THE SOITFJI WATCHMAN, Bsta CONSOLIDATED AUG. 2,1 iuncs Af I PLAYED if ! ' ? WASHINGTON i i . President is Removing ; Opposition by Pro-! viding: Good. Jobs! For Annoying Lead- j ers . i By Wallace Bassford (Special News Correspondents Washington. Feb. 4.?The presi-? dent seems to have taken a leaf j from the back of a certain con- j gressman who used to represent a j Missouri District in years gone by. j Whenever any man became annoy- ! ing with his opposition to the con- ' gressman. this member got the fei- i low a joh?a job good enough to ! put him out of the fight. He didn't I believe in rewarding his frien *.s so j . much as in pensioning his enemies j President Harding has so maneuv- j ered as to secure the consent of! Senator Kenyon to take the United j States judgeship -out in Iowa? which removes one of leaders of the Farm Bloc in the Senate. It will be interesting to watch the melting 1 , away of that same Farm Bloc un- ! der the seductive influence of life long appointments. Most men are so uncertain as to their political future that they are easily caught by the life-tenure feature of the job. Kenyon will secure the place lo^g held by Judge Walter I. j Smith. Smith was a conspicuous j and growing figure in congress j when h* was given the Judgeship; j be has hardly been heard of since. ! So it will be with Kenyon: after! from a tenth-story window or take a few months he will have to fall the presidency of a baseball league! to get his name in the papers, but he will have a life-time job. An other gi^od man gone wrong, but it J gives the Democrats and Progres- j sives of. Iowa a chance to get to- j getaer and select his successor, j ^Amalgamation is the only logical ] thing for these two bodies -af vo- J ters seeking the same end?the de feat of the reactionary element now in the Republican saddle. The name of Harold D. Wilson j will go down in history as-the man } who broke up the big Republican j State banquet aUtfc?.Q^acy_ House j in Boston by conftscattne? the liq- ; uor. "Here's to the Grand Old { Party, boys?drink 'or down." No j man was ever more viciously at- J tacked than has been this same j Wilson by the Republicans of i Massachusetts, for simplr'doibg his ! sworn duty under the lasr and his oath of office unless it was another Wilson who got his mail at No. 1660 Pennsylvania Avenue. Wash ington, D. C. for eight years of unexampled prosperity. And. by the way. a Farm Bloc in the Sen ate was not needed in those days .to protect the farmer in his rights. When the Anti-lynching Act j comes up in the Senate, it would | be just like Pat Harrison to move to amend the title so that it will r^ad: "An Act committing an as sault on the Constitution of the United States." j Speaking of the Anti-lynching Act recently passed by the House. Mr. Johnson, of Mississippi, print ed in the Congressional Record an extract from the Kansas City Star, a Republican newspaper, i with reference to the Kansas State ? ? anti-lynching law. The Star says: j "Kansas towns are finding the < State's anti-mob law costly statute, j Kansas Cfty. Kansas, has 59 suits j pending against the city now. to- j tallng $049.978. Twenty-six ofi these are the result of trouble in j packing house strike. The suits j range from $5 to $23,000. Inde pendence. Kan., has had judgments returned against it for $37.250 and other suits are still pending as a result of a race-war outbreak there." Strange that most race wars occur in Northern Republi can States. I - Rogers. Massachusetts Republi can, stated in the House on Janu ary 30 that he believed that the disabled soldiers were getting poor er service through the Veterans' Bureau than they were getting six months ago. and that he also j thought that the service of six j month" ago was not so good as it had been six months before that time. In other words, he admitted i that the service is poorer shice , Harding became President than j under Wilson, and that it is grow- ' ing worse. Speaking of the fancy salaries under the Shipping Board, which j were listed in this column last i week. James R. Mann, of Illinois, j the ablest Republican in the House, said: "I think it is time that this! Republican House stopped payiwc these enormous outrageous snlores That are mn in Missouri. For :st>..ut fifty years the Democrats controlled that State, and Democratic ideas prevailed: the State became a fin** exhibit of the results i?f applied Democracy. Tin- state debt, sad dled on the commonwealth by the Republican carpet-bag administra tions at tie- ? P.s.