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Show Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts and 58 Letters to eradicate that a social program seeking would attain some positive and immorality slums, serious attempts at increasing expression were it to include more The differential birthrates the birthrate of superior individuals. the careful balancing our of strata society, of the various present are biological of total populations with the physical resources, for a progressive, healthful, economic, and of view It would seem to reduce crime points necessary social future. Two years hence we shall be celebrating the centennial of that great pioneer trek that finally led to the Valley of the Great Salt Lake. We the descendants of that sturdy industrious horne of toil that has estab loving folk point with pride to a century we can hope for noth and these in lished us comfortably valleys, be our children and our children's children may that than better ing we thankful In home. retrospection land this privileged to call of our lives with those trying pioneer compare the seeming luxury when Nature here was "red with tooth and claw," and se days renely we hope that our descendants may enjoy progressively better days. Certainly these are goals 'devoutly to be wished,' but mere wishing cannot make them so. itself." There is an old proverb that asserts, "History repeats future of our quiet confidence in the disturb this adage Might has ever Utah if we consider the fact that no civilization to date maintained itself in a wholly arid or semi-arid country. successfully of Western. civilization was cradled in the alluvial plains It was here that irrigated aqri Nile the and valley. Mesopotamia The centuries from 3000 B. C. to 400 A. D. culture was born. the slow decay of empires built on saw the flash of power and not resources basically different from our own. semiarid land hundreds of dead cities whose fabulous ruins still silently Today sermons reflect the glory of their pompous wealth speak eloquent us for serve should both, as a They on the gospel of conservation. the silent a challenge to fight for survival by obeying and warning based upon knowl voice of history. We claim a higher intelligence be able and research, which if directed toward this end should .. edge to solve such problems. A Young dictated century ago the wise leadership of Brigham of Deseret must be successful commonwealth in the land in the soil. rooted Brigham Young, the colonizer, aware of firmly the unpredictable and the wholly un renewable the epthemeral, to direct all nature of the mining resources, counseled his people resources of this of the the agricultural to efforts exploitation their of land. While no attempt is made to depreciate the importance there is no escape from the fact that vast mineral wealth, that our a yet man,.. the future of our civilization depends mainly on the proper renewable' resources that spring from the soil. On the of agement |
