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Show As Usual Mr. Ford or some other patriot-with- millions -to burn should offer a bit? prize for-1 ho first national project that : doesn't start a fierce, ijht and get shelved for indefinite years by such fight. Chief of Army Engineers Jadvvin proposed a plan for control of the Mississippi river, under which the cost would be ,$1X0,400,000, the government to pay 80 percent and the valley states the rest, and Pres. Coolidge recommended this, plan to Congress. The Mississippi river commission recommends recom-mends an expenditure of $775,000,000. Thus the two parties who should know most about what to do are nearly $G00,-000,000 $G00,-000,000 apart. Fight? Years of it. Meanwhile, the Mississippi Mississ-ippi river is preparing for its spring flood business. Now, speaking of the Koulder Dam project but that's another story of the same kind. |