- of tin- Civil War. was wiped out. :is were tin- debts Of neatly :ill tie- cou?tieS, though some of these latter were incurred lor railroads that were never built. Missouri while steadily reducing h -r tax and assessment rates, noi only cleared off those debts, but built up the largest cash per capita school fund of any State in the Union; she built up a splendid Stat9 University, including schools 15c Jnst and Fear > CITY COURT i ROOM IS i RENOVATED; - Carpenters and Paint- j ers Busy Last Week j Make it Inviting Fori Those Who Sayj "Good Morn in g Judge" j j During the last week painters ana j carpenters were steadily at work J in the city court room at the rear of the city'hall "freshening things] up a bit," and truly they have j worked a reformation on the old place. The railing which sepa- J j rated the business end of the court j from the spectator end has been I moved back some ten feet which I I will now allow much more freedom ! j for the lawyers In all their elo quence and gesticulations and will aso reduce the chances of tin* wheels of justice becoming in any manner blocked for the lack of turning room. The comfortable spectator seats have been reduced from four tiers to two but 'their same seating capacity has been maintained. The whole room has been gone over with good heavy coats of white paint which makes the old place look like new. The seats, railings, and other trim mings'are in green. The place cer tainly does look fine and Su niter can now be the boaster of an ideal court room for the handling of its j city cases. In commemoration of the first court held since the renovation of the court room began, the sum or $235 was taken in this morning. The charges were the usual run of whiskey, disorderly conduct, con cealed weapons, etc. Pretty good house for a first run. MRS. MADLYNNE OBENSCHAIN ON TRIAL Los Angeles, Feb. <*>. ? Mrs. Madalynne Obenchain. accused of the murder of J. Helton Kennedy, in conspiracy with Arthur C. Bureh, was placed on trial today. Xaples, Feb. 6.?Cardinal O'Con nolr? archbishop of Boston, arrived this morning and left for Pome on a special train as the guest of tin Italian government. o." Mining. Medicine, Law. Science. Agriculture. Journalism. Pedagogy, j etc., five great normal schools. | capable institutions for the deaf, the insane, the blind. She got tie State tax rate down to 15 cents < a the hundred dollars valuation and the assessment down to where it did not. in actual practice, aver age more than 20 per cent of the "V?st per man. >277.xt; 2 3 S ? 4 309..V, 310.7.". 234.20 231.2S SxC.Sfi 332.S9 2 2 G.5 7 Rec'd from United States. $547.50 547.50 547.50 547.50 547.50 547.50 547.50 547.50 54 7.00 Profit made by State. $276.? 6 309.20 2.?>7.0ti 230.75 304.30 31G.22 260.<>4 214.S 1 320.93 value of real property. all purposes a farmer paid about per year on a well improved farm of j fin acres. But the evil days came, and they came with the ad vent of a Republican state admin istration. About one hundred Democrats either stayed at home on election day. li)20, or went to! the polls and voted the Republican ticket. They did not know when they were well off. That perform ance brought the Republicans in to full control in Missouri for the first time in fifty years: they had tin- Covernor, a man named Hyde (and his hide will probably be nailed to the woodshed door when the voters get a crack at him) and both Houses of the Legislature. One of the first evil fruits of this Republican control was an increase of taxes. It was done by raising the assessment rate and it runs all the way from fin to 100 per Cent in the various counties of the Stale. And. worst of all. there is absolute ly no improvement or benefit which the people receive for the extra ; drain on their pocktbooIts a drain j coming ar a very bad time, when the whole country is suffering from a severe case of had ad min ist ra ti??n-. For Kansas, as well as .Missouri, the moral is very plain: they <:iu clean bouse and put in fore.