Show tv r 7 50 1 I arz PARKE 1 1 GOLDENROD goldenrod la Is a beautiful flower ands and a pestilent weed it grows all over the country and 0 so o tomes tome as near as any to I 1 being our national flower modern modem medical science says nys it la Is not goldenrod but ragweed which causes hay bay fever it if henry I 1 fords experimental goldenrod farm in ge georgia agia succeeds in commercializing commercial izing edi son sons 5 discovery dlo oTtry that goldenrod contains rubber we insy bay see ee goldenrod farming becoming as widespread as wheat farming Is ie today that la Is not impossible though hardly probable yet every crop the tanner farmer grows grow was wad once a weed and has been made into a crop by ery that it Is 15 useful to humanity BUILDING plans plan already developed tor for new buildings to be constructed in 1930 call for or an expenditure of nearly double that of 1929 and this does not include private residences states and municipalities ha have v e raised more inore funds by bond issues ln in the past three months than in any similar period and the proceeds ot of those sales eales will be used for new roads public buildings and other improvements every thing points to a greater volume of construction st work under way in the near future than we have seen since the first year or two following the war and that means employment tor for everybody money freely in circulation again renewed prosperity pe ity tor for all sorts and conditions of men ARLINGTON the great national cemetery in virginia across the potomac river from washington where william howard tart taft president and chief justice was laid to rest Is one of the most beautiful spots in america it was the estate of robert E lee and was confiscated by the federal government when lee throw threw in his lot with the confederacy only men who have arved served their country in war may be burled buried there prom from the lincoln memorial in washington the great new bridge over the potomac leads directly to this ancient home of the lew leed tying the memory of the two great civil war leaders together end and bridging the gap cap between north and south bouth with 1 final gesture of reconciliation BRITISH thirty ago in 1900 the boers of south africa gave up their unequal war against the british american sympathy was with the boers in that conflict con illet and nd against the british it looked to all ot cf v us like a parallel lel to our own we ec ecce pe reprisals and eif or of the conquered on the part of etke british kut but on th the eon WT am vet set cp da la south bouth africa to be tar far more mora liber ilber ll bl than the old one which the dutch boers had operated the U B S amean A meaning in this case the union ot of south bouth africa Is today an independent nation a member ot of the british commonwealth ot of nations Wat lons to be ba sure oure but in entry re a self governing state dutch and british participate on ovan even terms in tta its government is as do the french and british in canada general smuts greatest or of the boer war ladera loader 2 hoi has served as prime minister this object leeson proving that the british government ot of our time la Is not the tyrannical monster which it teemed seemed to be under george ceorge nr ni has ha done dona moro more than anything olse also to establish the rr friendly endly feeling toward great britain which now prevails almost everywhere I 1 in america TREES when admiral byrds returning explorers reached new zealand the eight which stirred them most deeply was trees for nearly two years yeara they had not seen a tree it Is difficult for mos most st 0 ot f us to imagine a world without trees though 11 in 1 iceland a hundred generations have 1 lived 1 ved and died without ever seeing one we are cutting down trees faster than we are planting new ones we do not think of trees tre as a crop but as a natural resource to be mined with replacement the federal farm boards chairman lately made a plea for the restoration of the woodlot as an important part of evry every farm trees as a crop do pay they take tak longer from seed to market than any other crop but every sound tree dds adds its little to the value of any farm end and with the inevitable reduction in acreage devoted to money crops and pasturage there Is no better use to which surplus land can be ba put than growing trees tor for the future moreover many states now exempt re forested land r from ro ra taxat taxation on GET gettysburg T to north and south alike the tha b battlefield of gettysburg Is hallowed grun ground here was the high tide of the confederate forces here lincoln voiced his immortal m phrase government of the people by the people for the people here the most imposing monument la 13 the eta ata tue of general lee here among these rolling pennsylvania hills halli lie the most moat gallant soldiers whom america has ha produced under the sod od and the dew waiting the judgment day every year nearly s a million and a halt tourists visit the gettysburg no na dional park they come from very every see J tion of the union as many from the south douth as from the north the pleas pleasant saat little town has welcomed them but its id facilities for housing and feW feeding Weding its lt guests gaceta have not kept pace with tin the growth of the tourist tide it Is good goal news therefore to all who eberleh get es as one of our national shrink that the people of the town have at last lait stirred themselves to meet this need A new hotel in a style and manner befitting its surroundings I 1 is s to oe be built this athla year and this will make biake the pil i grimage to gettysburg even more popular than it Is now |