Show r SIGHTS 2 I th ht l- l i r n 1 t r rs s 1 v 1 ll II p J Vf r r. r y t I R j r r i t t 4 r lt I t i r ir r 1 t i ip Z ti p c t fI tl rt h Y ll ty t T a 1 ti at p t t te Ill I'll 1 e Z r r rr G. G r n f rt Irn w r kl f fr i 2 r f. f B Z T TP P J p d t r t. t may I go down to the cabaret night o-night and fox trot a wee bit Yes m my boy but not without pour father to chaperon you IS THE PANAMA CANAL A FAILURE NOr NO 77 SAYS EXPERT I Slides Can Be Stopped Says A. A P. P Davis Director of f U. U S. S Reclamation Service and One of Worlds World's Greatest Engineers Millions Big Ditch Cost Are Not Wasted WHAT THE PANAMA CANAL COST I THE UNITED U STATES IS IT WASTED I Cost of canal construction work Cost of sanitation work Cost of civil adm administration Paid to French canal company for property franchises franchises franchises fran fran- Paid to republic of Panama for franchise rig rights t TOTAL ESTIMATED COST OF CANAL COMPLETED COMPLETED COMPLETED COM- COM WASHINGTON Oct 21 l THE IS-THE PANAMA CANAL A FAILURE Has the United States got to build another r great waterway from the Atlantic to the Pacific w mm jW l IS and and abandon the the one just completed as one of the worlds world's biggest engineering feats Will the great slides which have been coming Into the Gaillard cut for months past and which have now culminated In an enormous slide of ot cubic yards of of ot earth completely blocking the ditch permanently permanently permanently per per- continue and render the canal useless or so dangerous that it t will have to tobe be abandoned Will Uncle Sam have to go back to his first love and nd buy and build the Nicaragua canal already being negotiated for by treaty In the United States senate The answer to those questions Is ill NO declares Arthur P. P Davis di director director director di- di rector of ot the United States reclamation reclamation reclamation tion service e and one ot of the tho gr greatest engineers In tho the world X Davis ayls was chief of the original commission which examined the Nicaragua NIcaragua Nicaragua Nic NIc- aragua canal route and spent months U. U T I el I r 5 s Ii Hi t A AP I- I on un th e s th mug The slides which are occurring said Davis can be foreseen but they cannot be prevented They occur mostly in the wet season when the hillsides become saturated with moisture This water pressure starts the earth sliding down of ot the cut However the problem of clearing the the canal is' is simply one of time and money Slides are bound to occur and Engineer Wallace the original chairman of the Panama canal commission estimated that fully ten per cent more yardage than was Wal needed to make the cut would eventually have to be removed on account of slides Eventually however the slides must stop They are not due to but but- butare are emphasized in my lon by earth tr tremors mors It would take about ten years to build the Nicaragua canal and there can be no question of ot the slides at Panama continuing for ten years ears earsIn In such volume as to affect traffic The plans adopted for the Isthmian canal have been justified in two twe ways In the first place it will now be clear that the decision decision decision de de- de- de to build a lock canal instead of a sea-level sea canal was correct for the slides in a sea-level sea canal where the Gailliard cut would be 85 feet deeper than at present would be much more serious The decision to build at Panama rather than Nicaragua was wise In inI I I another respect It It was to o adequately the Panama strip whereas this would have been practically Impossible at Nicaragua The problem of ot slides would have had to be met at Nicaragua aswell as aswell aswell well as at Panama In addition there Is a special problem at Nicaragua Lake Nicaragua ten miles long through which the proposed canal carial route would run has for eight or ten miles a bottom of ot thin mud It is a serious question whether this could ever be excavated and held back from the channel |