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Show H THE BULLETIN, BINGHAM CANYON, UTAH 1 "WHAT GOES UP " Land Prices Soar . WORLD WAR 1 I WO M P WAR 5 10 io so so I I 70 70 J bo b0 7 so y V 50 1 40 -- - V 40 T 30 4 30 j 20 J-- 20 " I - 10 io mL loo , nmm I nvn Released by WNU. Is speculative ownership of land becoming the "No. 1 Enemy" of future farm pros-perity? Are land prices due to tumble as they did after World War I? Will the cost of land go so high that the farm-er cannot make a profit? These are questions that are being asked from California to Maine. Land prices have already soared 71 per cent above the 1935-3- aver-ages. They are approaching the boom levels that followed World War L Many bankers are frankly worried lest the crash and deflation of the early 1920s be repeated. Government figures show farm land prices during World War II more than doubled in Indiana, North and South Caro-lina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Colo-rado and Wyoming. Increases of more than 90 per cent have been recorded in Ohio, Michigan, Georgia, Mississippi, Arkansas and Montana. For the country as a whole, farm real estate values have Jumped 13 per cent in the past year. From the beginning of World War I to the inflation peak in 1920, land prices Jumped 70 per cent. Prices at the start of World War II were lower than In 1914, but the in- - LAND PRICES . . . Went up during and after World War I and then came tumbling down. Prices have not gone as high In World War II as before, but they are soaring. These charts show same trend as in 1914 to 1920. crease this Ume is already 71 per cent, although the actual prices are not yet at the 1920 peak. Higher Land, Less Profit. Farm sales are continuing at the high level they attained during 1945. The number of farms resold after limited period of ownership has increased, indicating speculation. Farmcra who have "yen" to acquire additional acreage, says a statement by the Middle West Soil Improvement commit-tee, should bear In mind that the higher the cost of land goes, the harder It Is to show a profit, even at present prices received for crops. "With sons home from the war and with more and better farm ma chinery in Immediate prospect, many farmers figure it would be a profitable move to work much more land than heretofore," the state-ment points out. "If they will re-member the bitter aftermath of World War I's land boom, when food prices were even higher than they are today, they will see the hazards of such a move. "Sooner or later the present world food emergency will be solved and the mammoth demand for Ameri-can food products will end. Then American farmers will have to com-pete in world markets. The only way they can do this successfully is to produce crops at a lower cost per unit. In such a program, the steady use of fertilizer containing nitrogen, phosphorus and potash will be a ma-jor factor. More bushels per acre can, and will, mean more food from less land. Increase Yields, Not Acres. "The wise farmer will be the one who does not buy more land, but who increases the crop-yieldin- g ca-pacity of his present acreage by soil improvement measures. He will study the most practical uses of plant food. He will consult agrono-mists at state college and agricul-tural stations for the most effective methods of fertilizer application, the analyses best suited to his par-ticular soil and crop conditions and the quantities to use." This advice to farmers to im- - prove their present holdings rather than to acquire greater acreage, was corroborated by the commit-tee on farm land prices of the Amer-ican Bankers association which urged member banks to admonish would-b- e farm buyers "go slow," to discourage borrowing to specu- - late in farm lands, and to tell vet-erans of "the hazards inherent In excessive land prices." "Country bankers," a committee spokesman said, "are fully cog- - nizant of the dangers inherent in the present farm land price situation. They are urging farm owners now to reduce their debt and to plan sav-ings for farm Improvement during these years of high income, because when conditions return to normal and American agriculture is in com-petition with other countries for world markets, it is probable that farm earnings will not support prices at current levels." Few Legislators Authors Of Bills They Introduce By BAUKHAGE Netvi Analyst and Commentator. drafting service which writes bills for committees, but it seldom is called upon by individual legislators for assistance In writing any minor plvate bills." WNU Service, 1616 Eye Street, N.W., Washington, D. C. A bright young railroad executive who has his cum laude in law from a famed university f, was sitting with me jflPw )r. Burt's the other jT Ifg Burt's is a sort of ! VT:' greenroom foi ra dio folk and others fjS3M ami mHT I being in what HIbI is euphemistically y flj dm center. Inspired yHPlMK- - so ss"isiiisiWBB many of the few who say so much lo so many, my friend launched forth Into a tirade on the respon-sibility of the publicist. "You can't play baseball