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<br />CFJAIRMA:N, Now, v./e have. '", tentat.ive agenda before
<br />us, and the-rz a:tf; sorYHl; H....ings that. should he clisc't'l.ssed$ but before that
<br />I wnuld J.ike t.o make j'lSt. it few remark". It is my bs Her. that we have
<br />got' to take conditiolHl as t,hey a~e, not as we'd Hke for them to be. We
<br />may wish to push our work along rapidly, but you must remember that
<br />there's a debt of some 325 to 340 billion doll.ars hanging over the country,
<br />and not only the government debt itsdf, but the added indebtedness of
<br />individuals and propositions that they represent, and that's a condition
<br />that we face. It's an investment, and it's not to be paid back. We went
<br />into the war for the purpose of trying to bring Europe out of communism
<br />back to democracy. We shot the money awayuate it upugot away with
<br />it, andtbat's not a pay-back debt, and it hangs over our country to the
<br />amount of possibly $lZ50 for every man, woman. and child, and some'men
<br />prob'ibly will have to pay for a lot of others, but that's what Congress is
<br />facing now, and that's what we are facing.
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<br />We don't like to see them keep the Reclamation appropriation
<br />down but it's quite likely it will be cut down, and so, we are compelled,
<br />I think, to face a condition of just accepting those propositions that can
<br />get by Congress at the present time. Now, the question is, what kind
<br />of propositions, or what kind of projects, will be most acceptable. Well,
<br />a seems that as Congress looks at it, that in the way of food, we are
<br />probtlbly just aliI well supplied as before the war, and a little better. We
<br />could only eat the food that was produced during the war, and it hasn't
<br />be,m used up. It will be reproduced year after year, so it's not a question
<br />of the production of food but increased cost of everything--for instance,
<br />textile goods. In order to fill up the hole that edsta in our economy today.
<br />tt is necessary that we stress production of machinery, and in fact, of
<br />all textile goods, and so, we'll have to then ask ourselves a question,
<br />"How can we do it?" We can do it by power. We will have to stress
<br />power, and possibly flood control, but I'm afraid that we will have to hold
<br />back a little bit on the thing dearest to our hearts. probably, reclamation.
<br />But the question of power is an aU important question. You know '",hElt
<br />took place in England recently. They ran out of power and they ran out
<br />of he3.t, now they are planning to lay cables from Norway over to England
<br />to conduct power to England to make up the shortage. Over in Norway
<br />they have abundance of water power, and here we have Boulder harnessing
<br />the water that has been for a million years flowing down to the sea. Every
<br />in.ch, every foot of water means power that has never been used, and we
<br />certainly need it,
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<br />In many places, they recently were short of electricity or
<br />electric power for running the factories, and sO today. I say that one
<br />of the things that we need, not in Wyoming, but the lower reaches of the
<br />river are more power plants. At Glen Canyon--there's a place that a
<br />dam could be placed that would generate 400,000 kilowatts of power. The
<br />water will never be lessened there. The water that goes to the lower
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