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VOL. XXIII. NO. 7.
Southeastern Fair
Ready on Saturday
For Great Throngs
Annua! Exposition in Atlan
ta Will Be by Far the
Greatest in History of the
South
Enormous crowds from every part
©f the eouth, a wonderful array of
exhibits, a varied program, and ideal
•weather conditions seemed destined
io make the opening of the South
eastern fair, at Lakewood, Atlanta,
’ * notably auspicious event, as this
edition of The Tri-Weekly Journal
went to press. I
From an educational, constructive,
end entertainment standpoint, the
great exposition has never before of
fered so much of value to visitors
as this year. From its opening Sat
urday until the final event of the
fair on October 26, not a day will
pass without offering many features
that will promote the agricultural
interests of Dixie, as well as afford
ing unlimited enjoyment to the thou
sands of people who will visit the
grounds.
The Tri-Weekly Journal has al
ready I published articles touching
•upon various features that wifi mark
the Southeastern fair this year. As
Information to hundreds of readers
who will likely attend, the following
summary, furnished by the South
eastern Fair association, Is published
at the time the gates are thrown open
to the public:
"The Southeastern fair, Atlanta,
October 16-26, is an exposition of
the resources of the* southeastern
states, where the staple products ex
hibit embrace every important food
necessity of the earth’s temperate
lone.
"The agricultural building in which
these and kindred exhibits are shown
has thre acres and a half of floor
space, a large part of it being de
voted to the activities of the na
tional government in fostering the
agricultural work of the United
Slates.
"In point of large county and in
dividual farm exhibits, the visitor
will .see the largest number and
most artistic arrangement shown at
any fair in the United States.
"The apple exhibit will in point
of quality compare with the most fa
mous orchards of the nation—this
r feature of the Blue Ridge section of
Georgia is a horticultural activity
just in its infancy and the possibili
ties were unknown until the South
eastern Fair provided a show place
for these fruits.
"The National Hog and Cattle
show, organized by the breeders of
pure bred live stock in the southeast
ern states, will in connection with
the Southeastern fair provide a cat
tle and swine show of international
Importance. Georgia has the winner
of the International Grand champion
award for the best Hereford bull in
the world, owned by E. E. Mack &
gon, of Thomasville, Ga., and will be
at the head of their herd at the
Southeastern fair.
Peacock & Hodge, of Cochran, Ga.,
own the International Grand cham
pion boar of the Duroc breed which
Will be exhibited with the finest herd
Os Duroc Jersey sw ne in the south.
"F. C. Herlong, of Micanopy, Fla.,
owns the International Grand cham
pion Poland-China sow which will be
one of his famous herd at the South
eastern fair.
"To compete with these high pedi
greed animals, will come herds from
. all the leading live stock producing
states of the nation, so that in the
great live stock barns of the South
eastern fair vi’.l be seen the royal
blood lines of the catt’c and swine of
the world.
International Club Stock Judging
Contest
"This feature of the Southeastern
tair is not only a new effort direct
ed toward educating the boys on the
farms of ’he United States, how to
judge the good points of pure bred
cattle and hogs, but it is the only
club in existence and is the result of
a co-operative arrangement between
the Southeastern Fair association
and club extension work of the
state’s relations service of the Unit
ed States department of agriculture.
‘ "Under the plan of agreement
judging teams representing the va
rious states and foreign nations en
gaged in club work, will be sent to
the Southeastern fair. Each state
> may send two contestants with one
alternate to be selected by the state
agents under the rules governing the
contest.
"The boys wil be taken care of
in a camp similar to the Southeast
ern Boys’ Fair school,, and will have
an opportunity to take part in the
judging of twelve rings to consist
of Hereford. Angus and Shorthorn
beef breeds: Jersey, Holstein and
Guernsey, dairy cattle; Durock-Jer
sey, Poland China, Berkshire and
Hampshire hogs and Southdown and
Shropshire sheep. No club member
may take part who has taken part
in any interstate or national judging
contest prior to this year or who
has been at any time an enrolled stu
dent in any college teacnmg agricul
ture.
