Evening star., 1927-09-26
Sentiment for Extra Session
Seen Despite Hoover Report

for the best efforts Of the Govern
ment's legal and fiscal experts"
| Apparently, most of the 225
crevasses in the levees of these
| Southern rivers are unrepaired." il
is pointed out by the Shreveport
Journal (DemocraD. This is Sep
tember. Next January. four months
away, is the time for the next reSu-
lar seasonal rise in the water level.
| Isn't it about time for the rest or
the country, far from the flooded
areas, to stop thinking Of the flood
as Noah's and begin to regard II as
our own and q disaster about which
something constructive and lasting
must be done soon?'
The Philadelphia Evening Bulletin
| independent Republican, holds that
provision of effective control must
wait on congressional action, but the
levees have been made safe for the
moment by temporary repairs. The
whole situation seems to have been
met in typical American fashion by
justified reliance on a combination
of private generosity and individual
self-help.' The Bulletin also en-
phasizes its conclusion that "Secre.
tary Hoover's optimistic portrayal or
the situation is welcome news to the
country"
"While the proponents Of an earlier
session of the entire Congress have
been quiescent temporarily" accord
ing to the st. Louis Times (Repub-
lican), ''it is certain, once an advance
session of the Senate is agreed on,
they will come to the front again
and ask the President to give them
whole loaf instead of n half" As
to tt ruling of Controller McCarl
that $2,000,000, which was supposed
to be available. cannot be used with
out further legislation. the Times
says, THE cooperation of the House
is necessary and it is safe to predict
that this will be made a special Tea
ture of the new arguments directed
at the President in favor of calling
both branches of Congress to begin
their labors in advance of the regular
time"
The Yakima Herald GndependenD
sees the need of action from bust
ness standpoint, averring that "since
loss of purchasing power in the South
would be felt throughout the CONNER
cial structure of the country, Con
gress will be told in no uncertain
.erms that, even if humanitarian ideas
are Smothered, 1t will be good bust
ness for the country to grant re-
lief funds to the flood victims"
Failure to start work on the Mis-
sissippi River problem until the reg
ular session of Congress" states the
Lincoln Star independently, viii
mean that at the very earliest no
tangible results can be anticipated
before another year or two. If. in the
meantime. nature is kind TO those
hard pressed people who were brought
to the virtual brink of bankruptcy
through the great flood of 1927. they
may survive the ordeal. But, on the
other hand, another excessively wet
season in the upper basin of the Mis-
sissippi and Missouri rivers. produc-
ing anything akin to the conditions
which prevailed last April and May,
will result In Il national disaster of
the first magnitude"
AS to the arguments against
special session, the Roanoke World
News independent Democratic) con-
cludes that "the whole truth of the
matter is that Congress is not in
terested in Mississippi flood relief or
in prevention of such disasters In
the future