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THE SUNDAY OREGOXLAX, PORTLAXD, MAY '22, 1921 GREAT! M II PROJECT PICTURED Dodson Tells of Columbia Basin Possibilities. WESTERNERS AT CAPITAL Head of Portland Chamber of Com' jucrce and Others Appear Be- fore Senate Committee. THE OREGO.VIAX NEWS BUREAU; Washington. D. C. May 21. A picture of the greatest ultimate Irrigation possibilities in the Columbia river basin to be found In any one dls trict of the American continent was presented to the Irrigation and arid land reclamation committee of the United States senate today by W. D. B. Dodson. manager of the Portland Chamber of Commerce, speaking for Governor Olcott of Oregon. As chairman of the committee was Senator McNary of Oregon, while other members represented most of the reclamation group of states. Other speakers before the commit tee were Governors Davis of Idaho, Campbell of Arizona, Mabey of Utah, . Land Commissioner Spry, J. E. Car penter for the governor of Colorado and a representative of the disabled veterans' association. This meeting closed the active campaign waged by the western governors and most . of them are going home with the feeling that they have aided in ad vancing the greatest reclamation measure yet proposed for western development. As the meeting was for all western states, Mr. Dodson informed the sen . ate committee that, he did not present fignres on the great Columbia river watershed for invidious comparison, but merely to impress upon the na tion as a whole the enormous oppor tunity for land reclamation in the states of Oregon, Washington and Idaho. Columbia's Flow Enormous. "The Columbia discharges nearly as much water annually as the Mis sissippi," said Mr Dodson. "yet its wa tershed covers only about 250,000 square miles, while the Mississippi basin contains approximately 1,250,000 square miles. At the mouth of the Columbia the annual flow is nearly 200.000,000 acre-feet, and at The Dalles, where the stream leaves the semi-arid region needing irrigation, t the mean annual flow for 30 years had been found to be 154,000,000 acre-feet. Dividing the stream beyond this point further, we find 98,000,000 acre-feet in the Columbia Just before the Snake enters, while the Snake delivers about 49.000.000 acre-feet. ."Our sister western states also have large water flows. The Colorado has a mean annual flow of 17.000.000 acre feet. The San Joaquin of California delivers a total of about 6.000.000, and the Sacramento and its tributaries about 12.000.000 feet. Other streams flowing directly to the ocean along the western seaboard add greatly to irrigation possibilities. "I would not undertake to state what percentage of these stream flows are commercially available for irri gation. but it must be very large. As surveys continue, as the demand for food grows in this country, as the value of land rises, enormous acre ages will be declared available for reclamation in the western- states, which now are passed as non-com mercial. And when the needs of the nation dictate use of these lands the Columbia watershed must become the scene of the greatest reclamation op erations of the continent, with mil lions of acres being irrigated and used. Project Incomparably Big. While the speaker did not empha sise the point, as the meeting was . for all the west, the effect of his fig ures and argument was that the Co lumbia basin region, with several times more water than all the .other streams of the west combined, must inevitably become the" theater of reclamation work comparably beyond anything yet witnessed. As significant of the importance of this work to the entire nation, Mr. Dodson called the attention of the committee to the total relative areas within the reclamation states and outside. In this he set forth the landed area of the United States proper was placed at 1,900,000,000 acres. The IS reclamation states have a landed area of slightly more than 1,000.000.000 acres. "Here you have half of your total v area in the nation proper in a condi tion where it is conceded that fur ther material agricultural develop ment depends upon irrigation," he continued. "Except for your over flow lands In the southern and east ern states, you have no other section where you can extend your agricul ture in great measure. Irrigation work has reached the point where it must be done in great units, often by heavy storage of flood waters, and no other agency than the government can attempt this properly. If the na tion wants more food, if it wants more room for young men who seek agricultural opportunities, it can go nowhere else than to this western half included in the reclamation group, or to the overflow lands. The greatest opportunities are in the west. The whole nation must be in terested In this Issue." scientific adjustment or regulation of interest rates for commercial pur poses, each banker made bis own rate and varied it according to his own Judgment and the reserve position of bis own bank. Jn times of stress there was consequently no uniformity of banlu