Women both in public and at home, by
letting the men know what they think, and by putting it before the
children, can make familiar the idea of conservation, and support it
with a convincingness that nobody else can approach.
However important it may be for the lumberman, the miner, the
wagon-maker, the railroad man, the house-builder,--for every
industry,--that conservation should obtain, when all is said and done,
conservation goes back in its directest application to one body in this
country, and that is to the children. There is in this country no other
movement except possibly the education movement--and that after all is
in a sense only another aspect of the conservation question, the seeking
to make the most of what we have--so directly aimed to help the
children, so conditioned upon the needs of the children, so belonging to
the children, as the conservation movement; and it is for that reason
more than any other that it has the support of the women of the Nation.
CHAPTER X
AN EQUAL CHANCE
The American people have evidently made up their minds that our natural
resources must be conserved. That is good, but it settles only half the
question.
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