"The first prize for the highest
t ©coring team will be a free trip to
the Royal Live Stock Show in Lon
don, England. The highest scoring
contest with the state club leader of
the winning team will also with the
county agent represented by the club
member making the highest score,
and a Washington club official be
given a trip to the Royal Live Stock
Show. It is expected that the win
ners will be presented to King
George and it is possible that a side
trip to France and Denmark will be
arranged for them, though this is not
assured.
"This contest has excited interest
all over the United States, as it is
the most aspiring effort so far un
dertaken to promise interest in boys’
agricultural work, and was recog
nized by the executive committee of
the Southeastern fair as an oppor
tunity worth while from every stand
point.
. “The poultry show is highly inter
i esting and one of .its neighbors will
be a rabbit show which will seem
(OonMaued on Page 7, Column 7)
BRITAIN DECLARES
AN EMBARGO ON
COAL EXPORTS
LONDON, Oct. 15.—(8y the Asso
ciated Press.) —Unless some wholly
unforeseen intervention develops,
mere than 1,000,000 coal miners
throughout the United Kingdom will
begin a strike on Saturday, and the
country’s all-important coal industry
will be paralyzed.
This decision was reached this
morning at a conference of the min
ers’ delegates, who announced that,
in view of the government’s unsatis
factory reply to the miners’ claims
for an increase in wages, there was
nothing left to do but to strike.
It was announced that some of
the men in the engineering depart
ments would remain at work to keep
the mines in order.
Coincident with the strike decision
came the announcement that the gov
ernment had placed a ban upon the
export of coal, which move will have
far-reaching effects upon neighbor
ing countries more or less depend
ent upon Great Britain for their sup
plies.
Many of the British industries, no
tably in the iron and steel branches,
and some of the shipbuilding and en
gineering works already are arrang
ing to close down.
The question whether the railway
men would unite with the miners was
the subject of deep public cpncern
today, but no indication as to its
course was forthcoming from tne
railway union.
The government has made every
preparation to cope with the situa
tion, to maintain food supplies, ajid
to provide for other necessaries. No
fear is expressed of a food shortage
in the immediate future.
In connection with the embargo on
the export of Coal the government
this afternoon prohibited foreign
ships from taking bunker coal
American shipping board officials
here were told by the British coal
controller’s department this afternoon
that the order prohibiting the coal
ing of foreign ships was issued to
enable them to check up available
supplies. The officials were given
assurances that after this had been
done passenger and mail-carrying
vessels would receive first consider
ation in the allocation of stocks on
hand.
FARMERSSHOULD
NOT BE THE GOAT,
ASSERTS UPSHAW
The Atlanta Journal News Bureau,
623 Riggs Building.
BY THEODORE TILLER
WASHINGTON, Oct. 14. —Repre-
sentative William D. Upshaw, of the
Fifth Georgia district, Issued the fol
lowing statement here Wednesday
as a delegate to the cotton confer
en “The whole crux of the present sit
uation seems to be the wrong concept
of the purpose for which the Federal
Reserve bank was established We
had fondly believed that it was es
tablished by congress to meet erner
gencies and prevent financial panics.
It performed this public duty
perbly during the world war and the
American farmer believes and has a
right to believe that this great pub
lic servant, tlje Federal Reserve
bank, ought to'stand * the breach
and protect him when he is about
to be caught in a financial crash as
the result of war conditions.
"No man can talk with Governor
Harding, of the federal reserve
board, without being impressed with
his great ability and honesty of pur
pose. but all of us must feel it is a
great man’s mistake when he de
clares that it was in the plan of the
federal reserve system to back up
the regional banks and the member
banks in order to encourage agricul
tural production but that the duty or
the big government bank ends before
helping to market the products.
“We understand that . everybody
wants to cut down the high cost of
living, but the losses should be
equitably distributed. The farmer
should not be expected to absorb all
the loss by selling his products for
about half the cost of production.
"The war for reduction should be
made on the profits of profiteers and
not on the actual cost of necessities.
Southern farmers, at least, are not
asking for an opportunity to hold
cotton for speculation, they are fight
ing for their lives in asking certain
ly the cost of production and they
have a right to expect reasonable
help in their essential purpose.
