FIFTH NATIONAL CONSERVATION CONGRESS 11 



prefer a return to the old order of things, wherein wasteful gain was the keynote. 

 It is inevitable that with these people true conservation should be unpopular. We 

 must all recognize this even though such recognition forces us to feel we love 

 conservation for some of the enemies it has made. Thus recognized, the enemy 

 is half defeated. We must spare no effort, however, to insure complete defeat. 

 That we can do it we all know. That we must do it is obvious. 



I greet you all most cordially as my fellow workers in the vineyard that shall 

 yield perpetual fruitage for the use and good of the entire American people. 

 (Applause.) 



