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Old way-Logs cut and left together, Lodgepole pine,
Colorado

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Gifford Pinchot, former chief of U. S. Forest Service ....

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The land logged with care and protected from fire. timber and wood keep coming

The

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Digging canals to carry water to distant water valleys.

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Wallipai school boy at Hackberry. Trained in a govern

ment school

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Educating the Indians

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Statute of Liberty on the Dome of Capitol, Washington,
D. C.

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In the Yosemite National Park

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The design of the Hague Peace Palace which received the
First Prize. By L. M. Coronnier, of Lille.......

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A Fourth of July fiesta at Iwahig, 1907, each division with float showing work

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Los Angeles makes its own cement for the great acqueduct

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CHAPTER I

Social Service

A nation at work in human uplift-that is the ideal, yet we have as a people fallen short in our treatment of the hungry, the naked, the stranger, the sick and the prisoner. At last we are beginning to understand the meaning of poverty, the number of those who are living below the poverty line, the amount of wretchedness and misery which is to be found in every city. In fact, now for the first time we are beginning to learn how the other half lives. It took Booth to show us darkest England and its submerged tenth in Whitechapel. It took Jacob Riis, by turning the limelight upon the reeking New York tenement, to show us its squalor and breeding places of disease. We have heard the cry of the outcast children, voiced in pitiless wail. Social settlements have sprung up, every one of which has become a center for the gathering of facts regarding poverty and disease.

So we have been forced to take notice of

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