King of Greece, Bitten
By Monkey; Seems to
Be Growing Better
ATHENS, Oct. 13.—Physicians at
tending King Alexander, who is dan
gerously ill as a result of infection
from a bite of a monkey, reported
today that while the patient’s condi
tion was stationary, the outlook
seemed better. The highest tempera
ture shown by the king last night
was 40.4 degrees centigrade (104.72
degrees Fahrenheit), at which time
his pulse was 120. At 8 o'clock this
morning the fever had dropped to
37.7 Centigrade (99.86 Fahrenheit)
and the pulse was 106.
Whitfield Fanner
Grows Green Cotton
DALTON, <Ga„ Oct. 14. C. F.
Obriant has 'this year produced
about 100 pounds of that green cot
ton which brought him fabulous of
fers for the seed last year; but he
refuses to sell any of the seed. Last
year he produced a little of it, and
this year he will nave enough seed
to raise a fairly good crop.
The cotton, of a greenish color,
is unusually fine of texture, and the
staple is much longer than that of
other cotton grown here.
Texas Cotton to Be
Shipped to Europe
FORT WORTH, Tex., Oct.' 14.
Announcement was made today that
plans had been formulated by the
West Texas chamber of commerce
and indorsed by Secretary Baker,
of the Texas Farmers’ Union, for
the shipment of three thousand baleu
of low grade cotton to each of three
European countries to test the mar
ket abroad. The cotton will be
shipped at the owners’ risk.
ENCOURAGING NEWS
FROM WASHINGTON
GIVENJOJRMERS
Governor Harding, of Feder
al Reserve Board, More
Encouraging Than Reports
Showed, J. J. Brown Says
That Governor Harding of the fed
eral reserve board gave the farmers'
representatives a good deal more en
couragement in regard to farm
credits than was indicated by the
newspaper reports coming out of
Washington in the last few days,
was the encouraging news delivered
by ,T. J. Brown, commissioner of ag
riculture, to the meeting of the
G'orgia division of the American
Cotten association, which opened Fri
day morning in the state capitol.
Commissioner Brown has been in
Washington all this week attending
the nation-wide meeting of farm or
ganization representatives, held for
the purpose of protesting against a
curtailment of farm credits by the
federal reserve bank. He was a
member of the committee appointed
by the Washington conference to
wait on Governor Harding and the
members of the federal reserve
board. He left the Washington meet
ing yesterday in order to attend
the meeting of the Georgia division.
Harding’s Attitude »
"The attitude of Governor Harding
has not been accurately represented
in the press dispatches from Wash
ington,” said Commissioner Brown.
"I have noticed that we can always
get very conspicuous front-page pub
licity when Governor Harding does
anything which has a tendency, to re
duce the price of cotton, but when
he gives expression to views on the
other side of the question, so that
publicity would help the cotton mar
ket, some of the newspapers for some
reason, fail to quote him.
"Governor Harding laid down two
propositions which are very impor
tant in the present situation:
“No. 1. That"' the banks of every
section of the country ought to be
able to finance the commodities pro
duced in their section for sale at
prices which will yield profit to the
producer.
“No. 2. The federal reserve bank
can and will handle all farm paper
presented to them by the member
banks.
"In vievj of this second proposi
tion laid down by Governor Hard
ing, we earnestly reqquested him to
give encouragement to member
banks in handling farm paper, for
the reason that his previous utter
ances, and the utterances of Secre
tary Houston, have created a great
deal of uncertainty in the minds of
the bankers and have caused them
to be extremely conservative in
handling farm paper.”
Commissioner Brown presented to
the meeting a general outline history
of the negotiations which have been
in progress in Washington since last
Monday. He emphasized particular
ly the fact that the conference was
not composed of cotton growers
alone, but of representatives of every
line of agriculture in the United
States. He declared also that the
ver yacute situation now prevailing
in the cotton belt is duplicated in
every other agricultural section of
the country. (
Criticizes Houston
Commissioner Brown took oaca
sion in the course of his remarks
to make very severe criticism of the
attitude manifested by Secretary
Houston. He did not, however, criti
cize Governor Harding. His opinion
that Governor Harding is doing
everything in his power to improve
the situation of the cotton growers.
He laid particular stress on a state
ment made by Governor Harding to
the farmers’ committee, that the
price of farm products in his opin
ion alread/ has gone too low, and
must inevitably take a turn upward.
