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re Tira OHEGON STATESMAN, SAII, OREGON SUNDAY MORNING. ATOIL 17, 1027 STORY OF THE TREE ; AS A LIVING THING ((onliNttril from I.) tinued:' . J took that large, fine buckeye .and carried It with me all the. long .wuuer. i iook it. out every lutie while and; Jooked at It and was reminded of him. And then when -the springtime came. I went out and planned it down under his sand pilet Later the sand was taken1, away and the buckeye sprouted -and came up, a healthy little plant., Then I built a fence around it.to protect it. and I call ed the boys of the neighborhood together and told them the story. I asked them to help mevproteet this tree, j I told them they might break anything-- else tV idi the windows in ,rny house; my aute ' mobile or anything else, but please don't, break" this tree, i ,Tbey bare respected that .request."- and , $be tree stand today 1 years, old. a healthy yoang specimen. Jhe most - wonderful Iree in. hie world." It seemed? to me as I listened that there, is in.lhls living tree aoj alone a. inonument to a littlA boy who died, but also a monument to a fathfr'i i Iqve.; ; . , . i -'- Most? folks, unfortunately, do not realize t$at the tree, is a Uyjng, breathing! organism. - It is. Just. a ' much aUyej: s ; jfoir, find I, t It breathes;' Its has a circulation; U digests its, food it ? has sKua processes. Ifc Js perfecty rii t'ha it has no be.rvous system, as we have in the hunian body. - It; lacks tie- pbwer of locoino tlonj If;jws,.fjq fnteUlRenoa aswe understand, . I feat term, but it does have, the , powjpr to adapt itself ,to Its environment. In(fact, it-adapts Itself amazingly .well, .Where trees grow Aclose together, thoy grow one-eklo In order-to aceonl-modateLUem-sltes tf each other. "Where thejr;gr0w thick, they gfow tall In order tbi reach 1 he sunlight. Frequenil , the toots f a tree .travel Jong , .distance around JouIdersiad ajmost. insurmount- atde obstacles i in; order to' reach the source of their .food and water supply. In all 1 of these elemental things the, tree , !s just as much alive as; man himself.:. The tree breathes through its leaves chiefly. 1 1 hope that all of you seme, time will; take occasion to look at th underside of a leaf through the microscope. You will find there a myriad of little open ing or cells' into which the 'air penetrates just as truly as it does Into the human lungs, and in those cells the air is separated into Its parts, just, as it is in our lungs. The carbon dioxide Is extracted from the .air and is taken Into the body of the free as -part of It food material, and the oxygen i thrown oft. for the; benefit of man and all animal lire, It is true that the breathing process does not fol low, the principle of the bellows movement, as In the human lungs, and yet ' it : is actual breathing in Just as true a sense as that which takea place in our own bodies. S The tree has a circulation that la x just as real as our, own. Way down underneath the ground, where the roots "are working day after, day. they gather up the food In liquid form. - The area of the roots is approximately equal to the, spread of, the" top- If you see a tree whose top is. 50 feet in diameter, lis root area Is approxi- ' mately the Ram. The all-important hair Toots are largely out at the ends of the whole root system " about, lander., the : edge of the branches. It is this myriad of hair roots that: gather up the food in liquid form and send it up through the body of the tree to the Ieaves.7 . . , .. t I suppose all of you have seen a-; cross section of a tree. This is Ihe same as the top of a stump. Jast imagine you are , looking at the cross section of a tree now. In the center yen. see the, pith. That : was there .from , the ilme it was a :baby tree.,. . Around the pith is a layer of. wood, which represents v.tbe, first - year's; growth; and around that a Second layer, which represents ' t h e x second year's growth;, and around that a third layer, 4 which represents the third year's, growth,-arid so. on oat to the bark. -In the beginning these central cells were active sap carry ing tissues.' but as the tree grew-ln size these centra ceils became more and-more dormant that fs Many Salem people are making the Campbell m Hotel .'"MTheir Honied .; ' V.V Wheri fa Portland . t A pleasant place ; to live, in beauti- : -ful sorroundinsrs. An unusually good ; w vj; ; dining " robtn' firy-; 5i . Accessibility t oN: -V. '.f)i$ basin"css';j.c nt e r v - . -t --. - ,A ' ' - - , ! ' k jnircnlh and llsia