Evening star., 1928-11-16
GRANGE DELEGATES
VISIT WHITE HOUSE
Coolidge to Address Monster
Meeting Tonight-Upward
of 5000 Here.

Several thousand members of the Ma
tional Grange called at the White
House at 12:45 pm. today and paid
their respects to President Coolidge, who
was photographed with them on the
south lawn. The President will address
a monster meeting of the grange at
$50 o'clock tonight in the Auditorium.
Just prior to the Presidents address
a large class of men and women, in
cluding Senator McNary of oregon, CO.
author of the vetoed McNary- -Haugen
bill. will be received into the seventh
or highest degree of the grange at a
secret ritualistic session. Others who
will be given this degree at the same
time are Mrs Clifford Pinchot wife OF
eX-Gov. Pinchot of PENNSYLVANIA. him.
self a seventh degree Granger. and @.
W. Koiner, Virginia commissioner OF
agriculture, and many members OF the
House.
Sixth Degree Conferred.
A large number of the order received
the sixth degree this afternoon at the
Willard Hotel, under the auspices of
the Maryland State Grange. A. G.
Ensor, master for Maryland, presided
at this ceremony.
Upwar of 5000 delegates to the
annual session of the Grange are IN
Washington today. No business ses-
sions of the order were held, but the day
was devoted to sightseeing trips, ritual
istic ceremonies and similar actlvltleS.
Every available motor bus in the city
and some from nearby places were
hired today to take the GrangerS to the
Government experimental farm and
other points of interest in and near the
National Capital. Even that number
- n n.
date the crowd. and it was necessary TO
stop selling bus sightseeing tickets.
leaving hundreds of persons disappoint-
ed, In some instances, private cars
we're Communicated in an effort to re-
lieve the congestion, which, however,
continued during the day as hundreds
of men and women sought chance to
see the sights of the National Capital.
5000 to Take Degree.
Advance indications are that at least
5000 Grangers will take the seventh
degree of the order at tonight's session.
The list of congressional Grangers IN
cludeS Senators Capper of Kansas,
chairman of the District of Columbia
committee of the Senate and chairman
of the Senate farm bloc, and Borah OF
Idaho and Representatives Ketcham or
Michigan, Fish of New York, Williams
and Adkins of Illinois, Hall OF North
Dakota. Menges of Pennsylvania. Strong
of Kansas and Ruth Hanna Mccormick
of Illinois.
The fifth degree has been conferred
on many GrangerS by the Pomona
Grange of Fairfax, Va, one OF the
new Oranges OF Virginia.
One of the most interesting reports
made by any State master was that
of A. G. Ensor of Maryland, who told
of agricultural conditions in this nearby
State.
"There is not a great deal of change
in the agricultural situation from year
ago. Mr. Ensor reported Maryland
crops might be classed as about average.
Many truck farmers have had very
unsuccessful year.
"Dairying is on the increase in Mary
land Reports show this branch OF
farming is growing very rapidly in most
of the States and that the United
States is producing about 90 per cent OF
all dairy products consumed.
The Maryland Dairymen's Associ-
alton marketed this year for its men,
bers 26.020.908 gallons Of milk. The
fluid milk sold fob. farm at 3S cents a
gallon and 4 per cent butter and sur
plus at $02723"
j. r. HorSley of Appomattox County,
master of the Virginia State Grange,
submitted a brief report. The Virginia
Grange was organized only little more
than two months ago.
More than a thousand Grangers Wis
tied the Washington Cathedral this
morning and the national officers and
State masters were received by Bishop
Freeman, who stressed the importance
of cultivating character as we'll as the
soil, In brief address.