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I THE NEWBEKRY SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C. Washington Di&est; Nation's Grasslands Stand For Security in Agriculture By BAUKHAGE Netcs Analyst and Commentator. WASHINGTON.—“The grasslands, hay lands and forested range lands of the entire United States cover more than a bil lion acres, nearly 60 per cent of the total land area. They fur nish about half of the feed for all the livestock.” That statement is quoted trom the new AGRICULTURE YEAR BOOK titled "Grass.” last copies of which now are being delivered to congress men for their constituents. Purpose of this book is to contribute to the lore and practice of the American farmer so he may help to attain "permanency in agriculture.” Technicians selecting male buffalo grass to secure pollen for breeding to improve strains at the buffalo grass nursery at Woodward, Okla. grass ‘Tor happier living” on the playing fields, lawns, highway shoulders and airfields. Other parts of the book are de voted to the uses, nature and iden tification of various grasses and finally there are detailed charts, tables, recoftimendations for seed- ings and mixtures. Scope of the topics is wide, for the subject involves not only the varying conditions of soil and climate, but also so cial conditions affecting the ten ure of land and the lives of the people, along with shifts in na tional policies and political trends. There is no more striking ex ample of how these purely external conditions affect the farmer than in England today, where a com plete change in that country’s ag riculture was brought about dur ing the war and continued since. The great parks, private estates, preserves and forests have been broken up under pressure to raise This permanency is obtainable, $>- says P. V. Cardon, in the opening chapter of this splendid 900- page book, by means of “—an agriculture that is stable and se cure for farm and farmers, consistent in prices and earn ings; an agricul ture that can satisfy indef initely all our needs of food, fibre and shelter BAUKHAGE in keeping with fire living standards we set. Every body bar a stake in a permanent agriculture.” Grassland is, according to the many experts who have contribut ed to this volume, the foundation of security in agriculture. Grasslands, by the sheer force of their need, have increased from an original 700 million acres to the present billion. Believers in grass expect that acreage to be in creased, and I have no doubt that this book will help. Grass means to these stu dents of the Gramineae fam ily, wheat, corn, rice, sugar cane, sorghum, millet, barley, oats, many of the sod crops which provide forage or pas turage and the associated leg umes, clover, lespedezas, al falfa and others. The trend toward grassland ag riculture in America existed for some 10 years but was interrupted for intensive cultivation during the war. Now it is increasing again, according to Cardon who has been engaged in agricultural research since 1910. But he points out that grassland’s agriculture supple ments rather than replaces other farm production — for example, livestock production, with which it la inseparably linked. “Grassland agriculture," he says, “under good management may equal or increase the produc tion of digestible nutrients, reduce materially the labor needed to grow them and lower the cost of supplying protein necessary to nourish animals.” There are many interesting and widely varying chapters, progress ing from the general to the more specific. The editor, Alfred Stefl- erud, has summarized the book as separated into four parts. The first is an examination of grass as it applies to people anywhere with the emphasis on livestock and soils and conservation. Forage for live stock, the use and value of pas tures, grass and rotations, the range, as a major resource and I food which formerly was import ed. The general trends in America have been less obstructed by exter nal influences. “Grass” is a book for city- man as well as farmer, and among the vast compilation of data resulting from experiment, record and research, there are even a few pages given to a panegyric whose poetic fervor makes up for what may be a lack of purely scientific back ground. I can’t help quoting from the ar ticle, "In Praise of Blue Grass," by John James Ingalls who was senator from Kansas from 1873 to 1891. It is reprinted from the Kan sas magazine in which it appeared in 1872, and has been widely quoted ever since. After describing the beauties of a ride through his' “primeval win ter in Kansas,” Ingalls describes Close up showing method of pollinating female buffalo grass flower with pollen from selected male strain. his descent into a valley where, he says, was created “the strange spectacle of June in January, peculiar to his native state. "A sudden descent into the shel tered valley" he writes, "revealed an unexpected crescent of dazzling ver dure, glittering like a meadow in early spring, unreal as an incantation, sur prising as the sea to the soldiers of Zenopbon as they stood upon the shore and shouted Thalatta!’ It was Blue Grass, unknown in Eden, the final triumph of nature, reserved to compensate her favorite offspring in the new Paradise of Kansas for the loss of the old upon the banks of the Tigris and Euphrates." Im Truman Another • • * Boy on Burning Deck? It may be just as well that Wash ington has not only its proverbially- unbearable weather, but that it has a political campaign as well to take its mind off more serious troubles. It started out as a rather dull campaign with the Republicans positive of victory and the Demo crats showing an overweening will ingness to get used to the Idea of looking for another job. But ever since Harry Tru man's peppy speech at the Democratic convention, you fre quently run into a Democrat who actually thinks his party has a chance in November. One loyal adherent to the party of Jackson and Jefferson approached me with a theory that Truman had a very good chance of winning on the psychological basis. "You know,” he said to me, "deep down in the subconscious of every American is a boy-on-the-buming deck complex.” ... the boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but him had fled; The flame that lit the battle’s wreck, Shone round him o’er the dead. I didn’t get it at first, but the explanation is simple and not il logical. There probably never has been a more outstanding example of a one-man show than Harry Truman’s performance at the Democratic convention. My friend went on: "Most Ameri cans at one time or another have pictured themselves as rising to the occasion, alone and unsupported, taking on all comers, swinging to the right and left regardless of the odds, holding the fort or storming the redoubt or saving the child whence all but him had fled." “He went on to say: “Ameri cans see this spunky little fight er who wears a confident smile when most of his colleagues have faces as long as a^ nev- look skirt, and they imagine themselves in his place. "As any schoolboy who has studied psychiatry knows, there will be a transference displacing the affect from one person to another motivated by the unconscious iden tification of the voter with the boy on the burning deck and from the boy on the burning deck to the Democratic candidate.” Quien sabeT 1 the KING IS DEAD . . . Babe Ruth, a legend while he lived, haa become an American epic after his death. He was all the guys in the world who ever pulled out of obscnrity to become big leaguers. The Babe grew up to become the biggest, best, hardest hitting, most colorful basebaU player on earth. HU unforgettable diamond career began with the Baltimore Orioles when he waa still an open-faced, over grown boy (inset). He reached the climax of his basebaU life in the third game of the Tankee-Cubs world series on October 1, 1932. With two strikes on him and the Chicago crowd heckUng him, the Babe pointed to the center field waU. Then he hit the next pitch past the flagpole. This picture, from Esquire magazine’s “Great Moments in Sports” series, captures the simple but dramatic faith in himself that made Babe Ruth an American idol. iSPSp: ipit: : rf 'v.'.” v'- 5 'v. WAR IS OVER FOR THESE MEN . . . Fighting of the suspended “war” in the Holy Land will not be re sumed, as far as these captive Arab fighting men are concerned unless they escape Jewish imprison ment or are released by force of other Arab arms. In the photo, some of the 2,00ft Arab prisoners of war march through the gate of the stockade where they are held by their IsraeU captors. Among the Arab prUoners also are a number of Britons, some of whom left British armed forces to Join the Arabs. THE RAINS CAME AND THE BRIDGE WENT . . . Only the rails and ties survived when floods swept away this railroad bridge in Berwickshire, EngUnd. Torrential summer rains caused overflowing of riv ers and streams and inundated more than 1,000 square mUes of northern EngUnd and ScotUnd. Hundreds of families were forced to evacuate their homes. Ripening crops were ruined in many locaUties and rail roads, like this one, were put out of commission. ToUl result was an additional severe strain on the ah ready overstrained British economy. ALL ASHORE THAT’S GOING ASHORE . . . Unification might stiU be Just a controversial theory In the upper echelons of the armed forces, but it was much more than that at Norfolk, Va., when the army, navy, marines