St '"'-Owner lil'Uasijer Coiirt to say, filled np more and more with mineral elements a that they became less and less active, Hut as you po outward toward the bnrk you find i that the cells are more and more active an sap car riers, so that the last few layers, meaning the 1 last fetf year gTowth. are the active sap-carrying tissues. It Is in those outer wood cells thatrthe crude sap. is carried, upward from 'the roots to the leaves. Outside or the last layer of wood is what is called the caraj blum layer, where all the growth and - healing lake place, and out side of everything else is the bark, which-serves the twofold purpose Of protecting the living tree and providing the cells in which the digested JTood material can travel back. in its downward flow. ; iNpw, then.'ihis f"ood material having ; been t pumped , qiH of the pl; by the hair roots, js sent up through the imall roots to the large pUes.bep through the trunk to, ih limbs i, and tout to the twigs and ; their td the leats. where it Undergoes the .wonderful chemical change J. a t mites it-available as food tnaterial... After having been digested it Jh then snt back In the taper -ceUs of the bark all the way cwbi (he sam,e little roots from whence it cane, building all the way down and depositing this food material out. of . which the structure of the ; tree is treated. ,The tre digest's. Its'" food n just as real a sense ahianvhmsef. This iood material,' tht. lias been pumped urt from under the influ ence of- the sunlight and is trans formed into available food mater ial,; Thus we find the loaf is both tlw lungs and the stomach of the tree. I would like to tell you a story that I read In the New York Timer, nearly three years ago that illus trates a profound truth. It was written by their correspondent from the famine-striken portions of Russia. I doubt if the corres pondent realized the tremendous importance of the thing he was telling. He described how he came upon a house where a litTe child lay sick. Its eyes, were still and glassy and staring straight up ward. Over its body was a quilt. It looked as though thee were a, pillow underneath the quilt. The correspondent looked at the child and then at the mother; and she. divining his purpose, pulled back the quilt and disclosed a horribly missshapen body. Its little belly was terribly distended, and Its arms and legs were emaciated. It had .very much the appearance of a kewpie. Then she told this story of what had happened: -She said that hun ger had. driven them so far tflat they had fed this little child a blue clay called "eel." You and I have no conception of what real hunger is. We think we know what it means to be hungry, but only in these, famine-stricken lands is it possible for human be ings to know, the extent of that terrible suffering. . You can im agine what it means when human beings are driven so far that they will eat clay. This clay sticks to the teeth and sticks to the walls of the stomach, and it stills for the time being the intense craving of. hunger but there is no power in the human system to throw it off, and it. remains there and clogs the stomach and the intestines. Then the worms start to work and the end is near. I tell you this story, even with the touch of horror which it contains, because it illus trates a profound 4 truth of far greater magnitudeand importance to human life than might appear. The leaf is the most important thing in all the realms of life. It is the one and only .connecting link between the organic and; the inorganic worlds. There are only two minerals that man can take into his system and assimilate water and salt and these only in limited quantities. Everything else that we eat and. in fact, most of the things that we wear come to ua through the leaves of vege tation not of trees alone but of all vegetation. It is the leaf which takes the dead mineral elements from the soil, the inorganic elements, and transforms ; those minerals into organic, living cells and makes. It possible .for., thein. to. feed the whole of the living world. Ani thus it appears that the great God who created the world 4 and the lite that inhabits it made of the lowly leaf the greatest and the most Important instrumentality of that life; The tree has sex processes that are just as real and Just, as beautl hul as in any other form of life. The male and female exist as posi tive factors. The pollen is created in the male parts and Is carried largely by the winds to the female organs, , where, conception takes place and the continuity of life