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Ot JpIrIeipTs aLElT nIe put shoot rapidly along that, only 1628,000 has onbeen repaid. On four im4 A vehicle bja5B1Ie djOQjI eQbJa dollar of construction portant divisions not 6 Half the width of an em ARPpTeTrTjCWe G GOT o costs has been returned. It has cost to operate s tJaIr eMt $ these projects ,7.600. Of this only $926,300 7 Allowance made for waste has been collected. All the money .that has been 8 Exist A NnATNifOmATE SQL A 9 The apex 10 To snare received would not repay the government what 11 An Isolated piece of land c a!n eTsJt HtiAisTtTi e R It has expended in operation and maintenance. An 12 An Inhabitant of the British early tlRTATDnStE!EnSEEolV Is to work worth not that pay enough irrigation Isles for Its operation should not be continued. A 1 14 Killed A Biblical garden Acting on this conviction, we are arranging to sell tne Wllllston project, and we have seriously to consider whether the same action should not HOW TO SOLVE A CROSS-WORPUZZLE be taken with regard to the Lower Yellowstone project, where out of 1968.000 operating cost to When the correct letters are placed In the white spaces this pussle will spell December 31. 1924, only $174,000 has been repaid, words both vertically and horlsontally. The first letter In each word Is ' Indithe deficit today standing at $794,000. cated by n number, which refers to the definition listed below the pussle. Thus These results are not believed to be due to lack hesdrd "horlsontal deSnea a word which will All the of agricultural resources. They are the result No. 1 under the column up to the first black square to the right, and a number under of too large holdings, lack of belief In the neces- white spares a defines word which will fill the white square to the next black sity for irrigation, poor cultivation. Inflation la "vertical" go In the blnrk spaces. All words used are dictionary the prices of privately owned land, and the lack one below. No lettersnames. Abbreviations, slang, fnltlnls, technical terms and of capital and equipment needed by settlers to words, except proper enable them to cultivate their land as irrigation obsolete forms are Indicated In the definitions. requires. in considering new projects we must remember that thousands of farm areas under federal Irrigating ditches have never been farmed and other thousands have been abandoned; that about a half million farms In the United States were abandoned last year; that railways that once were our best aid for settling the West cannot now carry people PUZ-ZL-Ewho will not ride and are not interested in peopling land with those who cannot produce freight for them to haul. We must be able to show congress that we have men enough in sight to work these projects or congress will not advance money to develop them. We are canvassing old projects to determine if it is impossible for settlers to pay the costs and charges assessed against them. We are making a study of proposed new projects, their physical features, fertility, length of growing season, crops adapted, markets accessible, financial requirements ot settlers, etc., but my principal concern Is to discover the attitude of the people, locally. For I must certify to the congress on these pointsi whether the land is being held for speculation! whether those living in town realize that the sue cess of a proposed project is vital to them; whether the business men are disposed to exploit the new venture to get the monay appropriated by the government immediately, or to treat these new settlers as neighbors and community assets and not as voter to be cajoled or strangers to be preyed ! n!V A'. ng By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN HE Sixty-nint- h cougresa Is likely to enact reclamation legislation embodying radical departures from the policy that has obtained daring the twenty-thre- e years since the passage of the reclamation act. Hitherto the Idea has been that the government should construct the projects and let settlement and development lake care of themselves. This plan has proved a failure. Too many of the settlers had Insufficient capital and were lacking In practical experience. There was no provision for advancing capital or for giving advice. The result is that the government Is not getting Its money back ; settlers are abandoning their holdings; mortgages are being foreclosed. The plain truth is that the Coolidge administration has Inherited an unfortunate situation which may be briefly described as "Our Reclamation Problem." This problem Is of national Importance and has many complications and ramifications that call for prompt action by congress. It Is really two problems In one. What shall be done to save the completed projects? Shall new projects be undertaken? The new Idea as to proposed project Is that the bureau of reclamation shall build the reservoir and canals and that the states shall find select settlers, advise them and advance the money necessary to equip their farms. That the situation Is pressing is shown by the fact that Secretary Work of the Interior department has made two extensive trips in the arid West since March and that his and semi-ari- d experts are investigating every phase of the projectscompleted, under way and proposed In a heroic effort to "reclaim reclamation." There are now twenty-eigh- t project's in seventeen states, comprising more than 3,400,000 acres under operation or construction, and canals serve another million acres. Approximately 400,000 persons are living on 33,000 farms and In project towns. These farms are valued at $300,000,000 and the 1924 crop was more than $65,000,000. Construction costs to 1023 were more than $150,000,000. Congress last winter made appropriations' for new reclamation projects which will cost between fifty millions and sixty millions. Older projects partly completed call for expenditures which will bring the total construction costs of new work up to $110,000,000. This means 400,000 more acres of Irrigated land about 10,000 farms. Moreover congress is continually pressed to undertake additional projects in many localities. The funds for the work have come from the and mineral ale of public lands, from s. operations and from repayments by the water-userThe general proposition Is that the money expended by the government shall be returned to the fund by graduated payments from settlers, usually In twenty annual Installments, wiOiout Interest, In accordance with the reclamation extension act of 1914. Secretary Work Is a practical Irrlgationlst through personal experience In his borne state. Colorado. Upon becoming secretary In March vf 1923 he reorganised the reclamation bureau In part and thereby created a political rumpus of no mall proportions. lie soon realised that the situation was beyond the powers of any one man committee" composed and Instituted a "fact-findin- g of six of the ablest men In the country. They analysed reclamation from Its beginning and recommended the establishment of a new policy. This policy, with slight modifications, was embodied In the met of December 5, 1924. The