THE SUNDAY OREGOXLAX, PORTLAXD, MAY '22, 1921
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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-
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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
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ladies 12, gentlemen $5. and will
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Take one or four lessons a week.
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Phone Main 7656. 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
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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.
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The all-wool oval horn,
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The Ultona is an over-sized
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