Arizona republican., 1913-04-02
Spring unl0cks the fo1Oers to baint the laughing s0ll.
 --ReginaId Hebey
Flood Prevention


 The flood in the ohio river, more than the floods in the interior Ohio and Indiana last week emphasize the need of flood prevention something that was thought of until within a comparatively recent period when President Roosevelt advocated it in connection with the conservation policy. There used to be an old saving that a flood more dreadful scourge than a fire. The former could not be controlled while the latter might be successfully fought That is yet; a flood cannot be controlled once it's devastation has begun, but it can be prevented.
 Much of the loss of life and property in Indiana and Ohio would have been averted by the con- servation of of the short rivers of those regions for power purposes some uh- familiar with the conditions in the flooded dis tricts have understood from the mention of reser- voirs in dispatches of last week that some measures had been taken toward holding back the flood waters. That the at all Those reservoirs are dams but insecure recep- tacIes into which the water is diverted and stored and they are kept filled all times When the floods come they afford reeif but the contrary, they break their contents are added to the the case when the waters burst upon Dayton.
 With the waters of the ohio and Indiana streams properly conserved only would the interior damage have been greatly reduced but would have been less damage or. none at all along the lower Ohio.
 It for the prevention of occurrences of such disasters as we witnessed last week and wit destruction of millions dollars property and the loss or hundreds lives, that the national reclamation association is working and seeking national legislation is embodied in the Nevlands river regulation bill.
 The Republican, weeks ago, before the New Orleans conference, presented analysis of that whose purpose is here more briefly forth
 "First-It creates a national board composed of the the great bureaus of the national government whose duty it is to immediately pre- pare complete and comprehensive plans for flood protection and prevention in the future, in the country recently devastated, and provides that these plans shall and define the respective spheres of the nation state and local municipalities and outline the work to be done by each respectively.
 "Second-It provides all the money necessary for the making of such survey Investigating plan and report-fully, comprehensively and com pletely-wthout any of delays uncertainties of congressional action.
 ~Third-It appropriates in advance the money necessary for completely constructing whatever portion of the work it is determined should be done by the national government
 "Fourth--It is made the duty national board to earnestly labor to bring about complete cooperation and constructive action by all state, municipal and local agencies, whose cooperation is necessary for the construction of complete works of relief and protection for future
 "Fifth-It furnishes the necessary strong and forceful initiative which will bring immediate action and cooperation all local agencies, states and municipalities, which would otherwise lack this most essential element of quick action and the machinerys of cooperation coordination between the different agencies forces must be enlisted in the work