The copper era and Morenci leader., 1920-04-23
FRANK H. OLMSTEAO MAKES TALK
 AT CLUB
Regular Order of Business Dispensed With at Last Meeting to Listen to Address by Honored Guest
 From Los Angeles

From Los Angeles
 The Clifton Luncheon Club held another enjoyable meeting at the ''Y" bu, ,lding on Friday last presided over by E. H. Green, President of the Club.
 The program of the day was chang ed for the purpose of listening to an address by Frank H. Olmstead, of Los Angeles, who was selected by the Fed eral Reclamation Bureau to make an engineers report on the Gila River reclamation and conservation project. included in the Gila river project is conservation dam on the San Fran cisco river at Alma, in New Mexico, which is planned to serve a two fold ipurpose-the storage of flood waters and the protection of the Town of l Clifton from devastating floods.
 It had been intended at the meet ing on Friday to elect officers of the club to serve for the ensuing six months but this order of business was dispensed with and the election of of
 ficers will be made by ballot mailed | direct to each member.
 The nominating committee, named by the executive committee, consists
 of E.. R. Shortridge, A. A. Anderson, M
 E. Crawford, Dr. w. s. Jones', c. H. Love and the following members of the I club have been placed in nomination:
 President-E. H. Greene. w. R.
 Davis, F. l.. Glisson.
 | First Vice President-J. c. Wright, l o. A. RisdOn.
 ] Second Vice President-M. Dam
 hauer, P. Riley.
 Secretary-E. l.. Travis, Dr. W. 5.
 Jones.
 Treasurer-W. E. Munroe, M. E.. t Crawford.
 Two Members Executive Committee w. B. Kelly, Dr. l.. A. W. Burtch,
 Duncan McNeil, J. G. Cooper, W. H. Neill
 I Following the introduction by MT. 2. Greene, Mir. Olmstead said in part: I s..F F want to talk to you about what l
 believe to be the greatest and most
 Fundamental thing in the United
 States to-day. I am not going to talk
 to you about the technical subjects in !, which I am versed; I shall not talk to , you about Engineering, Conservation, Irrigation or Flood Control. These r are all big things, put I am going to l Moderation"
 OHO cal dSO lOoloChI w IoOh W ctS
 acknowledged as the dominating char.
 acter, and voicing somewhat the ideals
 of American people. To-day he is a
 negligible quantity. We have done
 that with all of our heroes, Taft, Roos-
 evelt, Dewey, Hobson and the others ? ':The auto is a wonderful thing
 Gasoline has reyolutionized the world
 Note the Aeroplane,. the motor boat
 and the auto. I live ten miles from
 the city of Los Angeles, we have off ces in San Francisco. I have occasion
 in travelling to and from my offices p to meet many machines. I would say
 that probably ten per cent of them are
 froddcing wealth, but ninety per cen
 of the gas that is burned; ninety per cent of the rubber that is worn out 3 ninety per cent of the labor that is being used to manufacture the ma chimes that is being worn out; ninety per cent of the labor that is used to 3 repair, is for pleasure alone, and this l pleasure, with it's myriad ramifica tiOns, is eating in to the heart of the , business sections of our city. It would
 stagger us if we could know the , amount of capital involved. AS to the third heading of my talk, I would bring to your attention the moving picture shows. When we stop , to think of the number of people en- ployed in it's production, transporta- : tion and operation, and again the mon- ey that is spent upon it, and over and above all, and worse than all this, is , the time wasted in these shows by in divfduals, we are again appalled, Before contemplating a remedy let us consider thing or two. Let us : note the condition of the world to-day, it's seething turmoil, discontent and industrial unrest. God in his wisdom keeps ledger, not only with the in dividual, but with municipalities; with
 the nations of the earth; yes and with the world itself. A short time ago, as time goes, a few slaves were brought
 to America, and the account grew. The balance had to be struck, a balance
 that cost ohi so much. A balance is
 always struck, not oy ra1icalism, but ] God balances it. God balances the ledger and it always costs. The land whereon you and I are living at pres ent was stolen from Latin America Do you wonder that they mistrust? Do you wonder that an entry has been made on the ledger sheet? In a meas ure, perhaps, we have done something , for an entry on the other side, in Cuba and the Philippines, but yet there is
 torbe a balance. The Indians are an
 unbalanced account on the ledger page
 of America that must be paid some
 day.
 Let us not too strongly condemn the Soap Box orator When there is work for ninety men, with hundred men to do it, capital sets the price, and when there is work for a hundred
 men with only ninety men to do it,