Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-22
FARM VIEWS PUT
BEFORE PRESIDENT
Ex-Nebraska Governor Dis
cusses Situation With Cool.
idge at Summer Home.
By J. RUSSELL YOUNG.
staff Correspondent OF The star.

night guest at tHe summer w nlt9
House, President Coolidge today prob
ably has far better understanding
of the agricultural situation in the
West than he had before leaving
Washington.
The President at least feels assured
that the farmers in Nebraska and
nearby States are by no means radical
in their ideas OF legislation for farm
relief, and that large ma jority of
the farmers OF Nebra ska do not want
the kind Of relief that was proposed
in the McNary- Haugen bill. which
was vetoed by the President last
Winter.
Ex-Governor Gives Views.
According to Mr.. McKelvie, he
told the President that the farmers
of his State, at least the majority Of
them, realized that the agricultural
difficulties will not be solved by the
McNary- Haugen bill or any bill Of it's
radical and price-fixing nature.
an my judgment" Mr.. McKelvl9
said to newspaper men, the remedy
lies in legislation for the encourage
ment of cooperating marketing and
provision for an extension OF credit
TO enable the co-operatives to carry
over their surplus crops and stocks.
l believe bill carrying these two pro-
posals will be presented to Congress in
the next session, and its chance Of
passage, am informed, is good"
Cites Poll Of Farmers.
Mr.. McKelvie, who is power In the
Republican party Of Nebraska and
who publishes and edits the Nebraska.
Farmer, a weekly farm paper with an
extensive circulation, said he recently
conducted a poll of the readers Of his
weekly and his opinions of the senti-
ment of the farmers in his State are
based upon the responses to that sur.
vey.
He Is known to have been one OF
the leaders in his section of the op-
position to the McNary Haugen bill,
and his views are accepted as being
representative of the conservative
group of agriculturists. In making his
prediction that he. thought farm re-
lief legislation would no doubt be sat
isfactOrily disposed of during the next
session, he intimated that this would
in all probability take the farm ques.
ton out of the next presidential cam.
paign. AT least he believes farm relief
will not be one of the ma ior issues
if a bill along the conservative and
sound lines suggested by him is passed
in the meantime.
Having the conservative view Of
farm relief legislation, President Cool
idge will confer with those advocating
other forms of legislation. 1t was
announced at the Summer White
House last Friday that he expected to
have such conferences during his stay
in the Black Hills. These probably
will occur during July and August.
McNIuIlen Favors Lowden.
Mr.. McKelvie said that the outlook
for good Winter wheat crop i'm Ne
braska this year was bright. He esti-
mated at 100000 bushels, compared
with the five-year average of 5000.
100000 bushels and a $4,000 ,0O0-bushel
crop last year.
Mr.. MCkelvie IS a Coolidge man.
Gov. Adam McMullen, who was at the
Summer White House with the ma
tional editorial delegation last Satur-
day. openly advocates the nomination
of former Gov. Frank o. LOwden of
Illinois next year. Mr.. McKelvie and
the President became acquainted when
both were governors. and they have
frequently exchanged visits since
then. When the former learned that
the President contemplated spending
his vacation in the West this SUM
mer he offered him his cabin on Slate
Creek, two miles from Mystic, : Oak.
He has invited the President and Mrs.
Coolidge to be the guest of himself
and Mrs. McKelvie there for a few
days this Summer 1t is a -rlp of IS.
miles from the Summer White House
through tortuous. winding canyon
road. The place is II miles from
Rapid City by air and 80 by railroad.
Mr.. and Mrs. McKelvie are the first
overnight visitors to he invited by the
CoOlidges this Summer.
BY going together on a brief fishing
expedition late yesterday afternoon
the President and Mrs. Coolidge have
indicated that it is their intention 10
snare. as much as possible. the de-
lights and fun to he found angling
for the willy rainbow trout. which are
so abundant in Squaw Greek.
President Gives Lessons.
1t was sun down when the PreSi-
dent and Mrs. Coolidge went to-
gether to the stream. Their COM
bined catch yielded only four or
five very small trout. hut il was
explained afterWard that cOnsidera ble
time was lost by the President giving
Mrs. Coolidge lessons In how To- hold
her rod and i'm casting, also in hu,v
to properly bait her hook
The President made it apparent
that he was glad to see Mrs. Coolidge
go in for this form of sport. Evidently
fearing that she would again 20 TO
the creek fishing without him. lie
telephOned from his office tn the lodge
yesterday morning, asking her To not
go To the creek until he returned lie
did not tell her to postpone her fish
ing so as to give him the pleasure Of
her company, but instead said IL was
cloudng up and there were reports
that there was 10 be a storm i'm the
Whether or not Mrs. Coolidge sur
missed the true meaning of her hlis.
bands message was not divulCed. At
any rate. she put off her own little
fishing trip and waited for the
President
Likes Trout Fishing.
Mrs. Coolidge is highly enthusiastic
now over trout fishing and has init
mated that she wants to indulge fire.
quently. She has said also that she
wants to be in the open air as much
as possible, and that she will divide
her time between fishing and tramp.
ing over the mountain trails.
A huge bouquet of flowers grown on
the Government experimental farm 1T
Newell, $. Oak, was presented TO Mrs.
Coolidge today by a delegation here
to invite the President and Mrs. Cool
idse To the Newell Farmers picnic
July 16, the same date as the Ard
more farmers picnic. Tartarian,
peonies. snowballs. roses
and tieur lie lis made up the piece.
President Coolidge said he would
take the Newell picnic invitation I'M
der consideration, but unless the date
is changed he probably will not go.
for 1t conflicts with the Ardmora gath
ering of farmers which he vs. anxious