British Royal Xmas
Cards Are Like Those
of Ordinary Mortals
LONDON. England, Dec. 19.—Royal
taste in Christmas and New Year
greeting cards is not much different
than that of the ordinary mortal. At
least the choices of the members of
the English royal family are not
out of the ordinary.
The king's cards shows Charles 1
granting the Pilgrim Fathers the
charter which was necessary to raise
the Puritan settlement of Massa
chusetts to a colony. The card
bears the Shakespearean quotation:
“The Heavens give safety to your
«urposes,” followed by “greetings
dd all good wishes for a happy
Christmas.”
On the queen’s card there are a
sphinx and a pyramid, past which
Mary and Joseph are journeying on
their way to Egypt with the Holy
Child.
Under tin' picture is the Biblical
quotation: “He took the young child
and his mother and departed into
Egypt.” Inside there is a verse of
poetry and on the opposite side of
the folder the greeting, “with every
good wish for a happy Christmas
and a glad New Year.”
The Prince of Wales’ card bears a
reproduction of Bernard Gribbie’s
painting of the state barge of Venice
conveying the doge and the council
into the Adriatic for the ancient
ceremony of the “espousal of the
sea.”
Miss Patience Fuller of London re
fused to allow her bobbed haired
friends to act as her bridesmaids.
Public school No. 77 of Brooklyn,
has seven sets of twins, and two
years ago boasted of ten.
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SOFT WOODS ARE DISAPPEARING
EIGHT TIMES AS FAST AS THEY
ARE GROWING, CALIFORNIAN SAYS
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 18.—It is a settled fact that the United States
is cutting or burning its timber ot all varieties four and one half times as
fast as it is growing, while soft woods are disappearing eight times as
fast as they are growing, according to a statement made here today be
fore the mid year meeting of the western division of the chamber of com
merce by the United States by Francis cuttle of Riverside, Calif., chair
man of the tri-counties reforestation committee.
Mr. Cuttle’s warning was one of many sounded; at the morning session
which was devoted entirely to reforestation.
JUSSERAND TO
LEAVE ON JAN. 6
PARIS, Dec. 18.—Ambassador Jus
i serand will remain in Washington un
: til after January 1, so that as Dean
; of the Diplomatic Corps he will pre
sent the New Year congratulations to
President Coolidge. He intends to
sail for home January 6, the Foreign
Office is informed.
Emile Daesehner, the new ambas
sador to Washington, will sail .for
America January 17, or after the re
tiring ambassador has returned to
France where the new diplomatic rep
resentative will have an opportunity
to confer with his predecessor before
leaving to take up the duties of his
post.
Count de Sartiges, new counsellor
of the embassy at Washington, will
sail December 28, and will act as
charge d’affaires in the interval be
tween the departure of M. Jusserand
and the arrival of his successor. The
Count served with M. Daesehner at
the time the new envoy was minis
ter at Bucharest, and also was a mem
ber of the Washington embassy for
merly, having left the American capi
tal five years ago.
Mme. Elizabeth Courtrois of Brus
sels nearly died of shock when she
received a knife by mail with a note
saying: “This knife killed your son.”
Later the son wrote from Berlin say
ing he was well and in good health.
The life of Mrs. Catherine Wallace
of Casper, Wyoming, was saved by
two dogs who attacked a bull which
was goring her, allowing her to roll
under a fence to safety.
After being missing a week Henry
Mardant of Bordeaux arrived home
as his funeral was- being preached
over a body supposed to be his.
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According to the Riverside speak
er, the alternative facing the coun
try in respect to its forests is refore
station or ruin.” He asserted “that
only a little over half of our timber
ed areas are under protection at all.”
Major Everett G. Griggs, presi
dent of the St. Paul & Tacoma Lum
ber company and a director of the
United States chamber of commerce,
said that of the original stands of
timber in the country, 70 per cent,
is gone.
Figures Offered.
“Original amount of virgin timber
in the United States 5,200,000,000,000
board feet. Remaining amount of vir
gin timber in the United States 1,600
000,000,000. Annual growth of timber
in the United States is 6,000,000,000,
000 cubic feet. There is being used
per annum 26,000,000,000 cubic feet.
Summing up the situation he de
| dares: “A beginning in reforestation
has been made. It must be encour
aged by changes in taxation laws and
protection from fire and devastation.
| it will take fifty years to grow trees
and probably at that time a fifty year
old tree will have increased in value
beyond our fondest expectations, but
it is for the next generation and that
problem must appeal to the state and
federal governments.”
C. C. Holt, vice-president of the
First National Bank of Portland, dis
cussing banking and reforestation,
outlined the situation in Montana,
Idaho, Oregon, Washington and Cali
' fornia. He quoted figures to show
I the importance of the lumber industry
; in these states, which he said furn
ished 29.7 of all timber cut in the
United States in 1922, a total of over
eleven billion feet board measure.
Mr. Holt added that the question of
taxation must be adjusted properly,
and a proper understanding reached
by the taxing powers that merchant
able timber is an asset which justly
may bear its share of the burden but
a growing crop of timber on land that
has once been logged over is onlyr a
deferred asset, which justly may bear
its share of the burden, and should
be given every chance to develop
without being handicapped by prohi
bitive tax burdens.
Economic Necessity
‘ Reforestation has become an eco
nomic necessity and can be accom
plished only by the state or federal
government assuming the burden, or
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will encourage private capital to
j share the responsibility,” he conclud
ed.
The lumber cut in the state of
i Washington in one year would con
! struct a plank road three inches thick
and 18 feet wide around the earth at
the equator, according to Frank H.
Lamb of Washington state. He, too,
stressed the taxation angle of refor
estation in the statement:
“In Washington we await only a
solution of the taxing problem before
a large percentage of our private own
ers will be looking to their cut-over
lands as a future asset in growing
timber.”
Urbach has a new shipment of
wardrobe trunks for Xmas presents.
Call and see them. tf
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