Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-11
WALLACE TALKS AT BANQUET
President Of Conservation Movement
at Y. M. c. A. Banquet.
PRACTICAL QUESTION OF DAY
EnlsrRes Upon Association Rs Great
Factor that H. Helping In Direct
ing stream of Young Men
from Rural Districts.

The thirty-first annual state convention OF
the Young Mems Christian association
opened Thursday in this city with a largely
attended banquet at the Paxton hotel Men
prominent in local and state affairs were
seated at the speakers table and the large
number OF delegates and friends OF the
association filled the dining room to its
seating capacity.
Henry Wallace, sr., president Of the Ma
tional Conservation congress and editor
Of wallaces Farmer. was the speaker Of
the occasion Besides Mr. Wallace's ad-
dress the toast list furnished many other
speeches OF a noteworthy order.
The convention beginning today is to
continue three days. winding up sunday
night with evangelistic meetings at twelve
different Omaha churches.
Judge Harry s, DUNCAN Of Hastings
judge Of the Tenth judicial district, full
filled the duties Of POSTMASTER in most
entertaining and delightful manner, his
stock Of stories being apt, new and seem
ingly inexhaustible.
Conservation of Young Men,
Mr.. Wallace, speaking on The Conserva-
ton Of Young Men OF city and State"
classified it as the largest and most NOV
ing practical question OF the day.
We do not find the true meaning of
the word conservation in the dictionary"
said the speaker. FOR the stoppage Of
waste is not all 1t means. Clifford Pin
chot, Theodore Roosevelt and others have
given it a new meaning. Il means use
increase, the minimum of waste and the
greatest amount of use.
when we look at the resources of the
states" went on Mr.. Wallace, 1T would
seem that the greatest need is for the
conservation of the fertility of the soil.
But that lie only the first glance, let us
look again and we will find that after all
1t is the manhood Of the tilers of the soil
that must be preserved. Man, under God,
is the biggest thing in this world, and
man is inconceivably greater than his
works"
The speaker continued the thread of his
argument to show how the Young Mems
Christian association could prove itself
mighty factor in the conserving Of the con-
slant stream Of young men that is pour
ing into the cities of the land from the
rural districts.
f. w. ODER OF New York City editor
of the national association magazine
Association Men" was another prominent
speaker OF the evening.
Mr.. Ober paid great tribute to the
local association and his reference to E.
F. Denison, the general secretary, as that
Abraham Lincoln secretary Of yours" was
met by storm Of applause that evidenced
the latter's popularity.
Welcome by Mr.. Carpenter.
I. w. Carpenter, president for many
years of the local association. delivered
the address of welcome. Mr.. Carpenter
placed the Young Mems Christian associa-
ton, after the home and the church. as
the greatest power for good in the world
today.
DIR. William r. Dobyns, pastor of the
First Presbyterian church at st. Joseph
Mo-, spoke on a vision of Opportunity"
j. p. Bailey, state secretary, gave an
illustrated talk on "Nebraska's Work." in
which he showed the principal buildings
of the state, and reviewed in graphic man.
ner the growth of the local association.