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The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1922-06-02
Lowrey Defends School feathers
Against FOrdney Slur.

When Representative Joseph w.
Fordney, millionaire Republican
Chairman of the Ways and Means
Committee, made his ill-mannered at
tack upon former President Wilson,
he included contemptuous slur upon
the school teachers of America in gen.
eral.
No better reply has been made to
the Fordney doggerel and idatribe
than the remarks of Representative
Lowrey (Dem., Miss.), who protested
against ridiculing school teachers on
the floor of American Congress, and
paid high tribute to the "consecrated
service" rendered by the country
school teachers of America. Mr..
Lowrey said:
II wanted especially to express re-
greet that the usually genial gentle
man from Michigan (Mr. Fordney) in
the exercise of his customary ardor
for the abuse of Woodrow Wilson
should have INDUCED in vicious at
tack upon members of the honorable
profession from which Mr.. Wilson
came. He asserts that "a school
teacher is not much man outside Of
his profession" and regales us with
the ribald doggerel:
Goodbye scholars, goodbye
school,
Goodbye teacher, you darned old
FOOL
at is to be lamented that a man
who gives himself to business and
makes money or who gains political
honors some times becomes SO en-
crossed in these things as to speak
scornfully of the men and women as
a class who give their lives to the
work of building character and pro-
noting culture in the world. The
teachers of this country are dedicat-
ing their lives to making the men and
women who must make everything
else that is worth while. Why then,
tell me, should they be ridiculed or
the floor of the American Congress?
"If teacher is not much man
then certainly we must have some
very shoddy men disgracing the floor
of this House; some of them, strange
to say, members of the party which
the gentleman from Michigan cham
pions. Fess, of Ohio; Fairchild, Of
Indiana; Andrews, of Nebraska
Brooks, of Illinois; Temple, of Penn
sylvania; Towner, of Iowa, and others
all former educators, and most o.
them former college professors O.
presidents. Likewise, there few o
the despised minority, such as Aswell
of Louisiana; Oliver, of Alabama
and Tillman, of Arkansas. Does tn
gentleman from Michigan conside
that because they come from tn
teaching profession, forsooth, thes
men are 'darned old fools?'
Again, the biographies of tn
Presidents of the United States SHOW
that Woodrow Wilson was not tn
only teacher among them. thin
the gentleman will find, if he will in
! form himself, that it is the rule
rather than the exception for Presi
dents to be ex-pedagogues. Some
thing like three-fourths of the me-
who have been raised to that high po
sition once taught school. And be
lieve that similar proportion o
members of Congress and of the Su
preme Court have likewise bee
, teachers at some time in their lives.
"But above all, are the countr,
teachers, who have ever been the he
roes and the martyrs of our educa
tional work, and before whose con
secrated service the college presiden
and the high political official shout
alike stand with uncovered head
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1922-06-02
(From a speech by Senator Under

(From a speech by Senator Under
woody
saw cartoon in the paper the
other day which showed Siamese twins
fastened together by nature for life,
their bodies grown together, their
hands tied behind their backs, march
ing to the block of the executioner,
who stood there with his red gown
and his mask on his face, preparing
to execute the one called Imports"
and some one rose in the audience and
said, "These are Siamese Twins. Kill
one and you kill the other"
So it is with our imports and our
exports today; they are Siamese twins.
We cannot export our goods to for
eign countries unless we are paid for
them, and we cannot receive any pay
unless we allow some products from
other countries to come in here. There
fore when we seek by this bill to kill
importation entirely on every COM
petitive product, as you do, in the
end you are going to kill expectation,
because there will be nothing to pay
for the exported material.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1922-06-02

