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Show I THE RICH COUNTY NEWS, RANDOLPH, UTAH Financial Aid to tbs American Fanner Much ft dene fee the the American Carmen Much i atm being said fit furtherance ef improved rural credit facilities and a new law extending: credit opportunities to agriculture has just bean passed little U generally known, however, of the actual extent of government aid to the American farmer in tile lent few WASHINGTON, yearn The fact In as ehowm by the official reeordn that government advancce to farmers to date aggregate nearly 00,0001000. That Includes loans of the federal farm loan bureau, which has been in operation since 1917 It Include also advances of the War Finance- corporation mads In the last two. year Latest available figures show that from January 4,1821, hlarch 18 of this year the War Finance corporation advanced for agricultural and live etock purposes 1518,007,8621 The federal farm loan bureau since Its creation has handled loans aggregating more than 8900,000,000 In connection with its supervision of federal farm land banks and Joint stock land Imnlta - Sine 1021 the- statistical record of agricultural aid show the advances: by tbs War Finance- corporation: both for elding exports and' the financing: of crop to have been: as follows: T exporter A MBA06 ..,.,1 To oe cyerattre marketing: aseo WltiOBI OeOOMOMVtMfMtUMiMMI To bsakta and financing inzti- IBWttl To firs stock fa as oompenioe..., MA04.600 This totajaappmelmetely.. Government funds wars distributed among aft of the agricultural states. Banking and financing Institutions In lews and North Dakota head the list of the distribution. A few figures gtvs Insight late the countrywide distribution t Iowa .. ....024889,000 24805,000 North Dakota South Dakota 10,725,000 - eee-- Minnesota ................ 12,700,000 5,292,000 nilaols 11.080,000 Nebraska 11,000,000 South Carolina North Carolina ....... .... 9,921,000 In addition t these loans to banking Institutions financing agriculture, the War Finance corporation has made aggregate loans of nearly to marketing 0200,-000,0- , Panama Canal Vulnerable by Big Guns fleet could Ue In defense of the Pacific end of the canal the Pacific out of range of are located to the east of Its Pacific the guns of the American entrance, bearing In mind that the fortifications defending that canal ia about north and south at that entrance to the Panama canal and point, and that ship coming, out of pound those forts to pieces. The same the canal Into the Pacific la steaming thing Is' true with regard to the forti- almost due south. fications at the Atlantic entrance. Taboga Island is eight miles distant, Two ships of the Japanese navy and north of the canal entrance. It is 600 two of the British navy have feet above water level, and affords a guns of such elevation that they can splendid protection for an enemy fleet deliver their chargee at a range of Worse than that It shelters a space A HOSTILE 16-lnc-h At thia range they could Ignore the fortifications at the Pacific end of the canal, come up behind Taboga island and at their leisure smash the Mlrafiores locks to pieces while the forts would bo help-le- a 40,009 yards. By JOHN DICKIN80N 8HERMAN ORTO RICO will play host this summer to representatives of the Fourth Ohio Infantry. Twenty-fiv- e years ago this regiment was marching across the island as Invaders In the Spanish-- . American war. The regiment captured Guyama and Its errand to the Island Is to erect there a memorial. Incidentally, there was an love feast In the bouse of representatives Just before the adjournment of congress over the visit of the Fourth Ohio, In which Governor Towner, who succeeds H. Mont Relly, took part Probably the best way to tell about It Is to reproduce the proceedings from the Congressional Record, which are as follows, under the caption, "Transporting Committee of Fourth Ohio Infantry to Porto Rico : , The next business on the Calendar for Unanimous Consent was the Joint resolution (H. J. Res. 442) to authorize the transportation to Porto Rico of a committee representing the Fourth Ohio Infantry, war with Spain. The Clerk read the title to the resolution.' The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the present consideration of the resolution! Mr. STAFFORD. Reserving the right to object, I wish to Inquire whether there: Is any Instance where the Government has allowed Its utilities to be used gratuitously for transportation purposes as proposed In the resolution submitted for objection or consideration. Mr. McKENZIE. I wish to say to the gentleman that I cannot answer that question. I can Blmply give him our reason for reporting this resolution. It Involves the officers of the Fourth Ohio Infantry who took part In the Spanlsh-Amerlca- n War.. They want to go to Porto Rico to put a marker there. There may not be any precedent for It, but It seems to me It Is a matter that we should not quibble about Mr. CRAMTON. Will the gentleman yield! Mr. McKENZIE. Yes. Mr. CRAMTON. It Is my recollection that at