We might admit that all these measures for national defense are taken only for the edification of the South Sea Islanders or the Aleutian Islanders. or to impress the Thibetans and Tungus Tribes. But is it not the last limit of national idiocy and infinite futility to spend millions upon millions for national safety or defense In the way we are doing. while we either ignorantly. or blindly. or deliberately. or treasonably. give away the waters of the Colorado River to be used to transplant a huge slice of overpopulated Asia to the back door of Los Angeles. and root it there at the head of the Gulf of California. In an Asiatic agricultural colony and world seaport. in Mexican territory. but under Japanes- control. which. il the event of war with Asia. could not but constitute an Asiatic airplane base? From tat Asiatic airplane base in Mexico It would be not over an hours run by fast military airplanes to every city in southern California and southern Arizona. and to all the great sources of water supply In that territory and works for its distribution for irrigation and domestic use. Their destruction would force the abandonment of that country for hunman habitation and transform It back into a desert waste. The mere suggestion that such a military menace would be created by a conspiracy to surrender the waters of a great American river to Asiatic aliens in Mexico is a shock to patriotisim and loyalty to our country. Yet that is exactly what the FallDavisBoulder Canyon dam and power project for the ostensible benefit of Los Angeles contemplated. and would have accomplished. supplemented by the iniquitous Santa FeColorado River compact. If the whole scheme had not been mercilessly exposed and held up to the public sorn which it deserved.