torious that even an. Old Guard
stand-pat Republican state like Penn
sylvania will not longer endure it.
the case of Beveridge of Indiana, was
not Il vote for any affirmative set of
policies, but vote of protest against
the Republican national administra-
ton, and, incidentally, protest
against the Harrisburg Contractors
ring in Pennsylvania. The Pinchot
vote does not mean that all the men
and women who voted for Mr.. Pin
chot in the primaries are going to
vote for him at the polls. Thousands
of them voted for him because they
had no other means at this time of
registering their protest against &C.
onomic conditions brought on by the
befuddled national administration.
This element will be found behind the
candidacy of John A. McSparren, the
genuinely progressive Democratic
nominee for Governor, when they
cast their votes in November. They
realize that Mr.. Pinchot can only be
elected by the support of the Old
Guard, and that his election, brought
about in such a way, would simply
mean that he would be powerless to
carry out most of the progressive pol
icies that he may have. They realize
also that John A. McSparren would be
free from any such alliances and en-
( tanglements, and would owe his cleo
ton only to the progressive citizen
ship of Pennsylvania, without regard
to party.
There is no hope that the Republi-
can party of Pennsylvania as whole
ever will or can become progressive
party. If Pennsylvania is to take her
place in the list of progressive states
it must be under a Democratic state
administration.
The net result of the Pennsylvania
primaries is a reputation of and 8
warning to the reactionary element
now in control Of the Republican par.
ty. 1t is notice that the days Of
laundering, four-fushing normally
are at an end, and that the grip Of
the leactionaries upon their party or.
ganization is broken. 1t is fair warn
ing to the reactionaries also that the
woIst is yet to come.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1922-06-02
A Fundamental Tariff Principle.

Few men in Congress are as well
ouaiitied to discuss the principles or
the details of tariff taxation as Sem
ator Underwood, author of the tariff
law which has been in effect since
1913. The following excerpt from a
recent speech on the pending bill lays
down a fundamental principle which
is worth bordering by everyone in
terested in equitable and just taxa
ton:
II belong to that school of thought"
said Senator Underwood, (which be-
lieves that the legislative body, the
Congress of the United States, has no
constitutional right might 60 fur
ther and say no moral 'right--to use
the taxing power of this great gov
crnment for the purpose Of building
up fortunes or tearing them down. I
am just as much opposed to the idea
of so levying tax under the guise Of
protecting American industry, 50 the
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1922-06-02
Harding Administration, Partly Re-
spOnsible for Defeat, Says
Gov Snroul
Gov. Sproul.

Gov. Sproul of Pennsylvania, in a
published statement which is refresh
ing in it's frankness or fngenuousness,
just as you look at it, admits that
Pinchot's victory was due in large
part to the popular discomfort with
the Harding administration and con-
ditions generally, which he might
have added are due largely to the
Harding administration. Gov. Sproul,
among other things, said:
"He (Pinchot) got good start on
us and was able to capitalize the en-
thusiasm of the newly enfranchised
women voters and to corral all of the
disaffected elements in the State who
are out of sorts with the administra-
TORS at Washington and Harrisburg
and with conditions generally"
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1922-06-02

Those farmers who are being made
to believe that they are going to
benefit largely by high rates placed
upon agricultural products in the
pending tariff bill should give heed
to the following statement by Send
tor Underwood, than whom there is
no higher authority on tariff taxation
in this country. Senator Underwood
said:
"The argument is used that because
taxes have been levied on manufac-
tured products, taxes should be levied
on agricultural products, and If you
are going to penalize the American
people by taxation for the benefit of
the manufacturer, you should penalize
them with taxation for the benefit, of
the farmer.
IF you were going into that false
philosophy and going to use the tax
ing power for some purpose other
than the revenues of the government,
might very well concede that If you
could you should throw the blanket
of protection as far as possible, if it
was beneficial. But think where the
fallacy of the argument comes is that
under the guise of protection, under
the guise of doing something to help
the agricultural interests in some par
ticular item, you ask their support for
bill which means that for every dol
lar of benefit they may derive out Of
the bill they must pay 800 in taxes to
benefit someone else, or for the ! per
cent Of protection which they may
get under the bill they must pay the
80 per cent of protection which is af-
forded to other people. l do not think
there is any question about that prop
osition."
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1922-06-02
WASHINGTON LETTER
Reputation of Harding Seen in
Pennsylvania Primaries.