- those policies and principles which made Missouri the least-taxed and best-j governed S:at-- in the Fnion. Tie- Anti-lynching A* ! provides Itiat the eounty in vvhieh ibe lyre h ine. oi-eiirs shall !??? fined $10.000. which shall g?? to the family of [the late-la.menied negro brnte. j while nothing is paid to (he t.r victim ot his hcastinlity. Tins is a j [fair sample of Republican I?- i- i - - I hit ion. 1 >yer. 1 he aut Inn- ot 1lib i bill, had a district containing many I thousands of negroes v. io n lie j v. rote the bill, but it looks lilt- be will have to tini in tie- Si it ? a! j large next N'overnher, because of II be te? hob nl position of t h- :?' . tempt to red is! ri<-t M is .mi j. j whereupon tin- rural voter ?? v i I ? i gel a chance at ?re'r I e. er lie will carry u heavy bandiean ar ti I the odd? will be greatly u-.-a'.a.-t him. lot?I>t all the ends Thon Aims'! ; Sumter, S. C, Wednesdr LOS ANGELES POLICE ARE PUZZLED Fruitless Search For; Murderer of Film Director Continued in All Quarters Los Angeles. Feb. ? Revenge, jealously, hate and unanswered love have all been considered as motives by police in con: inning the search for the slayer of William Desmond Taylor. the motion picture director, whose hotly was found yesterday in his :ipariments h< re. Every known person known to have h.-rn in or near tin- apartment has been closely questioned. These persons ranged from Henry Peav ey. Taylor's negro house man to Mabel N'ormand. the morion picture actress, while others prominent in the film industry, whose names wetc brought into the newspaper.? in connection with the director's death, included Edna purpiance, and Mary Miles Minter. also mo tion picture actresses. MUSCLE SHOALS IN HANDS OF COMMITTEE House xA.ets Promptly on Reception o f Henry Ford's Pro posal Washington. Feb. 2.? Prompt ac tion marked the reception by con gress today of the Ford proposal for lease and purchase of the Muscle Shoals, Ala., nitrate and water power projects ;.s referred to the house by Secretary Werks for its decision and afterwards for con sideration by the senate. Speaker Gilletl sent the offer immediately upon its receipt to the house mili tary affairs committee while mem bers of the interstate commerce committee indicated they might seek n change of reference to their body. Chairman Kahn of the military committee contended, however, that the report had properly been referred to his committee and' pointed out that its members al ready had conducted hearings on the Muscle Shoals question and were entirely familiar with the projects involved, ihe ground occu pied and several personally had in spected the site and works. For that reason Mr. Kahn said, expe ditious act io/i by his committee could he taken und in the event hearings were held, they would not be protracted. With the exception of Secretary Weeks and probably Mr. Fold himself. who might be; called to testify, few other wit- 1 nesses were understood to be underj consideration in that connection. Evidence of equally rapid action ; by the house itself after the com-; mit tee's report with reference toi recommendations that the propos al he accepted or rejected is made j to the body was somewhat more i dimmed. A keen interest in the.1 matter already had been mani- j fested by a large number of house; members and indications were that tiny would discuss the question at some length before a final vote, could be reached. Two New State wide Laws License For Ungraded and1 Untied Weed?Apportion | Fines on Pi Isoners i - i Columbia, Feb. a.?Clow Cooper yesterday signed is more new acts passed and ratified by the general assembly at the present session. Most of tin- nets were local, only two or three being of state-wide, effect. i The act requiring the clerks of court, magistrates ami mayors or intendants of ehies and towns in the stare to apportion lines when :i prisoner lias served part or bis oi lier time and tfien can pay the line j was among those getting the sig nature or the . hiet executive and becoming law. Another statewide measure was tin- bill to require tobacco ware-: houses handling or selling ungrad ed and untied tobacco to pay an annual lie. use fee of .>.*..""?>. 'this imasure been tue law yesterday. Heavy penalties for viola I ion ai ? Searching" For New Yorker Lover of Movie Actress Under Suspicion i IAngeles. Feb. i. 'I lie police are searebing for .1 prominens | young N'ev. Vorker. who was once! engaged to u beautiful Ulm star.! it i.