and air force combined in a combat landing operation based on the bitter lessons learned on shores of Europe and the Pacific. It was "Operation Camid” (for West Point cadets and Annapolis midshipmen.) Landing craft are lined up on the beach and spilling their loads of navy middies who are beginning to learn first hand what ground troops are up against when they undertake an invasion of a strongly defended enemy coast. « Dress Rehearsal for War E IGHT MILES out of Frankfurt, Germany, at the Rhine-Main airport, is a place the G.I.s call "Boom Town." It is called that be cause a new town has sprung up overnight, with the carpenters’ hammers still making as much noise as the airplane motors—all because of the Berlin airlift. One thing about this airlift which most people don’t realize is that It’s an air force rehears al for future possible eventual ities. And the top air people are quite candid about this fact. Furthermore, if the diplomats succeed in raising the Berlin block ade, the air force does not intend to abandon its installations. Boom Town will stay right on—just in case the Russians tighten up their eco nomic grip on Berlin once again. In the briefing room at Rhine- Main, a pair of snowshoes are tacked on the wall—memento of the 54th Troop Carrier squadron based at Elmendorf field. Anchorage, Alaska. Those snowshoes are sym bolic of the manner in which the air force has abandoned all other tasks in all other parts of the world to break the Berlin blockade. Ibere might also be other symbols — trom Albrook field, Panama, Bergstrom field, near Austin, Tex., and Hickham field, Hawaii—pilots assembled from all parts of the earth, getting experience in a theater where they may have to operate with Ufe-or-death determination in the future. That is why the army, in calcu lating the cost of the airlift, reck ons only the cost of gasoline and supplies. The cost of pilots’ time, they figure, is a good inv estment. Bradley’s Inspection Tour BEST INDICATION that the west ern powers don’t anticipate early hostilities in Europe despite the tense state of the Moscow talks is that army chief of staff, Gen. Omar Bradley, plans an extended vaca tion trip. General Bradley is combining va cation with business on a one-month tour of American outposts in the Far East. Although nobody will con firm it, it’s considered likely Brad ley will take to Japan another invi- tion from President Truman to MacArthur, asking the Allied Far Eastern commander to come home and receive a hero’s welcome. Mac Arthur has indicated that if he re turns home fzom Japan it will not be until after the November elec, tion. Note—V. S. diplomats predict Rus sia’s next zone of intensive operations will be the Par East—the area Bradley is visiting. * • • Seek Small Town Vote DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSMEN Melvin Price of Illinois and Frank M. Karsten of Missouri got a lec ture from President Truman on the importance of the small town vote. Calling at the White House, Price and Karsten assured the President of their support next November. Whereupon Mr. Truman gave them a homely discourse on the coming campaign. "I'm not worried about the elec tion,” he said. "We’re going to win, that’s sure. I know that’s sure be cause we’re right and they're wrong. "I’m going to make It a rip- snorting, back - platform cam paign to what Taft calls all the ‘whistle stops,’ ” the President continued. “Taft calls them whistle stops, bnt I call them the heart of America. When they count the whistle-stop votes, Taft may be in for a big surprise. I think the whistle stops will make the difference between victory and defeat.” Mr. Truman also expressed con fidence that he would carry much of the farm vote. He said that Re publican opposition to the world wheat agreement would play into Democratic bands. “We have our biggest wheat crop in history," he said. “The Russians have their biggest bumper wheat crop in history. The farmers know that if there isn't some agreement to protect them, all the farmers will be hurt. I am going to explain this to the farmers in the campaign.” • • • Condemn Housing Frauds AN ALL-OUT CRACKDOWN, on housing frauds against veterans was ordered by Atty. Gen. Tom Clark and Housing Expediter Tighe Woods at a conference of U. S. district at torneys from 21 key cities. “I want you to put these housing frauds at the top of the list when it comes to prosecutions," ordered the attorney general Equally vigorous was Woods, who has expanded his investi gating force from 15 to 300 men. He told the district attorneys in their closed-door session that while he would leave the legal justification up to them, he wanted to emphasize the govern ment’s moral obligation to do