accord-ing to football rules," he said, shak-ing a menacing fist at me, "and that is what Washington officials are doing. You studied political science 30 years ago. I studied It only 20 years ago. And you know perfectly well that the present generation is not following the rules laid down by our founding fathers. You ought to LaFollette Bill Would Revamp Thomas Mechlin, writing on this subject in the current Virginia Quarterly Review, touches on the subject of readymade legislation. He tells how a lobby "gets its own staff together and knocks out a bill which the front office would like to see made a law eventually. It then runs the draft over to a large law firm which has one of its members In congress. Although the con-gressman cannot personally repre-sent the client, the method used in submitting the proposed legislation through the 'body' of the firm takes care of that. ... If the lobby Is it will exploit high-powere- d publicity from then on out." I am constrained to admit that much in all of these assertions is true. But I would like to mention three hopeful signs on the horizon, minuscule though they may be. Two were measures introduced but not acted upon in this session of con- - tell the public about it. "Now maybe the principles of our government are wrong. I am not de-fending them. But I am saying that we are deserting them. Rule of the majority, a republican form of gov-ernment operated by the represent-atives of the people, is a travesty, when legislation ii Jammed through by minorities. And I mean bureaucrat! as well as lobbyists." This happened when the senate was neck-dee- p In the final debate over the OPA and my friend claimed congress was revolt-ing against what he called the high pressure methods of the adminis-tration. Since the congress was tear-ing the administration measure to shreds at that moment I pointed out that while it was true that congress was sore at Stabilizer Bowles for what they called propagandizing, the example was not a very good one. So he proceeded to develop his theme with specific references all too familiar to me and my col- - leagues of the microphone and type- - writer. gress. They will be presented again and have a good chance of passing. One is the LaFollette measure for revamping congress, one provision of which increases the technical as-sistance available to members. The second is a bill introduced by Representative Sabath of Illinois, which provides for an investigation of lobbies. Most con-gressmen don't like lobbyists and Sabath's bill, as Mechlin admits, was a crystallization of this feeling. The third indication was a resolu-tion introduced during the OPA fight by Senator Taylor (D. of Idaho) authorizing the publica-tion of a document on how each sen-ator voted on every measure. He said that the people are becoming more aware of their political re-sponsibilities, that politics is no longer solely in the hands of politi-c- i ward-heeler- s and lobbyists. ongress is sensitive to the need oi a restoration of majority ruM, but the only real hope lies within the majority itself. Unfortunately, the giant sleeps. Town Seethes With Lobbyist You, too, are familiar with the power of the "pressure boys" as my friend Kenneth Crawford called them In his revealing book by that name. Crawford estimated there were 6.000 active lobbyists in Wash-ington when World War II started. There are many more now. Speak-er Rayburn said the town was "seething" with them. We all remember the seven-digi- t sum of money contributed to a cam-paign fund which came out of the members' dues of one great labor South Dakotans See Swearing-i- n Two recent visitors to Washing-ton, Mrs. Evelyn Baker and Mrs. James Magee of Custer and Belle Fourche, S. D., can tell their friends back home in the Black Hills region that while they were here they took In three events which might set the tone for all such future events. Tiie ladies, winners of a radio con-test to honor women who did their bit during the war years, visited Washington during the week when three top-draw- government off-icials, all close friends of Harry Tru- - man, were sworn into new jobs. The swearing-i- n of a cabinet oftV cer used to be a rather modest af- - fair. The swearinee, his family, a few friends, and his office staff, a few of the press, usually gathered in his new office, and the whole af-fair was over in about the time it ' for bride and groom to say "1 do." i.ut1, Fred Vinson and Lewis Schwellanbach did travel to Capitol Hill for their inaugurations as ury and labor secretaries respec- - tively. But those events occasioned no such hoopla as did the cere-monies which made Monday Tues-day Wednesday Washington news one late week in June. union. True, the head of the union later quarrelled with the president whom he had helped elect because the president refused to take his orders. Nevertheless, this example Illustrates what "big money" at-tempts, and sometimes succeeds in doing. We know, too, that when the en-tire economy of the country was locked to a dead center by strikes in two essential industries, coal