The Washington times., 1938-02-16
WiId|ife Group
Puts Blame on
Industries
BY GINO SINH

. be plenty of fire among the bill.
, lows of smoke.
And that many gentlemen, all
. OF them potent personalities in
, their communities which blanket
these United States. with dozen
or so others important in high
Canadian and Mexican official
circles, are today in their third
and last day of talk and counter
talk at the Hotel Lord Baltimore
in Baltimore in the Third North
American Wildlife Conference,
sponsored by the American Wild
life Institute.
DISCUSS POLLUTION
Appropriately enough. before
these outstanding citizens duck for
their various homes they will dis
cuss Ducks" That's the subject
on tap today and if you don't
think that's a topic of interna-
tional interest, slip over to Balti-
more any time before midnight
and listen to the heated banter
of words between men to whom
the SinoJapanese war is just
lot of newspaper headlines.
However, the subject which will
directly affect you and you and
you. even though you may not
realize it, was threshed out bit
terly in open assembly and coun-
. Gil rooms yesterday.
That subject is pollution. The
manufacturing industry is vitality
interested in this subject, and it
is a nationwide problem which
affects us all. Newspapers in
Texas and Oklahoma, the two
great oil States, have assigned
their crack reporters to the con-
ference-it is that important on
their books. Pennsylvania indus
trialists listened attentively to the
discussions.
Americas rivers are being rem
dered unfit not only for Ameri-
can wildlife, but for Americans.
Polluted streams kill fish, destroy
the vegetation so necessary to
wildfowls, prevent such typical
and vital forms of recreation as
swimming and rowing, and fire.
quently make the waterways un-
navigable and a menace to the
health of the communities strung
along their banks.
DR.. William Ellis, of the Bureau
of Fisheries. WaXed eloquent in his
plea to save still unpolluted
streams by studying the requests
of several industries before grant
ing them the right to build on
their banks.
According to Abel Wolman, Ma
tional Resource Board, domestic
pollution is far more to be blamed
for conditions than industrial pol
luton. He maintains that tech
nical solution is lacking and that
too much time is wasted battling
for regulatory legislation rather
than discovering solutions.
REMEDIES NEEDED
Wolman favored the Vinson Fed
eral pollution act without the
Lonergan "policeman's club"
amendment.
I'VE have been working for
remedies rather than for Solu-
tions in the past" David V.
Stroop, American Petroleum In
Stitute technologist, pointed out.
pollution problems are solved
by men working together for the
, common good"
The National Association OF
Audubon Societies representative,
Richard H. Pough, declared that
; the way to solve the problem was
to stop it," Pough pointed out
that oil drilling has destroyed one
Of the finest waterfowl wintering
grounds off the coast of Texas,
and that the oilmen have stopped
the mouth of opposition by turn
ing back some of the proceeds
;. from leases to the-State for educa-
tional purposes.
" Others who spoke for strict Fed
eral pollution measures were DR..
Thomas S. Cullen, Judge Grover
. C.-Lodner, Of Pennsylvania, and
Kenneth Reid, of the Isaak Wal
ton League of America.
Mosquito Control" was the sec
= ond big subject on yesterdays
panel. Drying out by ditching
= may kill mosquitoes. Clarence Cot
tam, United States Biological Sur
vey official, stated. but this ex-
poses marshes and wild life to de-
: Structive fires and eliminates plant
life necessary to their existence.
DR.. F. C. Bishopp, United States
Bureau Of Entomology. claims
: that mosquito control doesn't give
the people the protection de
manded.
The wildlife conference closes
today and tomorrow the Hotel
/. Lord Baltimore will be taken over
by the General Wildlife Fedora
ton, which will elect officers and
null over problems discussed in
the North American conference
three-day session.