ITEMS OF INTEREST May 23, 1908 Issue

ITEMS OF INTEREST

The White House was the scene three days last week of an important gathering called together by President Roosevelt to consider the question of the conservation of the country's resources. There were present nine presidential possibilities, more than forty governors, justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, members of both houses of Congress, representatives of labor and industry, and State delegates,—in all about five hundred men of prominence. The President made a noteworthy address in opening the assembly. Andrew Carnegie spoke on "The Conservation of Minerals and Related Ores;" Thomas C. Chamberlain, senior professor of geology in the University of Chicago, on "Soil Wastage;" R. A. Long, a prominent lumberman of Kansas City, on "The Conservation and Perpetuation of the Forests;" John Mitchell of Indianapolis, former president of the United Mine Workers, led the discussion on coal mining; "California's Rivers and Forests" was the topic of former Governor Pardee of that State, and I.C. White, State Geologist of West Virginia, discussed "The Waste of Our Fuel Resources."

President Roosevelt, Secretary Root, Andrew Carnegie, and others participated in the dedication, May 11, of the new building at Washington of the Bureau of American Republics, established to bring the republics of South and Central America into closer relations with the United States. The money for the erection of the building was given by Mr. Carnegie.

The Federal Government is preparing to make a case against the automobile as a road destroyer. If it proves what it has set out to establish, States, counties, and municipalities may be expected to consider the advisability of compelling automobile owners to pay a tax which shall be used in repairing the damage their machines do the roads.

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