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<br />Ou15D\' <br /> <br />28. <br /> <br />Robert Emmet Clark <br /> <br />Page 2 <br /> <br />" <br /> <br />brought up to date. Montana is the last state to have this opportunity, <br />if I can except Colorado from this momentarily. I am mindful that the <br />purpose of this conference was to try to educate the people of Colorado <br />specifically, and all of US generally, and I think the emphasis here was <br />on three things, the last of which 1 will discuss. <br /> <br />., <br /> <br />One emphasis was on the physical conditions and technological <br />s kills and opportunit ies. V...e had a number of excellent papers about <br />these. <br /> <br />Second is the area of existing economic conditions and economic <br />goa ls and econom ic and social conseque nces. <br /> <br />Third is the institutional factor that makes the use of technological <br />infor mation and sc ient ific attitudes available and useful to us. Here I <br />include, of course, the field of the law. Now I think that the thing that I <br />got out of this whole discussion for two days dealt with this topiC, if I <br />can put it all in one sentence: Some kind of integrated or correlated <br />manai:(ement of all water supplies under some kind of system of rational <br />public control. I would say that this was the theme of this discussion for <br />twodays. !think that Mr. Conover's statement at the outset emphasized <br />this. It was interesting to me to observe the number of people who <br />emphasized the law all the way through, until finally the gen tleman from <br />North Dakota thought he had prepared a paper in the wrong field, although <br />he actually presented an excellent one on controls in North Dakota. The <br />discussion of the legal problems is not a prerogative of lawyers. It was <br />interesting to me to hear other people's concern about these institutional <br />frameworks within which we must operate. I am reminded here of a <br />story that is attributed to our State Engineer, whose assistant is here in <br />t he room. He says that it is well known am ong lawyers and maybe among <br />engineers that water rights litigation has made poor lawyers out of some <br />good engineers and some bad engineers out of excellent lawyers. <br /> <br />I ~, <br /> <br />The emphasis on public control in this conference I think was <br />stated both by Judge Dent in the area of Texas which rema ins unique in <br />its property rights and by Mr. Broadhurst, the Chief Engineer for the <br />High Plains District. They disagreed on the amount and the area of public <br />control, but they were certainly both talking about the necessity for some <br />kind of public control, whether self-controlled or imposed by a group in <br />a small area. <br /> <br />i./ <br /> <br />" <br /> <br />I want to try to say a little bit about "rights" because I'm afraid of <br />the mis-use of the term. I worried about this yesterday. Lawyers use the <br />phrase "vested rights" the way some of you may use the phrase" national <br />