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THE . OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL,' PORTLAND, . SUNDAY MORNING. JUNE 7, 1808. JOURNAL CMRiERS' BMD PLME WITH THE TRUE CARNIVAL SPIRIT v'.f -'''-'' ,f"f" av ""s f ? "' f . k ; ,;. ; ; : yfS' Oi -?f .J -v-.- LvV-V i4f V".-'if A m JmMt . wk-J r&F?i fe i l ' Th Journal ' Carriers' and whlc'n made ijts first ' appearance Thursday morning; of Ross Carnival week, has been the recipient of many words of praise and encouragement, and through out the -route of 'the procession Thurs day tnornlnv and also In the evenln rarade on the . east side. The Journa boys' band was received with marked aDDlausa and delight. As the organ I za tion appeared. In fine marching order and in neat wnite umrorms, piaymg lively marches with splendid precision fend harmony, cheers and roses followed their course. Before startlnr on the . inarch the band stood outside The Jour nal and played several numbers in fine style. They were quickly surrounded by an eager and Interested throng who applauded every number with enthus iasm. - .When it is realised that the carriers' band has been organized but a few months and that rehearsals began only last September, the degree of proficiency that has been attained Is no less than remarkable. At the 1 suggestion of some of the older carriers, the organisation wss formed last winter, fostered by the car riers' association. The Journal put up some of the money necessary, the car-1 NATION MUST PREVENT ' WASTE OF RESOURCES PeopleTTaTe Conception of V-,'". ..W "'. , liral Store of Minerals and Other Products What .' Governor's Conference Meant. v From the Engineering News. A hundred and twenty-two years ago the flrtst president of the United States Invited the governors of . the several states to meet him in conference to con elder the development of natural re sources- the Potomac river as a water way. Out of that conference and the nged which it 'made evident of "a mor perfect form of union" grew the con stitution of the United States. :In 198 the 26th president of the United States, following the precedent set by Oeorge Washington, invitea tne governors or tne fti states ana tern torles now comooslnc the nation, to I -conference to consider the conservation of natural resources the preservation nature s guts lor tne oeneru or pos terltv. That conference, held in the , White House In Washington on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of last' week, anj presided over by president Kooseveii, seems likely to be the beginning of a movement out of which will grow pub lto benefits quite comparable with those that have resulted from the federal con stitution. That great instrument gave a . atanie ana errictent government. the greatest blessing that a civilised people can possess. But life Itself the life of the human; race upon this planet is conditioned on a supply of iiooa, raiment and sneiter; and ti con ference of last week was held to con sider how the foundation sources out of l which these elemental necessities of life sre produced may be preserved tot tne penent or coming generations. XT sing Vatnre's Treasure It has been quite generally under stood By scientists ana engineers lor a considerable time that our present day civilization has set a pace In using up nature's stored treasures that was cer tain soon to exhaust them. But the few voices raised in warring have been voices of those crying In the wilderness. People In general have no conception whatever or the fact that there Is a 'limit to the amount of stored fuel and ; metal and mineral, and that the world may suddenly awake . one morning to find Itself cold and hungry and Mother .Nature's larder empty. Even Intelli gent men turn warnings like these aside with the cheerful assurance that new discoveries will be made and Inventors will devise substitutes as one and an other product grows scarce. There Is no doubt that further dis-1 '"V Mle Lina Krauss, Instructor la Grmkn Department. Oregon Cnserva lory of Music, Mis Krauss Ii Now Organliln 8ummer Classes XfP? U5)i r Ifv 5") cJOURmiy CARRIER'S ptCTXwf riers' association the remainder and The Journal Carriers' band came into being. York instruments were ordered, from John W. York & Sons of Grand Rapids, Michigan, of which firm Charles E. York la the northwest representative. Quality of Instruments. In order to demonstrate the quality of the instruments and to insure the suc Fact There Is Limit to Nat- a coverlt-s will be made of additional mineral resources, and thst Invention and Ingenuity will do much to help put on tne cvu days or want tnat