Show REV CARVER PRAISES I HE LOOKS UPON THE MAN AS A GREAT LEADER Relates How Hoy Gifford Gliford Grew to tobe tobe be the HC Head of the Forest Service The services In the First Presby terlan church Sunda evening were opened 1 selections by Mrs C H Stevens Misses Diddle an and Hamil and Mr Saunders The second of oC the on The Use and of Money Ioney was given The life of 01 Pinchot the man who kept his money and g gave o himself In trite service e was recalled as illustrative of oC the theme Re Rev Carver said in part At the last meeting or of the Academy of Sciences In Paris laris M I or of orthe the Paris Observatory reported the re rc stilts or of recent investigations upon the h heat nt of oC the stars The Thc following facts are or of interest The coldest star Is 15 In the constellation of oC Perseus and has a heat beal of 2980 degrees cen the hottest star Is In the constellation or of Taurus and has a heat of oC degrees The pole star has a heat heal of degrees and our sun sin has hns a heat beat or of only Now the sun seems to bc b the tho hottest or of nil aU to us IS because We art arc so ne near r to it We Ve are recipients of so much of Its givIng Just so with the lives of men and women The ones onos who give the tho world the most or of gift even though their gifts bo be small 1 compared with others of wealth will willbo willbe bo be remembered as ag the greatest ben bean benI factors The problem of the good or orI I evil resulting from the accumulating I of great money moner power by Individual mon Isa Is a problem which Is not nol pecullar lar to mone money alone Any power that thatis is centralized ma may be used but another phase of the problem of the character of the man And indeed this Is iR not nota a which Is peculiar to those of great reat wealth It is on the contrary one which applies wIth equal force to all of us In proportion to our means Man a one Is even een more miserly with ith the little capital which he has acquired In like methods than is the millionaire with his larger wealth Holmes has said the greatest bless blessin in hug Is to be well born boni and that the thc traits or of the father direct the tho child This was true with Gifford Pinchot Jamos W V Pinchot lila father fathel was reared In Milford Pa a small lumber lumbering lumbering ing town on the tho Delaware river All AlJ the region wa a wooded one At the thc age of 19 10 he went to 10 New York and engaged In business and 2nd was so nO pros prosperous porous that In he retired very er wealthy Ills HIs standing in New York was wa such that he h was chosen as treasurer of the Statue ot of Liberty fund and trustee of the Met Museum or of Art the National l Academy of Design the tho American of Natural History as well a being a member of If the SocIety of oC Am I Foresters and co president of oC the tho American Forestry Association His interest in forestry led him to es as the Milford Forestry expert mental station and to become one of the he founders of the Yale School or of Forestry at as well ell Gifford Pinchot was born at Lines burg Conn Coni August He graduated at Yule In 89 and at once departed for England to ShI fores forestT ores tT try Ho sought out Sir Bran great antI and at athis athis his advice went at once to the French School of oC Forestry at Nancy aner France The French over a century ago hail had their attention called to the need of forestry by br the encroaching of the sea Hea Rand Saud upon the land This compelled litem to border the sea with wide stretches of forest In n a law was passed compelling the tho owners or of wooded slopes to replant as rapidly as 1 tho wood wa was taken owa away In 1882 a new law wag wa enacted giving the go gov right to replant these slop for the good of oC the community l if the tho owners did not The he result was that ho sprIngs opened again the timber ample amplo wood for thel and I lumber and the wInds which had done tO so much havoc In southwest France Francc were checked France there core hall had passed the tho experimental stige and the tho school nt at Nancy Nanc wa the leading school of forest work After Arter studying yIn nt at Nancy Mr lr Pin Pinchot eliot chot and studied the forest work In Germany Austria anti and Switz rland Upon returning to ho an article fur for a magazine I This attracted the notice of Mr rr Van and ho nt at once sent for Mr fl Pinchot to visit his estate at Biltmore The Biltmore estate contaIns 1 acres of forest land and Mr lr Pinchot outlined a for Cor Its care It Is Isi i to n note te the results of this ol oldest est forest work worl It yields yearly feet of oC lumber I of tannic acid neld wood and andI I fuel Cuel 1000 cords of oC tan bark an and soy hundred cords of WOOl wood pulp ma materIal besides growing into a larger largel value constantly In 1892 Mr Jr Pinchot open opened d nn an of office fice In New York as a consulting for forester forester ester the tho first of the kind In this coun country try In Hoke Smith then secre secretary tar tary of the Interior asked acIed the Nation National al Academy of Sciences lo appoint a committee to formulate a national for forest forest est policy Mr lr Pinchot was a mem member her ber or of this and it gave the open door of Ho He was the one trained man for the work The re rc I suIt was the National Reserves pro proclaimed proclaimed claimed by President Cleveland In and the tho retaining of Mr lr Pin Pinchot Pinchot chot to act as a special agent in this work WOlli During the Spanish war the divIsion of was started under joint control of the departments or of agriculture and It employed eleven eleen people of whom six ix were clerks Later It was placed under the thc control of the department of n nI ag alone At time the close of the tho I war Mr 11 was sent to LO the Phil PhilIppines Philippines to a policy for the I forest foiest work there He was made corn com commissioner missioner on government scientIfic work and commIssioner on public publio lan hands s In 1903 President Roosevelt said In his speech at the Jamestown exposition that the work in conser conserving IDS ing the government land lan coal and was Vas sug suggested osted and the method outlined by Mr Pinchot as aswell wen well as the new work under the water waterways waterways ways commission The latest reports show that this forest work commenced on so small a scale and b by one zealous man ot otone one great idea now has bas grown as Col oh lows