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I THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C. Roosevelt Family Turns to Farming Elliott and Eleanor Begin Back-to-Land Movement By BAUKHAGE News Analyst and Commentator. WASHINGTON.—Moses Smith, I understand, has retired. He is leaving the 140 acres he has been farming for 27 years. His landlord’s widow and her son are going to work it from now on. The last time I saw Moses Smith he was dressed in his Sunday clothes. We were both up in his former landlord’s bedroom, with some of the neighbors. It was a sad occasion. It was the boss' birthday anniversary but he had been dead nearly two years. The room looked the same to Moses and his friends who had seen it often when they came up there to talk over farm and other business. The former occu pant’s dressing gown was lying on the bed, his slippers were by the courch. The boss was one of the landlords that tenants like. Moses told me that, five years before, when I visited him at his white-painted farm house. “I’ve rented from him for 22<S> years (that was 1941).” he told me then, “and he has yet to find a fault. Whenever he gets a chance he comes over here to say ‘hel lo’ and ‘goodbye’ but he doesn’t find fault. And I’ve made mis takes, too. No body is perfect.” The landlord had a pretty good opinion of the tenant, too. as I learned Baukhage later. Smith knew that and was pleased, out it didn’t go to his head. He is a typical, independent, self-respecting up-state New York farmer. I remember he said to me that day, sitting on the front stoop, in 1941:— “The President drove over here a little while back, with Princess Juliana. He told her about this house being over 100 years old and I told him about the well-water. It had gone bad. So he said go ahead and dig a new well.” Smith and I walked over to the new well. It was 100 feet deep. “It will last 100 years,” said Smith with the pride you find up that way in good things that last. , By this time you have guessed that Smith was a tenant on the Roosevelt estate at Hyde Park, N. Y. I take it he is a comfort ably retired farmer now, living in the nearby village of the same name. And Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt and her son, Elliott, have taken over. I don’t know who will live in the farm house. The old Roosevelt homestead is a museum now—hut the Roose velts have other dwellings. They are going in for commercial farming, Mrs. R. said. Elliott hadn’t been interviewed since the senate war investigating committee start ed looking into the Hughes airplane, and ended looking the other way and blushing. The testimony had a lot to do with the night club—cock- tail-lounge side of young Roose velt’s activities but nobody could find a hole in his war record. Even his many critics admit that. Elliott’s friends are heaving sighs ★ ★ of relief to hear that he is going in for something constructive. War takes a lot of courage and skill, too, but it isn’t very constructive. Nei ther is night life. “This is a challenge,” Mrs. Roosevelt explained in her col umn, “which Elliott and I will enjoy." Every farmer knows she’s right about the "chal lenge.” They aren’t going to try to raise wheat, corn, potatoes, or attempt to keep 14 cows, as Smith was doing when I visited him. They are going to continue raising Christmas trees, a venture which the late President started and seriously pursued for several years. Smith’s 140 acres, which were devoted to general farming, are only a fraction of the more than 1,000 acres, much of which is wooded, and part of which has been devoted to a scientif ically - cultivated evergreen crop, which make up the estate. Mrs. Roosevelt explained that she and her son couldn’t afford to keep the estate as a country place, as her mother-in-law had. I noticed that the New York Her ald-Tribune made editorial note of Mrs. Roosevelt’s plans and men tioned that a lot of acres along the Hudson "were untilled.” It mentioned that Dr. Samuel Bard, a wealthy retired physician, had a place not far from the Roose velt estate where he carried on val- ■, uable experiments which made an important contribution to agricul ture. Mrs. Roosevelt hopes to con duct similar experiments. “If Mrs. Roosevelt," says the Herald-Tribune, “does no more than fasten remembrance on the fact that land endures . . . that stability of farming is that of a renewable world in which seedtime and har vest are still more lasting than dy nasties and dictators . . . the new farming partnership will have done much of value before the first fur rows are turned.” I wonder if you feel the way I do. I think, regardless of the color of one’s political senti ments, anybody who loves the soil can offer his well wishes to this venture with the hope that the young man will do as well with his hands in the earth as he did with his plane in the air. ★ ★ Tragedy in the It was a coincidence that while I