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Evening star., 1925-12-06
Why Agriculture Turns to Washington
With Demands for Economic Relief

lZlng cooperative aid in the Depart
ment of Agriculture. rather than il
the independent board to be set Up in
accordance with the Coolidge farm.
commissions recommendation
Oppose Government Control.
Cooperative marketing among il4-
farmers has attained So enormous
proportions that they resent any
suggestion OF Government control
The latest figures show that one
fifth OF the country's total agricul-
tural business, or Approximately
81 200, 600 600, VIII lie done co-opera
lively this year. Some farm organi-
cations have already agreed upon g.
bill which would not attempt a.
regulate or register cooperative or
Eanizations, but which would en-
power the Secretary of Agriculture.
10 establish division primarily de
voted TO cooperative marketin-
This would be largely a research ana
service branch of the department
and one deprived Of any sort oE
authority over cooperative concerns
y bill to this end Will probably bc
presented to Congress during th,.
coming session
But it IS in the realm OF Uhar tho.
call protection" for agriculture thu;
the farmers are now most iusiSten
mere VIII be many proposals aInrg
that line at the Chicago Cuuyeutio-
Most farm leaders consider tho Nd.
Nary-Haugen scheme for ID Govern
ment corporation To export SIIrDlf!s
| farm produce buried beyond rederni.-
tlon. What the leaders ROW demarla
Is something to take its place The
are not likely to be content with
more Government relief in the shane
or emergency credit aid such aS has
Just been arranged for the Iowa corr,
! farmers. More credit the farmers
argue, means more borrowing. more
interest TO pay and generally put-
ing agriculture more deaoly in the
hhanclal hole than il is already
Demand for Protection.
SO the farmers are peinc orca,.
lzed TO demand 'pro.xctiou." either
through reduced tarfn rates on The
commodities they must purchase ur.
some Federal price fixing plan Farm
leaders are arguing that industry j.
protected by the Fordney-NCCumbei
tariff and labor by the new fnmisra
tlon laws. Nov protect agriculture
is their Clamor.
Republican party leaders contend
that the demand for farm "prote,
cratic farm leaders as a purely anti
Republican proposition. Farm Bureau
Federation managers are said To be
mostly of Democratic persuasion
Iowa leading Democrat and farm
journal publisher, Edwin T. Meredith
former Secretary Of Agriculture. h.
just launched a. farm relief scheme
whereby the Federal Government a.
the beginning of each crop year shall
establish minimum price for wheat
wool, sugar, corn and cotton. ANY
produce the farmers cannot sell shall
he bought, under this program by the
Government at the fixed prices anu
sold abroad on the best ubtainahl..
! terms for the benefit of the Treasury
Any loss on the transaction would Lt
shouldered by the taxpayers.
This variation of the NcNary-IIau
gen plan is not likely to earn the sup
port of the Coolidge administration.
which has always frowned on such
proposals as sOcialistiC price-fiNin@
legislation.
TOO
Evening star., 1925-12-06
Italy Buys Few Autos.

