The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-03-16
BALL|NCER Is
NOT WORRYING
Says He Can Dissipate Claws
and Pinchot Charges When
Evidence is in.
IS FOR WISE CONSERVATION
In Address at St. Paul Today Secre-
tary Of Interior Says He is Out of
Sympathy With Radicals
Hits at Pinchot.

|
ger, VINO Is in St. Paul today to address
the Minnesota conservation convention.
the insurgent movement Is something
like a fantasy, also a mirage, and the
Ballinger- Pinchot hearing in Washing
ton Is of less Importance i'm the east
than in the west. Speaking of the in
vestigation of the CLAWS charges now
going on in Washington, .Ballinger
said:
$50 far nothing has been brought 20
| light but suspicious inuendoes and in
timations. These | shall be able TO dis
| sipate as soon as my evidence is in"
st. Paul, Mimi, March 16.-The Au-
ditorium was the scene today of the
assemblage of many distinguished fig
ures in the political. industrial and ed
ucatioral life of the nation. 1t was
perhaps the most notable gathering
that has ever met I'm the northwest to
consider questions of great public i'm
portance. The occasion was the OPEN
| ing of the first Minnesota Conserva-
tion and Agricultural Development
| Congress. which convened i'm response
to proclamation issued some time
ago by Governor Eberhart.
Promptly at 10 o'clock this morning
the congress was called to order by
| Governor Eberhart and was opened
with an address by Archbishop Ireland.
The opening addresses, appointment of
the necessary committees and other
incidental business occupied the re-
mainder of the forenoon.
At o'clock this afternoon the deleN
gates reassembled to discuss the sub
| ject of estate Conservation and De-
velorment." The program of the ses-
sion provided for addresses as follows:
practical Conservation and Agricul-
tural Development I'm Minnesota" Gov
ernor Adolph O. Eberhart; National
| Conservation and the Obligations and
| Opportunities Of the States" Richard
| A. Ballinger, Secretary of the Interior;
"Minnesota--A state on the Eve of
Wonderful Future" Professor Albert
Woods, dean of the Minnesota State
| Agricultural College.
| The congress will continue in session
| through the remainder of the week.
| The prominent speakers to be heard
| include clifford Pinchot, former chief
forester of the United states; James j.
Hill. of the Great Northern railway;
Dr. Harvey w. Wiley chief of the bu-
reau of chemistry of the Department
Of Agriculture; DIR. Charles X. Van
| Hise. president Of the University or
| wisconsin; DR.. John f. Fulton, pres
Ident of the Associated Charities OF
| New York City and c. ]. Blanchard
Of the United States reclamation serv-
ice.
| Much interest centers In the ad-
dresses of Secretary Ballinger ana
| clifford Pinchot not only because oil
| the high stations the Federal govern
ment has given them, but also be-
| cause of the decided differences as %
policy which has brought them into
sharp conflict with each other.
Secretary BaIIinger's Address.
| As ardent an advocate of wise con-
seryation as the most radical. was the
way I'm which Secretary Ballinger' OF
the Interior Department, in his speech
| todav before the state conservation
convention expressed his policy In re-
gard to the public land question. But >
no added 1T must be wise conserva-
tior to appeal to me-"
| Secretary Ballinger declared NM
self out of sympathy with those radi-
rails who fear that all natural resour-
nes are being used up without any
| consideration for future generations
| "Our country" he said, 'is the rich
ast of all in natural resources its
soil its minerals, its coal, its iron, its
granite it's limestone, its water power
and its climate, possess immeasurable
wealth. and, IL properly utilized, con-
tain sufficient resources to care Tor all
nrobable increase in the population OF
our country in the years to come
TIE said that while "the doctrain-
aires figure that the coal deposits OF
the United States and Alaska VIII be
exhausted in a period of about one
hundred years, the fact Is that' ac-
cordlng to the production OF co'ii III 'he
United States at the close of lsos' ohiy
OF 1 per cent OF the original supply
Of coal had been exhausted. leaving as
tho apparent supply still available ss'e
per cent of the original supply or coal
enough to last. as some claim, for a
period OF 1000 years"
after long indifference on the part
of the people as to the public domain,
ne declared. "a deep concern has sud
denly arisen respecting the remnant
of the national estate, with wholly
exaggerated notion OF what should be
done with 1t by the government. There
| is much talk about the conservation
of our national resources. and nebu-
lous theories that sound good to the
ear. but are impossible of practical ap-
plication to existing conditions. are
advanced. Between the hysteria that