The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-04-23
COLORADO RIVER
ENGINEERING JOB
Secretary Hoover, After
Trip, Can't See 1t as
Political Matter
MAY COST HIM VOTES
IL He Should Run for Presi.
dent His University Man.
ners Might Hurt
spscislt to The World.

Special to The World.
CHEYENNE, Wyo. - Secretary
Uooyer's rs days swing around the
$50 600 square miles area of tho
colorado river basin apparently has
proved very unsatisfactory to the
secretary of commerce and his seven
associates on Colorado river commits
slon. At the final hearing here Mr.
Hoover made a statement in which
he said:
There is sad lack OF under
sianding of even the most funda-
mental engineering facts concerning
Tho relation of the various states in
,olyed. There is a general tendency
on all sides to obstruct by mental
deliheration the Importance of en-
gineering facts. But in time the
nalative weight OF the rights OF each
Of the states, the relative weight of
the different engineering principles
involved. the relative weight of the
different legal processes that may
follow from failure to make a pact,
will all contribute to drive these
states together with the national
government to some solution. Pub
lie opinion In each of the states
must be enlightened and 1t will re-
quire time in which to do it."
As indicated in this statement the
principal result of MIR. Hoover's visit
10 Phoenix. Los Angeles, Boulder
Canyon. Salt Lake City. Grand juno
tion, Denver and Cheyenne has been
educational. Mr.. Hoover as we'll as
the people of seven states concerned
in the Colorado river have a clearer
understanding of the difficulties in
yolved in making a start upon the
gigantic project which will trans
form approximately 10000, 900 desert
acres into agricultural lands and
geate about 20,000.000 horsepower
N hydroelectric energy.
No Thanks for Stephens.
In his closing statement here Sec
rotary Hoover startled his hearers
by pointedly emitting mention of
Governor stephens of California
when he thanked the people of the
southwest for their hospitality, for
Mr.. Hoover specifically thanked the
people of California and mentioned
by name the governors of all the
states except California. 1t is re-
membered in this connection that
during the week the secretary of
commerce spent in California, al
though he passed through the state
capital, the COVER 1r and he at no
time met. The politics in this situa-
tlon is further brought into sharp
relief by the fact that the governors
OF New Mexico. Arizona. Nevada.
Colorado, Wyoming and Nevada
travelled thousands OF miles to meet
Mr.. Hoover and practically all of
them as vice presidents OF the league
OF the southwest made the entire
swing around the Colorado river
basin with him.
On the closing day OF the hearing
Governor Mabey OF Utah announced
that he had invited Secretary Hoover
to Join the Colorado river commits
sion on a trip virtually the eptire
length of the stream prior to the
next meeting of the commission.
which Is to be held on the north
rim OF the Grand Canyon in August.
Mr.. Hoover tentatively accepted. A
special boat will he built for the
adventurous trip.
Praised and Criticized.
Mr.. Hooyer's trip was arduous and
his driving devotion to his work
aroused profound respect. The
newspapers throughout tho region
we're outspoken In their astonished
admiration for the extraordinary
faculties OF his mind. But there was
more than one outright reference to
what one critic called his stanford
,boorishness." This abrupt manner
ism Is said to be common to those
graduates OF the university whose
lives came under the personal In
fluenCe OF the founder of Califor-
MAS great educational institution.