Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 June 1936 — Page 15
SEA FOOD SPOT
- Jay Darling Seeks Support to Stop River Dam 2 Project.
BY JACK BRYAN Times Special Writer MEMPHIS, Tenn., June 19.—How Jay N, (Ding) Darling, cartoonist“conservationist, went to Washing_ton to help run the government only to discover that the government was “back home where he came from, was told by Ding himself in Memphis.
“I took that job of chief of the
Biological Survey thinking I might |
really get something done for conservation,” he said. “I didn’t think I was so good, but I knew I had the zeal and desire. “But finally this Santee-Cooper project came up and I learned something, In South Carolina, you
see, the Santee River comes down:
from the northern part of the state and the Cooper River comes from the central part, and they empty
into the same bay, opposite each |-
other.
“With thousands of gallons of :
fresh water flowing into that bay,
there are five distinct zones of!
varying salinity, leading out to the salt of the sea, creating the greatest productive area of aquatic life on the Atlantic Coast. “The largest known shrimp shoal in the world is there, an inexhaustible crab supply, and a winter nesting ground for all kinds of waterfowl. Plans for Dam
“One day I learned that a $52,000,000 PWA project had been approved to build a dam across the Santee. They are going to dam up the Santee, divert its water into the Cooper, letting it empty at Charleston, and supply electricity to the whole section. “Now cheap electricity is great stuff, but we have to think of our food first. If this dam is built, 505 square miles of the best breeding ground of aquatic life on the east coast will become salt. The store‘house of fish and waterfowl production will be gone, and hundreds of families earning their living from it will be out of employment. “I went to see PWA Administrator Ickes. And let me tell you, Ickes— even though he doesn’t like me personally—is one of the finest conservationists in the country. When I showed him what this dam would mean, he said, “We'll have to cut it off.” I went to see President Roosevelt, explained the matter to him, and he agreed to cut it off. . “Two weeks later I see a notice in the paper. It’s on again. This
time they're to spend $35,000,000, but
the Santee dam is to be built. Would Repay Loss
“S80 I go to the President again. He shows me a report from the South Carolina Fish and Game Commission that says two fresh . water lakes that the dam will create will amply repay the loss of the bay fisheries. “Sterile fresh water lakes repaying the loss of a natural creation like that bay. This commission’s report is a political affair, and I say so. The President says all right,
The Sign of the Galloping Donkey is not a tavern, but one of hundreds of posters being placed in Philadelphia to direct Democratic pilgrims to Convention Hall, where their conclave will begin June 23. Caesar del Bono, resident of the Quaker City, is shown getting the general idea.
bring in facts to disproye it, so I make another survey and bring in the facts. “The President is again convinced and he cuts the. project off. “Six weeks later I am astonished to read that the money has been reallocated. I go to the President again and ask why. I know you're not supposed to quote the President, but I have to tell about this. “He says, ‘Jay’—he calls every one by his first name, you know, as soon as he finds out what it is— ‘Jay, I think you are right, but here is the pile of petitions from South Carolina...’ “There they were—every Chamber of Commerce, the entire South Carolina delegation in Congress, people everywhere. They said Darling doesn’t know what he's talking about. “The President said, ‘Jay, go and get somebody to support you. Don’t you see—it’s impossible for me to stop this thing when everybody wants it.’ “That was the genesis of my effort to leave Washington and come out and try to organize the 7,000,000 people who buy licenses for sport in this country and the 7,000.000 or more others who love nature and believe in conservation into an organized body. that will support conservation in Washington.”
C. M. B. Glee Club to Sing
The glee club of the Third Chris- |
tian Church Men’s Builders Bible Class is to present a program at 8 tonight at the Meridian Heights Presbyterian Church, Es and Central-av.
15 Wells Completed During Month and 25 More
Are in Progress.
8 A ‘boom in oil and gad drilling in | 108. Tsouthwestern Indiana was reported
! today by Virgil M. Simmons, state
The meeting is to be held at the
Hotel Francis in Kokomo. The pro-
gram, which is to include a luncheon, is in charge of Mrs. O, M. Stevens, Kokomo.
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