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Show - I ? 'to osevelfr Family' - Formiirag v;mii fcii i" PAUL "I've rented from him for 22 be told me "and he has yet to find a fault. Whenever he gets a chance he comes over here to say hello and 'goodbye but he doesnt find fault. And Ive made mistakes, too. No- has retired. body is The had perfect" landlord a pretty good opinion of the tenant, too, as I learned later. Smith of relief to hear that he is going in for something constructive. War takes a lot of courage and skill, too, but It isnt very constructive. Neither Is night life. This Is a challenge," Mrs. Roosevelt explained In her colwhich Elliott and 1 will umn, enjoy." Every farmer knowa shes right sbont the chal- lenge." They arent going to try to raise wheat, corn, potatoes, or attempt to keep 14 cows, as Smith was doing when I visited him. They sre going to continue raising Christmas trees, a venture which the President lte started and seriously pursued for several years Smiths 140 acres, knew that and which were devoted to general was pleased, Dut it didnt go to his farming, are only a fraction of the head. He is a typical. Independent, more than 1,000 acres, much of New York which self respecting is wooded, and part of which farmer. I remember he said to me has been devoted to a scientifthat day, sitting on the front stoop. ically cultivated evergreen crop, In 1941: which make up the estate "The President drove over here Mrs. Roosevelt explained that she a little while back, with Princess and her son couldn t afford to keep Juliana. He told her about this the estate as a country place, as her house being over 100 years old and mother-in-lahad. 1 told him about the It 1 noticed that the New York bad gone bad. So he said go ahead editorial note of a new well." Smith and I Mrs and dig Roosevelts plans and menwalked over to the new well It was tioned that a lot of acres along the 100 feet deep. "It will last 100 Hudson "were unfilled 1 with the pride years," said Smith It mentioned that Dr Samuel you find up that way in good things Bard, a wealthy retired physician, that last had a place not far from the RooseBy this time yon have guessed velt estate where he carried on valthat Smith was a tenant on the uable experiments which made an Roosevelt estate at Hyde Park, important contribution to agriculN. Y. I take It he Is a comfortture Mrs Roosevelt hopes to conably retired farmer now, living duct similar experiments. In the nearhy village of the "If Mrs Roosevelt, says the aame name. And Mrs. Eleanor Herald-Tribun"does no more than Roosevelt and her ion, Elliott, fasten remembrance on the fact have taken over, I dont know that land endures . that stability who" wiU live In the farm house. of farming is that of a renewable The old Roosevelt homestead la world in which seedtime and harn museum now but the Roosevest are still more lasting than dyvelts have other dwellings. nasties and dictators . . the new They are going In for commercial farming partnership will have done farming, Mrs. R. said. Elliott hadnt much of value before the first furbeen Interviewed since the senate rows are turned." war investigating committee start1 wonder if you feel the way I ed looking Into the Hughes airplane, do. 1 think, regardless of the and ended looking the other way color of ones political sentiand blushing. The testimony fiad a ments, anybody who loves the kit to do with the night club cocktail-soli can offer hit well wishes lounge side of young Rooseto this venture wtth the hope velts "activities but nobody could that the yeung man will do aa find a hola in hia war record. 'Even well with his hands la the earth his many critics admit that as he did with his plane In the Elliotts friends are heaving sighs air. up-sta- te well-wate- r. N was a coincidence that while I was reminiscing on the subject of the Roosevelts new adventure In my neighbor In the building across the street presented me with a couple of- - typewritten pages containing some striking facts about tree destruction. They are apropos, I think, now, as we move toward the close (we hope) of the worst season of forest fires in a decade. This period of holocausts began before the Ink was dry on bills passed by congress making deep slashes in the interior departments appropriations for fire control Many of the cuts later were restored, but not in time to save thousands of acres of timber In some a r;u of America, notably Alaska "The aawtimber burned In a single year in this country," aays my frlenda memorandum, would be sufficient, if converted to building materials, te replace every private bouse In the cities ef New Orleans or Min- - -neapolis. "If the wood below sawtimber dimensions could be manufactured for paper, it would provide a subscription to a monthly for every pocket size jnagazine man, woman and child in our 142 million population. If it could be converted to rayon pulp, it would provide material for more than a hundred new dresses for every woman and girl in AmerN ica ' In terms of dollars, our annual forest fire loss amounts to 35 million dollars in payrolls lost to wood-urkers and of a billion dollars worth of wood products The tragic part ef aU this fS that 9 out of 10 forest fires could be prevented. Nine our of 10 25-ye- money out of trees, one way or another, the people and the birds and the bugs who need to have trees, and the government and others who try to