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Show h JIM RHODYJ, Water Policy Wasteful? Probably the most damning indictment indict-ment of our present wasteful national na-tional water policy ever to be written writ-ten has just been turned over to President Truman's new Water Resources Re-sources Policy commission, according ac-cording to the Wildlife Management Manage-ment Institute. An 80-man committee commit-tee of the Engineers Joint Council, representing the country's five major ma-jor engineering societies, prepared the report, which is couched in clear, sharply worded language About one-third of the committee members have served with federal agencies, and the authority of the report is unimpeachable. Nine task forces made the basic study. The report deplored "ambiguous, "ambig-uous, uncoordinated, and conflict-ting" conflict-ting" federal policies concerning power, irrigation, flood control, navigation, and other water resources re-sources projects. Warning that "evaluation of project is the first requisite," the report attacked boon-doggling and log-rolling in stressing such items as local responsibility, re-sponsibility, need for equitable allocation al-location of costs, and the "fallacy of incentive payments" to landowners landown-ers for soil conservation practices. Although the report did not direct Itself to the activities of any one agency, it cited the fact that the Department of the Interior, Corps of Engineers, Department of Agriculture, Agricul-ture, Federal Power Commission, U.S. Public Health Service, Weather Weath-er Bureau, Coast and Geodetic Survey, and many others are concerned con-cerned with one phase or another of water development. As the number num-ber of federal agencies involved has grown and "as these have risen in stature their overlapping functions func-tions have become increasingly striking and their competitions have become impressively expensive." expen-sive." The present situation is described de-scribed as "chaotic." Haphazard development of vital water resources re-sources was denounced by the engineers en-gineers who especially decried projects developed and constructed, construct-ed, and often operated, by the agency agen-cy originating them. To alleviate competition between agencies, which is fostered by this practice, and to safeguard the public pub-lic against exaggerated intangible benefit claims as well as improper allocation of costs between general taxpayers and project beneficiaries, the report recommended creation of a board for the impartial analysis anal-ysis and appraisal of all federal water projects. Such a board would also serve to protect the public against "the present excessive and economically unsound rate of planning plan-ning and congressional authorizing of developments," since the board's review would be "prerequisite to the authorization of appropriation by congress of or for projects of this kind," AAA Nobody Barred Dick Miller, famed angler and rod-designer has come up with a new-type glass rod that makes this fishing instrument available to almost al-most anyone who is interested in owning one. Miller, who is vice-president vice-president of the Langley outfit, holds several world's records in fly and bait-casting events and should and does know what a rod should have to obtain maximum results and enjoyment for the user. Dick says of his new rod which is shown here that by the use of longitudinal longitudi-nal glass fibers and after exhaustive exhaus-tive tests for performance he has created a fishing instrument which will stand the heaviest fishing pressure pres-sure and yet permits the use of standard and light lures. Among the most important things is that the rod is priced where any fisherman fisher-man can handle the expense of owning one. Thus with Dick's rod, nobody is barred from the glass-rod user field. In testing this rod, we found that it had amazingly resilient action, despite the strength so evidently built into it, and frills and fur-bellows fur-bellows have been sacrificed to quality qual-ity and performance. While not designed de-signed to handle the 3,'S-ounce lures, the rod will do it, and satisfactorily, satisfactor-ily, if the caster will use one of the "lightning-fast," tournament reels and a small-diameter line. AAA Muskie Hooks Whether you troll, cast er s'.ill fish, the hooks you use for musk-. ies should be very strong. Eig niuskies are hook-benders and there's nothing r,uile so heart-M-eak:n2 as to lose a good fish because be-cause of weak or inadequate hcoks. For this reason, it is more practical or sji'iverai Ttu&t:on$ to tie cn art- spoons, wabblcrs and plugs -hi.'! are tniuinped with bi enough oo-.s than to use smaller sized ires |