are sure ly coming. But inevitably, sooner or later, tne mineral deposits in the rew hundred feet of rock near the surfaoe of tmr planet, which are alone available to man, will be exhausted. Engineers know well that Inventors never work miracles, that nd inventor ever made or ever will make something out of noth ing. Substitutes may be developed; but the substitute is seldom as good as the original. , There is another reason why people In general are blind to the coming ex haustion of nature's resources. It is this. In the nevelotiment of our com plex social system we have removed the consumer so far from the sources of production that he la densely ignoran wnence the raw material ror Jiis sus tenance comes. All he knows is that by paying the price he can always buy the thing he wants; and prices depend on too many variables for him to dis cover In rising prices the 'warning of actual scarcity approaenmg. Waste and, Destruction. Thus the utterances of those who foresaw coming disaster have been lit tie heeded. Waste and destruction have gone on for half a century at least In a manner which some future generation will look back upon as one of the great est crimes ever committed against the welfare of tne race. It was evident that some measure must be taken to arouse and enlighten the public concern ing mis great question, .a lew scient ists and engineers In the city of Wash ington, most or tnem members of the Inland waterways commission, were Ini- f Teased with tne great neea mat some hlng be 'done to check the waste fo natural resources. They enlisted the Interests or president Roosevelt, and his Invitation was sent out to the gov ernors of every state In the union to meet with him for conference on this matter. . '5' It Is well to note In passing that this is the first national convocation on this uhiect ever held. Of course other coun tries have given' much study to various Dhasea of The subject The Industrial nations of Europe have for years been closely . watching their diminishing stores of coal and iron and husbanding their forest resources. . - Each nation, however, has felt. vague ly that when Its own supplies ran short it could draw supolles from Its neigh bors; and) it remained ror tne united r -I 7. lK7h Sr SSfcWk'" " V cess of the bund in which he was much Interested, Mr. York took upon him self the training and direction of the band. "In all my vears of experience in band work," said Mr. York. Atnls Is the most successful. The boys are eager to learn and anxious to improve: I con sider the progress quite remarkable and 1 am proud of the organization." States the most wasteful of all nations doubtless to awaken to the impending danger of world-wide scarcity and as semble representatives from all parts or its territory to mscuss tne situation. Kisewhera in this Issue we have re ported the papers and other proceedings or tne conrerence in suoti detail as space permKted. Here we purpose only to speak of the results attained, and these results, we may say at once, were grat ifying. In the highest degree to those who had the success of the conference at heart. First and most Important of these results was oubtless Its educative ef feet. From one end to the other of the nation, and Indeed of the world, has gone the storv of the assemblage of the men most noted In public life today. Millions of people nave had brought home to thorn the new Idea that waste Is a crime against, the race: because starvation menaces the world If waste is allowed to continue. Thus will be laid a sure foundation of enlightened fmbllc opinion in support of the radical eglslatlon, state ana national, that must be, enacted snd enforced to avert the threatened peril. What Members Expected. There were many members of the conference who looked for results of a different sort, such as action, with ref erence to pending legislation in con gress. There is no doubt that a tlargt majority of tne delegates were anxious to support a resolution urging the pass age of the bill creating the Appalachian and White mountain forest reserves, for example. There were many strong references in the discussion to the op position which that bill has met. 1 Yet there can be little doubt that the conference will loom larger in the pub lic mind and will wield a wider measure of Influence because it confined Itself to the general problem before It and con sidered only broad questions of public policy touching the subject of Its de liberations. Even before the conference met ii was fully realized that the details of the problem could not possibly be taken uo and solved by any such assemblage. To