18 Conserration of ^attira! Resources in California. 



SOME CURRENT LITERATURE. 



The following longer selections from magazines, addresses, newspaper 

 articles, will give more complete and well rounded views of the con- 

 servation idea as a whole. Why would not this collection be just the 

 thing for a reading circle or an improvement club to use! It is up 

 to date, interesting, and vital to our State, to our Nation. The material 

 has not before been brought together. It has cost a good deal of labor. 



Is it not strange that our schools, preparing for citizenship, do not 

 take up in some way this Conservation of Resources, so vital to every 

 one of us, so necessary to the very existence of the nation? 



Our boys and girls spend hours and days and weeks in studying 

 intently the virtues and the defects of the Articles of Confederation, dead 

 a hundred years ! But they can not discover in their school that men 

 are throwing away and giving away the land and the water upon which 

 the real life of the nation is builded. 



They toil and moil at length over the animosities of the Civil War, 

 which were better forgotten; but they do not learn that their birth- 

 rights of soil are being swept out to the sea and that their birthrights 

 in water are being seized by those who will thereby become their masters 

 and their rulers in all time to come. 



Is there not something here for schools to learn and teach? 