-, believed licit jealeUsy caused j the Taylor murder. it he thy Country's. Thy God's and iy, February 8, 1922 EMEDY FOR SITUATION Associated Manufac- j turers Make Sug-J gestion to Govern-j ment Washington, Feb. ? The Natioryn al Associated Manufacturers pro-j ? poses the consolidation of all gov ernment activities in relation to' .railroads into om* tribunal as a) j remedy for the present situation, | ?* ? * Twenty-Five Miners Killed ! Disaster at Gates, Penn., Worse Than Reported I dales. Pa.. Feb. 3?Twenty-five j miners lost then lives in the ex-1 j plosion which yesterday wrecked : ja pan of the Gales mine, according j t*o an official announcement. CONFERENCE HOLDS LAST j Will Meet For the Last Time Monday When President Will Close Session Washington. Feb. 4?The sixth plenary session of the arms eonfer ' enee met for the. final not* of this1 histo.-y making even:, which has [consumed exactly twelve weeks.; j Today" program was the formal j adoption of The several treaties al-' ?ready agreed to and to clear the! ! way for the final session Monday! i when :in address by President I Harding will close the conference.: as it was begun on November 12. j ( The Far Rastern treaty embodying, [the Itoot four points and the open door for China was presented first i by Secretary Hughes and w ithout a word of discussion was approved by the nine powers. Washington. Feb. -!. ? The con ference also gave final approval to , the four power Pacific treaty, with I a supplement excluding homeland islands of Japan from its terms, j reaffirming the integrity of China; against foreign exploitation, and I encroach merit, and approved treaty' revising system of Chinese customs charges. Anderson Hank Will Reopen I Plan to Continue Foilows Enr! ! thusiastic Meeting of Stock- i holders Anderson/ Feb. :! ?By unanimous j vote of stockholders here today ir j was decided to reopen the People's] , bank of Anderson, which lias been! ! c losed the last few weeks. i There were so many stockhold ers present that they w ere unable j to get irit othe room and intens.-: ; interest was manifested James l!.' Craig, state bank i xaminer, read al 'statement of the r-ondiiion of the bank which showed that the hank i hau $1,051.000 on deposit. Mr. i [Craig said the hank had two plans.! tone to reopen and the other to g> i into the hands of a receiver, only! two more weeks wer?* available to i itake action. When the resolution Was stated that Jh. ban!: .should! I n open, its was earned unanimous-'] lly- , ! ! There is y.-t abou' >I0 HOO in de- , i posits that have mn I < >?:? signed.! ithe cards from depositors with t. mii i join who were willing to leave i heir money in th ? i nnl< for one J \ yenr. The addit ional pledges will have to be secured. A resolution was also adopted; that stockholders put i.p per cent ! 'of the stockholdings. Thos?? not! aide t" put up the cash will have J the opportunity of signing a joint j i ote w it h ot hers b> put up i heir ' pro rata. The spirit of the meet fng was op- i I im ist ic and the siren;; support of the stockholders will reestablish the j bank and put it Oil a g.t business! basin. I Miss Caroline 11pshaw Dies One More Victim of Knicker hocker Thea! re Disaster Washington. Fei?. ?. -Miss t>ro-; hue I 'pshaw, a niece of Repre sentative I'pshaw of Georgia, died today as the result of in juries re"-'j reived in tin- Knickerbocker ! lie atre ilb.'ister. The evil [ ha I men do lives a ft er ibem: the good is often repealed by the opposition party. The maddest woman on earth is the on.- who buys a perfect love ol a hat and see?, its mate OD a VVO j man she doesn't like rrnlh-s." CONFERENCE WILL ADJOURN NEXT WEEK President Harding* to Deliver Farewell Address at Mon day's Session Washington. Feb. 3?Except for the formalities and frills that are to attend its adjounrnment the Washington conference on limita tions of armament and Far Eastern questions is over. Ai a plenary session tomorrow the remaining treaties and resolu tion are to he formally approved ;jml the chief delegates are to say goodbye to one another in speeches expressing the gratification of their governments over the conference accomplishments. <>n Monday at another public meeting ih<- treaties will be signed and sealed and President Harding will deliver the conference valedic tory in a brief address. Already the administration lock ing upon the conference agreements :is accomplished facts is moving to suspend work on the 13 battle ships under construction Nut des tined to ibe scrap heap under the naval treaty. '1 he president does noi plan to actually begin tin- scrap ping process until the treaty ha-; been ratified by all she powers but be has asked the navy depart ment for information on which an order suspending construction soon is to I".