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PLANTING OF TREES ON MOTOR ROADS BEING URGED FOR NEW YORK STATE ? ... Conference I* Suggested of Highway, Conservation and Au tomobile Interests to Prepare Bill for Legislative Aid ) Moderate Expense for Planting. A plea for grantor iatureat on the part of Now York State officials in the benefit* of planting trees along the roadside iti made by Dr. Irving M. Snow of the Automobile (Hub ol' Kuffalo. Not only does ho base his views upon the enhanced beauty that rows of well-cared-.for trees impart to the highway and surrounding land scape but also to the additional val ue which treea give to a community. "Our roads are kept in good condi tion," he says, "and the taxpayers have willingly spent millions ror their reconstruction and I maintenance. Koads are of groat commercial valuo to a rural community. The intense loneliness of country life has disap peared because of the continual hu man interest which passes by. "Yet in our vacations and during our various financial errands the landscapes we have mpst admired and the places we have best remembered are the Wilder byways where the hills were covered with forests and where long stretches of road were, lined with trees. "Here and there, as we rido along, we pass a row of suporb old trees, i usually maples, planted long ago by early settler. They stand as vi memory of a strong, intelligent gener ation of American farmers. How re- < freshing js the glimpse of masses of green leaves offering shade and pro tection. Again we travel thru miles of bare, hideous concrete baked in the sun or chill e<| by a mean wind which irritates our spirits and fills our eyes with dust. The hills are denuded of j their wood lots and the wayside is disfigured by ugly advertising bill- ] boards. "In our modern life the money val ue of fine trees is very ^reat. When choosing a country house or farm a city man will pay a far higher price If the front of the. place is decorated with elms and the land is well wood od. A valuable asset is u brook with huge old willows scattered along its course. Tho water will neither dry up in August nor Hpreud over the pasture and wush away tho banks in the Spring. "Them la much talk of tho rapid lii.Happearance of our forests, and our hills and valleys are assuming the barren aspect of Spain or China, but nothing is <}ono. The State budget carries no appropriation ?$r roadside trees. Vet thtf'Mflachiriery for ref oresting exists and only needs a touch to sot it in motion. Tho Con servation Commission and Colleges of Forestry should give tho citizens of tho State ono more outward and via-, ible sign for the heavy expense of their existence. The State Conser vation Commission possesses nurser ies for various kinds of native tre'fes, which are given to farms, parks, in stitutions, suburban estates, etc, "I)r. Franklin Moon, Dean of tho State School of Forestry, at Syracuse, is really the pioneer of the idea of the systematic roadside tree planting. He has already commenced ' putting in trees alow? a road, east of Syracuse, and is enthusiastic to carry on the work*. Then we have the Highway Commission, whose function is to con struct and repair roads. This depart ment is interested in reforesting the '?highways, but is without money Or authority to do it." Toward "starting something" to de termine the most satisfactory method of inaugurating a comprehensive roadside tree planting campaign, Dr. Snow, with the co-operation of the Buffalo Club, has .suggested that a joint conference be held at an early date of the Conservation Commission, the Highway Commission, the State Automobile Society, the American Legion and the State College of For estry. The main object of this conference GOOD CIGARETTES IOc GENUINE "BULT DURHAM TOBACCO would be to frame a law granting the State control of the strips of land along the thoroughfare and a bill to be introduced into the Legislature authorizing an expenditure of $30,000 for tree planting work this year. "The actual expenses q f foresting tho roads," adds i)r! Snovf, "would not bo large. Some of the way is occupied by cities and villages and ?om? of the routou;, have jf' splendid' trees. Not more than two-thirds of the distance from Buffalo, via Al? bany, to New York would vequire new work. With 400 to the mile, in cluding both sides of the road, 120,000 troes would suffice. For the plant ing, 50 cents a treo would be an^ple for labor superintendence and trans portation, and $00,000 ought to be ample from Buffalo to Now \*ork. Once started, nature would do the rest, providing for the present and future generations a wonderful capi tal of beauty and protection. "The forestry plan of Buffalo, an originated by the late Dr. M. O. Mann, is i: mfnlel for the entire State. Oth er communities are far ahead of New York. Massachusetts has for twelve years planted tree:v by her roads. The Province of Ontario has lined with i'nst-growinff elms the superb park wiry along tne Niagara River. Con tract this magnificent esplanade with the hideous, dangerous boulevard from Buffalo to Niagara Falls on the Telephone Records are Public Records WHILE every detail of the telephone Company -a operations, which include revenue, expense, earnings and plans for the future are a matter of public record, we realize that many of our telephone users haven't the time or opportunity to examine these available records to learn the many things they wish to know and ought to know about the telephone business. So we are bringing our books, records and plans to you in this form that you may know the telephone business as we feel you want to know it and as you should know it in order to be fully informed of the prog ress of your State and of this entire section; During the year just past the South ern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company, operating in the five south eastern states of