Show TAlKS AT T AMERICAN FALLS tl HO CITY IS PAID VISIT BY ID IDAHO HIGH OFFICIALS OF BOTH STATE AND NATION Th Thousands Jam Streets as Celebration t 7 v of of v Great Dam Is isn Carried O Out t 4 Work Is Now In FullY Full Y b j n f stir Progreso f- f I f American Falls Idaho Idaho American Falls came into its own on Monday July thirteenth Before 7 a. a m m. the Ule city was jammed and a holiday spirit prevailed Streets were gaily gail decorated decorated decor decor- bands blared and the little community community community com com- entered on the tho festivities marking the greatest day In its his his- his his- tory Men Mell prominent in the affairs of the nation and state brushed shoulders with the sturdy farmers of southeastern Idaho who came to take part lart In an event ent which means so much to the a agricultural interests of the state Pocatello featured prom prominently prominently ill in the event ment its traffic officers the streets Its bands furnished furnished fur fur- music and the great part of its citizenry was present of or t the h Intel Intelligent igent conservation e nations nation's resources with particular reference to human beings and soil fortuity was urged here by Secretary Work Vork in an nn address that formed a feature of a celebration at the commencement commencement commencement com com- of construction on tIm the American Falls FaUs reservoir The interior secretary defined the administrations administration's concept to conservation conservation conser conser- ration as use without waste of our I natural resources and their intelligent intelli gen gent distribution as to time He declared de de- dared the most pressing study of ot the government in which the country's greatest minds could be enli enlisted ted is this larger idea of conservation Secretary Work Vork began his address by directing the attention of his audience audience audience au au- au- au to the point that Americas America's era of ot exploitation of natural resources resources resources re re- sources was at an end and governmental governmental governmental govern govern- mental conservation factor factor factor fac fac- econom economy a tor was an index of this Conservation Conserva Conserva- tion of time and the federal and citizens citizens' citizens citizens' citizens citizens' cit cit- cit cit- income he said sounds the keynote keynote keynote key key- note in the utilization of our remaining remaining remaining remain remain- ing natural resources Conservation should no longer mean menn locking up these resources by nonuse the interior secretary asserted asserted asserted as as- but to encourage their wise use Our economic growth has been advanced advanced ad ad- only by the liberal and often reckless utilization of natural resources Its future expansion will depend upon a more thorough and intelligent intelligent intelligent in in- conversion of ot our remaining natural wealth to industrial Nothing can justi justify reckless use of our peoples people's inheritance from nature or 01 other encroachments upon the capital of our future generations While the federal government go Is r rapidly rapidly rap rap- p- p idly reducing its indebtedness cities counties and states are mortgaging themselves for the next generation to Pay ay Americas America's rapidly growing population population population tion must be provided for or in advance she the secretary said i in re recalling that tUat acres more will be needed for crops in 1955 with no increase In Imports to feed the normal increased population on Turning to federal reclamation the interior secretary declared that it cannot be regarded as of ot local importance importance im im- im only Whether this semiarid region shall continue to support itself our western coast and load their ships outbound or revert to sparsely settled range conditions to be fed by the Middle West Nest he termed a national question And nd an outstanding feature of conservation conservation con con- as ns the country must be made to understand it to be secure in its position as supreme among nations |