Excerpt from American Planning and Civic Annual The title of this address, like a famous Nineteenth Century garment, the Mother Hubbard, was designed to cover everything without touching anything, but I shall try to confine myself to one subject, the peril to our wild reserves which arises from our failure to deal effectively with subversive propaganda. I heard the President of the United States tell the American Society of Newspaper Editors, at a luncheon in this room in April that factories of the United States produce more than factories of all other countries in this world, and that, therefore, we are invincible in war. The next day, at a luncheon in this room, I heard an American Editor who had flown from Europe to deliver his message, tell the same audience that in the event of war we could not be confident of winning. I constructed the editor as meaning that another world war might be long and that our resources might be overtaxed. Be that as it may be, all conservationists are fully alive to the bearing of natural resources upon military capacity. None of them would wish anything done, which would endanger our economic strength, therefore our military strength, but nobody believes it necessary in the interest of national welfare or national safety to permit power makers to invade the Federal reserves. There is now in sight enough coal to serve all of our needs for 3,000 years. If we have luck we may find we have more coal. But, granting for the sake of argument that we should supplement coal wherever that is practical with water power we don't have to do so complete a job of high-damming that we must invade the national parks, the national monuments and other reserves. We should not be in danger of seeing our wilderness reserves invaded were it not for the influence of adroit arguments, by people who know exactly what they want. Politicians who seek office, businessman who seek profit, engineers who want to practice their honorable profession, cooperate in representing every proposed multiple-purpose dam as highly desirable development, and as being productive of a recreational paradise. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.