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Show M CANYON. I AH , THE Bl LI ETIN, BINGH Returned Veterans Aid Outlook For Elderly U. S. Farm Couples n im iTiitl MUliMBI Alabama Brothers Show Success in Postwar Venture Return of veterans from the armed forces is aiding the financial outlook for many an elderly U. S. farm couple. Take the Bowdens in Coffee county, Ala., for example. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Bowden are 69 and 63 years old, respectively, and, because of their age, were not able to muke the most out of the farm they were operating when their sons wi re in service. Upon their return from the armed forces, Lynn and Oren Bowden shouldered the job of making a liv-ing for the family and increasing dividends from the farm. Their first objective was to buy the farm, thus raising themselves and their "old folks" out of the tenant farm-er class. Since many e,dcrly farmers and their wives also are looking to their sens to take over the home farm, the story of the Bowdens Is related to show what can be accomplished. Actually the story has its begin-ning in 1936 when, as the elder Bow. den frankly admits, "we were down and out and had to struggle to make ends meet." Unable to get credit from regular lenders for purchase of feed, seed, fertilizer, equipment and other farm needs, the Bowdens resorted to a govern-ment agency, now the Farm Securi-ty administration, to secure the necessary funds. Along with the funds came Instruction In sound farming practices, which en-abled the Bowden family to im-prove the efficiency of their opera-tions. A period of progress followed, but the advent of war disrupted all the family's plans. Both Lynn and Oren were called Into service, resulting in an acute lack of help on the farm. Lynn, 44, veteran of both world wars, entered the army in 1940 when the Alabama National Guard was called into service. Oren, 31, also was a member of the National Guard and entered service early the following year. A temporary re- - SEEK EXPERT GUIDANCE The Bowden brothers and their par-ents have proved that they are good farmers, but they frankly admit they don't know it all. Here James S. Pridgen. Coffee county, Ala.. FSA supervisor, shows Lynn and Oren Bowden how to treat seed peanuts to prevent damp rot after they are In the ground. spite was gained when Oren was placed on inactive duty to help run the farm, but he later was called back into service. Upon their discharge early in 1943, both brothers returned to the family farm. Intent on purchasing the 360-acr- e farm, previously rent-ed by the family, the brothers ar-ranged the necessary financing with Farm Security administration, which permits 40 years at 3 per cent interest for repayment of farm purchase loans. A major factor in the family's success was the diver-sified farming plan which the agen-cy helped the family to map out. Faced with a $4,800 debt, contract-ed in purchasing the farm, the Bowdens embarked on an ambitious farm program designed to wipe out the debt in shortest possible time. Withm a year they had paid off more than half the debt. Today, only three years later, the final pay-ment has been made to the govern- - mcnt agency and the Bowdens are full owners of their land. With 160 acres of the farm under cultivation, the Bowdens produce peanuts as the main cash crop. Carrying out their plan of diversified farming, they also have cotton, hogs and 12 head of beef cattle, principally of the Black An-gus type. To develop their herd, they recently purchased a purebred Angus bull, In 1944, the Bowdens marketed 20 tons of peanuts, $600 worth of hogs, and $60 worth of cattle. They had 15 other hogs left over for market-ing by the end of that year as well as 12 stock hogs and 2 milk cows. Sale of chickens and eggs also add-- i ed to farm returns. Marketings the following year in-cluded 20 tons of peanuts, 4 bales of cotton and about $588 worth of hogs. After these sales, they had 24 Duroe shoats, 4 brood sows and 30 pigs on hand as well as their beef cattle. The "old folks" are helping the veterans progress in their farming venture. The elder Bowden raises garden produce, selling $112 worth of cabbage from a few rows in his garden last year. Intent on increas-ing the returns, he has planted six rows of cabbage this year. Mrs. Bowden also Is active in work around the house and garden. Size of the family also has beeo increased. After the last farm pay-ment was made, Oren was married and brought his wife to the family farm home. Today the Bowdens are considered successful Alabama farmers. Each member of the family does his prop-er share of work and all reap the benefits of good living on a farm. Furthermore, the elder Mr. and Mrs. Bowden can take more time to enjoy the peace and security of farm life now that their boys, like so many others, are home again from the war. .v.j-- ' - PIGS BOOST INCOME Oren Bowden Is hown here with brood sows and some of the young porkers which will be ready for market in the fall. Returns from cattle and pigs increase