Show CRIME OP OF WASTED ENERGY burning our coal and oil while leaving the water powers 0 of f the west undeveloped has bean the crime ot a decade railroad administrator announces his conversion to the need ot of developing western water powers and operating railroads by electricity he announces that millions of tons ot coal and barrels ot of oil should be saved by using the white coal wasting in our mountain streams one small western river is estimated to yield most equal to niagara and a section of the columbia river would yield horsepower for ten years apolitical deadlock has tied up tile the development ot of this greatest ot of all national resources and brought about danger of 0 a fuel famine secretary mcadoo has been c spending pe a d some time in the west and has had his eyes opened to the mighty volume of power that is lying idle in a time of 0 great need while we are mobilizing the nations manpower it dawns on us that we should mobilize tile the wasting water powers |