THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



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How One Eastern Woman Views Federal "Landlordism' 



PHE following letter is a remark- 

 able document. It is a message 

 of the true brotherhood of man. 



F. H. Sears, member Executive 

 Committee, National Federation 

 of Water Users' Associations. 



Chicago, 111. 



Dear Sir: I am enclosing $2.00, 

 a mite to be sure, to help you in 

 your fight. I don't think the bill 

 will affect me in any way, but 

 nevertheless we' should help to 

 bear one another's burdens. I 

 would not want anyone to tell 

 me what crops I should raise as I 

 cannot raise some crops to a 

 profit. I also believe in a careful 

 use of water and use less than 

 anyone here and yet have better 

 crops. Yours respectfully, 



Mrs. Fred Osborn 



Irrigating in Michigan 



Another View of Mrs. Osborn's Farm 



AS ADY SEES THEM 



Klamath Man's Observations of Secretary Lane and 

 the Reclamation Commission 



Abel Ady, president 

 of the Klamath Water 

 Users' Association of 

 Oregon, has been in 

 Washington in behalf of 

 his project for several 

 months. He has been in 

 almost constant touch 

 with Secretary of the In- 

 terior Lane and the Rec- 

 1 a m ation Commission. . 

 In reply to a number of 

 questions, he has the fol- 

 lowing to say : 



Yes, the Reclama- 

 tion Board, as a whole, 

 bears every indication of 

 success, and is begin- 

 ning to bear some of the 

 fruits of success. 



Yes, Secretary Lane is measuring up to the high 

 standard set for him in the West. He has set aside 

 all the petty methods of the past and is devoting his 

 energies to the success of irrigation from the stand- 

 point of home building, regardless of the demands of 

 special interests. 



He is not a rich man, and will not leave the gran- 

 ite walls of his office decorated with costly paintings 

 of himself, beside those of his predecessors, but he 

 will leave his image immortalized in the hearts of the 

 struggling home makers of the West and leave his 

 work as a blessing to generations unborn. 



Yes, Director Newell continues at his old tricks. 



Abel Ady 



His head is too small to contain the principles of the 

 brotherhood of man. He is a creature of the ideas 

 of the divine rights of kings, and would make an ex- 

 cellent assistant for Rockefeller, Baer or Weyerhauser 

 in their attempts to acquire ownership of all of God's 

 resources in order that they might as "philanthropists" 

 develop the resources for those who are sufficiently 

 subservient. 



Yes, I remember the bitter denunciatons hurled 

 at me by the published letters of A. P. Davis in an 

 attempt to present an apparent justification of the 

 Reclamation Service in some of the acts criticized in 

 my efforts to protect the Klamath settlers, but those 

 letters are not remembered with the feeling that your 

 question indicates. 



Mr. Davis has for years been the assistant of a 

 dominatng character that possessed neither mercy nor 

 humanity and who required Mr. Davis to father all 

 acts of defense that might react, while the dominating 

 head took all the praise upon himself for any success- 

 ful act of the Service. 



Mr. Davis was the man of brains and abilty and 

 a convenient goat for the needs of his chief. 



With the opportunity presented by the present 

 administration. Chief Engineer A. P. Davis has a fair 

 chance to prove his real worth, and no unfortunate 

 circumstances of the past should be remembered 

 against him. 



Chief Counsel Will R. King is a power for equity 

 and justice. His familiarity with irrigation farming 

 and unsurpassed knowledge of water laws and his 

 sympathies with those who work make him a power 

 for good. 



Comptroller W. A. Ryan has from boyhood been 

 a friend and associate of Frankjin K. Lane and is 

 endowed with a full portion of humanness, but his life 

 (Continued on page 155) 