is made possible. , I wonder, if you have noticed in the spring that two tree off the -s4.me type will come oat into- flower at 'different tlmfts one .a little earlier thin the other. That which comes In to flower earliest Is the male, to be ready for Its mate. " No doubt yen hare seen the wonderful -or-ehid, the mag niflcieat flower that comes Ho -us .from i the-i tropica. Yotfc may, have wondered why lr Is that the orchid remains beautiful so long. It is because the insect which fertilises It can ot live In this, latitude And so It happens llikt the foyely and:dellcate,orchIdt the flower of. regaf": beauty,; i re mains' beautiful for; a long.1 long time.' waiting-awaiting for iW ma te - - . V . 's -. : Sow, I would like to tell yon a little about another; phase -of the great tree question that seems to rrierprrrmoriume This hag tti ,do with, the subjects of forest devastatioo and Jti" bear-i ing upon the present and the fu ture of America. -In order-that you may understand that what I am about to say in not the product of my imagination. I want to read to you very briefly from pie re port of the United States Forest Service that was published 'nearly four years ago. " This, followed a resolution by the 'United States Senate calling upon the Forest Service for such investigation and report. U was the. most exhaus tive ; investigat ion ever made , in this counter. Among other things this report says: . m (1) That three-fifths of the original timber of the United States is gone., and that we are using- timber four times as fast as we are growing it. The forests remaining are so located as great ly to reduce their national utility. The bulk of the population and manufacturing industries of the United States are dependent upon distant supplies, of timber as tVe result of Jhe depletion of the prin cipal forest areas east of the Great Plains. . . "(2) That the depletion or tim ber is not the sole cause of the recent high prices of forest prod ucts, but is an important contri buting cause whose effects will In crease steadily as depletion con tinues. f . ' (3 That the 'fundamental problem Is to increase production of timber by stopping forest de vastation. . , '' "The virgin forests of i the United Stafes covered 822,00. 000 acres. .They are now shrunk to one-sixth 'of that area. Of the forest land remaining and not utilized for farming or any. other purpose, approximately 81.000. 000 acres hafe been sojteverely cut and burned a to become an un productive waste. This area is equivalent to Uie combined forests of Germany. Denmark. Holland. Belgium, France, Switzerland, Spain, and Portugal. Upon an enormous additional area the growth of timber is so small in amount or of such Inferior char acter that its economic value is negligible." Some 300 years ago our fore fathers came to the eastern. shores of this country and discovered a' land that was endowed as' richly as anything in the history of the world. Those who hadt landed in Virginia under Capt. John Smith found what seemed to be a veri table paradise. They sent back word to the mother country that they had discovered a land of In exhaustible fertility, and so it seemed; but today you can go in to the state of Virginia and buy thousands of acres for almost a song. because it has been robbed of its fertility and it lacks, the power of producing things neces sary for man and animal life Those who landed on the rock- bound coast of New England came face , to face with ; a , wonderful covering of. trees, magnificent trees everywhere; but today that wonderful supply of native timber is three-fourths gone. About half the remaining supply is in the State of Maine, and that is large ly of pulp-wood varieties. The New England states today, that originally were so richly endowed, import 30 per cent of their own consumption and will Import more and more as time goes on. About 50 years ago Xew York State was the greatest producer of timber In the Union, and today the great Empire State has so far depleted its timjber resources that it pro duces only JO per cent of its own Consumption. It produces 30 board feet;;per capita', and' con sumes 300 fee. 1 Then the tide flowed to Penn sylvania Penn'a Woods wiich was so named because jof Its won derful covering or trees; b.ut to day Pennsylvania produces less than enough for. the Pittsburgh district alone, about 20 per cent of its own consumption. But that H not all of the sad story of, Penn sylvania. I wonder how many of you have taken a daylight ride across the . Alleghenies. I hope everyone of yoa wjll do so and look but across thqse hills, as I have, and see for miles and miles the. desolate ;waste. .