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<br />since been signed by the three state <br />commissioners, ratified by the legislatures of <br />the states and approved by Congress, <br />Compacts are contemplated on many other <br />western rivers, <br /> <br />Every effort to reach a settlement out of court <br />has failed on the Arkansas and North Platte <br />Rivers. Cases involving their stream flows are <br />pending in the Supreme Court of the United <br />States. Those problems might well have <br />been solved long ago had their people <br />caught the vision. The compact plan has <br />proved wise in the case of many of the <br />members of the sisterhood and upon some of <br />its greatest rivers. <br /> <br />The hand of Delph Carpenter has reached <br />wherever men have settled their rights and <br />crystallized their claims, as well as to those <br />rivers where men hope for peace and the <br />progress which is certain to follow the <br />intelligent development of river flow benefits. <br />During the trying weeks of the Colorado River <br />Conference Delph Carpenter suffered pains <br />which were soon to take him to his bed for <br />life. In spite of his physical handicaps, <br />Carpenter arose from his couch to spend <br />long, difficult days in the sessions at Santa <br />Fe over the Rio Grande. So weakened had <br />he become that his work was carried on <br />through an assistant who heard the <br />whispered suggestions of his chief and <br />transmitted them to the other states' <br />representatives. Just as deftly and tactfully <br />as in his younger, stronger days he guided <br />the argument and led the conferees to the <br />answer. <br /> <br />A man of strong convictions, and possessed <br />of a speaking manner which enabled him to <br />make his points clearly and definitely, <br />Carpenter served his neighbors in the <br />Colorado Senate. But his greatest faculty lay <br />in diplomacy and persistence. <br /> <br />To know him is to love him. <br /> <br />A sense of humor which sends its portent in <br />the twinkle of his clear blue eyes has saved <br />many difficult situations. <br /> <br />History teems with tales of brave men who <br />have given their lives for their country in time <br />of war. Comparatively few make up the list <br />of those who made the supreme sacrifice in <br />time of peace and in the name of fair play for <br />men in their everyday activities. <br /> <br />Delph Carpenter developed an idea which <br />meant untold blessing to countless millions <br />now living and yet unborn. By sheer hard <br />work and unbelievable persistence he put it <br />into action. <br /> <br />The West as a Man should do him Honor. <br />Colorado as a state should recognize his <br />service. I was about to say that a monument <br />as high as the Western Rockies should be <br />raised in his honor while he still lives and can <br />draw some measure of comfort and some <br />degree of compensation from the knowledge <br />that the people whom he served, understand <br />and are grateful. But a monument of stone <br />and steel would be inadequate, The <br />Colorado River Compact is the finest <br />memorial that could be erected. <br /> <br />7 <br />