many, if not most of the delegatvs, the problem was a wholly new one. Men confronted with a problem so new and so important could not in three brief days consider and adopt plans for rem edying tb evils and averting the dan gers, in iuci. nu une is wine ruougn ii the present day to say Just what meas ures should ne adopted at every point. The problem Is so vast that few. If any, appreciate even yet the full measure of Its slgnlflcanceNand the completeness of the change which must Inevitably, soon er or later, come over our civilisation. In planning for the conference, there fore, it was clearly foreseen that dis cussion of remedies would be mostly be yond its scope. Of course suggestions were made by some speakers such a a the remission of taxes on lands us?d for forestry, the fostering of agricul tural aducatlon and legal restrictions as to the cutting of immature trees on private lands; but the conference as or ranixed could not well undertake to Dass even upon such details as these. Question of Jurisdiction. Kelther . could the conference, under take any dcflnltion of the dividing line between state and national Jurisdiction. aa im newsDaDer writers had predict- rt mlarht be done. There were, of course, certain allusions in the speeches to the necessity. of preserving the state's rights inviolate ralways a safe platitude; out m conierenui wuu iiui organised or planned as a deliberative body for either legislative. or executive WT he! result of the conference as em bodied in the series or resolution adopted in . the closing session was ex actly the result hoped for and expected. The resolutions were the work of a committee trade up of the governors of Louisiana, utan,. xxew jersey, cuum Carolina and Wisconsin. ,j The resolu tions were broad in scope, emphatic and . advanced in their tone and wise In their recommendation. . Careful readlrfa of these resolutions, printed elsewhere In this issue, shows that tney oo two things, first, they report the conditions tnat exist ana poini um m rnxxnsuf fnr rmedv: second, they recommend utlnnri which niiv be enumer ated as follows: First, the holding of further national conferences to rurtner consider the subject ; secona, legislation inniiim n . in Droteciion ot roresis from destruction, the , prevention . of wst in mining, the protection of wa ter resources for Irrigation, water sup- ly, water power ana navigation; inira, hey recommend the creation of com missions, state and ' -national, on the conservation of natural resources. - We believe this last recommendation deserves emphasis as the most Impor tant result or tne wnoie conrerence. aside - from its . educational influence. The creation of such commissions, in fact. Is the next forward step that should be taken to advance the work which the conference began, and the step cannot be taken too soon. , ,' Broader Knowledge. The deliberations of . the conference clearly brought -out the need, first of all, for broader knowledge. , Many men of national -.- prominence ; ' confessed cJOUmVL CARRIER'S ... Few of the boys who form the band have had any experience with band work and those -who were more or less fa miliar with .their instruments had used them merely in an amateur way. None of them had had any experience In playing In an organized association. The excellent aplomb, tempo and execution which their playing so markedly shows. Is evidence of the careful training which frankly In the conference that the whole subject was a new one to them and they could pnly listen end learn aifa not pretend to give advice. The need for legislation, state and national. Is evident, as was recited in the formal resolutions; but what form shall such legislation ta'keT Is congress or the state legislatures wise enough to frame and enact laws upon this subject? Do they not need the counsel and advice In every case of a commission, made up of men ofi high standing which could take up this great question. In vestigate It with the aid of the best technical experts and, advise what ac tion should be taken t It may be stated here that prior to the assembling of the conference a number of the engineering delegates who had the success of the movement most at heart discussed together what action should be sought for by the conference that would yield the larg est results. it was generally agreed that the thing to be most hoped for was the creation of a national commission, made up of men representing all sec tions of the country, and all shaded of fiolltlrnl opinion; but standing so high n reputation that their conclusions and recommendations would command re spect and popular