- issued. Vino Powers lo Sign In tln ir final rounds upon the F:?r Eastern situation the conference Laders decided today to put their conclusion into two Far Eastern treaties and a number of supple mentary resolutions. One of the tr? atb-s will deal with revision of the Chinese tariff and the other will embody the Root "four points" and the "open door" policy. Both will have as signatories all nine of the powers represented here. Actual negotiations on the Far Eastern problems cam.- to on end today with statements delivered in the Far Eastern committee .setting forth the position of the American and Chi nese governments towards the "21 demands". Speaking for China i>r. Wang said his government viewed with satisfaction Japan's announce ment yesterday that group live and sonn- other clauses of the "de mands"would be withdrawn, but reserved her right to protest the parrs remaining. Secretary Hughes asserted that tin* American govern ment still stood on its rights in the matter as it had asserted then when the "demands" were laid down by Japan in 1'9T5 and there the dis cussion ended without action. The only treaties to be formally given conference approval at to morrow's plenary session are tin two relating to China, but at tin same time there will be a linal rat ification of the supplementary re solutions that have been adopted in the Far Eastern committee and probably an exchange of notes to definitely exclude the Japanese homeland from the scope of tin four power treaty signed December The session will begin at !n:L'<> a. in., a half hour earlier than the customary meeting rime of the con ference, and Its committees, in an ticipation of several hours of tare well oratory. \o{ All in Treaties. On Monday the delegates will sinn the naval treaty, the submarine and poison gas treaty, the two treaties relating to China and the supple mentary notes to be attached to the four power Pacific treaty. Tin? agreement regarding Tap. to which the I'nited States and Japan aleu atv parries, and the six power s*. * tlemenl allocating the former (Vr tnan cables in live Pacific are net yet in treaty form, but they are considered as having only inciden tal connection with the conference and wiil not (b-lay the depart.ute of the delegates for home. It is expected iln-y will be pressed to conclusion i.i the near future through the regular diplomatic eha n nels. It i1- also possible that the treaty between Japan and China embody ing the Shantung setileinenl may p.- signed at the conference table :;t Monday's meeting. This ijues lion. like that of Ya<> and the Pa cific cables, is classified by the dele gates as standing outside the con ference itself. Pin the luo inter ested delegations have signified that they might desire to bring their negotiations formally lo an end in tin* presence of all the pow ers and thus before all the world. Tomorrow's plenary session w hich really will wind ui> the work ol the conference exactly IL' weeks from the day it tuet, is expected to devel op Pule discuss ion on the treaties and resolutions themselves since all of ih.-t:i have heei i del >a led :ii length in committee and most or them have been formally passed ..ipoii in one form or another by the conference itself. It was indicated ronighi thai speech making would he held to a minimum until the last vote had been taken, bin thai an opi n session for oratory would prevail w ii.ii tin- rime came foi sa*. i:t?; fart-well. The three its of the old diplo matic school are Kaid. Ravag. and Bapaciiy. -??????? Onh in lite movies is it possible io clear the atmosphere with a Hays. THE TRUE SYH'I HARDING i I PREDICTS SURPLUS - j Government Expendi-j tures Reduced and! There is Prospect of Wiping- Out Deficit J Washington, Feb. :?.?Presiding ;today at the second business meet ling of the government. President [Harding anounced that instead of a deficit in governmental finances i as was forecast in December, there i now wer.