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When Is a "B1oc9"

:CORDING to Senator Kenyon, of Iowa.
II popularity supposed to have been the
leader of the so-called Agricultural
Bloc" in Congress there isn't any such ami
NAL.
what is the agricultural bloc?'" Sena-
tor Kenyon was asked recently by Judson
Welliver, for a story in The Review of Re-
views.
"It isn't" replied Senator Kenyon crypt
cally.
"Then how did it happen?" Mr. Welliver
pursued. ..
at didr't" The Senator was obdurate
He went on:
ga newspaper MA invented the name for
something that wasn't, and it sounded so well
that the thing was assumed to exist. It seems
the name was too good to lose, and it
sticks, despite the fact that there's no bloc,
or anything else entitled to name even sug-
costing such an organization
So much for so much.
But, suggests Mr.. Wel1iver, it's hard to
believe that something you SEE every day I'M
der big headlines in the papers-something
that's blamed for Cor credited WITH SO many
of the omissions or commissions in legisla-
ton-something that this man says is the
one last hope of saving the country and that
man describes as tho last word in political
chicanery-it's a trifle difficult to believe
that all this merely is a mirJ5e, even when
the so-called former presiding officer of the
interesting phenomenon assured you Of it,
1t does appear reasonably plain that GER
tain group of Senators and congressman
some Republicans and some Democrats, and
all from states pre- eminently agricultural,
are acting pretty much in concert in favor of
certain measures, and in opposition to GER
tain other measu '9s, according to the views
of their constituencies.
Spelled with or without the final SIX" the
name doesn't seem to matter much.
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CURIOUS EFFECTS OF THE
~ NATION MYTH
By DR.. Frank Crane

