Show Need For or Conservation tion Seventy five percent of the population of the United States is crowded into less than one By JOEL BRISCOE Seventy five percent of the population of the United States is crowded into less than one percent of the land THE PROBLEMS that have resulted from this have led to the deterioration of o our r environment This is a very important problem that our whole nation faces Concerned congressmen from both political parties have proposed legislation to clear up our streams and make our air more pure to breathe OUR MAJOR lakes such as Lake Erie have become very serious cases of pollution Strip mining has ravished our country country country coun coun- try sides Mountains of junk dunk such as old automobiles litter our roadsides If conservation does not become become become be be- come the concern of every everyone one of us it is possible that the country that we leave our children children children chil chil- dren will be a polluted one THERE ARE AT least two things that we c can n each I do doas doas as citizens to help heye this tIllS lem One is to write our congressmen congressmen congressmen con con- gressmen and urge urge them to support legislation that will prevent pollution Also we I Ican can do dp our own little individual ual bit by not spreading litter litter litter lit lit- ter ourselves EACH OF us must take care of the things that we throw throwaway away so that the country country country coun coun- try will not become unsightly |