The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-07-18
ColOradO'S Problem
Insistent as Mississippi's

New Orleans Of the great mighty cities of the
South saved from the Mississippi floods New Orleans
p be congratulated.
peril Of that great city national concern no less
Than Southern For many anxious days the fate
Orleans hung in the balance bat BY heroic danger
Was averted.
Southern people VIA bre~s now that New Orleans
has been saved
And will breathe easier still that the National
Government has been aroused to the necessity Of Harvesting
ths Mississippi and preventing disasters Of this SORT
All Of that is as it should be.
But there another danger spot In this nation that should
haenge the interest Of the people Of the South and invoke
their aid and sympathetic endeavOr by way Of righng it,
California, than States the area
M ruin understand the tragic that seasonaby
threatens the millions of dweers lower Mississippi and
chat but recently left hundreds Of thousands of them homeless
The special understanding from certain similarity
Of conditions faCadhe Mississippi in the South Colo
eado, 'out West
But while Cahfonan fortunately able to be cheerful
about the happy outcome Of the contest for New Orleans
would not be possible for that city to extend congratulations
TO California the Colorado to rampage comparable
10 the Mississippi's
In the latter event Imperial Valley Of the richest dis
cts Of the State would only be inundated
WATER
In few weeks time Mississippi will be back in its
accustomed channel The covering farm lands and
owns will have receded The people will have the homes
md other buildings that upon lands for in thou
lands OF they Oated away So did their farming i'm
elements and other possessions.
The heartbreakng fate Of beginning all again theirs
But in practically all cases they have the land.
the Colorado to discharge flood proporonately
BIS great the Mississppis the $1,000 inhabitants of the
imperial Valley would lose their homes their crops mple
en stock and other possessions did the unhappy people
Hong the other river, and in addition, THEY would LOSE
THEIR LAND
The very basis of their existence and prosperity in the
ey would be forever taken from the because the waters
ncs in the Imperial Valley would recede They would
I'll this basin which has outlet and become inland
There could be drainage evaporation that would
take would leave the land unfit for agriculture the
base of the Salton Sea.
The people of California there doubt whatever are
with the people of the Mississippi Valley in their demand that
The Government protect them from repetition of the sas
Mous floods There be flood protection along with
will the incaculable blessings of power de-
Reloped for beneficial
What must be done with the Mississippi also be done
with the Colorado There must be flood control and in
Affecting that there will be created values for the
people Of the Weswater for irrigation, for domestic
Ind for the generation of electric power.
The Swing Boulder Canyon bill takes of the
first and most imperative unit of the Colorado River program
Congress must provide for the Mississippi situation in the
next session But let not be forgotten that the Colorado
offers problem just as insistent
The citizenship and craftsmanship Of the South should
ZONE interested acutey and actively in the great peril
problem that confronts the Imperial Valley While are
betoning-nsy acknowledgements relieve us of our
ood pers in the South should just nsistenty and
6neeFsly urge upbn Congress relief fer CalHernia.