THE PRESENT BATTLE Conservation has captured the Nation.

Its progress during the last twelve months is amazing.

Official opposition to the conservation movement, whatever damage it has done or still threatens to the public interest, has vastly strengthened the grasp of conservation upon the minds and consciences of our people.

Efforts to obscure or belittle the issue have only served to make it larger and clearer in the public estimation.

The conservation movement cannot be checked by the baseless charge that it will prevent development, or that every man who tells the plain truth is either a muck-raker or a demagogue.