Show SEEN HEARD around the national capital 6 vy CARTER washington just alint turn the new negotiations with canada at jala for a new bt Lawr cace seaway treaty will take la Is arousing considerable interest on the part of sia tora from new england LIn gland and the atlantic coast who almost to it a man voted to kill tile the treaty earlita this air year tile point la is that tie opposition of these senators natora de to the treaty was wag not actually based on any purlieu lar provi provision slon of it but to tile fact that construction ot of tile the seaway would they figured take business busl nesa away from the ports porta of their states 4 all tile the way from portland artland maine to jacksonville ii in in a fact act tho the geographical oppose alon also to the gulf states ath both louisiana senators opposing it lo in the interest of new orleans tula this last was rather interesting in view of tile the fact that one ot of the president a favorite illustrations of the need tor the new seway betway in evolved new Orlea orleans ile he used tile the case of a piano tiling skipped from froin st louis to liverpool saying the natural way ay would be the shortest up to chicago thence by the great lukes lakes to the st lawrence and across the atlantic whereas now he pointed out thi piano would probably be floated down the mississippi put aboard a steamer and shipped to liverpool lie at al ways waya laid stress on this being tiree three aides of 0 it a rectangle ariLle as against only one ond side alde cut but old of this illustration per colatch to new orleans arid and that city which previously had not given much thought to the st lawrence Li Lq wrence seaway jeanay became very much interest ed cd inda andied ed and both the Louls louisiana laria senators had no hesitation as to which was tile the politic way for them to vote when the treaty came up for ratification oppose seaway in new england the balne mass achu ithone island and cu cn senators voted against the treaty while lille one senator each flow vermont and new hampshire also voted no then the new york new jersey pennsylvania dela ware maraland mar land north carolina and georgia senators till nil no while the tn two a I 1 lorada senators senator were sere absent without bothering to pair seg all of so BO far la Is not a coincidence mr roosevelt was snag able to present a solid atlantic front so to speak by getting one senator from new and two from south carolina hut but elsewhere the slig of loal in the states nas aa too obvious even enen for a senator as close to to the adain admin as robert vaguer of new york to ignore vie tho Atla atlantic itic coast pite bellee believe that they would be hurt by the st lawrence seaway and hat Is causing wonder nonder hore hire Is just juat what shat the president can do with tile canadian go which could possibly overcome come this basic jobje lon tile the freight mill s either wove through tile the st lawrence seaway seamay or through other channels ch annela it it goes via the new seaway the channels annela cli it Is now using ft lose tile the handling of it all of which Is not affected by any clause or provision of the treaty it 1 li 13 3 the construction of the seaway not the of the me arte ay cement ement or the cost of financing it that mo tavates the in appos ing it drought eor bor ten bears ears now the drought problem in the area now stricken str Itken north or of the platt river anti and extend ing into canada lias has been growing and v orse so int ch so that while tie no cue cna Is widing to venture a definite forecast are those in the weather ent lier bureau an and the de ot at agriculture who tire are wondering it if there Is 13 alot serious danger that this area la Is destined to become an american eulara salara Inel incidentally dentally there tire convirs ing indications that tua the region in africa now called the sahara was wa 8 once a very fertile and N ft ell el watered ss countr country amu there are arc indications that even in biblical times arabia was waa it a much more fertile land than it Is at al pres nt some expert in the weather sen ther bu reau insist tint thit the rainfall in this area north 0 the tc platt river in part of nebraska Ise braski kt some of iowa the dakotas and minnesota eastern castera montana and western wis congon has been following slow curves for a hundred years chev say that the bottom of the nort normal aill curve nas reached last ear and that the upward turn la Is therefore due in the ccle it 1 Is this dl di rence of opinion which aich prevents any authoritative statement nn the subject nut but the fact remains taint the mcg 9 ular low nas as touched last dear and nd the re bolind should have start ed cd this par ear here aa this thin year the birve broke clear through the hot bot tom producing a condition which taken in conjunction with elgh rains in this whole kinle area for the basl Is ten years has neier been equaled since words hae teen leen kept the same difference of opinion as to what causia this in the de parti tient of agriculture find and in th weather bureau ilia iha most i theory no one 1 Is sure ot of it Is that tt it Is 3 caused by a shift la ili the japanese current in the pacific A movement of 11 