Show RURAL ROUTES n ARE QUITE SAFE postoffice Post office department has no thought of cutting them despite the deficit WORTH THE COST INVOLVED ballanger pinchot row stir stirs up much bittern in washington public Iea hearings tearl rings ng are likely to be so lively wahington Wehl congress Is I 1 making every effort that it can to find a way to cut down the expenses of government in former years there has ha been the appearance of a striving I 1 after easing rather than a real saving it self but this year results are being accomplished it can be bat iud d however that while there win will be paring of at expenses in practically all the ap bills there will be no attempt to curtail expenditures which will cripple the rural mail deliveries of the country postmaster general hitchcock was the last of the cabinet chiefs to band baud in bis his annual report lie bad had a hard problem to solve the demands made by the people on the posto dc department part ment are greater year by year and slid there Is always reseat resentment ment of any recommendation a that an increased price should be added to any service rendered by the department to the people tho country will have one cent prat first class postage some time in the near future for while the cost of maintaining the department la Is increasing it Is hoped that means wl wid be found to make the revenue revenues greater and yet to allow a decrease in the coat cost of letter postage the postmaster general Is a firm believer in the rural route system the delivery of letters through the country district costa costs the government several millions of dollars a year more than the returns but the immense convenience to the people who live outside of the great center centers more than overbalances in too the eyes of the department chiefs the extra money needed to continue the service ambitious plais plans on foot demands will be made during the next year to find some place in which the Jost office expenses may way be cut miter tally and some means by which tie tle income may bo be increased without affecting the purses of the great body of the people it be the present postmaster general can put his department on a paying basis he will count ft ft R victory to make hie his administration stand in a bright light there seems to be little chanc chance however that affairs can be so arranged ranged nr that the pages of the ledger of the department will balance themselves at the end of the next year one thing can be aken taken for or granted the rural route service of the country will be strengthened year by year even though it be necessary to weak en some of the other branches of the service satisfied with antitrust anti trust law I 1 president taft seema seems to have found to his own satisfaction rt I shown by bis his recent message that the sherman anti trust law Is to equal to every demand that the country makes of it this Is the presidents preal dents legal opinion and until some greater lawyer or law or group of judges find to the contrary it 11 probably will have to stand the fact that the interests that have attacked tho the sherman law have been so diametrically opposed to one another seems to have convinced the president that the law must be a pretty good one at any rato ie e baa has advised that it remain unchanged on the statute books there are several celebrated cases upon which the supreme eu reme court of the united states has yet to pass judg men ment cases which came into the courts as an a result of the entering of government prosecution under the sherman law the case of at the standard oil 01 company which was decided adversely to the great corporation will come came before the high court within a short time the lower court which sat lu ill the city of st louis declared the standard oil off company to be a corporation in restraint of trade this wae was a sherman law case and it la Is expected that jthn a few weeks tte tile supreme court will wilt decide it bitterness in pinchot row when the members of the committee on investigation into the ballinger pinchot controversy get into the real heart of their work the case unquestionably tion ably will prove to be one of the most interesting which has ever been heard in the capital it would be hard for anyone at a dist distance acce to realize the intensity of feeling that there la Is in this city over the matter which con can greet has finally hakea into its own hands at the request of secretary of 0 the interior ballinger are that the congressional investigation which the secretary has demanded will take on much tho the form of an actual trial a stout defense and well defined prosecution several of the land cases which have had or are yet to baye have their day la in i court probably will figure prominent J ly ty la in the proceedings before they are ended there are several case cases which were tried in different parts of the country when mr air ballinger wae was corn com missioner misu loner of the land altce under tha the roosevelt administration rod and it la 14 aid sald that bome of the opinions that he expressed aa as to the res nata of one or two of at the cases will be used bf ul ut opponent opponents to bow show that be he Is not la in sympathy with I 1 cause of saving the natural ot of the country from private ownership on the other hand it la Is said that since the secretary of at the interior cam came into ante office la in the taft cabinet he haa has stood like a rock again