The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-09-30
TO HOLO CONGRESS
FOR C0NStRvAT'
! Big Gathering Is to Com
at Indianapolis Tuesda.
of This Week.
(National News Association.

(NatlonaI news AsEoclationj
INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 40
lions of conservation applying all
things animate and inanimate y
the United States have been pref
for presentation to the delegate
the National Conservation Cong
which convenes the first of it's
days sessions here on Tuesday.
Foremost among these question
the conservation of human life il
it's varied phases. Occupational
eases, nation wide employees iI
ance, sanitation, and employers LII
ity have been placed in the foref
of this department of the progi
In addition to these subjects much
'tention has been given to the pr
ration of addresses on vital resour
forests, lands, minerals, and food
Some of the most prominent mel
the field of science and politics b
been chosen to treat with these |
! jects. Among these will be Cover
Wilson, of New Jersey, President L
W. J. Bryan, Colonel Theodore Rot
welt, j. B. White, of Kansas City, \
president of the association, Profes
II. 8. Graves, of Washington, D. c.;
w. J. MCGEE, of Washington; JUL
Ben B. Lindsay, Of Denver, Colo;
Harvey w. Wiley, the food expe
and DIR. w. T. Hornaday, Zoologi
Lork Maui VorE Cify
r. Particular attention has been giN
this year to the Vital Resources
the nation and under this head
been grouped reports from comm
tees on homes, child life, educati
and food. Following along this Il
an attempt has been made to estim
in money the value of preventa
wastes as applied to human life.
Statistics compiled by the Conn
sioner of Labor show that the avers
expenditure for illness and de-
amounts to $27 per annum This is
.workingmen's families only. But e'
this figure If applied to the 1900,
families of the United States, wo
make the total bill for caring for
mess and death $3.50, 900, 900. This
innate, according to the Commissio,
is more than safe and is only n tn
of that obtained by using various
Inmates by experts.
In discussing the coming congr
president J. e. White said today:
There is no politics in the Cons
walton Congress. The Congress
strictly non-partisan. 1t is the natio
forum where federal and state auth
NG~ssociations and individuals
country's resources as
IIon for the prosperity of
is the agency through VIII
1epof the country may fra
p principles affecting !
Erlon and utilization of the
kft is the idea that these pl
2Aah be put into erect by
4eral governments.
congress has felt that it
that the conservation of
purces, as we'll as our fores
WateES 1ands and minerals, sho,
have considered. Therefore, vital
sources will be the main theme of
.congress. 1t is fel that the Congr.
properly should have the coope
ftion of the candidates for the high.
lofice within the gift of the people a
tit is to afford them an opportunity
identify themselves with this natio,
movement for greater human eff
;ency that they were invited. We a
confident hat whatever they may S
will be received by the people of t
United States without prejudice and
ithe expression of their earnest opini
upon a subject of the utmost impo
lance.
THE influence of last years &C
sservation Congress has extend,
Throughout the Nation. 1t brought
fore the people of the United Stat
the necessity of maintaining and j
fcreasing the fertility of the soil al
the family life of the De
pie. AS a result. organizations ha,