Arizona republican., 1912-10-05
Amendments Are Made to
 Constitution Creatin g Membership Roll and
 Abolishing System of App pointment of Delegates
CHARLES l.. PACK
 ELECTED PRESIDENT
Interesting Addresses Are Delivered by Ralph M. Easley of Civics Commit tee, and Howard H. Gross of Fertility League
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dCh. OL NlSNC ClelHd W clS tICClSu plcSI- dent of the National Conservation congress today. Amendments to the constitution placing the congress on a permanent basis with a membership roll instead of having delegates ap- pointed by the states municipalities and organizations were reported today. In a survey of the progress made in this country along social industrial and civic lines during the past fifty years Ralph NJ. Easley chairman of the committee of civics, defended American life, institutions and morals today.
 Before preparing his address, MT. Easley said he had read in an Eng fish newspaper a sweeping and vitri- ollie criticism of our social and civic conditions. He said:
 Our unkind critic spoke of us as a people so utterly bound up in the worship of the Almighty dollar that he had lost whatever social vision might have illumined the minds of our future. That in short ours was a dog dog civilization, and that the only direction in which light might be breaking was in the fact that among tie NiStSl anu IiiOSl idi -SetlnS Ol American making headway was the conviction that American institutions were a failure"
 Continuing MT. Easley gave in brief an outline of the progress made through industrial organizations for the betterment of working conditions during the last twenty-five years. He cited the eight hour work day and l,.A Ngx.w- Al. disputes as refutation of the English critics charge. Other remedial laws mentioned were the child labor acts in practically every state; the tenement house laws of New York, and the state factory inspection. Aside from the legislative features MT. Easley declared that the hundreds of organizations for the aid of the needy, the protec- tiOn of immigrants, and the thousands of non -sectarian institutions for the scientific care of defective and de- linquents were marks of progress He also cOmplimented the work being done by the National Federation of Remedial Loan societies to protect small borrowers from loan sharks: the National Association for the Pro- motion of Industrial Education. and the United States Bureau of Mines. the Agriculture Department and the Children's bureau. all of which he de- clared were working for the advance ment of civilization and the general welfare of the people. Hundreds of other organizations, individuals and societies came in for their share of praise, including Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Mrs. Edward H Hartman and Mrs Russell Sage for their generous encouragement of edu- cational and charitable organizations.
 Tn conclusion MT. Easley said:
 q am happy to state that move ment is now on foot to make a pains taking inquiry into the progress made during the past fifty years in the di- rections indicated. with a view not only to discovering the good, but also to ascertaining what social and eco homie ills remain to be eradicated, and to propose, as far as possible, prac- tical remedies therefor
 It is believed that a movement which will recognize the good and sincerely seek to remedy the wrong would be more effective in accomp- fishing reform than one designed only to tear down and destroy
 Howard H. Cross. president of the national soil fertility league, today said that the placing in each county throughout the country of a trained farm demonstrator was the best poss- ible plan for improvement of agricul- ture in the United States.
 Experience has shown that the iss- uing of bulletins by the department of agriculture and the experiment sta tions have little influence on the farm CT" said MT. Gross. "They are not written in the language of the farm; they have comparatively no value in reaching the actual tiller of the soil.
 "We have our farmers institutes and the railways run their lecture trains. These have done some good but they have all fallen woefully short. of meet ing the situation.
 "The farmers are tired of talk, talk, talk, they demand something more. Show them a concrete example to prove your contention and if the re- suits are satisfactory they become i'm mediately interested
 Hence, the time has come when this vast fund of useful knowledge must be taken to the farmer in the personality of farm demonstrater, who will meet the farmer on his own land and show him how to understand and apply, the best methods known to science; talk