It acres of re reserves reserves serves In Ia the United States besides In Alaska and O In Porto Porte Rico A total of 25 acres or more area than all of the German empire and controls wc wealth equal to more than time the value of the combined equipment of the arm army ane aM navy and over people No 4 located helo heio has within Its hounds acres and 31 national forests per pOl percent cent of the forests of oC Utah are arc In the fourteen reserves In this state which cover acres containing an estimated quantity of merchantable lumber equal to seven seen billion feet ThIs Is 19 mostly fount found in the Ashley Ashle Uintah Powell and Sevier It Is thought that after several years these re reserves enes will supply lurn Ium her ber demands An Interesting work vork of this district Is the planting or of new trees 1000 heln spent this year for Cor labor to gath l yellow pine seeds to plant at atthe atthe the urmy planting station These Theae will be replanted nil all over the tho Utah The Tho planting station at Po catello Is devoting Its efforts to rod red fir n a caller on the president said he desired to assist In the work worle or Of conservatIon anti and naked asked how to hel helin in that movement thc tho president re replied Tilled plied Go to Gifford and I will he will keel heel ns as busy as lie he has hns me Herc Is a fact that President Roose Roosevelt velt elt often alluded to It was the work vork of urging On the president president I dent than the president urging on In other words Pin eliot chot deserves much praise which was given to Roosevelt for conservation work Take for Instance the tho much disputed contention conten tion about water power sites On January 15 1009 Roosevelt said In a message to congress that the water power plants of the Un United ld States produce about horse horsepower power The trust owns If HI per pel cent or of orthis this and evidence tends to show that this trust controls enough more to lo Tai raise e this to 33 p per r cent All this con had taken place In the thelast last live Years It was due to the work of Gifford that the president owed this data Mr Ir Pinchot does not strive to retain tIme the rich holdings of natural resources He Seeks to re creato as well weH the plant plantIng planting Ing stations nt at Garden City Kansas and western Nebraska are seeking to lo plant large sand liand areas with pine and andI I 9 or of barren sand land hantl is In this wa way being created into a pine pineforest I forest Those who Mr Pinchot best say that thal he Is energy personified Ono One of his bis friends s says sas I attribute success to hIs readiness for acting while time the Iron Is hot Now her ls the old lesson In n a form Corm rr If the cause of Jesus Christ Is over to he be the power which It should ho the followers or of Christ must lImit the some same zeal and effort into tIme the tImework work that these great world leaders put lut Into thell work Hero Here Is a man who Is greater than all his money even oen though his monc money Is counted by the millions This Is Isas isas as It should be Mone Money Is meant to be bea a help and not n a hindrance to tile the real reat man It should make him a bigger luau mau It often does only he be belittle little him Many Jany a nina Is almost for forgotten gotten gollon In the remembrance of his great wealth when the groat wealth should ho forgotten n In the of the man William Penn George o Wash Washington Ington and anI Thomas were wealthy men muon In their ia but their wealth Is forgotten in the tho memory or of what they were and that which the they accomplished Ve TC naturally think ot t money when We hear of Rothschild HIs wealth Is his sole title to fame Came How different wIth Peter C Coper Cooper was in many ways a great greal builder for or comIng ages aes to b mn made e better His name nante Is forever linked with education o of the tho poor for he was wa waa wasa a pioneer In urging th the school system slem nUll and labored and gave gao much to that end nd He a pool boy hail had to struggle with the tho handicap or of ignorance ance and nd to bless other poor hoys ho gave SaYe Cooper Institute where about I 1 receive technical training each year free Cree He the great I iron and steel Industries or of our ear lana lIe He was Voas the first to see the thc power of tl the c locomotive an and t bl built thi l III in America III 1830 lIe Ito Co I the use uso o of the telegraph and spent much time to develop both It and thu cable Ho H was one or of the tho vcr very rich rica men ot of isis his time We Ve today forget his rIches in the memory or of the man his worth his and his Ideals And It is 16 just so YOU You can caim mule make your our money moner be it if little I or bIg to be greater titan your 11 lire or you oU can CUl make your character to bo be your greatest we wealth Moreover man many sell cJ their hivo tom COl that which mone money brings of pleasure and gratification Uon of self sel A rIch son has great tempt tion In tItlE this line hut so have we nil all That ThaL which our little money can buy may inay be large larg enough to cause calise us 16 to sell our soul for It seemed ever er to have bno this In view as lie he warned rich richand richand and poor alike of covetousness envy and prIde lie He at asked kc time the poor fisher fishermen men to give ghe up the same as ho he asked the tho rich young oung ruler Olt hearer let letU letus U us lie he careful lest we Voe in the tho vcr very rich the same trend of life that we are following as a closely IlS as Our means will allow A few dollars eat can be our god just the same as a million ma may be theirs and a little gratification of desire keep us from Crom a Chris Christian tian lIfe the same samo as much gratification lion tion Of self may be ruin unto tinto them themAs themAs As we view this lesson the man mantho who tho rIves himself gives most and the theman man maim who withholds self and gives mil mu millions lions liotis does not net compare with hint him All coming generations will have hayt more of oC temporal blessing because one man was as a man or of service In tion Llon You have haye yourself and you Oll can cancan can ean gIve gho that if IC you will wiIl You can In your place and be a py pw er Cr for purity and God if IC you will But you YOn give hut but little until yen JOu give yourself You cannot buy heaven with money You must give servIce and service means self |