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Show TAFT ANB PIHCHOT President and Forested He Fired Make Addresses Before Civic Federation. MANY VITAL PROBLEMS ABE UNDER DISCUSSION Pinchot Talks of Conservation From Broad, Philosophic Viewpoint. WASHINGTON. Jan.' 17. President Taft and GIfford Pinchot, whom tho former for-mer recently removed from his position as bead of the forestry bureau, spoko today to-day from tho samo platform In addressing address-ing tho National Civic Federation, In sosslon, horo to discuss problems of uniform uni-form iatc legislation. Rcprctscntativcs of almost every branch of human activity met at tho conference confer-ence to talk ovor ways and means for bringing about uniformity of laws relating re-lating to child labor, marriage and divorce, di-vorce, pure food and pure drugs, conservation conser-vation of natural resources nnd laws ro-lallng ro-lallng to iNjgotlablo instruments, bills of lading and other matters affecting the business and social life of the nation. Tat on Uniformity. President Taft ispokc at tho morning session and serious attention was accorded accord-ed him throughout. Ills spocch was a careful prcsonla-Alon of the needs of uniformity uni-formity upon tho part of tho states In laws looking to an amelioration of existing ex-isting conditions. GIfford Pinchot was one of tho principal princi-pal speakers at tliJ afternoon session. He said that subjects such as forostry preservation pres-ervation had been advocated by Americans Ameri-cans for more than .a hundred years, but that tho control of water monopoly in tho common lntorcstii was youngor than tho present century. "Wo havo come at last to tho point of action," ho said, "and wo must either go forward or fall back." In his Judgment, tho present situation offers a field for further action and for co-opcratlon between tho states thorn-solves thorn-solves and between them and tho nation. na-tion. As a result of tho "White House conference a few years ago. forty-five state committees, looking to tho conservation conser-vation of natural resources, havo been appointed. Now Is Time to Act. "The great principles wo havo been working for," said Mr. Pinchot, "must bo written in our laws now or tho c.hanco may pass Public sentiment is prepared and awake. For the second time a president presi-dent of the United States has indorsed theso principles In a mcssago to congress. con-gress. Moat of tho recommendations which the recent message contained aro well known to friends of conservation and well approved. If it has omissions or passages with which I disagree, I havo no concern from thorn today. "Tho president urges thai the measures he- recommends bo taken up and disposed of nromptly without awaiting tho Investigation Inves-tigation that has been determined upon. I echo his desire. There can bo no reason to await tho result of tho Investigation before acting on theso measures. They stand by themselves. Plea for United Effort. "In tho faco of this great opportunity let us go further and, so far as theso Issues arc concerned, lot Is disregard tho controversy altogether in a general effort to secure what every good citizen earnestly desires. Our duty Is to look bo-vond bo-vond these, above all lesser strife, In a common offort to reach objects of such transcendant importanco to all tho people." peo-ple." In addition to the president's speech at the morning session, Seth Low, president presi-dent of the federation, and Judge Alton B. Parker, temporary chairman of the conference, also spoke. With President Taft as tho central figure, fig-ure, there wero gathered on the stago a notable group of men. Labor was represented rep-resented by Samuel Gompcrs and John Mitchell; the law by Senator Root, Alton B. Parker and Ex-Assoclato Justice Brown; business by John Hayes Hammond, Ham-mond, Ex-Senator John F. Drydcn and others. President Lowo explained tho purpose of the meeting, pointing out that "uniform "uni-form legislation is equivalent in legislation legisla-tion to standardization In mechanical construction." |