Arizona republican. [volume], December 18, 1920, Page PAGE EIGHT, Image 8

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THE ARIZONA REPUBLICAN. SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 18, 1920
VITAL NEED OF
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TOLD RUNS
Possibilities Unlimited, Geo.
H. Maxwell Declares
Says It Will Solve Bi?
National Problems
The unhmited possibilities of a great
torUmation policy in not only placing
million of arid acres of the West into
cultivation. but in restoring pros
perity n1 employment to the hun
dreds of thousands of men in the coun
try. the Biihj.Tt of a stirring ad
dress by Oorjf M. Maxwell yesterday
t the luncheon of the Kotary club.
A preceding talk on the Boy Scouts
sv Mr. Maxwell the keynote, of his
ddress. He described a great meet
ly K of the Boy Scouts in the armory
m Iv-troit, ussemhled to hear an illus
trated lecture by him. In which he
hved the audience pictures of the
frr at irrigation works then under way
n.l competed under the United States
r.eclamation Act. as a way of illus
trating the great opportunities created
ty those works for the young men of
th east to com west and make homes,
and also to prove the demand created
by the building of these works for the
I'l'Hiluits of the eastern factories where
many of these very hoys would be in
a few years be seeking employment.
Then Mr. Maxwrll referred feeling
ly to the fact that today hundreds of
thon-anrts of men who are the fathers
of ,uch hoys in the east are out of
work and without any assurance that
then- families will not come to want
before very lorifr. Ho dwelt forcefully
on the danger of any extended period
of unemployment at this time as a
bieeder of industrial disturbance, the
end of which no man could foretell.
This danger he contends intensifies the
necessity for an Immediate national
policy for stimulating: the home mar
kets for both merchants and manufac
turers and thereby restoring prosper
ity by the inauguration of on ade
quately large nnd comprehensive policy
for the full utilization of the water
resources of the United States.
This Valley an Illustration.
To bring the possibilities of such an
era of development as a market build
er nnd trade stimulator clearly to the
minds of those present. Mr. Maxwell
compared the .Salt River valley as it
was when lie first saw it in De
ccmber, with what it is today, and
the vast amount of labor and material
that has gone into the construction of
everything- that has been built since
1S96 and today, including the Kooae
velt dam and the entire irrigation sys
tern.
Every one present was imprcLsed
with the force of Mr. Maxwell's re
marks when he referred to" the present
tendency to deflate first farm products
and then waxes as "see-sawing back
wards down hill", and declared the ne
cessity for reversing the present drift
by the immediate adoption of a policy
for internal improvements, particularly
water conservation, river regulation
and reclamation, on a sufficiently large
scale to turn the tide and create i j
demand for labor and tor factory pro- l
ducts that would exert a vigorous in- !
fluence on the demand for l ibo- i - ! i
products of labor in the mills and fac
tories of the east.
Reclamation has made an enormous: ;
market lor automobiles, and a new !
era of such development on a large
scale would restore the balance, to the
automobile industry ana mereoy oene-fi-ioiir
nffpet the market for lonsr
staple cotton, which has so seriously
leit me Slump in me M-uiumouue in
dustry. Every manufactured article
would feel the stimulus, and every
community in the east would be bene
fited where anytning is maae tnac is
used In the west.
Agriculture the Base.
Tha enenker referred to the principle
of economics as being universally ac
cepted that the lounaaiion 01 ram
murrial nd Industrial prosperity is the
prosperity of the farmer, and the rea
son is that the larmer s prosperity 15
mensurn of his buying power.
which in turn Is the measure of his
influence on the general prosperity.
Tiit n now nrincinlo row enters into
modern economics that must not be
overlooked, and that Is tne ouying
rr.x-n rf thA multitude who are now
enlaced In working for salaries of
wages.
Th laut' rnsin" said Mr. Max
well, "shows that more than half of
our population now lives in cities, anu
la ensar in commerce, manufactur
ing or industrial employment of some
kind, if those tast multiplying miuiona
are to be reduced to the living level
of what it will be in Europe for many
years, the reflection of this limitation
will be felt by every wholesale and
retail merchant and manufacturer in
the. United States.
"We cannot sustain a permanent
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Intensive preparation, an interestinj
plot, bright dialogue and a talented
cast combined to make "A Rose o' Ply
mouth Town" the junior class play,
an unusually good amateur production
at the high school last night. The play
was presented before a large audience,
and so much was it liked that a num
ber of those who attended expressed
their intention of seeing It again to
night.
