Show GRASSROOTS Honest Harold Ickes Tide Lands Oil Wells By Wright A. Patterson I WAS A BOY in Washington WHEN Long's Creek was one of the waterways of that It was not navigable even for a light It was just a with water in spots in the and those spots provided breeding places for bull heads and swimming pools for the boys of the Because of the swimming the boys claimed Long's Creek as their rightful Had the government of those days attempted to do what the federal government is doing it would have meant an insurrection on the part of those Washington county that would taken a corps of marines to The counties of southern California have creeks similar to those In every county of every These California creeks serve the specially useful purpose of Irrigation for the hundreds of foothill without which they would not and would be Those creeks have been the of Irrigation for those back to the Spanish mission without waning of any the federal notifies the farmers that they can no longer use the vater of those as they are government and the rights to the water they carry belong to the federal government Those water rights have been recognized as be longing to the farms they irrigate for more than That Is seizure of property by the without adequate compensation to the and it is specifically forbidden by the fifth amendment to the but the federal government has refused to recognize the rights to compensation by the What has happened in these California could happen In Washington or In any other ly In any If California permits the central government to gel away with such a It will be tried in other and he citizen will soon have no rights the government at Washington will That bold move on the part of the attorney general's office is more far-reaching than of li southern Should it get away with tl at there is no limit to what lt can In the days when F. D. R. and the New Deal was operating with the regularity of well greased clock honest Harold then secretary of the was a recognized source of New Deal One that bobbed up In his always fertile brain was for the government to take over tide lands oil aim so gather in the royalties the 1 were paying to the states for each barrel of oil they frum the ocean and to secure which they had invented very sums in the drilling and operation of those tideland The terms Honest Harold offered were far from satisfactory to the and But they stopped pumping and The states lost the royalties they had been and to supplement their diminishing revenues bad to levy other taxes on their already over burdened the nation lost the supply the tide lands fields had And all because Honest Harold had a bad He would provide more revenue with which to meet New Deal and put one ever on the wealthy oil Like some other of his that one did not work out as be tad planned Without that tide land oil we cannot meet the national defense requirements and keep 52 per cent more automobiles on the Should the service station refuse to sell you all the gas you might it will be safe to lay the blame at the door of Honest Harold's New Deal Appropriation for Fair Deal Point 4 projects Is one of the unnecessary expenditures Congress can well afford to forget under our present With Fair Deal tutors to guide wc are rabidly I becoming a benighted in need ol our own |