Show SPEED UR URGED fD IN CRANNEL W WORK WASHINGTON April il 23 AP All AP- Consideration of the St. St Lawrence and Great Lak Lakes s waterway problems as a unit would tie up Great Lakes' Lakes improvement work york indefinitely chairman Dempsey of the house rivers and harbors committee declared declared de de- de- de dared toda today in a a. digest of ot recent correspondence on the subject between between be be- be tween the sta state e department and the Canadian Government He Ire contended that the channels f Jf the Great Lakes should be deepened without delay and said that the committee had unanimously passed a resolution asking the engineers to on the project as soon as possible Our secretary of state has accepted most of the sU suggestions made by Canada Mr Dempsey said in discussing the correspondence dence including that of treating these thle Improvements as a unit What will be the effect if It this course is adopted The agitation for tor the tho improvement of ot the St. St Lawrence had gone one on not alone with nothing done clone but with no agreement eV even n to do anything for Cor a third of ot a century There Is now no grater prospect of or action or even of an agreement than there has been in this long period So if It we wait walt for the tho United States StateR and Canada to agree upon deef deepening the tho chan rhan- nels of or the Great Greet Lakes we will no doubt wait walt indefinitely or ot- for a third of ot a century more And all all all' the time we vc wait walt the wheat growers of the west the food consumers of the east the t great iron and steel business of ot the Ute country and anCl all who Iho use iron or steel products and every family in the northwest which uso i a 1 ton of coal will pay a n higher transportation tion cost on the tho Great Lakes because be because be- be cause it Its channels are too ton shallow to fo enable the great Ireat Lake freighters ft to loarl loan to capacity The rhe losses loses from the delay everywhere will be enormous and it is unnecessary and th therefore of course inexcusable |