the time of the last Olympian games at Antwerp such a provision was put Into the law, and con- testants went over to the number of cue or two hundred on a Government transport under a similar provision. Mr., TOWNER. Will the gentleman yield! Mr. 8TAFFORD. I will gladly yield to the future distinguished Governor of Porto Rico, whom we are all, I know, very happy to have been honored with such a distinguished appointment. If I may be allowed, we wish him Godspeed In his work In his new honorable position. Mr. TOWNER. Mr. Speaker, I only want to make this statement. It would be difficult to find precedent for It. The Fourth Ohio Infantry cap- - . ,tured the town of Guyama, In Porto Rico, during War. This Is the twenty-fift- h the Spanlsh-Amerlca- n anniversary of that event. The survivors of this regiment desire to send a small party to Porto Rico and also allow them to go on a transport without any additional expense to the Government. They desire that for two reasons: First that It would give their visit a significance thal they could not acquire by reason of going on some other, vessel at their own expense. It will not cost the Government anything, and it w ill be an act of courtesy, especially to the regiment, and especially also to the people of Porto Rico, who will gladly receive them and Join with them In the memorial exercises. Mr. Speaker, as a courtesy to Mr. STAFFORD. the future Governor of Porto Rico, I withdraw my reservation of an objection. Mr. Speaker, there Is an adMr. MONDELL. ditional reason why the resolution should be passed. By the time his visit Is made our colleague, our friend from Iowa, will be In Porto Rico as the governor of that beautiful island, and we desire' that an opportunity shall he offered these gentlemen to visit Porto Rico at the time he is there and see how splendidly he is maintaining the prestige of the Nation and adding to the Rico. Aoplause. glory and prosperity of Porto 1 am of ray proi-Mr. DAVILA. Mr. Speaker, but, wi'hont any ancestry and my Spanish blood, whom 1 love and reflection cn the Spanish people, the American the that to day want I say admire, e. t . , d h There ia a much advertised gun on Pert co island, Just in the rear of the big fortification of Flamenco island. If this were a modem h rifle, which had not been worn out by repeated target practice, Its shells could be dropped behind Taboga island. : But actually this gun, which was the subject of so many Sunday newspaper stories some yean ago, is so decrepit at the present moment that Its extrema range ia 22,000 yards. The two islands whleh this country depends upon at present for the chief 10-inc- ' The House Joint resolution was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time, was read the third time, and passed. n The Is sometimes spoken of as a short horse, soon curried. Its true that America did do up Spain in record time. But It was an Important war for all that, as will be seen In what follows. " Since 1895 Cuba had been In revolt against the "Spaniards. American sympathy was with the Cubans, especially after the suffering and death caused by the reconciliation policy of" the Spent lards became known. February 15, 1898, the Maine was blown up in 'Havana harbor. That of course meant war and all the world knew It, except apparently Spain, which seemed to think America was afraid to fight April 19 congress passed a joint resolution declar-- . ing the people of Cuba to be free and Independent demanding that Spain relinquish her authority and directing President McKinley to use the land and naval forces to bring about these conditions. April 21 the American and Spanish ambassadors got their passports and Havana- was blockaded. April 25 congress declared that a state of war had erlst- ed since April 21. , May 1, Dewey destroyed the Spanish fleet In Manila bay, Philippine Islands. The Oregon began her famous race from California around South America . for the Atlantic coast. Volunteers flocked to the colors. June 22 15.000 Americans ; w ere landed under General Shatter near Santiago, Cuba. The battles of Las Guaslmas, El Caney and San Juan Hill were won. Cerveras fleet went out of Santiago, offered battle and was wiped out to the last ship. The Spanish surrendered Santiago 17. General Merritt received the surrendei July. v 0f the Philippines. A preliminary treaty of peace was made August 12 and fighting stopped. D cember 10 the treaty ct Paris was signed. Early In the war a fleet under Admiral Sampson gave San Juan, Porto Ricos capital, a mild bombarding. July 20 General Miles, commander-in-chie- f of the American forces, landed a Porto Rican expedition on the south coast. He landed at Puerta de Guanlca and began a march north across the Island to San Juan. Miles defeated the Spaniards In several skirmishes and captured a number of cities and towns. Fighting stopped August 13 upon the signing of the pence protocol, October 18 the Flag was raised over San Juan. A short little war and sweet! Vet It was an Important war. Spain thought the Yankee pigs g and would