Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-02-27

y RIDAY'S mail brought letter from an, one sh
old friend which read thus: bloc
By Edwin Camp

one should say it is a justification Of the farm
bloc.
The farm bloc Is news today It took w.
P. G. Harding off the federal reserve board.
1t put Milo G. Campbell on. 1t holds within
its more or less tenacious grip every piece Of
legislation coming before congress. At the
moment it is something less than a balance
of power, yet a great force. 1t is being as
sailed as pernicious, though 1t is easy to meas
ure the bias and guess the motives of it's most
outspoken critics
Barrett attempts to prove that Uncle Reu-
ben must speak at Washington, and he does it
in the most captivatingly interesting manner.
There is not dull page in the book. So far
as L have been able to find, there is not
sophistry, not one line of buncombe in it. It's
the finest antidote [ can imagine to nausea
caused by reading the Congressional Record.
1t is replete with the most delightful hui
mor-irony that is tempered till it is sweet
and gentle, and therefore hardly to be called
irony. For example read this:
eve met at a great table in one of the most
magnificent club rooms in Gotham. Million
aires were commonplace beside the guest they
had come to honor. All bowed low at least
metaphOrically, to the man whom they were
pleased to regard as the human symbol of
mighty utility. was certainly
for the time the biggest dog among that great
collection of thoroughbreds.
II was surrounded by galaxy Of intellect
the like of which seldom assemblies in one
room. There was John Hays Hammond and
there was Henry P. Dawson, Judge Alton B;
Parker and number Of others representing
luxury, opulence and finance. They had come
they said to get acquainted with Uncle Reu-
ben through the man who had been selected
as their spokesman.
''It was grand but at the same time sim
pie. The coming together of two nationally
indispensable forces had been achieved Har-
mony had been completely established The
beatitudes of the Sermon on the Mount had
at last found company of rich admirers.
Barrett made his speech, the only one at
the dinner.
II was complimented, congratulated, my
back slapped by enthusiastic millionaire lis
teners. CO-operation would h a
forthwith established. All hard
feelings-in fact all the means that have
contributed to keep loving hearts apart
would henceforth be removed, and we would
travel onward arm in arm plucking in unison
the finest grapes from Gods vineyard All,
how lovely it all seemed. :"
But on the way out one of the wealthy and
powerful gentlemen present accosted him.
Barrett, he said, 4 would like you to
stop off on your way back to Georgia and stop
some of this damned radical legislation. We
especially want you to kill the La Toilette
act -"
Barrett's conclusion is that the farmer NAV
give friendly encouragement to all honest eff
forts to establish cooperation between the
classes but he had better play safe by con-
tinuing his efforts to work out his own saliva
ton.
not getting square deal. Go and take a.
square deal"
That sounds like good Anglo-Saxon-Amer
lean doctrine. Barrett's book tells of the ef-
forts being made in that direction
1t is we'll worth any mans reading.