-j , . . , This, is what. happens out in the native woodlands. The rain comes down through the leaves and set ties Into the loose., poras soli and finds its way into the subsoil, and from, there to the springs .which feed; the. little streams, and ' they in turn feed the rivers. Unt man comes along and cuts away the forest covering, leaving (, behind him the debris, the leaves and chips and small branches,, making a:, veritable .tinder, box and , a con stant fire, hazard. ..Then the fire sweeps over jthe land and destroys the . remaining vegetation. , .Then, when, the ' rain comes down, i It sweeps across the surf acebf the land and takes with It the fertile top soil; that nature , has taken centuries to.'bu.iJd np. It is said1 that H jjtakes nature ,,0.000tyears to, make an inch of fertile top soli. . The. whole; lower Mississippi Pelta, ' ia fact. the. whole lower; alley. is made ;np. of rich top-soil. that has been swept down -from thajnter-Joy.iiii-j : to' Vs. '1' i?f -There Is in Vinton county, Ohio, one township of .10,000 acres that tells, the. sad story .of wha.t has, happened. 3.1 have-this -on ; thi authority of a trepresentajive f-of , the forestry department of .Ohio. He told me that two. years. ago he went down to this. place vthat was, once covered with a magnificent growth of treegThe; large trees had been cutaway fbr lumber ptir poses' and the smaller .trees had been cut down to. be used as mine props'. " Then" the fire .swept over the. land and destroyed the rei ftialnlag : y floods that . took the fertile : top soli; He fold me that Jafet three families exist fh thia whole town ship of 10.000 acres, and he went out across thi land, looking for other signs of lite. He said, could not find a bird and not even a rabbit." So the destruction of timber is of more far-reaehfng im portance than merely the; loss of lumber. . . ". .; . . Some 35 or 40 years ago the tide turned to the Lake States ? Michigan. Wisconsin; and Minneso ta; About that, time; men - came back from that Section, which was then covered with an apparently Inexhaustible supply of wonderful white pine, and they told how this supply could never be cut away, and yet today It is almost gone. The original supply of white pine in the Lake States was estimated to have been 3"0,000. 000,000 -board feet. Today it has been re duced to 8,000.000.000 and it will be all gone in about 10 years com mercially. The section from which I come Ohio, and west from there, Indiana and Illinois has almost ceased to be a Jactor.JLn the production of lumber, and- yet that section in years gone by pro duced wonderful hardwoods. - A gentleman told me of the magnif icent trees that were cut down at the. time of the Civil war. Oreat oaks, 4 feet in diameter, were sent from northwestern Ohio to build the Monitor, which' proved the turning point in the Civil war. and yet that section is now practically denuded. . Still I see even .today trucks going out bringing in one by. one the last remaining speci men of the primeval forest. . To the south of that section, in the southern Appalachian region, there, was still a very considerable reservoir of hardwoods, but the government estimates that thLs supply will be gone commercially in from 18 to 20 years. fn the South Atlantic and gulf states there was a wonderful sup ply of yellow pine, and yet that supply which was considered in exhaustible is four-fifths gone. It is estimated that it will all be gone in from 15 to 20 years from a commercial standpoint. There still remains in the southern Miss issippi section one last green res ervoir of timber, including the wonderful cypress, but the gov ernment estimates that this sup ply also will be gone in from 20 to 25 years. So that" within the next 25 years most of us I hope will live that long we will see a time when the great eastern sec tion of the United States will toe practically denuded of its timber from a commercial standpoint. There still remains, however, a very impressive quantity of trees for lumber purposes in the west Washington, Oregon, California, northern Xew Mexico and Arizona, Colorado, Utah, Idaho, Wyoming and Montana. If you look at the figures you would probably con clude that this supply in the west also would be Inexhaustible, and yet the government estimates that it will be all gone commercially in from 30 to 40: years. .However, even today we are paying the price of our destruc tion as this steadily