was reminiscing on the subject of the Roosevelts’ new adventure in tree-growing, my neighbor in the building across the street presented me with a couple of typewritten pages containing some striking facts about tree destruction. They are apropos, I think, now, as we move toward the close (we hope) of the worst season of forest fires in a decade. This period of holocausts began before the ink was dry on bills passed by congress making deep slashes in the interior department’s appropriations for fire control. Many of the cuts later were re stored, but not in time to save thou sands of acres of timber in some areas of America, notably Alaska. “The sawtimber burned in a single year in this country,” says my friend’s memorandum, “would be sufficient, if convert ed to building materials, to re place every private house in the cities of New Orleans or Min neapolis. “If the wood below sawtimber di mensions could be manufactured for paper, it would provide a 25- year subscription to a monthly pocket-size magazine for every man, woman and child in our 142 million population. “If it could be converted to rayon pulp, it would provide material for ■more than a hundred new dresses for every woman and girl in Amer ica. “In terms of dollars, our annual 'forest fire loss amounts to 35 million dollars in payrolls lost to wood workers and three-quarters of a bil lion dollars worth of wood products. “The tragic part of all this is that 9 out of 10 forest fires could be prevented. Nine our of 10 are traceable to human causes —to incendiarists, causing more than 25 per cent of all fires; to smokers, careless debris-burn ers, railroads, campers and woodsworkers who are respon sible in the order named.” Well, those are the sentiments of my neighbor, who is trying to establish a "balanced cooperation” among the men who make their Forests money out of trees, one way or an other, the people and the birds and the bugs who need to have trees, and the government and others who try to protect and preserve them. One non-cooperating match tosser can undo a lot of his work. Parachute jumpers are one of the most important factors in get ting forest fires under control swiftly. Here, Dick Tuttle, near top of 100 - foot lodgepole pine snag, is about to be assisted by Francis Luskin, forest guard. FIRST VICTIM Deflation Producers of farm commodities, although strongly entrenched in the present economy and apparently destined to remain so, at least for the immediate future, may be the first' group to feel the full impact of any reversal of the current in flationary trend. That warning was issued by fed eral reserve board researchers in a midyear study of the position of agriculture, indicating that, even in flush times, the well-being of farm ers is in a state of delicate balance. If the present boom were to de velop into a tailspin, price falls in the agricultural commodity field probably would be greater than in other areas of the economy, the re port points out Record returns to LESSON IN WARFARE . . . Army cadets and navy midshipmen ob served combat battalion of marines stage mock beach landing opera tion as part of operation Camid II. After its completion, the observ ers inspected the phases and talked with the marines, some of whom were still in foxholes. NEWS REVIEW Joint Defense Pact Set; Fear Large Corn Loss POLE-TO-POLE: Mutual Defense James Monroe, fifth President of the United States, had his say, in spirit, at least, at the inter-American defense conference at Petropolis, Brazil, in August, 1947. When the conference agreed on a mutual aid treaty for North and South America and their territorial waters, and set up a vast. North Pole-South Pole hemispheric secu rity zone, the celebrated Monroe doctrine was developed to its log ical conclusion 124 years after its inception. This was the burden of the Mon roe doctrine in 1823: "It is only when our rights are invaded or se riously menaced that we resent in juries or make preparations for our defense ... in this hemisphere . . .” Today, the Americas are making preparations for hemispheric de fense in advance of any menace or invasion of their rights. The mu tual defense treaty embodies three main points: 1. In the case of armed attack from outside the hemisphere, all nations have the automatic right to meet the attack with military measures. 2. If military attack occurs in side the hemisphere, American nations may go voluntarily to the aid of the victim, with con sultations to follow. 3. If attacks occur both inside the hemisphere and outside the t security region, immediate con sultations will be called. Thus, despite the opposition of some Latin American nations to the U. S.