Italy is not f1ivver nation. Only
$4,000 private motor cars We're owned
in the entire country last year-little
more than double the pre-war number.
With public motors and lorrieS the
total came to $4,000. Italy does not go
in for mass production and carefully
protects its citizens by tariffs and spe-
cial taxes from the temptation to buy
low priced American cars.
Evening star., 1925-12-06
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Agriculture has again turned to
Washington for relief from depressing
conditions. The impending annual
meeting of the American Farm Blu
reau Federation at Chicago, which
President Coolidge will address, will
register agriculture's demand for relief
in stentorian tones. Once again the
times are out of joint in the farming
country. Six months ago the rural
world seemed to be on the threshold
of a year Of bumper prosperity. Crop
prospects were brilliant. Prices We're
high. Mortga ges We're being paid off
Farmers nearly everywhere were in
jubilant mood.
Since then q. variety Of things has
happened to depreSS the agriculturiStS.
The corn crop turned ont to be SO big
that it sent prices crashing to almost
unprecedentedly low levels. Then the
railroads, which the farmers have al
ways regarded their natural enemies.
petitioned the Interstate Commerce
Commission for a horizontal increase
in freight rates. From the four quar-
ters of the agricultural universe the
cry was sent up that the threatened
increase would be nothing short of
rutnous to the farmer. who already
felt himself burdensomely Handicapped
by the cost of reaching the market
place with his produce. Congress last
winter, with agriculture'S approval
passed the so-called Smith Hoch reso.
luton instructing the Interstate Com.
merce Commission to investigate
freight rates. The purpose was to
determine a more equitable charge on
agricultural products and effect nee
essary changes. The investigation di
rected by Congress has been under
way for several months past. Mean.
time, as Il countermoye to the action
of Congress, 76 railroads in % West
ern States are demanding an increase
in freight rates amounting to il per
cent. The farmers feel they may also
be the indirect victims of the rail
roads demand for an increase in the
rates for carrying the mails.
Farmers Fail to Enthuse.
While worrying over these queS-
tionS. the farmers have been studying
the agricultural relief program work
ed out last Spring by President Cool
idge'S farm commission. 1t fails to
arouse their enthusiasm. For the
most part, they have come to the
conclusion that 1t offers them stone
instead of bread. The President s
fact-finders, acting on Mr.. Coolidge's
theory that self-help is the farmers
ernment aid In cooperative market
ing as the chief need of the hour. The
CapperHaugen bill. embodying the
farm commissions recommendation
among other things, called for the
establishment of a permanent agricul-
tural commission. The bill proposed
to give the commission certain powers
for co-ordinating the activities of the
various farm cooperative organiza.
tions.
The farm cooperative associations,
as one Of their leaders puts it, were
appalled," at the Comprehensiveness
Of the Capper Haugen bill. They saw
their judgment. their enterprise and
their business freedom curtailed. They
left no doubt of their hostility TO this
apparent Government interference
with farm marketing activities The
result was a bill introduced in the
House by Representative Dickinson
Republican, Of Iowa, the farm leader
in the lower branch Of Congress. The
Dickinson bill provided for central
Evening star., 1925-12-06

needs. l cannot develop a true religi-
Gus feeling towards it. The future
existence that it promises has no al
lurement to me. Without denying it
or ridiculing il, l cannot find suitable
accommodation for it in my scheme Of
things. l cannot make 1t fit into the
macrocosm. Quite contentedly l can
absent myself from its extremely ter1u-
GUS felicity, and linger here to com
nune with my earthly companions
and enjoy with them the light of the
sun. While l have many absorbing
tasks of present concern to fill my
days, 1 push aside the business of in
vestigating spiritualism. l am far
less concerned about what is going TO
happen to me in eternity. than about
What is going to happen 10 this coun-
try in the next 10 or 20 years.
If the new heaven of spfritualism is
yeritable scientific topography, I look
back with affectionate memories TO
the vanished New Jerusalem of my
childhood. with its spotless white raj
ment. and angels waving wings and
harps of gold. we don't get such
fine weather as we used to get in the
days of Charles H." Addison's old
squire complained to his crony. I
echo that we don't get such fine solid
mansions in the skies, socialist and
SplIlludllSl. as we uSeO 10 get III the
days of good Queen Victoria.
My dear friend. Arthur Conan Doyle,
to whose earnestneSS and truth seek
ing crystal sincerity l pay the warm
est tribute, will forgive me if l lag
out of his company, immersed as I
am in affairs of this world that give
me little respite to lay UP for myself
treasures in Heaven.
This Earth Compels.
Whatever call to wander in strange
" haunted spheres of other or fields
of asphodel. in new modes Of being,
amid new duties and new pleasures,
whatever call to prolong and fulfil its
existence my spirit may obey when it
has earned its release from the flesh.
il is to this earth that 1t passionately
turns and returns and clings today:
this earth that is the mother of all
that know and feel: this earth where
] have lived and Sinned and suffered
and loved, and fought and stumbled
and triumphed and despaired, and
eaten my fill and drunk deep draughts
of pleasure and success and bitter
Evening star., 1925-12-06
BY ARTHUR CAPPER,

