Laredo Weekly Times

Forester Potter Favors A Conservation Of "Good Old Summer Time."
By United Press.

Washington, Mar. 4.-Here's a new idea in conservation. Associate Forester Potter proposes to conserve the good old summer time."

Away up on the mountain tops in the National Forest Reserves, Potter tells Secretary Wilson that there are any number of winding lakes and crystal streams fringed with cool woods that would make ideal rest cures for residents of our western metropolises.

His scheme is to provide for the poorly paid and overworked slaves of capital at the cost of about $5 per annum, tracts of nature which they may fence in and use for their very own with no restrictions other than the ten commandments and the regulations of the Forest Service.

Under Potter's plan permits would be issued to applicants good for ten years, unless revoked by the Secretary of Agriculture. There are now several special permits issued by the Forest Service for summer homes and one for a hotel, or club house, on the San Bernardino mountains in California. These are good for only a year at a time. The club house permit however, has been renewed for several years and has become quite a permanent institution.

Potter's new plan is now passing under the critical eye of Solicitor McCabe, of the Department of Agriculture, because Secretary Wilson does not intend starting anything again unless he knows it is legal even to the crosses of the t's. Unless the Solicitor's stern regard for duty compels him to object, the plan should be in operation before long and the people of the west, will be able to put in their applications for "country seats" this spring.