Welsh Journals

the main ranged from Prehistoric Gower to Swansea in the Eighteenth Century and the Coal and Copper Trade of Swansea. The coloured slides programmes too which are always popular are pleasant reminders of the days we have had and will set our feet tapping ready for the great outdoors, which will call when spring comes round again. Chairman's Notes by GRIFFITH MORGAN THE PRICE OF LIBERTY is eternal vigilance members of the Gower Society will be aware of the need for constant vigilance in safeguarding the countryside. Whether we live in or on the borders of Gower, we have a deep appreciation of this ancient countryside, its scenery and its history, from the unparalleled sweep of Rhosili to the cockle beds of Penclawdd, from the Goirre of the Arthurian legend to the famous psycho-analyst, Ernest Jones, of Gowerton. This does not mean, as some may feel, that we are selfish or reactionary, that we wish to keep Gower in a glass case a community and a countryside die unless they develop according to their own traditions. We wish that Gower should be treated with respect and affection, so that all may enjoy it, but without spoiling its character and beauty. A crisis is looming for our community as a whole. With increasing leisure and the opportunities to make use of it, the advent of the motor-car on the mass scale, the natural desire to enjoy the countryside on the one hand, and the insistent demands of houses and roads on the other, it will be necessary for the com- munity to decide how to use the precious resources of field, river and mountain without squandering or spoiling them, as so much has been spoiled in the past. There is no easy way out the countryside cannot be closed or made into a reservation nor ought it to be, nor can rural communities be left unchanged by social