1t has become a common saying
that farmers should not look to Iegis-
lative patent medicine TO cure their
ills. This sort of talk has been clever
ly used as propaganda against any
kind of assistance from Congress.
Farmers as a whole have not asked
for Impractical experimenting by Con.
gress, but they do believe the Govern
ment can give them assistance with
their problems.
It is the trouble making surplus of
farm products which demands atten-
ton and action from Congress. Too
often these surpluSeS have wrecked
our domestic market and an uneCo-
nomic condition is brought about
where a short crop will bring its pro
ducers more money than a bumper
yield. The potato crop of 1929, for
example, Is worth more money now
than was that of 1924. which was prob
ably twice the size of this years crop.
Asks Export Corporation.
I do not advocate buying and selling
OF farm products By the Government
nor any form of priCe-fxing but il
should be possible for Congress to set
up 4 Gorernment-superv exporting
corporation or to assist in developing
aged or controlled, within certain
limits. The Government can aid in
finding and reaching foreign markets
for these surpluses. The markets are
there. Only the necessary selling
machinery with intelligent direction is
needed. The tariff on agricultural
products must be So adjusted that it
gives the same protection TO these
products as is now given to the prod
ucts of industry
Farmers are asking for an effective
protective tariff particularly on those
products Of which we produce a sur
plus for export. or the present tariff
must be revised 50 that he can buy his
own commodities at prices that are
in line with what he receives for his
products. There still is too great q
disparity between what the farmer re
ceives for his output and what he
must pay for his needs.
While we have looked to foreign
markets to absorb our surpluses, it is
well to remember that the European
market for American products is be-
Evening star., 1925-12-06
By FRANK Ill. SIMONDS.

n HE vote in the Reichstag on
the Locarno treaties supplies
the first clear and illuminat-
ing test we have ever had of
Evening star., 1925-12-06
What Is Determinism?

Continued on Nineteenth Page)
The Denver Jewish news., 1925-08-06
The Booklouer's Nook
SHALL WE READ POETRY?

Let 1t become known among your friends that you
know clever little storythc kind technically known
as Good Whisper-and they will be all ears while you
tell it. Pass good short story read, and they
try it out If favorable opportunity presents itself
Give them full length piece Of fiction with the assur
ance that is thoroughly enjoyable and they may be
willing at least TO "sec how II goes" And among n
somewhat smaller circle, you may discover a willing
ness to read interesting work of biography travel
But can you mention oGhand dozen-no, let us
make it easier: you honestly say that you have
three friends who could be thrilled by the
ment that you have just finished reading very beau
tiful poem, and would they please to the
house to go it with you! If you have such trim
ity; if you have but such one among your friends
you congratulate yourself upon having the nucleus
of a circle of culture. Wise men have offered this
test-"Do you really enjoy good poetry? Then you
may dare say that the seed of culture has taken
in your heart"
Disrael was regarded as the wiliest cync of his
time, worldly hardened campaigner if
Yet it Disrae who told us that "Poets are the
unacknowedged legislators of the world" 1t the
same Disrae who described the poet "a painter Of
the soul' When his soul seemed too coorful for
dnary uttcrancc Disracli sought expression through
poetry. "They that have learned through suffering,
teach through song"
What is poetry? Gilfllan answers: Poetry is
truth dwelling in beauty
What makes poetry: Goethe answers: "a full
heart brmful of noble passion"
What find in poetry? Shelly answers:
Poetry is the record of the best and happest
of the happest and best lives"
We are missing of the profound satisfactons of
life mot to say Of its genuine renemcns) if
we fail to develop taste for poetry 1t is disgrace
not to be born with inner appreciation of the beauties
of poetic expression. Huxley admitted that he had
learn to like poetry But he also admimtted that love
Of poetry opened the door to depths of human thought
and feeling which repaid the most patient exploring
This is hurried and hurryng age in which the art
of reading poetry and quoting it freely has been
largely neglected Still, if read great poem
week, we shoul4 in the course of year, have deved
into marvellous storehouse of human emotions and
golden thoughts and noble aspirations, of lmitless
depths of wstfulness and joyous flights of the mag
nation. FE
The Denver Jewish news., 1925-08-06
THE DRAMA
FIFTY YEARS WITH DAVID
BELASCO.
BY HENRY MONITOR

Copyright 1923 by Seven Arts Feature
sVuIlgutH
The Denver Jewish news., 1925-08-06
MUSIC
THE SYMPHONY BOWS TO
GERSCHWIN, SUPERJAZZIST

