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THE INEWHERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C.
Washington Di&est
Man Is Riding Life Cycle
Toward His Destruction
By BAUKHAGE
News Analyst and Commentator.
WASHINGTON.—Today we have two visitors whom I met
recently at the Smithsonian institution, Mrs. Neanderthaler
(her husband wasn’t available) and Mr. Cro-Magnon.
They have come a long way. The Neanderthalers lived about 25,000
years ago—but what’s a few thousand years among friends—or relatives?
I doubt that the Neanderthalers are relatives of ours—and I’m not sorry.
They lived early in the Old Stoned
age, and died without leaving any
known heirs, assigns or descendents
—which may be just as well for the
rest of us who might have inherited
some of their characteristics. They
■were sub-humans—stocky folks—
but they couldn’t take it. They died
out.
Now Mr. Cro-Magnon was a dif
ferent proposition. He was a su
perior human
and I wish he
were a relative
because he was
i really superior to
!i us—better body,
better brain. If
he’d only lasted,
what a career he
would have had
in Hollywood—
and what he
might have done
for us! He might
have saved us.
He may still.
I’ve been read-
ing two new
books—"Our Plundered Planet,” by
Fairfield Osborne and "Road to
Survival,” by William Vogt.
Pankhage
Our friend Neanderthaler proba
bly managed to stick around 200,000
years or so before his environment
or his neighbors finished him off.
Today we are rapidly chang
ing our environment, and un
less we cease destroying our
sources of food and shelter, we
shall soon destroy ourselves, as
our sub-human friend was de
stroyed.
We know that there are two things
which chiefly distinguish man from
the animal: The way he has de
veloped the use of his hands and the
way his brain works. But our hands,
at the levers of machines, conceived
by our brains, have so disturbed
the cycle of nature, have done such
terrible things to all forms of life,
that they may prove our undoing—
if they don’t blow us into atomic
eternity, first!
Forgetting atomic destruction,
let’s look at some others.
We are very good at repro
ducing. In three centuries the
population of the earth has in
creased almost five times. In
the seventeenth century there
were 400 million people. There
are 2,000 million today. Five
times as many mouths to feed.
Osborne says: "If one takes four
billion acres, representing an area
of land estimated as now available
for cultivation, it means that there
are less than two acres per capita.
Contrasted with this is a generally
accepted computation that two and
one-half acres of land of average
productivity are required to pi$vide
even a minimum adequate diet for
each person."
Think of that: It takes two and
one-half acres to feed you properly.
There are now only two acres av%il-
MRS. NEANDERTHALER
.. . they couldn’t take it.. .
able. So you can see why there are
such food shortages around the
world.
Osborne goes on: “The relation
between land-health and health of
human beings is actually no more
than a delicate aspect of the delicate
complex aspect of all life.”
The cycle of life—the life in
the soil that feeds and clothes
our own life—is a part of the
single whole which contributes
to the fruitfulness of the earth.
I haven’t space here to go through
the whole list of crimes that man
has committed in the race to break
that cycle—to destroy the fruitful
ness of the earth—that fruitfulness
upon which his own existence de
pends. Take the most striking ex
ample—the topsoil.
Topsoil. When that goes, we
go with it.
Osborne, as I mentioned in this
space last week, estimates the aver
age depth of the topsoil on the earth
is about one foot. It is estimated that
it takes nature, under favorable con
ditions, from 300 to 1,000 years to
build one inch of that vital source
of our food, clothing and shelter.
“Yet,” he says, “what may have
taken a thousand years to build can
be, and in some places has been,
removed by erosion in a year, or
even in a single day.”
Erosion. That comes from over
use, wrong use or removal of pro
tecting grasses and trees. We over-
grazed the plains to get quick money
for beef, mutton and wool We
plowed fields of grass, left them ex
posed, and you remember what hap
pened—the dust bowl. We slaugh
tered the forests and reaped the
yearly devastating floods. Today our
food and shelter runs down the mud
died rivers to be lost in the ocean.