- prospects of a surplus of i receipts over expenditures when the books are balanced at the end i of next June. J The president further announced I it had been possible to reduce the !government's expenditures from a [ scale based on $4,500.000,000 a year to n seal.- of 3.074.000.000 and de clared "that even in its formative period the budget systom has justi fied our most confident expecta t ions." .More than 1,000 officials from all the departments and bureaus of the government met the president and received the report of the vari- i ous coordinating agencies trans mitted by Director Dawes of the budget bureau, whom the presi dent described as "the genius" who [made possible the cut iti expendi tures. ; Ilivh officials who sat with the president-at the meeting included Vice President Coolidge, Secretar ies Mellon. Denby and Wallace. Oeneral Persians. Admiral Koontz. ?Under Secretary Fletcher of the state department and Assistant j Secretary Roosevelt of the navy. Direct Saving Announced, j Both the president and General ' Dawes, who made the only other ! address of the meeting, announced ?a direct saving of $32,000,000 and indirect saving of more than $104, : 000.000 accomplished in less than ?six months through the operation of | the coordinating agencies of the j budget bureau. Mr. Harding further declared the j efforts of the government toward {economy had been reflected among i the people at large t Director Dawes declared ihe for : mation of the coordinating boards as the installation of routine ousi ness methods into the govern ment was the onlv effort made in ! 1.1?) years to curb "the riotous and i disgraceful extravagance of a busi . tress organization that ran without a head, each man trying to get : what he could fc.r his own depart : menf. j Brandishing a broom in either ; hand, striding rapidly from on" lend of the platform to .he olhe.* land stamping his feet until the ! echoes rang in the P. A. R. hall, j where the arms conference meets j in dignified session, Charles D. i Dawes. director of the budget, j brought home to the thousand or ? more officials assembled today in \ ? the second business me*ting of the { [government the appropriateness of ? his "hell and Maria" nickname. For i more than half an hour he poured ; forth criticism and praise alike on j officials of high and low degree. j "Where Are Those Brooms?*' Stopping suddenly in the midst I o\ a citation <>f instances of lack of cooperation by governmental o 'partments with budget bureau j coordinators, which instances he described as "fly specks" on the bureau's record of accomplish ments. Mr. Dawes suddenly shout ! ed: , "Where are those brooms?" Three brooms were produced . from under a table by an assistant. "There." the budget director ex claimed, pounding the floor with the handle of one of the brooms, j j "is your broom that meets navy I specifications. And here are : brooms that don't meet those spec ifications but sweep just as well. The navy bought 1S.000 of its spec ! ifieatiou brooms when it could have hau 300.000 army brooms for noth ing." The budget director went on to say it -eot; a month's persuasion to make the marine corps adopt a j ! slight change in color in order to I : us.- 100.000 aru.> shirts and save ?.24.000. He told Secretary Denby. I however, the record of the navy ? for cooperation with the bureau j was the best, of the departments. j As an instance of cooperation ie j ithe treasury he declared that when ; , it was sound there were 1 8 differ- ? ??tit purchasing agencies m that de- ; partmeni. their coordination w::-| : effected wit hoot de'ay. 1 "Secretary Mellon is a business man." he added "His fur didn't '. ] no or hi-< back arch when my ! coordinators ean ?? in." Legislative and executive heads of th- government "better mir.d how the ship sails, but the bud?ei bureau better mind how far she sails." Mr. Dawes said at another point! and amic manner." -++~m Still, oil and water mix about as ? well as oil and international amity. - When Ihn le Sam gives a hand to | the downtrodden, it< always a hand out - Advice for motorists: "It they oil not neither do they spin." I rHRON, Ks':?Wished dune 1, i66Q. VOL. LH. NO. 51 AGRICULTURAL CONFERENCE A FAILURE Commissioner Harris Says the Convention Was 'Tacked" and Nothing: Was Done For Farmers Columbia. Feb. 3.?The Xarloha! Agricultural Conference called by the president and Henry C. Wal lace, secretary of agriculture to consider the present condition of American agriculture and needed remedies. began work Monday morning, January 23rd, The con ference was \v?