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i THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY, S. C. Little White House Made a Shrine Story of Summer Sanctums Of U. S. Presidents Traced By BAUKHAGE Kewt Analyst and Commentator. WASHINGTON.—This summer the Warm Springs Infan tile Paralysis foundation turned over a little five-room house on the mountainside to the state of Georgia, which will run it as a museum and national shrine. And so another of the “Lit tle White Houses” goes bcfck to the people. It is the only one in which a president spent his last days. In cjne of its three bedrooms President Roosevelt died. In its living room he spoke his last words. The Warm Springs house was different from other summer hideaways of presidents because it was really a home. The late President Roosevelt himself built it in 1932 at a cost of $8,700. He willed it to the infantile paralysis foundation. It was a very simple structure in which the archi tecture of the locality and a few Rooseveltian ideas are blended. There are the two bedrooms, a third guest room, a living room, a kitchen and that’s all. But there is a view that would make a Park avenue penthouse owner jealous. Baukhage Like all of the houses which Pres ident Roosevelt occupied, this little cottage is crammed with history, much of it still unwritten. Warm Springs was the symbol of Roosevelt’s victory over disease and pain. Since then, largely be cause of his ef forts, many hun dreds of others have achieved similar victories in the commu nity of which the •’Little White House’’ was a part. The simple cottage was also the scene of his death. He was posing for a por trait when the "terrible headache" came. He had signed his letters for the day and in his last signature, which I have seen, there is evidence that death already was "plucking at his sleeve.” Late in the war, when it was diffi cult to go far from Washington, an other “summer White House” in Maryland was established. It was given the name “Shangri-la.” The President himself named it jokingly when, because of security reasons during the war, its location had to be concealed. It was discovered, thanks to a slip of the tongue on the part of Mrs. Roosevelt, and because absurd stories were written about the tremendous amount of money which had been expended on it—as a matter of fact it cost very little to convert—it was thrown open to the press. One article described its "million dollar pool.” I have seen the pool. It is less than 20 feet across. Polly- wogs wiggle in it, rocks green with years of moss, surround it. It has been there a long time and I doubt if anyone ever had the temerity to bathe in it, although "Shangri-la” was a deserted boys’ camp when it was taken over. It sits high on a mountain top beside a splashing trout stream surrounded by thick woods. Today there is one overstuffed chair in the comer of the solarium that somehow always seems to get turned around at a certain angle. Turned that way, a side table is within easy reach, a push button and a hand telephone with an ex tension number on it. Lift it and the answer comes, "White House.” It connects directly with the switch board at 1600 Pennsylvania avenue. It gives me a rather strange feeling to look at that chair— empty—and realize what mes sages went over the telephone beside it, what words were dic tated while the long cigarette holder moved nervously to the ash tray on the table at its arm. President Truman has not used “Shangri-la” very often but when he goes there next he and Mrs. Truman will find a retreat which gives them more privacy than prob ably any other spot on earth. Tucked away in the deep woods is a new, little cabin, just big enough for two. No guest room, no parlor, just a cozy cottage with a neat, modern kitchen, a dining room- sitting room with a fireplace. There two is a company, three a crowd. A sanctuary any president de- ssrves. Havens of Other Presidents Ever since the days of Buchanan almost every President has seen fit to flee the banks of the Potomac when Washington weather begins to lure the mercury to the top of the tube. Although the United States army began being hot weather host to chief executives in Buchanan’s time and corftinued to do so into the regime of the dashing Arthur, it was because Lincoln lived at the "cottage” just within the Eagle Gate of the Soldiers' Home (now well within the city of Washington proper but once a distant suburb) that this summer White House be came famous as the Lincoln Cot tage. When Grover Cleveland became president, however, and shortly thereafter took a bride, he felt that it was improper to live on the army in the summer months. So be bought a place of his own called Red Oak on a high hill in the capi tal now known, in honor of his short domicile there, as Cleveland Park. It was a plain farm house when he bought it but it soon blossomed into a comfortable home. Then Washington was a town of some 175,000 people (1886) and Cleveland had an unobstructed view over the whole panorama down to the Potomac itself. When he was defeated he sold the place. When reelected he bought an other. That effectually