earnings on the Bowden farm, which is operated on a d diversified farming plan. CARES FOR CABBAGE Most of the gardening on the Bowden farm is done by J y Bowden, 69, father of the Bow! den brothers. Here he is workimj among his cabbages, which net-ted $140 in 1945. Scientists for Unhampered Freedom in Research Work By BAUKIIAGE Newt Analyst and Commentator. WNU Service, 1618 Eye Street, N.W., Washington, D. C. The bomb which leveled Hiroshi-ma and has since been echoing in the Pacific did something to con-gress that cnuld not have been done before the cxplo- - Kielce, Poland, where the Jews were attacked and killed. It all started from a false rumor, a plant-ed rumor. The very same thing, the engineer pointed out, touched off the riots three years ago in Detroit. Those are known facts but there is very little public knowledge of what causes such action, how It can be prevented. Possession Is Law to Russ Russian expropriation of Austrian property and her delaying tactics In setting of the peace conference date seem to be predicated on the theory: Why start any discussions of who gets what if you can operate on the old theory that possession Is nine points of the law? Possession Is an Important factor. sion. It induced the senate to loosen the public purse strings to the extent of vot-ing to subsidize a national scientific research founda-tion. Scientists don't have many votes, so the persuasion couldn't have come by way of a lnhlw The nublic Imagination had been stirred. Sud-denly the layman realized that sci-ence was a powerful factor In war. He realized too that perhaps men who could smash the atom and make it smash the enemy, might learn how to use the powers of the sleep-ing giant atomic energy for the good as well as the ill of mankind. At this writing congress has not completed action of the bill but probably will have done so by the time these lines are read. The Idea of a national research program eemed very good to me. There-fore, I was somewhat surprised to hear a pharmacological authority of my acquaintance say that passage of this legislation "would be as de-structive In the field of science" as the bomb was in the midst of Hiro-shima and Nagasaki. He made the observation in a group, several of whom were scientists. His hearers appeared to echo his sentiments sentiments which I later learned he had set forth In the recent Bulletin of the American Association of Uni-versity Professors. He (Dr. Theo-dore Koppanyi) said: "In an anal-ysis of the bill, a basic wrong im- - Take the recent experience of a Philadelphia horse. Around mid-night one night a horse walked into a residential district and began de-vouring gardens of dahlias, morning-g-lories, snapdragons and other flowers. The Infuriated household-ers tried to shoo the horse away, but he kicked at them and went right on expropriating the bourgeois blooms. However, in the good old American tradition, a policeman ap-peared with a rope and lassoed the beast. He was removed to the po-lice stables where he couldn't exercise a veto on this purely pro-cedural process. This subversive tendency in the animal world was revealed in an-other part of Philadelphia at about the same time. Returning from a week-end- , a householder and his family who had started a counter revolutionary campaign against what they thought to be a harmless mouse, found a large-size- rat in the trap they hod set. The rat with the trap attached as a minor incum-brance went right after the family which climbed tables and chairs. This time when the cop came he mediately leaps to the eye. This is the assumption that scientific re-search can be 'initiated' or pre-scribed for.' If till s assumption could be grounded, the natural se-quel to a national research founda-tion would be federal foundations to initiate' and 'prescribe for' the composition of music, the painting of pictures, the writing of poems, and the establishment of social con-trols and education, for science is probably the most personal and in-dividualistic of all human endeav-ors. No agency, however authorized and directed, can develop a national policy for scientific research." felt aggressive warfare justifiable and finished the rat with his reac-tionary night-stic- Congress' Work Is Never Done Congressmen invariably come to work January 14 brisk of step, bright of eye, confident they'll have all the bills passed, all the necessary business disposed of by July 1 at the latest, so they can go home to their fences. The old timers, of course, know they are just kidding themselves. Business is never completed by July 1. though they work from sun to sun for, like woman's, congress' work is never done. Consequently, fishing trips, motor jaunts, and im-portant electioneering have to be postponed while house and senate U ...... l it, L. J 1 , 1 Difficult to Pass On Projects The theories and ways of think-ing of scientists. Dr. Koppanyi ex-plained (and his colleagues agreed), are as diverse as the world itself. "How can we set up a court with the power to pass on what is good and