THE GREAT FLOOD OF 1937
Kermit C. Moss, CPA, Retired University Professor
Much has been said recently about the great flood of 1937. I graduated from New Edinburg High School in May of that year, and not even a rumor of a job was to be found for the farm boy that I was at that time! So I enrolled in the Civilian Conservation Corp, and right away, finding that I could spell, and write reasonably well, they made me the Company Clerk. Thus I got involved in office and office-related work early and have spent a lifetime at it.
But let me get on with it about great floods. Some have at times called me a socialist because I occasionally see where the government can perform a service better than it could and would be done by the private sector. Both Fred Murphy of Pea Ridge and Phillip B. Kelly of Ft. Smith come to mind in this regard. So let me quote, if you will, from an article by David Welky, entitled “When the levee holds”, published both in the New York Times Syndicate and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette of May 13, 2011, and I quote, “Nevertheless, it’s the spirit of 1937 that we must embrace:
The great flood of 2011 would be totally cataclysmic had the Roosevelt Administration not invested in public works and embraced the proposition that careful, centralized planning can produce enormous social and economic rewards”.
Kermit C. Moss
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May 13th , 2011
