The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 28, 1929, Page 16

a — ae By RODNEY DUTCHER (NEA Service Writer) ‘Washington, March 28.—One of the most impressive lists of names ever signed to anything is attached to a petition asking President Herbert Hoover to call an international con- ference on conservation of natural re- sources. ‘The proposed conference would piovide for an inventory of such re- sources throughout the world and would function with a view to con- serving the material prosperity not only of the United States, but of the rest of the world. Such an idea seems to be in Hoo- ver's own alley, for he is the most. highly placed economic expert, en- gineer and conservationist in the world. Whatever his reaction to a Proposal of such magnitude, he will not be likely to ignore it. ** * More than 175 conservationists, col- lege presidents, editors, educators, economists, business men, labor lead- ers, bishops, governors, authors and other widely known persons signed the letter to Hoover. A few of the names are those of Willis J. Abbott, James R. Angell, Emily G. Balch, Daniel Beard, Harry Elmer Barnes, Poultney Bigelow, Robert W. Cham- bers, Jerome Davis, John Dewey, Wil- liam E. Dodd, W. H. P. Faunce, Scott Ferris, William Dudley Foulke, Felix Frankfurter, Christian Gauss, William Green, John Grier Hibben, Fannie Hurst, Jeremiah W. Jenks, William H, Johnston, Richard Lloyd Jones, H. M. Kallen, Kenesaw M. Landis, John L, Lewis, Ben Lindsey, Bishop Fran- cis J. McConnell, Edith Rockefeller McCormick, Frederick McMonnies, Bishop William T. Manning, Shailer | Mathews, George E. Miller, Dan Moody, Parker Thomas Moon, Chris- topher Morley, Dana C. Munro, Alvin M. Owsley, Gifford and Amos Pin- chot, Ralph Pulitzer, Father John A. Ryan, Walter Dill Scott, Rudolph Spreckles, Ida Tarbell, I. B. Sutton, Oswald Garrison Villard, Henry Wal- lace, Frank P. Walsh, John Sharp Williams, John B. Watson, W. B. Wil- son, Stephen S. Wise and Mary E. Wooley. This army of petitioners advises Hoover that the matter is one “upon which the civilization, welfare and mutual helpfulness of the nations de- pend.” It urges revival of the project for a world conference for the conser- vation of natural resources initiated “That, Miss Hathaway,” ' George Pruitt, artist, reproved his model, “smacks of a dirty crack. My con- nection with the time clock of the Lincoln Pruitt Hardware Company has .been tio slight one, I'd have you Ww. It’s been a ball and chain, to heaven grant, hold the “I?" Crystal turned her head to stare at him, and was met with such a-fierce glare that she immediately Tesumed the pose. . I bearded my stern parent in his den this morning, put it up to him, man to man, that I loathed, despised and was annoyed by the wholesale hardware ‘game’; hat, all past evidences of my genius to the contrary, I believed I had the divine spark, and asked leave’ of absence from my hated office each tt by President Roosevelt in 1908. Of 58 nations addressed, only five small ones declined to participate. ** * “The people of every country,” Roosevelt said at the time, “are inter- ested in the natural resources of the whole world, benefited by their con- servation and injured by their de- struction. The people of every coun- try are interested in the supply of food and of material for manufacture in every other country not only be- cause these are interchangeable through processes of trade, but be- jcause a knowledge of the total supply is necessary to the intelligent treat- ment of each nation’s share of the supply.” But despite an enthusiastic inter- national response, Roosevelt's plan never materialized. Taft became president and Knox succeeded Root as secretary of state. Knox, a “dollar diplomatist,” quietly passed the word around that everyone might as well forget about it. Today the question of natural resources is more than ever a world problem. It is of immense interest, as everyone knows, to President Hoo- ver. It is connected not only with our national prosperity, but with world peace and with the political and eco- nomic affairs of nations large and small. * oe Free, frank and extensive interna- tional discussion of natural resources might not have altogether happy re- sults because £0 mary smaller nations have been so thoroughly exploited that their resources are almost en- , tirely in foreign hands. A state de- | partment official remarked recently in private that if the people of some South American countries understood how completely their resources had been sold out to foreign interests, revolutions would be almost inevita- ble. But everyone recognizes the grow- ing importance of the problem. The president of the World Economic Conference held at Geneva in May, 1927, said: “No machinery for the settlement of international disputes can be re- lied upon to maintain peace if the economic policies of the world so de- velop as to create not only deep diver- gencies of economic interest between different masses of the world’s popu- lation, but a sense of intolerable in- jury and injustice.” Again Crystal disregarded orders and turned her head so that she might look into the eyes of the young man who was speaking so banteringly of what she knew, from Faith, to be the frustrated ambition of his life. For a long minute their glances locked, and his little, bright black eyes under the untidy thatch of tusty-red hair lost their smile, be- came so sombre and wistful, 50 nakedly humble, that the girl's heart swelled with pity. The old Crystal would never have been vouchsafed a glimpse of those odd, little black eyes as they revealed themselves then; or if she had, she would have bridied and fluttered and ruined the moment. The new Crystal’s eyes widened and filmed with quick tears. She turned her head away swiftly, resumed the pose. “If it depends at all on me, George, she sald gently, “you may count on me. I'll Pose as often and as long as yt i ‘Thanks, Crystal,” George Pruitt answered brusquely. .. . “Tired?” George asked dutifully, after half an hour of rapid work. “How could I be? I'm completely at rest,” Crystal murmured, faintly resentful of the interruption. “Then half an hour more,” George urged happily. “This light is mar- velous. But I'll stop any time you say.” ‘The half hour was almost up when Cherry's high, musical voice ae out from the living room doorway: “Hello, George! I didn't dream you were here! Clever boy! Stole a march on Harry Blaine, didn’t you? 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