Show I Water Users Should Control ControlS i All gover government m t irrigation proJects projects projects pro pro- I ld be put under r the co of the water users at t th the tilO e earliest rUest I possible moment Beau tf tU government government gov gov- ov- ov has never appealed tb th the American people It Is offensive of often often otten ot- ot ten unavoidably inefficient I and should be withdrawn from column column- pity projects without unnecessary dela delay r r This language was used by of the Interior Hubert Vork in the course of or an nn address tb to the employees employees' of ot the department of ag ag- ag- ag It does not reflect the secretary's see sec ec- ec g general theme but it is Is an idea that will most strongly appeal to settlers on government projects for it means a reversal of government government government govern govern govern- ment policy only policy only one of numerous reversals that have been proposed or carried out by Dr Work Tork in th the few weeks brief he has been at the head of oC the Interior department I I Dr Work Vork Is la a i- i most most remarkable secretary of df the interior He lie is is' unlike unlike unlike un un- un- un like any who preceded him and for lor that matter is Unlike most cabinet officers He takes the viewpoint that the federal government should be helpful to the p people ople but having rendered what assistance it properly can it sho should ld step aside asid arid and let Ute tile people leopie go ahead without government t Interference But that is not all all Dr Work Is a rare type of ca cai cabinet l et officer who re refuses refuses re re- fuses to lie awake nights thinking out schemes whereby he can broaden the jurisdiction of his department and encroach ch upon uvon the functions of at other departments On the contrary contra contra- ry after surveying the big department department depart depart- ment meat of oC which he lie is now head Secretary Secretary Sec See Vork Work finds under his Jurisdiction jurisdiction tion various lines of at public work which properly do not belong in the interior department and in so far tar faras faras taras as the law permits lie hei is proceeding to o have those activities transferred to o other departments where they belong The oldest res resident real resi I. I dent of or Washington has no recollection Lion ion of any previous member of any cabinet abinet voluntarily giving up any office of of- ice fico or function that was a part of his department when took hold Making Home Departments In his address to the employees of ot he the department of Sec Sec- I. I work VorK developed the thought that hat his department and the department department depart depart- ment meat of at are the two home making departments of the government and as such he said I they hey should cooperate in lii order that the he homebuilders may d derive rive the I maximum benefit from what those departments have to offer otter In the way pC of f aid and assistance The Interior department and the department of agriculture said he lie are are units of a great gleat miniature governments in themselves themselves them- them selves elves and therefore both departments departments depart depart- ments are obligated to contribute through mutual cooperation to the successful administration of the government government gov- gov as a whole The secretary secretary secre- secre tary ary of the interior let it be known that hat old rivalry between his department department department depart depart- ment and the department of agriculture agriculture agri- agri culture is at an end so far as h hcan hcan he hean can an control the situation and that hereafter tho the two departments will n ork hand In hand for tor the better common good While he lie did did not stress the point Secretary Work Vork gave notice that he will not keep up the fight which has b been een en waged by numbers of his predecessors predecessors pre- pre in the interior department t to o have the Ute forest service transferred from rom the department of agriculture to o the interior department Rath Rather r lie he le regards the present and future p problem of the forest service to be belie one lie of reforestation rather rather- than a question of settling land titles tines and he tile department of agriculture he lie says ays Is the the theone one best equipped to todeal todeal deal eal with the big forest problems of ot now ow and hereafter ds of Cheer Cheel Secretary I Fall all was a bitter contender contender contender con con- coni tender for tor transfer of the forest service service service ser ser- vice to the interior department and andon andon andon on this point he lie and President Harding Harding Har Hay ding differed radically Secretary Work not only has put his hits stand long-stand longstanding ing controversy behind him but hut he proposes in so far as present law taw admits to carry out the work worl of or re reorganization reorganization reorganization re- re organization of the government service service service ser ser- I vice on a sensible basis getting rid I of ot functions that do not belong in his possibly some may be added in like manner At any rate Secretary Work Vork is not out looking for additions to his department department depart depart- ment but he lie decidedly Is in favor