We Decided That Our First Job Was

But We Have Not Used Our Waters Well. Our Major Rivers Are Defiled By Noxious Debris. Pollutants From Cities And Industries Kill The Fish In Our Streams. Many Waterways Are Covered With Oil Slicks And Contain Growths Of Algae That Destroy Productive Life And Make The Water Unfit For Recreation. "polluted Water-no Swimming" Has Become A Familiar Sign On Too Many Beaches And Rivers. A Lake That Has Served Many Generations Of Men Now Can Be Destroyed By Man In Less Than One Generation.

Now We May Have More Preachers Out There Than We Have Drinkers. But A Fellow Told Me A Story One Time About A Man Down In Kentuckywhere They Make Bourbon. And He Said You Can Take A Jigger Or Two Jiggers And Get By All Right. But If You Try To Take The Whole Bottle Why You Have Lost What You Started With. So Don't Try To Take It Too Quick. And Don't Try To Do All Of It At Once. I Don't Do Much Promising. I Tell What My Goals Are And Then I Try To Wrap It Up And Put A Blue Ribbon On It And Get It Delivered. We Say Put The Coonskin On The Wall.

No Nation In The World Has Had Greater Fortune Than Mine In Sharing A Continent With The People And The Nation Of Canada.

There Is No Excuse-and We Should Call A Spade A Spade-for Chemical Companies And Oil Refineries Using Our Major Rivers As Pipelines For Toxic Waste. There Is No Excuse For Communities To Use Other People's Rivers As A Dump For Their Raw Sewage.

Every Old Man Complains Of The Growing Depravity Of The World, Of The Petulance And Insolence Of The Rising Generation. He Recounts The Decency And Regularity Of Former Times, And Celebrates The Discipline And Sobriety Of The Age In Which His Youth Was Passed; A Happy Age Which Is Now No More To Be Expected, Since Confusion Has Broken In Upon The World, And Thrown Down All The Boundaries Of Civility And Reverence.