| Show I I I Ai HARBO S SD NEXT WH WEEK EI It I i Se lon Will HI il I bo b e Most Important 1 III lilli Thousand Dele ale ICv Er 1 IJ cl d to 10 II Nov xo 30 The fact InteL that no ito noless less than 1000 t s are me expected to tc attend the tho session of or the tho National and auth Harbors congress tu to con convene voile vene at Washington on Dec Dee I J and anti con continuing coni inning i throughout the two succeeding days Is u lL complete evidence lIce o of the deep interest taken in the vital question ol of it Improvement The Tue expectation tion lIun ti is not tint only based upon UI the thu mem membership of the thc Congress a membership constantly growing but upon tho the of notifications from governors g of oC states mayors ma of ot cities and secretaries of agricultural Industrial financial and nil trade organizations organizations and anti on notifications from froni local associations organized forthe advance advancement ment meat of the cause of waterway Im Improvement provement The TIme Ohio Valley Valle Improvement asso aso association 0 elation clation ono one tie of the tho strongest as al it was one of the earliest associations advocating eating cating waterway improvement will 11 bo bc boI I by b not miot less than titan dele delegates delegates gates with the tho associations from front time thc improvement of ot other oilier great waterways 3 cordially uniting In the time work worl of ot tim tho National Rivers and Harbors congress because of or Its Ils broad comprehensive platform A Policy not a tL Project It Is now fully recognized that tha t writer water waterway Wit ter way improvement CUll can only be Je accent accomplished accomplished by b adhesion to that platform of principles A definite system of or opera operations lions is no less In lii public publia works work than it Is in lii private enterprises There can bo he no success where the thc parts of what should be bo It a harmonious whole arc aro mado made the subject of appropriations apI l lb by b no means adequate with ith the time work worl dependent del upon the tho willingness of Con Congress gross gress to consider the subject and with the thc subject frequently postponed forthe for forthe 01 the reason renson that It Is considered merely merub local In Its intent and purpose Ap Appropriations p h have hao been dependent upon the tInt influence nee ot or the particular I sent and always with the tIme fatal de do defect defect feet that the subject of waterway Im Improvement provement was as not until the tim organization Lion tion of or the National Rivers and Har liar Harbors bors borOi congress presented In its proper propel light as national and nul not I Ot local In im importance In Iii Its Ils intent and anti in its pur purposes poses po es Fortunately the tho queston of waterway Improvement Is now considered front from the tile standpoint s of Its Us Immeasurable anti and Its Hs national Imp e the t ques question S tion made mado a II part of the and set settled et l policy olley I of the government with annual in ha trUe ade adequate quate amounts with th of the stream and the favorable report r of tho the hoard h of engineers U S lI A determining ing the tho work and amI with tho Jho work ork con continuous contInuous l waterway Improvement will wIli become an un which it nOVel never n V I would 1 III antler l r old l l time plan plait of or sporadic appropriations inadequate quate In amount und and with the he work of waterway Improvement Producer shipper and receiver confronted with freight congestions conge antI and with admitted on Oh the lime part of or present nt meant means of or transportation to handle the freight of or offered offered as al a It should bo be boh handled know the Inestimable Ine g s thi t would come to all alt s nJ d of trade tra commerce comm and agriculture j lt rc tram front thin the of ot and tho Iel t number of or o ith 5 National ional Rivers and Harbors congress s sta UH ta hl fe ige It will wll lild bf df be the I most mo t Important meeting m ot of the s rlee with ns of h f the country co t alike h iI a nl ll g ln v lk or of the through t Ij alf it l II S vay Improvement can b brought about S 0 |
