The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-10-21

The failure of the amendment to
pass would in all probability mean
that Kansas in few years time
would be the only state in the Union
left in the mud.
Four Cities to be Mecca for Kansas
Teachers
Topeka, Oct. 2O.-The School
Ma'ams" will storm the gates of four
cities in Kansas, and half a million
Kansas boys and girls will have a
brief vacation when the Fifty-seventh
annual session of the Kansas State
Teachers Association opens its ses-
sions in the cities of Topeka, indie
pendence, Hutchinson and Hays on
Thursday of next week. According
to Secretary F. L. Pinet, practically
every city school system in the state
will-close its schools beginning Wed
neday, October 27, for the remainder
of the week so that its full teaching
force may attend the K. S. T. A.
meetings, and many of the cities will
pay part or all the expenses of the
teachers who attend the conventions.
Emporia has voted to pay the round
trip railway fare of all of its teachers
to the Topeka meeting. Jewell City
will pay its teachers a bonus of $40.
each for attending the meetings, and
Norton will pay a $4,000 bonus.
Kansas City, Kansas, Wichita, Pitts
burg, Atchison, Fort Scott, Arkansas
City, Newton, Chanute, Lawrence,
and Ottawa are among the larger
cities that have reported hundred
per cent enrolment for these meet
ings. From the rural schools heavy
enrolment is reported from every
county in Kansas.
Last year the Kansas State Teach
ers' Association was held at Topeka,
Wichita, Pittsburg and Salina, and
the total number attending the four
meetings was 1927. This year the
officers of the K. S. T. A. are expect
ing the attendance to exceed $4,000.
To the list of speakers already an
nounced Secretary Pinet has added
Margaret Hill McCarter, and is .nego-
tiating for others.
That Harding Wheat Statement
Following its usual campaign of
misrepresentation the Democratic
committee has misquoted Senator
Harding on the wheat question, mis-
constituting both his language and
position" according to A. @. Miller,
Director of Publicity of the Repub-
Hcan State Committee. Senator
Harding has always been a friend of
the farmer, as his consistent legislat-
i've record shows, and he supported
the Gore Amendment in the Senate
in 1913 for $3.50 as a minimum price
for wheat when the Democratic Pres
ident and the Democratic Senate fix
ed the price at 1920. For introduc-
ing this amendment in behalf of the
wheat grower Oklahona's blind SEN
ator was marked for slaughter by his
own party in the primaries.
''At the time the wheat price fixing
was under consideration in the Sen
ate. Senator Harding took the posi-
ton on the floor that if the price of
northern products be fixed the same
treatment should be accorded south
ern products.
Here is Senator Harding's state
ment on the wheat question:
"Let me say, in passing, I hope it is
entirely seemly to remind you that
no public man. particularly no public
servant from the great wheat-raising
state of Ohio, would dare to think,
much less say, he believed in dollar
wheat amid the price wildness which
the world is contemplating today.
I speak of it because we are get
ting acquainted today and I do not
mean to have any misunderstanding
between you and me, and I will not
be grossly and unfairly treated.
1 have helped to cut sixty-cent
wheat, have known it to sell at forty
cents. 1 have followed the cradle,
and sweated behind the reaper when
binding was a cross to bear, and I
know 1 spoke the truth when I said,
some years ago, that Ohio farmers,
in the normal days before the war,
rejoiced to raise dollar wheat.
The statement had no reference to
war time; and none to the present
after-war period.
Conditions, as well as prices, have
changed since I made that perfectly
natural and truthful statement, and
other great and important changes
are in contemplation, and no misre-
presentation is necessary to bring
them about" Senator Warren G..
Harding, Sept. 8, 1920.
The Farmer and the Price of Wheat
"The Kansas wheat grower feels
keenly the manipulation of wheat
prices by the Board of Trade and the