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Title: Illinois Agricultural Association record (microform)
Identifier: 5060538.1931-1934
Year: 1931- December 1934 January 1931- December 1934 (Jan0s)
Authors: Illinois Agricultural Association; Illinois Agricultural Association. Record
Subjects: Agriculture
Publisher: Mendota, Ill. : The Association
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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^r ^ -il V "^ I V * -'1 ^ Pi * I" Waterways and the Farmer : Here Are Some Things You Should Know About Water •»" *.., W^V;, •« r By G. S. Wilkin. Inland Waterways Corporation IT IS surprising how little is known by the public generally about the ex- tensive system of inland waterway transportation which has been main- tained by the Government for the past 16 years; especially by those who are re- ceiving the greatest benefit from this service, namely, the residents of the Mississippi Valley and the Great Middle West. And yet, as President Roosevelt has said, the people are more keenly in- terested in the affairs of govermiient to- day than ever before. They are es- pecially attentive to any information con- cerning the new agencies that have been set up by the Government, under the New Deal, for the relief of unemploy- ment and domestic distress. - The great humanitarian program of harnessing our streams for flood control, soil and water conservation, power de- velopment and navigation is by no means the least interesting of these campaigns. Its far-flung effect on the economic and social life of the nation appeals to the iniagination. - ^ ^ Ther Tennessee Valley Authority with its announced policy of raising the stand- ards of living of a vast segment of our population; the curbing of the Columbia River, in the far northwest, for irriga- tion and navigation; and the improve- ment of the Missouri, Ohio and Illinois Rivers ahd other tributaries of the mighty Father of Waters, with the con- sequent creation of thousands of inland lakes and parks—all these are only a few of the projects that strike a re- sponsive chord in the soul of a people who are stunned by, and groping fbr a way out of the darkness of the present world-wide depression. '■■■•'■"'^'^■'^■■'^■ While this program of river and har-: bor improvement is being executed more vigorously than ever before, the Presi- dent now proposes to place it all under a scheme of national control and co-ordi- nation in lieu of the hit and miss method of the past. This work has been carried on by the Government under the War Department for the past 13 years. The Army Engineers have achieved note- worthy results and an enviable reputa- tion for efficiency and integrity during this period. Foreign nations have sent representatives to study their amazing achievements on the Missouri and other rivers. ■ "' '^■■•■•-•■--■•'-:•■■ v--■.:^' But, the phase of this work about which the public seems to know the least is that of actual navigation on these streams. For most people it*h6s a strong appeal to the imagination. The romance of early steamboat days will live for- ever in "Steamboat Bill/^ **Show Boat" and Mark Twain's works, but they were no more than a glamorous memory by the year 1900. .v^ :'-^)--'r.--:-:'v^y\-'::~'l\'^-:v The unorganized river packets could not continue the hopeless struggle -.■.;*»:*'.-.;
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