Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-12-05
MUCH WORK AHEAD
Carnegie and Hill Are to be at Com
 scrvation C0nyention.

scrvation Conyention.
 Washington, Dec 5.--Andrew Car negie and James J. Hill will both take part in the joint conservation conference which opens here on the eighth, when the national conser- vation commission with the assist ance of the governors of the states and It's other co-operators will get under way the most important part of It's work so far, the report to tn president, due the first of the year. These two leaders in the industrial world were prominent figures in
 conference of governors at the white house last May, which was the i'm mediate cause of the creation of the national conservation commission. The iron masters speech at that time on the mineral resources of the country was the first on the three days programme after President Roosevelt's opening speech and the railroad organizer began the second days session with discussion of the land resources of the United States, which has been more quoted than perhaps any other single address at that conference. When the national conservation commission was formed both were made members. C..
 The participation of these two hard-headed and practical men in the coming conference will be of even greater value than it was at the white house session because the time has come now for the prepa- ration of definite and workable programme of action to meet the situation that was partially disclosed at the white house meeting and has been made clear by the researches of the national conservation commits sion since then.
 The attendance of the joint con- servation conference will be compos- ed of men who have been active par ticipants in the work for conserva- tion since the white house confer. ence. About half the governors have definitely said that they will be present and the others will send rep resentatives of their states. These governors or their representatives will be accompanied by the mem bers of the state conservation com- missions which have been named during the summer and fall. In ad- | dition to these there will be pres | ent the special conservation commit tees which have been formed by twenty-five or more national organ | izations.
 The session on the morning of the eighth will be a more or less in l formal gathering in the red room of | the Willard hotel for the purpose 1 of organizing. At 4:15 o'clock that | afternoon comes the big general meeting at the Belasco 'theater at which President Roosevelt and Pres ident-elect Taft will be among the speakers who will address the mem- bers of the joint conservation con- ference, the rivers and harbors con- gress. the southern commercial con- gress and other organizations with allied objects whose sessions in l Washington at that time will help I to make up what has been called Conservation week." After that the joint conference will take up Its l business in earnest at the Hubbard Memorial hall. The plan is to take up one after another the main sub jects which the national conserva- tion commission has been studying waters, lands, forests, minerals.
 The much talked of Inventory oi natural resources" is completed now as far as present knowledge can go' The national conservation commis- sion has not made any of its find ings public so far, but the members of the commission declare and the country as whole is convinced that the state of affairs is one that re- ouires immediate and effective ac- tion. The problem that the Joln' conference must help to solve Is what form this action must take and in what direction Is must be pushed to be most effective. This is task which demands the shrewdest Judg- ment whicch the national conserva- tion commission can call to its aid and is one for which both Carnegie and Hill are eminently fitted. The commission realizes that 1t has reached the critical point in its work, All the information it has gathered in it's months of study will result in nothing of permanent value unless Il can be made the basis of a practical programme of constructive activity The advice of such men as Hill and | Carnegie will be of the utmost value in selecting the points where immed- fate reform is most urgently needed and those which can be placed later on the programme.