Alabama, Georgia, Florida, North and South Carolina, *" completed more construction work and installed more new telephones than ever before in its history. To cure for last year's growth South ern Bell workers in these States in stalled 52,671 telephones and discon tinued 39,419. To meet this growth we Installed additional central office equip ment and outside plant coating $5,612, 322.54, practically all of which was new money secured from investor** who have faith in the future of the telephone In dustry in the South. During 1922 the company's gross operating revenue was $16,119,652, its operating expenses amounted to $13, 191,180, and its net revenue was $2, 928,472. , This was a net return of 6.231 per cent on the total average Investment during the year. The importance, extent and value of the telephone service is indicated by the fact that thero were approxi mately 736,342,000 local calls and 8. 600,000 long distance calls during 1922. The company now has 259,467 own ed wtations in the States referred to. it connects with approximately 120, 000 stations of other companies and 23,0000 telephones on farm homes. Thero are 6,600 Southern Bell cm ployes and the company's annual pay roll is more than J7.374.50u. The company owns 292 central offices, 782,643 miles of wire, 13,105 miles of pole Hne and 1.045 mllea oT underground duct included in its local and toll plant. This extensive prop ? erty represents an investment of more than 148,215,673. This approximate forty-eight and a quarter Million dollars whs our in vestment in Alabama. Georgia. Flor ida, North and South Carolina at the beginnulng of 1923, hut the next five years of growth and development In thjs territory will be such as to cause this already large investment to grow rapidly year by year. The year 1923 will be a year of ex pansion for the telephone industry, and if there are no unforeseen delays the unfilled demand for service should bp practically eliminated. In 1923 we must spend $5,557,000 for additions and extensions to the tele phone system (exclusive of operating expenses). Approximately 55,266 new telephone? will be fnstalled and 34,887 removed, making a net gain of 20,379 telephones. Plans for the 1923 work have already been made and the necessary capital arranged for, and if the manufacturer!, as we expect, make deliveries of ma terial as ordered, the work will prog ress according to schedule. Our engineers estimate that during the next five years 300,924 new tele phones will be installed by the com pany as a whole and 190.835 will be discontinued, leaving a net gain of 110,089 telephones during the period. To accomplish this will require gross additions to the plant costing $30,781, 000. To you as h telephone uxer this rapid growth and expansion of, the Tele phone System is of paramount Impor tance, for the value to you of your telephone increases as the Telephone System as n whole expands. ? In another advertisement we shall tell you our last year's accomplish ments and the company's plans for this 'atato in 1923 and for the n^xt five years. This State'n part In this telephone development Is largo and of impor tance to every individual and to tb* State at large. You will want to know about it. SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY American side. ? . i &-?'MThe State Conservation CoVrtmis #)on in urging the development of County forests Worn the waste lands \ of the State. Every effort should be made to restore tho country to its old-time forest grandeur, but why not make an effort also for shade along the great public roads? In yuara to come every motor ride would bv> through a forest park." ARCTIC FULLY EXPLORED. Former Mystic Region Now Ready for Development. Yttlnajalma Stefansson, ! Arctic ex plorer, u few days uao announced the abandonment -yf his career a* an} ex plorer, to devote his efforts to prov ing to a sceptical world that within a decade or two, tho North Polar ocean will be crossed by a network of commercial aviation routes nni'. that the Arctic regions hitherto known as mysterious, uninhabitable lands, will be the source of developed resources unlimited in magnitude. "I am through with exploring," he declared to The Associated Press. "1 will devote myself seriously to the abolition of the polar regions. The air of mystery surrounding the north is a pall of ignorance. .The polar le gions are a state of mind." - ? Mr. Stefansson said his decision to give up the polar explorations which have made him internationally fa mous was prompted by his convic tion that the age of exploration of the north now was to yield to the age of commercial development. He felt,' ho sard, thut he should give up ex ploring while he was still young enough to develop his new career as a "propagandist" or enlightener of .he north. Exploring was a young man's game, he added. 1 "My expeditions to the arctic," ho declared, "weie like those of Lewis and Clarke in the .early days of United States history. 1 saw as they did that 1 was crossing country with unlimited resources, country which could easily be exploited and country where men and women could live as they live in many parts of the north temperate regions of the. world." Development of tho Arctic country as a path of commercial air routes certainly would he made within the next generation, Mr. Stefansson as serted. The temperaty.ro one thous and feet above the north pole In July, he said, was about the same, as one thousand feet above France in April, the light conditions were ideal. An Arctic" route from London to Tokio, he pointed out, would be only two thirds of the length of one charted from west to east. The popular atti tude toward the artic regions, Mr. Stefansson said, was much like the medieval attitude toward the unex plored regions beyond the horizon ? the terrors in both cases boing large ly imaginary. "Fear alone stands in the way of the development of a land area