Evening Star Newspaper, July 27, 1923, Page 5

» + is_invincibly sound 1 " THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, JULY 27, 1923. Position of Farmers Is Fundamentally| "' Sound, According to Big Chicago > REDERIC WILLIAM WILE. CHICAGO, July 26.—In the wee that witnessed Magnus Johnson's ar- rival in the hall of fame and Senator Brookhart's return from Europe “Ding.” Towa's nationally celebrated cartoonist, drew a classic. It depicted Uncle Sam taking an irascible citi- zen, labeled “American Discontent, by the scruff of the neck and ejacu- lating: ve got more food, more more work, more opportunities, luxuries than anybody in the world. What's eatin’ you?" The cartoon loses none of its pointed timeliness from the fact that the calamity howler portrayed, who is waving a flag_emblazoned “Down with everything!” bears’ an unmis- takable resemiblance to the new sena- tor from Minnesota. Incidentally. “American Discontent’s” attention I.k‘ drawn to Rest of the World Which “Ding” pictures as ashopele: s of want, poverty, starvation | wages, indebtedness, unemployment, hunger and chaos ~ Tteaction in Chicago. Coming out of the sullen and dis- into the met which is Chicag, seems to grow m nd more opulent from week ne is bound to ask one’s {if “Ding's” r sn't right Tsn't the mid-west's “grouch little overdrawn, if not fundamentally un- justified? "Aren’t things in the farm regions intrinsical sound, and aren't t going to work out nor- mally. eradually. and withaat heroic treatment at the hands of Dr. | opinions, affirmatively an- those questions, are ex- pressed to this writer by ‘one of the foremost economic authorities in the rthur Reynolds, president the gigantic Continental and Comme: cial National Bank of Chicago. With $400.000,000 of deposits. 35,000 or 40,000 individual accounts, 5000 to 6,000 coun bank depositors, and i 135,000 savings accou the Conti- nental-Commercial group’ Is probably in closer and more direct contact with mid-west conditlons than any other institution In the country. There can be no reaction for it op- | erates in every of the union. that does not reflect itself instantly in the activities of the bank over which Mr. Reynolds presides “arm Country Sound. Brookhart, Johnson, La_Follette & Co. to_the contrary notwithstanding, fhis Chicago super-banker holds that the position of the agricultural west It is not as sat- the farmer's stand- | point as it ought to be, Mr. Reynolds | but it is miles removed from essness or even real discourage- isfactory from vou a long chapter of facts and figures,” Rey- nolds explained, “to prove con- tention 'that it's all right with the t. T'll just mention one situation. Not €0 long ago the Continental-Com- mercial was carrying an abnormal total of 000.000 or $80,000,000 of country bank loans. Within the past few months, covering the period of | the greatest depression among thel farmers, we have scaled down that| sum by tens of millions, until the | aggregate is now where it was under | ordinary western conditions. The country banks have bligations without effort. ant thing is that in the over- | whelming number of cases they have been using farmers'’ money with which to do it. It means that the grain growers and cattle raisers of the west cannot be as impoverished as the Brookharts represent them to be, to say nothing of the ‘bank- ruptey’ into which political agitators | have plunged them. | Business Conditions, | ‘What the apostles of Woe stu- diously refrain from explaining to the farmer is that he is a business man and is undergoing only the trials and | tribulations that other business men | have weathered and still are expe-, riencing. Have the farmers, for ex-| ample, fared any worse than the re- viled meat packers? ‘Have any of| Senator Brookhart's or Senator John- | son’s constituents in the grass roets had any more devastating troubles than Armour & Co.? Does any cam paign spellbinder, or other dissemi- nator of discontent remind the farm- | er that almost every business and | business man in the United States passed through a post-war crisis and | that thousands of them are not out of the woods vet? Armours are a in point.” There is a concern 0,000,000 of assets, 60,000 em- ploves, a world-wide business, with | branches in every civilized corner of the globe, dealing in one of the prime necessities of human life. | Yet | conditions have imposed upon that concern a revolutionary financial re adjustment, that, as everybody knows, more than once was accom- panied by possibilities