dwindling supply is being pushed farther and farther away from the centers of population. Some 30 years ago Chicago, which is perhaps the greatest lumber market in the country, secured its supply largely from the surrounding states. The freight rate was then about $3 per 1.000 feet. Today the Chicagq market receives its supply chiefly from the far south and the far west, and the freight rate now is about $13 per 1.000 feet, mak ing an increase of $10 per 1.000 feet for freight, alone. I am not in the forestry business, and have no foresters. In my organization, nor have I any trees to sell. Our work Is as distinct from forestry as dentistry Is from medicine. Neither am I In the lumber busi ness, and I have not even a re mote financial interest, in that business; yet I wish to express my earnest conviction that we will nevter. again buy lumber as cheap as we have in the past, and the price ot lumber will Increase steadily from now on". This will be the result of the most : simple economic causes, i . In talking with Gifford Pinchot some two years ago, he made a significant statement. I suppose you all know, who Gifford Pin chot is. He was chief of the for est service under Teddy Roosevelt. He was for a number of years commissioner of forestry In Penn sylvania and put that state to the forefront In the matter of state reforestation. ' He Is one of the outstanding exponents of conser vation and reforestation, and with it all Is now the governor of Penn sylvania; so he ought to be a per-' fectiy good authority to quote. He said to me: s - j Mfi Davis. In nr tiide-menf there will be a. lumber famine in t f-hts country within 25 years and such lumber famine will make it self felf before the .ebd of the 25 year period. ... "... . Do you believe that these things do hot .affect you4 and jine .Stop to think, friends, that about one fifth of the total lumber products of this country Is consumed in the I manufacture of . boxes, - barrels, and crates for the .transportation of your. ': manufactured products and , food , supplies, .from' one'i-see-, tion; oMhe country to. the other. Nearly one-half of the lumber pro--ducts. is consumed on the farms of America for ibe production of our food supply. Lumber and its pro ducts enter ln.to every phase of American life, and no one could do business; as it is nowdone with out it. , " - -i - " .For you who love the great out doors, to hunt and fish and tramp, there U .a-sjhisierjhreat-in ,;he fast disappearing timber area.. Let oe say, friends, that without tha; forest home 5 there can be mighty U? tie game, and without a contlnuonsuadequate supply of water there tan be-'mighty few fish. Fish cannot live in streams that, are -alternately raging tor rents and drie np bottoms. The irhole question, of; anadeqiiate wa te supply for the cities of Amer ica is involved ;ih tnls.-matter of f ores t conse rva 1 16 n-' and -ref or es ta tiori. It has a more f direct bear ing, upon the life of this Country probably than any o;uestioa. that can come before our people. I am reliably informed- that the city" of . Corn m bus, Qhio, . was threatened with a , water . famine a- year ago last summer, just as many other cities . have been threatened Jn the recent past. The people of. Columbus were yarned that there was a bare three days' supply In the-reservoir. Their wa ter Is taken from the Scioto river, which was nearly dried up. Noth ing but a providential rain saved them from the catastrophe. This condition Js due Very . largely to the destruction of the woodlands around the headwaters of these streams. U is the woodlands that hold the water in check and allow, It to seep out gradually. Witbout that there can only be alternating floods and droughts. There is just one thing more I want to say. and 1 would like to leave it with yon as a-concluding thought. All of ns have heard for years, past of the famine condi tions in China. That country pju:e had a wonderful ?overlng of trees, very similar to that in America; but Chimt. poor benightr od land that it Is. did what we. are doing in America, cut away its trees ,and allowed the land to be burned over. The vegetation was dr-slroypd oyer vast areas; then the water swept over the Innd and carried with it the fertile top soil. So there are millions of acres In China that constitute a barren waste not capable of producing vecotation. China has one crop In sevemyears and in the other years of that neriod must look to the world for food to feed her teeming millions. . China has become, and will re main for several years, a