Show r t INTEREST REST IN G CANAL NAL NALi i S i ON THE INCREASE People of Every Section of the theL L Country Want Facts About Work 0 r ii jq I I C LECTURE TOURS PLANNED I c ir Con Congressmen Who Visited Visited Ditch Get Slides and Literature Lit Lit- for Speeches r fr if f Washington ton March 31 Congress Cong Congress Congressmen men who have visited the Panama ca- ca i n nal rial 1 zone one are arc consumed with a desire to spread the praises of or the great reat t I I work being accomplished there Secretary Sec See I r ti 1 Bishop of the canal carml com commission commis commis- 1 1 sion Ion Is b being simply deluged with reI requests re- re I quests for literature and views from fromi fromA A i members who have o visited the tho great gleat r. r ditch and nearly all of the applicants f r declare their Intention to sally forth on I lecture tours f s f There are no less than eight conJ congressmen con con- J J gressmen men who have already received r views or lantern slides for fOl lecture Jecture pur pur- 6 l poses said Secretary Bishop and that number will undoubtedly be In Int In- In t creased Ever Every member an and senator who makes a journey to the canal zone ono comes back a most enthusiastic I advocate of the canal Even en those who it k are arc against the enterprise when the they t tJ il leave leae Washington come back to lecture lec 7 ture Its behalf AVe We c have a very Yen J f large collection of views showing al alI alJ almost al- al I J most moH every Inch of ot the canal route f v. v and man many of the pictures have been t h made Into lantern slides j. j Much uch Interest Sho n Shown nWe n. n We lend the congressmen these slides or will make them others at their expense If requested You have i no idea the tho amount of Interest that Is I being shown b by persons from every even quarter of the country countr Ministers l p school teachers officials of or literary a and social clubs all seem to think 4 that the Panama canal Is Js just jut about e the most Interesting subject the they can 1 fi find d for their entertainments and are arc swamping 3 us with requests for pictures pie pic i tures and pamphlets We 10 do our best to fill these orders order as fast as the they como come in In for the widest po possible publicity Is what the President wants The work worl Is going on finely finch all along tho the round All that Is now nee needed ed on the isthmus to make exist exist- once down there equal in every essential essential essen essen- Ual respect to that In the thc United Stats Is amusement Just now there thieve is nothing nothing- for the men to do after aHer they get done work vork It Is pretty hard work amusing oneself at times and theatres are badly needed It has been suggested that the government gO take a A. theatrical troupe down there occasionally occa occa- but that scheme might have 4 its dra drawbacks All the women members mem mcm- J. J bers of ot the companies might ht decide A N to stay there and marry the good J 1 looking bachelors of the canal and anti then the he government might get Into U v desolate late managers naJ rs who the s ta Undo Sam caro f c JF fr |