Show THE selfishness OF STATES states ore are just as hard to get other in an agree agreement ment an individuals that fact is being impressed upon tho world orld in the action of utah in nullifying the six state pact for the he flood control water conservation and power development project for the colorado river popularly known as the doulder boulder clam project credit was given secretary hoover for conceiving the seven state pact which at santa fe proposed the joint action of the seven states of the colorado upper and lower basins and ratification latifi catlon by congress arizona was the only state to refuse to go gg into the seven state pact designing politicians also threw all of the nion mon key wrenches into the machinery that they could then the other six states state i pre prepared to move andon this occasion california was tho the state to intrude with reservations a position that it haa insisted upon maintaining it is not surprising that tha other states find that everything connected with the six state pacts were not just juat as they wanted them to baand be and are kicking over the traces when state selfishness enters into any group of states program the result is the same amo as a when human beings refuse to give and take in the difficulties that come to their groups usually the more there are involved the greater er is the danger of disagreement there were plenty of designing politicians in the I 1 beginning who want to see the hoover plan succeed in relation to the colorado river while he was seeking no glory in connection with it they thought that they were being eclipsed so they started movements that would thwart it and bring themselves into pron prominence in following such a course bourse they have played havoc with the greatest project ever faced by the southwest and may ma y effectively block flood control irrigation an and d power development for a n long time to come so far as the people asa as a whole ate are concerned they are bewildered and at at sea all that they can sense is is that somebody is making monkeys out of them with all of the oratory and promises the project is getting ri nowhere even with the support of th the president of Secret secretary arX hoover of lobbies ts and committees sent t to 0 IV washington at great expense the whole thing is bloc blocked kea the enterprise believes that almost every newspaper in the country would comment favorably upon the passage ot form of legislation that would ato promise n ise nise sorn some e so sort rt of action and an a assurance abura nce of th the 0 earliest possible flood control riverside cal enterprise |