Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-11-21
NATIONAL RIVERS AND
HARBOR CONVENTION
IN WASHINGTON
Matters of Importance viii Be Dis
cussed by Governmental Officials.
Picture Shows Will Feature Pro-
gram.

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gram.
Washington, D c., Nov. 20.-(Spec
iaD-According to reports of the De-
partment of Agriculture, the value of
farm products for the present year
will run between nine and ten billion
dollars. AS the carriage of these food
stuffs to market, and the return of the
manufactured products for which they
will be exchanged, will tax the ability
of the railroads to the limit, causing
car shortage, terminal congestion and
vexations delays, the improvement of
the rivers of the Continental United
States becomes at once ono of the
most serious problems with which the
government has to deal.
Just what should be done toward
solution of this fundamental economic
problem will be one of the things
which the Tenth Annual Convention o.
the National Rivers and Harbors Con-
gress, which meets in this city Deem
Der 8, and next, will endeavor TO
show. But how best to make the riv-
ers do their share of transportation is
not the only question that will occupy
the time of the Congress; there are
other and equally vital subjects that
will be considered during its three
days session. For diversity of sub
jects and the cosmopolitan character
of those who will address the dele
gates, the meeting of the National Riv-
ers and Harbors Congress next month
gives promise of far exceeding anv
previous Convention in the history Of
the organization.
Probably the one utterance that will
be awaited with the liveliest possible
interest is the one which will show
the position that President Woodrow
Wilson will take regarding liberia!
policy or river and harbor develo J.
ment. AS governor of New Jersey the
president early became interested in
the project for ship canal across the
state connecting the Delaware River
with Raritan Bay or Newark Bay, but
his position on the improvement of the
| international waters of the country is
yet to be defined 1t may also be ex-
pected that Secretary of War Garrison
will outline the position of the admin
istration on the government of the
| Panama Canal Zone and free tolls for
coastwise commerce, in the event the
President does not touch upon these
questions in his annual message to
Congress which will be delivered on
the day previous to the meeting of the
waterways Convention
Fer the first time in the history Of
the Congress reception will be held
on Wednesday evening December 8, in
honor of the Vice-President and Mrs.
Marshall, and the Speaker of the House
of Representatives and Mrs. CLARK.
After the reception, which will not ex-
tend over an hour, Mrs. Sarah Willard
Strout of Portland, Maine, president Oh
the Wcman's National Rivers and Har-
, bors Congress, will take charge of the
meeting and deliver an address on
Developed Waterways and their Re-
lation to the Home Maker" Miss Mira
1
L. Dock, of Fayetteville Pa, Vice
Chairman of the Conservation De-
partment, General Federation of Wo-
mems Clubs, will speak ON The Inter
est of Club Women in Waterway De-
! velopment," the Ladies Night closing
with an illustrated lecture, Some
Wondrous Waterways" by Mrs. Agness
/ Greene Foster of Chicago, one of the
best hnown literary women Of the mid
die west.
Municipality terminals will be
discussed by w. 2. Thompson, Com
missioner of Public Utilities, New Or
leans, and Congressman J. R. Know
land of California, and "The Water
ways of the Pacific Northwest" will be
described by Senator Wesley L. Jones
of WASHINGTON state