Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-05-14

plant i1e.adlag labor repairs, etc. These figures offer the strongest
 rr4 argument in support of the saz.@-s5aa es the national rivers s-9 4a56ors congress rha- water .-zazaa-farfza lz infinitely cheaper .aa a Tatz arsaz.za- r.oz began fs- searz ago 10 azs u1aa eaazrsa aa4 taa haa.ia -as imperative necessity for tmna.lfara- r andareaEI1g steady aa4 zciea- fife improvement os taa great
 t7aFs aad hara6rs of tHe United States. f this country iz not 10 he oatzcri1Bsd by is European com petisars in the race for commercial and trade supremacy. So wide spread have been tha results Of tss crusade that the Fifth-n.nth con gress appropriated reeord-bEaaE- Ing sum for work of this charac-ar. while President Roosevelt appoint cd commission to supervise the enormous task involved. However. the national rivers and harbors congress insists that the amount propriated by the last congress practically will be wasted unless f1t-e congresse. can be impressa5i with the vital importance to the country of continued and regular appropriations. To the end that f may be successful, this national or ganization. which is non-partI4an and non-politicaI and which alreadv numbers on is rolls may Of the na- lions most prominent men, is seek ing to increase its membership dur ing the coming summer. It's sec fetaFE, Captain J. F. Ellison .. Cincinnati, has sent broadcast aa irritation to all persons interested in reduced freight rates to join his organization and swell Is slogaH-s5o. .000 900 year for q least ten years
 If Washington follows the hove suggestion Of James E. Hall. post master Of Wheeling, ". Va, t vii not have 10 fight the local gas con. pany through the medium Of COT gressional legislation. but will be able too attain lower gas bills oy means of q flank attack on the cor poration, which thus far has been so well represented in congress or at lhast on the district committee as t0 make intellectual all efforts 10 get through bill limiting the l cost of that aeriforrn fluid upon which Washington is dependent fer light and heat. Tn MT. Hall's coun- try they burn natural gas altogeth CT for heating, cooking and illum- mating. and he protests the feasi- bilit9 Of running pipe line down to the capital from the gas fields Of Pennsylvania CT West Virginia. The suffering residents of Wash ington received the suggestion with acclaim, until it dawned On them that it would take a trust with the capital and ability of the Standard Oil aoctGpua" to carry the thing through successfully, and they then would be no better off than before. for the new company would charge just as much, if not more, than the present one.
 A Michigan man this week received 2 we!l-deserved promotion, after neas- Iv 2 quarter century Of faithful ser vice in the employ of Uncle Sam. ' must not be understood that he wai-- cd that long before being promo-el for such E not the case. He : Ei- ward E. Moore of Grand Rapids desia- mated by President Roosevelt to sue ceed Frederick I. Allen as Commis- lsioner of Patents. Mr. Moore enter ed the Patent Office as clerk al sl, 200 in 1883, being promoted 10 the position of fourth assistant examiner a year later. From that position he rose steadily until he was made prin' cipal examiner in the office in 1899 Later in the same year he was ap pointed assistant commissioner o1 patents by President Mckinley, ant represented the country at the Parl; Exposition in 1900 Mr. Moore is we'll liked in the Patent Office and has wide circle of friends who are reloic ing with him on this latest acknowi edgment of efficient service.
 The Congress of American Physi clans and Surgeons has been holding it's seventh tirennial session in Wash ;,n,cp th;r uaAk continent SO