Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-01-20 | Page 13 | There Ought to be a Pact to Oulaw These

I I Id d I THERE OUGHT if TO BE A m PACT TO OULA W THESE i im r T tJ t- J r i i I I PEOPLES PEOPLE'S CORNER 1 h J Shows Utah Could Get Cheap Power I Prom From Cob Colo River I Editor The Telegram So-ho So And who has now let the cat out of the bag Who Is it that discloses the secret in relation to the Bouler Bouer dam It has suddenly been discovered that Utah Wyoming Wyo- Wyo ming and Colorado can all be supplied supplied sup sup- plied with cheap power by the building of two small darns dams one at Flaming Gorge miles due east east ot of Salt Lake Lae City and the other at Dewe Dewey farther south but within within fifteen miles ot of the Rio Grande rail rail- way And these two projects costing costing cost cost- ing together less than will ir if made part of the Boulder dam project afford Immediate flood protection and by lessening the size and nd cost of the dIversion canals and coffer dams at Boulder will add little or nothing to the cost of the Boulder undertaking as a whole Why dl did 1 not these factS come out long ago Private citizens have repeatedly but with natural hesitation hesitation tion or timidity expressed the view that those engIneers were right who claim calm that development of the Boulder Boulder Boul- Boul der dam project from the standpoint standpoint stand stand- point of engineering practice should begin at the headwaters or of the streams at an altitude of some feet teet above that ot of Boulder canyon canon and should proceed downward that development should not begin at atthe atthe the foot and proceed upward for then the expense of flood control would be enormously greater than f if the development were to be commenced corn com near the headwaters A serIes of smaller dams would tale take away the peak of the flood as the engineers say the main part of it and would provide cheap power to the prostrated farms and ranches and the new Industries to tobe tobe be established all the way along The fac facts now given out must have bave been known years ago to the geological survey Did not Senator Smoot did not the power Interests did not Representative Leatherwood know these facts Why did they not make them public I 1 do not believe that eIther Senator King Governor Dern or Commissioner Wallace had bad this information until now hence they could not specifically specifically cally recommend what hat they are now no doubt ready to stand for The scheme of the power Hower Interests interests Inter Inter- ests was as I have repeatedly shown to stop or delay the Boulder project until they could get control of the available po er sites along the Colorado and its tributarIes Then they could charge their own prices again to the people for the use of power or for tor electrIc light light- Ing What has happened to change their attitude Do Da they now realize that the Boulder dam is going going- through and that they would do well to make the best of it By getting the government to build at least two or of the upper projects and then by keeping the government out of af the power business They expect to get the franchise to dIstribute the power generated at government built darns dams Thus Thus' they could once more proceed to save American Institutions and private Initiative by using these projects built and paid for out of the taxes or of the people as a a. means of untold corporate profits worth more than any gold mine Shall we now ratify the he state six compact adding reservations as to the development or of Flaming Gorge Gorgo and Dewey by tying tying- them up with I the Boulder project At this stage or of public and congressional opinion throughout the country we should proceed with candor and moderation modera- modera tion and only in cooperation with Hails Fight Eight for Honesty Edt r The Telegram The battle battle or of Rockefeller vs s Stewart Siewart very properly is of nationwide nation nation- I wIde interest It is a a. salutary cx- cx ample of the conflict between avarice ava- ava rIce and morals in business and the outcome may have a a. reach far Ing effect upon business relationships relationships relation relation- ships in the future The conflict hinges on the participation denIal I and subsequent admission of oe Colonel Cob Colo- nd nel Stewart president and ard chairman I of the board of the Standard Oil I company of Indiana that he was one of the organizers of at the transitory Continental Trading company which grafted millions of dollars from existing oil corn com a a. very brief time and then dissolved Colonel Stewart tries to lead the I I public to bel believe eve th the co controversy hinges upon question OJ ci or not he was legally guilty of perjury perjury per per- jury when he lied openly and bra bra- zenh to a United States senate committee in denying knowledge of the profits ot of the Continental Trading Trad- Trad ins ing company The question of whether or not there was an actual or merely a constructive quorum of the committee present when he made such false statement was used merely to confuse the public and camouflage the Issue Mr Rockefeller now traveling in Egypt has not participated in the recent dIscussion of the case but it is safe to assume his determination tion that Mr Stewart must retire retiro from official position in the Indiana company Is not based so much on whether or not Colonel Stewart was legally guilty of perjury as upon the immorality ot of the whole transaction ot of the formation operations and dissolution of the Illusory Continental tal company and it is the moral issue involved in that odorous company company com com- pany that interests the public outside out out- si side e the zone of op operations of the Standard Oil company of Indiana If Colonel Stewart wins out it will be great encouragement to that school of business men who main main- tam that anything is right that you youcan youcan can get away with If Mr Rockefeller Rocke- Rocke feller succeeds it will be heartenIng heartening hearten hearten- ing to those who feel that there should be a respected code of honor and ethics In business one of whose rules is honesty and another respect respect re- re for the government of the United States and its courts and congress M. M E. E F. F JOKES OVER JUSTICE WICHITA rom Kan AP Wanted A A dozen men for tor jobs as justices ot of the peace The 12 who were elected have resigned sayIng their I names were written on th the ballots by jokesters