The Holly chieftain., 1923-06-28

grain and grain products was indorsed.
Increase Of domestic consumption Of
wheat and wheat products was urged.
Fifteen men from various branches
of industry and agriculture were
named directors. Among them are o.
E. Bradfute. head of the American
farm bureau; Daniel A. Wallace. Min
nesota. publisher and brother Of the
secretary Of agriculture; Julius Fleisch-
mann, Cincinnati. president Of the
Fleischmann Yeast company; Alexan-
der Legge, president of the Interna.
tional Harvester company; F. Edison
White, president OF Armour 4 Co., and
Fl. E. Byram. president Chicago. Mil
waukee & st. Paul railroad.
The rejected minority plan was that
a grain corporation be formed. sup
Piled with money from the United
States treasury. to buy all the Ameri-
can farmers wheat as soon as the
price dropped to s1.5O a bushel.
Senator Capper Of Kansas was one
Of the most vociferous of the con-
ferees as might be expected. and at
thS oPChAhS oCSSiou hG SClLCo luC Op-
portunity to denounce the Chicago
board of trade, asserting that 1t has
become the worlds greatest gambling
place and fixes the price for the bene-
fit of the speculator and against the
producer and consumer. He added:
'In May, 1922. half dozen grain gam
blers cleaned up something like ST.
100000 in "a hours, which was more
than all the farmers of Kansas made
out Of their entire crop in 1922. This
will not be possible with the Capper-
Tincher law In operation.r
Vice President John r. Mauft of the
Chicago board of trade hotly resented
Capper's charges. denying them abso-
lutely Afterward he said the boards
directory would soon decide whether
the Kansas senator should not be sued
for damages on account OF defamation
OF character of the 1893 members of
the board.
A MONG the participants In the
wheat conference was Gov. J. A.
o. Preus Of Minnesota, who had just
received the Republican nomination
for United States senator to succeed
the late Knute Nelson. He defeated
eight rivals In the primary. The Farm
er-Labor party nominated Magnus
johnson, and the Democrats named
James A. Carley. Preus is more of a
practical politician than is Frank B.
Kellogg. and may win where Kellogg
failed. His advent In the senate would
not be vastly more pleasing to the con-
servatives than would be that of an.
other Farmer-Labor senator.
| EROM across the water the most sem
- sati0nal news Of the week told Of
the terrific eruptions of Mount Etna,
Vast volumes Of molten lava flowed
down the slopes Of the Sicilian vol
cano, utterly destroying number of
towns and rendering homeless many
thousands OF persons. For some days
1t was believed the larger towns of
Linguaglossa and Castiglione also
were doomed, but us the lava river
flowed into the valley between them 1t
was said by experts that they would
be saved. King Victor Emmanuel hur-
ried to the scene Of disaster to cheer
up the sufferers and promise them re-
lief, and Premier MussOlini later
dropped all other business and also
went to Sicily. United States Ambas-
sador Child and Rear Admiral An
drews arrived on the cruiser Pittsburgh
and were greeted with almost hysteri-
cal gratitude. for Sicily we'll remem-
| bers what America did for her when
Messina was destroyed by an earth
quake. The forces of the Red Cross
were In action promptly, as always,
and there was plenty for them to do
among the throngs of refugees, most
of whom were gathered in Catania.
Vesuvius also has become more ac-
tive and the villages along the Bay Of
Naples are badly frightened. There
have been severe earthquakes in 81
berin and South America, as well as
the frightfully destructive quakes in
Persia recorded week ago, and
Mauna Loa, Hawaips famous Volcano,
is in eruption.
THE cartoonist depicts France as
= seated upon the Ruhr food supply
and saying to the passive-resistance
Germans, Now work, starve or fight"
and then asks which would France
prefer the Germans to do7 It appears
that France is about to answer the
question, for dispatches from Dussel-