Anothor view of the St. Lawrence project

THE question as to whether the United States shall help Canada defray the expense of improving the St. Lawrence river, as Mr. Cooper said, is a great question. It is one that involves an enormous amount of money and it would take, the engineers estimate, at least ten years to do the work. So we should know well before we begin what the problem is, what it promises, how it compares with other things. It is a great transportation problem. Primarily at the base of it is the question of transportation. Water power is purely incidental.