The courier-index., 1920-04-23

MaxD Miller and H. M. Jackson
 .oturned yesterday from St. Louis
 .hore they spent three days at
 .ond;no the annual convention of tbe Mississippi Valley Waterways Association and the Mississippi Val ,ov Association. The former or c.n;zation was launched three years aoo to promote movement to in- duce the government to establish
 bsrre lines on the Mississippi river and tributary streams as means of furnishing cheaper transportation
 facilities. The Mississippi Val low Association was organized less than two years ago in Chicago to not only work for river transporta- tion but to develop the resources and industries in the great Missis- sippi Valley, extending from the Great Lakes to the Gulf and from the Alleghany mountains to the Rock mountains-a scope of terri tory declared to be the richest en- pre on the globe.
 At the annual meeting of the two associations in St. Louis on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of this week many notable men delivered
 addresses. The Waterways Asso- ciation heard Hon. Jno. M. Parker, the new governor of Louisiana, Con- gressman John c. Small of North Carolina, Hon. Joshua W. Alexand- CT, secretary of commerce in the
 presidents cabinet, Major General
 Lansing H. Beach, chief of engin- eers, '. s. Army, Brigadier General Frank T. Hines, chief of transporta- tion, war department, Congressman C. A. Newton of St. Louis, Col. John R. Fordyce of Hot Springs, the man who built Camp Pike, Hon. H. H. Merrick, president of the Chicago Board of Commerce and also president of the Mississippi Valley Association.
 On Monday afternoon the dele gates witnessed the formal christen- ing of two immense all-steel, self propelled barges just completed by the government.
 The Mississippi Valley Association held meetings on Tuesday and We'd nesday and all the sessions were featured by excellent addresses. The really big man of both conventions was John M. Parker of Louisiana. his speech on Tuesday morning to me Mississippi Valley Association, oeaiing With the wonderful industries ana resources of the Mississippi val ley' the necessity for cheaper and qucker means of transportation, the greater development of southern pors, the extension of our trade ooutn American countries thrill eu the delegates to high point of enthusiasm. He showed that fifty tI sllee per cent of the population of s.e ohlted States is in the Mississ- ;pp' valley and that the value of the iiauustries and resources in the val tions aar exceed those in all other sec uo wOnS or the nation. He said it ~Ss s"n. aosurd to permit the east to bsa bJ''oi our trade when we in fact m"s within our power to be the nhSrs Ihao'ers or the situation. He em- t;a tt;aasi1ed the fact that the popula- w;sl I oi the valley is not saturated Polal @ the spirit of anarchy and to to.snevism and that the preserva- s,On of the American form of oov- ism i'snt su and the ideals of American yaIlon rests with the people in the rah;J ne unmercifully scored the and iaoor leaders who by strikes unt .sIenuiarlsm .I are seeking to dis cansa 'ne industrial systems. and orcsu % attention to the fact that per 3a'1eo " labor represents only ' revava' sen' or our population. He asIIlswed It' some of the nrovie;ons m nf throuvb wAi seek to have passed ana nsa, tne legislature of Louisi- orpsn;1a.ig It mandatory that laborA the 1sa.lons secure a charter fron, to tba s'aee and become amenabla ate bodws laws regulating other cornor- bill aro ru'es. ss Other provisions of his lockonts mat no strikes, walk-ont or first c;s snail be ordered vithont ine gIiving ninety days, not;oa 'aUu' a1' shall ba slne points of difference iaission t~ tupLilltted to a special com commiss;o oe created by law This ty to s", IS to have full autbori- testimon,. ihon witnesses and take said be under oath. MT p.rLa~ before II recently delivered an addrass In Shrevesnsla state federation of labor the delegspsor and secured from dOrsemerf" ".ss their unanimous en- future no TI the suggestion that in an Arner;oaaaao aao0rIng man who is not office in .an sn citizen shall hold an
 Louisiana any labor Organization in
 cial in and that when any off;i
 D0litical off office union hn is elected to