had no thought beyond not fight. Probably most of Europe thought the snme. At Las Guaslmas wns Lieut. Arthur Lee, British military observer hes now Lord Lee of LieuFareham, high In the British government. tenant Lee gasped when he saw the Rough Riders It Is magnificent, but In action at Las Guaslmas. It Is not war. he said.' The Spnnlnrds at El Caney and Sun Juan Hill put the snme thing differently. They complained that the Ynnkees did not know When we shot them down the the rules of wrar. breastworks so that the rest should have retreat- ed, they said, they came on and tried to catch us with their bare hands. : n war made the United The g States a world power over night, with possessions In Porto Rico and the Philippines. It destroyed the last vestige of Spulns hold on th Western hemisphere. It made Cuba a free and independent nation. It went far to heal the last wounds left from our Civil war and hastened the day for the reconciliation between North and South which the World, war made complete. n war was an object-lesso- n The to the world that America could fight a war of humanity' for the .freedom of another people with out selfish motives and that the American of the same old Irresistible flghtlrg man by lat and Spanlsh-Amerlca- 22 flag was raised in Porto Rico we began to live a new and prosperous life. Now, It Applause. Is natural that we want to have an opportunity to extend our courtesies to these soldiers who fought for America and to pay our tribute to those n who died during the service In the War. The people of Porto Rico have Instructed me to Invite the soldiers to go to the island, and we are going to do something for them. They wll be welcome as our guests. I Applause. hope this resolution will pass. Mr. GARRETT of Tennessee. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to proceed for three minutes. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection! There was no objection. Mr. GARRETT of Tennessee. Mr. Speaker, It has been my privilege for many years to serve on the Committee on Insular Affairs with the distinguished gentleman from Iowa, Judge Towner. Of course, I do not know just why the judge Is willing' to retire from the House of Representatives to accept the burdens and responsibilities of the position of Governor of Porto Rico, but since he Is willing so to do, I think the people of Porto Rico are to be congratulated ; and certainly those of us who have had the opportunity of Intimate service with him upon the committee who are aware of the knowledge he possesses of all of the details of Insular problems are also aware of the fact that he will meet those responsibilities and discharge those duties fairly, honestly, with credit to himself,, with credit to his country, and we hope with entire satisfaction to the people whose governor general he Is to be. lApplause. My own opinion Is that the President made a very wise choice, and as a member of the minority on the Committee on Insular Affairs I wish to express to the honorable gentleman from Iowa congratula--; tlons, good wishes, hopes for his success In the , responsibilities that he has to discharge, and to him and to his good wife all good things now and forever. Mr. DAVILA. Mr. Speaker, If I may be permit-- ' ted Just a moment, I desire to read the following cablegram which I have received from the president of the Porto Rican Senate: Spanlsh-Amerlca- , . SAN JUAN, P. R.. February C8. 1323. Judge CORDOVA DAVILA, Resident Commissioner from Porto Rico. Washington, D. C.: People of Porto Rico received with great enthusiasm Please so inform the appointment of TOWNER. President Harding and Judge TOWNER himself. BARCELO. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the Joint resolution. The Clerk read the House joint resolution, as follows: Resolved, etc.. That if accommodations on public are available, the Secretary of War Is transports to authorized provide, without expense to the United from the United States to Porto States, transportation Rico of a committee composed of members of the Fourth Ohio Infantry, war. with- 8pain, for the of placing a memorial tablet In the city of Guyama commemorating the twenty-fift- h anniversary of the capture of that place and in honor of the American soldiery who died during their 'service in Porto Rico. The SPEAKER pro ter pore. The question lg on the engrossment and third reading of the House Joint resolution. pur-po- je dollnr-chasln- . Spanlsh-Amerlca- far-flun- Spanlsh-Amerlca- 18JV-wa- of water from which the Mlrafiores locks aro in easy range. . During the recent maneuvers the enemy" fleet came up behind this Island, and it was discovered that no adequate method of attacking that if one assumed that the attacking fleet carried enough fighting airplanes to beat off those of the defense. There are no American fighting airplanes in the .canal zone, and only a small number la expected until congress undergoes a change of fleet was available, heart For three years the army has been congress to develop these forts. It Is desired to have two 