-espoused ‘‘Monroe doctrin ism,” it appeared certain that the “hands off the Americas” policy was in for a big revival in the atom ic age. TORRID ZONE: Corn Declines Thermometer-happy Americans, struggling feebly in the moist clutches of a record heat wave, could take cold comfort from the fact that temperatures were being exceeded in height only by the price of corn. With abnormally hot weather pre vailing over most of the nation, grains continued to deteriorate from lack of moisture and prices of both corn and oats hit new record highs. September corn was selling at $2.45 a bushel and September oats zoomed to $1.08%. The grain market prices went through the roof following a depart ment of agriculture report that the country’s heat-seared corn crop would produce only 2,437,000,000 bushels, a 223 million bushel drop from the-August 1 estimate. Although agriculture department officials had hoped earlier this year for a 3 billion bushel corn crop to keep food production high, weeks of hot, dry winds shrivelled that hope, and the com crops of Iowa and Illinois, major producing sections, continued to decline stead ily. IN WASHINGTON . . . John Samp son Kirby, 69, (above) of Tennessee was placed under observation after police had nabbed him packing a pistol in the capitol building and de claiming loudly that he had “just been elected president of the United States.” IN NEW YORK . . . Virginia Wal ton Brooks, 14, just returned from an African hunting trip with her parents, proudly revealed that she had shot not only an elephant and a lion but also such esoteric crea tures as a kongoni, two gerenuks, an oryx, a bat-eared fox, an im- pala, two dik-diks and a klipspring- er. IN CHICAGO . . . Mrs. Anna Metz ger, 47, had had a pain in her leg for 40 years, finally became curi ous, pressed the irritated area and pulled out a two-inch sewing needle. SAY UNCLE: Ford Gives Up Abandoning his laudable, if non- conforming, efforts to stabilize auto mobile prices, Henry Ford II an nounced that prices on “most mod els” of Ford passenger cars and all truck models would be boosted from $20 to $97, effective immediately. It was an average increase of 4.2 per cent, the announcement said, the rise being dictated by “the sim ple necessity of keeping Ford Motor company on a sound economic basis.” The action, following price in creases by virtually every other au tomotive manufacturer, marked the defeat of Ford’s lonely stand against the forces of inflation. All this gave rise to a disturbing question: If the Ford dynasty is un able to hold the line against infla tion, what, if anything, can? THE SWIFT: Oysters Lose Oysters simply aren’t fast enough to get away from predatory snails whose pace has been clocked offi cially at .000363005 miles an hour. Plodding along on a treadmill at the University of Maryland fish and wildlife laboratory, a test snail cov ered 22 feet and % inch in 11 hours and 30 minutes — a pace swift enough, at least, to overtake an oyster. Purpose of the laboratory’s snail timing experiments is to slow the little creatures up even more. As things stand now, they’re doing too much damage to Chesapeake Bay’s oyster crop. a Threat to Farmer farmers attributed to prosperous urban consumers and an almost un limited demand from abroad could be reversed in a flash. The federal reserve board survey explained the danger of deflation to farmers by citing three factors now operating to keep prices high. The share of consumer incomes • going to food consumption is much larger than has been cus tomary. Profit margins of producers and • distributors are greater than usual. Speculative factors play an im- • portant part in maintaining prices on numerous markets. “Consequently, with any reversal of inflationary tendencies, food prices may be particularly subject to downward pressures.” While the financial position ol farmers has undergone a vast, gen eral improvement as compared with pre-war years, many individ ual farmers have increased theii indebtedness, and the new debt ia written on the basis of sharply ad vanced values. In particular, the report declared that land values must start declin ing before much longer. Thus, while the farmer is enjoying a high level of income and prosperity as a result of the prevailing inflationary econ omy, the same forces which are now operating to his benefit appeal as a lurking but altogether possible danger to his future security. RELIC OF THE PAST ... Its 1828 building, old-fashioned fixtures and heterogenous display of merchandise make the Vermont Country Store an exact replica of the general store in grandfather’s day. IN THESE UNITED STATES Country Store Museum Is Replica of 1880 Emporium WNU Features. WESTON, VT.