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Show IK Has Dealt in Fictitious Stories, Says Head of Power Trust St Iyjiils. May 26 "If President Taft will call in men trained in the school of renponslbllly, who Lave carried on the development work of the country, he will find that true conservation means something more I than publicity to flctltionB stories, restrictions re-strictions to development, the closing of public lands to production of farm products nnd the petty bickering an J mud-slinging of public officials. said Henry L Doberty or New York, In addressing the -National Electric Light convention. In an official report to President Roosevelt, Herbert. Knox Smith, commissioner of corporations, charged that Doherty aimed to control con-trol the water power of the United StateB. "I think it was a mistake for Mr. Iinchot," said tho speaker, "to adopt a subterfuge to withdraw many water power sites from entry. Unfortunately, Unfortunate-ly, our wholo conservation movement became embodied In the personality of one man, and those who could not agree with his intolerant opinions have been denounced as traitors to the public cause. "A busy public appaluded tho efforts ef-forts of our last administration to establish es-tablish a movement to cousorve our natural resources and our present administration ad-ministration stands committed to this movement." 'Doherty said the available water powers were capable of producing I power in excess of the amount, of ; power now generated, either by fuel or water, and that if our public officers offi-cers dealt In facts rather than fiction this situation would be apparent to them. He advocated turning coal Into a ' nitrogenous fertilizer and using It to i enrich the land Instead of wasting it In developing power. |