The Forrest City times., 1912-10-04
HAS MUCH PRAISE FOR SENATOR JAMES p q ARKF
CONVENTION COMES TO CLOSE AFTER OF OFFICERS AND THE SELECTION OF PEORIA, ILLINOIS AS THE NEXT MEETING PlAeE-oLo FASHIONED SOUTHERN BARBECUE VISITORS

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
 Little Rock.-The use of the ma ehnery and force of experts now en,- ployed in digging the Panama canal. fin the construction Of deep water way connecting the great lakes and the Gulf of Mexico. was urged by speakers at the annual convention of ;de Lakes s-to-theGulf Deep Wa.er. ways Association in this city Col Theodore Roosevelt, nominee Of the Progressive party for president of the United States, who made a non-politi- cal speech before the convention. of fered this as a solution Of the problem and the same course was urged by other distinguished men who spoke. It was pointed out that the well or ganized and highly trained body of men now engaged on the Panama Canal work will be available within the next year or two and that they should not be allowed to scatter until this second great waterway project is completed
 Col. Roosevelt spoke at the second days session of the convention. Ha abandoned politics for the day and spoke only on the subject of deeo waterways. He discussed also the problem of preventing the recurrence Of floods in the Mississippi valley, such as that which occurred this year
 One of the main troubles in SC. curing deep waterways and utilizing the spare flood water" said Col Roose- veil, is the inability or refusal of the champions of any one project to look the whole problem in the face This problem cannot be handled pieeemeal; there is need of action from the stand point of the nation as whole In the past so much money has been spent in improving small creeks and rivers that the whole system of water way improvement has been associated With unpleasant memories in the eyes of many people. It rests with such an Organization as this to remove that stah and convince the people of tho necessity of looking at the whole problem from the standpoint of the general welfare.
 That Is why so emphatically be- HeHe that this and other such prob lems must be handled by eommis- sion t will not do 10 leave 1t at the mercy Of scrambling interests If we allow lt 10 be handled only through 'le initiative of congress we will find many congressman reluctant 10 % into general scheme like the Missis- slppl river improvement unless their ioCai schemes. are coupled with it. o'hers who have no creek they want ufalhed 'ill have a federal building 'ney "aat constructed. The essential problem should be considered as whole the treatment of the leyees of 'He ioWer Mississippi as a part of the problem and another part the pre-. ,ehtlon of freshot water striking the mlssissippi from the Ohio and Mis- souri rivers.
 Where the Flood Begins.
 me Hood that devastates Missis sippl and Louisiana starts in PennsYl .ahia' Ohio, Montana and Wyoming, therefore the problem Is one which .uuSt be considered in it's entirety and must ne considered by the national government. Only the national gov ,I 'Hideht can deal in matters of that importance, and the national govern ~, '.nt Will not deal with it unless you ,aAe an interest in it. I speak as one Aaslhg had experience.
 ., $ fortunate that the need for nn saefal action has been impressed ,as ,u cur people at the time when the ,eueral authorities are able to de ,'op the very instrument for meet s the need. We have at Panama sspfe ~s, or individual and collective skill ,na a''h nay be untilized for the pur- Nj or treating the problem of the ot t1sissippi nppi as we treated the problem II ne colonel told how he had made .,s, e dlgging of the Panama canal nos.
 ard declared that he could not