Show Impressive Group Asks Hoover to Call Conservation Conference By RODNEY DUTCHER N NEA EA Service Writer One One of ot the most impressive lists of names ever yer signed to is attached to a petition asking President Herbert Hoover to call an international conference con cOn- ference on conservation o of natural resources The proposed conference would provide for an inventory of or such resources throughout the world and would function un tion with a t view to con- con the material prosperity r not of ot the United St States tes but of the rest lest of the world Such an idea seems to be in n Hoovers Hoover's own alley for he Is the most highly placed economic expert engineer and conservationist in the world Whatever his reaction to a a. proposal of such magnitude he will not be likely to ignore it it S C S SMore More than 17 conservationists college presidents editors educators ors economists business men la labor labor la- la bor leaders governors aut au au- au authors t thors and other widely known l pei pel sons signed tho the letter to Hoover Afew A Afew Afew few of ot the names are are those of Villis Willis Wil Wil- lis J. J Abbott James K n. Angell Emily EmlIy Em Em- ily uly G G. Balch Baich Daniel Beard Harry Elmer Barnes Bigelow Robert nobert W. W V Chambers Jerome Davia Davis Da Da- via vis vis John Dewey William E. E E E. Dodd W r. H H. H P. P Faunce Scott Ferrs s erI William Dudley Foulke Felix Frankfurter Fi Christian Gauss William Green John Grier Crier Hibben Fannie Hurst Jeremiah W W. Jenks William H. H Johnston Richard LloydJones LloYdJones Lloyd LloydJones Jones Jones H H. M. M I. I Kallen Kenesaw M M. Landis John L. L Lewis Ben Lindsey And Lind- se sey Bishop Francis J. J McConnell Edith Rockefeller ocl ef ller McCormick Frederick lc Bishop William Wil ham liam T T. Manning Shaller Shatter Mathews George E. E Miller l Dan Moody Mo dy Parker Parker Parker Par Par- ker Thomas Moon loon Christopher Morley Dana C C. C Munro Alvin MOwsley M M. Owsley Gifford and Amos Pinchot Ralph Pulitzer Father John ARjan A A. R Ryan an Walter Dill Scott Rudolph Ida Tarbell I I. I B. B Sutton Button Oswald Garrison Villard Henry Hemy Wall Wallace c Frank P. P Walsh John Sharp Williams John lohn B B. B Watson W W. B B. Wilson Stephen S S. S Wise and andary Mary ary E. E Wooley This army of petitioners advises Hoover that the matter is one upon which the civilization welfare welfare wel wel- fare tare and mutual helpfulness of the nations depend pend It urges l' l revival of the project for a world orld conference coherence for the conservation of bt natural reSOurces resources re- re sources initiated by President noose Roosevelt elt in 1908 Of fifty eight nations nations na na- na- na addressed only five small ones declined to participate The p people ople of ot every country Roosevelt noose said at the time rare are are interested in- in n- n in the natural resources of ot the whole world benefited by their conservation and injured by their destruction The people of every country are aie interested in the supply supply sup sup- ply of of food and of or material for manufacture In every other country country country coun coun- try not only because these are ln- ln through processes ai ox trade but because a knowledge o of the total supply Is necessary to the intelligent treatment of ot each nations na nations nation's nations nation's na na- tion's share shale of the supply But nut despite an enthusiastic in- in response Roosevelt's pl plan n never nevel materialized Taft became became be be- I be-I came president and Knox Kno succeeded toot a as as secretary tary of state Knox a a. dollar diplomatist quietly succeeded passed the word around that cVet everyone might as well fOl forget e about it it Today the question pf t natural I I resources is more than ever ever- evera a a. world problem It Is of immense Interest in interest In- In terest as everyone knows to President President President dent Hoover It is c connected nn not only with our national prosperity but with world peace and with the political and economic affairs affairs' of nations large arge and small l T Free frank flank and extensive international international inter inter- national discussion of L re resources resources re- re sources might not have alto altogether e her happy results because go il many smaller nations have been so thoroughly thoroughly thoroughly thor thor- e exploited that their re resources resources resources re- re sources ore lire almost entirely in Iii f foi- foi r eign hands A stats state department ot- ot o- o remarked recently in private that it if the people people- of some South American countries understood h how C completely their resources had bed been sold told out to for foreign interests r would be almost n But nut everyone l' l i the Jh M t Z S growing importance of 01 the pro problem lem The president of the world economic conference held at Geneva Geneva Geneva Ge Ge- Ge- Ge neva in May Mav 1927 said No 1 0 machinery for the settlement of International national disputes can can be relied upon to maintain p peace ace if the economic policies of the tho world so develop as to create not only deep leep of economic Interest in interest interest in- in terest between different masses of the worlds world's population but a sense of intolerable injury and injustice |