Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-18
PINCHOT AND
TAFT ADDRESS
CIVIC SOCIETY
PRESIDENT AND FORESTER
RIVAL ORATORS
EACH DISCUSSES VITAL THEME
OF GOVERNMENT
Public Servant Deposed by Chief Ex-
ecutive Speaks from Same Plat
form and Warns People of
Crisis Now On
Associated Pressl


w ASHINGTON, Jan. 17-President
w Taft and Clifford Pinchot, whom
W the former recently removed
from his position as head of the for
estrv bureau, spoke today from the
same platform in addressing the Ma
tlona1 Civic Federation, in session here
to discuss problems of uniform state
legislation.
REPRESENTATIVES, of almost every
branch of human activity met at the
conference to talk over ways ana
means for bringing about uniformity
of laws relating to child labor, mar
rtage and divorce, pure food and pure
drugs. conservation of natural re-
sources. and laws relating TO negotia-
bic Instruments, bills of lading and
other matters affecting the business
and social life of the nation.
The president spoke at the morning
session and serious attention was ac-
corded him throughout. His speech
was a careful presentation of the needs
of uniformity upon the part of the
states in laws looking to an amellora-
ton of existing conditions.
Pinchot's Address
Clifford Pinchot was one of the prin-
cipal speakers at the afternoon ses-
sion. He said that subjects such as
forestry preservation had been adNo-
Gated nv Americans for more than 100
wears but that the control of water
power monopoly in the common inter-
ests was young i'm the present century.
I'VE have come at last to the point
of action" he said, land must either
go forward or fan back"
In his Judgment the present sltua-
tion offers a field for further action
and for cooperation between the sLdte
! themselves and between them and the
nation. As result of the White House
conference a few years ago forty-tNe
state committees looking to the con-
! servation of natural resources have
| been appointed.
THE great principles we have been
working for" said Mr.. Pinchot, must
be written our laws now or the chance
may pass. Public sentiment is pre-
pared and awake. For the second
| time A president of the United States
has indorsed the principles in mes
sage to congress
"Most of the recommendations which
the recent message contained are well
| known to friends of conservation and
well approved.
Criticism Withheld
"If it has omissions or passages with
|
with them today.
THE president urges the measures
he recommends be taken up and dis
posed of promptly without awaiting
the investigation that has been deter
mined upon. I echo his desire. There
can be no reason to await the result
of the investigation, before acting on
these measures. They stand by them
selves.
In the face of this great opportunity
let us go further, and so far as these
issues are concerned, let us disregard
the controversy altogether in gem
eral effort to secure what every good
citizen desires.
"Our duty is to look beyond these
above all strife, in a common effort
to reach objects of such transcendant
importance to all the people"
In addition to the presidents speech
at the morning session, Seth Low,
president of the federation, and Judge
Alton b. Parker, temporary chairman
of the conference, also spoke
With President Taft as the central
figure. there was gathered on the stage
notable group of men. Labor was
represented by Samuel Gompers and
John MitchelI; the law by Senator
Root, Alton b. Parker and former as
sociate Justice Brown; business by