Show I Unified Action I IS by acting Go Governor r or Hart of Washington that the theM M chief executives of the sixteen Western Vestern states meet in Salt Lake Laken Lakein in n conference nc August 14 four 14 four days before the assembling here hereof of he goven governors ors of the forty-eight forty states for their annual conference conference- confer nce- nce to discuss discuss unified action actio of the states in supporting supporting- bills bilts in congress looking goking toward the reclamation of lands in m the West is meeting with ith unqualified approval The suggestion was vas approved immediately immedi immedi- tely ly by Governor Bamberger who has been a leader in ama rec reclamation ion tion and soldier settlement work and now the plan has received He e indorsement of Edward E E. E Young chairman of the s soldier settle- settle bo board rd of New v Mexico arid and Major Reed executive secretary of oJ the Idaho Reclamation association In making his suggestion for the reclamation conference Governor Governor Governor Gov Gov- Hart points out that sixteen bills now pending before congress affect reclamation projects in Western states while more than ri reclamation bills bills bills' await the consideration of the lawmakers in Wash- Wash Reclamation maion has made the Western states and th their ir future lies i s in the reclamation of lands now unclaimed In the Col Colorado rado river basin project are acres of arid and swamp lands of which are in Utah and the remainder in Colorado New Mexico Arizona California Nevada and Wyoming now lying idle that will v be reclaimed through the agencies of irrigation and drainage under the plan of S Secretary Lane to to provide homes for fighters fighters' and w war r workers as soon as congress shall pass the Smoot-Mondell Smoot bill Congress at at its lasts last s session failed to pass the Lane soldier settlement bill and it was expected that the bill w would would uld pass as soon as congress had cond convened convened con con- d in special session i The urgency the need of such a measure has been impressed upon congress congre s. s The seriousness of the situation is not unknown in Washington and yet congress has dilly-dallied dilly until now nine months mont s after the signing of the armistice the Lane plan is no further advanced ed than before the great guns ceased to thunder There is only one one way to get action from congress and that thatis thatis i is through the prod This fact has been recognized by Governor Hart and hence henc the reclamation conference of governors With the sixteen Western states working as a unit congress will be forced to awake to the needs needs' of the soldiers and sailors of the nation Immediate action to meet these needs is necessary I The soldiers and sailors require jobs and homes and the reclamation reclamation mation of the Western Weste n unclaimed land will provide hundreds hundreds hundreds hun hun- I of thousands of them Congress holds the key to open the thedoor thedoor theto door to riches in the West Unified action by the Western Vestern states will cause this door to open and will secure results |