against proposition maie ma e to him to compromise some ome of the land cases which have been tried in the lower courts and which are now en cu the way to the supreme court secretary Posit loc lars no one haa has intimated that secret secretary y ballinger did anything excepting to tto 1 express 1 an opi that the lower 1 court ourt 1 which decided adversely to the government in one case had based its decision on good law this would do nothing more than to show that mr mir ballinger believed that under the laws uti they stood the men who got grit possession of some coal lands in a ertain rt aln way acted within their legal rig rights ats the point Is I 1 however that the sn su premo preme court overturned the deat decision ion of the lower court so that it U mr ar bal linger agreed with ith the lower court the supreme court also overturned him now that chief forester pinchot Is out of the service it la Is understood that he will be the chief figure in bilat may mair be called the prosecution of secretary dallinger ballinger of course the in vestI gation Is in not a trial although it ma may r have the form of one and the lints are drawn with alth the pinchot in kersta on one side and the ballinger Infer In eresta eats on the other and there ie Is to b an exceedingly hard fought contest before the thing finally Is decided it is 13 known that to his friends the foam er forester ot at the government has ex i pressed hia his determination to see that the officials who were discharged with i him and one who was discharged some time previously have their cases presented pra entert ted to congress in the moat most forcible any in which it Is possible to set them forth pinchot Is a fighter lie Is a tall slender man sho ho looks more or less like the popular conception of a pool poet lie ile Is a bundle of nervous energy however and hie his courage Is of the highest order secretary ballinger Is a short man with a well knit figure and with a force of determination that hae ban shown itself on many occasions between him and the chief forester fo reater there Is to little to choose in the matter of pertinacity of purpose they are champions well worthy of trying each other a metal hearings to be public the public will be allowed to attend the hearings before the committee of at investigation the proceedings will take the widest kind of range and will go way back of at any matter matters pertain ing ro to the immediate controversy in hand it Is understood that the pin chot chat forces if they may be so called will attempt to show that the whole trend of the secretary rt the interiors life was toward the corporation inter eats esta that la Is that he be believed that it was far better that in some cases there should be private ownership of mines and water sites and that the people should shoula get their benefit not from leasing the sites and the mines to the corporations but from the ice which the corporation by introducing economy measures could give to them the secretary of the interior has plenty of at ammunition it Is said to use in retaliation there are all sit kinds of charges which it Is understood will hill be burled hurled at the former chiefs of the forc forestry stry bureau I 1 conservation to go on with the president the former chief forester gifford pinchot and the democrat ani republican parties all corn coin bitted to it the cause of conservation ought to go marching on an the preto ident has said that be he wants to save sa the trees the streams the soil and the wealth of the mines mr air pinchot who Is now in private life but still as enthusiastic as ever says the same thing the republican party in its it platform declared tor for conservation and the democratic pirty virty says that it la Is the father of conservation and there you are As things stand at present two great organizations are leaders in the resource saving plan one of them Is known as the national conservation association and the other as the joint committee on conservation of the former charles W elliott formerly the head of harvard college Is the president walter L usher risher of chicago vice president and thomas R shipp of secretary of thy ther latter gifford pinchot who recently C was dismissed 1 I rom his office ot of chief forester by president ifft Is the chairman and james C gipe of indianapolis who Is now living in washington Is in the secretary pinchot pinchat will continue active gifford pinchot has let hia his friends know privately that notwithstanding the fact be he has been ousted from bis his place as chief forester he Is going ahead with the cause of conservation just as an strongly and just as enthusiastically as an ever be he did it Is probable that because he Is in no longer hampered by department rules and regulations mr mir pinchot m may ay feel feet that he can go more directly at bis his work of saving the nations cat ions resource resources than was possible under old conditions it Is to probable that in about a year hero here will be a world conservation conference president roosevelt planned such a conference and beart every civilized nation has agreed u send delegates to the meeting which will be held hold at the hague some time in the future it Is 1 bow low absolutely aa no that all the great powers and a majority of the minor powers will be re prevented at the meeting which Is to report on means for saving t the natural resources not of one country but of all oil countries GEORGE clinton CL iMrON |