ended the Sol diers’ Home tradition and it was really not until the time of Presi dent Taft that a “working” summer headquarters was set up. Other presidents took vacations — Theo dore Roosevelt "went home” to his beloved Sagamore Hill on Oyster Bay with a secretary or two. Presi dent Taft went to Beverly, Mass. When President Wilson went to Cornish, N. H., it was for rest and recuperation. In 1916 he chose the imposing Shadow Lawn in New Jersey and by that time war was impending and his staff went with him. President Harding didn’t want to "get away.” He wanted people, lots of them, around him—also 52 cards. President Coolidge, too, it was said, didn’t know what to do with a vacation but he made as geographi cally varied a selection of summer White House sites as any president. First it was Swampscott where, as one dispatch put it, he was “teth ered to a telegraph wire.” As a matter of fact no telegraph wires actually entered “White Court,” the great colonial mansion perched on the rim of New England’s rock- bound coast, but the telephone did and be made regular trips to near by Lynn where the offices were located. In 1926 he chose an Adirondack "camp,” near Paul Smith’s. One of those primitive places millionaires build in the wilderness equipped with all the comforts of a modern hotel Kirkwood Camp, owned by Irvin Kirkwood, a newspaper pub lisher, was such a place. The next year Coolidge repaired to the Black Hills of South Dakota where he lived in a spacious lodge among the trout streams, guarded by a troop of cavalry and making a long, twice weekly journey to Rapid City to attend to affairs of state and interview the press. The next year he again went to Wisconsin and on an island in a lake 28 miles southeast of Superior, lived in Cedar Lodge, making necessary a 56-mile trip three times a week. President Hoover, when he took office, almost immediately went down into his own well-lined jeans and for $15,000 bought "Rapidan,” another mountain stronghold in the Blue Ridges. When he left office he promptly deeded the tract to the commonwealth of Virginia, hoping perhaps, other presidential camp fires would burn there. But his suc cessor chose otherwise. Warm Springs belongs to the state of Georgia, countless thou sands will visit it, as they do Hyde Park and other local monuments. “Shangri-la” is now a part of the national park system. The next president, whoever he may be, may have it if he wishes, without extra expense to the tax payer. But who knows? He may have a dream-house, realization of which we need hardly begrudge him. TILLS SOIL WITH •GADGET’ ... For a total outlay of $75 for welding and parts, James van Hyfte, 31-year-old farmer near Hillsdale, 111., built this highly efficient, light weight tractor. A 1928 car engine is the heart of the tractor. A double transmission gives the machine six speeds forward and three reverse, making it adaptable to any kind of load, speed, field or road condition. NEWS REVIEW New Dust Bowl Feared; Corn Outlook Improves Thinking men—experienced ranchers, grain men and bankers in the West—are looking worriedly ahead to a revival of the dreaded dust bowl because transient farmers are plow ing up thousands of acres of virgin range to plant wheat which will bring them two dollars a bushel. Under the stimulus of the two- "S’ dollar wheat, buffalo grass is being turned over at an unprecedented rate, and the prediction is that when it quits raining the dust bowl will stage a savage comeback. The West again has become a paradise for speculators who are buying up land for $15 to $25 an acre and planting it in wheat. One good crop will pay for the land and leave them a good profit besides. Suitable primarily for grazing, the land normally is priced at from $2 to $10 an acre. "Suitcase farmers” roll in with their tractors; plows and drills, put in a wheat crop and then leave until it is time to harvest the grain. No one stays to check the inevitable wind erosion. The current world food shortage offers some justification for expand ing the wheat crop, but it would be difficult to maintain that rational outlook if resulting dust storms caused a recurrence of the mass ruin and exodus from the dust bowl of the 1930s. FAIR OUTLOOK: Corn Prospect As July entered the Midwest’s agricultural scene with a gush of warm air and sunshine, prospects appeared reasonably good for a fair-sized crop of com in Minnesota and South Dakota this year. However, in those states, as in the rest of the corn belt, a long period of favorable weather conditions is most essential. The frequent, heavy rains must stop in order that satu rated fields can return to normal. Planted acreage of com in Min- Just Friends His Excellency, the Most Rev erend' Dr. Mar Ivanious, arch bishop of Trivandrum, India, en joys visit with baby Claude, youngest of the prolific Dionne family which also includes quin tuplets. The two met in Ottawa, Canada. nesota and South Dakota is about equal to that of last year, but heavy losses have been incurred as a re sult of excessive rain. Most observ ers agree that while the growing corn crop is two to three weeks be hind last year it