The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, February 08, 1922, Image 1
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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 m<t necessary.*" Wood oC
Indiana sought to add seven more
high-salaried attorneys to the list. '.
Just a few weeks ago Wood was
howling about big pay under the!
Board, and Oliver, of Alabama, re
minded the [louse of the fact,
whereupon Layton of Delaware
suggested that the rules br- amend
ed to prevent one member quoting
another member on anything said !
more than 30 days previously.
Probably intended in the nature of
a first aid to demagogues.
Representative House of Ken
tucky, though opposed by Mr.
Walsh of Massachusetts, succeeded
Willed April, 1850.
881.
POPE PIUS XI
CARDINAL RATH
ELECTEDTODAY
Cardinal Achille Ratti,
Archbishop of Mil
an, Chosen Head of
the Catholic Church
by Sacred College
Rome, Feb. C.?Cardinal Achille
Ratti. archbishop of Milan was
elected pope this morning, taking
name of Pius XI. The multitude
awaiting before the Vatican gave
a mighty shout at 11:33 when a
thin whif wisp of smoke poured
from the sistine chapel chimney.
The new pope was greeted by the
cardinals,,donned the papal robes
and accompanied by the cardinals,
appeared on the cathedral balcony
and bestowed upon the populace
his first public benediction.
in getting into Record of Janu
ary 30 a copy of a letter from Ray
mond A. Lasanee, National Adjut
ant of the Disabled American Vet
erans of the World War. enclosing
a copy of a memorial which he had
sent to the president on January
11, but which had received no pub
licity. Among other things, this
Memorial showed that 4.000. or
one-half, of the insane veterans,
were farmed-out to "contract"
asylums, which the Memorial de
clared are not hospitals at all, but
"lock-ups". It showed that when
all the facilities are completed for
which appropriations has been
made, there will be about 4,000 in
sane soldiers" unprovided for.
Probably the most horrible and in
excusable abuse shown in the Me
morial is in Ohio, the home of the
President of the United States,
where he and his party arefin ab
solute and complete control. The
State of Ohio is shown to be profi
teering off these poor unfortunates.
At Dongview Asylum, Hamilton
County, 240 of the inmates sleep
on the floor like cats, and the tu
bercular patients have not been
separated from the others. There
are hundreds of curable cases of
insanity there that receive no treat
ment for their mental disorder. And
all the while the State of Ohio is
making heavy profit off each sold
ier from tHe money paid by the
Federal 'Government for the care of
these men and boys?the boys who
went marching off to the'war, who
crossed the seas to fight the bat
tles of civilization, singing on the
road?your neighbor's son among
them, perhaps. Dr. E. R. North,
superintendent of Longview, ad
mitted in a statement that these
things are true. Dr. If. S. Mac
Ayeal gives the following figures
as showing the profit made by the
State of Ohio on each insane soldier
for the year ending Dee. 31. 1921:
Institutions ' <
Athens State Hospital ...
< teveland State Hospital .
Dayton State Hospital.
Lima state Hospital.
Massillon State Hospital..:.
Longview Hospital ...
Toledo State Hospital...
Ohio Hospital for Epileptics.
Institution for Feeble Minded.
Throe years ago the Republicans,
in the middle of President Wilson's
second term, won the House and
got control of the Senate through
bribery?the bribery being in Mich
igan, where a seat was purchased
for Truman H. Newberry. Then
they raised a great cry for the
President to summon Congress in
extra session so that they could do
something to help the soldiers, with
bonus legislation, provision for the
wounded, sick, insane and so on?
so Wilson called Congress. In his
opening address, in April. 1911?. he
asked Congress to provide for the
soldiers and revise the tax laws,
which had been enacted in haste
in the wartime to provide money
to carry on the war. At first it
looked like Congress would ac
quiesce, but Ross Penrose took the
position that it would enable the
Republicans to elect a president
(of his clioosing) in 1920 "if u-t
let the people sweat." So they let
the people sweat, and they are still
sweating, and tin* insane, the sick,
tin- disabled, the penniless soldiers
are doing their full share of the
sweating.
In Kansas the people are sweat
ing under many burdens, one of
which is the heavy load of State
taxes in addition Jo heavy Federal
taxation. The people are holding
county mass meetings to try to de
vise means of relief from tin- ci.un
ity ami state laws. They should
loo}; across the St;it?- lint- and study
the history of state and county tax
[ati?>n 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.
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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 a<ble.*
?if comrress should declare that!
garbage should ha spread on the j
White House steps?much as we
Lere the president- I would be tor
the budget bureau to advise hov j
tin- largest amount of garbage j
could be spr. ad in the most eeo- j
r.(>mic manner."
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Still, oil and water mix about as ?
well as oil and international amity.
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When Ihn le Sam gives a hand to |
the downtrodden, it< always a
hand out
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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.