Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 244, 11 July 1909 — Page 8

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THE RICHMOND PAULADIUM AND SITN-TEXEGltAM, SUNDAY, JUIjT 11, 1909.

A WATERWAY OOIJD ISSUE III FAVOR OVER THE NATION 'Sentiment of the American People for Improvement of Streams Is Making a Rapid Growth.

PUBLIC MEN ENDORSE THE PROPOSED MOVE

One of the Staunchest Supporters of the Project Is Congressman Nick Longworth of Cincinnati.

Washington, D. C, July 10. There la a growing sentiment in this country for a waterway bond issue, the money to be used for the improvement of the waterways of the United States. Evidence that the subject is rapidly gaining headway Is found in the public utterances of ex-President Roosevelt,' President Taft, Secretary Knox, on this subject coupled with the endorsement of such an issue for internal waterway improvements on the part of many of the leadins men in political, professional and business life. Representative Nicholas Longworth, of the First Ohio district, has become an ardent supporter of the bond proposition and. like his distinguished father-in-law, Col. Roosevelt, doesn't hesitate to outline where he stands on the great question looking to the protection of our waters and our forests. Of First Magnitude. "A question of the first magnitude, which will engage the attention of congress as soon as the tariff is settled, will be the question of the conservation of our natural resources and the improvement of our Inland waterways," said Mr. Longworth today. "I am considering these two propositions as one because, to my mind, they are inevitably linked together. Especially is this true of the water supply and the timber supply. It is part of the experience of the world that the two go hand in hand, and the.destruction of the timber has invariably reflected itself in a diminution of the water supply, or at least has changed the average flow of large bodies of water, so that they have become more liable to floods at some seasons of the year and droughts at others. Bountifully as we have been blessed In this country in these two

respects, the time has come when we are brought to a realizing sense of the danger that lies before us, if the rapid and in many cases wanton' destruction of our forests does not cease and if we do not speedily undertake a general and comprehensive plan for the improvement of our great water highways. Must Improve Streams. "If we cannot by legislation stop, In the near future, the destruction of the forests, we can at least by legislation improve our navigable streams. While this has been the policy of the government for many years, and while ever-Increasing amounts have been spent upon our navigable rivers, the result, in many cases, has not been a success. The large amounts that have been expended upon the Improvement of the great rivers, the Ohio and Mississippi, have not produced the benefits sought to be attained, and the result has proved that with such piecemeal appropriations as are made under our present system, things have been getting in some cases worse Instead of better, and that unless a more comprehensive ' plan Is adopted for the Improvement of our inland waterways, it will be many decades before any substantial result will be accomplished.

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President Taft and other notables of the guest table at the Yale Alumni banquet in .New Haven which was held recently. The key to the above follows: 1, President Taft; 2, Dr. A. T. Hadley, President of Yale; 3, Timothy Dwight, Ex-president of Yale; 4. Secretary of War Dickinson; 5, Judge Howland; 6, Sir Alexander Lipson; 7, Professor Sumner, of Yale; 8, Bishop Lanes; 9, Rev. Dr. Palmer; 10, Bishop Lawrence; 11, Chauncey Depew.

SCAHDHA TO

ORGANIZE LEAGUE

American Settlers Take Steps

To Protect the Mothx er Countries.

TO PRESERVE TERRITORY

NO EFFORT IS MADE TO SHAPE THE POLITICAL. DESTINIES OF

THE FATHERLANDS. IS STATE

MENT MADE.

"I shall not discuss here the. question of the necessity for the improvement of our inland waterways. It has been made a definite part of public policy and I take its advisability to be admitted. The question then is how such improvement may be made, in order that the present generation may have some share in its benefits; and it seems to me, after having had something to do with the legislation on this subject for several years, that there is but one practical way to accomplish this result, and that is by the issue of bonds. As a general proposition, I should be loath to favor bond Issues for public improvements, and I should only do so where I was convinced that the improvement was not only for the interests of the people at large, but also a benefit to posterity for all time to come. I should also consider it a necessary incident that the project should be one complete and concrete whole, like the building of the Panama Canal or the improvement of a great navigable river throughout its entire length, at least that part of it which is suitable for traffic. In this category I place, for instance, the improvement of the Ohio river. The government is committed to the policy of improving it so that there shall be a depth of at

least nine feet in the channel at all seasons of the year. Until every dam necessary to the accomplishment of this has been completed, nothing in fact has been accomplished; and at the present . rate of expenditure the last dam could not be completed for probably fifty years to come. Under all the circumstances, then, I am in favor of a comprehensive plan for the improvement of our great inland waterways, and of an issue of bonds for

this purpose.

FARMERS TO REAP A VAST HARVEST CROPS AND MONEY

Government's July Crops Statistics Indicate Nation's Largest Yield Will Be Had This Year.

THREE BILLIONS OF CORN IN PROSPECT Value of Five Leading American Cereals Now Estimated To Be Worth $2,700,000,000 in Autumn.

GIRL KIDNAPPED ON MING DAY Returns and Wedding Took

Place Last Night.

Washington, July 10. Blindfolded, bound and gagged and spirited away from her home at daybreak by two

strangers, then to awaken on a lonely

country road three miles away was

the terrible experience of Miss Sadie Forsythe, aged 21 years, whose wedding with William Faly took place

this evening at her home, at Roscoe.