Richard I. Manning, former gover-'
nor of South Carolina, and chairman
of the organization committee of the
Cotton Export Corporation, recently
launched in that state, under the
auspices of the American Cotton as
sociation, was scheduled to follow
Commissioner Brown on the program
of the morning session. His address
was to be devoted principally to the
export corporation.
Ex-Governor Manning presented in
detail the plan of the cotton export
corporation, the same as presented
here by him a week ago at the Atlan
ta conference of business men and
ankers. The corporation is to have
a capital stock of $10,000,000, pay
ale in cash, Liberty bonds or cotton
at prevailing prices. It is to engage
in the business of exporting cotton
to European markets, particularly
low-grade cotton, to markets in cen
tral Europe. In South Carolina, ex-
Governor Manning stated, the sub
scription of stock is being pushed
by every field agent of the American
Cotton association, every extension
agent of Clemson college, and by the
organized bankers, merchants, life
and fire insurance underwriters, bot
tlers and traveling salesmen.
Spinners Back Growers
One of the interesting features of
the morning session, immediately
following the speech .of ex-Governor
Manning, was a statement written by
P. E. Glenn, of Atlanta, secretary of
the Georgia Cotton Manufacturers’
association, that a majority of the
cotton spinners of Georgia are in
favor of the farmers getting 30 cents
or better for this year’s crop of cot
ton.
Mr. Glenn w<xs asked for a speech,
but had been called away from the
meeting before the chairman learned
that he was present. His memoran
dum of the attitude of the Georgia
spinners was left on his registration
card, however, and was read out to
the meeting. It was received with
keen interest, and was generally con-
(Contlnued on Pag© 7, Column 4)
ATLANTA, GA.,, SATURDAY, OCTOBER-16, 1920.
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ATTEMPT TO LOOT
2 CHURCH SAFES
MADE IN ATLANTA
Robbery of safes in two leading
churches was the main object of
yeggmen who operated in Atlanta
Thursday night.
The safe in the Second Bapitst
church, at the corner of Washing
ton and Mitchell streets, was blown
and sl2 in currency stolen. An at
tempt to loot the safe in the Central
Presbyterian church, located direct
ly opposite the state capitol and on
ly three doors away from the Sec
ond Baptist, also was made.
Janitors reported the cases to the
police early Friday. Entrances to
both churches were effected through
windows. Police expressed the be
lief that the same partie.s perpetratd
both offense, and that an organized
crew *of safe blowers are now at
work over the state. They point to a
news dispatch from Augusta Wed
nesday, which tijld of the robbery of
a safe in a leading church in that
city.
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“Curb Market” for
Liquor Operating in
N. Y., Say Officials
NEW YORK, Oct. 15.—Frank L.
Boyd, supervising prohHjltion en
forcement agent, for state,
has orders from federal headquar
ters in Washington to investigate
the reports of the existence of a
“curb market” on contraband liquor
in the Bowery, it was learned Wed
nesday.
According to published reports,
the traffic in liquor in this section
has become so thriving that the
bands of bootleggers engaged in sup
plying saloons and speak-easies
have hit upon the plan of modelling
their market after the curb market
of the financial district, in order to
facilitate transactions.
Within a short distance from po
lice -headquarters large transactions
in liquor are said to have been made,
the actual supplies being kept else
where in trucks ready for immediate
delivery. The market is said to be
open from late evening until the
early morning hours, and the brok
ers change its location occasionally
in order to avoid detection.
M’SWINEY CASE
WILL BE SOLVED
BY DEATH ONLY
BY WEBB MILLER
(United Press Staff Correspondent.)
LONDON, Oct. 15.—Death only can
or will prove definitely whether Ter
ence MacSwiney is fasting his life
away or whether he is taking nour
ishment in the hope that some turn
of fate will release him from prison
without making him a laughing
stock. /
A personal investigation at Brixon
prison, where the lord mayor of Cork
today began his sixty-fourth day of
fasting, yielded this information:
Friends and relatives vehemently
declared that the only sustenance
given MacSwiney has been a thin
cracker each morning in communion.
Prison officials and attaches of the
home office refused to talk, declaring
it is the policy of the government to
maintain silence. Irish office officials
admitted, however, that if the gov
ernment were able to explain evi
dence of feeding they doubtless would
be glad to announce it to the . world
in the hope of belittling the mayor.
