| Show AGAIN AAN THROWS DOWN I lift TUE TO BALLENGER No Nov Pin Pinchot eliot chot chief of the United States forest service has again thrown down the gauntlet to Secretary of the Interior Bullinger Ballinger In regard t to the conservation policy lie Ho congress wilt ha have to decide at its coming session whether the great coal fields of the tho country shall continue to remain In Inthe inthe the hands of oc the people or be gobbled up b by monopolies and whether great water wilter power sites shall be given away to special Interests or be controlled b by the people Mr Pinchot makes known hits his views lows upon these tWO chief sources of pow or of the present and future in a aletter aletter letter to DI Lyman Ai Abbott of New NewYork NewYork York In response to a series of ques Jues questions asked ed by the latter on The Na National Conservation Policy I Referring to the development of I water pow power or and coal fields the gO gov government I forester declares that In iii most I cases actual development or of the form I Ier or er can best be done one by private Inter interests I ests acting under public control but that It is neither good sense nor 1101 good morals to let these valuable leges pass from the public ownership for nothing forever Against Special PrIvilege In answer to Dr question What Whal Is the danger to the tho Lion tion policies In the coming session ot congress Mr Ir Pinchot declares that It is the privileges or of the tho J few may continuo continue to obstruct the tho I rights or of man many especIallY In the I matter mattor of water and aud coaL I Congress must decide at al this sos sion Mr r says sars whether the tho great greaL coal fields still In public owner ownership ownership ship shall remain so In order that thal their use may mav be controlled with duo due regard to the interest or of the or thoy shall pass Into ownership and be controlled in inthe ui the monopolistic Interests or of a few cw Congress must decide also whether or er immensely rIghts to the use of oC water power shull be given avoy to special Interests in perpetu perpetuity ity and without compensation in instead stead stend of being hel held and controlled b bI the public I Great Danger to Industries Wh Is it ft important to protect tho water powers asked Dr Abbott and andIn andin In reply MI Pinchot points out that It Is of the ithe first Importance to pro pm I ent them from passing into prIvate ownership as the they have boon beau because the tho great source or of power vc c know is falling water I Un Under or our form of civilization he says If a few fow men over succeed in controlling the sources or of power they will eventually control all Industry as well If they stuccoed In control controlling ling Hug all industry they vill necessarily control the tho country Mi 11 adds that lie he has hns no I reason wh why wo we should deliberately keep on helping to fasten the hand of corporate upon our I solves for fOl all tIme timo merely because the few men who would profit profil hy by It I have heretofore had hiatt the tho power to compel it One thing that must be done to pro protect protect the water powers for the is 18 stopping absolutely the tho or of waler vator powers forever either on non navigable or navigable streams no ac according cording to Mr Ir Pinchot pow I ors must and should be developed b hy private companies j No Perpetual Rights lIe adds add however that neither pro profit profit fit nor safety requires perpetual rights Mr lr Pinchot declare further that th there re 11 Is no reason whatever why special interests should bl he al ai to U use thorn them for profit without making some omo direct payment to lo the tho people for the valuable rights derived from rom the It Is Just as essential for the lie pub lie lIc welfare that the tho people should ro 10 roLain lain and control or of water pow or er monopoly on na navigable as on non navigable streams Mr 11 Pinchot sla states tes In reply to the question Doos Doo the tho same principle appl to navigable as to If the Iho difficulties aro arci greater lie he I concludes then lieu the clangor that the water powers may pass out o of the peoples hands bands on en the tho lower navigable parts part of the streams Is greater than on th the upper tipper parts and it Il may he be harder hut but in no wa way less necessary to prevent t Stands Against Waste Wate Explaining what conservation moans means it Ir r Pinchot declares that thai It stands against the waste of the nations nat natural ural resources that can not be renew renewed ed cd such as coal and Iron It stands for the perpetuation of the resources I that can be renewed and most o oan an all In stands for an equal opportunity for every American citizen to got get hIs fair share of benefit from these re resources resources sources both now and forever In Whal has conserva conservation tIon to do with the welfare of the average man today It Is pointed out that Jl It proposes to secure a continuance continuance ance anel abundant of the tho necessaries of life Ilfe which means a rca rea reasonable cost or of loss and business sta ata bUlly It ndoc advocates tes fairness In the thO distribution of the tho bene benefits which now flow front from the natural resources |
