A large part of the wonderful strength of the ancient Grecian, figures results from the bare torso and legs, with swell ing masses of muscles driving home the Impression of limitless physical equip ment. Sport of today runs less to the undress. Save in the case of the boxer, the wrest ler and the track and field men, the ath letic heroes all are well covered. Football iplayer, baseball player, golfer, tennis, star and cricketer have certain fixed fashion, but nothing more than the muscles of their arms ever show on the field of contest. Hence only these show in the bronzes, and the student of the fu ture can only guess what kind of cheats they had. "Headed for the goal" Is the title of a bronse that shows a football Incident, one tion that he had practiced and request ed him to take his deposit away. "We will not knowingly have a cus tomer of that kind in the bank," he said. Smith, after many protestations and pleadings, was forced to, accept his dis missal, thereby illustrating the proverb that a good name is more to be' chosen than a. It ' Jones (or so we will call him) was die covered by a friend In the frenzied line of persons who were drawing money from a trust company which did not fail. He was a man of property and of stand ing. The friend expostulated with him and tried to convince him, first, that the trust company was solvent; secondly, that it was his duty to set an example to the less Intelligent and more timid: and, thirdly, that, even if there were real danger, he should take his chances with the rest and not help to bring on general disaster. To this Jones replied that everybody must look out for himself, and the rest of the world might go hang. His friend's arguments proved uncon vincing, and the friend offered to bet him a hat that the trust company would pay everybody. He accepted the bet, and when last heard from had not even paid the wager which seems to prove that some timid people are untrustworthy in more ways than one. III. Brown (or so we wiU call him) tried to do what Smith did, but his bank would pay only In silver coin. Being greedy, he decided to accept the silver, and to hire a truck and men to guard It. But the money-brokers declined to buy this silver in such large quantities RONZE of those thrilling seconds in. the great gridiron game when thousands take leave of sanity in the excitement of the contest. The man with the ball has just broken loose with an almost clear field. Only one barrier Interposes between him and sure touchdown. An opposing player, fallen to the ground, has just managed to catch the feet of the man with the ball as the latter leaped over him on his way to the white chalk line, the passage of which means five points maybe six and prob ably a victory. Whether the tackier will succeed in holding his man is left gravely In doubt, which adds to the charm of the picture, for it stands a fixed bronxe ques tion. The hunter and his dog, the baseball pitcher about to hurl the ball, the tennis player with racquet raised to make a stroke, the oarsman bending his big sweep oar, and the swinrmer driving along at the top speed on his side, while a furrow of water shows the rapid progress he haa been making, are other samples of the new art of arrested sporting action la bronxe. There is no doubt that barring accident these figures have many hundreds of years- of life before them. Ancient bronzes have come down from 4he past in better condition than mort of the marble stat ues, an ancient bronze chariot, covered with figures In bronze, now owned by tha Metropolitan Museum of Art being notable example. unless the bags were left for several days to allow them to count it; and they would give him only a receipt for bags "said to contain H0.000." This receipt being of no use to Brown, he inquired where he could get the silver changed into bills, and he was told at the Subtreasury. But the Subtreasury. being bothered by several gentlemen of the same ilk, would give him. only the earns kind of a receipt "said to contain," etc. By this time he found his silver a bur den and .an expense, and he carted it back to the bank, where he was told that all dealings with him had ceased. After paying his expenses for the hack and guards, and several days' delays on a falling premium, he came out barely whole on his venturs and lost a reputa tion when a reputation was most valua blewhich seems to prove that a man en dowed by Providence with the intelligence of a truckman has no business to under take large financial transactions. When the Tariff H Settled. Atlanta cntltution. Pronperitv'll come to thi trut-rMden land When the taxlll Is ettled is settled! We'll px UP our debts and we'll drive four-in-hand When the terrible tariff is settled! That's Just why we're nettled Xt' plain as the day. When the tariff is settled We'll holler "Hooray!" Prosperity'!! come with a blare o the band When the tortuous tariff is settled; We'll march to the music an' shout o'er the land When the wonderful tariff is settled! That's just why we're nettlod; It's as plain as the day. When the tariff is fettled The world will be gray I