still has time to stage a comeback, given favorable weather. Such a shortened growing period, however, may result in reduced yields. Also, growers in the two states are reported to have turned, in the past year, to planting com requiring a shorter growing period than formerly. Therefore, while the com may mature relatively earlier than formerly, it will do so at the expense of a smaller yield an acre. DISCORD: Paris Clash Latest attempt to bring the oppos ing areas of the world into closer harmony by means of an interna tional conference has resulted, as have all the others, in a complete, discordant, unharmonious cacoph ony. It was the Paris conference of British, French and Russian repre sentatives on Secretary of State Marshall’s save - Europe proposal MARSHALL ANGERED Angered at Soviet criticism of his European recovery 'plan. Secretary of State George Mar shall rejected as a "malicious distortion of the truth” the Rus sian claim that American offers to help put Europe on its feet are inspired by imperialist mo tives. He drew a stinging com parison between United States’ efforts for world aid and Soviet aggrandizement in Europe. which went on the rocks this time, deepening the rift between Russia and the western powers. Conflict arose over two main Is sues: 1. Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov opposed any plan by which the great powers could impose an economic pro gram on the smaller nations of Europe, while British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin, backed by French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault, wanted to draft a broad scheme for re construction of all Europe. 2. Molotov placed his entire emphasis on the American aid aspect of the Marshall plan, but Britain and France primarily stressed a self-help program for Europe. Result is that Great Britain and France probably will go ahead with out Russia on a western European four-year reconstruction program of self-help, at the same time hop ing for American credits and sup plies. FAVORABLE FORECAST Downward Price Trend Seen NEW YORK.—With the postwar inflationary price rise apparently nearing an end, the probabilities seem to favor a downward move ment of the price index in the next 12 months, it is predicted in a re port on "The Price Level” released by Bankers Trust company. The report, prepared by Roy L. Reierson of the bank’s economic de partment, added that "the prices of some manufactured goods may show a further modest, and prob ably temporary, rise, but it is be lieved that any such movement will be more than offset by declines in the prices of farm and food com- w.odities and other materials.” The bank warned, however, that a combination of contingencies such as bad weather and a substantial deterioration of domestic crop pros pects could upset its forecast. After examining the factors in volved in the present rise as com pared with those in the price jump following World War I, the bank said, "since the all - commodity wholesale price index has not in creased as much this time as in World War I, it is likely that the de cline in the price level will not be as severe during this correction period as it was in 1920-1921.” The bank cited a number of fac tors to support its view. ’A collapse in farm prices does not appear im minent in the near future, it said. Food prices, although below recent highs, are supported by a high level of employment and national in come. Prices of many manufac- tured goods have risen only mod estly despite greatly increased costs of labor and materials. Furthermore, it is pointed out, the greatly increased supply of savings and liquid assets may pro vide some support for the price level. The business inventory situa tion, moreover, does not appear comparable to the excessive mone tary speculation following World War I. Milk Cooling With Electricity Sound Better Quality Product Results at Small Cost Milk customers don’t pay off on the quality of milk as it is pro duced on the farm. It’s quality at the point of sale that puts money in the bank. The dairy farmer, therefore, faCes a double task—to produce good milk at milking time, and to preserve that hard-won good ness until his prod uct has been sold. Preservation of quality requires that milk be cooled below 50 degrees within approxi mately an hour and a half after it is drawn in order to check bacteria growth and eliminate souring and off-flavors. r Water alone is not a satisfactory cooling agent, because only in rare instances is its temperature lower than 60 degrees. The addition of ice to water will help, but storage difficulties and the work involved in keeping the tank adequately sup plied present certain obstacles to its use. In addition, its cost, if pur chased, often is so high as to offset the price received for satisfactorily cooled milk. Because of this situation many electric milk coolers (either of the tank or aeroator type) are being in stalled on electrified farms. Such coolers, according to the Pennsyl vania State college school of agri culture, meet the farmer’s require ments for they are “designed to cool fresh milk quickly, uniformly and