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Show The Senator Reports To The People Senator Arthur V. Watkini pf 1 I The war in Korea which some of our military leaders were boastfully calling "Operation Killer" when we were killing Red Chinese and North Koreans by the thousands each day has now become "Operation Massacre" Mas-sacre" with our own men and boys on the receiving end. The story of the wholesale slaughter of American and other prisoners of war should bring home to that the enny in Korea has set civilization back to the days of Genghis Khan. It seems to me that our fumbling fum-bling national leadership should long ago have faced up to reality real-ity in Korea. The so-called truce negotiations which have been dragging on fc. week upon week have all the appearance of another stall for time. The on-again off-again conversations are nothing more than another technique of cold war which our leaders have been slow to recognize. I sometimes wonder just how much more the American Amer-ican people will tolerate. KCHO PARK PROJECT SCUTTLED I have a suspicion to the point of conviction that the Department Depart-ment of the Interior has decided to scuttle the plans for the Echo Park Dam which was authorized author-ized to be built in the Dinosaur National Monument area. The news accounts of the speech by Assistant Secretary of the Inter- ior Doty in which he said that he and Secretary Chapman are seeking an alternative plan for the Echo Park project is nothing 1 more than a backhanded way of I saying that the .already agreed- 1 upon plans for a water storage i dam at Echo Park have been vetoed. It seems somewhat j ironical to me that I should have j received news of this about-face by the Interior Department during dur-ing the course of my visit to Duchesne. As most Utahns know, Duchesne is the locale of Strawberry Lake, the first major maj-or Federal reclamation project in Utah. At this writing, the telegram which I sent to Secretary Chap- , man demanding that he repudi-' ate the Dotv statement is unanswered. un-answered. Now I see by the press that Secretary Chapman, , in the course of a speech in New York City, has come out ,t in support of Mr. Doty. They V undoubtedly were of one mind from the very beginning. I fear that the Chapman-Doty i speeches are a threat to the r whole Central Utah Project, which is one of the principal participating projects in the Colorado River Development program. The undercutting of $ the Echo Park Agreement there- ;;i fore is a serious matter insofar as Utah and the Mountain West are concerned. In any event, I .W intend to put up a fight for the Echo Park Dam. I hope Utahns ' fi om one end of the state to the other will join me in that scrap. . CLEAN-UP NEEDED The firing of the Assistant 'a Attorney General of the United ; ;,j States for dragging his feet on : the prosecution of tax fraud cases and for engaging in activ-:A ities in conflict with his public duty is far from the general clean-up we need in Washing- s ton. It is little more than a.-token a.-token action at a time when a thorough housecleaning is in n;' order. I hope it is indicative '. of a change of attitude on the l part of the President. I doubt C that the outraged American ;X public will regard this one fir-:; ing as a housecleaning. T a |