Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1920-11-04

the Lithuanians in I'm offensive
against the Poles. The plan, appar
emily. is first to drive Zellgouski out Of
wilma and then sweep southwark to
Suwalki. Grodno and the Ossowiecs
fortress. The matter of Wilma was re-
ferred to q pleblscite by the council
of the League Of Nations.
Last Tuesday the council adopted
the plan for Il permanent court of In
ternatlonal justice recommended by
The Hague committee Of jurists, with
the exception of the provision for
obligatory jurisdiction. The plan was
in large measure the work of Elihu
Root. The, council closed its session
Thursday.
Some Of the farmers Of Kansas,
Oklahoma, Nebraska and the North.
western states began last week their
strike" against the low price Of
wheat on the Chicago, board of trade.
Following the instructions of their Or
ganization leaders, they are withhold
ing their wheat from the market, and
the effect of decreased receipts began
to be felt at once. In the vicinity Of
Wichita, Kan, farmers picketed the
roads, urging those on their way to the
elevators to turn back. E-'-' ., 80
The wheat raisers OF Iowa were
urged to take part in the sstrlke" by
e. A. Cunningham, secretary of the
state farm bureau, who said the Iowa
wheat crop cost $1.8S Il 4bushel to har-
vest and the oats crop cost rs cents a
bushel. He blamed manipulation for
the recent sharp declines in prices Of
grain. "There is no justification for
the tremendous break in the market" :"
he said. 1--WE believe reaction must
come. We urge every farmer to with.
hold his commodities.
"The sirvatlon cannot become more
serious and further decline can do
nothing more than to add to the seri.
BUSINESS of the situation. On the other
hand, reasonable reaction would
probably avoid financial RUM
The farmers are asked by Mr.. Gun
ningham to buy nothing but essentials.
Farmers complain that they have to
pay high rates to borrow money to
handle the bumper crops.
Meanwhile Canadian wheat, which
is coming into the United. States duty
free for milling purposes, is being
bought in large quantities by mills and
exporters in this country. The duty on
Canadian wheat was taken off by Pres
ident Wilson at the suggestion of
Wheat Director j. II. Barnes in the
effort to reduce the cost OF living. II
was expected that in this way our
millers would BE- enabled to lower the
price of flour; the effect was limited.
however.
For the first time since he was
taken Ill more than year ago Presi.
dent Wilson delivered q speech on
Wednesday. A group of protleague
Republicans, headed by Hamilton
Holt, called on him in the White
House and in response to their ad-
dress he spoke, from his wheel chair,
in defense of the league covenant as
he brought it from Paris. In uphold
ing article 10 he said: 'sIt Is the spe-
cific pledge of tie members aof the
league that they will unite to resist ex-
actly the things which Germany at
tempted, no matter who attempts them
In the future. 1t is as exact a defini-
ton as could be given in general terms
of the outrage, which Germany would
have committed If it could"
Instead of being a threat of war,
he said later, article 10 is ian assur-
ance of the concert of all the free peo.
Piles of the world in the future, as In
the recent past, to see justice done
and humanity protected and vfndicat.
ed. This is the true, the real ,Ameri.
. canism. This is the. role Of leadership
and championship of the right which
the leaders Of the republic intended
that it should play. The so-called
Americanism which we hear so much
prating about now is spurious and in
vented for party purposes only
One sporting event closed last week
and another began. In the internation
al balloon race, in this country, the
Belgian, entry Belgica was declared
the winner. On Saturday there wa.
sailed. off Halifax, the first race Of .
contest between the fishing schooner,
Esperanto and Delawanna, the repre-
sentatives respectively of the New
England and Canadian fleets. ;Th,
contest is officially recognized BY ,th.
governments Of this country and th.
), Dominion.
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