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along the Euphrates being trebbled. The scheme would alsO' 

 mean a vast increase in the yield of cotton. 



The 02itlook for December 4 contains an article by Gifford 

 Pinchot entitled "The A, B, C of Conservation" in which he 

 answers six questions asked by the Outlook : What does Conser- 

 vation stand for ? What has Conservation to do with the welfare 

 of the average man to-day ? What is the danger to the Con- 

 servation policies in the coming session of Congress? Why is 

 it important to protect the water powers ? How must it be done ? 

 Does the same principle apply to navigable streams as to non- 

 navigable ? 



The first answer includes such telling phrases as " to make this 

 country the best place to live in, both for us and our descen- 

 dants " ; "equal opportunity for every American citizen to get 

 his fair share of benefit from these resources, both now and here- 

 after" ; " the same kind of practical common-sense management " 

 that " every business man stands for in the management of his 

 own business." To the second, Mr. Pinchot answers, " Conserva- 

 tion holds that it is about as important to see that the people in 

 general get the benefit of our natural resources as to see that 

 there shall be natural resources left." The danger suggested in 

 the third is that " Congress must decide at this session whether the 

 great coal-fields still in public ownership shall remain so, in order 

 that their use may be controlled with due regard to the interest 

 of the consumer, or whether they shall pass into private owner- 

 ship and be controlled in the monopolistic interest of a few. 



Congress must decide also whether immensely valuable rights 

 to the use of water power shall be given away to special interests 

 in perpetuity and without compensation, instead of being held 

 and controlled by the public." 



In the answer to the fourth, we find "the greatest source of 

 power we know is falling water. Furthermore, it is the only 

 great unfailing source of power. Our coal, the experts say, is 

 likely to be exhausted during the next century, our natural gas 

 and oil in this. Our rivers, if the forests on the watersheds are 

 properly handled, will never cease to deliver power." 



