The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1911-09-28
LEADING TOPIC IN coNsERvA
TON CONGRESS AT KAN.
SAS CITY,
PRES. TAFT SPEAKS THIS EVENING
President Will Defend His Conserva,
ton Policy in Alaska-Many Emil
nent Men Will Address
the Convention.

AOAS SAAA-
paign, the attitude of the administra-
ton on the conservation question, es-
pecially in Alaska, as a political is
sue, and President Taft's announce
ment that he would defend the gov
ernment's Alaskan policy before the
convention, have aroused intense in
terest among the many prominent
men gathered here to attend the three
days session of the third national
conservation congress, which opened
in Convention hall today. President
Taft's. address is to be delivered this
evening. The data for his defense of
his national conservation policy has
been gathered by Secretary of the In
terror Walter Fisher in the course of
his extensive trip through the Alas
kan coal fields.
Aside from the political significance
that attaches to the convention by
reason of the attendance of men of
such widely divergent political opin.
ions as President Taft, Woodrow Will
son, w. J. Bryan, Champ Clark, and
others, it's deliberations will prove of
great benefit to those engaged in ag-
riculture in the United States, by rea-
son of the scientific farming experts
that have accepted President Wal
lace's invitation to speak before the
convention.
Mostly for the Farmers Benefit.
Particular attention will be paid at
this convention to the reclamation of
the soil; cooperation among farmers;
the postal service and railroads.; the
health of the people; live stock and
good roads. Each of these topics will
be the subject of speeches by experts,
Herbert Quick. editor of the Farm
and Fireside, taking "The Farmer and
the Railroads." Joseph l.. Bristow,
United States senator from Kansas,
"The Farmer and the Postal Serv-
ice;" DR.. Frederick B. Mumford, the
subject of live stock and soil fertil-
ity; while Curtis Hill Of Jefferson City,
Mo-, w. A. Beard of Sacramento, Cal,
and DR.. Walter Page of New York
deal with what Good Roads Do for
the Farmer" Cooperation Among
Farmers" and "The Country School,"
A novel feature of the farm phase
of the congress will be an address by
Mrs. Harriet Wallace Ashby of Des
! Moines, Ia, on 1.-THE Farmers Wife
Mrs. Ashby will deal with the social
status of the farmers wife, her daily
/ life and the advantages and disad-
vantages of rural life for ome
A further innovation from the rou,
! time discussions of the Congress will
be the address of the DR.. Warren H.
Wilson, superintendent of the board of
home missions of the Presbyterian
church, New York, on "The Country
Church." The object of this address
will be an exposition of social life in
rural communities with a view to dis
sipating the popular belief that farm
| life is an unbroken monotony. DR..
Wilson, in the pursuit of his duties.
has covered most Of the farming ter,
, ritory in the United States.
Opening Of the Convention.
The convention opened at $3.50 this
morning with a address of welcome
by ]. C. Lester, president of the Com
mercial club of Kansas City, for the
commercial and industrial interests,
and one by Darius A. Brown; mayor of
Kansas City, for the city. Governor
Herbert S. Hadley welcomed the dele
gates for the state Of Missouri.
The addresses of welcome were re.
sponded to by Henry Wallace, presi.
dent Of the National Conservation
Congress.
In addition to those named, the list
of speakers includes Vice-President
/ James S. Sherman, Speaker Champ
Clark, Secretary of Wal Henry L.
Stimson, Secretary of Agriculture
James Wilson, William Jennings Bry'
an, Governor Wilson of New Jersey,
Secretary of the Interior Walter l.
Fisher, and Henry Wallace. president
of the congress, besides senator's. rep.
resentatives, agricultural experts and
prominent men from all parts Of the
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