Deforestation Threats and Waterway Reform Urged
The text warns that unregulated forest destruction leads to soil erosion, desertification, and climate shifts as seen in northern China. It calls for state control of forests, a permanent national waterways commission, and reform of park and wildlife management for sustainable development and security.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
Central Asia
Central Asian
Africa
Sungari
Manchuria
Pekin
Jehol
Palestine
North
Mediterranean
Europe
Forest Service
Agricultural Department
Interior Department
Army
Congress
War Department
Eare
Yellowstone Park
Yosemite
Our Indian wards and agency reforms described
The speaker outlines efforts to remove politics from Indian service by phasing out the agency system and converting agencies to superintendencies. The secrecy amendment hindered anti crime work but helped crack lotteries and frauds in land and timber theft, aiding prosecutions of major criminals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Treasury
Secretary of the Treasury
Customs Service
Secret Service
Oregon
Legislative
Secret
Congress
Indian Service
Agency
People’s Savings and Parcel Post in United States Policy
A broad policy outline urging postal savings banks to promote thrift, with data on state deposits and the need for wider access. It urges parcel post expansion on rural routes, supports civil service reform for census workers, and calls for stronger national education funding and bureau adequacy to boost American education nationwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Postal Savings Banks
Comptroller
Senate
Congress
National Bureau of Education
Health and fisheries policy across the nation urged
A call for public health reform and centralized control of bureaus, with proposals to place the government printing office under commerce and labor, move soldiers homes to the war department, admit New Mexico and Arizona as states, and federalize interstate fisheries and fisheries management to protect resources and promote commerce.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Government Printing Office
Department of Commerce and Labor
Joint Committee On
Congress
War Department
New Mexico
Arizona
Southern Neighbors and Pacific Outlook Urged by Union Leader
A national address urges Congress to expand commerce with Latin American republics, noting growing foreign trade and the role of the International Bureau of the American Republics. It lauds Panama Canal work, praises Col Goethals and staff, and calls for extending the 1891 ocean mail act to establish American lines to South America Asia the Philippines and Australasia. The speaker highlights Hawaii’s strategic importance and urges prompt action.
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Congress
United States
International Bureau of the American Republics
Two
Americas
Panama Canal
Isthmus
Goethals
South America
Asia
Philippines
Australasia
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Land Waterways
Mississippi
Ohifo
Secretary of War
Corps of Engineers
Engineer Corps
Havana
Panama
Reclamation Service
National Parks
Parcel Post
Bureau of Education
Alaska
San Francisco
Great Lakes
Lake Erie
Puget Sound
Columbia River
Washington
Ohio
Potomac
United Staes Bureau of Fisheries
Fisheries and Fur Seals
Alaskan Fur Seal Service
Bureau of Fisheries
Foreign Affairs
Latin America
Ocean Mail Lines
Hawaii
Territory of
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