Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1952-06-11
THESE POLITICAL PLUE

President Truman and his Democratic Party spokesman
in Wisconsin recently accused by Governor hoher Oh
usng the misfortunes of midwestern flood Vlctms 10
further their own political ends The Governors state
ment after the president charged THURSDAY tnat
mdwestern governors dragging their feet on the
flood control problem.
1.-The president and his Democrat counterparts IN WIS
consn more interested in using the flood to gain their
own political ends than they in helping the Hood VIC
TINS Kohler said.
Whe the president charged the mldWestern governors
with dragging their feet he confessed that ne still has not
made up his mind regarding the Hoover Commission re-
commentator that the flood control work OF the army
corps engineers and the bureau OF reclamation be con-
soldated Kohler said IF anybodys feet are dragging
it's President Truman's," he added.
''The president called midwest governors to a
conference flood problems wasting his day and ours
He did seek any information on flood conditions IN
Wisconsin did he discuss suggest any solution to the
problem of the Mississippi Instead he made political
speech in behalf of flood control programs which the
Hoover Commission has branded exceedingly Wasetul
because of the competition and duplication which exists
between the corps engineers and the bureau of reclama
ton.
81 would like to suggest to president that he might
better have spent the day studying the Hoover Commss
recommendations and deciding to approve them so
that economical flood control could be developed
which the mdwestern governors could conscienously
support.
He might aso during his flight Wisconsin, have
studied the conditions the Wisconsin river here They
should education to the politicians who believe that
big government is the only solution to national prob
ems
Had Mr. Truman done so, he could have observed that
there will be no flooding of cities the Wisconsin River
because the dams and reservoirs constructed on the river
with private capital.
"He could have observed that long before the Demo-
Gratis seized on flood control political ISSUE and
another means of forcing America into socialism, private
enterprise in Wisconsin, with legislative authorization and
announcement harnessed the Wisconsin River ended its
floods and put the river to work.
The spring run-off in this largest tributary of the Mis-
ssspp river north of the confluence of the Missouri be-
ING stored in ponds and reservoirs instead OF adding bill
lions of gallons to the misery of those who live
along the Mississippi.
Koher said that barring unprecedented heavy rain
Wisconsin did he discuss suggest solution ito the
year. The quantity of water already stored this spring IS
900 cubic feet amount sufficient to flood
$4,000 acres 100 square miles of land to depth OF
six inches
"The Wisconsin River reservoirs have been built by prl
vate enterprise operating under charter issued by far
sighted Wisconsin legislature almost SO ago. Kohler
only that floods can be controlled but that they be
controlled installations built by private firms without
public subsidy and with continued tax revenue to the
state