Miss Forsythe was prostrated this

morning as the result of her expert' ence.

PALLADIUM WANT ADS. PAY.

Washington, D. C, July 10. The

greatest crop of cereals ever raised in

the United States is growing to ma

turity, according to indications In the July report of the department of agriculture. A gain of 722,000,000 bushels in all grains over the totals of 1908 is

promised and the record yield of 1906

will be exceeded.

Corn for the first time passed the

3,000,000,000 mark and oats are put at

more than 1.000.000.000 bushels. The

values of these great farm products,

on the basis of probable prices, will

annroach 12.750.000.000. December

corn closed on the board of trade yesterday at 56 cents. Figuring the crop

as worth 50 cents to the farmer,

wheat at 90. oats at 40, rye at 70. and

barley at 50. these totals are obtaln-

mated loss In round numbers being 41.000,000 bushels. To a considerable extent this is offset by a larger acreage and a greater yield of 6pring wheat which brings the total indicated crop of wheat up to 693,000,000 bushels, as compared with 664,000,000 bushels at the same time in 1908. Some important interests in the trade figure that the consumptive demand has grown enough to absorb this difference and that before the entire crop Is harvested we will run into a period of actual shortages rather than a surplus. It is also figured that foreign requirements easily will take all wheat which is not needed

for domestic purposes as crop conditions are generally understood to be unsatisfactory in most of the old world grain raising districts.

Winter Wheat Improves. The condition of winter wheat show

ed an improvement of 1.7 points over

the preceding month and about as much as compared with the corresponding month last year. The condition of spring wheat shows a loss of

2.5 points as compared with that of

June 1 this year, but it showed an

improvement of 3.3 points over July 1, 1908. This is taken as important and as crop conditions are considered almost ideal at the present time, and

barring accident there is now a general feeling that bountiful supplies will be realized.

An important feature of the report

was the estimate showing the amount

of wheat left in farmers' hands to be

a trifle more than 15,000,000 bushels. This is a great deal less than had

been expected and was a big surprise-

to many who had figured on a much

larger amount. Tremendous Corn Promise.

The preliminary estimate of the

area of corn planted is placed at 109.006,000 acres ,an increase of. 7,218,000 acres, or 7.1 per cent as compared with the final estimate of last year's acreage. The average condition of this crop on July 1 was S9.3, as compared

with 82.8 a year ago and suggests a

crop of 3,117,000,000 bushels. This i is the largest Indicated yield In the history of the agricultural department

Other Crops Are Big. The report shows the condition of

oats on July 1 to be S8.3, as compared with S8.7 on June 1 and 85.7 on July 1,

1908 ( indicating a crop of 1,030,000,000

bushels. The condition of rye is placed at 91.4, as compared with 89.6 on June 1 last and 91.2 on July, 1908. indicating a yield of 31,500,000 bushels.

The condition of barley is given at 90.2, as compared with 90.6 on June 1 and 86.2 on July 1, 1908, Indicating a crop of 191,000,000 bushels. The area of flaxseed, 2,741,000 acres compared with 2,657,000 acres last year. The condition is given as 95.1, against 92.5 a year ago, indicating a yield of 28,500,000 bushels. The condition of hay is 87.8, compared with 92.6 one year ago.

Objection to Women Golfer. "Farmers don't mind renting their fields to golfers, ut they are strongly opposed to women." "Why?" "Because women golfers are always losing hairpins and hatpins and stickpin la the grass. Follow the trail of a women's foursome, and I'll guarantee you a cusblonful of pins at the end of the ninth bole." "But why do farmers mind that?" "Because afterward, when his cattle graze In these fields, they swallow

pins. Plus. I needn't tell you. are In

jurious to health." New York Press.

Spokane, Wash., July 10 Fifty

thousand Danes. Norwegians and

Swedes in eastern Washington and Oregon, north and central Idaho, western Montana and southeastern British Columbia are backing a movement, launched in Spokane, to urge upon the mother countries the importance and necessity of forming a pan-

Scandinavian alliance to preserve the territorial Integrity of Denmark. Nor

way and Sweden. It is proposed to enlist the support of the Scandinavians and their church societies and lodges all over America in the plan. Harold S. Swanson of Spokane, editor and publisher of the American Scandinavian, official organ of the Scandinavian Brotherhood of America, says among other things, of the movement:

Swanson'a Views. "Sons of Scandinavia in America do

not presume to shape the political destinies of the mother countries any more than they attempt to fix the pub

lic policy of the United States after

forms and features of government of

the countries from which they came, but they assume to offer advice to the reigning monarchs, their official representatives and the resident citizens of the three sister kingdoms. It is a matter in which they are still iojntly interested and we believe that its advocacy will gather support from Scandinavians all over the world. "The loss of the provinces of Schlesswig and Holstein is still fresh in the Danish mind, and Sweden has ever been suspicious that the Russian bear had designs upon her territory.

For each of these little nations to

build 'Dreadnaughta' and effectively

protect themselves against the greater powers is out of question. To rely upon the policy of universal peace does not appear altogether safe in the face of the fact that nations are bending every energy and resource for warships and arming withvinight and

main. What means this aggressiveness in sea armament?" '

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