The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-02
WATCHING MATERNITY BILL IN CONGRESS

| Washington, July Special )--- The Sheppard -Towner maternity bill, pending before the Senate, has di- vided the women of the country. The militant suffragettes, who have ae- auired headquarters, called the Watch Tower" overlooking the capi e tol. insist that the bill be enacted The anti suffragettes are conduct ing bitter fight against the bill, which they say would promote birth control and free love.
 That statement Senator Kenyon of Iowa. in charge of the bill, challenges He thinks that inasmuch IS the Con gress has voted s25,000,0o0 to Coloih- bian bandits" it might vote s1.0oe,- 900 per aunum for the women of the country He says that this is one bill that the women voters demand At that he might be mistaken
 Senator Reed of Missouri has en tered his protest against establish : ing a government bureau to super cede the women of the country in the business of rearing babies. He op- poses the government taking charge of the tsmily life of the country. He refers to the tendencies towards centralizing everything in Washing ton.
 The bill. if it is enacted-and IT has the support of the congressional uplifters"-will be enforced by tns proposed welfare department, to be headed by d cabinet officer, rms Presidents physician. Dr. Sawyer IS slated for the berth. it is under stood altho1. gh the suffragcttes nave seN eral candidates from among their own ranks They Insist that wom- an be made secretary. several nave ambition to be the first cabinet os- ficer chosen from among the women of the country
 Washington, July l.-i special. )-- Forty million dollars obtained rom the sale of farm loan bonds VIII De in the hands of the farmers or the United states by August l. according to A. r. Lever, member Of the farm loan board, in an interview with thls correspondent today.
 Furthermore. according to NIT. Le- yer. members of the board estimate that the investing public from this date onward will buy the bonds Of tha board to the extent of s2O0,0eo coo per annum. and the board Is orr ganized to do an adyacing business in each state of the union amounting to more than 15,000,000 per month
 The lending operations of the system" said Mir. Lever, have until very recently been in suspension due to the pendenoy of a suit in the su- prems court. The favorable decision of the court in this case, February 2S, was followed immediately by re- newed activity on the part Of the sys- tenn. and on April IS an offering or s40. 900. 900 of farm loan bonds was made, and this offering during the present week was absorbed.
 "rhe farm loan system was in- tended and, according to it's system has been organized to meet the nor mai long time credit needs of agri- culture. It was not intended to be- come an organization to meet emer- gencies in farm credits, such as We are experiencing at this time. But the farm loan board is so fully cogni- zant of the agricultural situation throughout the entire country that we have exerted ourselves in speed ing up the machinery in hope of fur nishing at least a measure of relief.
 Loan system
 "The farm loan system has no source of funds for lending except as farm loan bonds, based on farm mortgages, may be sold to the in-
  result. limitation upon the amount of available funds; however it is estimated that the investing public will absorb of farm loan bonds an amount from year to year not in ex- cess of S200, ,000, 900. Tn consequence, the machinery of the system is or sanized to lend from s12.o00,0o0 to Sis. 900 per month.
 "The action of the Congress in amending the farm loan act this week makes certain the continued and un- interrupted lending operations of the system, 80 that each state may hope to receive it's proportionate share of the s12oo0.000 to $16,000,000 from this date on.
 We realize that this will not en- tirely meet the situation. But when consideration is given to tho fact that t1 in money will liquidate from t5 to s7 in debts, 1t will be seen that by the constant relief thus given. a very general belief will be afforded.