Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-11-30
RIVERS AND HiRb0Rs
CONGRESS NEXT WEEK.
Fifth Session VIII be Most Important
-Four Thousand Delegates Tx
pcctcd to Attend.

Cincinnati, Nov. 30.-The fact that nol
less than 1000 delegates are expected to
attend the fifth session OF the National
Rivers and Harbors congress, to con-
vene at Washington on Dec. . and con-
tinuing throughout the two succeeding
days, Is u complete evidence of the deep
interest taken in the vital question of
waterway improvement, The eXpecta-
ton is not only based upon the mem
bership Of the Congrcss--a membership
constantly growing-but upon the Of
fetal notifications from governors of
states. mayors OF cities, presidents and
secretaries of agricultural, industrial
commercial, financial and trade organi-
zations and on notifications from local
associations organized for the advances
ment of the cause of waterway I'M
-provement
The Ohio Valley Improvement aSso-
citation, one OF he strongest as it was
one of the earliest associations advo-
eating waterway Improvement, will be
represented by not less than $50 dele
gates, with the associations from the
Improvement of other great waterways
cordially uniting in the work of the
National Rivers and Harbors congress
because of its broad and comprehensive
platform-''A Policy, not q Project"
1t is now fully recognized that water
way improvement can only be accom-
plishcd by adhesion to that platform of
principles. A definite system of opera
lions is required no less in public works
than it is in private enterprises. There
can be no success where the parts Of
what should be II harmonious whole
are made the subject of appropriations
by no means adequate. with the work
dependent upon the willingness of Con-
gress to consider the subject, and with
the subject frequently postponed for
the reaso that 1t Is considered merely
local in its intent and purpose. APP
propria lions have been dependent upon
the influence of the particular repre-
sentative and always with the fatal de-
feet that the subject of waterway inn
provement was not, until the organizh-
ton of the National Rivers and Har-
bors congress- presented in its proper
light-as national and not local In i'm
portance, In its intent and in its pur-
poses,
Fortunately the question of waterway
Improvement is now considered from
the standpoint of it's imlneasurable and
its national Importance. With the ques-
ton made part OF the fixed and set
tied policy of the government; with
annual appropriations made in ade-
Squate amounts; with the merit of the
stream and the favorable report of the
board of engineers, U. S. a., determine
ing the work and with the work CON
tinuous, waterway Improvement will
become an accomplished fact--which it
never would become under the old time
plan of sporadic appropriations, made
uuate In amount and with the work of
waterway Improvement Producer,
shipper and receiver. confronted with
freight congestions and With admitted
inability on the part of present means of
transportation 10 handle the freight of
fered as it should be handled. know
the inestimable advantages that would
come to all classes and conditions of
trade commerce and agriculture from
the Improvement OF waterways--and
the great number of delegates TO the
National Rivers and Harbors congress
lis incontestible evidence of the lsrsc%l-
edge. It Will undoubtedly be the
most important meeting of the series,
with all sections of the country alike
Interested and aiding in the work of the
congress through which alone, water
way Improvement can be brought
about