Last week the portrait Of Mr.. George
Gerschwln adorned that cover page Of
the Time magazine which had hereto
fore been regarded as the specla! do
main for the physlognomics Of kings
and statesmen, and financial giants in
the public eye.
The mother Of the new celebrity nd-
mittcd that that when she put her
hard-won savings Into Georges piano
lessons fifteen years ago, she did so
with increasing misgivings; and after
several years apparently devoid of real
progress, she was ready tho reluctant
to accept the general verdict that her
George would never make musician
1t was only short while ago that
Georgc-now aged 27-was pounding
out tunes for the beer Slippers in the
back of n Bowcry Cafe at dollar per
night and n meal of the free lunch
counter.
1t Is not so long. either, since his
older brother Ira forsook his ambition
10 he II hlghbrOw liternteur. Ira, you
see, after peddling a poem around for
many weeks and spending ninety cents
in postage thereon, finally received
therefor a check for one Dollar and
no-one hundrcdth cents.
CAS- The investment brokGs would
say, figures above given are from
sources believed TO be reliable, but not
guaranteed).
To come back to George, Though
what we had started to say was that
this young Gcrschwin has just returned
from triuInphal tour of Europe's mu-
steal centres. BE he so inclined, he can
well laugh at the disparagers of his
childhood efforts as a budding musician.
For he now basks in the warmth of an
international reputation AS n composer
who has raised Jazz to level OF Sc
The Denver Jewish news., 1925-08-06

reward. | cannot imagine a happier
state than to be content in ones voca
tion-to make of it an avocation.
1.-THE years pass the contented toll
er by with caresses instead of with
blows. Age has no terrors because the
worker has no time for growing old,
sensing what change there is as mere
ly transition of power into greater
adeptness.'
"Thcn your recipe for happiness
is" | began.
"Work!" interrupted Mr.. Belasco.
Then more work. We are made in
the image of the Creator, we partici-
pate in the divine qualities and the
mission of each of us is to create.
81 never learned to play-in which
probably | am fortunate. Laziness,
believe, should be added to the Hist of
noteworthy sins. Yet it carries its
own punishment, which is metcd out
in the form of unhappiness and dis
satisfaction.
"When all the world learns that
toll is happiness it will be happier
world. Today l am grateful for the
task which has been laid down for me
and for the opportunity to do it, even
at the expense of privation, despair
and sorrow. ID.
"What have done is merely a drop
in the bucket as compared with what
I hope to achieve in the name of the
World Stage before my work is done.
No one is more dissatisfied than
with what l have accomplished"
And the producer, smiling happily,
turned to what he termed Another
six hours of happiness"--in reality,
six hours of hard work on one of his
beloved plays.
Such is David Belasco. He is
modest and unassuming in achieve
ment, utterly unaware that he is what
the world knows him to be-the stage
genius of the age.
The Denver Jewish news., 1925-08-06

Thunderstorm" by G. b. \ KnopE publisher
The Denver Jewish news., 1925-08-06
IN THE JEWISH REALM OF ART AND SCIENCE

rlous musical Importance which had
heretofore not been thought possible,
The tale that hangs thereby, hangs
about as follows:
ON the ancient music-hall instrument
which passed for a piano, George
Gerschwin used 10 pound out curious
rythms which seemed to he In no par.
ticular key nor definite form. lie had
no name for IL, himself. But as the
young man hunched his swaying should
ers over his piano lie got something
ont Of 1t that his listeners seemed to
enjoy hugely. Georges croonings were
infectious; audiences took to whistllng
them. one Of his rhapsodi2ings was so
well received that he finally gave II n
name - Il Was So Young and You
Were So Beautiful" That was the
family's first hit, Ira sharing In
Georges honors 10y writing the words
Thereafter IsSs words TO his brothers
melodies produced succession of hits.
But up to this time one could hardly
speak of George Gerschwin as Il Sc.
rious musician. Then out of the clear
came his Rhapsody in Blue in the man.
ncr of LisZt-dashed OF in three weeks
Paul Whitemnn, claimed by Denver as
Its own Jazz king, put the rhapsody on
n program of the Whiteman orchestra
at Carnegie Hail. The audience ap-
plauded till the lights were put out
The critics heard It and raised their
critical eyebrows, frankly puzzled; a
few days later the critics heard it
again with rapt attention. one of them
called 1t "the finest piece of music ever
written in the United States" and ran
to tell Willcm van Hoogstraaten, fam
ed guest-conductor Of the Philharmonic
all about 1t. The Herr Konduktor had
phony orchestra.
Next fall, DIR. Walter Damrcsch an
nounces, Mr.. George Gersclwin will ap-
pear us guest artist ON the tour of the
New York symphony orchestra. The
concerto which the artist will play is
the one which Damrosch has recently
commissioned Gerschwin to write The
concerto is to be, according to Time
more serious than the Rhapsody, un-
conventional in the characteristic man
ner Of the young composer, but in strict
form, When he has finished that
George Gerschwin will complete his
contract to compose the scrore for the
light opera Lady BE Good, to he pro
duced in 1926. Ira, meanwhile. is pre-
pairing the libretto for another opera
to he composed by George next year.
All of which is lS way of explaining
why Time chose the head and should
ers of Mr., George Gerschwin 10 grace
its front cover last week
The Denver Jewish news., 1925-08-06
ARABS ASSAILN WIS II
ACTRESS IN JAFFA; FOUR
WOUNDED.
CJcwish Telcsraphic Agencyl

