The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-07-25
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control and drought alienation posi-
bilities, and by failure to stimulate
and use them in an overall develop
ment
ut shall be one of the purposes of
this institute to analyZe and reveal
the true nature of such dead hand"
projects, and to develop and promote
dynamic alternatives.
MVA Got the Praise-Army the Money
While the conference was in session
the Truman message to the Congress
which was loaded with praise for the
MVA and a huge request for addition
al funds for the Army Engineers to
build more levees and ensure bigger
and more devastating floods in the
future, was given a thorough going
over by the delegates. Most pungent
remarks concerning the Truman
Honey for an MVA-Money for the
Army" message, were made by Benton
Stong, editor of the National Union
Farmer, who quipped:
Assigning the United States Army
Engineers to the job of controlling |
floods in a river is precisely like send !
ing Typhoid Mary to stop a typhoid
epidemic"
Stong further pointed out: 1.-THE
Ohio river has been fully developed by
the Army Engineers. 1t is now the
scene of some of the nations worst
floods.
THE Missouri valley is only partly
no ,,,,7ry In |
Thus far. with a little over $500 mil
lion spent on the lower Missouri, the
Army has pushed flood crests up by
five, six and seven feet.
Army soIution-"Drown EN- OUT
Given time and a few more million I
dollars, the Army doubtless can still
all opposition to their stream-clog-
ging boondoggles by the simple pro- !
cess of drowning out the population.
"The 10000 members of the Mis-
souri, Farmers association want the
Missouri river problem approached in
an intelligent way-starting at the q
neadWaters and developing the assets Il
If the valley rather than starting at u
he mouth and gradually destroying B
values all the way back to the head 4
Stong concluded. 3
Valley authority hackers, however, e
we're not the only ones showing dis q
pleasure over the Presidents capitu- 81
alton to the Army. n
Divorce Proceedings Next? n
Inducements flowing out from the y
Bureau of Reclamation indicated gen. n
raj gloom over the "Sloan end" OF d
he Pick-Sloan plan having received
recommendation for only n
/ mere $40 million additional allot- n
nent compared with 1927 million for q
he Army. Observers privately con-
.Iude that this desertion of Reclama-
ion by the President constitutes
grounds for divorce for the once hap
1ilv married principals at the 'shot-
run wedding" a couple of years back. VI
Anyway, among some of the most
;austic COMBINATIONS of the anti 81
Iuated methods of the Army Engineers 4
roiced from the floor of the conference, 4
we're those of C. Girard Davidson, as n
;istant Secretary of Interior, and rep n
'esenting Secretary Julius Krug at
he institute. q
Soil conservation service also was Il
lot too pleased over the meager So n
million additional recommendation q
made by the President to do an added &
100 million job in the Missouri basin
Is result Of the floods. NJ
chief Congressional Funds Dispenser g
Doesn't Approve n
From still another source came OPP y
position in the person of Rep. Taber
R., N.Y. and lord high keeper of the
purse strings. Spaketh
he tightest-fisted member of the
House: ct is scatterfire and poorly
conceived plan. For once there is
General agreement with the thinking d
f Rep. Taber.
Of particular interest to floOd-fear- 3
ny residents of the Missouri area was
he talk given Friday on the recent
loods, causes thereof and how the
allure of the Army Engineers aided y
nd abetted the increased tragic con- h
equences of same, by ex-Colonel Jer