"A Rose o' Plymouth Town" will be
repeated at the high school auditor
ium tonight, with a new cast, the per
formance to begin at 8:15. Tonight's
cast is as follows:
P.arbara Standish Iorotlvy Swenson.
Resolute Story Margaret Cronln.
Miriam Chillingsley Zola Haines.
Rose de la Noye Marlon Boyd.
Miles Standish Pelbert Jones.
John Margeson George "Wintz.
Phillippe de la Xoye Roland Fulton.
Garreth Poster Melbourne Hill.
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prosperity in this country unless we j
see to it that the farmer receives a
good price for his products and Is
therefore prosperous, and it is equally
necessary that there should be no
unemployment and that all workers
receive a return for their labor ade
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standard of livine which affords every
family an opportunity to live on the
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Must Create Internal Markets
'That certainly cannot be done if we
depend on a market in Europe for the
products of either our farms or our
factories. Devastated Europe, bur
dened with their war debt, cannot be
looked to for a market such as she
furnished for us before the war. We
must look elsewhere for It.. There is
no place to look except to the devel
opment of our own internal resources.
The quickest and largest results in
that field can be obtained by the rapid
construction of some of the great
works necessary to win the great war
against the deserts."
A comparison was drawn between
the results of a war with a foreign na
tion, in which we might suffer tem-'
porary defeat only to "come back" and
finally win the war, and a war against
the deserts which if once lost would
be lost forever. The speaker described
Arabia today with what it was cen
turies ago when the great dam of Ma-
rib watered a fertile region now a
hopeless desert, lrreclaimably deso
late, as an illustration of what would
happen if we were once defeated by
the desert He argued that the war
against the desert must be fought
with the same irresistible energy and
adequate expenditure as a war with
a foreign nation.
"The world war cost us 125,000,000,
000. We are proposing now to expend
more than a billion dollars a year on
our army and navy. We should im
mediately declare a great national
policy of expending not less than
$240,000,000 a year for 10 years on
water control and utilization, on a war
against the deserts. The total of that
for only 10 years would be $2,400,000,
000, one-tenth of the total cost of the
world war. Thero are known projects
more than enough to expend this
amount upon in construction, and the
doing of it would create a huge de
mand immediately for all sortsv of
construction material."
Tells of Arizona Plana
Mr. Maxwell showed the engineers'
maps and reports on the San Simon
and Gila river projects and a prelim
inary map of the Colorado-Gila river
project and said that he hoped an op
portunity would be afforded to him to
address a public meeting before the
end of next week in Phoenix at which
he could describe in detail-the great
All-Arizona reclamation plan of which
these units form a part, and show
what a marvelously prosperous future
lies before the state if this compre
hensive plan and Irrigation system for
the entire 6tate is adopted.
"Its adoption would mean," said
Mr. Maxwell, "that not one drop of
water would ever be allowed to run
to waste in Arizona or from the
mouth of the Colorado river, and the
value of that water, transmuted . into
crops, is vast beyond conception. The
money would all be poured first into
iho local channels of trade, and thence
into the national channels.
"Get busy without delay and put
this great idea into operation and you
will have no more depression or hard
times in the Salt river valley or any
where else in Arizona. The prosper
ity here would be radiated throughout
the entire United States."
Need of Local Armory Shown
Colonel J. J. Boniface, sent to or
ganize the national guard of Arizona
and New Mexico, told the Rotarlans in
forceful words that the people of
Phoenix were not properly backing up
their national guard troops here. He
aescnoea tne immeaiaie need or a
suitable armory.
C. N. Miller, national field scout
executive, told of the state organiza
tion being formed at a meeting last
night in this city. He urged the Ro
tarlans to support the organization in
this city and state and described the
great good accomplished.
Warren McArthur reminded the Eo-
tarians of the highway bond election
on Dec. 31, and asked that all boost
its success, declaring that not to pro
vide for this full road program now
would be a calamity.
Under the leadershio of Dean Wil
liam Scarlett, the Rotarians repeated
uie Atnenian oatn. as Hollows:
"We will never bring disgrace on
this city by an act of dishonesty or
cowaraice.
"We will fight for the ideals of this
our city, both alone and with many.
vv e win strive increasingly to
fjuicken the publics sense of civic
duty.
"Thus: In these ways we will trans
mlt thia city, not onjy, not less, but
greater, better and more beautiful
than it was transmitted to us."
Harry Wrelch was chairman of the
day.
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