Evening star., 1923-10-05
TALKS and TALES
With and about
CAPITALS GUESTS

LIAR Al y OUEO1O
Hello! Hellol IL that you. Kansas?
All. please get on the line---hello.
Kansas! Yes! Say. can you get .
farmer to the phone--oh. II this
farmer7 wsil. say; listen to what
Fred voiiand, citizen OF your state
and president of the National Retail
Clothiers' Association. with head
quarters In Chicago, has to say about
conditions out In your bailiwick. Yes.
he II right here In Washington. at
the Hotel La Faystte-shoot. Mr..
voiland!
"All this down-in- the mouth talk
about Kansas farmers being up
against It on account Of crops is
bosh. Wheat is a bit OF in price.
but wheat only amounts to abort 7
per cent Of the states total farm
top shape. The state does not owe
2 dollar.people are all paying their
bills and laying q little aside for
Stacker times.
During the last year i have: tray-
cations In l56 cities and know that
Kansas farmers are buying more and
better clothes than many of those
In urban communities. There 10 one
automobile for every five persons in
the area and it's q common express
sion that a five-passenger fivver
Will carry the state.
what's that Mr.. Farmer? Oh. get
on OF wheat! Isn't 1t true that since
you started your SOW, COW and hem
campaign returns from alfalfa. cat
- -
offset your losses in wheat? I
thought so! And Is II not also a fact
that you are sick and tired of added
iegisiation, and only ask to be al
lowed to sell what you raise? Well,
thsfs th all I'm telling them here In
run feed your ptggies!
MI. Voiland said further that this
was banner year for clothiers. The
united states has been on d clothes
Diet Tor several years." laughed the
nourishment. The many old-clothes
drives have emptied the closets and
necessity demands that they be refill-
eo. Last year there were only fifty-
two hats sold to cover every 100
clothes had to do for each 100 wear
ers. A. record breaking season 10
ahead for American clothiers. the
country 10 dressing up"
Referring to sentiment regarding
President Hardins's successor. the
Ing but satisfaction at every turn.
Especially 10 this true with business
America" he continued. 1.-The busf-
ness man In every section Of the
country feels that the nations affairs
are In safe and sane keeping. and
are secure. There IL a marked feel
Ing of trust In President Coolidge"
Mr.. Voiland will remain in Wash
iagton several months to assist
Irving S. PAUL., chief of the domestic
commerce division. Department Of
Commerce. In devfsing methods to re-
duce distribution of costs and over
head expense.
Satisfied that the Kansas farmer
would survive through the winter, a
House to see II Minnesota needed
first aid on account of the wheat
drop, but learned from Frank W.
Matson Of st. Paul. one of the three
railroad and warehouse commission
ers Of the Gopher state. that Mime
sofa was doing quite nicely.
The wheat situation in our COM
munity Is not nearly so bad as has
been painted" said Mr.. Matson. Our
farmers are fast learning the value
OF diversifying their crops and In
consequence Minnesota Is no longer
the low price of the product has at
fected some of our people. but for
the most part conditions are good"
When told that Senator johnson
was In, town. the st. Paul man. an
old-Iinc republican. smiled and said:
man and while he is the most ad.
'vertised legislator that ever came to
Washington. down in his heart he
really means to do his best. Natur-
ally, being Of the other party, 1 would
much rather have had Gov. Preus to
represent Minnesota"
The Minnesota commissioner Is an
ardent Kiwanian. being president Of
the st. Paul kiwanis Club, and had to
cut his talk short in order to attend
the weekly meeting Of the local XII
wants organization.
Together in purpose. but stopping
at different hotels, N. p. Clyburn and
NJ. q. Dzugherty, both OF Washington
Court House. Ohio. the latter a
brother Of the Attorney General. are
II town for a few days to settle the
estate of the late Jesse w. Smith,
intimate friend OF the Harding ad-
ministration.
Mr. Dausherty is executor of the
MI, MT; Smith, H., will. and Attorney ely
legal end Of the matter. The former
is at the Wardman Park Hotel. and
Mt. Clyburn is registered at the New
Hotel Hamilton.
There L. nothing much to talk
about" said Mr.. Clyburn when ap-
tngton Court House are stfrl mourning
the lamented Harding and are
thoroughly satisfied with the way his
successor 10 carrying on. The coun-
try WAS fortunate to have such q
man ready to take up the reins."
A new wrinkle In radio stunts,
something never demonstrated be.
fore. Is in store for radio fans during
american Marine week. November S
TO 10. according to Col. Edward A..
Simmons Of New. York, publisher of
Railway Age" nd five transporta-
ton magazines. who is at the Hotel
Washington IT, the Military Order of
World War convention.
During ti.e period for the first time
In the l,.s ory of radio all stations in
the United states will be SO Connected
that one may talk from a given sta =
tfon to practically every house in the
country having receiver sets.
On the night Of November 6 Col.
Roosevelt. assistant secretary of the
Navy, Will talk from New York city.
and during the week Gen. Pershinr
VIII send q message either from
Washington or New York. The head
means to the country commercially
and during war times.
Col. Simmons is commander OF ths
American Legion In Kings county.
N. Y. with supervision over sixty-hye
posts in Brooklyn. During a recent trip
to Japan and China herepresented the
national commander OF the legion in
the orient He was the guest OF honor
at . dinner given by the Toxic Yoko-
hama Post at the Hotel Yokohama
the night before he sailed for Amer
lea This house and all of it's guests
were subsequently, lost In the earth
quake.
Another world war veteran hnt ~