of the most menacing kind. 0, the farmer isn't the only American businessman who has his | troubles. There are others—their | name is legion. They are working out of ‘their troubles. So will the farmer. Readjustment s coming to him last—perhaps more tardily than it ought to. But he is no exception | to the rule. That's the think for him | to remember. He is down, but he Is not out. He cannot be put out unless | he loses his head or Is led astray by false prophets. That 1s a far greater peril to the farmer at present than | anything inherent in the business situation. I am convinced we are going to enjoy a continuance of good times throughout 1923 and well into 1924, and there is no sign now that they will not last beyond that time. Prices are bound to recede, though not rapidly,.and relief for the farmer in that direction will be correspond- ingly gradu; International Market. Another -headed authority on western conditions is Henry A. Wal- lace, son of the Secretary~of Agricul- ture and, during his father's official service at Washington, the conductor of Wallace's Farmer at Des Moines. Mr. Wallace asserts that the western farmer will experience no real sal- vation until he is “off the interna- tional market.” This is how he argues: “The one reason why farm product prices average only 30 to 40 per cent above pre-war, whereas wages are ! twice the pre-war, is that there fa & surplus of farm products to be sold on the Kuropean market, whereas iabor, because of immigration re- strictlons and _tariffs, is sheltered from Europe.. The farmer is on the international market, while labor is off the international market. “Is labor willing to see the farmer advance the price of his products to the same level as wages, even though it involves taking himself off the Furopean market by reducing his production of wheat,-corn and pork? Many of the men who have been most active in trying to weld a po- litical alllance between farmers and laborers have held up their hands in horror at the thought of any effort to contfol production on the part of the fdrmer, although they have spoken enthusiastically of coal and raiiroad strikes. These men have been as earnest in their fighting of ‘controlled production on, the part of the farmer as have the big-bankers in the east. Their sole effort has been to point out to the farm producers continually that the low price for their products is the result of ex- ploitation by big business. They don’t like the idea of any campaign ' to control production on the part of, the farmer, because, in the first place, it makes the farmer think less about the injustices ‘committed by big busi- -fiess, and, in the second place, tause such a campaign, if sudcesst 4 7 canceled e with ! questionabl | sues touching agricultural conditions | ema in the rural regions. | Erain storage, The | ¢ | Henry gives the wowd, th | cal advantage. | servative by temperament, can turn | three years' membership to $10,675, Banker and Others. night reduce the buying power of the 'horing man’s dollar in terms of food. ® ® s The fundamental prob- lem is to take farm products off the international market and raise them to a price as far above. pre-war as wages are. Will the leaders of or- ganized labor help? If not, there is no use talking about a farmer-lahor alliance under present conditions.” Reaxons for Revolt. This writer concludes at Chicago today a month’s survey of politico- economic conditions In_Illinois, Mis- souri, Kansas. Colorado, Wyoming, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Da: kota. Nebraska and lowa. The sur- vey was undertaken at a moment that turned out to be more psycho- logical than was expected. It syn- chronized with the outbreak of the so-called agrarian revolt In_the west, as exemplified by the Minnesota senatorial election. Men thought the farmer-labor “rebellion” had reached its zenith with the elections of No- vember, 1922. Yet Magnus_Johnson is olected in Minnesota by 95,000 ma- Jority. compared with thi X3.000 by which Shipstead won eclght months earlier. What is the lesson which the troublous state of affairs in the midwest teaches? To this observer, certain definite conclusions seem justified. They may best he set down in tabular form; 1. President Harding's trip through the southwest and northwest, during the last ten days of June and the avs of July, was an un- v “personal success.” The ple who saw him “warmed” to the resident, their liking being perhaps deeper than ‘outward demonstrations would ‘ndicate. The President's speeches on fs- did not improve the depressed ‘morale” of the farmers. They see little new hope in promise of more “rural credits.” or any prospect of radical freight rate reductions—their paramount issue—in the administra- tion’s plan_ for railroad consolidation. 