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O,~.2,gS legislative fight. It ought not to be done by the Sierra Club itself, so long as it holds itself out to be a scientific, educational, tax-exempt corporation. "One of these legislative organizations is the Citizens Com- mittee on Natural Resources, of which David Brower. . . is a board member. How curious it is, then, that he has chosen to place the Sierra Club in jeopardy through this out-and-out legis- lative campaign. After all, our tax laws, which I did not write, draw a distinction between cultural, scientific and educational efforts, on the one hand, and lobbying or legislative efforts on the other. We have decided through our Congress that the, first should be subsidized by the taxpayers through tax deductions and that the second should not. For most of its existence the Sierra Club has been primarily in the first category, and only recently under David Brower's direction has the club veered into the other. . ." More Lumps for the Sierra Club ~ ,: I: I A few days later the Sierra Club had to take its lumps from another Arizona official, Governor Goddard. He was in Tucson to preside over the installation at the city hall of the plastic model of the Grand Canyon which had been used at the governors' conference in Los Angeles. He said the Sierra Club was "inciting people with misinformation about the Grand Can- yon" and Congressman Udall's statement in Congress was some- thing "that needed saying and needed saying badly." Asked what he thought was the Sierra Club's motive in fighting the dams, the governor said he thought it was a residue of bitterness left over from the club's unsuccessful opposition to Glen Canyon Dam. "There are people who just want nature to be left alone, whether it is wild and savage or gentle and kind," he observed. Congress served as the forum for stilI another attack on the Sierra Club, this time by Congressman Hosmer of California. He called its opposition to the dams "the most outrageous demagoguery to hit town since Barnum left." "Many people have been taken in by these extravagant and completely erron- eous charges. . . ," said Mr. Hosmer. "The truth is that Marble Canyon Darn would be built 13 miles upstream from Grand Canyon National Park and nearly four times that distance from the traditional South Rim obseravtion points. Hualapai Dam would be built 80.3 miles downstream from the western border of the park and 149.5 river miles from the South Rim. Even the recreation lake created by Hualapai Dam would be 55.5 miles from the South Rim. No darns or lakes would be visible from any easily accessible public observation point anywhere in Grand Canyon National Park. . ." -15- . . ,':.', ,',. i ;;i~!>;;'~~~~ ...,.J.... '.-"-.' ~-.' ~~. :;~~~~.~.~;.~~.~.;.; ....:;:....;.,....: . . -." "." '." ...... .. '-~. .~-~.. ....... ..::..::.....::..~.:.~