. The Saturday evening post. by the Government, only about$6,000,000 is likely to remain outstanding and not be re-turned to the Federal Treasury. This is only about fiveper cent of the amount invested in reclamation work andrepresents an exceedingly small deficit for work of suchlarge scope and wide benefit. Recently I visited a town in the Northwest that is oneof the most prosperous little cities in the United sixteen years ago there was no town on this site andthe surrounding country was a barren plain producingnothing more valuable than sagebrush. Last yeaf thefreight, passenge
. The Saturday evening post. by the Government, only about$6,000,000 is likely to remain outstanding and not be re-turned to the Federal Treasury. This is only about fiveper cent of the amount invested in reclamation work andrepresents an exceedingly small deficit for work of suchlarge scope and wide benefit. Recently I visited a town in the Northwest that is oneof the most prosperous little cities in the United sixteen years ago there was no town on this site andthe surrounding country was a barren plain producingnothing more valuable than sagebrush. Last yeaf thefreight, passenger and express receipts of the one railroadentering the town totaled more than $3,000,000. This en-tire growth came from the development of a 20,000-acretract through irrigation. What an empire will be createdand what wealth produced as a result of the reclamation ofthe great Columbia River Basin! I do not doubt thatthere are other splendid ways to construct new valuesthrough an outlay of capital andwell-directed energy, but. PHOTO. BY FAMOUS PLAYER8-LASKY CORPORATION Jl Motion-Picture Studio Arranged to Reproduce a Cabaret Scene none of them appears to possess greater merit than thissimple idea of gathering up unused water that is nowwastefully flowing into the ocean and diverting it to pur-poseful work in making the deserts bloom. Motion-Picture Progress PRACTICALLY all things young and new must passthrough a growing stage, when height, breadth andexperience are acquired. The time of youth is a period ofexperiment and investigation. It is an era of discoveriesand invention. Rashness and error are characteristic ofyouth, because principles and precepts are the fruits of age. Each new line of commerce or enterprise must passthrough years of adjustment and upheaval. It was so inthe automobile industry, which had to feel its way with-out the benefit of established precedents. The most recentand most interesting of American industries is the motion-picture business. The building of
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