what is not good for science?" he asked, and then he turned to me with this question: "Would you ap-prove of having a member of your profession a commentator or news-write- r appointed by a President of the United States, as head of a sim-ilarly selected group of your col-leagues who were made privy to private government information, which was barred from other speak-ers or writers?" Naturally I said: "No." (That would be the end of the freedom of the press and radio.) Then Dr. Koppanyi concluded: "You can spend a lot of money and get no return. But if you trust in human ingenuity, motivated by de-sire of public service, the love of science, recognition, and maybe selfish aims alike, you will have done more for basic science than you could ever do with billions of dol-lars oi federal money." muiiuvn iiwr in wiisiiiiiiun neat to complete last-minut- e legislation. This year, it was the OPAgony that fevered congressional brows late Into July. Debate was so furi-ous, night sessions were so frequent that I wasn't surprised when I heard a man in the visitor's gallery of the capitol ask: "Why did they wait so long to get at the OPA bill? Seems to me they always have a lot of stuff left to do at the end of a session that they could have taken up earlier. Do they always let it go so long that these closing days sound like a rowdy jam session?" I reported this remark to a man who knows Capitol Hill, as you and I know the short-cu- t home. "There are no jams in congress." he answered as he inhaled another tablespoonful of the famous senate restaurant bean soup. "Not even on OPA?" I modestly needled. "No," he said, "but I'll admit they came to a near-ja- when they had to work like the dickens to get the bill to the President before the OPA expired. But they did get it to him (he was talking about the first OPA billt and it was better than a lot of people had expected. That was no jam." "What is a jam then?" "What we used to have in the day of the lame-duc- k session." he came back promptly. "Then con-gress had to adjourn on March 4. A one-ma- n filibuster could stymie legislation up to midnight of March 4, and it would never be passed. Then congress might act hastily, and perhaps unwisely, to meet its inexorable deadline." A jam, then, is when congress is forced to precipitate action, or to no action. That's a congressional opinion. I'd still like to hear what Harry Truman would define as a congres- - sional jam-up- . Social Science Study Lags Spokesmen for the d social sciences (the study of people, of Individuals and groups) were loud in criticizing the omission from the bill of provisions for research in this Held. 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Mama Bea Wain has long been known for her per-fect diction as well as her distinc-tive style in singing; she's been on "Your Hit Parade" and other big radio shows. Now that Wayne's ar-rived she'll be on the air again. Joan Edwards estimates that she spends about 20 hours a week work-ing out technical problems, prior to her actual singing time of 12 min-utes on "Your Hit Parade"; being a thorough musician, she works with arrangers on musical details of the ' 0 JOAN EDWARDS orchestral backgrounds to her songs, rehearses in various keys to get the right one, spends hours on getting a good mike balance be-tween her voice and the orchestra. Next time you hear Joan's effort-less performance, remember that she put a lot of hard work into mak-ing it seem so casual. A role in "The Short, Happy Life of Francis Macomber" lured Regi-nald Denny back to the screen; he's been too busy to act. He made model planes as a hobby, then dur-ing the war he made them for the army, for identification purposes. Finally he converted his plant to make jet propulsion models. Lanny Ross scored a hit at a re-cent concert in Chicago when he sang Strauss' "Emperor Waltz." One critic said his performance was better than the lyrics deserved not knowing that Ross wrote the lyrics himself, u.ider the name of Robert Matthews! It sounded fine, that plan to paint Betty Hutton and the girls of a cho-rus line with gold lacquer for the Casino de Paris finale in Para-- ' mount's "Perils of Pauline." But it had to be abandoned Betty and 12 of the 18 dancers were allergic to the gold paint. Fred MacMurray was to eat real caviar in a scene in "Suddenly It's Spring," but most of the "caviar" on the table was buckshot bathed in axle grease looks just the same on the screen. A prop man stopped MacMurray just as he was about to take a mouthful of the imitation. "That's all right," said he. "Caviar tastes like buckshot and axle grease to me, anyway." Sara Haden is playing her 42nd hard-boile- d secretary to a star In "Mr. Ace," as handmaiden to Syl-via Sidney. Sara says her frigid mien has made her one of the busi-est players in the film colony, and "At the end of a day's work as a frozen-fac- e, I g0 home and sit In front of the mirror and Just laugh my head oft. It's the best way of relaxing, especially when I know that next morning I'll have to freeze up again." Shortly after Warner Brothers brought sound to motion pictures some 20 years ago, a stage dancer arrived in Hollywood to give Joan Crawford some special Instruction. He was tested as a possibility for i '"res and given this ratlng-Difii- cult to photograph. No dra-matic quality. Thin hair. Poor saking vo1Ce. Not a romantic type. Dances." His name was t reo Astaire! ODDS AND ENDS-Mar- ifyn Max-"I- I - wear a bathing smt the first ",,,;." Red in "nation , ' Skeln. who'll appear to belTL ,P"Unc. doesn't expect ""John Lund, of ..'"J"''; "." is haunting rum- - "ned leather Lbrary chair for hU hmm M"'h.