that 1 at current it la Is thought way may have diser diverted ted the prevailing winds lads change in winds winda formerly according to this theory the prevailing winds were from alasca and northern canada originating la in the pacific where here they became laden with moisture and turning south toward the 1 asis sippi valley after tho the northern Ito ckles it was these winds which produced the heavy snows for which minnesota and the dakotas were fatuous famous llila year one family in ila hi reported recently to a friend lure that they did not have t to 0 use the snow shovel to clear a sidewalk until april I 1 instead there were innumerable dust stol wo which dirtied the houses to the tha point where the first step in tile the preparation of a weal meal was waa to wash the dust duat laden intended for use it at t that meal it seems seema that the moisture laden winds which formerly turned south adouth through the mississippi valley rafter crossing the northern Ito ckles are ara now flowing further eastward before turning south this la Is the ex many of the experts the th very heavy snowfalls snowballs snow falls thle year in the alstern united states from new down to V virginia it also accounts for the tha unusually bountiful rains in this same fame this spring and early summer bummer there la Is little doubt that athla la Is what la Is happening to the rain carrying winds wind the doubt Is 1 an am to why this la Is happening it la in the japanese current part of 0 the theory that la Is open to doubt though it happens to be the only plausible explanation the experts here have yet ret this Is the most moat important phase of the whole situation for if the shift la in the japanese current Is the real explanation there Is no reasonable hope that the present condition ft blange A word about land is iacre are all sorts 0 opinions hero here about james NI landis the man who wrote the securities act arid and la Is to head tile the new commission that will regulate the stock ex er cli anges tinges most anost of them wrong for example want moat of ills his critics think he la Is just art an impractical opinionated dreamer with no real business experience none of what whatever eyer it takes to operate a business success fully just an intellectual prodigy whose lutell eit application and ability to absorb and remember the written word wakes makes him the jy of schoolmasters vie basis of this opinion Is ac curate lie he tins lins a ni able intellect beyond tile the slightest question just to illustrate the lengths of research to which lie he goes on any kroblen leri it Is interesting that when sonie some of i ills critics of the securities nt at insisted it was much more dras tie tic curt daily in tile the liability clauses titan than the british companies act after which it was supposed to bo be modeled I 1 landis andas calmly pointed ou out t that the critics had overlooked he remainder of british law 1 then lie recited chapter arid and versa of other british statutes which put together with alth tile the companies act produced about the same general result alt na its the securities act he had drafted and president roosevelt had jitni ned through congress in 1013 1033 squelches critics it Is rather interesting that tile the critics temir tetir ng fig in confusion bar not tn t thlu day so far fie as the writer could actually checked up to see whether this was really aL accurate curate or not I 1 they were so im pressed with ith the volume of information in ili I 1 andas mind on the subject that it 11 did not cot occur to thera them to doubt it hut but an unsuspected side of landis Is that he Is a good poker ile he was at college also he la Is considered by some experts to tank rank among the best ten bridge players la ini america heie heia art ar revealed two qualities which capitol hill and wall annall street critics did not sus and he uses them fol foi instance when whan certain certen crit tea lea oon convinced vInced the president that the securities act should be modi tied bed he ha asked them what was the worst feature the kenyear ten year period of 0 they replied saying it should be reduced some said eald to one others two some five years yeara they pointed out that the purchasers of 0 a security did not hold bold tt it for years year on the strength of statements statement or claims in the original prospectus they would I 1 old or sell then them on the strength of earn earnings trigs prospect prosie ct etc the president agreed saying ile he thought five years would bo be long enough for the liability to run so landis t was called in ile he went through gli the cel alling ling insisting that the act might its as well be repealed thi critics were delighted they not only had the president with etem against landis they thought but had convinced itin hin landis was lust just a zealous zealots balot too proud of his brain braan hild to admit any argument so they concentrated and succeeded in charging changing this provision to two years yeara landis 1 had difficulty concealing ills his glee for ahne they centered on taking ft pot point he 16 aft WM willing to concede he was waa able to prevent everything ever thing he be wanted sa to top stop copyright bale Br le |