Year- 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XXIX 



CHICAGO, SEPTEMBER, 1914. 



No. 11 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



With which is Merged 

 The National Land and Irrigation Journal 



MODERN IRRIGATION 



THE IRRIGATION ERA 

 ARID AMERICA 

 THE WATER USERS' BULLETIN 



THE DRAINAGE JOURNAL 

 MID-WEST 



THE FARM HERALD 

 THE IRRIGATOR 



D. H. ANDERSON 



PUBLISHER, 



Published Monthly at 30 No. Dearborn Street, 

 CHICAGO 



Entered as second-class matter October 3, 1897, at the Postoffice 

 at Chicago, 111., under Act of March 8, 1879. 



D. H. ANDERSON, Editor 



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Canadian 

 Government May 

 Halt Irrigation 

 Congress 



As this editorial is written 

 there is a strong possibility 

 that there will be no session 

 of the Irrigation Congress in 

 Canada next month. If the 

 congress does meet, it will 



have its wings closely clipped, and its ''Interna- 

 tional'' aspects will be only those furnished by such 

 delegates from the United States as may attend. 

 As soon as Great Britain opened war on Ger- 

 many the Canadian government showed a decided 

 inclination to disapprove of the meeting of the 

 congress. It took this position on the grounds that 

 the organization was "international" in character, 

 and therefore it was improper for a colony of a 

 nation at war to entertain it. The Ottawa govern- 

 ment also declined to extend officially invitations 

 to other nations to send delegates to the congress. 

 Several prominent Canadians interested in the 

 congress, including J. S. Dennis, head of the Ca- 

 nadian board of control and a prominent Canadian 

 Pacific Railway official, expressed themselves as 

 ready to accept the suggestion of the government 

 and abandon the meeting. 



Secretary Arthur Hooker and a number of Cal- 



gary land boomers took the stand that the "inter- 

 national" feature of the congress didn't amount to 

 much any way, and by eliminating everybody ex- 

 cept the United States and Canada, the congress 

 could meet without offending the Ottawa govern- 

 ment, King George or his ally, Czar Nicholas. 



These men opened a series of "diplomatic con- 

 versations" with the heads of the Canadian govern- 

 ment. The results of these "conversations" have 

 not yet reached us. Because of the strong words 

 in which the Canadian government couched its 

 first "message of disapproval," it is feared by many 

 in Calgary that the congress will finally be ordered 

 abandoned. 



The Canadian land boomers are, however, still 

 using the congress as a pretext to try to obtain 

 publicity in American newspapers for their country 

 and to attract United States farmers across the 

 border. 



Now, isn't this a pretty mess? A once-great 

 institution of the United States, an organization, 

 which, if it had not fallen into control of sordid, 

 money-seeking men, would still be a power for 

 good and for development in this nation, a con- 

 gress which has been officered by some of the most 



