Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-10-11
SPEECHES
ON CONSERVATION
At DRIVING CLUB
Clifford Pinchot Declares That
insurgency Is Not by Any
Means Confined. to the Re-
publican Party

The informal dinner at the Piedmont
Driving club Friday evening in honor of
the delegates to the conservation con-
gress was a success of the most enjoy
able sort. and planted seeds of con-
servation that will bring forth substan-
tial fruit throughout the south.
All the delegates were present, and a
large number of Atlanta citizens who are
members of the chamber of commerce.,
besides Hoke Smith and other notables
obeying instructions everybody came In
civilians" clothes. and there was a
marked absence OF the constraint that
inevitably follows full dress.
Clifford Pinchot, deposed chief of the
United States bureau Of forestry, father
of conservation, and leader of the great
movement now sweeping the whole
country, was the guest of honor and the
observed OF all observers. He made a
speech quite characteristic Of him, brief,
bristling with sound common sense. ring
ing with conservation doctrines and en-
livened by some trenchant observations
on national politics and the trend there
of.
Hoke Smith made a speech that was
exceptionally good; Judge John c. Hart
gave a most entertaining talk on the his
tory OF the Ducktown copper fumes case
and its relation to conservation; and
Capt. ]. B. White, OF Kansas City, after
giving some illustrations Of what con-
servation will accomplish when practi-
cally applied, told the story of one OF
his political experiences that kept the
crowd in gales of laughter,
GUESTS OF HONOR.
In the center of the clubs artistic
dancing and banquet hall was an extra
large table for the guest of honor and
those whs were to speak, together with
other notables. 1t ranged near the wall
to the left, making IT easy for all the
guests to see and hear the speakers.
At this table were seated Mr.. Pinchot,
Hoke Smith, Judge John c. Hart, Wilmer
l. Moore, Mayor Maddox, Capt. ]. B.
White, of Kansas City; E. Lee Worsham,
Amos L. Ponder. w. H. Shipper and
others.
The guests were seated in groups at
tables with covers for Il. This arrange
ment gave the walters room to move
about easily and the groups chance to
form according as they were acquainted
with one another. The dinner was simple
and elegant. ]. H. Nunnally, president
of the Piedmont Driving club and chair
man of the entertainment committee Of
the chamber of commerce, personally SUI
pervised the service.
Wilmer L, Moore, vice president or
the chamber of commerce, did the toast
master role with an easy grace and nu-
merous bright remarks. The first speak
er he introduced was Mr.. Pinchot.
He was given an ovation as ne rose,
and acknowledged 1t with smile. Il
feel that / am in the house of my
friends" said he, land 1 see this is not
section of the south where Dam Yam
kee' is considered one word" This sal
ly was greeted with much laughter L
am going to talk about conservation
and a little politics." Mr.. Pinchot con-
tinued.
There are times when conservation
should be considered in it's national
aspects" said he. Every young nation
grows in a haphazard way and develops
along lines that nobody planned. We
did that for many years. Our develop
ment was in many respects accidental.
we are now come to be the greatest
nation on earth and we have got there
without giving conscious thought to
what we were making of ourselves.
TO QUIT HAPHAZARD GROWTH
To-day we are passing out of that
great facts of our development. The
time has come when we must work
along lines laid down for ourselves. II
growing in a haphazard fashion we
have come to be what We are, what can
we not achieve II we think out lines for
the future and as a nation hew to
them?
I'VE have run across many snags that
could easily have been avoided if we
had simply looked ahead few years.
don't believe we as a nation have re-
allied that we can and ought to use
this point Of view. But now we have
come to a point where a husband found
himself up IN Pennsylvania, according
to a story 1 know, when he Joined the
church and explained II by saying IT
was a leetle too much to be married to
Jemima and wind up in hell, too CHere
he told the story and IL brought
hearty laugh. AS a nation we cannot
afford to endure all the growing pains
of development and at the same time
find problems OF grave import that could
have been solved in advance if we had
simply looked ahead"
Right here Mr. Pinchot passed from
conservation to politics, and made the
eminent because they were not known
passage by telling another laughable
story-of the foreman who told Pat
whom the doctor had taken to be killed
by his fall from a high building, to
Lie down, you fool"-(when Pat was
about to rise)-''the doctor knows best. ="
For long time IL has been pretty
much that way in politics. The lead
ers have told us to lie down, you fools,
the party leaders know best and the
strange part is we did.
ADMITS INSURGENCY.
eft has baan iunnittad 70 (opd 7
have not yet resented the imputation)
that 1 am an insurgent 1 am an in
surgent, and I'm glad and proud to be
one. But / think / won't be one for
long, nor all the rest OF us. Because
insurgency is supplanting the regular
organization so rapidly that thereHl soon
be nothing left to insurge against and
the new party must necessarily then
change its name.