Chief Justice White of the United States supreme court, who announced the decision in the commodities clause of the Hepburn law regulating interstate commerce, said in summing up: "It must be held that, while the right of a railroad company as a stockholder to use its stock ownership for the purpose of a bona fide separate administration of the affairs of a corporation in which it has a stock interest may not be denied, the use of such stock ownership in substances for the purpose of destroying the entity of a producing, etc.
The American section of the new world map, in which countries will be drawn on the same scale, that the relative size and characteristics of each may be shown, is progressing rapidly under the direction of the United States geological survey.
The Boy Scout movement is emphasized as an aid to conservation by conservation by Gifford Pinchot, former chief forester, who says of it: "There are very many reasons why I believe in the Boy Scouts; one of the first of them is that I do not see how it is possible for any good scout to grow up without becoming a good forester.
With the world's records broken for low cost and rapidity of construction, the boring of the great five-mile Elizabeth tunnel, fourteen feet wide and eleven feet high, the most important features of the new twenty-six million-dollar municipal water project of Los Angeles, Cal.
A resolve of the Massachusetts Senate provides that the Governor, with the advice and consent of the council, shall appoint a commission of seven citizens of the commonwealth, to consider in what manner Massachusetts may best cooperate with the federal government in the construction of a ship canal—free and open to the commerce of the world and without toll for the passage of freight across the state, as now being surveyed by the engineers of the war department.
Not for years have so many far-reaching principles relating to interstate commerce been decided by the supreme court of the United States as were established last week.
Herbert Knox Smith, commissioner of corporations, in a summary of his findings in the investigation of the lumber industry, shows these facts: The concentration of a dominating control of our standing timber in a comparatively few enormous holdings, steadily tending toward a central control of the lumber industry; vast speculative purchase and holding of timber land far in advance of any use thereof; an enormous increase in the value of this diminishing natural resource, with great profits to its owners.
At least two hundred and eighty-two railroads throughout the country, representing 208,526 miles of track, have joined in the movement for better compensation for carrying mail.
