Comptroller of the Currency Murray, in addressing the conference at Washington of national bank examiners representing practically all of the territory east of Ohio, said: "I say to you emphatically that your work must be improved.
In order to work out a plan of close cooperation between the office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the bank examiners, and the various clearing house associations of the United States, Comptroller Murray will ask the various clearing house associations to send a committee to Washington to consult with him and the bank examiners in the large cities.
The cruisers of the Pacific fleet, commanded by Rear Admiral Swinburne, finished the first stage of the cruise undertaken to test the practicability of towing torpedo boat destroyers, when the flagship West Virginia, the Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee docked at Honolulu on the 2d inst.
The members of the forestry division of the National Commission for the Conservation of Our National Resources, appointed by President Roosevelt last June, have just returned from a trip to Germany, France, and Switzerland, where they have been studying forestry conditions with the idea of adapting some of the foreign forestry methods to our forests.
The Interstate Commerce Commission has been asked by Secretary Cortelyou for a list of such railroad stocks and bonds as could be used by currency associations under the Aldrich law as security for circulation.
Chief Forester Gifford Pinchot, recently addressing the International Typographical Union Convention, warned his hearers that the future of the United States depends upon the conservation of its resources.
Thirty-nine young graduates of nine American Forest Schools have lately received appointments as forest assistants in the forest service and have been assigned to positions for the present field season.
"What we want to do," says the Secretary of the Inland Waterways Commission, "is to get back to nature in dealing with water First to prevent floods, and second to compel the water to run clear and pure.
Starting from City Hall steps, New York, at ten o'clock, July 15, an athlete, carrying a silver tube containing a message from Mayor McClellan to Mayor Busse of Chicago, darted up Broadway on the first relay of a thousand-mile journey to Chicago.