Washington, May 29-The defeat of
the Old Guard in Pennsylvania, fol.
lowing the defeat of the Old Guard
in Indiana, helps to confirm the fact
that the Old Guard organization is
breaking up in the states under the
weight of the Old Guard administra-
ton at Washington. Alter was de-
feated for the nomination for Gov
ernor of Pennsylvania because ne
represents the same element in the
party and stands for the same poll
cies that Harding stands for in the
nation. Alters defeat is a farther
confirmation of the fact known to
most political observers that the PEG,
pie at large have had all they will
stand of reactionism, inefficiency, in
competency and alliance with special
privilege which is so fragrant and no
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1922-06-02

are some of the editorial comments:
Chicago Tribune (Rep.)- Every
hours study of the bill, even by lay
man, reveals some point Of such re-
markable possibilities for evil and m
justice as to cast doubt upon the val
'ue of the bill as a whole.
New York Evening Post lind. u
There are just two objections to the
McCumber- Fordney measure: II is
based upon no scientific principle,
and Its individual schedules won't
bear analysis. ,
Is at least questionable when con-
siderable volume Of Republican opin-
ion is against meddling with business
in its present unsettled condition. But
when revision includes taxes on food
and taxes on raw material which en-
tiers into the production Of necessities
that all must use, it requires no gift
of prophesy to predict quick rise in
the cost of living all over the land.
New York Herald (Rep. )--His
(McCumber's measure is not a
sound economic product, and 1t will
not be a good thing for the country
with its excessive duties and the GER
tainty that such duties will increase
the public's cost of living.
Shoe and Leather Reporter Trade
Paper)--The tariff bill, as framed in
the House and rnutilated by the Sem
ate Finance Committee, should be laid
on the table and forgotten. 1t is about
the worst piece of revenue legislation
in the history Of the government. 1t
is full of blunders, contradictions and
inequalities, and for every clause ac-
ceptable to an industry something fol-
lows of an Objectionable character,
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1922-06-02

great mass Of the American people
n,ust contribute out of their pockets
money to build up q special industry,
and make a few rich, as / am Of ex-
tending the power Of taxation so far
TINT it confscates the property of
The individual and accomplishes by
the power and force of taxation what
the communism Of Russia has accom-
plished by the red flag"
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1922-06-02

1t is said the game of golf was in
vented by Scotch shepherds, who, hav-
ing nothing else to do, amused them
selves by knocking stones about with
their crooks. They measured off their
holes in circles, because in that way
they could keep watchs over their
herds. The herds were marked by a
tag of wool attached to stake.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1922-06-02
!. o. P. Press Keeps Up Fight on
Profiteers' Tariff Bill.

The Republican and Independent
press continue to denounce the Nc
Cumber Profiteers' Tariff Bill, stress
ing the main facts that it is a profit
GERS tariff, and that it will increase
the present high cost of living. Here
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1922-06-02
Service Rendered
by Cooperation
ME of the most perfect forms ofindustria
service is that which results from co-oPera
ton between manufacturer and consumer


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ton between manufacturer and consumer.
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In developing this service the Standard Oil
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As a result of this service the customer finds
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In the individual plants, large and small,
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Plenty of oil does not necessarily mean good
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To enable its patrons to achieve correct
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-01

ticket was swept into Office much
to the discontinue of the clique
which had become chronic Office
hoId-rs. The idea of a woman's
ticket originated at social gath
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-01