3. Mr. Harding’s projection of the co-operative marketing idea is popu- lar with the farmers, who look to such a system with great hopefulness, Constructive efforts by the adminis- tration In the co-operative direction might go far toward rehabilitating Its preetige in the disaffected west. 4. The republican tariff is anath- Gov. Preu: rejection of it in the Minnesota cam- paign was typical and significant. The Ve regards it an_ ‘“eastern tari manufactured largely in and for New England and containing only meaningless sops to the farmer. Ald of Wanl gton. The farmer expects Washington to come to his rellef—speedily and effectively. He has no very well- defined or concrete plans for bringing it about. Some farmers want federal price stabilization; some want federal pending market re- habilitation; some (not many) think “vo-operation with Eurépe’ spells salvation; some think good will come maglically from repeal of the Esch- Cummins law; some (the more radi- cal) demand- the “smashing” of the federal reserve system. All want action. 6. On the basls of farm conditions as they are today, it seems doubtful that Warren G. Harding in 1924 could carry Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming, Minnesota, the Dakotas or Nebraska. He would probably pull through anvhow in Towa and Iilinois. He might not even be able to capture those states if Henry Ford should be his opponent, either on the demo- or an independent ticket. The “Ford movement” in the west, unorganized on the surface, is undoubtedly in progress. An _an- nounced candidacy on the part of the motor magnate would certainly cause the movement to flare into a sub- stantial proposition, and, in some sections. into an almost ' irresistible one. The farmers are not impressed by Ford's lack of political training. Many of them think it is an asset. They'll tell you they've had their fll, and more than their ill, of “the poli- ticlans” and cannot possibly do worse with a business man. When Uncle sands o western farmers will cry: “Let's go 8. It may be that the radicalism now bolling up in the west may re- dound to Warren G. Harding’s politi- If there are arrayed against him in 1924 three pronounced, labeled progressives or radicals like, say, McAdoo, Ford and La Follette, the President may stand forth as the country’s “sure shield. singled out as the one candidate to whom the overwhelming mass of the American people, con- in an hour full of ‘radicdl menace. Events may shape, in other words, so that Mr. Harding’s captivating per- sonality, plus an Invincible conserva- tism, will be the factors to tell in his favor and triumphantly re-elect him. (Copyright, 1923.) e NICARAGUA LEAGUE DUES CUT TO $5,057 YEARLY Arrears of $60,000 Also Beduced] to $10,675 to Keep Nation in Organization. By the Assoclated Press. MANAGUA, Nicaragua, July 27.— According to a representative of the league of nations, now here, the league had decided to reduce the| $60,000 that Nicaraugua owes it for! payable at the rate of $1,067.50 annu- ally for ten years. The league has also decided, said, to reduce this country’ dues from $20,000 to $5,047. Nicaraugua resolved to withdraw from the league several years ago but the delegate entrusted with car- rying out the orders failed to present the resignation and the matter was “forgotten” A member must give, two years' notice and pay all obliga- tions before it can withdraw. - The proposition would be submitted to congress in December. TWO HURT IN NOSE DIVE. NEW YORK, July 27.—The col- lapse of pontoon struts on the naval seaplane @s a student aviator piloted | it in a nose dive into the bay nelr] he annual Fort Hamilton air station yesterday | [l| sent two fiyers to a hospital suffer. Ing from brulses and a_ducking. The man rescued was pinned in the water beneath the wrecked machine. Lieut. John W. Eiseman, U. S. N, was instructing Carl W.,Rasmussen when, about 300 yards from shore, Rasmussen took the wheel and tried to_dive. The student freed himself from the plane after, the crash and pulled Lieut. Kisenian above water., Spectators on shore put out in a launch, followed by a surgeon in a rowboat. Both victims revived Roosevelt ' Predicts Co-Operation ‘With Other Service Branches. NEW YORK, July 27.