Show HEED BLED lOOT s. AND TilE THE BOULDER U IJA DAM DAMBy By L. L A. A Hollenbeck I Senator Reed Recd Smoot the other day made a a big talk In the senate against the Boulder dam He gave gaVle several reasons reasons why wily the bill should not pass I Among other things he says I am convinced that this bill bU offers no solution so solution so- so lution whatever for the problem before beare before be be- fore are us Since ince it is based upon an ani i impossible engineering scheme of erroneous plan of river development The senator is willing nUng to call it an impossible scheme of development in spite of the filet fact that it has bag been passed pass upon upon as as feasible by many good engineers Some have t c express expressed pressed press press- ed doubt too but that is h always tho the case in any big project Sonic Some pr pro professional f scientific c expert in engineer engineering n ing will state pompously and with an air of oC authority that such or such sucha a thing cant can't be done and then some infernal fool Cool comes along who doesn't know that the thing cant can't bed bedone be bo d done ne and goes and does docs it Nell Well Vell personally the writer has a good deal of at respect for Senator Smoot but not more so than he lie has for Senator Johnson Both Republicans cans the former fornier against the dam damand damand damand and the latter for for it it ft Smoot is an anable anable able man and a gentleman but he lie heis heis lieis is not infallible It is 15 consoling to I Ino know that for fOl infallibility is always I a no cold blooded certainty and one with with the the laws of or nature We Ve like Ulu a aman aman I Iman man who can make mistakes for he heis I is Is human and If f he 10 couldn't make malte mistakes we would fear tear him per him per perhaps haps halS hate him And because he can err is is' why we e should take his argument argument argument ment a grain of ot salt same as we would that o of any other othel sensible man General Grant made a mistake when wh-en he lie tried for Cor a third term teim with his famous delegates at Chicago Chica Chica- go General Lee when at Gettys Gettys- Gettysburg burg over the protest of ot Longstreet and Pickett ordered that charge saying There Is the enemy and Im I'm going to strike him Tom Corwin when he lIe made that great speech against the Mexican war and amI the acquisition of the great southwest southwest south south- west Yest for the th United States and Julius JUlius Julius Jul JUl- ius Caesar not to see his impending assassination ss s u ending his spectacular sp career with the closing words to lo on one 2 I c cf l i murderers And y ii r y r-y o Urn Urn- and each and all o oo 1030 men wore were greater than Reed Recd Smoot Then why all of this fight against again the tho Boulder dam clam Evan Even the Lea d a v little over a a year ear ago said to ta the committee that with his proposed amendment which would tale take out government ownership hip and anti put the power at the dam under the thc control of the tho federal water power act amII and amI I with that amendment the tIle State Stale o of Utah would ratify the six state pact because then th n it would have ha YC the sanction sanc t. tion of Utah's delegation in con- con gress giess V The There e are are arc no states against this Ulis' Ulis dam clam except pt Utah and Arizona They are ale trying to block bloc tho the progress of or tiled thes great reat southwest aided and backed backed back back- ed by the great power trust t o 0 |