And animal life? We killed
off millions of wild animals on
this continent. We replaced
them, to some extent, by domes
tic animals. But we are break
ing the magic cycle of life there,
too, for the life-giving proper
ties of most of onr domestic
animals do not return to the soil
as did the bones and bodies of
wild life that lived their course,
died and were enveloped in their
mother earth.
Sheep and cattle are shipped today
to slaughter houses where whai lit-
MR. CRO-MAGNON
... spark of something else ...
tie is left disappears in disposal
plants or goes back to the ocean.
We are killing the soil Gradually
removing it and the tiny rnimal and
plant cells It contains, and thus de
stroying the potential for reprodu-
ing the tiny living organisms in the
top soil which are a part of the re
lationship of all living things.
I haven’t space to go on, but I
don’t want to leave on a too-de
pressing note. It’s true that our
friends, Mr. and Mrs. Neanderthal
er, the sub-human folk with the lit
tle brain, couldn’t take it. But we
can hope that his successor, Mr.
Cro-Magnon, who had a better brain
than we have, passed some of it on
to us, with the spark of something
else that made him lift his chin* a
little from the clod.
“We have been taught to lift ours
higher, to the heavens. There’s hope
up there—and inspiration—and with
in ourselves the power, too, if we
know how to use it.
• • *
More Trees
On the Way
American farmers will have more
trees to plant next year than ever
before in our history. 1
State nurseries plan to grow 368,-
976,551 in 1947-48, according to a
national survey just completed by
the American Forest Products In
dustries, Inc., of Washington, D. C.
Most of these trees will be sold
to farmers and other landowners at
cost, while many will be given to
farmers free of charge by forest
industries who purchase them from
state nurseries.
This forest seedling production,
however, will be increased substan
tially by federal and private indus
try nurseries over the United States,
pushing the total to approximately
400 million seedlings.
Yet these figures, represerting the
planting of three trees for every
man, woman and child in the coun
try. indicate statistically that seed
ling production still is not enough
to fill the demand by woodland own
ers and other citizens interested in
growing trees.
And while they still do not meet
the tremendous demand, if all these
seedlings were planted 1,000 to an
acre they would form a verdant,
mile-wide belt stretching from New
York to Chicago.
The record in tree planting is
matched only by the volume of new
wood now growing on America’s
forest lands. Total growth now ex
ceeds 13.3 billion cubic feet of wood
every year—greatest volume ever
recorded in surveys made by the
federal government.
COMMANDER . . . Gen. Jon
athan Wainwright, commander
of American troops at Bataan
and subsequently a prisoner of
the Japanese during the war.
was elected national commander
of the Disabled American Veter
ans at the annual convention in
New York.
BEAUTIFUL . . . Sanda Popa,
Romanian war bride of Washing
ton, D. C., emerged a surprise
winner over American lovelies
to reach the finals in the nation
wide search for “Miss Stardust
of 1948.” She left Romania be
fore the iron curtain fell.
OLD PILOT . James W. Mon-
tee of Washington, D. C., claims
that he Is the oldest active pri
vate pilot in the country. Now
35, he won his license at 60
and has logged more than 3,000
hours in the air since.
DOTES ON GOATS . . . Carl
Sandburg, free verse poet and
historian, never has allowed his
literary efforts to interfere with
his hobby of raising goats. He
has a flock of 80 on his farm
at Flat Rock. N. C.
MORE ORE . . . Mrs. Muriel
Mathez, mineralogist for the
atomic energy commission in
New York, has Job of testing
samples of ore, sent in by hope
ful prospectors, for their ura
nium content if any.
HOW TO BE HAPPY THOUGH IN POLITICS . . . New York’s Governor
Thomas E. Dewey momentarily displaces the cares of state and cam
paign strategy with the woes and aggravations of golf. The Republican
candidate for the presidency is shown here making—or at least attempt
ing—a long putt on the last green of the Albany country club. He soon
will forsake the greens for the political rough' when he starts the fall
campaign that he hopes will win the presidential election for him.
OF THEE WE SING . . . Far from the terrors and persecutions of
Soviet Russian enemies, sons and daughters of anti-Soviet Russian
families sing a loud and clear anthem of liberty at the annual chil
dren’s festival held at Reed farm, the Tolstoy foundation refuge for
White Russians in Rockland county, N. Y. It was at this farm that
Mrs. Oksana Kasenkina first sought refuge from the Soviets.
