Show I I THE TH E CURSE CU OF FLOODS Among other things Congress is asked to provide a deep waterway commis commission commission sion that shall study and solve the problem problem lem of ot freight transportation by the rivers of ot the nation And of ot that project the Worlds Work says saysA A commission which understands the laws of traffic as well as the engineer engineering ing ins problems which can put its fingers fingerson on the present trouble and show the remedy might make our rivers well regulated carriers of heavy commerce from the Interior to the sea sen and per perhaps haps still more important prevent floods Today they destroy more prop property property erty than they carry and under their present treatment they will continue to todo todo do so Particularly at this season of ot the year the curse of ot floods is felt all over ever the country Yet Tet that does not seem a problem which should forever puzzle a capable people In midsummer the rivers are too low to carry vessels of draft In the spring they are so high that they carry everything Including the houses and bridges and railroad tracks We great Americans should be beable beable beable able able to defeat that pernicious tendency of or nature na ture Such a disaster as that happening to the Salt Lake San Pedro railroad in Meadow Valley Wash Yash should not be pos possible possible possible sible of ot repetition Such catastrophes as those slides of ot snow in the states to the north ought to be provided against t tA A national commission ought to find a away away away way to protect the people from such visitations And engineers here In the city of ot Sat Lake ought to be capable of t caring for lor forthe the floods of ot snow water that rush down upon the paved streets banking mud and filling sewers with rock and silt sUt aud and debris Man boasts of oC his superiority to na nol nature nature ture And every spring nature makes I a mockery of him hl |