Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1922-12-08
TRIBUTE TO HERBERT HOOVER

hut those
public meeting the middle of the afternoon IN TINS
busy county will understand that the Hoover meeting
Yesterday afternoon at the high school building was
very great compliment to the man. Practically every
seaf was taken not merely in the great auditorium It
self but in the gallery also and those Tor Whol lhere
were no seats stood around the auditorium AT the
Rotary Club luncheon in the middle of the day there
was tie same eagerness to hear Mr. hoover message.
Even though attendance restricted to Rotarlans
and guests every was taken and many hao 10 DC
denied. .
,ba+ he was coming down into the "enemys country
Imperial Valley people are his friends. Ihey recog
nize in him the type Of leadership tnat tne county,
needs at this time and in particular they ino IN nm
nerbaps the one man in the whole country who can
give us the Boulder Dam in our own day.
Mr. Hoover's message was short one put exceed
inov meaty He sketched outline of the dlfflcul-
ties which stood in the way of an adjustment Oh the
various interests in the Colorado river IN way sas
factory to great states he pala TRIBUTE 70 e
spirit of Cancellation and fair play which had mace IL
POSSIBLE to settle those differences by conference
rather than by intermnable litigation which could SO
easily have been the outcome of attempts IN TINS orec
ton had reason prevailed and he showed how the
Santa Fe pact had been built around few funda-
mentas so self evident in principle and application
that all had to recognize them .
The strength of the Santa Fe pact according TO
Mr. Hoover consists in the fact that like the consttu
tion of the United States it attempts to settle nothg
but first principles 1t divides the waters OF the Color
ado for nresen and probable between the upper
and lower basins in the proportion that experience mas
shown that they be made use Of 1t establishes Tor
all time the principle that agriculture snail take pre-
cedence over power without contribution TO power
interests The use of the river for navigation is OF last
and minor Importance, and finally the distribution OF
the surplus put off for forty years for
bv another generation who shall have the light OF two
score wears of experience and conform the settle
ment to the practices and gencies of new era
Mr.. Hoover is plain spoken man without any
arts of eouuence and yet there few who did not
experience thrill he unfoded his vision of the Col
orado river project and looked forward into future
centuries. 1t must have had steadyng influence up
of orIta tOrca u
how this man and his associates OF the Color
ado River Commission had made their adjustments SO
fundamental in application that they might last for all
time requiring all controversies 10 CONFORM themselves
to sef-evident and eternal right.
Few failed to take note of the outstanding feature
of Secretary Hoovers message which was lett with US
as his final word Seven sovereign states nave come To-
gether and adjusted all of their differences by confer
ence Seven states have waived selfish concerns ana
come to agreement basis of the greatest common
good The statesmen of seven states nave set aSde
their special pet solutions of this question: personally
conceived, and have Joined in great peace pact
grounded upon first principles This being SO, should
not we of Imperial Valley have slight patience with
the agtators of household who would still cast
a monkey wrench into the machinery by stresslng mere
selfish considerations? When the conferees OF seven
states look forward centuries and envlsage all Col
orado river interests as unit functioning harmonious
ly for the good, shall we OF Imperial Valley
listen to any who oppose just out of habits OF oppos
ition? Shall be patent at all any longer with the
propaganda of hate AID disrust which has been meted
GU to us for so many years and which has con-
fused and delayed constructive project whch mas
ever been proposed?
If we do, we shall not stand in any very enviabls
light before the world We shall deserve slight con-
sderaton at the hands of the statesmen of the nation
who as finality have the deciding of this question
If we do that, may be certain that resentment us
such against the selfish wrecker that chances will be
impaired of receiving even that which 1t IS far
that should have
So far appears all interests are for the I'M
periaI Valley program in its ENTIRETY. The only
thing that interfere with full protection and COM
pete victory is such stupidity of procedure as has
made its appearance in place or two Big time pol
tiles is not done in that way and when the whole West
is uniting upon a program of equity Imperial Valley
should not waiver about getting into the band wagon.
The Washington Herald seeks the adjustment of
hanging and the substitution Of some more humane and
efficient method of execution for criminals in the Dis
trct of Columbia In California if could get MUIR
derers executed at all, should not be fussy to
methods
It's really indicate of the Philadelphia Inquirer
to suggest that girls hope chest these days ought to
contain at least good automatic, but surely there
should be nice, hand-umined copy of the divorce
laws.
Recent floods in the French Sahara tied up the
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