action and no cer.tainty that business could secure credit or the price that would have to be paid for it. The banks loaned money to the limit permitted by the reserve posi tion. When their reserves were re duced to the point beyond, which the law said they must not go they stopped leading and panic often loi- ivweu. - Problem Delicate One. The theory and the practice so far as it has been tested of the reserve banks is that merchants and manu- . WHAT CONGRESS DID AS ITS DAY'S WORK. Senate. Was not in session' today. ' House. Debated second deficiency bill. Ambassador Harvey attacked by Representative Stevenson, democrat. South Carolina, for speech in 190S boasting that relatives did not take arms against south, but hired substi tutes. Republicans of foreign af fairs committee postponed con sideration of peace resolution until Tuesday. facturers may obtain money, that is. they may be able to buy credit at some price under any and all circum stances. The inly obstacle 'under present banking conditions is the re serve position. Reserves for banks is a fine problem. It underlies the in tegrity of the banking situation.. The reserves almost entirely gold of the federal reserve banks fluctuate. If gold is Imported they increase, if gol l is exported they diminish. Forty per cent of reserves to. liabilities is set in the law as the danger line. If they decline below that point a heavy tax on the deficit is automatically Im posed. When that point Is approached or reserves are falling, bankers be come uneasy and there is a demand for. higher rates. The demand for money or bank loans begins to ex ceed the supply as determined by the amount of reserve. The remedy is to raise interest rates the price of money. But the federal reserve beard has power that has never yet been exer cised. It would naturally'be exercised only in a great tmergency and to pre vent widespread disaster. POPE SENDS PLEA FOR PEACE IN ERIN National Committee to Probe Problems Is Suggested,:' NEUTRALITY IS DECLARED ENGINEER TESTS PLANNED State Examiners Will Conduct Ex amination in Portland. The state board of engineering ex amlners will conduct an examination at 620 Corbett building, Friday, July 8, for registration of professional engineers in Oregon. Application blanks may be received from A. B. Carter, secretary of the board, at the same address, and should be in the hands of the board at least 30 days previous o the examination. Ten applicants took the examina tion for registration March 11, 1921. Of this number the following appli cants received certificates May 6: O.E.Smith, Estacada.Or.; P. M. Kyte, Brookings, Or., and H. T. B. Glaisyer, Salem. Or. July 1 the state board of engineer ing examiners will have been in ex istence for two years, aunng wnicn time certificates of -registration have been granted to 1211 applicants, which number Includes approximately 120 applicants residing outside of the state of Oregon. High School Building Proposed. CENTRAUA, Wash., May 21. (Special.) The issuance of bonds to the amount of J27.50O for the erection of a new high school building in To ledo will be voted on at a special election Tuesday.- Sentiment gen erally appears to favor tne project The bonds, if voted, will bear not to exceed 6 per cent interest, and will run 15 years. . Pontiff Gives 2 00,000 Lire for Use by Irish "W hite; Crss and Asks Cessation of Violence. OL.NDALK, Ireland. May 21. (By the Associated Press.) Pope Benedict nas written to Cardinal Logue. pri mate of Ireland, appealing to oth the English and Irish to abandon violence and proposing that the Irish question be settle by a body selected by the whole Irish nation. The pontiff sent Cardinal Logue 200.000 lire for the Irish White Cross. The 'popes communication read: "While we are filled with anxiety in regard to all nations, we are most especially concerned about conditions in Ireland. She Is subjected today to the Indignity of devastation and slaughter. There is assuredly no doubt that harsh and cruel occur- rences of this kind are in great part attributable to the recent war. for neither has sufficient consideration been given to the desires of nations nor have the fruits of peace, which peoples promised to themselves, been reaped. Holy See Ventral. "In the public strife which Is tak ng place -in your country it is the deliberate counsel of the holy see a counsel consistently acted upon up to tne present in similar circum stances, to take sides with neither of the contending parties. "Such neutrality, however, by no means prevents us from wishing and (Jesiring, nor even from praying and beseeching . the contending parties that the frenzy of strife may as soon as .possible subside and a lasting peace and sincere union of hearts take the place of this terrible enmity. For, Indeed, we do not perceive how this- bitter strife can profit either of the parties when property and homes are being ruthlessly and dis gracefully laid waste, when villages and farmsteads are being set aflame: Lwhen neither sacred places nor sacred persons are spared, and when on both sides a war resulting In the death of unarmed people and even of women and children is being carried on. Pica for Peace Sent. "Mindful, therefore, of our apostolic office, and moved by charity which embraces all men.