Arizona republican., 1920-12-18

Opment of our own internal resources. The quickest and largest results in that field can be obtained by the rapid construction of some of the great works necessary to win the great war against the deserts"
 A comparison was drawn between the results of a war with a foreign na- ton, in which we might suffer tenn porary defeat only to come back" and finally win the war, and a war against the deserts which if once lost would be lost forever The speaker described Arabia today with what it was cen turies ago when the great dam of Ma
 rib watered a fertile region now 1 hopeless desert irreclaimably deso | late, as an illustration of what would | happen if we were once defeated by
 the desert. He argued that the war l against the desert must be fought with the same irresistible energy and | adequate expenditure as a war with
 a foreign nation.
 The world war cost us $25, ,000, ,000,-
 900. We are proposing now to expend
 more than a billion dollars a year on our army and navy. We should inn i med1ately declare a great national
 policy of expending not less than | $240, ,000 GOO a year for 10 years on
 water control and utilization. on war
 against the deserts. The total of that
 for only 10 years would be s2, 400, ,000,-
 GOO, one-tenth of the total cost of the
 world war. There are known projects
 more than enough to expend this
 amount upon in construction. and the
 doing of it would create a huge de-
 mand immediately for all sorts of
 construction material"
 Tells of Arizona Plans Mir. Maxwell showed the engineers maps and reports on the San Simon and Gila river projects and a prelim- mary map of the Colorado-Gila river project and said that he hoped an op- portunity would be afforded to him to address a public meeting before the
 end of next week in Phoenix at which he could describe in detail the great All-Arizona reclamation plan of which these units form part, and show what a marvelously prosperous future lies before the state if this compre- hensive plan and irrigation system for the entire state Is adopted Its adoption would mean" said ! MT. Maxwell, that not one drop of water would ever be allowed to run to waste in Arizona or from the mouth of the Colorado river. and the value of that water, transmitted into crops, is vast beyond conception. The money would all be poured first into a the local channels of trade, and thence into the national channels. Get busy without delay and put ! this great idea into operation and you 7 will have no more depression or hard times in the Salt river valley or any \ where else in Arizona The prosper ity here would be radiated throughout the entire United States" Need of Local Armory Shown Colonel J. J. Boniface, sent to or ganize the national guard of Arizona and New Mexico, told the Rotarians ir p.~T K Phoenix were not properly backing uL their national guard troops here. He described the immediate need of a suitable armory
 c. N. Miller, national field scout K executive, told of the state organiza- tion being formed at a meeting last night in this city. He urged the Ro-
 tarians to support the organization 1T t this city and state and described tho \ great good accomplished
 Warren McArthur reminded the Ro- tarians of the highway bond electior on Dee. 31, and asked that all boos
 it's success, declaring that not to pro- vide for this full road program nov k would be calamity.
 Under the leadership of Dean VII
 liam Scarlett, the Rotarians repeated E the Athenian oath. as follows: We will never bring disgrace or
 this city by an act of dishonesty O
 cowardice.
 We will fight for the ideals of this
 our city. both alone and with many. We will strive increasingly t, \ quicken the public's sense of civit duty
 \ Thus: Tn these ways we will trans
 init this city, not only, not less, bu
 greater, better and more beautiful
 than it was transmitted to us.'
 Harry Welch was chairman of tn,
 day.