The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-09-29
LID ON POLITICS
AT KANSAS CITY
Conservationists Hope to
Avoid Controversy.
MANY SPEECHES ARE MADE

Problems Confronting the Country
Discussed by Delegates to Third An.
nuaI consress-PIans for oraaniza-
ton Of Clubs and Amusements for
Farmers Wives Outlined by Wo-
men Speakers.
Kansas City, Sept. Ell. B. White
of Kansas City, wealthy lumberman,
now chairman of the executive COM
mittee, is thus far the only candidate
for president of the National Con-
%servation congress for the next year.
The resolutions will deal, it is ex-
pected, with the solution of conserve
ton problems along scientific lines.
Politics and policies in serious con-
troversy are under a tight lid.
DR.. Drinker, president Of the lie
high university of Pennsylvania, drew
the limitation of conservation still
more narrowly in an address on min
eral resources.
1t is to stop with finding q way for
preserving natural The
ownership of these resources, whether
by individuals or great corporations,
he regards as a political question.
To mix the trust question with con-
s%ervatlon leads only to demagogy. In
this he was probably a mouthpiece of
the convention.
Delegates do not expect w. J. Bryan
to respect these limitations when he
comes. The announcement of his COM
ing, read from a telegram, brought
out vigorous cheers. He is down for
an address"
More Corn, Less Theology.
P. G. Holden departed somewhat
from orthodox lines in telling how to
better social conditions on the farm.
He recommended more corr and less
theology in the rural schools and
churches. Churches and schools must
talk in terms Of life work.
- "a A/Ol46, lnlAAAOu0llO uulU0I1ll0H
of Kansas City, was injected into the
program to advocate the promotion Of
the men and religion movement. He
added a word about forest %preserva-
| ton.
w. A. Beard, tilted the lid on politi-
cal discussion at the end Of his speech
on cooperation. 1t was of great i'm
portance, he said, that the of
Alaska be conserved, but every year
wealth many times greater In value
than the of Alaska is taken
in undue profits by the combinations
which control business. The remedy
is cooperation, he says. Minnesota,
with its 600 cooperative creameries.
is one of the states in the van.
That express companies are para
sites which have stolen the functions
Of the p%ostofice department was the
statement Of Herbert Quick Of Madi-
son, Wis. He spoke Of the railway
and the farmer. Express companies,
he said, were responsible for much Of
the high cost of living. Railways
should eliminate the express compar
MES. the fast freight and the re-
f%rigerator cars.
Clubs for the Country.
Women had an important part in
the program. Plans for the organiza-
ton Of community clubs and to i'm
prove the educational and religious "a
cilities in the country districts were
put forward by leaders in the o
ment to check the tendency of coun-
try boys and girls to leave their farm
homes and 30 to the large cities. It
is planned to make rural life 10 pleas
ant that the young people will be At
tracted by 1t.
/ That the future of the United States
as an agricultural country depends up
on q closer relation between the farn-
er and the railroads was the gist Of
an address by Herbert Quick Of Madt
son, Wis, editor Of . farm Journal
| MI. Quick said, while the relations b.
tween the farmers and the railroads
are not always amicable, 1t was the
farmers who really built the railroads
and we're then neatly beaten out Of
their interests"
Discussing the subject, "The Coop
erative Movement" w. A. Beard Of
Sacramento. Cal. said that co-opera-
ton 10 q means Of conserving that
most valuable of all resources, hs-
man energy, and the most dear Of IN
| ns,r rights md nriyila1As that ~ enna1