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United States Senator Dietrich, .Nebraska, made a speech before 

 the congress, in which he touched on two issues, which were before 

 congress last winter viz.: Irrigation and beet sugar. He expressed 

 the opinion that the arid country would be the great sugar producing 

 section of the United States. 



Among the other addresses of Tuesday, which were favorably 

 commented upon was that of President Slocum, of Colorado college. 

 He dwelt on the relationship of irrigation and good citizenship and 

 emphasized the fact, that the irrigation farmer must, of necessity, be 

 a fairly well educated man, because he has to deal with complex ques- 

 tions relating to the ownership and divisions of streams on which he 

 has to depend for his water supply. 



The only address of the congress delivered by a woman was given 

 on Tuesday morning by Mrs. Gilbert McClurg, of Colorado, who re- 

 sponding for Mrs. Denison, president of the general federation of 

 womans's clubs, gave greetings. Mrs. McClurg said, referring to the 

 meeting of the general federation of women's clubs in Los Angeles 

 last May: 



Utah Delegation Tenth Irrigation Congress. 



"The Colorado women, later joined by those of California, intro- 

 duced at the bi-ennial convention of women's clubs at Los Angeles, 

 a resolution indorsing and requesting government aid for irrigation. 

 This resolution was adopted unanimously. When I first broached the 

 proposed resolution in the committee room, one woman demurred, 

 saying politics had no place in the federation of women's clubs. Mrs. 

 Sarah Platt Decker rejoined, 'Irrigation is not politics. In the west 

 it is religion.' " 



On Tuesday evening Clarence Johnson, of Wyoming, a govern- 

 ment irrigation expert, gave an illustrated lecture on irrigation in 

 Egypt that was interesting. Mr. Johnson is a young man and is now 



