Show WEST'S EFFECT ON COOLIDGE WATCHED FOR FORIN FORIN IN WASHINGTON Gets Chance to See Grain Fa Farmers Farmer's r mers mer's Tough Situation THINGS ON MEND IE President Brings Rain Will Vill West Vest Thaw w New England Dr By W Vi nARD HARD CopyrIght 19 1027 7 by Co Consolidated Press AssocIation WASHINGTON WASHINGTO June What will the president learn front from his contacts with the agrIcultural population ot of the great pia plains Ins 57 And are areas a w how will he be- be behave behave have when he I learns it Those are the questions i to which the ag- ag agricultural experts k and political eX cx eXperts ot of ash Vash- ashIngton u Ington are al- al already already ready In Inc their answers as th thee president this next week begins his Inquiries Into the con con- conten contention ten LIon ot of western farmers as well as Into the contents ot of western trout streams The presidents president's frIends here are hoping and believIng that what he sees on the farms and ranches ot of South Dakota will break breakdown breakdown down lila reluctance to re re- reveal veal his emotions and will wll wrIng from him some somo outrIght expressions expressions ot of heartfelt for the sufferIngs whIch the people out there have undeniably endured It ItIs Itis Is felt elt that many westerners are not so angered by the presidents president veto or of the McNary-Haugen McNary bill M as they are by his New England habit of a display or of duty combined wH t a a. concealment of humanity It Is that the west will tap hits humanity and bring It to the sun sur- face ace SAMPLE A IPIE OP OF GUMBO lIe has gone to a a. most lary splendid spot for this pun pur- purpose pose lIe can go out around the Black hills and see the gumbo into a sort ot of flour waste when It Is wet and which forms Into flakes and flies oft off In hIgh winds along with a a. or of the young wheat heat when It Is dry Ho can see an excellent specimen ot of that great semI arid region which extends from rom the Canadian line southward through the mack Black hills down Into Texas and which Is the special province ot of tho efforts ot of that great and amid ad- ad enlist H. H C C. C ot of the office ot of dry land agriculture OS oJ our fed fed- federal eral agricultural department Mr Chilcott comes from South Routh Dakota Out there 20 years ears ago In the course or of a trip whIch took hint him in a moun mountaIn wagon through that same Rapid City which Is Isnow isnow now the presidents president's railroad head head- headquarters quarters he broke Into our feder- feder federal al agrIcultural servIce as a young man named William Iam Id n Jardine who Is now our secretary ot of a rl- rl culture Mr l Jardine was Mr Chilcott's pupil lie Is now his reverent superIor officer T TRAGEDY nEDY 01 PEACE PE Mr Chilcott conducts 19 stations ot of agricultural experiment and de- de development development In our semI arId great plains area lIe He says sars that the greatest tragedy ot of peace In our whole history s the settling and peopling or of that area arN before there was any real national economic need ot of It The result has been nn an added momentum to excess 3 acreage e In cultivation excess stir Bur plus crops lowered lo prices desti- desti destitution heartbreaking hardship The president will see all around aroundhim aroundhim him In South Dakota In the tho run run- rundown rundown down condition ot of farm houses house and barns and fences the sad proofs or of a long recent serIes ot of foreclosures and bankruptcies From 1920 to 1923 1023 sixteen farm farni- farmers ers out ot of every In South Dx- Dx leota Icota lost theIr farms arms or property through foreclosure In or out ot of court ourt In the la last t fiscal year ear there 1926 were In South Dx- Dx kota actually 20 timEs timE's as man many bankruptcies amon among farmers as In Inthe the fiscal year ear 1920 There Is no chance k t laugh of off or or to these ort ascertained ot- ot iclal facts RISES On the oth other r hand the president dent will discover that he ha s arrived just In time to witness a a. sudden and remarkable brighten brighten- brightening In ing o of the picture The trouble In South Dal Da ota s yuo 10 longer sen the low price level o of its it agrIcultural prod That 10 low price level has s been steadily ris- ris risIng lag Ing while simultaneously the hIgh price level o of the tho manufactured products which the farmer buys buys' has las beset been steadily tailIng falling This This' tendency Is wide nationwide and Is expected by our federal reserve resene board here In Washington to con con- The South Dakota state authorities have reported upon South Dakota IlI as follows In 1921 the prices whIch t the e South Dakota farmer got for or hi hit crops compared wIth the prIceS prIceS- which lie he had to pay for tor his pure pur- purchases chases were as the figure to the figure Dy By March ot of this year 19 year the thc j-thc prIces ot of hi his crops had advanced rel relatIvely to tolie the lie figure lU while the prIces ot of his purchases had declined relatively to the lie fIgure This means great progress to to- to toward ward the equalization ot of agricultural tural prosperity with log Ing prOsperity provided that one further thing shall happen That thing Is that crops shall exist and that they shall be good But Dut will they exIst and will on Page FIve f WEST'S EFFECT ON MIDGE COOLIDGE Continued from rase C One they be good Mr rr Chilcott says that In n the semi arid great plains area area where the president Is now residing residing- the farmer must expect only two good crops In every three years ears South Dakota has re recently re- re recently been getting even less leM than that average It has been afflict afflict- afflicted ed heavily by droughts The bene bene- effect of rising prices s for farm tarm products prod els has has s been largely destroyed by persistent lack of at ofrain rain But now v comes this year ear and this year ear Calvin Coolidge decided to go to the semi-arid semi northwest and then watch what happens The political experts here are arc watching watching- it like spectators at a lL ashell ashell shell game Agricultural official advices adv ad vices to Washington are arc unanimously un as follows follows- The sub soil of oC the semi arid northwest vest Is now wet for the first time lime in four years jears' ears Rainfall and have come to the semi-arid semi northwest together Additionally the price of num num- number number number ber three South Dakota yellow jellow corn at Minneapolis which wa was 73 7 cents a bushel bush l on April 30 last rose to 98 cents by June 16 The sum of It Is that South Dakota now trembles on a lL swerve and turn toward vard possible eco ceo economic e o- o restoration So does a large part of oC the tho whole region In which South Dakota Is situated RAINFALL IL A AND D TIA V. V So what then will the president do His ills friends have ha been beon look lookIng Ing ng forward to a winning of the thc west His Ills enemies have hope hopefully hopefully fully agreed with a aag wag ag ag among them who has called it Mr 11 Cool- Cool dge's weaning of the west est est His enemies say now that Mr Ir Cool Cool- Coolidge Idge dge will allow the rainfall and the grain market to do his poli poll politics politics tics for him while ho he fishes and lets the corn grow tall tail and high priced and then r returns turns to Wash Wash- Wasl Ington in the autumn as the farmers farmer's chapion chaplon with the corn belt tied around his wrist His friends maintain on the contrary that hat in the tho presence of the west Mr Ir Coolidge will be relieved relle of his New England Inhibitions and will wili express publicly the feelings of sympathy for suffering which he expresses so often in ip his private private vate ate conversation n They admit that hat Mr brought a a. rain- rain rainfall rainfall fall all to the semi-arid semi west They now expect c the semi-arid semi west to o return the tho compliment and produce a thaw In New Ne England |