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Show SHOWS HOW HATIOHS Mil HEEP EACH OTHER North American Conservation Conference Confer-ence May Be Forerunner of International Inter-national Movement for Conservation Con-servation of World's Resources. Washington. Conservation cooperation cooper-ation of world-wldo scope was tho keynoto of nn address of President Itoosovelt, made at tho White Houso on Thursday boforo tho delegates In attendance upon the North American ronservntlon conference. This sentiment, senti-ment, which wns first voiced by tho president, gnthercd considerable momentum mo-mentum during tho day's proceedings and wns reflected In nddrosscs of those who participated. Characterizing tho movement ns ot tho ''utmost Importance to tho world nt large," President Roosevelt Impressed Im-pressed upon tho representatives ot this government, Cnnnda and Mexico the momentous possibilities of tho work that hnB brought about the assemblage. as-semblage. President Roosevelt, nfter tho ses sion opened, expressed tho hopo to Secretary of Stato Bacon that a universal uni-versal conservation congress, In which all nations shall be Invited to participate, par-ticipate, should becomo a renllty In tho not distant future. As showing tho necessity for a universal uni-versal congress to deal with natural resources, ofllclals call attention to a refort from Consul General Wynne, of London, rclntlvo to the royal. commission com-mission appointed to Inquire Into tho question of n forest station In tho United Kingdom. Experts examined by this commission with reference to the future scarcity of timber stntcd that in less than thirty years no timber tim-ber would bo available unless tho different dif-ferent countries of tho world set about replanting immediately, and that If every country should tnko It up now tho restoration would not ue half fast enough to keep paco with tho consumption. Canada, said Commissioner Sydney Fisher, has watched with the closest attention tho conservation movement In tho United States. Romulo Escobas, ono of tho Mexican Mex-ican commissioners, declared tho conservation con-servation movement would And no boundnry line, but eventunlly would prevail In all countries. A dark plcturo of tho alleged wanton wan-ton destruction of American forests was painted by Scnntor Sinoot, of Utah. Ho said that tho men who In tho pnst thought that tho conscrvn-tlon conscrvn-tlon movement was a dream rather thnn a practical question nro now Bcclng that n now dawn Is ahead ot tho American peoplo. Sonator Newlands prophesied that tho movemont will find a constantly Increasing momentum, nnd thnt tho Idea will llvo and find Its perfection In legislation. |