protect and preserve them. One match tosser can undo a lot of his work. jU koret Servic, ohotoi Parachute jumpers are one of the most important factors In getting forest fires under control swiftly. Here, Dick Tuttle, near top of 100 - foot lodgepole pine snag, is about to be assisted by Francis Luskin, forest guard. FIRST VICTIM economic analyses showing the unions are working against the consumers. Indeed, they are trying to convince me that the unions themselves are all labor, simply because they call themselves labor. Well, lets look at the matter more thoroughly. There are 60,000,000 workers In this country today. The unions only claim to represent about 15,000,000. Therefore they are not all labor. They are not even a majority of labor. They are about which tries to monopolize the They are whole economy of the country by sheer superior weight of political pressures, propaganda and Indeed any means at their command. Now there are 140,000,000 people in the United States and If the unions represent (if they have raised the same size families as others) they are ?5,000,000 people trying to run 140,000,000 by any means. Including intimidation LESSON IN WARFARE . . . Army cadets and navy midshipmen observed combat battalion of marines stage mock beach landing operation as part of operation Camid II. After Its completion, the observers inspected the phases and talked with the marines, some of whom were still in foxholes. one-four- th one-four- th Are you following the baseball race this season "Yes, It looks like theYankees were a sure thing Theyre great under that new manager, Ernie Bevin. Brooklyn is going great Mutual Defense "What seen snter-Ameru- - Mi '"v. - ? JL new movies have j r, THE NOSE . . . in a recent soccer match at Paris, France, assumes a prayer-lik- e pose, perhaps Imploring the ball to go away as he safeguards his goal So what happens? The ball socked him right on the nose. ON Goal-keepe- CAUTION cannot buy a house And theres nothing to rent: Id live in a barrel, except Im afraid I'd ferment. Gertrude Flynn 1 you The "Two Mrs Paulines and the Badman' were good, I thought, but I like Brute Crossfire and The Huckster and the Bobby Soxer Paul Whiteman has ranks of disk jockeys The Egg and joined the We take it his diet now includes laying off artistic Ideals and using dignity sparingly DREW PEARSON IN WASHINGTON . . , John Sampson Kirby, 69, (above) of Tennessee was placed under observation after police had nabbed him packing a pistol in the Capitol building and declaiming loudly that he had "just been elected president of the United States IN NEW YORK . . . Virginia Walton Brooks, 14, just returned from an African hunting trip with her parents, proudly revealed that she had shot not only an elephant and a lion but also such esoteric creatures as a kongoni, two gerenuks, an oryx, a fox. an s two and a klipspring-er- . im-pal- a, dik-dik- IN CHICAGO . . . Mrs Anna Metzger, 47, had had a pain in her leg for 40 years, finally became curious, pressed the irritated area and h pulled out a sewing needle. Highest Paid Lobbyist THE d lobbyists registered wuth congress'under the lobbying act John Danaher, Connecticut Republican, shows up as having received the highest fee Danaher, who formerly served as an all round manager for the Republican national committee at a salary of $25,000, has now listed himself as lobbyist for the Revere Copper and Brass company. It paid him $25,000 for getting the Import tax on copper suspended In addition to the $25,000 fee, Danaher also received $2,000 for appearances before the house ways and means committee and before the senate finance committee. Since the copper industry profited tremendously from removal of the import tax, Danahers fee was considered reasonable As a matter of fact, other lobbyists probably were paid much more for performing other jobs by claiming they were paid for "legal' services, not lobbying. This Is one of the new dodges used by lobbyists which makes it appear that some of them merely worked for love. 700-od- RUDY FOR 'INVASION . . . Rabbi Baruch S Korff, of the political action committee for Palestine, claims he will lead a "parachute invasion" of the Holj Land if the United Nations Palestine commission fails to recommend unlimited emigration. wLv s, t( 4e' WALTER WINCHELL two-inc- Peculiar People in the Big Burg Sabbath SAY UNCLE: Ford Gives Up Abandoning his laudable, if efforts to stabilize automobile prices, Henry Ford II announced that prices on most models of Ford passenger cars and all truck models would be boosted from $20 to $97, effective immediately. It was an average Increase of 4 2 per cent, the announcement said, the rise being dictated by the simple necessity of keeping Ford Motor company on a sound economic basis The action, following price Increases by virtually every other automotive manufacturer, marked the defeat of Fords lonely stand q? against the forces of inflation All this gave rise to a disturbing question If the Ford dynasty is unable to hold the line againsmfla-lion- , what, if anything, can THE SWIFT: Oysters Lose promenaders along Statsmall town streets Youd never guess this was part of a big city . . Uppity dress shops where patrons are served cocktails gratis. . . . The rich eccentric who dwells in a Park avenue hostelry. Her idea of fun is tossing coins from her window to watch peasants scramble. . . . The cluster of saloons on South