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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C. Bankhage Washington Di9est Small Woodlots Hold Key To Future Timber Supply * By BAUKHAGE News Analyst and Commentator. WASHINGTON.—I have just had an interesting conversa tion with R. E. McArdle of the forest service of the depart ment of agriculture, and I have discovered that I’m one of the people that the United States of America has to look to for its future lumber supply. My father took up some of the last of the government forest land that was available in the Southwest. That little plot, along with the other privately-owned timberland straggling over the map of the U. S. f makes up three-quarters of all the timber there is in the country. Only one-fourth of our forests are public property. And three-fourths of this three-<S> fourths is composed of small wood lots which aver age 60 to 70 acres. Further more much of it is not part of a farm being worked by an experience d farmer. A great deal is owned by people who don’t | live on the wood lot or near it ' (like me), and many of whom (also like me) wouldn’t be able to tell a tooth pick from a telephone pole if it weren’t for their size. Worse still, many farmers own ing woodlots with valuable stands of timber on them don’t know how to get their money’s worth from that land or how to keep the wood ed acres contributing to their livelihood as the rest of their farmland does. In other words, growing timber in this country has become to a large extent a side issue. I am glad to report, after telling you all this bad news, that both the government and the lumber industry are trying to do something about this sit uation for the general, as well as for the individual, good. For example, in 1937, the Crossett Lumber company gave the govern ment 1,680 acres of typical second growth stands in southeastern Arkansas. I can’t go into the pro gram of experimental work that has been done there, but there is one item that affects our story. R. R. Reynolds of the forestry service went to work on 40 acres of this area. He did the things any farmer can learn to do to a similar woodlot. Last year Reynolds reported eight annual cuts which averaged a marketable value of more than $580 a yoar, and he had as much volume as when he started! Of course, everybody hasn’t Rey nolds’ know-how, but the govern ment is helping to spread that know-how through its representa tives or through state organiza tions. So is private enterprise. Florida Teaches Youth Forestry Fundamentals Thirteen years ago, Florida for example, began a forestry training camp for her Future Farmers of America members. On August 1 of this year, some 200 members of the FFA attended a two week camp at Camp O’Leno, about 60 miles west of Jacksonville, where they were taught, in the forest, the fundamentals of good forest prac tices. The first week was for begin ners who had had no previous for estry background; the second week was for those who had attended a previous camp. During the first period they were taught fundamentals of gum farm ing—how to secure naval stores such as turpentine and rosin from slash and long-leaf pines; how to Identify the commercially valuable trees and their use; how to farm forests as they farm cotton and other crops; how to protect their woodlots from fire; how to thin their stands of trees by cutting out the crooked, diseased, and other trees to allow the healthy ones room for more rapid growth; how to make seed beds grow tree seed lings. In the second week, the lads were put through more training In advanced principles with emphasis on actual work in the forest. They fought {i fire to learn the correct procedure. They marked trees in a plot, esti mated the board footage in a stand ing tree, cut it down, sawed it into lumber, and measured the lumber as a check against their previous estimates. They were taught how to chip trees in gum farming and how to market the gum. They were even put through a law en forcement course which stressed fighting the incendiarist in the woods. They were shown how to detect clues for purposely set fires, what evidence to collect and their rights under the law. Health and recreation are not neglected in these camps, and at the end of the two week period the boys go home enthusiastic, ready to practice or. their own woodlands. They take the message to their parents, of course, and make a re port to the organizations to which they belong. Briefly they have gained a fundamental knowledge of the value of trees and how they can be grown for profit. During the time Florida has run this camp, they have aver aged 100 boys a year which means some 1,300 have been in doctrinated In the fundamen tals of forestry. Today many of these graduates are leading citizens of their communities and many are growing trees for profit. Program Extends To Other States Nor is Florida the only state tak ing an interest in this new think ing regarding trees and youth. Alabama. Arkansas, Georgia, Loui siana, North Carolina, and Virginia staged similar camps this year. FFA or 4-H club members were the lucky youngsters, depending on which group the state forestry agency is co-operating with at the time. The purpose, of course, is not to turn out foresters. That would be impossible in two weeks. But camps can build up an effective in terest in growing a cash crop by growing trees. This year more than 600 youths from the seven states attended these camps, with all expenses paid by the forest industries. This is where private industry has stepped into the picture. On the modern theory that our future timber supply must come from what we grow, not as in the past from what we found on the land, the Southern