Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 46, Number 346, 24 December 1921 — Page 8

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TIIE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, RICHMOND, IND., SATURDAY, DEC. 24, 1921.

NEW AFRICAN LINE TO BE BUILT SOON HIGHEST IN EMPIRE

The new Kenya Railway in South Africa from Nakuru on the Uganda railway, to Tuabo, on the- Uasin Plateau, when completed wilt be the highest line in the Empire. The contract has been awarded for construction and the work will shortly bo commenced. Connects Rich District. The provision of easy transport to and from the fertile Uasin Gishu Plateau, which lies northeast of the Victoria Nyanza, In Kenya Colony, has been recognized as a matter of importance for many years, but circumstances have hitherto delayed construction. Nakuru, the starting point of the new line, lies in the Rift Valley. Trending generally in a northwesterly direction, the Uasin Fishu Railway will within about 20 miles roach the Molo River, which is the center of a flourishing agricultural area. Farther on It will traverse the Eldama Forest, which contains an immense quantity of marketable timber. Takes 25 Mile Climb. For 25 miles the new line will climb out of the Rift Valley, ascending the celebrated Mau Escarpment and gain the summit at Lake Narasha at an altitude of 9.195 feet. This summit section, which is several tandred feet above tfcat on the Uganda Railway will be the most elevated stretch of railway in the British Empire. It is understood, however, that the ascent will not entail gradients more severe than 1 in 100.

FARM BLOC

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FRISCO'S PRIZE FAMILY EQUALS NEW YORK'S GREATEST

of the members of the farm bloc voted for the higher surtax, the real leader of that senatorial insurrection was not the farm bloc, lc was the vital and energetic senior senator from Illinois, Medill McCormick. (Copyright 1921 by the New York Evening Post.)

legalizing and otherwise making provision for co-operative selling on the part of the farmer; the creation of a rural credit institution, which will permit the loaning of money on commodities in the same way in which the government already loans money on farm land; and, finally, a somewhat more dubious proposal to require that a farmer shall sit on the federal re

serve board. GEN. DIAZ REACHES HOME

Aleut na raro iYia .tai-iff tha farm I NAPLES, Dec. 24. Gen. Armando

hlnc will art a a ,mit anH tiav al-!Dia, commander of the Italian armies

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ready been given assurnces that their wishes would be respected by the Republican leadership of the senate. One of the most striking events in tne present congress was frequently but erroneously attributed to the leadership of the farm bloc. That was the forcing of the retention of high surtaxes on large incomes, after the

house had once voted a lower rate, ; after President Harding had endorsed i the lower rate and after the senate !

j finance committee had practically de-!

cided to adopt it. While it is probably true that most

in the World war, arrived yesterday on the steamship Giuseppe Verdi from the United States where he spent two months as guest of the American Legion. He was enthusiastically received at the piers by civil, military and communal authorities,' and by Vice-Admir-al Albert P. Niblack and officers of the American battleship Utah, now in the harbor.

We wish Our Many Friends and Patrons A MERRY CHRISTMAS Arlington Hotel Restaurant Walter Aydelott, Prop.

Mr. and Mrs. Silverio Riverio and their children.

A "blj? family" contest conducted by a San Francisco newspaper unearthed the interesting fact that that city possesses a family which equals in size the record family of Naw York city havinjr sixteen children. Mr. and Mrs. Silverio Ri"erio are the

parents of this coas,t family. In th. photo, left to right, the members of the family and their aifes are: Catherine. 4; Rupert, 6; Anita, 6; Ernest, Louis, 9; Theodora, 10; Julius. 12; Peter. 13; John, 14; Franres. 16; Martin. 18; Stella, 19; Victoria, 22; Sil

verio, Jr., 20; Mary, 26. In the rear, at left, are Mrs. Silverio Riverio, holding aby Mary, 17 months old, stands beside Silverio Riverio. Four other children, now dead, were born 'o the Riverios. Riverio is a patternmaker.

south, fanning conditions last year were fully as distressing as Secretary Wallace has described them in the agricultural, states of the west. It was this partnership in economic distress that made the political partnership easy. The economic remedies that would relieve the west would also relieve the south. Among the southern Democratic senators who are commonly described as having participation in the bloc are Smith of South Carolina, Fletcher of Florida, Sheppard of Texas, Harris of Georgia. Caraway of Arkansas and Heflin of Alabama. In this list of Democrats, as well as in naming the Republicans who are generally regarded as having participated in the bloc, there is no pre-

much participation in the movement nre tiie two from Wisconsin, LaFollette and Lenroot. LaFollette is, by choice and practice, a solitary maverick in politics. About th last thing he would do ....... 7 ,1 V A .,V;VA m nntUn

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or to obligations of team-work that!;. v - might Impair his complete liberty of j Warn8 Against Conclusions action in any contingency . Neverthe- senators who frequently vote lew. It is a fact that LaFollette has wJ boc arp forrcally identihared most of the steps taken by the leadership, and the local

reader in the states from which these

farm bloc.

Lenroot, who is one of the ablest men in the senate, has a position considerably farther toward the outer fringe of the movement. Ey reason of his ability and standing, he has been Varticulaily helpful on such occasions as his convictions have coincided with ihose of the farm bloc. Kellogg of Minnesota is another ordinarily conservative senator who has occasionally occupied a position on the outer circle or the farm bloc. Senator Ladd of North Dakota. has been flo.-;e to the heart of the- movement. So has Norbeck of South Dakota, Kenrlrick of Wyoming, and McNary of Orepon. Not Identified Several of the senators who are frequently described as radical, like Johnson of California and Borah of Idaho, have not been formally identified with the farm bloc. It is also a

than the form in which the farmers notes when they became due. If the

originally proposed it.