Meanwhile a controversy rages.
Millions of British people, in the ab
sence of compelling evidence either
way, believe the lord mayor is taking
food. They do not believe a man suf
fering from lung trouble could have
lasted beyond all authentic records
with nothing more than a wafer, hot
water and salt solutions.
Aside from the three prison phy
sicians and a half dozen nurses only
ten persons are known to have seen
MacSwiney. Five of these were rela
tives and the other were Sir Norman
Moore, eminent physician, who exam
ined the prisoner at the request of
relatives; Art O’Brien, the bishop of
Cork; Archbishop Mannix and Father
Fogarty. All these, with the excep
tion of Moore, said they wete willing
to say under oath that no morsel of
food had been taken by MacSwiney.
Moore refused to comment.
A heavy police guard halts news
paper men at the gate of Brixton
prison. I was unable to cajole them
into allowing me a glimpse of the in
terior. At the home office I was re
ceived courteously, but with the im
perturbable statement that nothing
could be said regarding MacSwiney.
There was no explanation except that
it “was the policy of the govern
ment."
(Copyright, 1920, by United Press.)
MAYOR BREAKS RECORD
FOR LENGTH OF FAST
NEW YORK, Oct. 15.—Lord Mayor
Terence MacSwiney, of Cork, hun
ger-striking in Brixton prison, Lon
don, appears to have broken all rec
ords for legitimate fasting, -accord
ing to data available here today.
This was the 64th day of Mac-
Swiney’s self starvation.
The longest fasts on record fol
low:
Dr. Tanner, New York, 40 days,
1880.
Griscom, Chicago, 31 days,
1881.
Signor Succi, New York, 45 days,
1890.
M. Alexandre Jacques, London, 50
days, 1891.
Signor Merlatti, Paris, 50 days,
1886.
Auguste Christensen, 35 days,
19)1.
Breaks in Church
To Get Warm Bed
John Folds thought that it was
too cold Tuesday evening to sleep
under the canopy of the sky. Where
upon he decided to seek a roof and
a softer bed than the grass.
Wednesday morning, early passers
by noticed that a window was brok
en in the Westminster Presbyterian
church. Boulevard and Ponce de Leon
avenue.
The police were called, and upon
entering the church John Folks was
discovered, sleeping gently in one of
the cushioned pews. He told the of
ficers he had broken the window and
entered to find a sleeping place for
the night, but Recorder George John
son held him on a charge of bur
glary.
Houston Reiterates
Refusalto Assist
Nation’s Farmers
IM WHS'
INDICTED BI Jffl
IT CULM. ALA.
White Men Arrested and Put
Under Bond for Alleged
Threats Against Cotton
Gin
CULLMAN, Ala., Oct. 15.—Two
white men, Edmund Voss and Duck
Yarbrough, of Blount county, indict
ed by a Cullman county grand jury
on a charge of threatening to com
mit arson, were arrested and brought
here today, where they each gave
bond in the sum of $1,500 for subse
quent appearance and trial in this
county.
The indictments returned against
the two men, according to Sheriff
J. W. Lambert, of Cullman county,
resulted from the alleged visit of
the men to a gin near Fairview,
Cullman county, where the opera
tors were told to shut it down or
suffer the consequences. The arrests
are the first made in connection with
night riding activities in this coun
ty, where a number of gin plants
and mercantile establishments were
posted with warnings .ten days ago
to close down until cotton reached
forty cents a pound, the posters be
ing charred squares of cardboard
with matches fastened to them.
Tennessee Gin Burned
MEMPHIS, Tenn., Oct. 15.—First
indication of possible ’night-rider”
activity in west Tennessee was re
ported today in < a dispatch from
Somerville telling of the destruction
by fire last night of a cotton gin and
eighteen bales of cotton at Warren,
Henn., six miles west of Somerville.
The gin was valued at $12,000.
Cotton Is Burned
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.. Oct. 15.
Destruction of a barn with eight
bales of cotton and a quantity of
hay and corn, on the G. W. Mathews
plantation, near Clarendon, and the
posting of notices in Monroe county,
warning planters not to pick their
cotton, were among the activities at
tributed to "night riders? in Arkan
sas last night.
Investigation Ordered
COLUMBIA, S. C., Oct. 15.—Gov
ernor Cooper has requested W. A.