reclamation bureau has now been completely reorganised. The commissioner of reclamation la Dr. Elwood Mead, who has a national reclama-tionls- t, reputation not only as an engineer and Other and economist as an sociologist but men of national prominence actively engngod In the work of review, reappralsemont, survey and adjustment are Francis M. Goodwin, who left the position of assistant secretary of the interior; Thomas E. Campbell, former governor of Artsonn, and John A. Wldtsoe, agriculturist, educator and author. Oovemora of the states have designated state representatlvea on the board of survey and adjustments and these men have been appointed by Secretary Work. stated to Secretary Work, several month the President his conviction that a M program ae t inTjGjqLEfr In reclamation was necessary and should Include: between the federal government and the tat where projects are located; advances to settlers to help complete the improvement and equipment of their (arms; a low interest to be charged on these advances; that where projects include land in private ownership held in excess ot homestead units, development should not begin until an agreement has been reached with these owners fixing; the price of that land to settlers and methods ot colonization. It seems likely that these radical Innovations will bulk Inrge In any legislation enacted by the next congress. There Is a strong hint of this In the Kendrick-Wlnte- r bill In the last congress. This required the settler to have at least $1,500 capital and farm experience. Advances up to $3,000. were provided, the settler to put up $40 against each $60 advanced by the bureau. Provision was made for a farm advisor. The bill was favorably reported to both chambers, but failed of passage. Why? Largely because of another new Idea : . That congress should make settlement and farm development a state matter. That this idea has become popular with congress Is shown by the fact that on three projects this year's appropriations are conditional on the state's entrance into contract with the bureau to subdivide the land, find the settlers and advance the money needed to improve the farms. The survey trips of Secretary Work and Commissioner Mead have been remarkable for one thing: plain talk. Governors, congressmen, bankers, merchants, officials of chambers of congress and agricultural associations, land owners and railroad men were called upon to state where they stood. In Chicago the two officials met of nine railroads and set forth the In the obtaining necessity of their of settlers of the right kind. The railroad men were told that to people the new projects 9,000 settlers would be necessary and the same number to fill up the paps on the old projects; that from $5,000 to $7,000 was necessary to equip farms of from forty to eighty acres; that statistics showed about four prospective settlers with less than $1,500 to one with that or more capital ; that the Interior department appropriation act for the 1020 fiscal year recognizes the fact that there Is an obligation on the part of the state as well as the federal government In the successful development of these projects through selection of settlers and the furnishing of financial assistance and Instruction. These facts were repeated all along the line, and, where the opportunity offered, the facts as to particular project were set forth. For example, there was an Irrigation conference at Great Falls, Mont, with special reference to the completion of the Sun river project, for which congress has ap propriated $611,000. Secretary Work made an address and here Is what he said. In part: Conri In appropriating- money for completing the Sao River project mad It a partnership de- velopment The oondltlojis of this appropriation require the bureau ot reclamation to build the reservoir and complete the canals. Afterward the state of Montana Is to subdivide the 40,000 additional acres that will be reclaimed. And the settlers, advise them, and advance money to equip their farms. There should be a complete understanding In order to determine whether the plan outlined by conree ought to be adopted, or to sera on what recommendation should be made to construction to be postponed until there can be further legislation. Changes are needed In the settlement clauses of the reclamation act If development Is to KO on In the Rocky Mountain states. Federal reclamation has not produced the drslred agricultural results. It has not given the Industrious, experienced settler the kind of an opportunity he should have. I has slven loo wide a range to land speculation. It has bred the menace of tenancy. Instead of the settlers on these projects having a sens of gratitude to the government disappointment and bitterness prevail. W ought not to ge on with a policy that creates theae result. The questloa Is; Vf sat oan we wisely and safely andertak to Improve thee oondltloaaT cong-rees- , isa L r ehaJrJJp. l D . IURSERY RHYME upon. It is of vital moment to the future of federal reclamation that we first reclaim reclamation, that we restore lost confidence in Its government reprethe enthusiasm brought on sentatives, to project by settlers, and discredit those who live by farming the farmer. I am not willing to let federal reclamation continue to ride recklessly to its own ruin without an effort to sav it to thos who by their oourag and industry have arned the right to horn ownership. "Leaving settlement and agriculture to shape themselves was a mistake that has cost the reclamation fund millions of dollars and will cost more," said Commissioner Mead at Denver. "The situation In the case of the older reclamation projects has created financial conditions that can be cured only by refunding settlers' private debts or getting a new body of settlers. This Is not conjecture; It Is a fact On some of the projects settlers were accepted without any Inquiry Into their fitness and were given neither advice nor aid. What Is the result? They have undergone crucifixion. Many have lost their homes through foreclosure. Payments are not made to the govt ernment. Nenrly all this trouble has Its origin In accepting unfit settlers and leaving the good ones to struggle unaided against obstacles too great for them to overcome." "It Is our purpose to build reclamation from the ground up. From tbe fanner to the government, rather thnn from the government to the dam and the dam to the desert," says Secretary Work. "The reclamation bureau Is not now being conducted In the Interests of Individuals but for the best Interests of those wbo live on the land and who we hope may eventually own It. It la the human element Involved In reclamation that should be our first concern; to protect the Interests of those already on the land and prepare for those) we shall Invite to come." aast TWA."h-snn- l KV. - m SUNSHINY Won't TI gl I CmVl JT " aMs? sh ewer last half an hour. But it may spoil my new parasol; If 1 close it up tight I'll be quite all right, For the Tain drops won't hurt me at all. Fleid four ether persons caught In the rain. 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