of oC transferring to other departments activities that have no no proper place In the interior Inte department ent He Is giving ample evidence of ot his sympathy sympathy sympathy thy with President Hardings Harding's early wish for the tho injection of more business business busi busi- il ness ss in government and less government government govern govern- ment mont in business s. s Secretary Works Work's speech to the agriculture department employees is enlightening besides which it c carries words of cheer to the people 1 of ot the west In this speech Secretary Work York in iu part said of at Services The department of agriculture and the dep department of ot the interior are accomplishing much by cooperation cooperation cooperation tion and have bave any working points pointe of contact so BO that certain duplications have heretofore appeared to be unavoidable unavoidable unavoidable un un- un- un avoidable and amid many separations of I Inow now joined services would appear to I warrant the reallocation of or departmental departmental departmental depart depart- j mental responsibilities proposed by President Harding to the sixty sev congress When the president 1 l speaks for the de department of the in interior In in- tenor as he does in this instance j I It fl is JU my U pleasure to subscribe to his Views For more than two years he has considered with mature jUdgment judgment judg jUdg- judgment ment a program which is ia designed to correlate the Ute administration of governmental functions s 's and I quite approve those affecting the department depart devart- ment meat of oC the interior No student of or economics will dispute the incalculable t lable benefits to be accrued through a logical reallocation of government government govern govern- ment mont services The interior department depart depart- ment and the department of oC ture are units of a great government not miniature governments In themselves themselves themselves them them- selves and iid therefore both departments departments departments depart depart- ments are obliged to contribute through mutual cooperation to the successful administration of the tho government as a whole Tho The lost motion and time expenditure ex- ex Incident to duplication or overlapping d does es not make mak for sive organization the tile lack of or which is a weakness of the government service One department should not be dependent on another for an Incidental in incidental incidental In- In service because because- not prepared to do it alone That service should be the responsibility of th the department department department depart depart- ment best beat equipped to render it Land Reclamation Related services sho should ld generally general general- ly speaking be wholly in one department department de de- de and the line between Interlocking in interlocking interlocking in- in services should be clearly clearly clear clear- ly defined so that equipment employees employees em em- bureaus and divisions atthe of at the government departments may not nut be duplicated I am am a believer in centralization Of authority and of individual responsibility though though- out the service To UTa illustrate A vital concern of the interior department Is reclamation reclamation reclamation tion of land particularly in the arid regions by irrigation The first steps when reclamation by this method Is contemplated should be taken by the agricultural department a a study oy DY soil analyses to determine what crops the he and will grow the probable production production production pro pro- together with the marketIng marketing market- market ing ng when crops have matured If report warrants warrants warrants war war- rants the interior department should then study water supply available without storage during durin I he time crop season or If II the tile natural flow is inadequate to 10 estimate the amount and cost of impounding water vater for the growing season survey survey survey sur sur- vey ditches dUches locate and construct dams darns and reservoirs and co compute acre cost and total expenditure fW With th this scientific data l supplementing that already supplied by th the agricultural department corporate corporate corporate cor cor- funds preferably working with willi this knowledge might be Inter Inter- ested Certainly prospective settlers would be Intelligently advised in adVa adv ad ad- v Va vance nce Water Vater Users Should Control If the government elected to construct construct construct con con- the Interior department n ces- ces I I earlI would complete the irrigation facilities and Bind continue its 1 to 10 the farmers for perfect I title Ulle and water supply but the agricultural agricultural agricultural ag ag- ag- ag dep department should then assume responsibility for instruction on farming and marketing at least until the government had been reImbursed re reimbursed re- re i and its obligations to water water wat wat- er ei users discharged It would ap appear appear appear ap- ap pear that all government irrigation projects should hould be put under the control contro of or the water users at the earliest possible moment Bureau- Bureau government has never appealed appeal appeal- ed to the American people It is offensive of of- often unavoidably Inefficient dent and should be