The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-07-01

vna learned mere To-Day.
Cordial invitations have come TO |
ne White house this week from
several G. o. p. leaders downstate,
schief among whom 10 Major Walter |
Rcssuneld. Rock Island. state
chairman. The 8 - ban
asked to deliver - lrseg h ~
pors Aug. rs. &
The occasion Is Republican day
It the Central States exposition
there. and Major Rosenfield and his
aides feel that it would be a most
suspicious time to set the party
machinery in motion with the chief
executive touching the button.
It seam probable that the prest-
dent will be passing through 1lli-
nois enroute to Alaska at about the
! time the Aurora fair is held, ten
tative date late in August having
been set for his departure from
Washington.
Not long ago Secretary of Labor
John J. Davis, who is head of the
Moose with headquarters at Moose
heart, Ill, asked the president to
stop on his way westward and
greet the orphan members of the
order who are being sent to school
there. The president assured Sec
rotary Davis that he will make the
stop If possible and August Is was
set as the probable date for the
visit.
It was on learning of these plans
that Major Rosenfield and other
downstate Republicans conceived
the idea Of asking the president TO
put in one more day in the locality.
Mooseheart Is but a short distance
from Aurora, and the state chair
man believes that the president
could don his political fighting toys
to the great advantage of G. O. p
harmony in the fall elections.
Illinois Republicans have advised
the president in their letters that
his presence would be a great in.
centive ito get everybody into &C
ton" His endorsement of the Re.
publican state ticket might be made
most fittingly at Aurora, they
point out, on account Of the fac!
that Kane county is the home oil
Oscar Nelson, who heads the tick.
I ct as candidate for state treasurer
Both Senators McCor mick and
Mckinley have called at the Whit.
house to urge the president tt
make the trip. Members of tn,
Illinois delegation and the house
are equally insistent that the pres
ident accept the Aurora invitation
believing that it will aid them il
their campaigns which will be vel
under way in August. S
Two well known Illinoisans were
mentioned here this week as pos.
eible appointees to vacancies OF
the federal reserve board and thu
y federal farm loan board.
Eugene Funk who operates ,
large farm near Bloomington, il
under consideration for appoint
ment to the federal reserve board
J. R Danforth Of Washington ha.
been suggested to President Hard
ing by Illinois senator's and con
gressmen for the federal farm LOAF
board.
Should the president select ),
farmer for membership on the fed
eral reserve board, as he has in
I. dictated he will do, Funk is regard
ed by Illinoisans here as the logica
s choice. 1t has been pointed out t,
the president that since Illinois il
4 one OF the leading agriculture
states, an Illinois "durt" farme
would be happy selection for tn
place.
Funk is a first cousin Of Repre-
sentative Frank H. Funk, Bloom
ington, who represents the Sever,
teenth Illinois district in the house
Within the past year, Funk ha
been frequently in Washington OF
public matters, and was one of tn
outstanding figures at the presi
dents agricultural conferenc
some months ago. At that time h
submitted an exhaustive study O.
farm costs and transportatio
charges in Illinois. He also re
garded him as well posted on farr
credits, and his friends here max
the claim that he would ad
strength to the board which di
reefs the destinies of the fedora
reserve system.
farm organizations of Illinoi
and other states have also inter
ested themselves in the vacancie
about to be filled on the farm loa
board, ]. R Danforth, Washing
TON, ILL.,. who is now Connected i
an official capacity with S
s Louis bank, is reported to hay
strong backing for appointment q
one OF the Democratic members 9
the board.
Further assistance to flood threat
ened districts along the Mississipl
sno Illinois rivers would be give
under the provisions of a bill Jus
Introduced in the house by Repre-
sentative Frank C. Millspaugh, RI
Fl publican. Missouri, whose 6istrit
alons the Mississippi opposit
n quincy and nearby towns suffere
considerably in the spring floods.
Miiispaugh proposed that the wa
finance corporation shall provid
"a !or advances Of government fund
4 70 drainage and levee districts 1
order that levee repairs may not
delayed when floods are imminen
Inc money would be available
districts damaged by any overflow
including that from swamps an
canals, now being restricted to th
repair OF river food damage.
M The only restriction on Ii
amount Of funds to be drawn uhde
the bill is that the amount shall NJ
e In excess Of that which the di,
llct o. municipality affected e!
pects 10 spend for the same pul