| OCR Text |
Show BPW Told Importance Oi Saving Natural Resources Cedar City Business and Professional Pro-fessional Women's club and guests enjoyed an illustrated lecture lec-ture at a special dinner meeting last evening given by Mrs. Helen Payne, head of the women's activities ac-tivities of the United States Forest For-est Service in the intermountain region. Mrs. Payne's lecture, il lustrated with slides dealt wifli the conservation of the natural resources of the area. Mrs. Payne is state chairman of conservation in the BPW club as well as conservation chaii--man of the Federated Club of Utah.' She works also with 4-H club members and with children in the state schools in fire pre- vention and has spent 33 years in forest service work. Emphasizing the importance of conservation of natural resources re-sources to maintain the national welfare, the speaker referred to remarks made by President-elect Dwight Eisenhower in a speech made at Columbia university in 1950. She quoted from that spech as follows: "So far as the world's food is concerned, all peoples must learn together to make proper use of the earth on which we live. Hovering Hov-ering even now over our shoulders should-ers is a specter as sinister as the atomic bomb because it could depopulate the earth and destroy our cities. This creeping terror is the wastage of the world's natural natur-al resources and particularly the criminal exploitation of the soil. What will it profit us to achieve the H-bomb and survive that tra-gedy tra-gedy or triumph if the generations genera-tions that succeed us must starve in a world, because of our misuse, mis-use, grown barren as the mountains moun-tains of the moon?" Mrs. Payne pointed out the vital vi-tal part women must play in the conservation of these natural resources re-sources and said we must never let our cupboard grow bare by cur earless and wasteful use of God given resources, "for in these resources lies our power against any evil aggression." Music ior the evening's program pro-gram was furnished by Branch Agricultural college students, Alan Seegmiller, who played a violin solo, and Bud Manwell, who sang a bass solo, "Without A Song". |
