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Show PROPOSES PLAH - TO ST IDLE 8UQGEST8 TO SECRETARY OF COMMERCE CONSTRUCTION OF WE8TERN PROJECT8 Senator Borah of Idaho Has Plan to Help Western People and At 8ame Time Assist Those Out of Work Boise, Ida. Immediate development of many governmont Irrigation projects pro-jects In tho West, which will give employment em-ployment to thousands of men now out of work In various parts of the country, Is tho proposal made by United States Senator W. E. Borah of Idaho to' Socretary of Commcrco Herbert Hoover, to solve tho unemployment unem-ployment problem that Is facing the United Stntes nt tho present time. A copy of the lottor of Senator Borah and the proposal contained therein lias been received in Bolso. Sonator Borah points out that, In addition to furnishing employment to tho unemployed, the construction of these projocts nnd pushing thorn to early completion will supply homos for many oilier thousands of people who have been walling for years for tho government to finish irrigation projects Senator Bomb's lettor Is, In part as follows: "I am Informed through tho press that you nre engaged in working out some kind of a program to take enro nf the unemployed dining tho coming fall nnd winter 1 beg lo.ivo to make a suggestion to you "As you nro doubtless well Informed, wo hnvc a great number of Irrigation projects .In the West, either ready for construction work or which have been begun and delayed by leasnn of want of funds Hundreds and oven thousands thou-sands of poople are walling an opportunity oppor-tunity to make homes upon these pro. JectB In somo Instances of which I have knowledge they have been wait-Ing wait-Ing for a number , of' years I think you will ngreo with me that this government gov-ernment cannot be more deeply interested inter-ested In any proposition l.ian it Im In getting ns many people as practicable ipon our land and so arranging mat ters thnt they may acquire Homes "I assume that tho government will, In taking care of the unemployed, seek to find work for them rather than to engage In tho demoralizing program of feeding them without work' The only suno, wholeBomo and decent way to treat an American citizen, when he Is In want of frod, Is to find labor for him, so that he may pay for his food and not accept It at the hands of charity. char-ity. If these projects couldb taken up nnd built under present conditions, utilizing tho unemployed at u fair wage, it seems to bo one at least of the most practical and desirable things wo could do. In the first place, It gives work to a largo number of unemployed, unemploy-ed, thereby enabling them to take' care of themselves and tholr families. In the second place, It provide uero-ago uero-ago for the making of homes nnd for Increasing the production lit this country. In the third place, ultimately all moneys expended upon thesepro-Jocts thesepro-Jocts will be repaid to tho government. govern-ment. Any of those lands are worth much more than tho amount nocesury to reclaim them, nnd the governmont, |