16- inch guns on Perlco island, four mom on Taboga Island and four at the Atlantic entrance of the canal, twe on each flank, a total of ten. begging Place of Cities in the Population Race In the relative changes the larger American Indicated by new census bureau figures, prepared on the assnmptlon that growth conditions prevailing in 1920 ia the various localities are continuing. The new estimates show that eight of the largest fifty municipalities have replaced their nearest rivals and that two have been shoved out of the class. New York Is shown to be approaching closely the 6,000,000 mark; Chicago is ,not far from the 8,000,000 mark; Philadelphia la nearing 2,000,-00- 0 and Detroit is near to 1,000,000. There have been no changes in the rank of the first six cities in size. Baltimore has gone ahead of Boston and now ranks as seventh largest city of the country. Los Angeles has passed Pittsburgh and taken ninth rank. San Francisco has grown larger than Buffalo and goes into eleventh place. Minneapolis haa outgrown two cities, Cincinnati and New Orleans, and now la sixteenth. Columbus, O., has passed Providence and now ranks twenty-seventBirmingham, San Antonio and Dallas also have forged ahead in the table of relative size. Scranton and Paterson,, and forty-nint- h cities respectively in 1920, have been forced out of the first fifty cities class into SEVERAL forty-seven- th fifty-thir- d and fifty-fourt- h Norfolk and Springfield, places by Mass. The rank of cities .below the first . fifty and which In 1920 had 100,000 or more population shows many changes. Those which outstripped their nearest rivals Include Grand Rapids, Fort Worth, Trenton. Salt Lake City, Camden, Wilmington (Del.), Kansas City (Kens.), and Yonkers. Estimates as at July 1, 1923, ahow probable totals tor leading cities aa follows: New Turk ..4,937,436 t.8M.lH Chicago Philadelphia .1.923,786 Detroit 994,43 Cleveland .... S8Mi9 St. Louis eaaoo SSS.CI Baltimore .... TttJBO Boston 170,460 Loe Anreles . 664.863 Pittsburgh ... 411.44 San Francisco 639,(63 Buffalo ....... 14,713 Milwaukee ... 484496 483,493 Newark Minneapolis .. 400,111 Cincinnati .... 404,111 New Orleans.. 444,576 Kan. City, Mo. 161,813 Indianapolis Jersey City Rochester .. Portland. Ora. m,Ul 171,031 Denver Toledo 248,36 Columbus, O.. 141.061 Providence .. 141,371 Louisville .... 367,471 341,831 St. Paul 140,464 Oakland HJ.M8 Atlanta 104.381 Omaha Birmingham.. 196.901 Worcester . San Antonio. Syracuse ... Richmond .. Dallas New Haven. Memphis ... Dayton Norfolk ..... Houston .... Hartford Grand Rpds. 191,927 184, W 134.SU 181,044 177, 874 171,347 170,047 166,630 IBS, OS 164.170 163.131 146,147 144,127 143,811 Das Moines. i40,a Scranton .,. 140, 3M Paterson ... 139,679 N. Bedford. 130,071 Trenton .... 127,390 Salt Lake... 124,341 Camden 114,167 Nashville .. 121, m Pall River.. 120,911 Wlmtn, Del. 117,723 U7.3TC Albany Kn. City, K, 116,731 Lowell 116,089 Cambridge . 1U.444 100,917 Reading Yonkers 107.620 Spokane .... 104,671. .,. ... High Cost of Dishonesty Rivals H. C. L. T HE high cost of dishonesty Is a problem to cause concern to the American people; Last year an army of burglar robbers, embezzlers, forgers, confidence men, bucket-sho- p operators, and common thieves levied a tax on the United States that Is estimated by on of the large surety companies to aggregate $3,325,000,000. This is approximately equal to the entire Internal revenue receipts of the federal government for the last fiscal year and is the equivalent of a per capita tax on the entire population of the country of more than 030. The items in this appalling bill which crooks collected in one year in the United States are: Stock frauds, land frauds, and confidence games, 12,000,000,000; burglary and theft, 525,000,000 ; embezzlement and defalcation, $125,000,000; fraudulent bankruptcy and credit swindles, 0100,000,-00bad debts, owing wholesale and retail merchants, $150,000,000; worth? less therks cashed by merchants, $25,000,000: $109,000,000; forgery, gut it. looting at the public domain ani 0; conversion of, public property, ' . , The expert who made the estimate says that the total is probably nearer $4,000,000,000. Another authority fixes the first item in the list at $3,000,000,-00- 0 Instead of $2,000,000,000 and insists that he Is conservative.,,. We even have pirates who operate in and abont the harbors. In New York harbor alone piracy amounted to $50,000,000 in one year and in the other seaptfrts It was probably at least half that sum. In a twelve-montperiod the railroads of the United States paid claims totaling more than $20,000,000 for thefts of freight, and thia could not be said to represent the actual losses. Automobile thefts run Into the startling figures of $100,000,000. Automobile theft insurance, which was something less than 1 per rent of the valuation of automobiles years ago, is now five or six per cent Ten train hold-up- s and 20 mn robberies In one year netted bandits a haul of United States mill valued at mors thn Ul.ooo.ono. $200,-000,00- 0. h 1 ) |