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Show 260 WAR FOR THE COLORADO RIVER 4 - Has threatened to turn off irrigation water in areas in which bad publicity is issued against the Bureau. 5 - Is seeking to force a contract on water districts under which any individual farmer could be forced to vote for Bureau political candidates, or have his irrigation water turned off. 6 - Has forcefully taken over the festival which the people of California planned for August 1 to 10, and has launched an "orgy of wasteful spending of taxpayers' money to praise Bureau officials." Typical of the newspaper criticism was an editorial in the Savannah Morning News which expressed the fear that the Reclamation Bureau was proposing "govern- ment-controlled economy." 374 Another Georgia paper, the Columbus Ledger, said simply, "We don't like it." 375 The Wall Street Journal thought the Interior Depart- ment policies "socialized natural resource ideas," and accused Chapman of using the Central Valley celebra- tion as a vehicle for spreading central government planning.376 "Planned Extravagance!" said the Boston Herald.311 A damaging blow to the schemes of the Reclamation Bureau was delivered by the Engineers Joint Council, a body representing the largest engineering societies in the United States, which said: "In brief, our national water policy should be the progressive development of the water resources of the nation for all purposes and in all regions in an orderly manner. The cost of each development should be borne by the beneficiaries in proportion to the benefits which accrue to them. The allocation of such costs and the evaluation of such benefits should be without favor to any function or region. "All capital subsidies and capitalized annual sub- |