support. .Such a commission couUl bring together the data already, collected by state and na tional scientific bureaus and Independ ent Investigators, could supplement where necessary by Independent Inves tigations of Its own and could In a comparatively short time give the na tion an Inventory of Its stock of land and forest and mineral resources still available, such as Is nowhere now avail able. Such a commission could study possi ble legislation for conservation and so plan It .83 to effect the least Interfer ence with present methods and exist ing busines. Such a commission could arouse and enlighten the public to the dangers of the present situation and the need for prompt arjd wise action. Without such educative work on pub lic opinion. It Is much to be feared that legislation will he slow, halting and frequently Injurious rather than oenencial. Talus of Commissions. While most of the work we have out lined could be done far more success fully and economically by a single na tional commission than by SO separate state commissions, the formation of such stale commissions will also be highly advantageous. Such bodies would have far greater local Influence In hrnglng about necessary state legisla tion than any federal commission. Co operation between state and federal .4. fit 1 ! ... - T -t f U t ' it v r. ,c ,41 . Ml if ;..,-s . i Some . .- k- " "V- ' ?XTf?. Mr. York has given them, , and speaks volumes for the spirit of the boys them selves. , , y Their manager and financial , direc tor. David H. Smith, who took upon himself the task of looking after the finances of the association and of keep ing up the attendance, has found his task an easy one. the matter of discipline," said Mr. commissions could be easily arranged to avoid duplication of work and secure concentration of Influence. The creation of such national and state commissions to Investigate and advise as to the conservation of na tional resources is- the next forward step to be sought; and it is to this end that every citizen alive to the dan gers of our present wasteful and ruin ous policy toward our natural wealth should exert all his influence. GROWING UNDER COVER. California Gardener's PJn to Get Early Crop of Cantaloupes. From the Los' Angeles Times. Peter D. Fedlck, a landscape gar dener, ' florist and nurseryman, has started a series of experiments In vege table growths In the Imperial valley which seems likely to'prove valuable. At Brawley one of Fedlck's achieve ments Is the growing of cantaloupe vine under muslin canopies so that they will have two or three weeks advantage over the plants grown In the ordinary way. These cantaloupes are on a six acre tract directly adjoining the town of Brawley on the north. The cantaloupes are planted In the usual manner, so far as hilling and spacing are concerned, but over eaL'h hill there is stretched a canopy of white muslin about the size of a man's pocket handkerchief. Two arched wires are used, crossed over the melon hill some what like the center wicket in a croquet ground. The ends of these wires in sewed to the corners of the muslin squares and the wires are then thrust firmly Into the ground so as to secure the canopies and prevent the wind blow ing them away. Mr. Fedlck estimates that these protectors will cost complete about eight cents each. The melons have responded to the genial warmth thus engendered and the protection from the winds and frost. The plants are now strong and thrifty. If the plan proves all that is hoped for it next year it will be tried on a large scale on the Fedlck ramh near Holtvllle. At the Brawley ex perimental gardens there are six acrss of melons, and of thess 876 hills have been covered with the canopies. New York City has been having a targe exodus of tip seekers during the last fortnight. They are going to the summer resorts to be ready to recerve the tip givers who are preparing to follow them. . I "s I - ! ' '- S i 1 IV: ; ' i 4 i V of the Dancing iGlrJs vWith the- AllenVCurtls Musical Comedy'Company at'the Oaka. ....',..! - i ' ' . ; ;. j . ! ' '.... , . . Smith, "there Is nothing whatever to do. I never saw any organization of boys that required so little direction, and was so harmonious and pleasant. There has never been any discord nor jealousy. Kverybody has helped to make the asso ciation a success and petty feelings have been quite absent. It is a fine orowd. The band is now composed of 23 pieces, which it is the intention of the man NEW BOOKS FOR THE LIBRARY . The following list of books , at the public library will go Into circulation on June 8. BIOGRAPHY. Charles the Bold Charles the Bold, last duke of Burgundy; by Ruth Put nam. 1908. Margaret of Austria The High and Puissant Princess Marguerite of Aus tria, princess dowager of Spain, regent of the Netherlands; by Christopher Hare. 1907. Shorter Immortal Memories. 