Arizona republican., 1919-01-21
JOINT SESSION
 HEARS TALK LIN
 WATERC0NTR0[
George H. Maxwell Gives Interesting Address Be- fore Legislature; Both Houses In Brief Morning Sessions

It was an interesting joint session of the legislature yesterday and an in terested audience in the gallery of the house chamber that heard George II. Maxwell for an hour speak on the sub feet of flood control and the conserva- tion of water. What has been done in the last sixteen years, MT. Maxwell said would be the keynote of his re- marks.
 He began with his campaign for na- tional aid when he was declared to be visionary. He began comparison between what had been done and what remained to be done, with an address he made in the Doris Opera house in Phoenix in 1902 when he illustrated to his hearers by means of an imaginary but huge pile of $20 gold pieces, the difference between the wealth of the valley with the Roosevelt dam. and the wealth that would accrue without it. 1 His estimate, he said, exaggerated as | it then might have appeared had fallen | far short of the reality, in consequence 1 of the impounding of the waters of Salt river.
 Here Mr. Maxwell instituted another comparison. He said that the propor- | tion of the waters of the Salt which l had been only partially impounded to | all the waters of the state, the Verde, the Gila, the San Pedro, and more than all, the Colorado, would be the pro-
 portion of what had been gained in wealth to what remained to be gained.
 Less Difficult Now
 | And said Mir Maxwell, it will be less difficult now to accomplish the task
 before the people than it was 20 years ago to bring the country to the idea
 of national aid and to harmonize the | differences in every community when
 the people had not had an object lesson
 of the benefits of conservation; when
 they could not realize the wealth that
 was to be created.
 Moreover, said MT. Maxwell, at this
 time there is another incentive for un-
 dertaking this great project, the need
 of furnishing employment to the re-
 turning soldiers who are being released
 by demobilization and men thrown out of work by the shutting down of war
 industries. And this task will be
 easier now than it will be ten or ff-
 teen years hence.
 The speaker said that his acquaint-
 ance with Arizona began 36 years ago
 when he made a trip along the San
 Pedro from Benson to Tombstone
 Then it was a small, well ordered : | SLTGdil,
 very banks of it. Not long ago he had , traVeled along the stream and was $ shocked at its changed appearance. due f to the floods which had ravaged tho
 surrounding country.
 2 Requires Effort of All
 To accomplish the harnessing of tho n rivers and make their destructive fore p es subservient to agriculture, MT. Max
 well said, required the harmonious eff e fort of the people, working togethe n for the greater object as they hat e learned to work together in the smalle f enterprise of the Roosevelt dam. ~ MT. Maxwell was heartily applaude' o | throughout his remarks, as we'll a when he took the stand, which was oc T cupied by President Johns, of the sen u ate, presiding, Governor Campbell an f Speaker Peterson.
 - At the conclusion of his remarks . 1 MT. Maxwell said that he had brough II with him a large number of steroptico '. views showing what had been accom- Il plished in flood control in Californi Y and in European countries, by Whic II II the legislature might see what could b u done in Arizona. He would be glad, h II said, to present these views to the leg | isIature and the public at any tim II within his stay here during the mex two or three weeks.
 When the speaker had finished, M 's Coleman moved a vote of thanks ft
 the address.
 IT Hold Brief Sessions s In anticipation of the address of NJ
 Maxwell before an informal joint ses
 sion in the afternoon, both house
 held brief sessions in the morning, de a voted chiefly to routine business. Cor trary to expectation, the night befor
 the first of the joint investigatir nt committees for the inspection of sta to institutions was appointed and SC ,0 out on it's journey last night to loo
 into the affairs of the Northern Ar zona Normal school.
 10 It came about this way: Senat i'd Campbell was obliged to leave la III night for his home at Flagstaff on pr Ie, vate business, and he suggested tn C. if he were made a member of a joi he committee to investigate the norm e. school he would pay his own expense m that much would be saved the stat es. J The two appropriation committees to-