and transportation, and that when the government itself gave orders, those orders were disobeyed. M-inority rule was operating then. M-inority groups nullified the wishes of the duly-electe- d representatives of the people. My friend, with all his ve-hemence, with his allegiance to management, made no claim that the demands of the railroad men, the coal miners, were unjust. He merely said that In order to obtain what they considered justice, the powerful leaders of the organiza- - tions to which they belong were able to play baseball according to foot- - ball rules temporarily at least. The theory that the creation of the laws of the land has been taken from the hands of the elected repre-sentatives of the people was put forth by Crawford in "The Pressure Boys" seven years ago when he said: "It is Improbable that a sin-gle important law enacted in the last 10 years has been written by its congressional sponsor or its nominal author. Administration bills are prepared by New Deal ex-perts in executive departments. Legislation Independently Inaugu-rated Is almost Invariably pre-pared In the office of a lobbyist. Congress maintains a legislative I Mrs. Magee and Mrs. Baker and five thousand other spectators, plus the navy band, gathered on the White House lawn to watch Mr. Vin-son take over his new office as chief justice of the United States; they saw John Snyder's big moment made bigger when President Tru- - j man strolled from the White House to the treasury portico to watch his St. Louis crony take the oath as head of the treasury department; and they observed tall, young-look-lo- g John Steelman's swearing-i- as reconversion director, a ceremony which took place in the rose gar-dens of the White House. Having observed these impres-sive occasions, the Black Hills visi-tors could appreciate the widely-Whispere- d remark of Undersec- - retary of Navy John Sullivan. (Sul- - livan got his swearing-i- n done quiet-ly and traditionally on June 18.) As Sullivan congratulated John Steel-ma- n after the rose garden cere- - j mony, he asked, "Well, are you the last of the June brides?" sporting life may be THIS dizzy and dumb, but it is never wholly dull. One never can tell from what direction the harpoon will be thrown. Here is a double example. A few weeks ago the Louis-Con- n party was to be the season s greatest thriller. At that time the Phil-lies were the joke of the sporting world. They had been tagged as the eternal occupants of baseball's dog-house. They were supposed to be im-bedded in the ce-ment of the cellar. All this sounded reasonable enough Grantland Rice as we looked over the chart. Then, with little warning, a cloud no larg-er than a man's hand or thumb worked into a western twister, while the Louis-Con- n fight broke all rec-ords as a monumental flop an e record. About the same time, the lowly Phillies began their upsurge. With-in two weeks they stole the glory of baseball. They became more talked about than the Red Sox or the Yankees, than the Dodgers or the Cardinals. They have made the Louis-Con- n dull merry-go-roun- d look like a taffy-pullin- g exhibition. The Phillies have emerged from the grottoes and the underground into the open. They finally see the light of the sun again. They can see the summer dawn and feel the rain. Challengers Now Through the combined efforts of owner Bob Carpenter, general man-ager Herb Pennock and manager Ben Chapman, one of the most lib-eral and one of the ablest combi-nations in baseball, the Phillies no longer are baseball's doormat. They no longer belong to the tribe of "God's green footstools." At last they are a real baseball team. For several weeks now the Phil-lies have been playing the best ball In the National league. This may be no high tribute, but it is an amazing tribute to a team that has defended the cellar with record-breakin- g stubbornness for a long time. It should go as a high tribute to Messrs. Carpenter, Pennock and Chapman, who have combined to turn out the best Job In baseball for 1946. The Phillies of 1946 have carried US back to the Boston Braves of 1914. That happens to be some 32 yean ago. Around this date the Braves were in last place. George Stallings, the fiery Braves manager from Georgia, was wearing out a suit a week, moving up and down the bench. There have been many hard-losin- g managers In baseball-m- ost of them are but Stallings holds the record. Then, around the first of July, the Braves began their move from the bottom. They had Rabbit Maranvllle at short and Johnny Evers at second. Great field smart brain big heart no hit. They had Hank Gowdy, the old Sarge, back of the bat. But, above all, they had three great pitchers Dick Rudolph, George Ty-ler and Bill James. Day after day, game after game, we saw these three pitchers in the box score Rudolph, Tyler and James. This trio proved to us that three pitchers, working every third or fourth day, are all a ball club needs. Working that often a pitcher gets control and confidence. I'm not referring to the sore-ar- boys, to the once-a-wee- k pitchers of the mod-ern