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Show 1 PROPHESIES A REVOLUTION C. 1 Dr. W J McQeo, tho distinguished ethnolo- If y'Vs. B8t ""d Geologist, who is the secretary and main- rlnlfc$6fl$M spring of tho Inland waterways commission, pro- JjuK Klkk. dlct8 revolution within n few years, If tho rail- Vm- x lf ways are allowed to continue grabbing riparian l'L -- i rights, throttling navigation and depriving tho Mntli&iimX country of Its greatest single sourco of wealth, (Pw Wi 'vf!Vi ts wterways. If 'tmi vtfirri An4 Dr' McQco ,s no wl,(1 sensationalist, but A ftTS frihl I a cool-headed sclontlat and Investigator. Ho points l JSiSR0rf ) . o-t that, with tho oxccptlon of Vlcksburg, thero V' 1 ?(l ' Is not a slnglo town botween St. Paul and Now &jf&dSjJ. Orleans whoso river fronts and bridges havo not jf&' Decn Grabbed by tho railways with tho kind as-.j5c2 as-.j5c2 Blstance of tho legislatures. Tho doctor's Idea Is tV8 ' that by redeeming tho rlvor fronts nnd developing waslo water power, tho whole cost of Improving tho rivers would bo paid for In a few years. Dr. McQeo Is a selMnught scientist. While ho was working on a farm ho was studying Latin, hlghor mathematics, astronomy and surveying. Ho had chargo of the bureau of ethnology from 1893 to 1903, resigning to bocomo chief of tho department of anthropology at tho St. Louis exposition. Ho was tho first president of tho American Anthropological society, and later was president of tho National Geographical society. Ho has dono some valu-ablo valu-ablo exploring work hlmsolf, his topographic survey of northwestern Iowa being tho most extenBlvo ever made In America without public nld. Ho Is now secretary of tho inland waterways commission, which has In charge tho doepenlng and Improving of our Inland navigation, together with tho reclamation re-clamation of land and the development of water powor. Dr. McOeo was born In Iowa in 1853. Ho Is known among his friends as "No Period" McQeo, for ho novor uses periods after his Initials. Ho maintains that everyone calls him "W J," and that that has becomo his namo and ceased to be initials. |
