. Conservation. Forests and forestry. 292 FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION June forests, minerals, soils and waters— should be left as largely as possible to the several states, and that a perma- nent organization of the State Execu- tives should be made, through which the will of the people of the several states shall be expressed, and a com- prehensive plan of Nation-wide con- servation shall be formulated and car- ried out by the States, working in concert among themselves and with the Nation. The tangible results of the Confer- ence, generally speaking, are: The has the President of the United Stat
. Conservation. Forests and forestry. 292 FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION June forests, minerals, soils and waters— should be left as largely as possible to the several states, and that a perma- nent organization of the State Execu- tives should be made, through which the will of the people of the several states shall be expressed, and a com- prehensive plan of Nation-wide con- servation shall be formulated and car- ried out by the States, working in concert among themselves and with the Nation. The tangible results of the Confer- ence, generally speaking, are: The has the President of the United States met in consultation with the Execu- tives of practically all the states and territories for the consideration of any questions, big or little. And practi- cally every speaker, from President Roosevelt on through the list, empha- sized the statement that from the meet- ing in the East Room of the White House would undoubtedly spring an organization of the Governors that, through its deliberations and the weight of its matured opinions, would exercise, in the years to come, a tre-. Photo Copyright by Harris & Ewing, Washington GUESTS OF THE PRESIDENT Mr. Andrew Carnegie, Hon. W. J. Bryan, Messrs. J. J. Hill, and John Mitchell formation of a permanent organiza- tion of state Executives, and the arousing of a degree of interest among the Governors that resulted in the announcement by several of them that their first official act upon return- ing to their home states from the Con- ference will be the appointment of State Forestry Commissions. From the opening to the close of the Conference stress was frequently laid upon the great historical signifi- cance of the gathering, and repeated references were made to the fact that never before in the Nation's history mendous influence over the destinies and the affairs of the Nation. With the severe simplicity of its or- dinary decoration brightened by dra- peries of green velvet that overspread almost all the east wall and the pl
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