To a philosopher sitting up tree viewing
spec.aces that take place among the SWarmlng
human insects on the ground, nothing is more
amusing than the laboriouS arguments and the
desperate conflicts in which men engage under
the strong delusion of the nation myth.
Really all human beings are simply human
beings, but they persist in not thinking of
Themselves as such, but as nationals. They
seem to have the idea that an American ana
Mexican differ as the COW end the horse. And
that the Frenchnan and the German are entire
ly two different kinds of animals.
Which delusion eventuates il considerable en-
tertannent for the gentleman in the tree.
For instance, there is a monstrouS pother
about debt paying and reparatonS among the
nations. Ali proceed on the assumption that
to take gold out of one country and to carry 1t
over into another is going to make good the
losses of wars destruction, which is very much
like taking money out of the right hand pocket
and putting it over in the left hand pocket
War did not impoveriSh France alone; it I'M
poverished the human race, and the human race
will have to pay for it,
War was not even caused by Germany alone,
outrageous as the sentiment may seem; it was
caused by the system of natonaliSmS and an
entire absence of any world government. II
Germany had not brought on the war some
body else would have brought it on in course
of time. War flows as naturally from condl-
ton OF international anarchy as wafer runs GOWN
hill.
Another funny thing that the tree-dweller OBJ
serves is the expectation of the politicians that
disarmament, either more or less, is going to
stop war. Taking guns away from men does
not prevent their fighting. They can still use
their hands and throw Wtriol. In fact, the next
war will probably be fought with chemical
gases.
There is, as mos people outside of Bedlam
and politics understand, but way to make
war as impossible between Paris and Berlin as
it is between New York and Philadelphia, and
that is to substitute federation for empire.
This was tried in the experiment of the
League of Nations, but was probably tried too
soon. We are making faces at each other again
IN the fear that if stop Boosting and threaten
ing and b1uffing we shall be deficient in the
national honor.
But even the dullest witted perceived that
this programme would not work, so we have
begun again the long road toward world gov
eminent by the disarmament conference. And
now it is proposed to have another conference
on international economics, for Mr.. Lloyd
George, who has probably the largest amount
of active gray matter of any of the statesmen,
is beginning to see that the economic malady
of the world can never be cured by one or two
nations, but only by them all.
Some day, perhaps, we may grow up, get out
of our feud stage and realize humanity.
copyright, 1922, by Frank Crane)
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WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. 1.-Why is
w it that farming, the greatest busi-
ness in the United States and the
most important one in the world, does not
pay in this country and is never stable?
That is the question which is theoretical
ly before the national farm conference, but
there is no evidence whatever that the con-
ference will shed any more light the
subject than the unemployment conference
did on, the fundamental causes of unem-
ploment or than the disarmament confer
ence did on the problem of world peace, or
than any other political conference ever
sheds on anything.
1t is an Illuminating experience to read
the political announcements on the subject
of the farmer and farming, and then study
the views of any competent student of the
agrarian problem and compare them. 1t
gives the innocent and unprejudiced inves-
tigator the impression that politics is large
1y the art of lodging the facts
1t is true that there are more political
and legislative remedies before the public
for solving the farm problem than there
are patent medicines for curing corns. The
politicians propose tariff on farm products,
they propose to encourage cooperative
marketing, and they have a dozen other
projects for ameliorating the farmers lot.
Most of them have been tried before and
none of them has made any large or per-
manent difference. Congress has been
turning out large quantities or legislation
for farmers at every session for generations,
and yet the condition of the farmer has got
steadily worse ever since about 1890.
It is not meant to imply that none Of the
legislation passed and proposed is Of any
value, but simply to point out the obvious
fact that none of it has worked any per-
manent change in the general condition of
the farmer. The only thing which can be
said is that ever since the body of free pub
lie land in the United States was exhausted,
which happened about or soon after 1890,
farming has been falling into a more and
more precarious condition.
The Price of Land
1t is not unreasonable then to assume
some connection between the disappearance
Of free land the present unstable and I'M
profitable condition of farming as bust
ness. Ever since the free land was ex-
hausted, the price of land has risen stead
lily in this country and to astonishing
heights. This high price of land, we are
assured by all students of the problem, is
the fundamental reason why farming does
not pay, and they assure that it cannot
pay until those land values are somehow
brought down and stabilized. 1t must be
made possible for the man who wants to
farm to invest his money in land and make
a good return on the investment. And it
must be made more profitable for the man
than to sell it and go to the city and invest
money in something else. These simple
facts are always and completely overlooked
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with both hands, but he won't give them his
society, or let his children get a chance to
get acquainted with him.
Before marriage he remembers every within
and fancy of the girl he is counting. After
marriage he never can remember her birth
day, or any anniversary, and she can slug
him with hints about the things she wants
without ever making single dent in his
consciousness.
He spends hours holding girls hand be-
fore marriage, and uses up all the words in
the dictionary telling her how he loves her,
and after marriage he never lotice that she
has hand, mentions the state Of his af-
fections to her:
He considers that no woman has a right
to expect her husband to be Economically in
love with her after she gets fat, and grizzle
headed, but he expects to remain the hero Of
his wifes girlish dreams no matter how bald
I'd bay Widowed he becomes.
He likes to spend his money buying cham
payne and jewels for woman, but he be-
grudges having to pay her bills for bread
and meat and everyday clothes.
He trusts his wife with his name and his
honor, but not his pocketbook.
At twenty, he falls in love with a woman
old enough to be his mother and it flatters
him to be addressed as "old man" At sixty
only flapper is young enough for his
taste, and he likes to be called my boy
He complains of the matrimonial yoke,
yet as soon as death or the divorce cuts his
halter, he sticks his neck back in the moose.
He derides woman's logic, but adopts
her conclusions.
He bemoare the senselessness Of the way
women dress, yet he hangs around the chick
en- with the fluffiest feathers.
In theory, he admires a woman who is
sensible and self-controlled, but he marries
the little goose who weeps on the second but
ton of his waistcoat
He calls woman an angel, and treats her
as if she were an idiot.
He spends his time and money seeking
love, and trusts to luck to keep it.
He can be as strong as hero, as wise as
seer, as patient as a saint, yet fly into a
rage, and curse the world if dinner is five
minutes late, or his collar button rolls under
the dresser.
Who can guess man?
Copyright, 1922, by the Wheeler Syndicate,
Inc)
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bv congress and by the politicians general
ly. 1t would be a safe bet that there will
be no discussion of this phase Of the matter
at the conference.
Every competent man in the department
of agriculture knows that inflated and ever
rising land values are the whole trouble
with farming, and half a dozen of them
have explained the matter to the writer OF
this article.
but don't quote me-" they always. end
up. Their jobs are political jobs.
The opinion that something must be done
about land values is by no means confined
to so-called radicals. Colleges and banks
are not radical institutions. Yet the gist
of the whole matter is contained in some
figures compiled by the Iowa State College
of Agriculture and published in one Of it's
market letters by the National City Bank
of New York.
Typical Case
This study comprised, among other things,
an investigation of 1876 farms devoted to
the raising of OATS The average value of
the land was found to be $3.50 per acre.
The largest item in the cost Of production
of oats on this land was the interest on
the money invested in the land at 5h per
cent. This production cost came to $15.59
per acre. All other production costs came
to $500 per acre. Thus over half the cost
of production was interest on the invest
ment in land. The study showed that on
only two farms out of the 1876 were oats
produced for less than the market price of
oats, which is "A cents "a bushel. In other
words, all Of the other farmers were raising
oats at loss. They could vastly better
afford to sell their land and put the money
and their time in something else
This is the way the thing works. AS
population increases the price of land rises
steadily, inevitably The result is that the
price of farm products also rises. All Of
us, when we pay our grocery bills, are CIV
ing half the money to the landowners. But
there is constant opposition on the part of
the consumer to the rise of food prices
Hence the price of land tends to rise always
little faster than the price of farm prod
cts. The land price is pressing always
against the food price, SO TO speak, and the
farmer is caught and squeezed between the
two
Everything that is done to make farm
ing easier only contributes to raise the
price of land and force up the price of food
so that neither the farmer nor the con-
sumner benefits. A protective tariff on farm
products is attacked on just this ground,
and sc are all of the other political pana-
ceas that are offered the farmer.
It would be impossible to outline here
the methods by which the prices Of farm
land might be established. None Of them
is acceptable to the interests now in control
Of the country and that is why the matter
is never discussed Yet it seems certain that
the country must ultimately face the facts
and act upon them.
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= ONCE knew homely old woman who,
after a prolonged recitation of the pc
- culiarities, and idiosyncrasies of her
husband, would throw up her hands and ex-
claim:
But who can guess MANI"
Not one of us, sister, for man is the prize
conundrum that every woman spends her
life trying to solve, and that she can unrid-
dies.
He is made up of as many contrasts in
sweet and sour a salad dressing. He is as
full of unexpected turns of hnmor, and pa
thos a vaudeville show. He runs as great
a range from the fine to the common as a de-
partment store. He is both a superfluous
luxury and an absolute necessity, one of the
things a woman may be wretched in possess
sing, but that she is miserable without.
He is our greatest blessing, and the source
or most OF our troubles, and both he and we
are happiest when he is kissing away the
tears he has made us shed.
He is brave as lion in the face of
actual danger, but he is scared to death
every time he has headache He can smoke
cigarette and wait his turn with stocal
calm on the battlefield, but at home he can
keep three people busy wrapping up finger
with pin prick.
innermost secrets of science, but he can't
find a pocket handkerchief in a bureau
drawer unless it happens to be on top of the
other clothing.
lie Will lace the enemy on the held or bat
tie without a tremor, but he lives in mortal
terror of his stenographer, and makes his
wife discharge the cook.
He can hold nation under his thumb,
but he lets his own baby boss him.
He will go to the stake for the sake of his
opinions, but he hasn't the courage to wear
last years hat.
His favorite topic of conversation is glib
ing at the faults of women, yet the only
women he loves are those who justify every
one of his criticisms.
He prides himself upon being guided by
eason and logic, yet in the ,ost important
act in his life he throws judgment to the
winds, and marries a girl because of the way
her hair curls on the nape of her neck
The qualities he admires in his sweetheart
he abhors in his wife. He chooses a girl be-
cause she dresses like fashion plate, and
is outraged when she asks for a new frock
after marriage.
He will work himself into nervous pros
tration for his family, and give them money
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QUIPS AND OUIDDITIES