era, where it takes three or four pitchers to finish a ball game. Rudolph, Tyler and James start-ed and finished their own games, working at least twice a week. They were not pampered as the modern pitchers are, barring such men as Feller, Newhouser and a few others. From Bottom to Top So the Braves moved from 8th to 7th place, then to 6th. They moved from 6th into the first divi-sio-then headed for the top. They made the top and they didn't need eight or ten pitchers to carry them along. They needed only three-Rudo- lph. Tyler and James. The light - hitting overlooked Braves only murdered the Athlet-ics in four straight games. They outplayed and outgamed and d and outhit one of Connie Mack's greatest teams. Hank Gow-d- y hit over .500 in that series. But the main answer again was Ru- - dolph. Tyler and James, who had been seasoned under Are for over three months, who had been worked often enough to know their trade Any pitcher who can't start and finish over 20 games, who can't work in over 300 innings-- or 350 much of a pitcher. What baseball needs today is a combina-tio- n of Rudolph, Tyler and James who can handle a three months1 schedule practically unaided Mod- em pitchers need far more work than they are getting. No set of arms can be that fragile, that futile, that weak. If Chapman only had another Ru-dolph, Tyler and James he would breeze through this 1946 pennant race. It wouldn't even be a contest j The Cinema, ; Murray llghts Th"crn;kr Chrit de i. Nature as ;The Se-rc- JJ s ft footlights to kw'l " beneath th, SurJ lssues ;"d comes matic gusher. Sylvi, the trouper-dupe- r, j Chambermaid" s 1' opus, highlighted by i studies and crisp iju Plenty of spin on J" ette Goddard keeps I "The Hoodlum Sain sprightly meller fl, Powell's urbane preta j ther Williams' natural The Press Box: ft, man in the St. Louii W. Lippmann and 2 thinkers for using j word combination "10101 don't like it either, 2 William S. Hart's pa appropriate adieulogies al concluding: "There 1 another Bill Hart. JW Is faded and the type the memory Is i fresh." Quotation Marks' ler: If vnu'rf . . 1 must bear with her ct Old Russian Adage: but harsh words stay and mind. . , J. Baker were all having an ung time. . . . J. Elinsoa: corning a phrase. , . , I hope the atom test la ing of the End. . . . J, British seem to be mot in getting the Gram Palestine than The Hia who belong there. . , , Louis is a credit to hit human race, of count Cuneo: I would gladly orchids I deserve for I don't. . . . G. J. Natbi to the theater to forget; remember. Jimmy Gardiner, the) er, told this at Leooe'i night. During the war I ed by a wealthy neigbba as, an aging woman 1 overpowering yen (or string of pearls. Garli mended Cartier's. . was served by a young mistook her unprepos! peat ance for poverty 1 her the lowest-price- c She demanded better on store's stock was exhi only the vault remain sisted on going into it pulled out their finest showed them to her. what she was looking lot. how much. . . . "The 1 the clerk haughtily, " . . . "I'll take it," said opening her purse and half-millio- n dollars In e The clerk keeled over il attack. Norman Granz recentl) a jazz concert at Camel sold out. . . . Norman w gaged to a Southern 1 named Virginia. He wii with Virginia that he theme long of the cone) You Virginia Blues." . Virginia, who never W back stage before, chMI from Norman to W in the crew. ... She rt ring. . . . And now, sohekl curtain comes down on HI an announcer introduce titled theme song, to Dead Virginia Blues." Torrid temperature! 1 town into a stone and . . . Flimsy gowns cUnJJ torsos-- as though they I . . . Weary salesmen M the foyers of Broadway'! ... The w movie places. of luxury in swanky spo. to tf ladies are oa.n-dee- p Sidewalk cafes in toe Park sector and in the ' between 5th and the AW most attractive is the a the St. Moritz Hotel. Wo ster motors of the buiei ing at 59th you can hew of the Cafe de la PaU The geyser of chatter1 in ice-crea- places--u Stork Club. . . The ' bie who groans: just breathing is hard Tenement youngsters ten docks as their pew boards. Footlights and Spojj was a bib and tucker hayloft circuit last m Bankhead zoomed id" wich (Conn.) Coward's "Priv,S play's romantic tw admirably suited Jj clonic personality. ( comedy stage. Several perchers enjoyed ner ic Vernon Rice lah, the magnificent. wonderful!" INFANTILE PARALYSIS No Community Is Safe From Polio Epidemic Areas that have been free of in-fantile paralysis outbreaks for a number of years may be more vul-nerable to the disease than those with recent epidemic experience. Dr. Thomas Parran, surgeon gen-eral of the U. S. public health serv-ice, recently stated. Discussing "cycles of epidemics" in the June issue of Hospitals mag-azine, official pub- - for the treatment of polio, includ-ing hospitals which normally do not accept patients suffering with contagious diseases, and he added: "Such planning is necessary if adequate care Is to be given to all who contract the disease. Under the guidance of those officials charged with the commu-nity's health