Reasonable Measure But in the form in which this

! lenders had forclosed there would have

been widespread distress not only to fun(jjihe farmers, but to the entire local

, uubiiiaa communities involved.

nnany Decame avanaoie lor tne reiiei of distress in the farming districts it

was an entirelv reasonable measure!

considered as an emergency action and in its application has done great good. The fund was entrusted to a rep-

Relief Furnished The relief furnished by the treasury

was in the shape of advancing money and taking a prior lien on the collateral or other form of security. There is no reason to anticipate that the gov-

resentative of the treasury, in the per-1 ernment will lose any considerable

son of a New York banker, Mr. Eu- amount of money advanced, and the gene Meyer, together with several net result of the operation as a whole

associates who are business men from j has unquestionably been to prevent thej

t-iiuunue ol live sLoch. a.iiu itoiis iu a'

various sections of the country

Mr. Meyer turned out to be a man of energy and resource. He has trav-

panicky market, and otherwise to sta-

blize business conditions generally in

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A Deep Sense of Gratitude Accompanies This Holiday Greeting to You The loyalty of our friends has meant a great deal more to us this year than ever before, passing as we have been, through a period of post-war adjustment, which has meant a considerable sacrifice to many.

Let us look forward to the New Year with a great deal of optimism, confident that it holds an abundance of prosperity for U3 all. May yours be a full realization of your best hopes.

Miss C. M. Sweitzer Optometrist 1002 Main St.

senators come should be warned against making final political conclusions based on what is here said. In turning to a fair examination of what the bloc ha3 done with its power, it must be said so far as those measures are concerned which they initiated or advocated little can be said in the nature of criticism, even by those who are mostly disposed to deplore the underlying principle of group action in politics. . As regards the measures which the farm bloc is given credit for opposing or defeating, probably somewhat less is to be said for them. There is not fpace in the present article for any minute examination of the bloc's legislative program, either of advocacy or of opposition.

Perhaps the chief measure for which the bloc is responsible was the ap-

eled up and down the country, finding j the farming states

out the spots where there was need j The rest of the affirmative program of relief. The relief has taken the j of the farm bloc, both for the past and

form of advancing money to local for the future, has been and is largely bankers, and to others who, in their I in the same general direction of proturn, had previously loaned money to'viding better credit conditions and farmers and stock raisers. ! better market conditions for the farmIn these cases the original borrow-'ers. ers among the farmers and stock rais- J For the immediate future the proers were utterly unable to pay their gram of the bloc includes a statute

fact that a few senators who tome I propriation of $50,000,000 to be used

from purely agricultural states, and who. therefore, might be expected to be in the heart of the movement, have not really participated in it in any formal way. But it is not possible to list all the

members of the bloc, nor to state with pxact justice the degree of participa-l lion in it or of dissent from it that! senators have had. Some senators ; who have not attended the formal I meetings of the bloc have nevertheless voted in favor of most of the measures it originated. Nothing that is here said should be; Interpreted too definitely by readers or ; others who contemplate political

iiftion one way or the other, based on M ill?' identification, or lack of identifi-ll cation, of various senators with thel farm bloc Less Rigid in House j

Sa muc h tor the farm bloc In tne j t-oriaT. In thp house the bloc has neen less rigidly organized, but hasj been, nevertheless on the whole equal-! ly potent in casting the balance of;

power. Also it is clearly a tact that the membership of the bloc in the k-uer house is rapidly growing. Formed Alliance This covers very incompletely and with no pretense to exact, accuracy the Republican part of the bloc. One

of the first acts of thj leaders, and a, thing which has been at the heart of! their success, was the forming of an; alliance with a considerable number! cf southern Deuiociats. j

In the cottor producing states of thetV

by an agency of the treasury for the relief of farm conditions. It is true that, the form in which this measure ultimately passed was very different and much less radical

Everyday Ad-Ventures

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Christmas Greeting A MONG our assets we like J to count the only one that money cannot buy -your good will, hid so at this Holiday Season we extend to you-not as a customer alone, but as a friend the best of wishes for the coming year.

The

Camera Shop

W. E. MORREY

The Season's Best

Wishes The old phrase, "Merry Christmas,'" does not begin to express all the good wishes we have for our friends and customers.

Yet, how else can we say it?

Merry Christmas

With Best Wishes for a Merry Christmas ' ' "and a Prosperous New Year

Anderson & Sons

3rd and Chestnut St.

Phone 3121

EETINGS

With the appreciation of the many courtesies, we extend the season's greetings and express the sincere wish that the coming new year will bring you a full measure of Health, Happiness and Prosperity. We hope to be awake to the needs of our friends and shoe repairing and to merit a portion of their favors. "Quality First."

A Merry Christmas 1921

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A Prosperous New Year 1922

pjlp: Friends and Patrons 'NiV A Merry Christmas

Carroll Auto Agency

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We greet our customers and future customers with a Very Merry Christmas and a Prosperous New Year.

Christmas Greeting

Here's hoping that Santa will come down your chimney tonight and fill your largest pair of stockings full and running over with all goods things; that each day of the coming year be for you a harvest day of happiness and successWe thank you for your patronage, and hope that we may serve you during the ensuing year.

DAFLER DRUG CO.

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