Garland Globe | 1910-07-23 | Page 2 | Pinchot and Cannon Debate

PINCHOT AND CANNON DEBATE. Difference of Opinion as to Father of Conservation. Kansas City. Glffo'rd Plnchot and Speaker Joseph G. Cannon engaged in an extemporaneous dobato upon conservation con-servation before tho Knife & Fork club hero Friday night, and while each gavo expression to tho highest personal regard for the other and both agreed that conservation of tho nation's na-tion's natural resources should be on-couraged, on-couraged, thoy differed as to who was tho fathor of conservation. Mr, Cannon, who Bpoko first, said tho late J. wt Powoll, at ono (lmo director di-rector of tho government geological survey, desorved tho honor, but Mr. Plnchot assorted that Theodoro Roosevelt Roose-velt was tho fathor of conservation.