and with the substan-tial support of the National Founda-tion for Infantile Paralysis and its local chapters, every community in the United States can be prepared to meet epidemics of poliomyelitis without fear or panic." lication of the I American Hospitals I association, Dr. Parran said such theorizing had no scientific basis but was founded on presumptive evi-dence, adding: "Many observ-ers have theorized that as an epidem- - jr- - parran ic spreads through-out the community, it reduces the number of susceptible individuals to a point where the epidemic can no longer maintain itself. Until a new group of potential victims grow up, which may be from four to six years, that community should be less vulnerable to attack." Dr. Parran said there was dan-ger in "relying too strongly on this theory" since recently exposed areas may be 'lulled into a feel-ing of false security" while locali-ties which have been free of the disease for several years "may become unduly alarmed." "The safest procedure by far," he advised, "is for all communities to prepare for epidemics." Dr. Parran's article in the AHA magazine was one of 10 on infan-tile paralysis timed to reach more than 3.500 member hospitals throughout the country before on-set of the polio epidemic season, usually ranging from late June to September. The other articles provide in-formation on methods of treatment, organization of community re-sources, the key position of the gen-eral hospital in the over-al- l care of poliomyelitis patients, and the role of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis in financing polio treatment at general hospitals. Dr. Parran said that all communi-ties should inventory their facilities CHECK LADDER . . . To prevent farm accidents, the National Safety council warns those who use ladders to set the base firm-ly about one-four- of the ladder's height from the wall or tree, and grasp the sides - not the rungs-- as they climb up. Woman Has Churned, 10 Tons of Butter EVERTON. MO. Mrs. Gala O. Fletcher of Everton, by actual ac-count kept in an old ledger, has churned 21,000 pounds of butter by hand in an brass-boun- d churn in her 78 years. She that she has been churning butter since she was four years old when she had to stand on a wooden box to grasp the dasher handle. "It would be quite a lake if all the cream I have churned should flow into one pool," she said re-cently. The chum she uses Ls a century old and she has worn out many a home-mad- e dasher in it. She keeps the cream only a short time before she churns it so that the butter she makes will be sweet. After the butter is churned she places it in a large earthen crock which has been sunning for several hours. Then she starts working it with a circular movement, using a flat wooden paddle. That works the milk from the butter in about 10 minutes. She puts the butter away for several hours and then works it gain to get out the last of the milk drops. The finished butter is a gold-en ball. In order to have the best butter-milk. Mrs. Fletcher leaves flakes of butter floating in it. After 75 years' experience she believes she under-stands all phases of butter making. Contentment among cows is as important to good butter as the right kind of feed, she believes. New Matches Can Be Rain-Soake- d and SHU i.inhi Matches which can be sub-- ' merged in water for four hours and still light have been announced by a U. S. match company. It is stated the matches will withstand innum-erable drenchings and still function, and will be a boon to farmers, hunt-ers, fishermen and others who often get caught in showers. These water-resista- matches were developed during the war to provide a sure-fir- e light for mem-bers of the armed forces under the wettest conditions of amphibious and jungle warfare, but will soon be available to civilians. Accepted by the war department in 1943 after rigorous tests, millions of the water - resistant matches were shipped from the factory to fighting fronts. Most of the service water-resista- matches were pack-aged in the familiar nickle-siz- e boxes for the armed forces, but type, a tiny waterproof liS UtUa more than an inch long also produced for The water-resista-emergency k ts cMUam matches for will be sold in package. , eight boxes of pocket containing 40 matches. Thesf box matches, which "shed wate Z duck's back." carry a money-b- S guarantee if they fa to Jj a four-hou- r submersion I BARBS . . by Baukhage There are 630 acres of forest land in the United States. Plenty of tall timber to take to when the prices tart to rise. Earl Browder plans to open a publishing house for Russian books in New York City. Why don't we get some Russian to open an American book publishing venture in Moscow? The publicity man for the six stunning Goldwyn girls tpuring the country to boost the movie "The Kid from Brooklyn" expected the President's daughter to have them to tea. Miss Truman was out of town. I made the patriotic sug-gestion they go to Annapolis in-stead. If there had been time to ar-range it, I would probably have a navy cross by now. |