street, where men gather. They have labeled that sector The Jungle en islands sea-farin- g The mellow tones of Radio of them A hope to be announcers. cop who is stationed near an East 49th street dock. Its a favorite jumping-of- f place for those who want to end it all. . . . d Wall Streets from clerk to top exec all impeccably attired. Citys guides. Most ... Well-dresse- A pigeon fancier near St Patrick's cathedral explaining the varieties of pigeons to anyone willing to listen. . . . Fifth avenue window-dressin- g craftsmen who plan their latest creations m deepest secrecy to make certain rivals wont filch their ideas. large-brimme- ... -- of fortune-teller- s on upper Madison avenue Among their clients youll find some of New Yorks wealthiest and most respectable people . An organ grinder whose, monkey has a tiny derby perched on its head If you give a coin, it tips its lid WALTER SHEAD Oysters simply arent fast enough to get away from predatory snails whose pace has been clocked officially at .000363005 miles an hour. Plodding along on a treadmill at the University of Maryland fish and wildlife laboratory, a test snail covered 22 feet and Vs inch m 11 hours and 30 minutes a pace swift enough, at least, to overtake an Strategy in the Economic War TTEGARDLESS of how peace-lovin- g Americans try to rationalize the present uneasy state of world affairs, there is one .stark basic fact that stands at the bottom of it all The United States and Russia are engaged in war vast, tremendously important political and economic war. What the outcome will be, the man on the street and the man on the farm does not know. No more does the man in high office oyster In Washington. It is like any war involving arms and troops, no one Purpose of the laboratorys can aay with certainty which side will win. All that can be done experiments is to slow the Is to outline the chief aims and objectives and plan the strategy little creatures up even more As accordingly. things stand now, they're doing too In this case, the U S gim, on the surface, at least, is clear-cu- t much damage to Chesapeake Bays It is, we are told, the securing of individual and national freedom in oyster crop. eastern Europe. U S. strategy is equally well defined and is following a definite course Eastern Europe is in desperate need of American credThe United States, in a its, goods and services continuing senes of expedient maneuvers, ir granting or withholding these goods and services as strategy seems to indicate Will this plan of battle be successful, or does It amount to with Communism? No responnothing more than shadow-boxin- g sible observe expects any sensational results, simply because the Communist hold on eastern Europe is already too strong. Probfarmers attributed to prosperous prices may be particularly subject ably the most that can be hoped is that present U. S. methods will urban consumers and an almost un- to downward pressures at least weaken, to some extent, the Soviet influence in that limited demand from abroad could While the financial position of pivotal soae. be reversed in a flash farmers has undergone a vast, genThe federal reserve board survey eral improvement as compared r explained the danger of deflation to with years, many individfarmers by citing three factors now ual farmers have increased their operating to keep prices high indebtedness, and the new debt is share of consumer incomes written on the basis of sharply adto food consumption is vanced values much larger than has been cus In particular, the report declared tom ary that land values must start declin- - A N ISSUE that will loom large will demand lor the states That l. Profit margins of producers and ing before much longer Thus, while ATS. in the coming presidential elec-ththe spending of state money for the 2 distributors are greater than farmer Is' enjoying a high level tion will be a return to the people development of state projects when usual of income and prosperity as a result the rights of local and state--selthe federal government can be inimfactors an the as of it Speculative play may be duced to pay the bill Nevertheless prevailing inflationary econ- j government Strange 3 portant Rght of history, that will be just why the people of Boston, part In maintaining omy, the same forces which are in for now operatirg to his benefit appear more a Republican than a Demo-a- s example, should assist in prices on numerous markets for paying In with demand a that but cratic reversal any "Consequently, connection, a control of flood waters m the Los lurking altogether possible of inflationary tendencies, food danger to his future security. there Is one privilege neither party Angeles river is hard to answer. snail-timin- STILL ALONE Film star Greta Garbo attempted to arrive in Paris incognito by lowering her head so that her d hat partly masked her features. Saturday crowds in the ice cream sodamats, where you'll find more gay-et- y than in the silk and mink joynts. The retired taude magician who amuses children in Central park with bis sleigh o I band wtzardy. Swanky salons g Producers of farm commodities, although strongly entrenched in the present economy and apparently destined to remain so, at least for the immediate future, may be the first group to feel the full Impact of any reversal of the current inflationary trend. That warning was issued by fedore traceable te bumaa causes eral reserve board