Evening star., 1923-11-22
b|GGER.FARM BLOC
i SEEN IN CONGRESS
Agriculturists Smarting Un-
der Low Prices for Prod.
ucts, Says South Dakotan.

Pointing to alarm" in tho east at
the election of such men as Frazier.
Brookhart. Shipstead and Magnus
johnson. Representative William VIII
Hanson Of South Dakota sounded
a warning" that tunless there is
a readtustment of factory. mill and
farm product prices the farmer will
assert himself politically with an
ever-increasing determination" In
addressing the District OF Columbia
Society Of the Sons OF the American
Revolution last night :at the La Fay
cite Hotel.
The farmer is still the biggest
single factor in our nation and with
out his Cooperation and continued
production our people: cannot live"
Representative Williamson said. His
prosperity and contenttnent is close
~ linked with the wsell-being and
happiness of our common country.
In the past he has been our Sanest
influence. and he will continue to be
such II he gets a square deal. The
farmer is fully conscious that the
price he receives for his wheat
hears no just relation to what he
must pay for his -four: that the
spread between the beef on the hoof
and the beef on the Block is too
great, and that the pittance he re-
ceiyes for his hides is little less than
an insult when compared with what
he pays for his shoes. For him TO
have to buy suit Of clothes or a
ton OF coal is a real calamity. Every
where the newspapers are filled with
Foreclosures advertising his farms
for sale under the hammer.
Consumer Also Roused.
I'm the farmers battle will be
means, who in turn feels aggrieved
at the price he must pay for the nee
essarfes OF life. 1t has been repeated
until it has become trite that the
farmer must organize his business
and his markets SO as to combat
organization with organization and
SO as to fix the prices for his own
products in place of having them
fixed for him by the middleman. This
seems a plausible solution, and If the
Farmer Is driven 10 desperation he
poay do 1t, but 1t might easily re-
suit disastrously to the consumer.
IF the people come to realize that
they cannot receive justice from the
captains of industry, they Will learn
to do without them" he continued.
q resolution to. practice the correct
usage Of the flag. as decided at a
conference under the auspices OF the
American Legion last June.
Change Text of Greed.
The body approved the change in
fhe American croed" which substi-
totes "the nag Of the United States"
for the term 'our flag" THIS makes
the first line read: II pledge alle-
glance to the nag of the United
States"
Miss Nancy Stillwell sang and new
members were installed as follows:
James Russell Larcombe, Lyle MILAN
Mason, James Franklin Douglas. jr.;
Isaac Reynolds Hit, Eugene Beau
harnais Jackson, Willis Fenton Roe,
William Cleveland Stauffer. George
Latourette Coleman, William Wade
Everett. Abell Archibald Norris. tr.:
Paul Tinsley Cheek. Thomas Jackson
Cheek. Pleas Fowler Cheek, Paul
Wentworth Linebarger. James Alex
ander Martindale. Edward Allen
Keys, Edward Wild Bradford. Jack
man Herrick. Arthur Edward John
son. William Mather Lewis. presi-
dent. George Washington University;
W. Scott Macgin and Lieut.. Col. Bar
ton w. Perry.