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Show j "UNCLE JOE" AND PINCHOT AT DINNER KANSAS CITY, Mo., July 15. A ; ! surprise was sprung upon the mem- ' I hers of the Knife and Fork club In ; I this city tonight when "Uncle Joe" j Cannon, speaker of the house of rep- irosentatlves appeured at the entrance of tho clubs banquet hall beside Glf-l Glf-l ford Pinchot, the club's guest of honor 1 and principal speaker tonight. The1 two. men were given a rousing recep-ton recep-ton as Mr. Pinchot offered his arm to the speaker and started toward the guest table. ' " "Uncle Joe" gently pushed Mr. Pinchot Pin-chot ahead, declining his arm, desiring desir-ing to emphasize the fact that he realized the ex-forester was the especially es-pecially invited guest of the evening. Meeting Accidental. Mr. Pinchot led the way to the banquet table followed by Mr. Cannon, Can-non, the former stationing himself at the right of the president of the ' club and the latter Immediately at 1 j the president's left. Mr. "Cannon's appearance at the dinner was accl- , ! dental, he said. He arived here at ; i 6 o'clock, and left four hours later .' amendment to the; sundry civil service ser-vice bill put a stop to the work of the natlounl conservation commission commis-sion the national conservation aHicl-ation aHicl-ation stepped Into the breach and went on with the work. "The association is on the firing line in the conservation light. It la doing what would otherwise not b? done The men and women who give effective For.ice In the great cause thut means prosperity for our leople now. ami her. after. If the national ennservation association were not in exlot?nce there would be no organized effort to stop the p'underinij; of coal lands, the appropriation appro-priation of water j-owr-r sites by private pri-vate interests, nnd in jjencrol thy absorption ab-sorption of our national resources by thote who have the smallest right to them ". for Wlnfield, Kansas, where ho will : begin a speech making tour of the state tomorrow. Members of the club ! met him in the lobby of the hotel as they were assembling for their din-! din-! ner, and invited him to atentL He accepted. Could Not Get Out of It. "I do not roc how I am to get out . of It" he remarked. "I suppose I shall have to go In and visit with the boys." It to. before the Knife and Fork ciub that Speaker Cannon made a speech attacking the insurgents a few ! months ago. Mr. Pinchot spoke :onight tin "Th conservation of our national resources". resour-ces". Mr,. Cannon before going Into the banquet room said he wouid not make a speech tor.lfht Mr. Pinchot 6poko In part as follows: On Conservation Resources. "When Congressman Tawney'B |