Show delay hampers nations efficiency the water power bill now being prepared by a house committee and the general land leasing bill are as essential war measures as even war appropriations for it is evident that preparation must he made for a long war during which much development could be affected under those bills the general leasing bill should result in great increase in production of fuel and of phosphates for fertilizer while the water power bill should cause much fuel to be saved and production of other commodities to be increased it would economize railroad transportation and the labor employed in that service and in mining coal it 13 to be hoped that congress can be brought to see the necessity for passage of such a measure already de laed some 12 years |