—Speedy ad- vances in the ‘co-operation of the Navy air service with other branches of .the Navy were forecast by Theo- dore “Roosevelt, assistant secretary of the Navy, before leaving here in a fly. ing boat for Newport Aviation School, where he was to address the students. In spite bf the open cockpit of the boat and the high winds, which made it necessary to taxi for five minutes before leaving the water, the assistant gecretary and his alde wo street clothes. b AN | LAUDS NAVY AIR FLEET. A FISHING CAMP 1IN MO SQUITO SEASOM ANMD A NET FuLL OF HoLeES — —By WEBSTER. 95570 i il s SR 1. 75 S S (o 1) i 1 i -~ 1 WOMAN AIDS IN LAYING TRAP TO | CAPTURE MAN AS BOOTLEGGER{ 1Accept Offer of Reinstatement With William Warren Ball, an employe of a hotel near 9th and I streets northwest, was arrested Monday night at 10:30 o'clock, it became known today, by J. Leroy Asheér, “The Lone’ Wolf,” and Lieut. Davis of the vice squad, and was charged with selling, transporting and illegal pos- session of whisky. He was taken to the second precinct and released on $1,500 bond. The story of the arrest was learned when Asher, Lieut. Davis and Sergt. McQuade filed an information In the office of Assistant District At- torncy Thomas Lodge. Ball was trapped by the officers with the aid of Mrs. Garrett Fortune of 622 H street northwest and marked mon ey. Monday night Mrs. Fortune alled Lieut. Davis on the telephone and asked that he send to her home a revenue man, giving as her reason that the proprictor of the hotel in question had been selling whisky to Ler husband, Charles Fortune, &n actor,and e fering from alcoholism and eye trou- e. Lieut. Davls, with Asher and Sergt. McQuade, went to the Fortune home, where the wife called up a Mr. Lake, sald to be the proprietor of the hostelry. She was told he was out of the city, “but,” sald the voice at the other end of the wire, “this is Shorty,’ and you can get anything you want” Mrs. Fortune ordered a half pint of rye whisky and a short service man, who is a | patient in Walter Reed Hospifal suf- | was William Warren Ball arrived time later a man who said his name | with the consignm Mrs. Fortune | nt. had be; office; was n marked by the prohibition | and as Ball left the house he ! arrested by Lieut. Davis A er, who had witnessed the t action from another room. Ball, officers when he found he had been trapped and w under arrest with the marked money in his po: session, made a desperate but unsuc- ful effort to swallow the three, ns- the | b1l MAY NAME MRS. HEARST. % NEW YORK, July 27.—Reports that | Tammany Hall might name Mrs. Wil- llam Randolph Hearst as nominee for | Congress to fill the vacancy created | by the death of W. Bourke Cockran | TELEPHONE VOTE OPERATOR TO END STRI Loss of Seni ority, Boston Of- ficial Announces. paid him three one-dollar bills that{By the Assoclated Press ‘BOSTO! in their ballot general secretar; { telephone operators’ department, | ternational Brotherhood of E Workers, anoun completion of The erators voted al favor of the New Engla | graph Company to reins as individuals with the los seniority Unexpected op; to work River, she spite " this aid, nd July and | telephone operators of New England | striking B rights, in Framingham . — The striking have voted to iturn to work, Miss Teresa Sullivan, ¥ of the Boston local, In- ectrical today upon the fon of the vote telephone op- ced bula sto; most unanimously in | ccepting the recent offe r of one and Tele- te operators of ‘their Miss Sullivan said position to returning and Fall dded that de- opposition vote 1 Telep but the are circulated in political circles. Itjrecorded in Providence and Worces was understood that Charles M. 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For here, at the seat! of its administration, along- side the peaceful waters of Lake Geneva, abides a living organism which neither the superstate its opponents think it to be, nor yet the great International conciliators its friends hope some day to make it. Any one who comes to Geneva. as do scores of senators and representa- tives from the United States, with preconoeived notlons as to what the league 1s or should be, can depart with those same ideas if he likes, be- cause externally the league, with its two modest old buildings, Is not more impressive than the average govern- ment " office elsewhere, but its in- ternal mechanism, its far-reaching influence and its incessant work for the improvement of international re- lations cannot be discerned by the casual visitor. This requires, first of | | all, an