Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-05-15
ID UNITE GOVERNORS
A Permanent Organization May
 Result From Conference.
]. ]. HILL GIVES WARNING.
Railway Masnate Points Out Inevitable Sequel of Exhaustion of country's Natural Resources -- Secretary Will sons Advice to oEarmers.

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 sons Advice to Farmers.
 Washington, May 15.--As the confer ence of governors and other prominent men called by the president to con slider the conservation of the country'S natural resources proceeds it is evil dent that the governors realize that the country expects material results froII the great civic gathering and they, to- { gether with the experts forming the conference, are preparing to act with direction and decision.
 Threading clearly through the tangle of diversified views and the confusing mass of data runs conviction that the remedy lies in the preservation of the forests and the development of inland waterways.
 From the committee on resolutions there will come pronouncement on this subject so incisiye and mandatory that this or the succeeding congress will be forced to take up the matter
 Leaders of Congress Doubtful.
 Even before the conference has spok- en the moral effect of its work has had its influence on the leaders in congress. Deploring this influence, Speaker Can non and John Sharp Williams, the mi nority leader of the house, stated at a banquet they feared that they would be forced into enacting unconstitution- al legislation.
 These fears are occasloned by the in sistence of the demand for the crea- tion of the Appalachian forest reserve, which will extend from Vermont to Mississippi. The bill creating this re- serve has been declared unconstitu- tional by the house judiciary commit tee. Marshaled by Governor Glenn of North Carolina, the governors will meet the committee to urge that the bill be reported and passed.
 Much enthusiasm was aroused when 1t was announced that the bill making permanent the inland waterways com- mission, giving 1t funds and clothing it with authority had been reported to the senate. President Roosevelt said that if congress did not take such &C., tion he would himself see that the commission was made permanent. The presidents position was heartily in dorsed and supported by the confer ence.
 Permanent Organization Discussed.
 Another fruit of the presidents idea is the formation of permanent organ ization of governors to meet annually or blennially to discuss economic ques- tions of interest to the entire country. Such an organization will be completed when the governors meet to perfect de. tails.
 James ]. Hill of the Great Northern, who led long list of speakers, treated the depletion of the nations resources in very serious and impressive way. He presented conditions respecting mineral. soil and forest, showing wan ton waste in each instance. and drew a picture of political chaos when all were gone. wherein the people would tear down the very pillars of govern. inent Mir. Hill believed such results could and should be avoided by prompt action
 In the course of bis address NIT. Hill said:
 By the fixed rate of Increase in the past We must count upon population of over 100.0O0.000 in the United States In the year 1850. The annual increase from natural growth Is about 1is pei cent each year Adding for immigra tIon only 750.0o0 a year, which is less than three-quarters of the figures reached in recent years, we shall have about 130,000,000 people in 1925 and al least 2Oo,oO0,0O0 by the middle of the century.
 No Waste Places Left.
 'swhere are they to go. how are they Co be employed, how fed, how enabled to earn living wage? The pressure oi all the nations upon the waste places of the earth grows more intense as the last of them are occupied. We are ap- preaching the point where all our wheat product will be needed for our own uses. and we shall cease to be an exporter of grain.
 There Is still some room in Canada but 1t will soon be filled. The relief will be but temporary. Our own peo pie, whose mineral resources will by that time have greatly diminished must And themselves thrown back upon the soil for a living. If continued abuse of the land should mark the next fifty years as it has the last. what must be our outlook:s
 Soil waste and forest conservation received expert treatment by Pro lessor T. C. Chamberlain of Chicago and R. A. Long of Kansas City. Other matters of interest were an address on Irrigation by former Governor Pardee of California. q paper on grazing and stock raising. read for H. A. Jastro of California. who was taken III, and general observations on land condi- tions in the west by former Senator Carey of Wyoming.
 Secretary Wilson met a hearty re- sponse to a practical talk on the mis- takes In farming and the remedies. The same crop each year on the same land. as he showed. was ruinous. Di- versity of crops and keeping the prop CT quantity of organs matter in the sol was the secret of larger produc- tIou and benefit to the land.
 Wilsor May Leave Cabinet.
 Washington. May 15.-James Wilson secretnry of agriculture. told some Of