The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-12-29
FROM EDITORIAL COLUMNS


The Tennessee Valley Authority-TVA-s conceded
to be by many of those who opposed most
bitterly while it getting on it's feet
1t began in Woodrow Wilson's time the Muscle Shoals
Wilson Damp, Ala, project for nitrate manufacture 1t
apsed out of public attention during the Harding Coolidge
and Hoover administrations and revived the first Roose
welt administration
and plants embracing the entire Tennessee River sys
tenn In the parts of Virginia. North Carolina Ala
bama Georgia, Mississippi Tennessee and Kentucky Results
delivered include flood CONTROL erosion curtaiment electric
power production and improved navigation
None of the individual states in the Tennessee River
tenn could have handled the river and its tributaries alone It
federal organization to do one which could ignore
state boundary lines Just as the rivers do ana winch could also
fit the ambitions of state politicians into their proper place in
the whole picture.
On the other side of the Mississippi and considerably to
the system another and much
bigger network of rvers-the Missouri River system.
The Missouri itself 2469 miles long, from its beginning
Three Forks Mont to where emptes into the Mississippi
St. Louis Some of its feeders big rivers in their
right The biggest of them the Platte Little Missouri
Yellowstone James Big Sioux Ten large states lie wholly
partly the Missouri MISUNDERSTANDING Iowa, Kansas
Minnesota Missouri Montana Nebraska North Dakota South
Dakota, and Wyoming.
General Clusters old 7th Cavalry Regiment now fighting
dismouned with Macarthur in the Phppines) had song
wild Missouri (ast syllable rhyming with rye
and the term and is exaggeration
The wild Missouri stages year regardless and
sometimes put two 1943 and the total esti
mated damage S63, 900, 900.
great deal of effort has into ettes dikes channel
widening the Missouri and its tenn
peramenal tributaries but hasn't done much good There
the usual conflicts between states what should be
Farmers back in the sem-arid states of Montana and
North South Dakota want irrigation service chiefly
pie down in Nebraska and Missouri interested in
flood control and better navigation
seems obvious that in the of the Tennessee
SYSTEM nothing federal authority overriding
idua state objections in order to serve the whole Missouri
liver system area, deliver complete job
Not that Missouri Valley Authority MVA-should try
copy the IVA in all respects Problems involved in the two
areas differ widely The Missouri for example, mainly
through country while the Tennessee and its feeders
mainly in mountain country
that reason, it is hard to see how phenomenal
could be produced from Missouri River dams
though engineers who insist that to mil
kowas than present could be out of it.
Flood control and irrigation look from here like the major
which MVA could deliver to the great benefit of the
people who nhabit the Missouri River and
% the increase of the entire nations real wealth.
David E. Llienha who has made good record as IVA
chairman might be the job of supervising development
If MVA
thing think, is for to put together
pan with the best professional advice procurabe
get the books that work can be commenced as
as possible after the Well most likely be needing
making public works projects later after
Here is which, in addition to making consider
ought make that part of the United States
iderably better and more producveN Y Sunday News