economically." On the basis of tests conducted recently on 101 electrified New York state farms, the cost of cooling milk electrically averages from 12 to 13.5 cents per hundred pounds. The pow er rate in the test area was 3 cents per kilowatt hour of power, which is about hi cent lower than the na tional farm electricity rate. KNOW YOUR BREED New Hampshires By W. J. DRYDEN Progenitors of the present-day New Hampshire were among some of the farm flocks of “Red” chick ens in New Hampshire 35 to 40 years ago. In selecting the stand ard New Hampshire, freedom from New Hampshire male at Okla homa contest. pullorum disease, rapid growth, rapid feathering and egg quality were considered equally with type and color. The ideal male is rich brilliant reddish bay in hackle and saddle, brilliant deep chestnut red on wing, bow and back and medium chest nut red on breast and other sec tions. The female is medium chest nut red throughout. A pullet will weigh 5% pounds; hen, 614 pounds; cockerel, 7V4 pounds, and cock, 8% pounds. Disposal Incinerator An incinerator for disposal of dead birds, poultry, turkeys and ani mals or birds that might be carriers of disease may be con structed from an old metal barrel. Iron rods are run through the barrel six or eight inches above, and parallel to the bottom to serve as a grill. Holes are cut below the grill for draft. This incinerator is con sidered a must by Clemson Agricul ture college. Spraying Cattle for Flies Improves Herd For spraying cattle, Purdue en tomologists recommend the use of 50 per cent DDT wettable powder mixed with water at the rate of two pounds in five gallons. It is applied at the rate of one quart per animal, and three or four applica tions each season at about three week intervals or as needed are rec ommended. A three gallon com pressed air sprayer or larger equip ment is suggested for the job. If^ .Wflhti’i STORY OF EROSION . . . Acting through the ages, wind and water have carved this masterpiece of nature—the North Window in Arches national monument, Utah. VAST LABORATORY National Monaments Protect Scientific, Historic Featares WNU Features. Several months ago National Park service received an urgent appeal from a small boy. “Send me some informa tion,” he wrote, “my class is studying about it.” One might assume that the little boy was revealing an overconfidence in the ability of National Park service to “come across.” Actually, the youngster was not too far out of line. The 171 areas that make up the national^ ■ park system of the United States cut a wide swath across the total of natural and human phenomena. Throughout the entire country there is a genuine thirst for knowl- edge and National Parks Eleventh In a Series from 500 to 1,500 requests for informa tion are re ceived daily in the central office of Na tional Park service. These requests come not only from school children, but also from mature men and women. Many more thousands of people go directly to the national parks, monuments and historic sites to seek first hand for the answers to their questions. The national park system serves as a vast laboratory for the study of North American bi ology, geology, paleontology, history and pre-history. The great national parks, such as Yellowstone, Glacier, y-sem- ite and Grand Canyon, wt.'e es tablished primarily for the pro tection of magnificent scenery, but each of thes£ parks also con tains a boundless variety of nat ural phenomena. The national monuments, on the other hand, have been created usually to protect a single scientific or his toric feature—an extinct vol cano, an ancient Indian ruin or an early American fortification. It often has been said that a na tional park covers a large area, while a national monument is small. This is not true. Many national monuments contain only a few acres each, but there are a num ber of geological exhibits in the na tional park system of such vast proportions that areas of consider able extent are required for their protection. * • * THE TWO LARGEST areas in the national park system are national monuments. These are Katmai and Glacier Bay in Alaska. Katmai national monument containing 4,215 square miles, is a volcanic region, the scene of a violent eruption in 1912 which resulted in creation of the Valley of the Ten Thousand Smokes. Glacier Bay national mon ument, covering 3,589 square miles of territory, embraces several huge glaciers and a bay choked with ice bergs. Largest national monument in the United States proper is Death Valley, covering 2,891 square miles of desert and mountains. Here is located the lowest point in the country, 280 feet below the level of the sea. Katmai and Glacier Bay national monuments are undeveloped and re quire much preparation and plan ning on the part of the visitor be fore he can explore them, but Death Valley, in California, so forbidding to the early immigrant, now can be visited in comfort and safety by the motorist. Death Valley, how ever, is extremely hot in the sum mer and the best seasons there are late fall, winter and early spring. • • • THE FIRST national monument was Devil’s Tower in northeastern Wyoming, established