Show SECOND conference OF GOVERNORS IN washington washington nov 17 the much talked ot of inventory of oc blo nation 1 resources is now practically aly completed to consider on sider the material it aas brought together the Nat national lonal con sen aaion commission aril and has nut iua id its first full meeting to foi tuesday dec 1 in ill washington at that meeting the first steps will bo bc taken toward putting put ting into tangible M shape the reul results ts of oe the six months month haul had k on taking stock of the count rys waters forests foi ests lands landa and minerals ono one week later after the ho commission his has gone over the inventory it will hold a joint meeting coling ni in ili washington the governors governor of 0 the states stales and territories or their representatives senta tives at al this ine meeting eting tile tho inventory will be faither discussed ind and the report which I 1 lie hie ili Pies ident has requested tin the commission to make to him by january 1 will be formulate t ed with avith less than six months in which to make lie inventory the lie four branches into which UK tile commission is divided aided by tho the operation cooperation co ion of tile tho government departments havo leavo brought together what Is probably the most useful collection of 0 facts about the material things on which national industry and progress arc ro based that th at has c er been assembled at one time reports presenting tile these facts arid pointing out their significance lian hau bee been n prepared these reports summarized m and indexed will be submitted abin t 0 o the commission at its coming onil ng nice mooting it ng all thiril tile summer general interest in ili the work ind and object ot of the con sei sel co m mission lias has been growing tha public is now well nell posted on a subject of which only 1 a I few cla lists had kno knowledge wedge at the time or the hie conference of mid in ex cx pelts at t the he white djou house e in ill may the governors carried tile the spirit of the conference home with them to their own people and ami liae haie kept hept tiling thing oving moving ever since by appointing state commissions to study local plo pio bleiss by wilting and speaking ahing upon the subject of conversation and by keeping in close and helpful touch with the national commission they ale reay to lake tale pait plit in ill the I 1 ins ing joint meeting the bare announcement inno no that it had been set for december 8 resulted in ill a rul number lilb of acceptances before the formal invitation of the commission had even go got into the maila mail when the conservation movement was started specific information about the actual state of our resources was partly wanting part partly y inaccessible certain fuels facts were broadly known it was at least able that ofir our resources 11 had ad been wastefully used ind and that thai some of them notably noti bly tile the mines were vere suie in time lime to be completely exhausted while others other for example the lie forests could colli still be kept perpetually useful by right in management ana gement the first arst work was to get tile the facts f acts to show exactly what tile the giu situation atlon was anil and how low it could lie be 1 unproved by measures that would work without ili an inventory of the I 1 resources bilich should show the present condition of the i resources and the way to delope del clope them to lie best advantage conservation was in ili danger of staying up ill in tile the air but the work I 1 is now practically done the facts are in dollars and cents tons of coal board feet of ti timber niber acre feet ind and horse power of water acles of land A and lid tile the po foible possible Ible reform re form mea silles have been weighed the final dual report 0 to o the president Pies ident will be the necess necessity necessary essaiy ily supplement to the add addresses reses at tile lie white houe COlI conference ference the note of those add leases was a not lot of warning the report is expected to how that the warning must ha be lie heeded edel if tile he exhaustion of natural resources i is not one lay day to impoverish the nation arid and it will albo undoubtedly bring out liow how the le ie sources source s can call be developed so as to last the longest est po possible isible time to serse hene tile the gleat est esl good of the people collie |