.McSwain, state insurance commis
sioner, to investigate threats against
cotton gins in this state. There have
been threats against gins in this
state. "Shet this gin,” read one in
Richmond county, "or we will shet
it for you.”
LAURENS. S. C., Oct. 15.—The
ginnery at Lanford Station, twelve
miles north of Laiirens, was warned
last night to close down after Oc
tober 30. As at Mountville, where
the ginnery was posted Tuesday
night, threats were ignored and the
gins were in operation at both places
today.
Gin Is Burned
WICHITA FALLS, Tex., Oct. 15.
Fire early today destroyed the J. B.
Jamison cotton gin here. The loss
was estimated at $21,000.
Warned to Shut Gin
FAYETTEVILLE, N. C., Oct. 15.
A warning to shut down its gin in
this city has been received by the
McNeill Milling company. The no
tice, sent through the mails and
postmarked “Fayetteville,” read:
“Notice: If you value your prop
erty, shut down your gin until forty
cent cotton. First and last notice.—
F. R. Association.”
James D. McNeill, president of the
concern, presided at a meeting last
month of the Cumberland County
Cotton association, which urged
farmers to hold cotton for higher
prices. Mr. McNeill said he regarded
the warning as the act of a lunatic
and that it would be ignored. It
was the first notice of the kind re
ported in North Carolina.
Harding Bombards
Democratic Record
On Southern Tour
LOUISVILLE, Ka., Oct. 15. he
administration’s attitude toward for
eign trade, the Wilson policy in
Mexico and the league covenant
written at Versailles, were the spe
cial objectives of Senator Harding’s
assaults on the Democratic lines in
his campaigning today and tonight
through the borderland of the solid
south.
Charging that "secret diplomacy,”
as practiced by Democratic officials,
had kept American business men
from learning of trade opportuni
ties abroad, the Republican presi
dential nominee declared the state
andx commerce departments must be
reorganized to give more active aid
in developing commerce with other
nations.
The president’s Mexican policy he
denounced as having brought dis
trust in Mexico, and humiliation at
home, and he advocated a program
of amicable relations to insure pro
tection of American interests on
Mexican soil without interfering
unduly in the internal affairs of
the Mexican republic.
Revised Figures of
Census Announced
WASHINGTON, Oct. 14.—The cen
sus bureau today announced the fol
lowing revised population figures:'
Coffee Springs, Ala., 312, previous
ly announced as 1,862; Berkley, Cal.,
56,036. previously announced as '5-
886; Oakland, Cal., 216,261, previous
ly announced 21*,3 61; Santa Clara
county, Cal.. 100.676, previously an
nounced as 100,558; Appling county,
Ga., 10.594. previously announced as
9,866; Pratt county, Kansas, 12,909,
previously announced as 12,837; An
dover, Mass., 8,230, previously an
nounced 7,489- Essex conty, Mass.,
482,219, previously announced 481,-
478; Wyoming county, N. Y„ 30,314,
previously announced 30,077; Parker
county, Texas, 23,382, previously an
nounced as 23,482; Pulaski, Va., 5,-
282, previously announced as 5,277;
Wayne, W. Va., 446, previously an
nounced as 981, name changed from
Fairview since 1910.
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Declines Federal Funds Des
pite Vigorous Appeals by
Leaders in Agriculture at
Washington Meeting
The Atlanta Journal News Bureau,
623 Riggs Building.
BY THEODORE TILLER
WASHINGTON, Oct. 15.—Most of
the delegates to the cotton and ag
ricultural conference were return
ing home empty-handed today so far
as any assurances from the treas
ury department are concerned In
their efforts to obtain federal assist
ance for agriculture. President
Charles S. Barrett, of the Farmers’
union, will keep a committee here
to continue the fight, and Senators
Hoke Smith, Ellison D. Smith, Har
ris and Overman were still hopeful
of some action, but the Thursday 1
developments were by no means sat
isfactory to the distressed farmer
representatives.
A statemeht covering the whole
credit situation was being prepared
by the federal reserve board and its
agents, in conference here, and It
was expected that it would be made
public tonight.
