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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C.
Bankhage
Washington Di9est
Small Woodlots Hold Key
To Future Timber Supply
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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.”
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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.
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They say the show should be
called, “Life Without Father,” or
"Franklin In the Wings.”
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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.
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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. If a
majority of nations jointly oper
ated these bases, even a big na
tion like Russia would hesitate to
attack.
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