Life — January 20, 1921 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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LIF E : Senator Sounder, the Farmer’s Friend LIFE’S Famous Correspondent Defends His Relief Bill By GLUYAS WILLIAMS Special Correspondence SHINGTON, Jan. 20.—Congress has been very busy of late in relieving the American farmer. Owing, I suppose, to the war, or Wilsonism, or the League of Nations, the poor farmer is in a very pitiable condition. This was news to me, but most of my colleagues seem to think that he is in about as lad a way as an Armenian refugee. that defla Just as he was getting ready to sell his unusually bumper crops, defla- tion knocked prices galley-west, and of course the farmer was badly: hit I remember now ion is said to have helped to get him that way Now according to my reasoning, if his crops had not been so big he would not have lost so heavily, Supposing that defla tion has knocked one cent off the price of each apple; then on a crop of 693.34! apples the farmer would have lost 693,34! cents or $6,935.41 Now if he had raised only 282,405 apples he would have lost only $2,824.05 a saving to him of $4,111.36. It scems to me, therefore the Sounder Pray correct me if I am wrong. and I have embodied my idea in Relief Bill—that a law prohibiting bumper crops will strike at the very root of the evil. To my surprise, Senator Gronna, of North Dakota, and Senator Walsh, of Montana, who have both been active in behalf of the farmer, do not look with much measure. Jealousy, perhaps. Besides my. bill, two dozen or more bills, petitions and resolu- ‘armer’s SENATORS GRONNA WALSH DO NOT FAVOR ON MY MEASURF AND Look WITH favor on my t reluctant to mention the matter, but still | think that we ought Hoke Smith pictured the deserted farms — makes me somewh next year, the unplowed fields and the empty dinner tables, 1 became so nervous there are some all of us to face the facts. One of my col- tions on the same subject before the Sen- ate, so there seems to be a fair chance that the farmer wil! get some relief, and we may he able to cat next year after all. To speak the truth, Iam rather uneasy over the situation. In when fact, Senator IT IS ENOUGH TO UPSET ANY WOMAN TO HAVE TO SEND HER HOME RY WAY OF FIRE ESCAPE. GUESTS THE that I not only voted for his bill but tele phoned to the grocer and had twenty-four cases of canned goods sent home, I be- lieve in being forchanded Unfortunately for me, Mrs. Sounder did not take my prudent action in good part The cases arrived during a small tea that my wife was giving to the ladies of the diplomatic corps Wardman Park- while our ho: Our apartment at the where we are staying on R Street is being re- decorated—is and there was ne place, apparently, to put the order. The man rudely refused to carry the twenty-four cases downstairs again and deliver them at a more opportune time, and ter rather left All that the guests small, lively altercation he them standing in the front hall bad cnough. but was when later tried to depart they found that the cases blocked the front Moreover, the janitor was out and there was no one to move them. I admit that it is enough to upset any woman who has any feeling for the social niceties to have to send her guests—all ladies of the dip! matic corps—heme by way of the fire escape. But trouble: completely door enough of my domestic There is an even greater calamity than lack of food ahead of us, if the don’t get relief. farmers My sense of delicacy leagues—I think it was Senator Smith, of South Carolina—pointed out that the South raises the cotton that clothes the world, that if we do not help the cotton planters they will be unable to plant a crop next year and the world will go naked. I must that that came as a shock to me. It’s almost more than the mind can grasp ! Think of going to busi- confess statement ness, to teas, 10 dances in that condition. The Sound. Relief Bill has just been put to vote and beaten—95 to 1. rmer's Senator Sounder. 1 MUST CONFESS THAT SENATOR SMITH’S STATEMENT CAME AS A SHOCK TO ME, comicbooks.com