~ never saw the equal of those Jagsbys
next door," said Mr.. Biddle. "They are al
ways wanting to borrow something. l honestly
believe we've lent them everything in the house
except the piano and our twin BEDS
"Im sorry, you are so wrought up said Mrs.
Biddle. "Mr. JagSby has just sent over to
know if
"Don't say it! Don't say It'll"
eff you have few empty bottles you could
spare, pint or quart size"
"Out of the way, woman I'll take them over
myself"
Young Harold was late for Sunday school and
minister inquired the cause. 81 was going fish
ing, but father wouldn't let me-" answered the
lad.
That's the right kind of a father to have"
replied the reverend gentleman did he ex-
plain the reason why he would not let you go?"
eyes, sir. He said there wasn't bait enough
for two"
Unison had barely taken off his coat when
his mother-in-law, pale of face, rushed up to
him and grabbed his arm.
ooh, Arthur" she gaSped, chat great, heavy
grandfather clock in the hall has just crashed
down on the spot where was standing only
a minute ago"
Jimson did not seem 70 be greatly agitated
at the news and only muttered:
"H'm! l always said that clock was Slow!
"Sr Thomas Upton told me he is going to
take up flying instead of yachting" said men,
Der of the Aero Club in New York. "He says
the air is cheaper than the water. He said in
jovial way that he liked to save, even in the
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the matter of sports, and added that he was
rather like the old fellow in the smoking car.
Crossing the plains in a smoking car an old
fellow and young one sat side by side. After
some hours of travel they fell into friendly
talk and finally fthe old fellow filled his pipe
from big pouch and lit up. The young man
took out his own pipe.
"'Would you kindly oblige me with a match?'
he said The old man gave him a match, and
the young man began to search his pockets.
"'The deuce he said, with a sheepish smile.
4 haven't got any tobacco with me-.
"'Then you won't need the MATCH said the
old fellow, and reaching out his hand he took
it and replaced it in his matchbox.
The father of an ingenious infant is retired
gardening and keeping poultry. Most of his
hens, however, died of mysterious complaint.
One day the professor found his little
daughter planting feathers in neat rows be-
hind the cabbage patch.
"What on earth are you doing?" he de-
manded.
Don't be silly" said the infant crushngly;
"you said that we couldn't have any more eggs
because the chickens were all dead and I'm set
ting out some chicken SETS"
'Fore" shouted the golfer, preparing for
a big swipe.
But the woman who was crossing the links
paid no attention.
"Fore" yelle, til man with the clubs,
angrily. Still she took no notice.
'Try her with three ninety-nine," suggest
ed a friend. perhaps she's one of those
bargain hunters
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way to cooperation that fosters peace. Amid
the problems and perils of the time we move
gropingly, with all too much of human
frailty encumbering; but at least we move,
and move forward. Through the dark stirs
light, fitful and dim, but truly foregleam Of
new age.
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Around the World
Tri-Weekly Mems Flashes From All Over
the Earth.
Regains Memory

