Show PRAISES N Immediate Action on onGO project at Great Lakes 1 GO GO k Dec Bee 1 H. I.-H. H C. C Gardner of at the Great Lakes St. Law- Law association today zed the conservation phase t. t Lawrence improvement asen as asen Dentally en ally the most important of that the electricity generated ess ng lh the lb flo the Great he the sea would furnish power c ty town and farmstead in New ew York and New England ed estimates that within ten teny y rears the annual coal saving to tons ing the proposal of a avater water vater the great lakes to the ocean Iner ner in his statement said said- ts junction with vuth the Gulf of offence fence rence for about five hundred miles to the mighty once ence river seems more like an anthe anthe the sea than a river At its is eighty miles wide and it order that the famous French Cartier who St St. Lawrence in 1534 sailed krance ranee and reported to Francis fining monarch his strong hope last the westward passage idles had been found Indeed to have been quite mystified situation developed when in his explorations reached of the present city of Mon Mon- W WIDTH Montreal for the remaining approximately one hundred ty miles to the rivers river's outlet ke ie Ontario the width of the ream averages close to two t is in this part of the river e occurs the great rapids withal with withof al fall of two hundred twenty aggregate length of som some for for- niles niles that must be overcome works of man before the St. St e will become the untiring and slave it is destined soon to Irks low ow of the stream averages tired ired forty thousand cubic feet iid yd winter and summer summer r t these characteristics and con- con hat prompted congress when the International Joint Ion to investigate and nd report improve the p er river so so that I I Ing ships may fre freely enter the kes to include in their making of plans and estimates I 1 and utilizing the hydro- hydro r ower which i for all aU the cenI cen cen- run to waste I IRS 3 S GET AID a and industries of the theon 1 felon on that is nearer to the Great aan an to our salt water ports will antage antage of lower ts Herbert Hoover S ufa sa saving saing ing of certainly 6 cents r 1 on wheat and it will be e corI cor- cor I gly as much on other grains per er cent of all the many thou- thou sands of tons of meat products lard and animal oils that each year are ex exported exported ex- ex ported from this country are produced in n the central West and on every pound lound a large saving could be made by loading ships at our lake ports I IThe The people of f northern New York and New England will Swill il bo be ber rt Western brethren brethren breth breth- even n more than their V te ren ren for they will not only have the improved transportation by water but butwill butwill butwill will have electric power for distribution distribution tion ion to every city town and farmstead Their trunk line railways can be electrified electrified elec- elec and they can banish the coal famine amine specter But fundamentally the conservation phase of the St. St Lawrence improvement improvements is s most important of all Where on our own continent Is la there a region that thatIs Is s not vitally interested in a development development development develop develop- ment that will every year for all future future fu- fu ture Lure time save us from the need to burn millions of tons of our black diamonds diamonds diamonds dia dia- monds and use instead the white whits coal that a beneficent Providence has laid at our doorstep Some good judges estimate that within a decade or two after atter the power demand shall have gr grown grown wn to meet the supply this annual co coal 1 saving will amount to a hundred million tons |