something about housing viola tions. u jt&t IPhillipr RADIO'S MONEY PROBLEM The big radio question today is whether the melody being played by the Federal Communications com mission is "The Baloney Waltz,” "Doubletalk, How I Love You!” or “This Time I’m Leveling.” * It has (hang onto your hats!) dis covered that there are prize con tests on the air and that they are illegal under one of its own rules adopted 15 years ago and based on a United States postal law not far from 100 years old! And it says it is going to act to stop the give away programs now flooding America and developing a race of free mink coat, ice box, bungalow, and dough- bag collectors. * In acting so late, the commis sion shows itself slower on the trigger than any contestants on give away programs. It has tak en it over a decade to answer the simple question “Is your radio set a household fixture or a crap game?” • The commission declares that give away programs will be banned if: (1) The winners are required to fur nish any money or thing of value or to have in their possession any ad vertised product. (2) If winners are asked to answer questions the answer to which is given on any broadcast. (3) If the contestants are required to be listening on their radios. (4) If answering a phone or writing a letter is required. : • That about covers everything from boxtops and mystery voices to slogans and song identifications. And if the FCC is on the level, it means it is abandoning its own "Doubletalk or Nothing” program, a feature shared by the radio sta tion owners. » Voice: “Didn’t the National As sociation of Broadcasters come out many months ago with their own code stating any broadcast designed to buy the radio audi ence by requiring it to listen in the hope of reward should be avoided? But did it raise a finger to enforce the ban? No prompt ing, please.” • The FCC announces that U will receive reactions from the radio stations. (All radio stations glutted with jackpots will kindly submit their reactions in 50 words or less, stating clearly why they like ap plesauce. All letters remain the property of the FCC. Ed. note.) * We shall see what we shall see. Despite all federal laws and com mission rules, radio constitutes the greatest collection of raffles, lot teries, sweepstakes, bingo games and prize contests on earth. More people gamble on the airwaves in one night than at the race tracks and gambling houses in a year. You twist a dial with the same feeling you get when you pull the lever on a slot machine. Nothing is missing ex cept the three-plum symbol and the grinding noise. • It has reached a point where a man tuning in doesn’t know whether he is listening to a radio program or getting a key to Fort Knox. • The Federal Communications orchestra and the National Associa tion .of Broadcasters brass band will now play a selection. Listen carefully and see if you can identify it. If it turns out to be “I’m Sincere with You My Dear,” you win two jet planes, a three piece mink suit, $50,000 in fresh meat, six months fun in the U. S. mint and an extra patty of butter. • • • Zeke Clay Says: Eb Abernathy is being honored as an American of Distinction. It seems he used the same shav ing soap all his life and heard of only one razor. • Mr. and Mrs. Eben Willougbboy’s television set entertained a large crowd of friends the other night The Willoughboys, who have never amounted to much socially, are looking for a lot of attention if the picture doesn’t flicker too much. » Clem Kettle was paid quite an honor last week. An auto com pany moved him up to the 236th position on the list for a new car. • • • Two men who battled over a bot tle of rum in a plane full of passen gers high over file ocean have been arrested. They were not, obviously, a couple of “paritopers.” • • • "Miss Furs! continues to hold out in the Westchester home de spite the turning off of water, eleviricity and all supplies."— News Item. • Furst in war, Furst in peace, last in the heart of the utilities. * • • "Saratoga hotels deplore the bar on gambling, not because they con done it, but because it means a drop in their revenue, too.”—New; Item. * Aw, Mop breakin’ our heart! TAKE LAXATIVES ? Try T/>/s /nstec/c/ just JUIC* IttfON IN A GLASS OF WATER flKST TWN<r ON LEMON IN WATER IS GOOD F O R,Y O U Try it 10 days- Sunkist Skin‘ba tire* front i DRY Don’t delay—apply soothing, skilfu medicated Resinol to the irritat skin! Note how this famous relieves itching and burning. It so many skin sufferers, it good. Costs little at your calox A MCKESSON A ROBBINS BLOOD TESTED K. H. Beds. Barred Rock*,} Wyandottes, Rock Red Chicks (No Leghorns). Satisfaction Guaranteed —Chicks sent C. O. 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