Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-02-16


system all the way down to flat lands,
and economically ranges from forestry
through agriculture to industry"
What a river! Get out your Lite
rary Digest atlas and look at the map
of the Middle South as you read this
description of the Tennessee which
the Roosevelt announcement inspires
a Chattanooga Associated Press corrc-
spOndent to write:
1.-The stream is formed near Knox
Vile by rivers that tumble from the
Tennessee and Carolina mountains.
1t is land of minerals and primeval
forests. Mills of all kinds dot banks
of the river and it's tributaries.
1.-The river eases into Moccasin
Bend at Chattanooga-slips past gaunt
Lookout Mountain. the southern SEN
tinel of the valley-broadens and
starts it's plunge for Muscle Shoals.
1t misses Georgia by scratch and
leaps away to the south-Alabama-
bound. The mountains fall behind as
the Tennessee glides through the roll
ing hills to Guntersville, Alabama.
where it does a crazy right-face and
starts the slow, tOrtuOus drive north
back to Tennessee. 1t creeps past AL
bany and Decatur, flattens and swirls
through the shoals. There the river
bed falls away suddenly and the drop
is Muscle Shoals.
The Tennessee separates Florence
from Sheffield, and Tuscumbia. then
sweeps around one huge bend, bids
Alabama goodby, and rambles back to
Tennessee. 1t RENTERS this state on
the Mississippi line. 1t sewers Ten
nessee completely and glides into the
Ohio at Paducah, Kentucky.
The Tennessee flows more than
900 miles. 1t waters wheat and to-
baccO near its source-cotton at its
mouth 1t runs from the quartz coun-
try to the gumbo land-from the APP
ple-cider belt to the mint-julep sec
tiCn-from the hot-cakes and maple
syrup kingdom to the hot biscuits-and-
molasses empire.
"Mountaineers catch trout in its up
per reaches-Negroes catch catfish at
its mouth.
THE Mississippi is the boss river
down South, but the Tennessee is
truly the river of romance"
A few years ago, it seems, army en-
gineers made an extensive survey of
the Tennessee basin by direction Of
Congress. They presented volum-
inous report. Apparently, writes Rex
Collier in the Washington Evening
Star. MIR. Rooesvelt's program repre-
sents combination of power, naviga-
ton, and flood-contrOl plans worked
out by the army engineers, and GER
tain refOreStatiOn and reclamation
ideas nurtured by Mr.. Roosevelt him
SELF Here is a natural resource, ac-
cording to the engineers, capable OF
producing ultimately about 100000
kilowatts at about an average cost OF
~ cents per kilowatt-hOur at the pow
erplant. The Chattanooga News quotes
| w. f. Brock of its own city as eX-
planning that the engineers report
estimates the expenditure necessary
at $75,0O0,00O, that the report has al
ready been adopted by Congress, anC
hence no further legislation is needed
'all that is needed is authorization OF
funds
South Enthusiastic.
Because of the Roosevelt announce
ment the governor of Alabama sees
"a new era dawning in this section
Congressman S. ID. McReynOlds o.
Tennessee thinks the President-elec
Tennessee valley as 1.-The future RUIN
of America"
We find the same enthusiasm in .he
newspapers of the region. 1t is no.
only the greatest single plan tha
has ever been proposed for the South,
says the Chattanooga News, it is alst
the first step in national planning
which should be welcomed by the en-
tire country as genuine promise in
that envisioned new deal which we
have heralded." The Knoxville Jour.
nal declares that the Roosevelt plan
''presages the greatest era of develop
ment that has occurred in the South
since this section unsuccessfully at
tempted to set up separate nation
This plan is proof that Mr.. Roose
welt is providing leadership" accord
ing to the Memphis Press-Scimitar
1t notes that the Roosevelt experiment
would be extended later to other
parts of the country, especially to the
Ohio. Arkansas and Missouri basin:
in the Middle West and the Columbia
in the Northwest" In the opinion o.
this Tennessee daily:
IF the President-elect can link thi.
plan with private and public-debt con
version, with national minimum-wagt
scales, and shorter-work periods t
spread purchasing power, with reduc
ton of tariffs and war debts to re
store foreign trade, we believe he will
have a program of action strons
enough to break the depression
Similar praise comes from othe
Southern papers while we find tn,
New York American saying of thu
Roosevelt announcement: 1T sounds