The hidden residential alleys are breeding grounds of vice and disease, and should be opened into minor streets.

The local death rates, especially from preventable diseases, are so unduly high as to suggest that the exceptional wholesomeness of Washington's better sections is offset by bad conditions in her poorer neighborhoods.

It is mortifying to remember that Washington has no compulsory school attendance law and that careful inquiries indicate the habitual absence from school of some twenty per cent of all children between the ages of eight and fourteen.

Public play grounds are necessary means for the development of wholesome citizenship in modern cities.

There are certain offenders, whose criminality takes the shape of brutality and cruelty towards the weak, who need a special type of punishment.

The wife-beater, for example, is inadequately punished by imprisonment; for imprisonment may often mean nothing to him, while it may cause hunger and want to the wife and children who have been the victims of his brutality.

The world is carefully searched for new varieties of grains, fruits, grasses, vegetables, trees, and shrubs, suitable to various localities in our country; and marked benefit to our producers has resulted.

The activities of our age in lines of research have reached the tillers of the soil and inspired them with ambition to know more of the principles that govern the forces of nature with which they have to deal.

We sell two hundred and fifty million dollars' worth of animals and animal products to foreign countries every year, in addition to supplying our own people more cheaply and abundantly than any other nation is able to provide for its…

Successful manufacturing depends primarily on cheap food, which accounts to a considerable extent for our growth in this direction.

The Department of Agriculture, by careful inspection of meats, guards the health of our people and gives clean bills of health to deserving exports; it is prepared to deal promptly with imported diseases of animals, and maintain the…

Seven years ago we bought three-fourths of our rice; by helping the rice growers on the Gulf coast to secure seeds from the Orient suited to their conditions, and by giving them adequate protection, they now supply home demand and export…

Wheat and other grains have been imported from light-rainfall countries to our lands in the West and Southwest that have not grown crops because of light precipitation, resulting in an extensive addition to our cropping area and our…

Fruits suitable to our soils and climates are being imported from all the countries of the Old World--the fig from Turkey, the almond from Spain, the date from Algeria, the mango from India.

It is the cardinal principle of the forest-reserve policy of this Administration that the reserves are for use.

Whatever interferes with the use of their resources is to be avoided by every possible means.

But these resources must be used in such a way as to make them permanent.

The forest reserves themselves are of extreme value to the present as well as to the future welfare of all the western public-land States.

They are of special importance because they preserve the water supply and the supply of timber for domestic purposes, and so promote settlement under the reclamation act.

Indeed, they are essential to the welfare of every one of the great interests of the West.

The second reason for which forest reserves are created is to preserve the timber supply for various classes of wood users.

The forest reserve policy can be successful only when it has the full support of the people of the West.

It can not safely, and should not in any case, be imposed upon them against their will.

But neither can we accept the views of those whose only interest in the forest is temporary; who are anxious to reap what they have not sown and then move away, leaving desolation behind them.

On the contrary, it is everywhere and always the interest of the permanent settler and the permanent business man, the man with a stake in the country, which must be considered and which must decide.