Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1916 — True Meaning of Conservation. [ARTICLE]

True Meaning of Conservation.

I believe that conservation in its broadest term means not the mere saving of a resource against the possible future need, but making of the conserved resource as widely useful to the greatest possible number in the shortest time consistent with the elimination of waste.—Professor Thomas H. Norton, Ph. D., Sc. D., Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, United States Department of Commerce, in Scientific American.