On the committee which is look
ing after the interests of farmers,
are representatives of each of the
thirty agricultural commodities rep
resented at the convention. Some
members of the committee are in fa
vor of delegating representatives to
confer with the American Bankers*
association at its convention here
next week, in case the forthcoming
policy of the reserve banka is con
sidered unfavorable to the farmers.
A long conference was held Thurs
day night between Mr. Barrett, the
two Georgia senators and a commit
tee representing the farmers’ meet
ing, and the party afterward went to
the home of Secretary Meredith for
further discussion. Secretary Mere
dith, of the department of agAcul- *
ture, will do everything possible to
obtain relief for the farmer from the
treasury department.
The Atlanta Journal News Bureau,
623 Riggs Building.
BY THEODORE TILLER
WASHINGTON. Oct. 14. —Secretary
Houston reiterated today to repre
sentatives of agricultural interests
in conference here that the treasury
would not be a party to the with
holding of any.commodity from the
market in obder to maintain artifi
c.ally high prices..-
Another conference with Governor
Harding, of the Reserve Board, was
held by tlie general committee of the
cotton conference late today. Gov
ernor Harding, who alone heard the
farmers yesterday, had other mem'
bers of the board present this after
noon. Thb second conference was ar
ranged after Secretary Houston had
given the delegation an unsatisfac
tory answer only this afternoon and
the final attempt of the committee to
obtain some promise of federal as
sistance for agriculture.
Spokesmen for the delegation were
frank in their criticism of Mr. Hous
ton’s recent statement that prices
had begun to recede, but the secre
tary told them as frankly that his
statement properly represented condi
tions.
The delegation sought mainly to
have the treasury revive the war
finance corporation, arguing that
through it they would be able to ob
tain funds to finance exports which
they claimed were falling off, cre
ating a stagnant market.
Secretary Houston asked if ■
member of the delegation would loan
directly on German bonds or other
securities, explaining that previous
appeals of cotton producers were
that the government should make
available to them the German mar
ket. A heated colloquy between the
secretary and Senator Smith, of
South Carolina, followed.
"Germany must live,” the sena
tor said. “You know she must live.
I see no reason why her bond should
not be accepted. I would reply to
your direct question: Yes, a thou
sand times yes, for, as I said before,
Germany must live or the world
pays the price.’
Senator Smith told the secretary
that he was "the one and only
one” in the government who coujd
direct resumption of governmental
activities which would relieve the
situation complained of by the agri
cultural interests.
Secretary Houston explained that
the treasury was constantly in the
market to borrow money for the
payment of current bills. He told
them that the war finance corpora
tion could obtain money only from
the treasury and that if it were to
loan it meant only that the treas
ury's borrowings would have to ba
Increased and the government would
have to call on the people contin
uously for more money.
Senator Smith declared that if
such were necessary, it was the /
proper course to pursue. He said he
had no objection to another poular
loan if the exigency required.
Secretary Houston said the decis
ion of the treasury not to revive the
war finance corporation had been ap
proved by the president and “numer
ous prominent senators and repre
sentatives.” All were familiar with
the problems with which the cor
poration would deal if it were re
vived. the secretary said, adding that
the co" ensus of opinion was that
the benefits derived from restoration
of the corporation would not count
er-balance the evil effects it would
have on the general money market
and credit conditions.
The war finance corporation pro
posal, Mr. Houston said. would
amount to this government’s lending
money to Germany and other nations
in central Europe with which to buy
American farm prooucts.
"The government is not prepared.”
he said, “to go into the banking busi
ness accepting as collateral the fed
eral state or municipal bonds of
Germany. Farmers of the country,
so far as I now can see. must de
pend on the regular agencies to get
money to handle their crops—that
is the banks. I trust this will re
sult in a gradual and orderly with
drawal of the situation in which we
now find ourselves.!’
Stormy Session
Mr. Houston received more than
thirty officials of farm organizations
at a conference beginning at 10:30,
which was still in session at 1
o’clock. The conference at times be
came stormy. Senator Smith. of
South Carolina, and J. S. Wanna
maker, president of the American
Cotton Growers’ association, pressed
for the re-establishment of the fi
nance corporation under a special
clause to stimulate trade. The farm
ers several times applauded Sena
tor Smith’s speeches.
"If it is necessary to lend money
to starving Germany to enable them
to buy from us, I would do it through
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