| Show TV TVA A Plan for the Nation Envisions Ambitious Program of New Deal Dea OUT of at the New Deal s experiment experiment 7 ment with Ith the TVA in the south has come orne a presidential proposal for tor a series of ot seven i identical authorities w h I c h would control the great river s of oC the nation from mast to coi t The Therein tl n lIe lies one of oC the most ambitious projects of ot the tho administration 9 Conservation ahon of ot natural resources re- re sources development of ot navigation tion flood control and electric power throughout the country are the chief alms of or this thi pro pro- program program pro pram gram They are of at course the for Cor the Presidents President's gen gen- general general gen general eral power policy which holds that hit the waterpower resources of the nation must be proteCted from private monopoly ancl and used for the benefit of oC the people Under bills now noY before Con Con- Congress cress Con gress Introduced by Senator George W V Norris Nebraska the country would be divided Into Inlo seven major regions to initiate this program and an eighth the tho MIssissippi valley would be ve ad- ad administered administered ad administered ministered as at present by the th Mississippi river commission Y 4 M STARTING In the east this would be the picture as the map would be divided to attain the aims alms of the program An i-An 1 An Atlantic seaboard authority au- au authority au authority covering the basins of all aU rivers flowing into the Atlantic from the east A 2 2 A Great Ohio Lakes valley authority The 3 3 The Tennessee valley vaHey nu- nu authority au authority expanded to cover territory terri terri- territory terri territory tory south to the Gulf Gult coast The 4 4 The Missouri valley vaHey au- au authority authority au authority sweeping tar far into the nest est 5 The 5 The Arkansas valley vaHey au- au authority authority au authority and down to Rio Grande Grands The 6 6 The Southwest authority for the Great basin and the tower lower Pacific coast The 7 7 The Columbia valley vaHey cu- cu authorIty au authority The 8 8 The Mississippi valley vaney au- au authority authority au authority dealing with the th chan chan- channel channel channel nel itself The time has come the President President President dent points out when we must act It U we would preserve for ourselves and our posterity the natural resources of a virile he h national life Ufe Accordingly urges the setting up ol ot these thes regional authorities suggesting that they first make surveys of the needs of the nation and then formulate definite programs Thus over a long lone term tile the country would arm itself against z c r r s A As s P r rt t r I- I Colum ra raValle Valle Great La es- es l Ohio Vailey rbi d Southwest Atlantic 1 r ird Valley Tenn Valles Gigantic conservation plan is that Indicated above At the top lop lopis Is the Norris dam structure In the Tennessee alley aliey authority And below how tile the nation be divided In this plan under bills now before Congress Conness dust storms floods and at the same sam time develop navi- navi navigation navi navigation gation g and huge power resources across the continent s sIT IT TT Is this question of power which will wIH doubtless come to the front first In the program It Is the New Deal doctrine that the lowest possible rates rate to the ultimate consumer especially to the consumer on the farm and andin andin andIn in the home will give electrical industries the biggest boom In history At the same time power companies see in this program a threat to their profits and expansion ex- ex expansion ex expansion The TV TVA A of course is already in the power business Here wIll wIllbe willbe willbe be formulated the yardstick for this type of ot experiment And It if it works then the nation may mav eventually see the plan carried to every state providing present bills are arc enacted The whole picture then as yet indefinite and extremely flexible as to detail envisions a nation ultimately secure as to its vast natural resources a nation nahon which utilizes its power possibilities to the fullest and sub sub- substitutes sub substitutes long term national plan plan- planning planning plan planning ning for past policies |
