Show THE EDITORIALS fhe Boulder Dam I A. A Again g f 0 By L L. A. A r a Ray Lyman Wilbur Secretary of the Int Interior has bas been trying to get t the Dam started He lIe has bas been handicapped considerably be because cause au of or the fight that ArizOna ona Ariz na puts up but aimed to build the dam dani rin anyway any way if IC he hc could sell the electric Juice In that respect he lie has hns been eel having difficultly b Lo Los A Angeles eles and other othet towns that were bidding biddIng- for large quantities of ot power discovered that they could not use SQ so much pow pov- power er r on tl the c start In other words the demand is a gr growing wIng demand and not an instantaneous demand So Sir Mr r. r Wilbur had to deal with the Edison Electric Power Co of or Southern California Cali Call fornia in order to sell th the And that Is where tho trouble co comes es The Insurgent nt Republicans like Borah Bomb Johns Johnson n n. n Nye k ye LaFollette Lal liette Brookhart Norris and others will make a fight In the senate against th the selling selling of any power to any corporation corporation corporation corpora corpora- tion and so the whole matter Is likely to too go over Ofer till next net congress congress- next wInt winter r. r Another point Is Js Utah and some S others are are makin making a n light fight on Wit Wil b burs bur's urs ur's rates or proposed proposed r rIte rates rr He proposes es t to sell power wholesale l at atthe the dam darn for min mills per T The Utah Colorado o river lver commission wants him to raise the pr price ce to 1 6 mills per r Yh which ch would make a a. big rake of off for Utah and W we wo would lIk like it if It we could get et it but lut we WO cant can't get it Wilbur says that th that t small raise would break brenk the tile whole project because if It he sells the power he ho must sell Bell it in competition to California oil and gas as No doubt Wilbur is right Utah should stay out ot of this game Jame because it I Is not our gameS game W When en we build the Flaming dor Gorge ana anu Dewey ewey dams cams war that win will DC no our our ur game and the lower states must keep au out out- t. t II The main trouble troubie is similar to the boy and tho the filberts The boy stuck stock his Ills hand into a n large bottle to get the filberts He lIe grabbed too ninny many fil filberts and instead of letting loose of some sonie of the filberts he hc held eld all he could grab because be he couldn't get his hand out he stood and cried His mother told fold him to drop part of the filberts and he be could get his hand out with nIl alt he lie needed That is the trouble with the Boulder Dam They all iU want to grab too much What hat we want is a considerable com common ommo om- om mo mon sense Let Wilbur alone He Lie Is all nil rl right ht I see soo no rea reasonable objection to his Wa selling power fo to a it corporation along with f selling to cities clUes so 80 long longas longas as It is a competitive ve proposition That is the thc way he must sell if It he lie gets the thc mon money r. r And And nobody w will I be hurt The fu insurgents r for government o electric I power arc are going too far in III inthe Inthe the game ganie A A Agn game is 18 all aU right but hut it takes a n smart man to know when wilen to quit When Wen to to quit is one of the bl biggest big big- gest problems Jn In life It is a pr problem bl m that con confronts fonts both Loth youth and old old oge ge Our Insurgent senators do n not t. t seth seem m to have hn solved that problem cither r. r Take the thc fetters fettel's off of Mr Wilbur lIbur and let Jet him build the th dam lam Wilbur is I all right and the Ule various objectors tors SIre Are all nIl wrong I |