Show tAFT rAFT AND PINOT DISCUSS PROBLEMS From Same Platform They Both Bothi i Addressed the National Civic Federation SUBJECTS WERE NOT SAME i Spoke on Need of Uniform It In Stute On Forestry Washington Jan Tart Taft and Gliford Pinchot whom thom the te format recently removed from his position a of tho forestry bureau spoke to tolls today day from Cram the same platform In s sIng Ing tho National Civic Federation In session hero here to discuss problems of at un olm state l legislation of at almost ever every I mch anch of activity met at the tho to talk over wy and m means ans for bringing about uniformity I ot of laws relating to child chilli labor mar and divorce pure puro food tood and pure puro drugs conS or of natural re resources sources and laws relating to n ne Instruments bills of at lading and other matteiS affecting the business md and social ocIal life of at th the nation Taft TaCt spoke at the morning and S serious attention was ac accorded accorded corded him him throughout hout His speech was 11 a careful presentatIon of the tho needs ot of uniformity upon the part or of the states In laws looking to an amelioration tion of at existing conditions I PRESIDENTS ADDRESS Discussing the movement started hy by the civic federation for uniformity In instate state laws Mr Tart Taft said it was the out outgrowth of at a demand on the tho part ot of the good citizenship to bring about better conditions In the tho social fabric f He defined a constitutional lawyer ns as l a gentleman who ho has gone out of oC the practise ot of law and has haR gone Into which called forth orth laughter Tracing the tho growth ot of ot of power In the general government In contradistinction to the ot or the tho states ho he said the tho early or of Chief Chiet made ell possible by 1 Power OWer which that with his a good judge exercised d mize tho th did not mini POWer ot of the tho Constitution Tho president ent In tho jUdicial judicini declared it If an anything tack It system deserved at was delay that list could be ba by secured the w wealthy alth un under er judicial legs He j wanted court un along the lines or oC English tiso both In equity and criminal law Speaking on con the dent predl said Thc or er to compel government has no pow OWners ot of forests tend to to at those forest the with a view to welfare of oC tho neighbors community or the tho who who live there or 01 ot of land are affected b by the denuding of the tho That must be done through state government It It Is dOlle lit Ut all and o with the respect to many of oC ms Indeed It if one follows h legal Eal that reasoning It will seem seon I think states state thero In the Is more to be done by the tho conservation of oC ea OVen than b by the federal n SPEAKS Gifford Pinchot was one of the prin cipal speakers at the afternoon sos ros slon lie He saId that sUbjects such as forestry preservation had been ado b by AmerIcans for tor more than years ears but that the control or of water monopoly In the common Interests W was younger than the tho present century Yo We have come at last to the ot of action ho he said and we must r gO forward or tail nil back In his judgment the present plesent offers n a field for Cor further action and for tor between the states them selves arid and between them and the tho As a result of at the White Home conference a 0 te few years cars ago 45 tato committees looking to the ot of natural resources have havo been ap pointed Time The great principles we have hao beM working for tor said Mr must bo be written In our laws now or the chance chanco may moy pass Public sentiment is 18 prepared and awake For the tho second time a 1 ot of the United States has Indorsed these principles In a mes sage to Congress Most ost of at the tho which the tho recent message contained are arc well veIl known to friends hot conservation and well approved If Ie It has omissions or passages with which I dIsagree I have havo no concern front Crom them tOday rime president urges that the mas tires Ures he recommends bo be taken up and disposed o of promptly without awaitIng the Investigation that has boon been deter determined determined mined upon I i echo his desire lre re can be no re reason n to await the result of oC the tIO Inv investigation before acting m measures The They stand by them themselves selves ln In the tho taco face ot of this great groot opportunity let us go further and so far as th these se I issues are oro concerned lot let us disregard the controversy altogether In a gen ben oral olal effort to secure what ever every good citIzen earnestly desires Our dut duty Is Isto l to look be beyond ond these above nil all losier strife In n G a common effort to reach ranch ob Jeet o of such transcendent Importance to all the people In addition to the tho presidents speech at the morning session Seth Low Tw pros pres presIdent Ident ot of the federation and Judge Al AI AIton Alton ton B Parker temporary chairman of the Ule conference also spoke With President raft as the central figure there were gathered on the stage stae notable group ot of men Labor was by Samuel and andolin olin John the tho law by Senator toot Root Alton B Parker and el elate ate to Justice Brown business by John JohnH H s Hammond John F Fryden Dryden and others President Lowe explained the pur purpose pose of the meeting pointing out that uniform legislation is Is C In to standardization In me mc construction |