Chamber. to add to the efficiency OF
the office staff. and make it more
convenient for them Partitions are
to be erected in the outer office, and
an information and telephone desk
installed. The work will be started as
soon as complete plans and estimates
can be secured.
The Topeka Kiwanis club attended,
in a body, special services at the West
minister Presbyterian church Sunday
evening. They listened to an address
by the Rev. John McAfee, member
of the club. who spoke on the club
motto. I'VE Build Music was fur
nished by a chorus of Kiwanians led
by Professor Albert Haberstro. Solos
were sung by A. A Chard and 1. E.
Henry. members of the club. The XII
wanians will hold a business meeting
at the Chamber of Commerce tonight.
Four couples were divorced in the
district court Saturday afternoon Mrs.
Alice Haynes. sos The Drive, received
a decree from O. F. Haynes, whom she
charged with abandonment and failure
to support her. They were married
December. 1887. C. w. FitzC eraid was
gerald, whom he charged neglected
her household work, nagged him and
threatened to shoot him. Mrs. Rose
Gladys Burr was granted divorce
from Charles f. Burr and restored to
her maiden name, Gladys Morton.
The Kansas Industrial and Educa-
tional institute is being honored by d
visit from f. Davidson Washington,
son of the late Booker T. Washington.
who is here calling on the teachers
and graduates of the Topeka school
in the interests of the Tuskegee in
stitute, of Tuskegee, Ala, of which
he is northwest secretary. He is also
arranging with Principal Bridgeford
for the bringing to Topeka next fall
of the Tuskegee Singers, one of the
noted musical organizations of Ala
5ama- Shortly before coming to To-
pelxa. Washington attended the I'M
yelling of a monument erected at the
Tuskegee institute in honor of his
father. Ten thousand persons attend
ed the ceremonies, he says.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-01
TO OWN DEFENSE
Charles PuIsiver Takes Witness
Stand in District Court.
He Denies All Charges Made by
George Cole.

Charles Pulsifer. charged with
highway robbery in connection with
the robbery of George Stadel, postof-
flee employe, at the American Legion
hall on West Sixth avenue the night
of January 8. went on the witness
stand in his own defense in Judge
George Whitcomb's division of the
district court this morning.
Pulsifer stoutly denied the charges
of George Cole, who held up Stadel,
that he had hired Cole to get StadeP $
diamonds. and maintained that he did
not even know of the robbery until he
was arrested nearly a week later upon
his return to Topeka from Marion,
Kan, where he was married.
1t had been Coles contention that
Pulsifer had wanted him to rob Sam
Nish, staying at the Colonial hotel, but
later agreed to accept StadeFS d.a-
monds and pay Cole 500 for them.
Cole said Pulsifer gave him q. revolver
with which to engineer the hold-up.
but that after he had procured the
jewels Pulsifer would pay him only
fS35 on the ground that one diamond
had a flaw in it.
PuIsifer Denies Charge.
Pulsifer asserted on the witness
stand that he had never, at any time,
suggested to Cole that he rob any
body. He explained possession of the
revolver by saying he had observed
two men looking him over as he
walked up Fifth street one night, and
decided that they We're going to rob
him. He purchased the revolver for
self-protection, he said. Under cross
examination by County Attorney
Veale he admitted that he did not
carry the revolver, however, but left
it in his room. He said he had
loaned Cole SIS on Iocket and that he
also kept the locket in his room. A
day or two before the robbery. he tes-
tilted, his room was entered and the
locket and his revolver stolen. He
said he suspected Cole.
They Visit American Legion.
On the night of January 7. Pulsifer
said, he accepted Coles invitation to
visit at the American Legion hall and
falsely stated that he belonged to the
legion at st. Joseph. Mo. He said he
played cards until about 1880 o'clock
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-01

and went home with Cole He al
mitted he was not carrying the re-
volver for self protection then. He
declared Cole had told him he was
going to have a settlement with his
wife, (Mrs- Cole) and was going 10
get two diamonds. The evening of
January 10, he said. Cole came to his
room, showed him two diamonds and
offered to sell them to him for $50.
He said he purchased both. intending
to make one into a wedding ring for
his bride and have the other mounted
for himself He admitted. he did net
wear the diamond in the mans mount
ing, altho it apparently fitted his
finger.
PuIsifer's bride remains at his side
in the court room during the trial
They had been married less than three
days when he was arrested He said
he was working in Topeka as a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-01

Lords Flowers satisfy. Tel. zzs1.-
Adv.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-01
DEATH OF JOHN SLOAN
Had Been a Resident of Kansas Fifty
Seven Years.

