PAGE TW0TE IHIA AL UEiAJNUR ,12 HE MICHIGAN DAILY Tt"is40AY, JANUARY 6, 1925 PACK SUMMARIZES FORESTRY POLICY _OIL, SCANDAL COMES TO FORE A GAIN Government Opens Suit To Annul Leases Today WESTERIN COASI ONI Students' Work Ranges From TI nruArn ITfI~JFOOV' Kris Kringle Role To Typing I First Town Forest of 1925 be Started in Brattleboro, Vermont 'WillI COOLEY WARNS NATION' Washington, Jan. 5.(Sy A.P.)- Great progress was mnaide in 1924 toward the establishment of a nation- Al forestry policy and great hopes are entertained for 1925, says Charles tbathrop Pack, president of the Ameri- can Tree association, in a summary of the work for the last year. In Pennsylvania this year efforts, Will be mae by the Pennsylvania For- estry asociation to secure the passage of 'a bill authorizing a state loan of $2,000,000 for the purchase of -wild lands of the state for a forest pre- serve. Dr. Henry S. Drinker, former- ly oq .,eigh university and long iden- 0jfied with forestry activities, is be- hind the movement. If this measure is passed it will be submitted for ref- erendum. The first town forest of one new year will be started at Brattle- boro, Vt., this spring with the plant- 1ng, of 10,000 red pines. Wisconsin IUA awed r aa u endmi et to the ;;i at P cos'ui U to li0 erl)i l ies ae TOro ret to a . cilan. Indiana is pre. p, iing fo ;{,)before 1the hgla! 01 for an appropriation for state forests. Duing 1924, Pack Foundation prizes for thbe best papers on foresry aimed to interest the people were establish- ,d at Yale, Penn StateCollege of For- estry, New York State College of For- egstry at Syracuse, Cornell university, Uiversity of Wisconsin, University of California, University of Michigan, Unhiversity of Washington, and Uni- yeaty of Minnesota. A demonstra- ton forest of a thousand acres was presented to the New .York State Col- lege of Forestry by Mr. Pack. In Michigan, Governor Groesbeck has asked for data upon which to base a two year program. Under the direction of the Depart- met of Agriculture farmers in west- ern Canada have been planting 20,000 trees a day. A total of 150,000,000 young trees have been distributed. Much planting is being done by the states, the review for the year points out. In New York state the biggest drive ever directed by the State Con- ervation commission has just been completed. Almost 10,000,000 trees were sent out. Farmers and private land owners took nearly 5,000,000 while industrial concerns accounted for nearly ,000,000. Furthering thef town forest idea, municipalities took 2,000,000 more. In California just as the year closed the muidwest conference of the United States Chamber of Commerce made reforestration the main subject of te winter meeting. Vermont is planting about 900,000 trees a year, says the review, pointing out that New Eng- land pays in the neighborhood of $3,-. 000,000 a year in freight t import lumber for it great industrial centers. "The greatest and most vital prob- lem of our age is the restoration of our forests" believes Dean Mortimer E. Cooley of the engineering college. "The future without forests must be made so clear that each and every one will become himself an apostle to preach and do. We are rushing into a cul de sac which, considering our education and supposed superior in- teligence, is the greatest of all human tragedies. We of our day are living examples of the ive foolish virgins," he said recently. >3 ecific Cases Go ern Warnings, Sqys Humplreys "Our' policy of warning students that their scholastic work is not up to standard depends to a great extent upon specific cases," Dean W. R. TF^i 1 ; 'oysa,.Rirtil fa t ean cf theP, lt .42)'( l~i.'j: )i{.; ea i 5 4 iV'\'' O w' of tie ijidix idual, special attention i._ given to each case regarding past as well as present records and the cir- cumstances causing such records,", said the Dean. Although more than 1,300 letters were sent out before vacation to stu- dents in the literary college, only 146 were official warnings. Most of the letters are merely intended to advise the student to improve present un- satisfactory work in one or two cote ses. There were 75 letters sent out. to studenits who are already on prooa- tion, warning them that if their work does not improve, they will be re- quested to leave the University at the close of the semester. If more than eight hours of work is unsatisfactory, an official warning is sent to the student. A student is placed on probation for hiav,;zg more] than eight hours of "E" work. Stu- dents who have previously received official warnings have been placed on probation. Letters are being mailed to the Iatents of those students who have Cheyenne, Wyo., Jan. 5.-(By A.P.) -Trial of the government's civil suit seeking annulment of the lease of the1 Teapot Dome naval oil reserve by Al- b)ert B. Fall, former Secretary of the Interior, to the Mar-mot z Gil comn- pany, one of the Harry F. Sinclair 1 ompanies, is scheduled to start heire tomorrow before United States dis- trict Judge T. Blake Kennedy. With the leading aspects of the case involving thie legality of the late President Harding's executive order I issued in May, 1921, transferring the oil reserve from the Navy department tthe Department of the Interior; teallegation of fraud in execution of the lease as charged by the govern- ment, and the conduct of the negotia- tions by former Secrtary Fall involv- ed, a formidable group of legal coun- sel is arrayed on either side. Mr. Sinclair, in his avowed deter- mnination to resist the action with. all the means at his command, has in- cluded in his counsel for the Mamn- nmoth Oil company, J. W. Zevely, Paul, D. Cravath, Martin W. Littleton, R. W. Ragland and G. T. Stanford, Fight- ing for the restoration of th~e naval oil reserve to the government are At-, Pcnue-lone, former Ohio senator,l . ,.u:, . s ~t