—Walk into the Vermont Country Store here and immediately you are transported back into grandfather’s day. For the Country Store, housed in an ancipnt building with hand-hewn rafters and with its shelvesJittered with an amaz ingly heterogeneous display of goods, is an exact replica of the 1880 Vermont emporium. In structure, fixtures and merchan- Control oi Insects Vital in Gardening New Insecticides and Combinations Eifective Good gardeners and vegetable growers have learned that insect control is as important as good seed, weed control and water. New insecticides, new combina tion dusts and better “sticking” agents have made vegetable and garden dusting more popular and effective. The duster should be able to reach the under side of the leaves in most crops. Many insects feed on Type of hand duster effective in most gardens. the under side. In the control of blights and other plant diseases complete coverage is important. For the average garden, a hand plunger duster is adequate. This duster_should have a long discharge tube with upturned end for under- leaf dusting. Larger gardeners and commercial acreages are more effi ciently dusted with crank or knap sack dusters. Good dusting equip ment is more efficient and effective in control of insects and plant dis eases than make-shifts. Potato yields have been in creased 40 to 60 per cent in Univer sity of Wisconsin tests by spraying or dusting DDT at 10-day intervals. Leaf hoppers, flea beetles and po tato beetles were controlled. Bean beetles, cabbage worms and most common insects are controlled by dusting. Whey as Preservative Dried cheese whey is added as a preservative in a grass silage dem onstration, using a temporary silo, on the farm of Emerson Grebel, BeaVer Dam, Wis. The grass, mixed legumes, was chopped in the Whey added to silage as a preservative. field. Whey powder, about 30 pounds to the ton, was added to the chopped grass as it was fed to the blower. FFA members are follow ing through to study quality of si lage as it is fed out, and effect on milk production. Sulfathiazole Used Against Calf Scours Calf scours treatment with vita min pills or tablets does no good. That’s the latest word on the sub ject from Cornell' university. Those in charge of the Cornell work say: “Studies involving approximately 60 heifer calves of various dairy breeds show that supplementing a normal diet with capsules or tablets containing vitamins A, D and E, ascorbic acid, and several of the B vitamins did not reduce the inci dence or severity of scours.” Remove 2,4-D Residue From Spray Equipment Injury to plants, such as stunted growth and reduced crop yields, may result when using spray for insecticides and fungicides which contain 2,4-D residue. The most effective means of eliminating 2,4-D spray residue is with hot wa ter and household ammonia. Rinse the contaminated spray with hot wa ter, then fill to capacity with water under boiling and ammonia, two tea spoonfuls per quart of water. disc, this unique country store mu seum is typical of the general store which grandfather knew in his youth. Although the present Vermont Country Store dates back only to June, 1946, its predecessor of the same name originally was founded at North Calais, Vt„ in 1897 by Gardner L. Orton. This store later was moved to Weston, and it was in this same location that Vrest Orton, son of the founder, reopened the old-fashioned cross-roads general store in the summer of 1946. Background of the sfi>re is au thentic, most of the fixtures coming from the store of the original founder. Other fixtures were presented by nearby Ver mont storekeepers interested in the project. While the building itself, con structed in 1828, and the fixtures are as old-fashioned as it is possible to make them, the country store museum is not a dead, lifeless af fair. On the old shelves and coun ters Orton has stocked as varied a display of goods as would have been found in his father’s emporium a half century ago. The place is redolent of mingled odors of spices, kerosene and cattle feed, while dim lights are a re minder of long jjygone days. Revived also around the old, high, wood-burning stove under the hand-hewn rafters is the old country store forum where peo ple gather to express their frank opinions on subjects rang ing from local politics to the state of the nation. The Vermont Country Store is more than a typical museum. Or ton’s experiment, in a day when the stereotyped, chain-store, slot ma chine atmosphere prevails in gro cery stores, may have far-reaching implications, for he is re-introduc ing the old-fashioned storekeeper's policy of knowing thoroughly the goods he was selling. This type of store, Orton explains, makes it possible once again “for people to enjoy the experience of going into a store.” Nearly 30,000 people visited the novel store museum last summer and fall, and even larger attendance has been recorded during the pres ent season. Rural School Pupils Pass Up Desserts To Aid War Victims NEWTOWN, PA.