The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-10-15
NEXT MEETING
OF R|v[RM{N
WILL RE NATIONAL RIVERS AND
HARBORS cANGRESS IN
WASHINGTON NOV. 1921.
WILL Be INTERNATIONAL
Ambassadors From Germany ant
France viii Tell Of Extensive
Work Done by Government
In Those Countries.

| Washington Oct. 4.-lntcrnational
lin character Is to be the coming con-
iyentional Of the National Rivers and
Harbors congress in December. Con-
gressman Joseph f. Ransdell, presi-
cent of the organization, was In
Washington this week, fresh from the
/ csnebrakes Cf Louisiana, where he
was member of the party that is
helping the president to track the
lhears. When here he announced that
Ambassador Won Sternburg and Am
bassaaor Jesserand would deliver adj
ldresses at the big meeting on the de-
yeiopment of rivers and harbors IN
IGermany and France, respectively
Mr. Ransdell did not AIRY long here
He left In d few brief hours for New
York and New England to convey per,
Isonal invitations to number OF gov
crnors and leading Journalists 70 be
present at what promises to be the
most importatn convention Of its KIND
lover held in the United States. A
number OF men whose regulations are
nation wide will be in attendance. but
N ID hoped to MAKE the convention
one that viii force the national leeis-
llators to give attention to the demand
of the National Rivers and Harbors
congress that not less than $4,000
l000a year be appropriated for water
way development work
The fact that the German and
French ambassadors will discuss this
great question is lending especial IN
terest to the coming meeting. Both
countries are far III the lead OF the
United States In this policy OF in
ternal Improvement Germany mas ~
humber of cities which, because q
the empires open-handesl policy, are
really seaports despite the fact that
they are situated from fifty to one
hundred miles from the coast. In this
! policy is discovered the secret thai
, has advanced the German empif'
among the commercial nations unfi
today it is one of the most powerful
OH the civilized globe.
} The French nation, also, has de
; yeloped remarkable system q
canals and canalized rivers Tht
river steamers and the barge are al
: much of factor in communication II
, France as is the railway. The French
5 government realizes to the full th'
. necessity for relieving the railways o
> 1.-THE task of carrying heavy and low
e class freight, to the end that th'
{ steam roads may care for perishabl'
t and costly goods with the greatest eS
D pedition. Because it has followed ou
t this plan systematically, France doe
lnot know what freight congestion
+ means. and the condition that ccn
/. fronted the northwest last spring
v when whole communities suffered be
cause of the lack of cars to bring II
, coal and take the agricultural pre-
! ducts to the market, would be impos
|. Isible there.
The United States has to undertak
4 some such plan if it is to continue 1
" 1.-The van of the worlds commereia
: procession. This is the opinion of
;. lsteadily growing number of citizens
!, There is no doubt that this govern
= ment will be forced to provid
- loLeaper means of transportation one
the Panama canal is completed an
-, the rich trade territory of Sout
. America is actually opened up. Vi
: LESS this is done, the merchant
= manufactures and agriculturalists
- this country viii find the trade goin
- to England, Germany and France.
For the last seven years the NJ
tional Rivers and Harbors congres
:. fas sought to impress the foregoin
fact on the people of the Unite
i states. The organization Is
:, markable one. In that II comprise
" members of congress. governors
al states, economists of national reput
tion and business men equally We
known. all of whom work without al
idea of remuneration in spreading q
idea that something must be doi
=. with the nations waterways If q
ea United States is to maintain its prot
Oh position among the worlds CONNIE
: cial corntries.