RUSSIAN WALK LEAVES THREE ON BASE . . . This stern-visaged
threesome used to be a foursome. Together, the quartet—representing
the Big Four nations—would stand guard happily at the Berlin Kom-
mandatura, seat of the Allied governing body in Berlin. But the dis
gruntled Russians walked out of the council, took their sentry with
them and said they weren’t coming back. So that left the (left to right)
British. American and French representatives in charge.
TECHNICALLY THEY WERE STOWAWAYS . . . There is always a
record of one kind or another being set somewhere, but this one is a
little different. These five infant “stowaways,” shown here with Nurse
Carol Donoghue, were born aboard the .American President Lines vev
sel General W. H. Gordon on a voyage across the Pacific from the Orient.
It was a postwar record for births in one trip and possibly an all-time
mark for a Pacific crossing.
(Editor's Note — While Drew
Pearson is on vacation, the
Washington Merry-Go-Round is
being written by his old part
ner, Robert S. Allen.)
Ace in Berlin Battle
T HE U. S. has a trumping ace up
its sleeve in the fateful battle
of Berlin.
While nothing has been said about
it publicly, it is certain now that
the Allied zones of the city can be
amply supplied by airlift through
the winter. That includes both fuel
and food.
Already, the spectacular air
lift is laying down 4,000 tons
daily of these supplies. A mini
mum of 4,500 tons is required.
This figure will be definitely at
tained by October 1, under pres
ent U. S. and British plans.
By that date, the necessary trans
port planes, personnel, and ground
facilities will be in operation to
ensure a delivery of at least 4,500
tons of supplies every day regard
less of weather conditions.
The program calls for the U. S. to
transport 3,300 tons and the British
1,200 tons.
Wry Jest
When it enacted the Euro
pean recovery program, con
gress wrote Into the law an un
witting wry jest on W. Averell
Harrlman. The gangling former
secretary of commerce is am
bassador-at-large in Europe in
the administration of the act. His
official tiUe, as specifically des
ignated by congress, is “United
States special representative.”
The initials of that title are
U.S.S.R.—which also stands for
the Union of Soviet Socialist Re
publics.
Farm Income High
Despite the tapering off of grain
prices, total farmer income this
year will approximate 1947’s record
of $30,500,000,000.
Following the commodity-mar
ket break last spring, govern
ment experts were fearful of a
marked slump in farmer in
come. The fears were needless.
Preliminary statistics show that
grower income will be a little less,
if any, than last year’s record-
smashing peak.
That’s good news in the national
economic picture. It means no fall
ing off in the vital segment of farm
er buying. And when thjb farmer
buys freely, industrial activity stays
high.
• • •
Exudes Optimism
Adverse polls and political re
ports are having no effect on Presi
dent Truman. He continues to ex
ude complete confidence that he
will win.
When a senate friend called at the
White House, the President lost no
time in asking him to make some
campaign speeches for him.
“It’s going to be tough going,"
the senator said.
\
“It’s always tough going in
a fight,” Mr. Truman retorted
cheerfully. “But I want to tell
you one thing. I can still beat
Dewey. I can take him, and
I’m going to take him. He’s got
some surprises in store for
him.”
Comment by Rep. Edward He
bert, rabid Dixiecrat from Louisi
ana: “The trouble with Harry Tru
man is that he takes his own ad
vice.”
• * »
Secret Ambition
President Truman has a secret
ambition.
He revealed it to Tappan Greg
ory and Joseph Stecher, Ameri
can Bar association officials, dur
ing their White House call.
“You know,” the President
said, “I studied law two years.
Then I helped make law for a
number of years as a senator.
Now, as Chief Executive, I am
enforcing the law.
“In fact,” he added wistfully,
“I feel qualified to be admitted
to the bar. I think I’d make a
pretty good lawyer.”
Upsetting the Applecart
CIO chiefs have inside word that
the indictment of the 12 Communist
party leaders has thrown a monkey
wrench into Leftists’ plans to set
up a national labor organization.
