The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-09-03


ton, the application of common sense
to the common problems for the COM
mon good, will lead directly to effl-
cheney wherever it is given control.
We are coming to see that cons erva-
ton will have two great results-to
conserve the natural resources which
guarantee our welfare, and to lead our
people to greater wisdom and effect
iveness in every department OF our
common life. The outcome of conser-
walton is national efficiency"
Conservation Vital to the West.
John Barrett, director of the bureau
of American republics, speaking at the
afternoon sess ion, told of conditions
existing in China today because con-
servation was not practiced there. He
declared that the West never had
better friend in the presidential chair
than the incumbent Conservation, he
declared, was vital issue to the
West
"The primary question before the
West today is conservation, he said.
1T is the question that the Western
states as a whole are vitality interest
ed in
opinion between certain high officials
of the government" he continued,
starting on another subject, ''it can be
said that this, in the opinion of those
who know the facts, has been greatly
exaggerated through the contention of
partisans of either side 1t is nothing
remarkable that there should be an
honest difference of view between Of
ficers of our government, which will
eventually bring good rather than
harm to the cause being argued" a.,
Mr. Pinchot wrung his hand when
he concluded and complimented him
upon his address.
Next to the demonstration which
followed the reading of President
Taft's message, Mrs. Foster spoke
upon the conservation of child life, in
a plea for the abolition of child labor,
that moved her hearers. She said she
was speaking to hard-headed business
men, and therefore presented the COM
mercial side of the question. She urged
her hearers not to waste the child
now, when he is but a sapling, but
conserve him until he develops into
sturdy, sinewy tree.
Mrs. P. S. Peterson, of Chicago,
leader of the forestry classes of the
General Federation of Women's Clubs,
was the other woman speaker. She
told of the great interest that the club
women of the country have taken in
and forestry and of the
of forestry classes in
many of the women's clubs of the
country.
Ralph S. Hosmer, superintendent of
forestry of the territory of Hawaii, in
his address, told of the conservation
work in the islands. Hawaii is one
of the eleven members of the Union to
employ a profes sionally trained for
ESTER" he said. Forestry has been
live issue in Hawaii for the last thirty
years. Definite forest work began
with tree planting by certain of the
large sugar plantation companies and
has been continued both by private
interests and by the government"
One of the features of the day was
the talk on Conservation in Japan"
by ]. Hasiguchi, of the Japanese A.
Up. commission, who spoke in the
absence of H. Ota, imperial Japanese
commissioner. He told how forestry
was long practiced art in Japan and
how the forests were handed down
from father to son. He was loudly ap-
plauded when he said:
eff it would not be improper I might
say that the United States could we'll
take lesson from Japan"
Conservation by Avoiding War.
He continued, saying that now, after
her two recent wars, Japan is con-
serving her energies and that she
wished only for peace, both on the Pa
ciflc and with the rest of the world.