The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-19
MORE NEW IDEAS IF COLONEL ROOSEVELT FayOrs Use of Canal Ma chinery on Mississippi TICKET SALE OPENS One Man Buys 5000 Worth-Plat- form Will Be Contract With
 the People, Says the Colonel.
 Senator Dixon Talks
TICKET SALE OPENS

Chicago, July 1S.-National control of the building through any state of lakes to-the-gulf deep waterway and the use of the Panama canal machinery in guard ing the Mississippi river against floods are favored by Col. Theodore Roosevelt in a letter made public here by Laverne Moves, an Illinois supporter to whom it was addressed.
 The letter points out that not only would such a work protect thousands of acres of rich lands from devastation by flood, and prove commercially important in storing of power, but 1t would do great social service in wping out sec tioRal lines and give the north and the south opportunity to join in the great work.
 "Only by new party, in which all join on equal terms, can the needed social and industrial tasks demanded by our peo- pie be successfully undertaken" says the letter and one of the greatest of these tasks is the development of the Missis- sppi."
 MT. Moves had asked Colonel Roosevelt whether Illinois should expend $2000O GOO for building it's part of the deep water way.
 Colonel Roosevelts reply says there is no need for Illinois to pay s2O,0O0,000 or any part of 1t in an individual attempt to get a deep waterway from the lakes to the gulf; that being task for the nation since the nation alone can properly do it.
 'eThe tremendous devasting floods of the last few months, says the letter, with the attendant loss of life, of homes and property, have made 1t clear that no more time should be lost in undertaking the control of flood waters of the Missis- sippi and it's tributaries, and the connec- tion of the great lakes, and the tribu- taries of the Mississippi with the gulf, by means of a great commerce carrying channel.'
 Needs on River
 "1he construction of the Panama canal was carried out" says the let ter. "in furtherance of a national pol icy which seemed imperative. In the same way the immediate control of the flood waters that go down the Mis- sissippi and the construction of the great water highway is demanded by controlling reason.
 The people occupying the vast do- main between the crest of the Rocky mountains and the Alleghenies have a direct and vital interest in seeing this work begun and pressed to speedy com pletion. As financial enterprise the Panama canal will not for a consid- erable number of years give good re- turns to the capital invested. But the conservation of natural resources which will come from the control of the Mis- sssippi and its flood waters should In the immediate future return many times over the value of every dollar in- vested"
 The letter concluded as follows:
 The machinery to do the physical work in this regeneration and control of the father of waters has been re- gently designed. Is the best that ever has been made or used and is now oiled up and bright from use on the Panama canal It should not be allowed to get rusty. The engineering and construe- tion organization (the best that ever eNisted) which is building the Panama canal, will soon be looking for a job and could bo called upon to undertake this less expensive and even more use ful problem.
 Why should not the south be fore most in this great movement? It needs 1t more than the north and should rise and claim it's own"