—As a memorial to alumni who lost their lives in World War II, pupils of George rural school in Bucks county have launched a project to aid pupils of two German schools. Recipients of the aid are the Gertraudenschule, a girls’ school in Berlin, and the Jacobi gymnasium, a school for boys at Dusseldorf. Pupils are voluntarily sacrificing their mealtime luxuries to provide food, clothing and ether necessities for the 800 German school children. Pennies saved by skipping ice cream and dessert are contributed to a special relief fund. During the first six weeks of its operation, the relief chest amounted to $1,319. Collections included regu lar contributions as well as money saved by giving up some item on the menu. NEW YORK. — Although it may not solve the teacher shortage, the City College of New York believes it has taken a step in the right direction by teaching students of education how to dress, fix their hair and make up their faces for the classroom. A series of lecture-demonstrations was devoted to teaching the stu dents how to look like, as well as be, up-to-date teachers. To conclude • — Don’t Yell Moron’ I At Reckless Driver; It’s Overrating Him MINNEAPOLIS. MINN. — When you mutter “Moron!” at the driver who just missed sideswiping your car, you may be temporarily over rating him, it is indicated in traffic fatality statistics assembled by Northwestern National Life Insur ance company. The vast majority of our ghastly annual toll of auto mobile accidents occurs when driv ers are devoting only part of their intelligence to driving, the report emphasizes. The moron rates at from 50 to 70 per cent of average human intelli gence, the imbecile level is between 25 and 50 per cent of average and the idiot rates below 25 per cent. Thus, the report points out, when the driver of average in telligence puts from a quarter to one-half of his mind on his driving, and devotes one-half to three-quarters of his brain to conversation, scolding the chil dren, listening to a quiz pro gram or admiring scenery, the hazards are about the same as if a moron or submoron were doing his very best at the wheel. An average mind fogged by alcohol may have its driv ing capabilities actually at the imbecile level. The splendid safety records of the railroads and the airlines would take a terrific nose dive, the report suggests, if engineers and pilots craned necks at scenery—feminine or otherwise—argued with wives, necked with the girl friend or were under the influence of alcohol, while on duty. Yet the motorist constantly com mits these driving sins, while airily piloting his passengers without the guidance of steel rails and through traffic a hundred times as dense as that of the railroads and the air lanes. A probable 24,000 lives could be saved each year, the insurance company estimates, if all motorists could be convinced that piloting an automobile safely is a job worthy of their best intelligence on a full-time basis. Woman River Pilot Still Active at 79 CINCINNATI, OHIO. — An Ohio river pilot for more than 50 years, “Ma” Greene at 79 is “as good as ever.” When the coast guard renewed her five-year pilot’s license for the 11th time, Lt. Comdr. Harry A. Voight reported that she passed her tests with ease. Familiarly known as “Ma,” Mrs Mary Greene is the only woman pi lot in the nation’s inland water ways. She now takes the wheel “just to show the passengers I can do it.” Her son, Tom, carries on the steamboat line her husband founded. She got into steamboat piloting when her husband found himself with an extra boat and no skipper, she explains. the series istudents staged a style show, modeling classroom and other clothes for teachers. In classroom clothes, one girl modeled an outfit suited to the classical old maid school teacher, a black silk dress complete with high lace collar. Other girls mod eled softly tailored suits with ruf fled blouse and tailored dresses con sidered appropriate for the modern school marm. Future Teachers Instructed in Makeup Some Helpful Ideas in Planning That Wedding **VXT'HAT a beautiful wedding!” VV The perfect ending to a perfect day — hearing the flatter ing comments of your guests as you and the groom walk up the aisle. The loveliness of any wedding depends on the amount and kind of planning that goes into it. If you want yours to be mem orable, start planning well in advance. * * * Our booklet No. 204 can help you. Cov ers every detail from the engagement to the wedding reception—expenses, dress, etiquette, everything. Send 25c in coin for “How to Plan Your Wedding” to Weekly Newspaper Service, 243 West 17th St., New York 11. N. Y. Print name, address with zone, booklet title and No. 204. Come and Get It! Bashful Suitor—If I threw a kiss across the room, would you con sider me bold? Bored Young Thing—No, just lazy. Correction The office boy had been missing for the best part of the morning. "Where the dickens have you been, hoy?” his employer demanded furious ly, when at long last the lad sauntered in. "To the post office, sir,” replied the boy, with a virtuous air. The employer gasped. "And does it take you two hours to post a letter?" he inquired, sarcastically. "I beg your pardon, sir,” said the lad with some heat. 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