I have known of no case of persistent agitation under discouragement finer in a good many ways than the fight that the women of California have made to save the great grove of Calaveras big trees.

As a result the Government has taken possession of that forest and will preserve it for all future generations.
Time and again, then, the women have made it perfectly clear what they can do in this work.

Obviously the first point of attack is the stopping of waste.

Women alone can bring to the school children the idea of the wickedness of national waste and the value of public saving.

The issue is a moral one; and women are the first teachers of right and wrong.