Evening star., 1922-01-24
|D|RT FARMERS ARE
ALL DRESSED Up
Scores of Visitors Also Join
in Wild Enthusiasm at
Conference.

The large ballroom of the New Will
yesterday at the opening Of the national
agricultural conference. Attracted by
the attendance of the President, every
delegate and scores Of visitors crowded
the room.
IT u large proportion of the delegates
are dirt farmers" there was little in
dlcation of 1t at the opening session,
| the great gathering looking in every
respect as all other conferences Of the
kind.
Every farmer. dirt" or otherwise,
was dressed in his Sunday best,
evidently, and the presence here and
there of the typical farmers white
beard was the on.y thing that pointed
to the presence Of farmers. Otherwise,
the meeting was of typical business
men of the nation.
Bryan Among Visitors.
Barney Baruch sat in front row
chair, near the platform as the PreSi-
! dent was speaking, and nearby sat
Carl Vrooman, former assistant Sec
retary of agriculture, who also was
! an interested listener. William Jen-
nings Bryan, former Secretary Of
State, was in attendance at the con-
ference today. and held informal con-
ferences on settee in the lobby with
Representative Upshaw of Georgia
President Harding walked from the
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or SO Of persons along the way until
been received that he was walking
and quite large crowd had gathered.
He was cheered enthusiastically as he
entered the building.
The return journey to the White
House was made in the big White
House touring car. The President
ferred the short walk back. but he
was in hurry to keep a NUMBER OF
business engagements.
The entrance of president Harding.
shortly before 10:4O am. was the
signal for an ovation. the entire au-
at the press tables. Immediately in
front of the platfVm. He was in,
terrupted by applause at several
points in his address. notably when
he said that there must be new con
ception of the farmers place in the
when he declared the need of better
financial facilities for the farmer, and
said that farmers must be ready TO
help themselves. however.
AS the President was just leaving
the platform fiashlight pictures were
taken bS d Dd1ttTS VI
who lined the rear wall of the ball
room.
The District Of Columbia. in addi-
ton to the officials directing the con-
ference. is particularly well repre-
sented in the conference, f"rtS-on
delegates being listed as I'm the
National Capital. They are:
Forty-One District Delegates.
r. +. Clark, former chairman Of the
Interstate Commerce Commission; W.
L. Austin, bureau of census; &. n.
Haugen. Bird NJ. Robinson. II. f. Van
Norman. Senator George W. Norris.
Gray Silver. American Farm Bureau
Federation: Charles A. Lyman. national
board of farmers organizations;
Charles Holman, National MIX Pro-
ducers' Federation; a. +. Lever. Farm
Finance Corporations: A. e. Miller.
Federal Reserve Board: Harry II. Bel
lamy. fourth assistant postmaster
general: George. Livingstin. J. A.
Whitfield, former president Of the
City Club: Senator I. L. Lenroot
Senator Arthur Capper: Senator
son. Senator Pat Harrison. Repre-
sentative Sydney Anderson. Repre-
sentative q. l.. MillsL Representa-
tive F. II. Funk. Representative H. w.
Summers. Representative Peter G.
Ten Eyck, A. NJ. Loomis. National
Dairy Union: NJ. G. Gormley, Vernon
Campbell. Samuel Gompers. w. Du
Bois Brookings. United States Cham
ber of Commerce.: Col. Henry S.
Graves, Louis n. Geldert. A. d. Lasker,
chairman of the Shipping Board; y.
S. Abbott, A. p. Davis. Mrs. Edward
+. Costigan, Consumers League: Mrs.
Thomas G. Winter. General Fedora
tion Of Women's Clubs: Mrs. J. c.
ketchum, Mrs. Maud Wood Park and
Mark Woods.