The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-12-13
THE TIGER TALKS


country | came without thinking of
the farmers. | came simply to claim
justice for all, so as to bring to an
end the crisis that is prevailing now
throughout Europe, and because o.
Europe, throughout the world"
Thus spoke the Tiger of France in
the Tiger room of the Sherman hotel
before the fourth annual convention
of the American Farm Bureau at Chi
cago, on Monday forenoon at the open
ing session. The aged veteran stood
on a platform between two great
growing tigers, portrayed as a back
ground on the wall. His own person
atty completed the picture. He stood
out as a peacemaker between the war
ring countries the tigers represented
in the mural decorations at his back,
a grand and yet pathetic old man,
laden with the cares of his unhappy
country.
Sixty per cent of the people of
France are farmers, said Georges
Clemenceau. He described these far
mers and related the important part
they aFe playing in the restoration of
peace and in the rebuilding and sta
bilizing of the nation. These far
mers are very slow and silent men,
he said. You see, the French have
the reputation of being such takers
If you go to see the French peasant
you will understand that he is quite
silent. He works too much. If you
saw him you would understand
why the French people cannot be
destroyed"
Are Living in Dens.
In his reference to the work of re
building, he said: France is rebuild.
ing its factories and the French farm
ers are trying to come back If you
go there now you will see nothing OF
what is destroyed. No house. Yol
won't see houses. Our farm people
are living in sort of dens, with theii
cattle
NJ Clemenceau says that France
needs Americas wheat, and woulG
sooner buy from us than from any
I where else. But France is eating
/ poor bread because she hasn't the
mony to buy the wheat she needs
| In concluding he said: 81 am goinG
/ home. | have no mission, except {
mission from my own conscience, anC
that was enough to bring me here.
! He left Chicago at SIS on Monda!
afternoon for New York, to take the
/ steamer for France on Wednesday
afternoon.
! In his address before the American
! farm bureau convention, Bernard Ba
ruch, of New York, discussed the SO
luton of the Rural Credits problem
! He said: There is nothing in ths
world that affects your credit so mucf
as the shrinking of foreign market!
for your products. There is nothine
to which you can give your attention
that is of greater moment to you IL
a practical way than the creation o
international relations that are pre-
cedent to the re-eStablishment o
those markets"
Credit Legislation
In his comment on the prospects anC
effects of forthcoming. credit legisla
ton at Washington, Charles Michaels
market editor of the Chicago Tribune
says:
''All indications point to speedy en-
actment of legislation for assisting thu
farmers in this country and consumer
abroad through the extension of cred
its. The Gould plan for exporting on
surplus. calling for fund Of $250,000
000 with maturities of six to min
months attracted great attention
= Barney Baruch of the credit extension
!, movement, in an address at the Farm
: Bureau federation here yesterday, sal
E that had the credit plan been existan
/. early this season grains would not hav
sold as low as they did and prices nov
would be much higher The farm bio
has a great deal of power and is re
garded as strong enough to pass a.
the credit bills, as the Harding &C
i, ministration is with them"
. The recent advance in the price Q
, all grains has been largely influence
by the prospective later demand, an
: notably because of impending legisls
ton to give credit to foreign buyer
through governmental agencies On
: Board of Trade man asks: IF graf
prices advance SC to sc on suggestion
, of giving foreign buyers a credit @
$50, 900, 900, how much will they aC
vance with a credit of $250,000,000. a
provided by bills now in congress %
When Chicago hogs reached an aver
: age of SS35 and made a top of $50;
: on Monday, they scored the highes
| average price in month. At the sam
time lambs reached the highest figure
, since May and made a top of $15.6
; with general average of s14.65 on tn
days sales.
Bloc Accomplishments
After commenting on the farmer
income and the prices he has been n
ceiving of late the editor of the Ne1
York Evening Post asks the city worl
er to put himself in the farmers plac,
t Referring to Iowa farmers and askin
: the reader to consider himself one {
2 them. he continues:
p Suppose that, noticing the static
, agents new car, you found that raj
: way wages were averaging about is
, per cent of pre-war level and freigf
S rates $50 per cent, while New Yor
factory workers were getting 200 pc
cent. Suppose you learned, in lookin
over the mail order catalogues, thu
t the general cost of living is 100 pc
I cent of the pre-war cost. Suppose thu
t your winter order of coal cost you q
: per cent as much as in 1913. Suppos
. in short, that you concluded that yo
t had toiled all year without maxim
/! more than a bare living, while all OF
I er groups in the nation were CROWN
! more prosperous: that You saw you