Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1910-11-12
IS ECONOMIC
 NOT POLITICAL Biz Rivers an Harbors Ben efits Have Definite Gov
 ernment Policy. CONGRESS TO BE HELD At Washington Next nenth-Con' gressman Ransdel Gives
 His Views.
CONGRESS TO BE HELD

ciaD-For the first time in the his tory of the National Rivers and liar bors Congress, whose seventh nation al convention will be held in this city December 7, 8 and next, has the financial endorsement or the Washington Chamber of Commerce, been secured.
 Last year the National Rivers and Harbors Congress had 3850 delegates in attendance upon it's sixth conven- tion but it is thought by the officers of the Congress that upwards or D. 900 delegates will be drawn h1ther during the first week in December not only for the purpose of witness ing the beginning of the last session of the sixty-First Congress, but also to participate in the proceedings or the great waterway organization, of which Representative Joseph B. Rams ) dell. of Louisiana, is president anu which stands for a Waterway po1lcy and not a waterway project .'
 The benefits of q fixed and defln1tee governmental policy on all questions Eare conceded. The improvement of our rivers and harbors Is in no sense polit:cal question but is an eco homie question in the truest meaning of the term. It appeals to all cond1- tions of trade and commerce and II is a question which intelligent public demand is hasting to a conclusion thai cannot fail to be of the utmost possible benefits to trade and indus trial conditions in the United States.
 Congressman Ransdell who has for the past ten years been an enthuslas-
 tic believer in an annual river and
 harbor bill and who has in season
 and out urged such policy as a !committee of the House believes the time has come when the hands of
 member of the rivers and harbors
 of Congress dealing with th1s SUD- ject should be supported by an as-
 semblage in the National Capital De- 5, cember next of such generous pro- portions as will show Congress the necessity for a broad and comprehen- sive policy of waterway development :| There is a growing tendency in
 the country said MT. Ransdell, "te build up strong local organizations everywhere which is a magnificent thing in itself provided these enthu- Blasts do not overlook the fact that their local projects cafih6t be car ried through successfully ufiless the great National policy of their parent Organization be adopted by the Fed eral Congress.
 "The work that the National Rivers and Harbors congress has been do- ing has been a work of love and yet 1 it needs the help of local organiza- tions as it does of trade bodies as we'll as individuals to make it as it aims to be nationally educational in character.
 "The forthcoming convention should be the largest in our history for there Is much yet to be done before na- tional policy of waterway improve ments is written into the statute books. We have yet much to yield and much to acquire before we real- ize our aims and every organization of whatever character should lend a hand in the work We have been doing to the end that sporadic appropria- tions for widely separated projects may be abandoned and that the com- ing river and harbor bill be model led along national rather than along local lies.''