land of perpetual famine because she has destroyed her forest coverings, subjecting herself to the devasta tion of alternating floods and droughts, and has sacrificed the fertile top soil over such a .ast portion of her domain. A representative of the Davey Tree Expert Co.. with which I am connected, recently returned from a trip around the world, during which he made observations on the results in other lands. Among other things he described what he saw in China. Sailing through the Yellow sea he was impressed by the fact that much of it was of a deep chocolate color, the result of soil that had been washed dowri from the interior. Looking out across the land he saw miles and miles of barren waste from which the soil had been washed away, because no trees were there. He told of having, seen groups of wo men out gathering weed stocks with which to cook their rice. They have no wood for heating, and none for fuel, justweed stocks gathered laboriously from the countryside. Over vast areas not even bushes are growing on the land. China is today paying a terrific and ghastly price for her tolly. No nation in the history of the world was more richly blessed by the Creator -in the matter of nat ural resources than America. It seems that God Almighty ereated here His richest garden plot where there could be brought together the best blood of the best races of the world, out of which could. be built up a new nation of great power, great purpose and great possibilities. We are dissipating; our assets very much like the reckless son of a wealthy father who jromes suddenly into his in heritance. America can not long remain the great land of freedom and opportunity, unless we protect and conserve the very things which have made ns what we are. My plea to you, and to all In. this land that was originally so bless ed, a land of great promise and boasted opportunity. Is that we wake up and conserve the rem nants of our. once great forest wealth and begin to reforest while yet there is time. God Almighty gave unto trs, when he gave ns these rifh bless ings, a tremendous responsibility. This land is?ours to dress and to keep it, as the Injunction was giv en to Adam when, he went into the Garden of Eden. It .is, our problem, as the representatives of the American, people, .to consider Jhe fac.t of forest devastation and the folly of our lack of conserra tlon In this country, arid1 to firmly resolve that we shall do our dutv "before It is too late. , . ; ; Gentlenfen, I beg of you to con sider this problem as among the very great and far-reaching things affecting America. Oh, there are so' many , things of small impor tance on which we waste bur time in useless discussion, while we are allowing I the process . of devasta tion and deforestation: and waste fulness to consume the , heritage which has come to ns under, .the providence of Odd and,lhrough the heroic sacrifices of our forefath ers, and we have disregarded th safety. and welfare of oar herit- That Is ay plea to you. I think there. Js nothing that affects the future of America more,, and very few thingsthat are of equal im portance, Gentlemen,. Ihope It may be possible for ns here to do that thlngfWhieh Is necessarr for our ih)jreOx. nd our-ehJMren's children.'. Even though we may not personally suffer vfthla ouri lifetime, let us do the thing that is obviously our duty, and protect America, and keep it worth while for other men in the future to live in and to admire and to love. 1, thank you, gentlemen. Mdsf MoMeNToUs . FACT of history ( Cominvd rem p. m, (Jr ? inthians lSVI-8. -These are types of testimony draw from a' fair account 'by&niany witnesses., A review nbf certain?-, kinds ; . of evidences: n: , r . 1. The analogy of nature. Bishop, Butler. England., gave, this as .evidence against strong deist tendencies two centuries ago. Spring follows winter, harvest comes from seed planted, and but terflies from cocoons. But in this analogy there is no exact proof. Yet that power that can work such wonders must be able to call back to life those he created In his own image. 