Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-06-14
"Teddy" Is Down at Oyster Bay and Other Notables Are "Taking to the Tall Uncut" Daily
ROOSEVELTS PLANS
Presidents Remarks at Jamestown Root tO Go to Old MexicO-Water. ways and RailrOads-GOes to Can ton Unyeiling Later.

Washington, June 14.-(Special.)- Official Washington from now until the end of summer promises to be as dead as the proverbial ditch water President Roosevelt has left for Oyster Bay; Secretary Root leaves next week for Utica, N. Y.; Secretary of Agriculture Wilson and Secretary of the Interior Garfield, with three other high officials, also leave for the west, where they will attend the Public Lands Convention at Denver and en- deavor to ward off adverse criticism of the administrators public land policy. There will be left practically only handful of officials of any con- sequence to enliven the. dullness of the dog days.
 On his return from the Jamestown Exposition, where he participated in the ceremonies of Georgia Day and made two speeches, one of them be- fore the National Editorial Assoca tion, President Roosevelt put in busy eighteen hours in his office, slam- med down the cover of his desk and departed for four months vacation at his summer home. He will remain there continuously until September 29, except for a trip on August 20, to take part in the Mayfower celebra- tion at ProvincetoWn, Mass.
 When the leaves begin to turn in late September MT. Roosevelt will leave to attend the dedication of the Mckinley memorial in Canton, o. He vii make an address On that occasion on September 90 and, unless some thing interferes to change his pro- gram. will proceed to Ke0kuk, Iowa, where he will journey down the Mis- sissippi river as far as Memphis, Tenn. The trip will be made on steamer of the Mississippi River Con- mission, stops being made at St. Louis and Cairo and a general inpection be- ing made of the proposed improve ments to navigation. At Memphis the President will attend the Deep Water ways Convention, there, in company with members of the Inland Water ways Commission. Immediately after the convention he will return direct ly to Washington.
 That the Presidents earnestness is not on the wane with regard to devel- opment of waterways is evidenced in the speech he made this week before the editors at the Jamestown Expo sition. His address was an illuminat ing review of the principal policies of the administration, and he devoted considerable time to a discussion of these policies with regard to public lands and rivers and harbors. In con- nection with this latter problem he said
 "The inability of the railroads of the United States to meet the demands up- on them has drawn public attention forcibly to the use of our waterways for transportation. But it is obvious that this is only one of their many usesc and that planned and orderly development is impossible except by taking into account all the services they are capable of rendering. It was upon this ground that the Inland Wa terways Commission was recently ap- pointed Their duty is to propose comprehensive plan for the improve
 
 waterways which are the great poten- tlal highways of this country. Their duty is also to bring together the points of view of all the users of streams and to submit a general plan for the development and conserva- tism of the vast natural resources of the waterways of the United States x Upon the wise solution of this much of our future obviously depends Even such questions as the regulation of railway rates and the control If corporations are in reality subsidiary to the primal problem of the preser- vation in the interests of the whole people of the resources that nature has given us. If We fail to solve this problem. no skill in solving the others will in the end avail us very greatly. 7
 As Secretary Root is to visit Next co in the autumn-a visit that un- doubtedly will greatly stimulate trade between that country and the United States-the necessity for providing I cheap and adequate transportation other than that by rail is apparent It is certain that the National Rivers & Harbors Congress, which years ago