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Show All Faiths Expected To Join In Observance May 21 Of Soil Conservation Sunday; Plans Being Worked Out V Members of all faiths are expected to join in' the annual observance, May 21, of Soil Stewardship Sunday, according to Adlen D. White, supervisor of the Uintah Basin Soil Conservation Con-servation district. The idea of a Soil Stewardship Steward-ship Sunday observance, formerly form-erly termed Soil and Soul Sunday, Sun-day, originated . in the Southwest South-west several years ago and now has been adopted in most of the western and southern states. Interest has been growing grow-ing annually, and this year the observance has been endorsed by many of the state associations associa-tions of Soil Conservation districts, dis-tricts, Mr. White said. Church leaders of all denominations denom-inations in the Uintah Basin are invited to stress the relationship relation-ship of the church and soil Sunday, Sun-day, May 21. Plans for a local observance now are being worked out, Mr. White con- tinued. Dr. H. H. Bennett, chief of the Soil Conservation service, in discussing the relationship of the church and the soil, has said: "Too many of us, in the church and out of the church, have not yet realized the seriousness seri-ousness of the situation or understood un-derstood or accepted our own responsibilities for the natural resources which are the fountain' foun-tain' of life for all people. It is obvious that the relationship of the land to community life is simply this: "If the land is good and is kept good so that it produces abundantly, community life will be abundant. If the land is neglected ne-glected and abused and allowed to wash away and blow away with every rain and wind, so that nothing is left but impoverished impover-ished or barren subsoil, the land cannot produce abundantly, ;rops will be poor, and the peo- pie on the farms will be poor. People in the neighboring towns will be poor and community life will be impoverished. "There are too many communities com-munities now throughout the United States where this has happened where churches schools, roads have locally deteriorated. de-teriorated. Some of them are being brought back to life through the beneficence of conservation. con-servation. Some of them will take a long time to bring back. "When we seriously reflect on this, we must come to realize rea-lize that soil conservation is essential to the very continuance continu-ance of our civilization, in a sense, to stop this needless waste and destruction of our productive resources. Soil conservation con-servation is doing everything to the land needed to keep it productive while in use. That's why it is so basic." |