researchers in a to incendiarlsts, causing more midyear study of the position of than 25 per cent of all fires; te agriculture, indicating that, even in smokers, careless debris-burnerflush times, the of farmrailroads, campers and ers is in a state of delicate balance woodworkers who ore respon- If the present boom were to desible In the order named. velop into a tailspin, price falls In Well, these are the sentiments of the agricultural commodity field my neighbor, who is trying to probably w'ould be greater than In establish a "balanced cooperation other areas of the economy, the reamong the men who make their port points out. Record returns tb three-quarte- well-bein- g pre-wa- IThe tl. UUCES RESCUER . . . Otto Skorzeny, former German army officer who rescued" Mussolini from Italian partisans artc,r the fall of the Fascist government, is shown at opening of his trial before a military tribunal in Da-eba- u, Germany. WRIGHT PATTERSON fRights of Local Government ' MOUNTAIN COMES TO MANHATTAN . . . Natural aa life and twice as big was "Man Mountain" Deanformer proponent of the fine art of "rassling, when be breezed Into New York where he as assistant sergeant-at-arm- s at the American Legion ton- vention. He is a veteran of both acted wars. f 2 1 The customers hate been worried problem for the last five or six years. Pole-Sout- Thermometer happy Americans struggling feebly In the moist clutches of a record heat wave, could take cold comfort from the faqt that temperatures were being exceeded in height only by the price of corn With abnormally hot weatjier prevailing over most of the nfition, grains continued to deteriorate from lack of moisture and prices of both corn and oats hit new record highs September corn was selling at $2 45 a bushel and September oats zoomed to $1 084 The grain market prices went through the roof following a department of agriculture report that the country s heat scared com crop would produce only 2 437,000 000 bushels, a 223 million bushel drop from the August 1 estimate Although agriculture department officials had hoped earlier this year for a 3 billion bushel com crop to keep food production high, weeks of hot, dry winds shrivelled that hope, and the corn crops of Iowa and Illinois, major producing sections, continued to decline 1 oter the lining mer." James Monroe, fifth President of the United States, had bss say, in spirit, defense at least, at the conference el Petropolu, Brazil, in August, 1947. When the conference agreed on a mutual aid treaty for North and South America and their territorial waters, and set up a vast. North h Pole hemispheric security zone, the celebrated Monroe doctrine was developed to its logical conclusion 124 years after its -- . " Clothiers W omed Pro b lem" beadit ne guns, too Look at the way Tony Baksi and Tito are hitting the ball this sum- POLE-TO-POL- bat-eare- d "" The Garble Sisters Speak Joint Defense Pact Set; Fear Large Corn Loss ... ' i 11, - H. I. PHILLIPS NEWS REVIEW inception. This was the burden of the Monroe doctrine in 1823- - "It Is only jvhen our rights ate invaded or seriously menaced that we resent Injuries or make preparations for our In this hemisphere . ." defense the Americas are making Today, preparations for hemispheric defense In advance of any menace or invasion of thptr rights The mutual defense treaty embodies three main points; f 1. In thg ease of armed attack from outside the hemisphere, aH nations have the automatic right to meet the attack with military measures. 2. If military attack occurs inside the hemisphere, American nations may go voluntarily to the aid of the victim, with consultations tp follow. 3. If attacks occur both Inside the hemisphere and outside the security region, immediate consultations will be called. Thus, despite the opposition of some Latin American nations to the U. S espoused "Monroe doctrinism, it appeared certain that the "hands off the 'Americas" policy was in for a big revival in the atomic age. . Deflation a Threat to Farmer v s, Labor? Who one-fourt- TORRID ZONE: Corn Declines in the Forests Tragedy It , - words, union people write me asking are the consumers ? They then furnish their own answer, which is that they are the consumers. With the sheer volume of their organized mail, and explosive epithets from such nebulous unidentifiable characters as a labor housewife, they are trying to crowd me into retracting my frequent VV He is leaving the 140 acres he has been farming for 27 years. His landlords widow and her son are going to work it from now on. The la,st time I saw Moses Smith he was dressed in his were both up in his former landlords Sunday clothes. We bedroom, with tome of the neighbor. It wa a ad occasion. It was the white-painte- yf TITTH firecracker By BAUKIIAGE boss birthday anniversary but he had been dead nearly two years. The room looked the same to Moses and his friends who had seen it often when they came up there to talk over farm and other business. The former occupant's dressing gown was lying on the bed, his slippers were by the courch The boss was one of the landlords that tenants like. Moses told me d farm house. that, five years before, when I visited him at hi MAHON Do Unions Represent All -Land Nuts Analyst and Commentator. WASHINGTON. Moses Smith, I understand, X " Elliott and Eleanor Begin Movement Back -K- Tuesday, September 9, 1947 THE DRAGERTON TRIBUNE, DRAGERTON, UTAH PARE TWO |