190T. BOOKS IN FOREIGN LANGUAGES. Ksbafbes La Legende de l'Algle. Keller Waldwlnter; ( Roman aus den Schlesischen bergen. Krause Fine Gefangene Seele. DESCRIPTION AND TRAVEL. Dubois Hindu Manners, Customs and Ceremonies; tr. by H. K. Beau champ. Ed. 8. 1906. . Herbert Two Dianas in Somallland; the record of a shooting trip. 1908. Masefield On the Spanish Main; or. Some English Forays on the Isthmus of Darian. 1906. FICTION, Carpenter Captain Courtesy. Kinross Davenant. Munn Boyhood Days on-the Farm. Streckfuss The Lonely House; tr. by Mrs. A. L. Wister. FINE ARTS. Hasluck. ed. Pianos. Their Construc tion. Tuning and Repair, 1905. Pomberton Roses, Their History, De velopment and Cultivation, 1908. Robinson The Garden Beautiful, 1S06 HISTORY. Pollard Factors In Modern History, 1907. LITERATURE. Armes, ed. Old English Ballads and Folk Songs, 1907. Page, ed. British Poets of the Nine teenth Century, 1904. J SCIENCES. Hobbs Earthquakes, 1907. SOCIOLOGY. Day A History of Commerce, 1907. Gilbert Trade and Currency in Early Oregon. 1907. Mallock A Critical Examination , of Socialism. 1907. . I 5 V j V . S ' t ' y . - ''Ht x t, - , , r ' ' - ' ' . 5 ager to Increase to 85 In time. The personnel of the band is as follows: Director and bandmaster. Charles E. York; manager, David H. Smith; drum major, Archie Mackenzie; cornets, Roy Barksdale. Clyde Sheets, Warren Tufts, Reginald Fox, Albert Owens; trombones, Louis Janln, Frank Robinson, Chester Owens: tubas. Car Plopper, H. Abbot; altos, Walter Rltter. John Mills. John Victors; clarinets. Linn Paget, Walter Krupke, Bernard Mercer, Ralph Robnett, Oeorge Delaney; baritone. Lloyd Riches; piccolo, Roy Cross; base drum, W. Finck; cymbal, Artie Sussman; snare drum, Clifford Harrison. Up to this time the band has been working on marches and regular band numbers. They will now begin to take up overtures and more difficult compo sitions and from this time on will be open to engagements. It Is probable that the organisation will attend the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition at Beat tie in 1908. From the progress which has been made in the few months that the boys have been at work, the pro ficiency which will be attained by that time Is already assured. Meantime the boys Intend to do seme hard work and Increase the high esteem which their Initial appearance has Justified. Richmond The Good Neighbor In the Modern City, 190S. K USEFUL ARTS. Hasluck. od.: Casaell's Carpentry and Joinery. 107. Henderson Sign Painter, 1906. Laughlln, ed. The Complete Dress maker, with Simple Directions for Home Millinery. 1907. Maglnnts How to Measure tTp Wood work for Buildings, 1908. Meyer The British State Telegraphs, 1907. Turneaure A Maurer Principles of Reinforced Concrete Construction, 1908. CATCHING FISH. An Easy Method Which Obtained Years Ago Around Bay of Fundy. Tile Bay of Fundy haa always been a famous fishing ground, especially for salmon and shad. Fifty years ago the fish were so plentiful that a method was used to catch them which seems odd nowadays when a fish has at least half a chance to escape the hook or the net The tide rises high in the Bay of Fundy and its headwaters, and of this fact the fishermen of 60 years ago took full advantage. At high tide the water makes sizable rivers of tiny streams. Large schools of shad and other fish In those days came up the rivers with the tide. j he method of catching them was simple In the extreme. At low tide a seine would be staked to the river bed and the top of the seine weighted to the bottom with leads. Then after the tide had risen the fishermen would pull up the seine so that it formed a barrier across the entire river bed. When the tide began to run" out the fish would find their return to the sea and freedom barred effeotlly. The little fellows, of course, would poke their way through the seine, but the ones Worth catching would flop lmpo tently against the meshes. Soon the side would be out com pletely, leaving only a foot or ' so of water in the river. Several thousand fish would be there for the taking. A pair of rubber boots and a basket would be sufficient equipment for the fisher men, who waded out and gathered them in wnoiesaie. Hie fish don't run up the rivers any more and the seining must be done in the bay Itself. This is profitable, it la true, but a fish with half a head can avoid capture ror a long time. 5