-leom?d by Presi dent Harding ami immediately af ter his address got down to busi ness. I must say that the presi dent made tin admirable address with the exception of when he went out of bis way to express his disapproval of tin- "agricultural bloc" which is now in the senate, if he would only get behind the good things he advocated in his ad dress and use his influence to have rhem put into operation some good might come out of the convention. There was a very wide range of subjects under discussion in the conference. Xot only were agri cultural leaders present but repre sentatives of middleman's interests, such as meat packers, were pres ent to present their side of any problem. The program of this convention was arrnaged and made up by the secretary cf agriculture and all committees were appointed by him and the majority of the commit tees were in favor of the adminis tration aad you were hopelessly in the minority. The convention was a packed one and you had no chance whatever of getting any thing on the floor of the conven tion for discussion. The very na ture of the call was to consider the present condition of American ag riculture and needed remedies and I must saysthat there was no place on the program that touched along this lino?it was impossible' to get anything before the convention. In fact, they did everything they could to keep such discussion from gel ing before the convention. . How ever, one big farmer from Illinois got up on the lloor of the conven tion and made this statement: "That in 19H) it took l,??fl bushels of corn to paj* his taxes, in ii?21 it took 21.00a bushels, the difference being in the price of corn in 1019 anil in 1321." After payfns the taxes on his farm he had in. pro fit. This shows the condition of the corn belt states?he asked for some immediate relief. Th,-re were many who came to the convention hoping to get some immediate needed relief but they re arned to their homes very much di^appoint ed and dissatisfied. On Monday evening Wil?am Jen nings Dryan came into the conven tion and he was asked to make a speech. He began by saving that he was proud to be at the great aKrieultural convention called by the president through the secre tary of agriculture. He like all oth ers paid agriculture the highest compliment of all other occupa tions. He said that this congress had done more for agriculture than any former congress had done and the only reason they did it was because they were seared. He said that he was proud that there was an "agriculture bloc" in the senate?was sorry that there was opposition to it. for a "bloc" was no new thing in the United States senate, because for the last 30 years there had been a "bloc" not an "agricultural bloc" but a Wall street "bloc" and at this state of his address he was vigorous!}' cheered by the convention. He urged the farmers to organize and cooperate in the right lines for their success and make demands for such legislation as they need ed. 1 want to say to the farmers that they have to work out their own salvation and they can do it. Ami I believe they are more de termined to do it now than they have ever been. Stop grumbling aad go to fighting and you will suceed. Stand for what is right, honest, fair and jc.sr. and you will u in. B. HARRIS] < 'ommissioner. ? ? ?? Harding Moving: For Economy Washington. Feb. 3 ? President Harding has called neatly a thou sand government officials to receive instructions in connection with the administration's policy for secur ing economy in expenditure. Moscow Street Car Fares Moscow. Feb. 3?A government decree is announced that hereafter the streel railways and other gov ernment institutions will accept nothing less than thousand, ruble notes, worth half a cent of Ameri can money. Hands across tin- sea are not in dicative of a peace if either of them tries to i.e a w hip hand. Ever;-' time Pom. are opens his mouth. France sets her foot in it.