The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-05-01

of in the interest of e few; and the
committee has made favorable report
carrying out the suggestions of the as
ISOLATION, as outlined by Mr.. Garfield.
Bulletin by Pinehot.
Mr. Pinchot, as president of the as
ISOLATION, has sent out a bulletin to all
the members Of the association. calling
on them to write to their congressm en-,
urging the immediate passage of this
bill.
At the beginning, the conservation
movement was criticised by its enemies
for being too theoretical and academic
AS the movement advanced. the prin-
ciples which the governors declared re-
ceived wider and wider Endorsement
until they had, with the exception of
the open enemies os conservation, prac-
ttcally the unanimous Endorsement of
the country. But those who were &C
tive In the conservation movement felt
that too general approval without spe-
cif!c, practical application of those
principles, was even dangerous TO sue
cess and that what was needed to in
sure the practical application of con-
servation principles was a national
conservation association
The National Conservation commits
sion, which on the recommendation OF
the governors, President Roosevelt had
created. was killed by the amendment
which Representative Tawney Of Min
nesota succeeded in attaching to the
sundry civil bill of 1909. The work the
commission had been carrying on was
taken up Independently by the joint
committee on conservation, an Unof-
fetal body supported by private funds,
and carried on with marked success.
There are now forty-two state conser-
walton commissions and fifty-one con-
servation committees of national or
CARNATIONS. The joint committee ac-
Il L q
clearing house for these commissions
and committees. But friends of con-
servation felt that there should be some
national organization through which
the individual citizen could join in the
movement.
So last July men who had taken the
lead in the conservation movement in
the different parts of the country, met
with Doctor Charles W. Eliot, presi-
dent-emeritus of Harvard university
and organized the National Conserva-
ton association. Doctor Eliot was
made president Under his leadership
the association at once met with a
hearty response. Its first bulletin called
the attention of its members and the
public to the situation with regard to
the coal lands of Alaska, which have
since achieved such prominence
through the Ballinger-Pinchot contro-
versy.
DIR. EIiOt's Views.
back in November, Doctor Eliot, speak
ing for the association, said:
The National Conservation associa-
ton is convinced of the urgent need of
immediate measures to prevent the con-
troll OF the great sources of heat and
mechanical power in the United States
from being seized by monopolistic or
CARNATIONS, and to secure the best de-
velOpment of these sources in the inter-
&c of he whole reOnle''
The Alaska coal situation had not
then assumed the prominence and no
toriety that it has since achieved. The
association appealed to the people to
bring the urgent needs of the situa-
ton to the attention of their represent
atives in Congress"
When Clifford Pinchot was dismissed
as United States forester by President
Taft, Doctor Eliot Immediately called
his executive committee together, pre-
scented his resignation and nominated
Mr.. PinchOt as his successor, saying
Afr. Pinchot was the recognized head
of the conservation movement, and that
as. by President TaftS action. he had
been relieved Of his official connection
with the government, it was emfnently
fitting that he should take the actual
leadership of the National Conservation
association. The committee elected Mr..
Pinchot president and conferred on DR..
Eliot the honorary presidency, which
ne still retains.
ton is a fighting force for conserva-
ton The other conservation bodies
have devoted their efforts fore or less
to Investigations This association
studies conditions and situations close
". and after ii has studied them and
decided what ought TO be done. it goes
about doing it. The other conServa-
ton orga nizations were tied up by Of
fetal connections
The National Conservation associa-
ton takes the ground that the indi-
y idual citizen ought TO have a good
deal to say about what should be done
with the country's natural resources
Those resources belong to the people, 1t
holds. and, therefore, the people ought
to have a voice as to how these re-
are disposed of. The cOnserva-
tiOn association proposes to give the
people a voice. To that end its found |
ers organized 1t as a popular body |
through which the individual citizen /
might give utterance to his conserva- !
ton sentiment.
Looks After the Bills.
A great many conservation bills are 1
Some of them are good; I
many of them are bad. The Conserva- !