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Show Reclamation Works Urged Instead Of Arms Expenditures DENVER, Nov. 11 (U.R) O. S. Warden of Great Ealls, M011L, prusidunL of the National Reclamation association, told the organization's eighth .annual convention hei-e today that conservation of water in western United States will "solve the greatest problem of national self-sufficiency this country ever had." Addressing 1,500 delegates at the opening session, Warden War-den compared water conservation and irrigation of the past Gem irrigation district, Homedale, Idaho. Governors, congressional representatives repre-sentatives and conservation experts ex-perts from Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming, Montana, Utah, Washington, Wash-ington, North Dakota, South Dakota, Da-kota, Texas, Idaho, Oregon, Nevada, Ne-vada, Arizona, and Oklahoma are attending the three-day convention. with possibilities in the future. RoclunuU it m, he promised, would answer almost every problem confronting con-fronting the government today. Kml of Keliel He saw the end of direct relief nnd unemployment through use of cxccs3 manpower on western reclamation projects. Competition ot" extensive reclamation operations, opera-tions, he said, would permit resettlement re-settlement of wandering, poverty-stricken poverty-stricken families on fertile and productive lands. Warden emphasized the importance import-ance of matching reclamation appropriations ap-propriations against expenditures for arms and amunitions. "To make a nation strong in pcaee and invincibile in war this is where reclamation and the west come into the national defense formula," the assaciaLion president presi-dent said. The convention opened today with the selection of various legislative legis-lative committees and general mapping of policy. After a round-table discussion i on water users tonight, L. H. Mitchell, irrigation adviser of the bureau of reclamation at Washington, Wash-ington, D. C, will address the delegates on the subject "New Ideas in the Use of Water." Other speakers will include C. L. Cork-ins, Cork-ins, Wyoming entomologist, - a-nd-W. H. Robinson, manager of the |