The Washington times., 1922-03-16
THEY'RE HUMAN
William Athert0n Du Puy'

Now here comes Senator James w. Wads
worth. tr., Of New York. who Ia mildly tolerant
Of that group of wsstsrners that has come to
Be styled the Farm bloc" and to the members
Of which he 10 q "reactionary."
Young Senator wadsworth thinks that one
Of the cleverest bits of political investigation Of
the season was undertaken by Senator Moses
Of New Hampshire. who looked up the actual
vacations of the members of this farm bloc"
and reported back that It consisted Of fourteen
lawyers one editor and q well driller.
But even this is neither here nor there to
young wadsworth. He IL q real farmer. 1t
has been the business OF his life He owns
broad acres in the Genesee valley, in New York.
which are farmed under his personal direction.
None Of them are rented out to tenants. The
wadsworths farm their own lands. 1t Ia all
they do. They have outside Investments. 1t
was 20 with the Wadsworths Of the last and
the next to the last generation, The original
James W. Wadsworth came into the Genesee
valley just after the Revolution. He and his
brother were the first men to settle there Their
descendants have been there on the land ever
since.
.Ha, Haw laughs the last Of the Jamesss.
''but I am not q member Of the farm bloc"
Then as though to demonstrate the simon
pure variety Of his farmerdom he dips into
srassroot philosophy.
THE best fsrtiliser q farm have" he
says. rs the footprints of its owner"
One Of the greatest benefsetors Of the South,
says Senator e. DuRant Smith Of South Car
olina rot himself arrested for the performance
upon which rests the most important act OF his
life.
This mans name was Isham Il. Watson. and
he lived in Marion county. South Carolina
This generation has forgotten that. twenty-five
years ago. there was not In all the United
States with a few scrappy and unimporant
exceptions. any good roads Improved roads are
q thing Of the past two decades.
Isham Watson was a road overseer IN his
part Of the country there was sand everywhere
with a clay subsoil Ths roads were frightfully
heavy. but Isham saw . vision. was q trail
blazer.
He got together a big outfit of teams and
started plowins up the principal road of the
community. He plowed deep down into the
c,ay subsoii, so the mixture he got was half
ciay and half sand. He got the piowng done
before the sheriff arrested him.
He was to be tried, but II was quite q spell
before q session Of court convened. In the
meantime folks had to drive over the road,
even though Il was plowed up. The sand and
rains came It did not get muddy. When the
suurner came 1t did not get dusty. 1t was tho
hest road anybody thereabout had ever seen.
They began blowing up the rest of the roads
other communities learned of the advantage
OF mixing sand and clay for good roads. The
best road engineers In the world today say
that a better road for less money be made
by mixing sand and clay than in any other way
It IL done wherever these materials are available
Senator Frank Kellogg of Minnesota, one-tims
trust buster for the Goyernment. the other day
wrote o letter TO his constituents, saying he
did not like wire pulling and political intrigue
that he would not make a campaign for re cleo
tion, but would leave the matter with them.
There are no hard and fast rulss Even this
plan might work. -
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