2. ,The , predominant hope of humanity at' large in all ages life after, death: -Egyptians mum mified, their, dead to save their bodies for, the next world. In In dia transmigration of the soul caught the multitudes. The He brew sons of, Abraham cherished a great hope of immortality. The drama of all life places Job in the foreground,". saying. "If a, man die shall he live again?" He answer ed his -own. longings by a great hope. . The Christian records of the New Testament. We submit: The words of Jesus himself, "I am the resurrection and the life." The episode of the soldier guards and the intrigue of offi cers. . , Eleven or more appearances following the resurrection: to the women near the sepulchre, to Si mon Peter, 'to eleven disciples, to two. to the apostles, including the chief doubter. Thomas, to more than 500 at once, to many at his ascentioii. Surely these are der pendable witnesses. B. Some forms oT modern criticisms: Precious! More precious than money because it cannot be bought is your . youth I Preserve and cherish it. Hard and fatiguing work for which you were never fitted will destroy "it Above all avoid the tiring drudgery of washing and let an, expert laundry .take care of your things. . JAPANESE HAND LAUNDRY AND . , CLEANERS Wi Call .m.nd Deliver . 455 FEEBY STREET Telephone 752 rer, may be a $35 or a $5000 ruj.. Keep it clean to give it life! i The old stniichiv suction sweeper was little better than a broom, for thorough cleaning. Your rugs need the - ' ' 'UMTjAMOMO-CUANtM 1 . ... . . . - . A clean footstep on aciean rug would wear but little. . ItV the ? deep-embedded ptit that cuts and wears. The only way to get that Curtail of It is the hew way . of the. Premier Du ptext motor-driven bnriish -Hplus powerful suction. It gets thread and lint too. convenient Terms Portland Electric r ; Power Co: 237 .Norlh Liberty St. ' Saleni, Oregon a . v l. Destruct ive rationalising as by Strauss, German, opposing ev ery Christian evidence. j '-j v 2. Infidelity of radicalism in red France, lienau. seeking to supply, )e4eina;ndj pf .theP.reds for a pew religion, as told, as a con dition precedent, "Go . and get yourself Crucified.'' v-1 3. Agnostic ignorance; ridi cule of IngersolL'-iUutithjls case could not be laughed out of court. No denial has ever satisfied 'the average man. ' iM. C. 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Two and three batton single breasted,; n J i h model with , vest - nd two pairs trousers, cither knick ers or longies. "Npw. ciiil mcrcs in . stripes and Oyer- Slaids. Sixes, 6, to 16 years. , g yalucs at , &$9 Boys' Oxfords " Sturdily BiiSU We want Boyl arrd Moth ers to see our Boys' Oxford, Good looking and long wear ing of staunch tan leatber. rubber heels, Goodyear welt. Low priced. . V. - - Sizes 2y2 to 52 $2.98 Sizes 2 Vt to 2 2.69 : Espad&T jatn tr jarenUe styles A- for-girla, 7 to If 98c Growihfj Girls' OxJVrd of Patent17 Our No: S700 is unusually attractive for ' the growing Jitl or mlssv. Of ielectcd pat ent leather with fun metal tide overlay : and robber "ete : ' '.Big values at' oar moderate prices of - Sixes 12 to 2. ... .$2.19 Sizes SVs to 11 $1.33 ment account.. He saw tho prejn dice of the opposition: Recent critics of the hi.storif, have been fully refuJed; o th ' today they seek "a living VhrUyl But how can he bow live , hearts, of men, in eontradh ,j0n t his sworn record a the tAtt personage in history? . tudes. do not reconcile science history. These two ar,ns of tr,h akree ln Christ who VbroU(th. J and immortality to light." There Is no sustained Vvid-n contrarv to the belief m. rection. Ministers and all r"? mar well nnt lh!i .,t , ' t .uui(uence 'n the spiritual sunrlsing of Fatc ' Christ. arose! " . Men who revie. the evidence can not long 0pp J Great armies have become gn.ai defenders, but no defender has be come a foe, t who has retained hk moral balance. Let us bow before the tomb or Christ and of v, Washington and read: r am the Ressurrection and the Lire; who. soever liveth and belieAeth'in m shall never die." 9 tn(3ds,, uo ou oil? uoui jo Vision is the reason thousands & Keene TiON' WDS r. m i Visitor and j Customer Welcome Large numbers of new faces are seen daily in ourx Store. Many conie to buy; not all of them. Those who come to look while we are celebrat ing our 25th or Silver Year, tell of their pleas ure and assure us we may expect them again. This would not be so generally i accepted as . "a' friendly store" wefe we less zealous in keep ing the labh-string on the outside to both cus tomer and visitor. We would feel the unwor thiness of our trust were we to regard this j only as a place to leave money.- After all, the great est thing this Store can have left with it is the confidence and the good will of every per son who passes through its door. - V The far-reaching buying resources of the Nation-wide Institution of which this Store is a part, were created by these acts of friendli ness. ' "Both visitors and customers 'are always Welcbme here". A V. y