Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-21
Roosevelt Accepts Invitation to
Address Southern ConSer-
Vation Congress
coEvENES IN ATLANTA OCT. 7
Distinguished Federal and State
Officials Promise to At
tend Convention
Especial to The Herald)

ATLANTA, Ga, Sept 20.-Theodore
Roosevelt, Hoke Smith, goVernor-elect
of Georgia: Clifford Pinchot, DIR. Har-
vey W. Wiley, Chief Forester Henry
s. Graves and other leaders of the con-
servation movement of national repu-
tation have accepted invitations to ad-
dress the first southern conservation
congress to be held in this city October
and s. The congress is the first one
of the kind held to attack the definite
problems of conservation In a large
group of states.
e. L. Worsham. state entomologist
and chairman of the committee on ar
rangements of the congress, has re-
turned to Atlanta from st, Paul, where
he attended the national meeting, and
from Washington, where he conferred
with government officials and officers
of the National Conservation associa-
tion. At both places he was promised
the support of all the leaders in the
movement who contributed to the sue
cess of the st. Paul congress.
Roosevelt's address will be made at
the end of the last days session, and
the topic assigned to him on the ten
tative program which has just been
prepared is Conservation which
means that he will be at liberty to take
any or all phases of the question he
desires. Hoke Smith, governor-elect of
Georgia and former secretary of the
interior under President Cleveland,
will divide the last sessions program
with the former president, addressing
the congress on the subject, "The Re-
lation of state Governments to Con-
servation."
PINCHOT TO SPEAK
Governor Brown of Georgia will open
the first days meeting, and the mayor
~ al fnI-
low with an address of welcome. Gill
ford Pinchot will address the congress
on the principles of Conservation, "
and Charles S. Barrett, president of
the Farmers union, who has been a
leader in the movement in Georgia, will
speak on the Conservation of Farm
Resources" Among those to address
the congress at other sessions are the
following: B. n. Baker, the retiring
congress; DR.. C. Willard Hayes, chief
geologist. United States geological
survey; DR.. A. M. Soule, president
Georgia state Agricultural college; H.
S. Graves, chief forester of the United
States: DR.. w J MCGEE, soil water eX-
pert, United States department of ag-
riculture Frederic ]. PaXon, president
Atlanta chamber of commerce; Paul
Norcross. Atlanta: Dr. H. F. Harris,
president Georgia School of Technol-
ogy; Rev. c. B. Wilmer and Rev. ]. w.
Lee, Atlanta; Mrs. H. Nj. Willett, At
lanta: DR.. Alfred Akerman, professor
of forestry, University of Georgia; Mrs.
J. K. Ottley, Atlanta; and DR.. Joseph
Hyde Pratt, president Southern Appa-
lachian Good Roads association.
Secretary James Wilson of the de-
partment of agriculture, Henry wal
lace of Iowa, the new president OF the
National Conservation congress; Gov
ernor Stubbs of Kansas, former Gov
ernor Blanchard of Louisiana and all
the governors Of the southern states
various state officers and mayors Of
cities have been invited to attend and
a number of them are expected TO be
on the program as finally made up TO
address the congress.
A number of states in the south now
have organizations of one kind or an
other which are interested in tire wise
utilization of natural resources and
the prevention of waste, cost of living,
nure food and good roads problems,
and it is expected that number OF
state conservation associations will be
formed the first day of the meeting.
In fact, the congress is the outgroWth
Of the plan to call together state con-
servation leaders to organize an asso-
citation in Georgia. The movement had
not gone far when 1t was found that
+he interest of the other states was so
GREAT that it would warrant a congress
10 discuss the interest of the whole
south, to which the national leaders
in conservation would be invited to
take a part in assisting the state or
ficers in the work.