Pulpwood association, composed of southern pulp and pa per industry members, with the co operation of the Southern Pine as sociation, pioneered in financing these and similar camps. The sum total of this whole proj ect adds up to this: Industry has joined forces with state agencies to interest youth in becoming suc cessful Tree Farmers of America, and to turn to account what has been up to recently a wasteful sideline on the farms—a sideline which must supply an important part of America’s current and fu ture vital lumber needs. PERHAPS HE’LL NEED IT . . . Seh. Alben W. Barkley (Dem., Ky.), senate minority leader and Democratic vice-presidential candidate, receives this good luck token from President Tru man. FOUR-H TO FILMLAND . . . Marian Lucille Freed of Stevens Point, Wis., is one of four 4-H club girls selected from 8,000 entries in 43 states to go to Hollywood for screen tests for a part in a film called “The Green Promise.” Marian has been a 4-H club worker for two years. I LITTLE TRAVELER . . . Win some six-year-old Irene Brokas of Bremen, Germany, with anx ious expectancy contemplates her new home in the United States while she sits patiently on a trunk waiting for her mother to go through customs. THEIR NOMINATION AFFIRMED . . . Henry A. Wallace and his running-mate. Sen. Glen Taylor of Idaho, take bows from rostrum of Philadelphia convention hall after their selection as presidential and vice-presidential candidates of the Progressive party. Taylor is holding his two-year-old son, Gregory. Selection followed procedures used at major party conventions, with the difference that Wallace had decided to run for president before he organized the third party, the convention’s action being merely a rubber stamp deal. NO LOVE LOST HERE . . . President Truman is shown delivering a tough 24-minute message before a truculent congress at the special session. The joint session of congress, which he has termed “one of the worst” in the nation’s history, gave him scant applause. This general view shows the President at the speaker’s rostrum. Florida teaches the fundamentals of good forestry to FFA youth at annual summer camps. Trammel Green, nurseryman for the Florida forest service, Is shown here Instructing two boys in preparation of a seed bed. Here they are spreading pine straw over the freshly planted seed as a protective measure. WOMAN DIPLOMAT . . . Mrs. Golda Myerson is Israel’s first minister to Russia. Now a mem ber of Israel’s council of state, she was born in Russia and lived in the U. S. since she was seven. THE OLD-FASHIONED WAY , . Some of the 300 cadets of the Portuguese naval training ship Sagres man the masts as the ship arrives in New York a training cruise. SMALL TOWN PEACE MOVEMENT ... As high government officials and foreign diplomats falter in their quest for world-wide peace, residents of Shelby county, Ohio, demonstrate that small peoples every where can play a significant role in the movement. Through their peace movement, known as “Neighbors in Action,” Shelby county residents hope to promote peace by sending food and goodwill overseas. WHEN A FELLER NEEDS A FRIEND . . . Although only a year old, little Donald Thomas Mellen already knows what it is to be heartbroken. He has lost his dog, Sandy, a brown Pomeranian pup, and here he is under the bed letting the world know his grief. Donny’s father, Donald A. Mellen, tries to comfort his son and heir, but to no avail. The dog followed Mellen to work and was picked up by two people in an auto mobile. A search of. all corners failed to produce the missing pet. THE IMPENDING BATTLE The popcorn, peanuts and lemon ade carnivals, called party con ventions, have folded and the road companies now are assembling. It is Truman and Barkley in “A Trail er Named Desire” versus Dewey and Warren in “Make Mine Penn sylvania Avenue.” * The critics hold that in order to win the Democrats will have to get Oscar Hammerstein to rewrite the script and add num bers by Berlin and Rogers. - » They say the show should be called, “Life Without Father,” or "Franklin In the Wings.” .. » They contend that the Dewey production has everything Ringling Brothers have except the Night Before Christmas pageant and Gar- gantua, and that put up against the Democratic offering it is like “Ok lahoma” versus the flea circus. But strange things happen in the world of politics and entertainment. The old saying, “Never count the gross receipts before you read the morn ing-after reviews,” still is good ad- vice. * Many a show has clicked despite bad preview notices and many an entertainment that was called sure fire on the road flopped in the ulti mate test. The one big advantage the Dewey-Warren production has is that no show ever has rim 16 years without boring the cash cus tomers. * This department doesn’t think the Democrats could win this time if they added the original cast of “Harvey," 'gave away free dishes and admitted wom en and children free. But there’s no business as uncer tain as show business except election business, and you nev er can tell. « Harry Truman emerged from the Democratic convention as the most dignified, gamest and most appeal ing figure, thanks to the quaint con duct of the opposition. He won sympathy just as a theater straw wins it when the rest of the cast tries to give him the works and even the stagehands drop sand bags from the flies. You can’t dislike him any more than you could dis like Denman Thompson in ’The Old Homestead.” ♦ He was called on four years ago to step into a leading part played to the hilt for 12 years by one of the greatest matinee idols, all around showmen and top scene- stealers of all time. Could Citation have succeeded the leading man in Three Men on