-we exhort the Eng- DANCING GUARANTEED Ladies 'f-s If ' A1 v. CRISIS DECLARED PASSED (fnt!nuM From First Page.) ment in sight and a new normal con dition a condition in which the rela tion of prices to costs of production are reasonably stafcVe somewhat ap proximated, the price of money has been lowered. In the end, with lower prices for money as well as for com modities, including labor, the country ran do business with a smaller capital investment. The purchasing power of the dollar will be greater and the resultant prosperity will be real. In the United States, before the es tablishment of the federal reserve hnnkw. there wa nn method for the $2.00 Gentlemen $5M at De Honey's Beautiful Academy 2:tD AND New classes for beginners start Monday and Thursday evenings this week. Advanced classes Tuesday and Friday evenings, 8 to 11:30. 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Private lesaona all hour. lish. as well as the Irish, to calmly consider - whether the time.' ha not arrived to abandon violence and treat on some means of mutual agreement. For this end, we think it, would be opportune If effect, were given the plan recently suggested ' by dis tinguished men, as well as distin guished politicians, that the ques tion at issue should be referred for discussion to some body of men se lected by the whole Irish nation. "When this cpnference has pub lished its findings, let the more in fluential among both parties meet together, and having put forward and discussed the views and conclusions arrived, at. let them determine by common consent on soma means oi settling . the question in a sincere spirit of peace and reconciliation. TWO CONSTABLES SHOT DEAD I . r Police Motor Ixrry Bombed as It Moves Through Dublin. DUBLIN, May 21. Two constables, who were out on a, cycling tour last night, were shot dead near Longford. While a police lorry was moving through Dublin streets last night sev eral bombs were thrown at the party by civilians. One bomb exploded in the lorry, blowing two of the police Into the streets. Kire was opeaea the attacking individuals and three civilians were wounded. '- An official review of the weeit is sued by the Dublin Castle authorities says the crime statistics were except tiorvallv large. There were vv it tank on crown forces, while the po lice suffered 65 casualties, of which 23 resulted in death. Wounded ex-Soldier Murdered. DUBLIN, May 21. Unidentified-men entered a hospital here today ana dragged away an ex-soldier who was being treated for a bullet wouna ana shot him dead in the hospital grounas. The man's wife and children were at hs bedside. BomCs Thrown In Crowd. CORK. May 21. While the main thoroughfare at Cove, near Klnsale, was crowded last' night several re volver shots wersf fired and a num ber of bombs thrown. Many civilians. soldiers and sailors were badly in jured. The perpetrators are unknown. School Bond Issue Defeated. CENTRALIA. Wash., May 21. (Spe cial.) Patrons of school district o. 205. comprising .Forest ana jacKson Prairie, at a special school election defeated a proposition to issue bonds to the amount of $18,000 for the-erection of a new high school at Forest. The vote was 64 to 33. The fact that the building was to have been of frame construction instead or brick or concrete was blamed for the defeat of the bond issue. Soldier's- Body En Route Home. KELSO. Wash., May 21. (Special.) Mrs. Leander Martin, a former Sandy Bend resident, now living in Portland, has been notified by the war department that .the body of her son, Thomas Martin, who died In the service oVerseas, would arrive in New York about May 31. HearYdurFavoriteRecord on tm I'li'r'n1 m 'H wvm ni.ir .ry, ',s',v..t.....a Through the New Oval Horn I I i My! Oh, my! You ' didn't know there was cuch a thing." Then, there's the Ultona, too. Just you see, and hear them. Do it this week. "Oh, isn't it pretty?" That's what nearly everyone says. But looks were not so much considered when Brunswick built it. The all-wool oval horn, tapering into a perfectly round throat, was added that fuller and better "ROUND TONE" would be produced. The Ultona is an over-sized Reproducer, that plays any disk -record made. Both Ul tona and Oval Horn are pat ented, making them exclusive Brunswick features. Easy Terms No Interest at Edwards! If Tou Are Going to Install a Furnace, Get a Good One. Before You Buy A ny Other, Edwards Would Like to Tell You A bout This . Homer Pipeless Circulator pirmg iVOeciicIsie Now Needed by Nearly Every One to Purify the Blood and Build Up Strength. Few come to these trying spring days without weariness, debility, that "tired feeling." caused in large part by impure, de-vitalized blood. Change of season often "takes ell the strength out of me," as many people say. 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