The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1918-01-29
Or. WIDTSOE
LECTuREDs AT
U. A. c. THURS.


II Germany had been an irrigated
nation. the German autocracy would
never have developed. declared DR..
J. A. Widtsoe, President Of the I'm
ivsrsity Of Utah, at the afternoon SEES
sion of the Utah Irrigation and
Drainage Congress held Thursday rs
part Of the Farmers Roundup and
Housekeepers Conference at the Utah
Agricultural College. A gasp of as
tenfshment ran over the audience Of
over three hundred irrigators as DR..
Widtsoe made this assertion. 1T Is
true" reafirmed the speaker. chat
such a government as the German
3unker has established would be i'm
possible In an irrigated country.
Under the ditch. where men must
know each other. where spirit of
community welfare must exist, where
cooperation must enter into the
handling of that most vital factor of
life. water. where the Golden Rule
must be practiced in order that COM
munities may live. a system Of des-
potism Is impossible. would that
the whole world were an irrigated
district. that there might be more |
men developed Of the Utah type"
In showing what the Utah irrigat-
or might give to the agricultural de-
velopment Of the world. DR.. widtsoe |
declared that three big duties rested |
on the western man. utah pI-
cneered In irrigation in this country"
said DR.. widtsoe. For 10 years
this State has lead In irrigation |,
work. Today. however. there are |
bic problems that demand solution
e Utah Il to maintain her lead. The !
lfTisators Of this region. building on
their experience Of the last 10 years.
must evolve means Of saving the
~ amounts Of waste waters carried
MAY ~ our large streams each
-. They must practice more sf-
lSetivsly the principles Of water con- !
lesvation laid down. They must
formulate an up-to-the minute code
y laws. that will take into consider
ltiea both the sociological ana the
physieai aspects Of the problem.
1.-TWO thirds Of the land surface Of
Ne world today Il under low rain
lAll. The time has come whom these
regions VIII save mankind. Out .os
~ desert will come the conquest Of
~ arth. These great areas. under
IAinlsss skiee. With enough water for
Irrlgation and enough rain for dry !
Isrnias viii feed humanity"
~. nsorgs Thomaa professor Of
soD6smisa ct the Univsrsity Of Utah
h diseussins the growth u the basic
neGlSanes sson which western water |
Fiohts rest. declared that existing r.
laws In this country came
fsom the Spanish. through Meyico.
Or from England.
'rhe primary statement Of the
Spanish law IL that the stream be-
longs to the state. to use or divert as
Il sees rit. The English law intro,
dpced the so called theory OF riparian
rights. which places the ownership Of
tne water upon the land adjacent to
the stream. denying the right Of the
remote settler to divert any water.
English law came to Utah with the
pioneers"
Following DR.. Thomas, William
Peterson. professor of geology at the
Utah Agricultural College and State
Ceoiogist, told how Utah should con.
troll the use e its underground wat
ers for irrigation. ut should be the
policy OF the State to permit the use
'of all appropriated permanent sup
plios OF ground water" said Profess
SOL Peterson.
AZ a euecial gession of the Utah Ir-