The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-12-24
WOULD BRING
ABOUT SWAMP
RECLAMATION
All Sections OF Country Interested
In Movement Recently
Begun
BIG MEETING N ArRI
Evary Effort BENZ NAL 70 Have
Session ssN~ Gr'eane
Successful

Ch'caro, Dec. 24.--East and Wes'
ard NORTH and South havs toll
hands, through recently orgaaiges
National Drainage Congress-. to hrip
alnrt the reclamation Of $4,000 0aa
acres " sssantp lanas, ana tile HUI
aition ~ fhe nstioaal wealth u
s;iF Nifisnl# ut a6ii#rs wnr-1 afj
nropsrts 43gr 'le aftpciiou M
n1tioaal government
The Trainase CONGRESS- Is t'N
child Of the National Irrigation Con-
aress and was born during the nina
teenth SESSION OF that organization
held in Chicago Dec. SO. 1t was or
sanszed when 1t became apparent
that both the irrigation and thu
drainage movements were too vast to
be handled through single organI-
cation to take up the drainage
propaganda, each association to sup
port the other while working pri.
-'to III s'~rti,n maetir~ --as
called Dec, by Edmund r. Berkins.
president 81 tae .s44 1sss
ton Federation, also an officer in TIL
Irrigation Congress. The National
Drainage Congress was organized
and its first sessions were held at
Chicago Dec 7-s-9 at which session
it was decided to hold the second
congress In New Orleans in April
1913. 1912 and the third in Charlse
ton. South Carolina, in either Jan
uary or February, 1918, concurrent
with the holding Of the Corn Show at
Columbia, s. G. Representatives
from these two cities, who had gone
TO Chicago with the expectation Of
inviting the Irrigation Congress to
hold its twentieth session in the
South. gave the invitations to the
newly organized Drainage Congress
Charleston wanted the congress
while the National Corn Show was
being held at Columbia and New Or
leans waited it as quickly as posi-
Bile.
Every effort vii be made to have
the New Orlean meeting a big sue
cess and as the executive committee
is composed of energetic. influential
men in all sections of the country, a
big success is freely predicted.
Mr.. Perkins, who is a southern
resident Of Chicago, was elected first
vice-president, Col. E. ]. Watson,
Commissioner OF Agriculture, Com
merce and Industries of South Caro-
lima, was elected second vice-presi-
dent. The position of third vice
president has been offered to Col
William c. Gorgas, U. s. A., head Of
the department of sanitation In the
Panama Canal zone, and the Secre-
taory of War has been asked per
mission for him to accept. The other
Offices have not been filled, Mr.. Per-
kins has been the acting president
The executive committee consists
of one member from each state, ter
ritory and insular possession and tax
following have been elected: Ala.
bama, Reuben #. Kolb, commission.
er of Agriculture; Arkansas, 8. L
simon, Luxona; Arizona, B. A
) Fowler. Phoenix; California, Prof
A. r. Sprague, University of Calf
fornia: District of Columbia, VIM. 0
Leighton, Chief photographer U. 8
Geological Survey; Florida, J. y
Rooney, Jacksonville; Georgia, J. w
DeDan. WayMoss; Illinois, Frank D
knight. Chicako; Iowa. Ed. l.. Roth
Ottumwa; Kansas, F. H. Faxon
Chairman Kansas Conservation Com
mission; Garden City; Louisiana.
W. Hymas. New Orleans; Michigan
Adrian Otte, Grand Rapids; Mime
/, Sofa John T. Stewart, Universit
Farm, st. Paul; Missouri, John n
Nolen, Commissioner of Drainage
Mississippi, l.. l.. Lawrence, Laurel
Pennsylvania, George III. Maxwell
Pittsburgh Flood Commission; Sout
Il Carolina, Reid Whitford, Charleston
South Dakota. Samuel H. Lea, stat
engineer; Tennessee, l.. B. BelIal
Nashville; Texas, George Il. Ba,
stow. Barstow; Washington, r. it
singer, Spokane.
The constitution outlines the pun