by proclama tion of Pres. Theodore Roosevelt in 1906. This is an 865-foot column of volcanic rock, which stands high above the surrounding country and may be seen for many miles. Muir Woods national monument in Marin county, California, just north of the Golden Gate, is an other early national monument, having been created in 1908. Here is a small but fine grove of Cali fornia redwood trees nestling in a deep ravine on the slopes of Mount Tamalpais. The monument was named in honor of John Muir, the famous naturalist, who did much to arouse public sentiment for protec tion of the redwoods and sequoias. • * * AMONG THE BETTER known national monuments, primarily of scientific interest, are the Petrified Forest on U. S. Highway 66 in east ern Arizona, the White Sands in south central New Mexico, Jack- son Hole in Wyoming, adjoining Grand Teton National park, and the Badlands in South Dakota east of the Black Hills. Less well known, but accessible by highway are the Joshua Tree national monument in southern California, the Organ Pipe Cactus and Saguaro national monu ments in Arizona. These three areas all contain unusual exhibits of des ert type flora. Capulin mountain in New Mexico,. Craters of the Moon in Idaho, the Devil’s Postpile and Pinnacles in California, Sunset Crater in Arizona and Wheeler in Colorado are all national monuments illustrating various forms of volcanic action. Capulin mountain is a particular ly fine example of an extinct vol cano, and the highway spirals around the mountain from the base to the rim of the crater. From the summit on a clear day one has a view extending into four states. * • • PERSONS INTERESTED in cav erns will find the following group of national monuments of interest: Jewel Cave in South Dakota, Leh man Caves in Nevada, Oregon Caves near Crater Lake National park in Oregon and Timpanogos Cave in Utah. Shoshone Caverns national monument in Wyoming is not yet developed and is not open to the public. Students of extinct forms of ani mal and plant life will profit from a visit to Dinosaur national monu ment in Colorado and Fossil Cycad national monument in South Da kota. * • • • PERHAPS THE MOST interest ing and unusual of all national mon uments is a group in southern Utah near the Arizona border, which in cludes the Arches, the Natural Bridges and the Rainbow bridge national monuments. All three areas are relatively inaccessible. A road does extend fairly close to the first of the natural bridges, but from there on the traveler must pro ceed on foot or horseback. To reach the Rainbow bridge the visitor must make a two-day trip by horse. With an automobile with over sized tires it is possible to pene trate the Windows section of Arches national monument, but to the Dev il’s Garden one must go on foot or horse. The story told in these three national monuments is one of erosion by wind and water. Other national monuments which also tell the story of erosion are: Cedar Breaks, Zion and Capital Reef in Utah, Grand Canyon and Chiricahua in Arizona, the Black Canyon of the Gunnison and Colo rado in the state of Colorado. FURTHER INFORMATION per taining to national monuments may be obtained by writing National Park Service, Washington 25, D. C., or Chicago 54, 111. Statue of Liberty Is a New Yorker WASHINGTON. — Although Bed- loe’s island, on which the Statue of Liberty stands, is part of New York state, the water surrounding it is part of New Jersey. Upkeep of the statue, which is now a national monument, is budg eted at about $60,000 a year. The seven families of National Park service employes, who live on the island, vote in New York City. Weight of the statue is placed at 225 tons, including 100 tons of cop per and 125 tons of wrought-iron framework. The sheet copper, which has a green patina from oxi dation, is three-thirty-seconds of an inch thick, about the thickness of a silver dollar. The head of the statue first was exhibited in Paris and the right arm and torch in Philadelphia at the centennial of American inde pendence. Ancient Dads ‘Gave Bride Away’; ‘Best Man’ There Our present-day wedding tradi tion is a curious blend of new fash ions, old manners, quaint survi vals and superstitious beliefs. There are writers who stoutly maintain that our wedding service possesses traces of the violence employed in the primitive cap ture of brides. The best man rep resents the warrior who ran inter ference for his friend while the latter dragged off his bride-to-be whom he had smacked uncon scious (to avoid any ugly wran gling that would mar the begin ning of their new .life together). Presence of the bride’s father is a memorial of the sire, who, out distanced and out-numbered, was forced to “give the bride away.” Grandma SPEARIN'... Heavens to Betsy, gossipin’s just like stealin’. You sort of sneak behind folk’s back and steal away their good reputation. • • * Easiest thing in the world is to buy a top-quality margarine. Jest look fer the words, TTable- Grade”. You’ll find them on every package of Nu-Maid ... a promise that inside is as fine a margarine as you can buy. 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