Jerrsalcm-The fourth act of a life
drama was enacted in JafIa following
u performance in m Arab theatre there.
When the heroine of the play, p jew.
ish actress, returned from the theatre
to the hotel. two Arab young men ap.
penred wishing to speak with her
When they We're refused admission and
asked to retire. they fired. The actress
and three other persons were wounded
one of the Arabs was arrested the
other escaped
The Denver Jewish news., 1925-08-06

Jewish rhilanthropist, has increased
his donation toward the building of n
Hebrew Teachers Seminary in Je-
rusalem from $4,000 to $4,000, ac.
cording TO n report made known here
The building will cost Sl50OO0 and
the raising of the balance required.
The Denver Jewish news., 1925-08-06
MISS STERN TRIUMPHs AGAIN

Not to many is II given to have achieved a novel of
literary distinction which turned out at the same time
to be one Of the Best Sellers But very few could SO
tempt Fate as to put out another novel within few
months after the first and get by with it, editorial
hat is off, therefore, to g. b. Stern-the lady who hides
her femininity behind the artcss initials
When the critics got hold of "The Matriarch' they
laudcd it generously. They marveed at the majestic
sweep of Miss Serns conception spanning the expanse
of six generations Of Jewish motherhood Now that the
publishers have released Thunderstorm" the admra
ton for the sheer genuneness of her portrayal Of an
Italian couple in their native heath and English pair
IN their adopted Italy. Here personalities we take
JOY in meeting, following, knowing. When the Ital-
ian naivetc captures the British heart in the story it
very easy to imagine oneself similarly and willingly
taken into the circle of events Next to being on the
shore Of the Mediterranean in the body, be there
with Miss Stern's vivid characters in the spirit
The lively yet sympathetic mood in which the first
half of the story flows along rudey shattered by the
turmoil of passions and hatred in which our English
friends in the novel suddendy find themselves engulfed
The reader had not barganed for any such thunder
storms in the Italian sky. But if the story has
it is dcftly brought back the safe highway. And
thunder and lightning, the pleasing recollection of
sunny Italian day.
Whether Thunderstorm" will receive the cnthusias-
tic acclaim which the reading public accorded "Thc
Mariarch' remains to be seen. But that Miss Stern
has again triumphed with the critics there is no doubt
And that Thunderstorm" is well worth reading there
is still less for doubt
''rhunderstorm" by Alfred \ Knopf publisher
The Denver Jewish news., 1925-08-06

As Friday evening-Home Nght-approaches, the
feeling this writer that it is time to have
another visit with Browning, mbbe the mellowed yet
virile reflections of Rabbi Ben Ezra.
Should you to do likewise you will find the re-
Elections of Rabbi Ben Ezra the head of column r.
page 4-the editorial page Ben Ezra is what you
would call nursery rhyme; it sometimems requires a
little patient digging discern Just what the poet really
means. But hoy the rsisTss is rewarded when you
have mastereds 1ofty hoghtt Read BcnsExra aloud
read to wife (if conditions right, have
wife read to you. Sec if of the lines don't
lingor in your consciousness like soothing bcnedictou
Seward daily gateway., 1925-10-10
AIR MAIL TOSAVE TEN DAYS TRIP
 ENGLAND

LONDON, Oct. 10. (P)-A weekly mail service between England and In dia is being undertaken by the I'm perial Airways, Limited, thru a sub- sidy and a fve-year contract given by the air ministry. Mails will be delivered in Bombay i1 five days against the present 15 days, and when the service comes into regu- lar operation next summec: passen- gers also will be carried. At the outset passengers will only be car ried between Cairo and Basra.
 The route, just under 2,590 miles in length, will be from Kantara via Ramleh and Amman to Bagdad, thence to Basra and Karachi. To prevent forced landings, especially designed three-engined aircraft will be used.