withdrawn from Crom community projects without delay Experience has demonstrated that Irrigation to be successful must be operated by those thoe using the tIle water The agricultural departments department's contact should thon then be renewed for purposes of Instruction i in n farming economics and should continue after atter the department of the interior had been relieved from i its ts obligations Reclamation by Irrigation irrigation irrigation gation Is essentially a Joint service b by the two departments each havIng having hayng hav hay f ing- ing ng clearly defined lines of division It cannot be broadly stated that because prices of oC farm tarm products donot do donot donot not represent cost production at this time that cultivated acreage should be arbitrarily limited or restricted geographically Farmers Farmers' Avant Advances es Farmers nearest good e eastern stern markets have tremendous advant- advant but those near near the Pacific coast are arc areat areat at the gateway to the orient Economic Economic Eco Eco- writers rs estimate that within five years California Oregon and cannot feed their people from tram their own farm products unless uness unless un un- un- un l less ess their production acreage Is in In- In creased The Tho grain states of Iowa and Kansas fo for fOl illustration which are arc midway to either ocean should not say that new land far distant may not ho bo brought under cultivation cultivation tion for local consumers rs or for foreign markets through more nearly neary nearly near near- l ly y adjacent water routes which otherwise otherwise other other- wise would compel a supercharge of freight The These o states do however have tave a right to o in insist l t that bat economic I I j 1 l 1 laws Jaws aws be considered before new lana iana lanais I i is s brought under cultivation and that farmers on ozi this new land Jand receive no financial favors from toni the government govern govern- ment not received by themselves Under the new rural credits law the tho government secures loans for all farmers and expects them to meet t their heir obligations The advancement of oC money for tor irrigation projects Is nothing more than a loan and must likewise be repaid Farmers must compete In the tho Continued on Page Throe I I WATER USERS USEI SHOULD CONTROL From Frain Page One markets precisely as other Industries fl s do and the question or transportation tion is in a a. fundamental factor In tn the marketing o 0 farm products These are questions the two depart departments must study sudy together for they have to do with the the food food supply not of this y year r and Pour our own people alone but for man many years in the future and for other nations as aa well There is no longer any frontier in the United States We Ve are all one people people people peo peo- haYing having a common interest and obligation n to the government and andI I shall ask the secretary of ot agriculture agriculture agriculture ture to lend the good offices of his most scientific practical and de department to appraise soil fertility and markets in advance of ot our reclamation reclamation reclamation rec rec- commitments and t to aid our settlers In profitable farming Money lone for fOl Development There can be no objection to taking tax money raised in east to develop rand laud iiI in the west nest providing it will be repaid with ith interest and taxable property thereby increased d. d Eastern people incorporated have been doing it for half a century Production was over stimulated during the war Foreign countries cannot buy from from- us as they once did The old law O of supply and demand demand demand de de- de- de mand co continues to to influence prices as it always has ha but t transportation often oCten affects farm profits The Eho business business business busi busi- ness acumen acumen of farmers 1 has a been boon stimulated by the past depression They now study production a and ld marketing marketing mar mar- e each ch for himself and collectively collectively collectively and are profiting b by it One summers summer's drought such Buch as has occurred in the memory memory of those now living would put this most prosperous country In want The population of our titles clUes is much greater than that of ot the rural dis dis- dis Our margin of safety between plenty and famine is no greater in ingrain ingrain ingrain grain than it is In coal but our ex ox- expanding markets and rebuilding transportation are opening up Ul a bright future for the farmers which will be further broadened when their old customers overseas are again in funds Besides now that every employable American is already at work and his buying power increasing the farmer has much before him to inspire hope Activities Reviewed I referred at it Ithe he the beginning beginning- of my talk to the points of contact between our two departments which by the way are many I believe someone has attempted to count them up and his estimate Is that there are more than thirty distinct points where the tha work of ot the agricultural and interior inte into interior nor departments touch It It is interesting to note a few faw in which several activities of ot our departments departments de de- would be affected by bT the proposed reallocation of ot departments depart doPart |