The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1911-09-24
WILEY MAY TAKE
OPPORTUNITY To
ANSWER CRITICS
Will Speak Before the Con-
servation Con-
vention.
TO BE ON PLATFORM
WITH THE PRESIDENT
Chief Executive To Make Address
On the General Subject Out
lining His Attitude.


With the President, Secretary Fisher
DR.. Harvey w. Wiley, and other ma.
tional and State officials in attendance
the National Conservation Congress viii
open in Kansas City tomorrow. The
conservation of everything from health
TO the forests will be discussed by dis
unguished speakers.
The Kansas City meeting will be the
third conservation congress held. The
first was held in Seattle in 1909, and was
devoted chiefly to the consideration OF
saving the forests. At st. Paul last
year the public land question was up
permost. The 1911 convention delves
into the general welfare of the farmer
and farm life, with especial reference
TO the question of soil fertility.
May Hit From Shoulder.
DR.. Harvey w. Wiley, the pure food
expert, will appear on the same public
platform with the President for the first
time since the recent pure food con-
troversy, which resulted in a vindics-
ton for the chief chemist at the hands
of the Executive.
DR.. Wiley is going to talk upon The
Health Of the People" His text at
fords opportunity, should the CHIEF
chemist desire, to take a few shots at
those in the Department Of Agriculture
who have stood in the way OF DR..
wiley's rigid enforcement Of the pure
food laws. And the doctors friends IN
Washington, aware OF his straight
from-the-shoulder tendencies, would not
be surprised If the pure food champion
incorporates in his remarks on health
q few salient observations as TO ms
uphill fight to fearlessly discharge the
duties of his office.
e. President Taft will address the con-
vention on the general subject Of CON
servation,' outlining the Admtnistra-
tion's attitude. The Presidents utter
ances are expected TO be comprehen-
sive, taking in every phase of the con-
servation question as ii relates to the
rights of the nation, the State, and the
individual.
Secretary Fisher and former Secre-
tary Garfield also will speak upon the
general subject of conservation. In con-
sequence Of the Ballinger-Pinchot az
fair, and Garfield's support of the de-
posed chief forester, considerable inter
est attaches TO his address, which VII
follow that OF the President, who did
not retain all the conservationists of
the Roosevelt regime.
Governors to Be Heard.
Governors of various States, Senators,
educators. and agricultural experts will
be heard during the three-day session
OF the convention. Senator Bristow' the
Kansas insurgent will forget pure poll
tics long enough to talk on THE Farm
and the Postal Service" while Senator
Gilbert NJ. Hitchcock of Nebraska will
take for his subject Conservation in
Congress"
Charles s. Barrett of Georgia, presi-
dent of the Farmers Education ana
Cooperative Union, will be heard on
Cutting Out the Middle Man" The
Department of Agriculture is planning
an investigation now TO determine the
middle mans profits. Mr.. Barrett is a
practical farmer, and has been identi-
fed with the betterment of the farmer
for years. and his treatise on the mid
die man." who is accused of getting
more than his share. may make that in
dividual vince.
Governors Hadley, of Missouri; Stubbs.
of Kansas; Blease,. of South Carolina;
Vesey of South Dakota, and Kitchin,
of North Carolina. also will be among
the speakers. In addition, an imposing
array of agricultural experts will deal
with the practical side Of farm life.
Several Other Speakers.
Former Gov. w. D. Hoard, OF Wis
consin, who is Americas foremost au-
on dairying. will talk on Dairy
ing and Soil Fertility" Other noted
agricultural experts and their subjects
are as follows: The Live Stock Farm
and Soil Fertility" DR.. Frederick B. |
OF the University of Mis- |
souri,; ''Wornout SOIL" Prof. L. c. Hop |
I1ins, Of the University of Illinois |
Methods of Cultivation" Prof. f. NJ. |
Ten Eyck, of Kansas State Agricultural |
College: The Trend of the Conserva- |
lion Movement" DR.. w J MCGEE, of |
the Bureau of Soils of the Department |
Of Agriculture.
In addition 10 the problem of soil fer
tllity, the congress will discuss good |
roads, the country school, the country |
club, the farmer and the railroads, the |
farmer and water transportation, the |
club, the rural home, CO.
operation among farmers, the live stock |
child life on the farm, and the |
farmer and the Government.
Twenty-Five States are represented by |
delegates. Some Of them are represent
ed by their governors and the others by
delegates appointed by them. Numer-
BUS organizations also have sent dele
gates. among them the American Live
Stock Association, the Grain Dealers
National Association, the American In
stitute of Mining Engineers, the Pacific |
Northwest Association of Engineers,
he Nebraska state Association of Com
nercial Clubs, the Cleveland National |
Live Stock Association, and the Lakes
o-the-GUlf Deep Water Way Associa-
ion. The Dominion government has
given evidence of its interest in the |
congress by sending W. V. Atkinson,
lorester to the Canadian Commission
u Conservation.