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RESERVING AME1&CAN ATHLETES
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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:
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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-
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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.
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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
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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