The secret scheme was to pull
certain Communist - controlled
unions out of the CIO as the nu
cleus for a new outfit. Among
these unions are the electrical
workers, the -office and profes
sional workers, the mine, mill
and smelter workers and the to
bacco and agricultural workers.
This planned “walkout” was in
line with Communist tactics in oth
er countries, where separate labor
organizations are being set up.
BUt apparently, the conspiracy
indictments raised hob with the
scheme in the U. S. and they pulled
in their horn.'
LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD
“We want you to be free. No
body has the right to deprive you
of your liberty.” It was the Rus
sian consul speaking to Ivan Ha-
den off, Soviet citizen, who had de
cided he wanted to stay in America.
“So we’re putting you in this top
floor room arid locking it from the
outside,” the consul added.
“But,” began Ivan.
' “As a citizen of Russia yon
must be guaranteed complete
freedom and we are not lotting
any American interfere. /Stand
away from that window and
don’t try to communicate with
anybody!” said the consul.
“I don’t understand,” said
Ivan. "I wish to be protected
by America. I desire to stay in
this country."
•___
"You make it very clear that you
are being intimidated," said the
consul. “Somebody must be fright
ening you.”
“Can I help it If I find the Amer
ican way different from what I had
thought? I like it,” said Ivan.
*
"Every word you say con
vinces me that tue Americans
have kidnaped you and are
holding you by force,” said the
consul, double bolting the door
and ordering some men to place
bars around the windows.
“But It is right here, in the
Russian consulate, that I am
being detained against my will,”
sobbed Ivan.
"I have it officially from the
Kremlin that you are not being de
tained here,” said the consuL “You
are being rescued!”
“But all these locks and bars and
bolts,” said Ivan.
"You can take Molotov’s word for
it You have been snatched into
captivity by American gangsters in
a most ruthless violation of your
personal rights.”
Ivan wrung his hands.
*
“There must be some mis
take,” he said. “No Ameri
cans have violated my rights.
I have never seen an American
gangster, except in the movies.”
“You haven’t seen the latest
editorial in Pravda or you would
know you had been in the cus
tody of American gangsters
up to this hour," admonished
the consul.
“This is getting pretty involved
even in Russia,” said Ivan.
“Please can’t I go now?”
“What! Moscow deprive you of
protection and leave you to an
American kidnaper before you as
much as reach the next comer!”
“I promise not to go as far as the
next comer."
“You are plainly a victim of
an intrigue," said the consul.
“My heart bleeds for you.
Stalin's heart bleeds for you.
Vishinsky’s heart bleeds for
you. All Russia rallies to your
desperate plight. You do not'
seem familiar with the Soviet
technique of rescues.”
"Oh yes, I have relatives in
Siberia,” sobbed Ivan.
"You will please cease your ob
jections. Stone walls do not a pris
on make, nor iron bars a cage,”
smiled the consul. '
“Who wrote that?”
"The politboro!”
Ivan dropped into a chair and
wept.
“If you go on this way I shall be
compelled to feel that you are the
type of person who does not de
serve rescue. Moscow Is deter
mined to Sftve you if it KILLS
YOU,” said the consul.
"That’s what I'm afraid of!" wept
Ivan.
• • •
Prisoners Prosper
New Jersey prison authorities
have made a ruling that convicts
while incarcerated may not write
or work for outside pay. It seems
some of them have been making
much more money in stir than the
taxpayers who were being protect
ed from them.
•
One prisoner, an author,
made $35,000 in three years. He
is very indignant at the ban.
We sympathize with him. It’s
tough enough to lAtve to do a
stretch in the hoosegow without
having to do it on a low income.
• • •
"President Truman signed the
housing bill but declared it inade
quate.”—News item. The shortage
of lumber, etc., has not been joined
by a shortage of sincerity.
• • *
“LOST — Two horses, male
buckskin, male Pinto, vicinity
of Hunts Point Road, Bronx,
DA 3-1229.” — Bronx Home
News.
•
Are you sure you bad 'em with
you when you left the house?
* * •
One cent in United States money
is worth $100,000 in Chinese cur
rency. —*—
Our impression, after all recent
contacts with the butcher, has been
that we were using Chinese money.
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