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Show LAST LEGISLATIVE FIGHT 261 sidies, including any waiver of interest so long as there is a national debt, should be evaluated accurately and be set forth clearly in any authorizing legislation." The St. Louis Union Trust Company sent out to all sections of the country what it termed a case history of planned economy. The example it used was the Arizona project.378 Newspapers carried a speech by Professor Earl L. Butz of Purdue University delivered before the American Farm Economics Association, in which he said: 379 "It is deplorable that we tend to allocate an ever- increasing share of irrigation costs against such non- reimbursable items as flood control, recreation, wild life and game development, in order to justify another irri- gation construction project." Professor George S. Benson of Harding College wrote in his nationally syndicated column that planning by government economic planners was costly, and he used the Arizona project as an example.380 Now two events occurred which greatly increased the discouragement of Arizona. The first was a picture story in Life magazine.381 Attracted by the cries of Arizona senators that without the Central Arizona Project their state would suffer economic ruin, the magazine dispatched a crew of writers and photographers to Arizona. A series of photo- graphs were published which showed desert lands cracked by drouth and dotted with the skulls of perished cattle. Arizona's cries of despair immediately changed to howls of anguish and anger. Business leaders and state officials branded the Life story exaggerated and sensa- tional. Newspapers, bankers and civic organizations |