a Horse?” We ask you! * Harry was the pitcher called in when the bases were full, the fighter sent in for the emer gency bout and the pianist called to substitute for the Tos canini orchestra. He never knew whether he was acting as a president or being used as a floating target. * And on top of all that, the law of averages, the turn of the wheel, the theory of cycles and the human desire for a change in billing all worked against him. Even people who had been for tarring and feathering all Republicans for years began wanting to trade in the old model for something new. » . The Republicans, farther north for 16 years than Peary or Cook ever got, suddenly found the ice thawing on the wings. And now there is every indication that they can safely discard their snowsuits, throw away their pemmican sup plies and reach for a White House instead of an -'Tl'-o • • • THE CANDIDATE His hat’s In the ring; His skimmer he’s shed. And what will he get? Just a cold in the head. • • • A New Jersey judge and bank vice president has been arrested charged with stealing $637,000 from the bank and throwing it into ab sorption by a stronger institution. He says it was nothing for him to lose $6,000 a week on the horses. We assume his hunch horses in cluded Frisk, Cheek, Going Away, Me Always, The Fincher, Speedy Bozo, Fashion Plate and Easy Go. Obviously he was one of those bankers who worked like a horse. • • • Vanishing Americanisms "The Democrats can’t lose." « "Here's five cents; go buy yourself an ice-cream cone." ♦ "l?s hard to get anybody to put money into a Broadway musical." "1 think I've been eating too much meat." • • • Eddie Arcaro shot a 64 on a golf course the other day. He certainly The Picture Changes T TNCENSORED DISPATCHES from behind the iron curtain have increased the fear that Russia may be ready for war now. Hitherto diplomats felt certain that the Soviet did not want war for at least two or three years— until she could develop the A-bomb. But here are some developments which have taken place behind the iron curtain. I The Communist-controlled • Czech government has received orders from Moscow to empty a large number of army barracks In western Czechoslovakia in prepara tion for the early arrival of large Russian troop concentrations. It’s important to remember that Czech oslovakia is adjacent to the Amer ican zone of Germany. If this report is accurate, the Red army is mov ing up units to face U. S. troops in the American zone. 2 The Russians have ordered * thousands of bilingual signposts erected all the way from the Soviet border to the German border for use of Red army divisions. Word that these signposts are being set up has leaked out through the Czech underground. They all point in the direction of Berlin and Paris. 3 Russia has occupied 15 new • air bases in eastern Germany, west of the Soviet border. Some of these air bases are staffed with the Russian version of the B-29, copied from B-29s forced down in Siberia during the war. 4 Russia has quietly summoned * home for consultation some of the most trusted diplomats in its foreign service, leaving relative second-stringers in charge of its embassies. 5 Word has gone out from • Moscow for the immediate purge of all dissident and weak elements in the Communist party throughout Europe. This means any Communist who doesn’t / toe the Moscow line unflinchingly is to be ousted. This order reportedly has the blessing of Premier Stalin. It is interpreted to mean that the Kremlin is gearing for a final show down. - Reason for Worry It has been two years since congress, after hot and hectic debates in the month of July, 1946, voted to sabotage price controls. Here are the official figures showing the difference between controlled prices and uncon trolled prices since the end of OP A; PR’CE OF MEAT—upped 191 per cent since May 15, 1946. RENTS — which remain un der controls, increased only 7.6 per cent. GAS AND ELECTRICITY— regulated by state and municipal commissions, have increased only 2 per cent. GENERAL FOOD PRICES— have gone up 214.1 per cent over the 1935-39 average. A Dramatic Touch President Truman got some in teresting suggestions on the Berlin crisis the other day from James Patton, rugged boss of 'he Nation al Farmers union, who urged him to “Do something dramatic.” “If I were president,!’ blurted the Rocky mountain farmer, “I would call Premier Stalin on the phone, tell him we had a bad sit uation on our hands and say I wanted to meet him in Berlin to talk it over.” • “Jim,” the President smiled, “I can’t be dramatic. I’m not the dra matic type.” But he assured the farm leader that “ways can be worked out” to settle the explosive Berlin question without war. Patton had one more question on the international situation. “How close,” he asked solemn ly, “are we to war?” The newspapers, Mr. Truman re plied, have overplayed the Berlin tension. The Russians, he was con vinced, do not want war. “And we certainly don’t want war,” added the President. Patton also told the President that, while congress had passed farm price supports, it was only the beginning of a long-range farm program. Farmers need other measures, such as soil conserva tion, rural electricity and aid to rural schools, he said. • mm U.N. Air Bases Pentagon planners are dusting off a secret plan for a network of United Nations bases around the world in order to enforce the peace. About 50 strategic bases would be turned over to an international se curity force, according to this plan, which was first submitted by the air corps in 1942. Military strategists argue that the United Nations must demon strate that it means business—if it intends to stay in business. 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