The second case that is still very much with us is the Save The Bay movement which seeks a moratorium of all development of he San Francisco Bay. The high priest of this movement is Mel Scott, a U. C. professor, who has written a book. The fact that a man is a professor doesn't necessarily mean that he is a scholar, nor the fact that he has writter a book mean that he is learned. Mr. Scott contends that the Bay is a great natural heritage that is destined to shrink to a small creek unless private developers are curbed in their greed. (Let me explain parenthetically that I may have been the villian Mr. Scott had in mind, but Utah Construction has sold the last of its tidelands, so self-interest is no longer a factor here.) In the relentless process pictured by Mr. Scott the Bay in all its beauty disappears and with it goes the great harbor, the shrimps, sport fishing, wild fowl, yachting, and swimming, and all that is good and fine. This is enough to scare the hell out of even the hard bitten and to avert this catastrophe it is suggested that in the public interest we should declare a moratorium on any filling of the Bay until a master plan can be concocted under control of a State agency since they contend that even the local governments cannot be trusted to act in the public interest. The definition of the Bay has even been broadened from merely submerged areas now to include both tidelands and marshlands, whether publicly or privately owned. If time permitted, it would be relatively easy to destroy the myth that private developers could reduce the Bay to a mere trickle of water. 75% of the Bay is already owned or controlled by governmental bodies and -4-