impartial as well as studious attitude. Defects Are Admitted Men at work in the league's of- fices are first to admit many of the league's defects. They are as sensi- tive to a fear of a super-state de- velopment and as ready to thwart | such a growth as the critics out- side. They.are not boastful of its accomplishments. They are simply crusaders for a larger objective—the | betterment of mankind through a closer understanding and free inter- course, In talking to these men the writer asked several questions typical of what many people in the United States were asking about the league. Why did not the league prevent or at least settle the controversy over the occupation of the Ruhr? Have there not been a number of ‘little wars” in Kurope since 1919, including, of course, the Turco- | Greek war? What has the league accomplished that could not have been accom- plished by international commissions | or diplomacy? Lacks Power to Coerce The replies given were frank. First of all, the Ruhr affords a better insight into why the league is not a superstate than anything that could | happened. 1f the league had | { had the power to order troops of one | {nation to settle a dispute between | ! oth, nations this military force | would long ago have been in evi- dence. The league has not, however, ny more authority than the member | Bovernments wish to give it. In the case of the Ruhr the French took the position that the treaty.of | Versailles gave them the right to en- | ter the Ruhr. Even Great Britain ad- | | mitted the legal right of the French to collect reparations by this method So how could the league reprimand a nation for attempting to carry out the provislons of a solemn treat I But it will be said that the league | might have intervened anyhow. and jused its influence. Here again the American conception of the | difters from the European. { use of the word over here, ave contrasted with is cnough to give | of view- Works for Future Peace. | The league members may bring to! the attention of the league a serfous | | situation, but there is no authority that can compel a government to| abandon enterprise in the Ruhr.!| for Ins = not choose to do_ so. rds, the league reall v-day operation, is| simply an_international clearing house | of informatipn, an international me- it WONDER CLOTHE 14th and N. Y. Ave. | 2 Stores in Washington League Rated Mild But | Edward | facture of such beve Useful Peace of World Eurépean Nations as Fearful as U. S. of Superstate, Is lmpres'sion. Fights Future Wars. diator when natlons wish to submit disputes for consideration; but year in and year out the league Is employing itself with a thousand and one ques-, tions that are sources of future wars and points of legal friction or mis understanding between nations that have a desire to agree. Some day the league may get the Ruhr dispute as it has received a dozen other quarrels—after the in- terested powers themselves get tired of trying to work them out and sub- mit them to an impartial examination of representatives of all nations. This has happened before when the su- preme council submitted the first Upper Sileslan controversy and final- iy the plight of Austria to the lcague. Both have been disposed of and it i3 interesting to note that in settling the Lausanne treaty nearly a dozen questions are left to the league to handle by special commis- slons. Supplements Diplomacy. The league organization has been supplementary to, not a substitute for, international diplomacy. Some things it has done might have been accomplished by diplomacy, but not as efiectively or rapidly, for the league cuts red tape and, by confer- ence, gets results faster than old- fashionable methods of note writing. The so-called “Little wars™ of Eu- rope are considered “local disturb- ances” not within the province of the league to take up unless the inter- ested partles wish it. So far as pre- venting war, the league will confine, itsclf for the present to removing the causes of war wherever possible and intervening in disputes only when they actually threaten to break out in hostilities on a large scale. The latter has not even been threatened, and as for the removal of causes, time alone will tell how much good has been accomplished in_that direction. But the league lives and while its work s not more spectacular than the Carnegle Endowment for Inter- natfonal Peace, it {s the only agency working night and day in Europe to improve international morality. 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