Show 9 A t f WASHINGTON WASH I NUTON N BYSTANDER 4 By Dy HERBERT PLUMMER WASHINGTON WASHINGTON-In In a a. small unpretentious unpretentious unpretentious un un- pretentious office office- at th the far end of ot the th Ui munitions building a a. pleasant bespectacled army officer Is about ready to close his desk and retire He Ho Is Major General Edgar JadwIn Jad- Jad wIn chief of ot army engineers and for tor more than a a. quarter of af a century century century cen cen- cen- cen tury on one of ot the worlds world's greatest au authorities U on flood load control and waterways He Ho Is only 63 years jears rears old and doesn't look his age Mild 1 and unassuming unassuming un un- un- un assuming he may be found at al almost almost al- al most any time In his hs Ice smoking ng his favorite briar briar and studying the vast st st. array of ot maps and charts h that clutter his desk On August 7 he leaves It all an With the rank of ot lieutenant general and a reputation that Is worldwide he looks forward to spending the remaining years of ot lie hIs life lite In comparative comparative com corn seclusion V VAST EXPERIENCE Few people know the extent 0 of G General T J experience with larg e engineering projects He lie went t to Panama with Goethals and for four tour yearS years directed th the digging digging- of ot the fhe anal on the Atlantic side sId of ot th the waterway After the great storm at Galveston Galveston Galves Galves- ton It wa was WM Jadwin then a captain who sup superintended rint reconstruction of ot the sea walls Jetties anc and fortifications During the World war h he lie organized organIzed organ organ- iz d alq took to tp France Francs the Fifteenth Fit Fl- Fitte t te nth engineers and became becam directing direct direct- ct- ct ing G head of ot the great construction force of ot officers and men menth menthe men nien- th the force foice that constructed more than 1000 miles of laUr railroad ad th thou thousands tf sands 6 of buildings and countless miles of ot highways In r record cord time And It Is the Jadwin plan that will be followed In the governments government's effort to curb the mighty Mississippi dissiS- dissiS sippi river ONE HOBBY Waterways yg have bave been General JadwIn's hobby bobby during the most of his military career Shortly aft after r graduation from Wet West WestPoint PoI Point t In 1890 he ie e was s as assigned ign d to his first harbor Improvement project ct He was told to triple the size of ot Ellis island f for r immigration purPoses purposes I He started to work and within a short shott While completed th the job jou He dredged a a channel to the Island built a crib around three sides of It filled the Interior and created an Island three times Its size H He Heso so so Impressed his superiors that he was was sent sent to the engineering school at Willetts 1 point at N NewYork New NewYork w York harbor where h he was ivas graduated grad graduated in both civil nd en- en en General JadwIn has a a. deep rooted and sincere faith in his his' profession In 1927 he ie e was on on an inspection tour of ot the flood ravaged Mississippi sippi ippi valley The water was still high A A. A resident ached him hiTT and asked if it he thought the army engineers could solve the problem of the mighty Mississippi He replied i in iIi five words They built the Panama canal And it was with this tills sort of ot de determination determInation determination de- de termination that he plunged into trying to find a a. solution to what has been beak described as the worlds world's greatest engineering engineering- pr problem bem |