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Show TIME'S UP! It is possible "the father of waters" wa-ters" the Mississippi has given us a political issue for 1928. Certain it is that the naton has suffered one ' of its greatest calamities during the i last few weeks. It must now occur again. j Whether or not the people shoulil j demand a special session of Congress: j to take immediate action, is a ques- i tion. We are so fearful such session might run off into political jockeying-, maneuverings, filibuster or what not that we hesitate to advocate such session. However: For twenty years Congress has ; known this condition must be faced and action taken to eliminate a flood ; of this kind. It was only a question j of when all head waters would be high at the same time. That condition condi-tion came about this year. You see the results. j President Roosevelt's Conservation Commission engineers urged that Mi.-.-i.-.-ippi floods be abolished by stora re reservoirs at the head waters wa-ters and its main tributaries. That was twenty years ago and since then Congress has evidently had more important im-portant business than to protect the thousands in the Mississippi valley against devastation. Whether it be in special session or the regular session in December, the first thing Congress should consider and adopt is Secretary Hoover's national plan for water conservation and distribution. One project therein there-in is designed to bar any repetition of the Mississippi disaster by building build-ing thirteen storage dams in the headwaters of the Cumberland and Tennessee rivers, incidentally developing devel-oping unknown horsepower of electric elec-tric energy. When these two rivers r;re controlled, the Mississippi will be harmless. We were rich enough to retire one H!! ion dollars of our national debt last year. We are talking about another an-other three hundred million tax cut next session of Congress. Therefore, v.c are too rich to keep congressmen in office who will not protect our fellow fel-low citizens and home builders, but instead, spend their time playing politics for corporate interests. o |