Quartermaster Sergeant William Ball, OF
tn Canadian forestry corps, has reported at
Dominion headquarters at Ottawa Of the
Great War Veterans association with story
of having had his memory beaten out OF
him in 1919, and knocked back two years
later
Ball said he had been beaten and robbed
in Bordeaux in April, 1919, and that he had
lost all recollection of his Canadian homer
Later he joined the 81 anish foreign legioE
and claimed recently to have recovered hif
memory as an officer had hit him on the
head with a rifle butt in Jail in Refas
Morocco
Ball was posted as a deserte1 after hic
disappearance and the veterans association
has been conducting search for him in bc|
half of his wife, who lives in Port Hope
Ontario
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In a few generations instead of F. F. V.
and Mayflower Pilgrim ancestry the really
wealthy will proudly refer to their l. o. B.
Observation-Disclosures Order Of Boot
leggers.-Sagin aw News Courier.
1t is about time for some statesman to
show that Henry Ford's whole idea at Mus
Gle Shoals is to increase the demand for
tractors. More fertilizer, more farms, more
tractors. Simple.-Pittsburg Sum-.
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OF MANY COLORS

Here's page from an old diary: Sep
TENDER IS, 1873-Jay Cooke & Co., bankers
of New York. fail. A financial panic is pre-
cipitated. The New York clearing house Is
forced t. suspend. The presidents of the
banks meet in council to devise ways of re-
lief.
President Grant declines to accede to the
bankers request to aid the banks with the
treasury balance If $44,O00,000. Runs are
made on banks and private bankers, and many
strong houses fall during the ensuing 10
days"
Americans lately have been talking about
business depression. Compared with some OF
the old-time panics, shedding is easy. Get
grandpa to tell you about 1873. Then you'll
appreciate the Federal Reserve banking sys-
tenn, the shock absorber.
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Current Comment

If Mr.. Hoover thinks we should nav" coal,
why not let Mr.. Hoover devise ways and
means for us to buy it the same as he does
for the foreign tions?-Columbia IS. Co.
Record.
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Mexican Census

Official census figures, which are said
to be practically complete, have just been
issued and show that Mexico has total
population of approximately 100000 peo-
ple,, decrease of 100000 as compared
with the population given by the census Of
the year 1910, which marked the beginning
of the revolutionary period. The decrease
is explained by the losses during the revo-
lutions in killed and those who persisted
by hunger and sickness brought on by hard
ShinS
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One notes with concern that the ranks o.
the first inventor of the automobile is grad
ually thinning-St Joseph News Press.
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Lake Casualties

Fewer lives were lost on the Great Lakef
in 1921 than for several years, according
to statistics compiled at Cleveland. Twelve
small vessels-seven steamers and five
barges-went down with loss of % lives
This compares with 20 lives lost in 1926
and IA in 1919.
Two lives were lost on the w. H. Wolf,
which was destroyed by fire in the St.
Clair river. Eight were lost on the steamer
City Of New York, seven on the barge
Miztec and five on the barge Oliver Mo-
watt.
The Wolf was the largest carrier in
the list. Her capacity was only 5000 tons,
but when she was built at Milwaukee in
1887 she was one of the largest vessels
on the lakes.
Five of the vessels were lost on Lake
Ontario, three on Lake Superior, two in
the st. Clair river, one at Toledo and one
at Erie.