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Show THE CITIZEN 4 covering a series of about fourteen years, shows an average daily supply of more than 147,000,000 gallons, and an annual supply of nearly 54 billion gallons. Using these figures as a basis for reckoning, it would appear that these creeks afford ample water with a fair margin of safety for the assumed 500,000 population, yet as this does not present the whole truth, we would like to point out for public consideration some additional facts. The stream flow figures quoted are for fourteen years, presumably 1906 to 1919, inclusive. We have taken the trouble to ascertain that the average precipitation at Salt Lake City for those years is 16.73 inches, or greater by a summer months rainfall than the 45 year average. Therefore, instead of having nearly 54 billion gallons annually available in average years there is but 51.7 billion gallons if we have calculated correctly. But a water supply system cannot safely be planned on average conditions; the extreme droughts and water consumption must be taken into consideration. If the stream flow were proportionate and commensurate with the moisture falling over the watersheds it would 33.2 yield, in the driest year shown by the weather records, only billion gallons. As a matter of fact the runoff is not a constant proportion of the rainfall but the lighter the fall the less the percentage of runoff. 55 Competent engineers agree that where the average runoff is per cent, the runoff in the years of least precipitation will not exceed 40 per cent. In other words, if in a normal year, of 55 per cent runoff the Wasatch creeks yield 51.7 billion gallons, these streams will yield but about 24.0 billion gallons in the driest year of the least runoff shown in the past record of the precipitation. The seasonal consumption detailed above totals 83,350 gallons per capita per year for average conditions. The 51.7 billion gallons, when available, would at this rate support slightly more than 600,000 population. But as water supply plans must be made for extreme and not for average conditions, it is more important to note that in the long, hot, dry summer, the total per capita consumption is 97 ,550 with this increased consumption comes, gallons ; and that usually, the minimum water supply available because of lack of rain and snow. The 24.0 billion gallons would in such circumstances support a population of but 246,000. His chief weakness lies in his tendency to internationalism with a British bias. And yet he has come out strongly in favor of the Republican reservations which will protect American interests should we decide to join the League of Nations. No doubt, the. Democrats, in their chagrin, will put all the emphasis they can on the fact that Hoover was virtually an expatriate and that he never voted for a president of the United States. There is no gainsaying that it is a strong argument and that the American people are apt to be more affected by it as the campaign develops. Disappointment would be a mild word to express the sentiment which has been growing up among the American people with reference to Great Britain. The unmasking of Article X revealed nothing alliance in which the less than a conspiracy for an Anglo-Saxo- n United States was to hold an inferior position. We were to do the fighting and the paying in order that the territories of Great Britain might be preserved to her. There will be more than a suspicion that Herbert Hoover was in favor of that scheme until he received intimations from Lord Grey that Great Britain no longer had any hope of perfecting the alliance on the lines of Article X. declaraIf Herbert Hoover were a lesser man his eleventh-hou- r tion would not worry the candidates, but they recognize him as a dangerous opponent because he is not merely a capable business man, but a student of industrial and economic conditions, a thinker at once progressive and conservative, one of the best informed among us concerning international affairs and, perhaps most winning of all, young, energetic and tireless. Whether we are for him or against him, we expect to be hugely entertained by him during the next few months. BRYAN AND WOOD Bryan, the pacifist, hopes to put a quietus on the candidacy of General Leonard Wood by declaring that the American people will not have a military9 man for President. We believe that whether the Republican party nominates a military man or a great civilian such as Hiram Johnson or Governor Lowden or Senator Knox its candidate will be elected. But whether we incline toward General Wood or toward a candidate whose training has been wholly civilian in character most of us are determined that we shall not have any more wishy-wash- y pacifists in the White House. HOOVERS DRAMATIC COUP If we should say that Bryan was responsible for the sacrifice of thousands of American lives in France our charge would seem startleledramatic added an had unexpectedly That Herbert Hoover ing until our readers began to realize that most of us shared the becomis a himself Republican ment to the campaign by announcing dangerous pacifist sentiments of Mr. Bryan four or five years ago. consternation caused action his has Not among only ing vividly clear. all of the pacifists were Hun agents helping the Hohen-zoller- n Indirectly him the cannv Democrats of high degree who were planning to make family toward the domination of the world. balance the disturbed has it but their of candidate violently the party, Some years before Germany invaded Belgium and started its inof power among the Republican candidates. credible enterprise for control of the world General Wood, who had Those who were predicting that Hoover could not be taken been detailed by the War Department to entertain one of several seriously because he had no party behind him will be compelled to German officers visiting this country, was motoring one day alon' revise their views somewhat. It is too early to say that Republican the Connecticut coast with his guest. Losing the road, Wood consentiment will coalesce about him, but even the least perspicacious sulted a map. can see that there is apt to be a third party if he fails of the nominaIf you will go a mile ahead, General, said the German, you and contest the into is factor tion. Thus an entirely new injected will find a good road to the right that will take us to the town we its reckon true at fail to will not one that the party managers want to reach. value. Inasmuch as the German had never been in the United States beLeaving aside the partisan viewpoint and striving to vision the fore and had never visited that part of the country the general could future, all of us can see that Herbert Hoover has suddenly become hardly believe his ears. a figure of tremendous importance and will create some surprising IIow do you know so much about our roads? he inquired. transformations in the political line-upOh, you know, General, the officer replied, this is my section What Democrats, for example, could hope for victory if Hoover of the American coast. should be selected as the Republican nominee? Not that Hoover Wood became as a voice crying in the wilderness for American would be as strong among Republicans as General Wood, lliraiii preparedness. We refused to heed military men and their warnings Johnson or Governor Lowden, but undoubtedly he would make and Woods pleas for preparedness fell on deaf ears. We preferred prodigious inroads among, the Democratic voters. The women voters to listen to the lulling notes of a college professor who, as late as the fall of 1916, confirmed us in the faith of pacifism by promising to keep especially would be attracted toward his candidacy. Hoovers elements of weakness and strength arc alike obvious. us out of war. co-incid- . ent 9 s. . |