-rr-omantic scene u ith Hob Hope here', Life." awing an " """ '"" 0 ,nhen Ald". W"- - nmg gold in the hill, of hu lather: j in Sunland. CaUf s, r , , yak Both in DemandC She I like a man l letic, a man who is taBj who is tender. He Say, do you wantl a steak? V Modern ImprovtintB Teacher If hen your H bride and groom they hid iH out many thinss up hate ufl you name some of them? B Jasper- - Radios, airp!sn,K 1 1. id Mini CnrncrrHj! Mrs. You've been telliB body you married or mofl Mr. I had to givesonuH Loans to Veterans for Farm Purchases And Operating Costs Reach High Peak Setting a new high in Farm Secur e lty administration loans to veterans, 5,400 were financed in purchase of farm operating equipment or family farms within a two-mon- th period, according to figures released by department of agriculture. The loans, made during March and April, constitute nearly a third of the total number the agency has approved for veterans during the last two years, FSA Admin-istrator Dillar B. Lasseter an-nounces. Declaring that the agency expects the record lending to continue. Las-- ! seter reports that more than 20,000 veteran applications now are being processed in county offices. More than 16,000 veterans already have received FSA assistance. Ap-proximately 1,000 of them obtained farm purchase loans under terms of the Bankhcad-Jone- s farm tenant act from an earmarked fund set up by congress. The rest have loans to buy machinery and live-stock or for other operating needs. Soaring real estate prices and lack of productive farms for sale have handicapped veterans in their quest for farms, Lasseter says. Guidance Plan Aids Farmers Getting Loans Individual guidance in good farm and home management practices is provided by Farm Security admin-istration with all loans, the depart-ment of agriculture emphasizes Each loan, the department re-ports, is based on a sound plan for farm and home management that is worked out by the borrower and his family. The plan shows items the farmer intends to raise, his esti-mated operating expenses and in-come he may expect to make. A FSA supervisor, schooled in ef-ficient farm methods, helps each family make and carry out the plan. He will supply information on how to select and care for livestock, plan crop rotations and put other good farm methods into practice. In most rural counties a home super- - visor, trained in home economics, also is available to assist the family. Main objects of the guidance plan, according to FSA, are to help the farmer "get the most income from his work, obtain a good living for his family and repay his loan." BARBS ... by Baukhape Russia apparently wants to win Germany's sympathy so that Ger-many will yield more easily to later. But that's a big Job, and the bear might find it had something by the tail that would wag it. ... Russia has used the veto much as Senator O' Daniel and some of his colleagues use the filibuster. According to the American maga-zine. New York and Chicago have yielded (dis)honors to the far west- - ern states which now top the crime record. Westward the course of . . I understand that there is a new combination gasoline propelled lawn mower and hedge-trimme- r Now if It would only sit up with the baby we'd get a little time off. New Jersey Farmer Termed Hardest Working Man in Stale On the basis of the working day's length, the title of hardest work-ing man in New Jersey can be con-ferte- d on the average farmer in the Garden state, declares the state de-partment of agriculture. Figures cited by the department show that as of June 1 New Jer-sey farm operators were working an average of 12 hours daily, which adds up to a week, ex-cluding time devoted to Sunday chores. During harvesting opera- - tions, particularly in July and Au-gus- t, longer working days are In store for farmers. A farmer's week adds up to a period contrasted to a factory employee's regular work week of 40 hours. Then, too, according to the department, whenever a day's work is lost on a farm the output of 12 hours is Involved whereas only an eight-hou- r day is lost when a city plant shuts down. No report of the number of per day worked by farniers tin estimate the time spent on Sun days and holidays when, a, on any other day. chores such a, feeding livestock, milking and must be done on a farm regarding of the day of the week A year ago, when the war .hii waged, New Jersey farmer, 12.J hour, a day at work. P |