twice the size of the United States," he de clared. "If you want the truth, as sume the opposite of a dozen or so things you have heard about the north. "Oil, coal and other resources are there. Climatic conditions are con querable. People are living and flour ishing in places where there are cold er winters than those of the north pole. For example, the lowest tem perature at the pole is about GO de grees below zero, while 70 below has been registered in North ? Dakota, where the winters are just as severe as in the Arctic. At Verkhoyansk, in Siberia the mercury has dropped to 93 decrees below zero. "The course of empire, of civiliza tion, must inevitably move towards the north, and Americans, citizens of the nation of progress, must realize this fact." France in '72 and Germany in 1923. Those who hold that the French are every bit as Prussian in their methods of occupation of the Ruhr ' as the Prussians were in their meth ods of occupation of France in the 70's overlook one great difference be I tween the nations. That difference is the national spirit displayed by the | two nations ? in the one case over whelmingly, in the other entirely lacking. When Prussia set military forces in France following the treaty of Frank fort, Bismarck told France the forces would stay there until every sou of the indemnity was paid. Then came the display of national spirit. Stung by the disgrace of foreign troops on its soil, France oversubscribed that loan many times. The Prussian troops were literally fired out of France by national spirit. What a ^ontrast today! France now occupies the Ruhr till the indem nity is paid or some evidence given that an attempt is to be made to pay it. Germany raises not a finger to attempt to remove the enemy from her soil by that method. Instead she whines and protests her weakness. There is no appeal to national pride. Nor is it because the wealth of Ger many is sequestered by the wealthy outside (J?rmany. So it was with some of the French wealth in '72 ? but the owners of that wealth at once made it avialable for the nation by subscribing for tho loan. ? Worchester (Mass.) Telegram. Harry K. Thaw haa been granted a ten days r a cat ton" from * Pennsylva nia insane asylum in order that h* might visit his mother in Pfttabargh A Nation's Prosperity Is Founded on Its People's Savings It is the individual savings of each man, woman and child, coupled with ed ucation, invention and enterprise, that makes a nation great ^and prosperous. America? the melting pot of the na tions- ? has been particularly blessed. It is the richest nation in all the world, and its people free, enlightened, loyal and de Opportunity plays no favorites. What another has done, you can do. If you are not already a member of this big, loyal, saving family, come in to the First National Hank and start an account. As your sav ings grow, your pride will grow with them. . C ?. J& fC.; , C. CJlass k il lod John -Asbury by] striking him with* a sharp pointed pick during n fuss at Thbmasville, N. C? Tuesday, morning. Hoth par ties arc negroes. Warns Against .rFnfce Salesman. j Raleigh, N. C./ Feb. ID.? You risk i nothing hut a .little spot cash anil the big- dividends, are sure to roll in. , You get a beautifully engraved or j printed certificate that looks good j enough to be money itself*. Some- j times, .lie man selling you the stock i will considerately# write you another I letter after he has eashed vour check ! or pocketed your cash. But, alas, | your dreams of becoming a second Rockefeller gradually if not sudden ly, fade away just as the sun sinks j in the west. For the ways of the fake stock i salesman are many and hard to tin- | derstand. He packs his bag, smiles over his spoils and leaves over-night, much to the sorrow of those who have "fallen" for his "line." *' This is what Stacey W. Wade, in surance commissioner of North Caro lina, says in commenting on the many complaints received in his of fice against the operations of '"oil sharks" in this state. "So sure are some of these pro moters that they can't lose," said Mr. Wade," according to a recent scheme exposed to this office that they are attaching to their bonds, sixty cou pons, each calling for a monthly divi dend of 2' per cent. Twenty-four per cent, absolutely guaranteed! ''For the past month our depart ment mail has been heavy with com plaints from every section Of tile State concerning; the operations of these oil sharks. The department has warned a number of investors, by letters, of what we niight call an ?epidemic of fake offerings by pro moters. "Owing to North Carolina's pros perity these crooks have boon flock ing to the state, while others have been using other methods to swindle our citizens. 10 very investor should thoroughly investigate before invest ing his money," he said. Wild l)ecr Visit City. Nyack, N. Y., Feb. 12. ? Forty wild deer from the hills tonight were rest ing about the lawns, flower beds and "open spaces of Nyack, contentedly chewing their cuds and ruminating o.n the adventure which brought them within M minutes of Broadway. Superintendent Itobt, II. I)rum mond of the Oakhill cemetery discov ered this morning that the herd had invaded his domain last night and consumed most of the ^ plants and shrubs them. Today the usually shy creatures remained on the outskirts of Nyack just 25 miles from the heart of New York City. Heavy snows in the hills, are be lieved. to have sent the deer down in search of forage. Members of the sportsmen's club scattered hay and oats in the open spnees near town. A few hours later all of it had been devoured. Belting, Belting, Belting With 58 Rolls of Gandy, Rubber, Leather Feed and Planer Belts in Stock, we are in position to take your orders. Have a large stock of Crescent Adjust able Wrenches. COLUMBIA SUPPLY CO. 823 W. GERVAIS ST. COLUMBIA, S. C. 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