The Mena weekly star., 1910-01-27
ON SAME PLATFORM
SlFFoRD plNcHoT AND PREsl- DENT TAFT ADDRESS MA
 TloNAL CIVIC FEDERATION.
BOTH FAVOR CONSERVATION
Former Chief Forester Warmly Com. mends the Recent Message 10 Con aress---Mcre Than 5o0 Delegates Were Present.


 Washington. Jan. l9.--President Taft and Clifford Pinchot stood should CT 10 shoulder In advocacy of laws to conserve the natural resources There was no intimation of the recent con fict that resulted in the separation of MT. Pinchot from the government service by direct orders of the presi- dent
 Speaking at the opening of the Ma tional Civic Federation conference, the president endorsed conservation and suggested uniformity in state laws as an aid to federal enactments for this purpose. The president also urged uniform marriage and divorce laws and the adoption of the simplic- fly of the English procedure in law and equity.
 Mir. PInchot commended the presi- dents recommendations for conserya- tion laws, urged their endorsement by the conference and suggested united action to secure their speedy enact ment by congress In closing his ad- dress he said;
 Now is the time for all good men to come to the help of the conserya- tion movement without regard to party or prejudice and any personal con sideration"
 There are more than 800 delegates to the conference representing every state in the union, and all the most important civic and political bodies. Seth Low. president of the Civic Fed eration. presided at the opening meet Ing. Besides him sat President Taft, Judge Alton Brooks Parker. Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Brown. retired: Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor {; John Hays Hammond Clifford Pin chot. former Senator Dryden of New Jersey: Senator Root, Gov Wilson, of Kentucky: Jonn Mitchell and VII. liam R. Wilcox.
 Clifford Pinchot was given rousing reception.
 We have come at last to the point of action." he said We must either go forward or fall back. Here Is a mighty field for uniform action and for cooperation between the states themselves and between them and the nation. These conservation ques- tions are today the overshadowing problems before the states and before the people. How they are settled will affect every man now alive and every citizen of this nation as long as 1t shall endure.
 For the second time a president has endorsed these views in mes sage to congress. If 1t has passages with which disagree. have no con. cern with them.
 "The first concern is that the friends of conservation must not be divided. The plain duty of all is to sink their differences, to unite on essentials, to demand with a unani nous voice that congress shall act wisely and without delay on the presi- dents recommendations. This the president urges. echo his desire These measures stand by themselves Let us disregard the controversy al. together in general effort 10 secure what every good citizen earnestly de sires.
 "The leasing of the coal lands in stead of virtually giving them away the prevention of waterpower monop oly. the conservation of the soils, the repeal of the timber and stone act the maintenance of the national for ests. government protection of wood lands at the headwaters of navigate ble streams-these things are right