John Sloan, Sc years OF age. who
had been a resident of Kansas for
fifty-seven years, died this morning
at the home of his daughter, Mrs. c.
NJ. Percival, 404 Chester avenue He
came to Kansas in 1865 from STAFF
ford, o. He settled on a farm four
miles north of Overlook, where he
lived until two years ago. He lived
at the home of his daughter. Mrs.
Percival. in Oakland, since that time.
Mr.. Sloan is survived by a daughter,
Mrs. Percival, and two sons, John
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-01

Washington, May THE govern
ment lost in the supreme court or
the United States today its contention
that federal taxes on transfers OF in
heritances was retroactive in certain
cases. The court held the tax was
r,ot r-efroa Give
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-01

Sloan of Overlook ands Harry Sloan
of Rosedale.
The body Will be taken to Ridgeway
cemetery, seven miles northwest of
Overlook, for burial.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-01
200 FOR HIGHEST DEGREE
Thirty-Second Station in Masonic
Lodge Asked by Many at Wichita.

Wichita, May with more than
two hundred candidates for the thirty
second Masonic degree. members of
the wichita Scottish Rite Consistory,
No. 2, assembled here today for the
sixty-seventh semi-annual reunion
which win last until Thursday night
The fourth, fifth and sixth degrees are
to be dramatized tonight.
Most of the applicants are from
Wichita. Other cities represented in
cIude Newton, Hutchinson, Great
Bend, Ell Dorado, Augusta, Wellington,
Arkansas City, independence and FREE
donia.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-01

ering of the ladies ten days be-.
fore election. Ten day. cleo
pioneering was sufficient, accord
ing to the returns. The men
were defeated Gecisively.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-01

Des Laos. ~ D., is the drst
strong for netticoat eovernment
100 per cent of t. In the re-
cent election the entire woman's
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-01
MAY COOPERATE WITH LABOR.
But Socialists Plan to Preserve Party
Identity just the Same.

10y the ABsOclated Press-l
Cleveland, May 1.-The Socialist
party in national convention here to-
day. by vote of IL to 10, decided to
permit state organizations to cooper
ate with any labor organization for
political activity in the coming cleo
ton
This privilege. however. is safe
guarded by conditions which are in
tended to preserve the identity of the
Socialist party.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-01


The funeral Of Arthur c. Ruff age Al,
who was shot and killed Saturday morn
ing bv jake Hightower. negro, at the plant
of the Mutual Ice company, was held sc
; 40 O'Clock this afternoon at the none.
1918 North jefferson street, Golden Rule
lodge No DO, A. F.. and A. M. was In
charge of the services. Burial In Rochester
cemetery.
The funeral of Mrs. Mary B. George, s6e
Ct who died Saturday at her home; iuV9
TYLER street, will be held at oclocS
Wednesday afternoon at Grace Cathedral
Burial in Topeka cemetery.
The funeral of Mrs Sarah L. Williams.
age II, who died Thursday at her home IN
Dodge City, was held at IL O'Clock TINS
morning at Penwell's chapel Burial IN To-
peka cemetery
JACOB METZGER. age 7e, who had been
a resident of Meriden and vicinity 1or 1ItF
years, died Friday at Emporia. The III
neral was held at 1920 o'clock this morn
ing at .he Meriden Catholic church he is
survived by a daughter, Mrs. Kate Cum
mings, of Oakland, Cal, and four sons,
E. r. Metzger, of Emporia; F. p. Metzger.
of Topeka j. ]. Metzger.s OF Topeka. and
r. A Metzger, of Meriden. Burial in Meri-
den Catholic cemetery.
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