Evening star., 1924-01-19
TALKS and TALES
With and About
CAPITALS GUESTS


people has received more notice in
the press of the country during the
past year or two than the farmer,
especially those who make their
homes in the great middle west; and
while the problem of the agriculturist
Is unquestionably a perplexing one.
it will not be touched on here other
than to show how differently the
situation is viewed by those familiar
with conditions.
In an address on transportation be-
fore members of the Kiwanis Club
at the Hotel Washington. the other
day, James c. Davis, director general
of the railroad administration. reciteQ
unstrung the nerves of some Iowa
farmers had become over the situa-
ton.
THE Agriculturists Association
fair is the big event each year In
that section" said Mr. Davis. LAS
many as $4,000 people congregate to
inspect the exhibits. The past year
was no exception, and the big feature
entertainment number was a collision
between two old railroad locomo-
tives."
While this antiquated attraction
has long since seen its best days. 1t
proved a great drawing card in Iowa
this year. and farmers from miles
around drove into see 1T. One horny
handed tiller of the soil, meeting
friend whom he had not seen for
months. greeted him with this:
Well. gosh-darn your old hide.
what be you doing driving 200 miles
just to see two engines bump. with
times as they be-"
Two hundred miles,. snorted back
the other. Why, Hank. the way l
feel I'd drive ten hundred miles to
see hell battered out of anything"
~ IL
Seated Ia his r5ons at thc same
hotel. Rabbi Simon Glazer of the
Great Synagogue. New York. for
many years head of the United Syna-
gogues of Greater Kansas City.
laughed outright when asked IL the
condition of the midwestern farmer
was as serious as purported.
MY boy" said Dr.; Glaser: .,,,ne as ne
with the state of Kansas as you
are with your home town and let
me tell you that as whole there
is not happier, more Industrious,
more prosperous set of people In the
United States than there Is In that
great state, and especially the farmer.
Il have been In every nook and
corner of the commonwealth and
feel 1t worth considerable travel to
take breakfast at the home of the
a few setbacks to crops and low
prices. the Kansas farmer-and /
will go farther and say the farmers
of Iowa. Nebraska and Missouri
are far from crying wolf as some
would have you believe. They wear
biles and eat better food than mill
lions in the cities. and when you are
told otherwise just wink your off
eye"
Rabbi Glazer attributes these con-
ditions to the dry state Of Kansas
and. after ridiculing the idea that
prohibition was becoming dead
issue in America. paid a great trib-
ute to Senator Curtis of the Sun
mower state. who. he said. alone was
dition.
Back in the old days this cour-
egeous man, then attorney general.
practically single-handed, wiped
years made Kansas dry. He never let
up, and today the state is truly bone
dry. He is one of our greatest Ameri-
cans, and il he would consent to run
for the vice presidency would make
the republican party unbeatable"
The rabbi resents any attempt to in
clude the usage of sacramental wines
in arguments against prohibition, and
says that according to the signed
statement OF Prohibition Director
of wine were used for sacramental
purposes by the $4,000 Jewish people
of Kansas during three and a half
years.
of President Coolidge. and predicts
that 80 per cent of the women Of the
country. irrespective of party affilia-
tions, Will vote the republican ticket.
*k r y
When you've devoted more than
thirty years of your life to the news
paper profession, mastered all tho fine
points, cultivated a wide acquaintance
among the biggest. political men of
the country, and on the day many Of
them are to assemble in meeting you
start out to renew old friendships,
only to be struck down by a taxicab
and landed in a hospital, is rather
tough shedding. what?
That was the unpleasant experience
last Monday night Of Harry Wilson
several st. Louis. New York and Chi
cago papers.
Intimate with many big democrats
of New York. Harry was on his way
ment with Dan Ryan, secretary of
Tammy Hall, when at Thomas Circle
he was run down by a southbound
taxicab. The injured writer was
rushed to George Washington Hos
pital. where it was found that his
right ankle was fractured and his
LEFT LET leg .t badly n.h laeerated. tt the hos;
she expected to remove her husband
to their home today.
There are few notables in either
of the two great parties who are not
acquainted with Harry Walker, and
many were the inquiries made for
meeting earlier in the week. No re-
port of the accident had reached his
friends at the time, and the supposi-
ton was that he had returned to New
York.
And speaking of luck. With the
entire world on edge and nobody
quite certain of what the morrow
has in store, it's rather refreshing to
hear of simple little movement
started for no other reason than to
bring good luck and prosperity to all
peoples of the world. :.
January S. a certain we'll known
Army officer In New York, evidently
tmbued with the spirit of the joyous
Go Smiling Through 1924" campaign,
which, judged by its spread today,
Will encircle the globe in very short
order.
Its exceptional feature is that II
costs those participating absolutely
nothing more than kindly thought,
one toward the other, and in this
money-mad age that at least makes it
distinctive. ., -
Dropping into the Lee House, Will
liam F. Shanahan, resident manager,
was found busily fulfilling require
ments snecifed In the following in
etructions:
Cops .nfs and send 1T to nihe peo-
pie whom you wish good luck. The
chain was started by an American.
Army officer and should go around
the chain.. for who ever does will
have bad luck. Do 1t within twenty