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Show THE TIMES-- NEWS. NEPHI. UTAH PAfiK TWO !ooseveit Family Tyros to Farming Elliott and Eleanor Begin Back-tLand Movement o PAUL MALWN Do Unions Represent All "Labor"? A -- ' By BAUKIIAGE r r t? , News Analyst and Commentator. WASHINGTON. Moses Smith, I understand, has retired. He is leaving the 140 acres he has been farming for 27 years. His landlord's widow and her son are going to work it from now on. The last time I saw Moses Smith he was dressed in his in his former landlord's Sunday clothes. We were both upwas was the a occasion. sad It bedroom, with some of the neighbors. It 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 occuwas lying on the bed, his slippers were by the pant's dressing gown one of the landlords that tenants like. Moses told me courch. The boss was d farm house. that, five years before,' when I visited him at his "I've rented from him for 22Syears (that was 1941)," he told me of relief to hear that he is going in then, "and he for something constructive. War has yet to find a takes a lot of courage and skill, too, ' IuUJl. r 1. tin....,,....,. nucucvci but it isn't very constructive. Neihe gets a chance ther is night life. over he comes "This is a challenge," Mrs. here to say 'helRoosevelt explained in her collo and 'goodbye' umn, "which Elliott and I will but he doesn't enjoy." Every farmer knows And find fault. she's right about the "chalI've made mislenge." Notoo. takes, They aren't going to try to raise body is perfect." wheat, corn, potatoes, or attempt to The landlord 14 cows, as Smith was doing had a pretty keep when I visited him. They are going good opinion of to continue Christmas trees, the tenant, too. a venture raisingthe late President as l learneo started andwhich seriously pursued for later. Smith Baukhage several years. Smith's 140 acres, knew that and which were devoted to general was pleased, out it didn't go to his a fraction of the are only farming, head. He is a typical, independent, more than 1,000 acres, much of New York which is of which wooded, and farmer. I remember he said to me has been devoted topart 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. It I told him about the I noticed that the New York had gone bad. So he said go ahead ribune made editorial note of and dig a new well." Smith and I Mrs. Roosevelt's and menwalked over to the new well. It was tioned that a lot ofplans acres along the 100 100 feet deep. will last "It Hudson "were unfilled. " years," said Smith with the pride 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 Roosethis time you have guessed By 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. T. I take it he is a comfortture. Mrs. Roosevelt hopes to conably retired farmer now, living duct similar experiments. in the nearby village of the "If Mrs. Roosevelt," says the same name. And Mrs. Eleanor Herald-Tribun"does no more than Roosevelt and her son, Elliott, fasten remembrance on the fact I know don't have taken over. that land endures . that stability who will live in the farm house. of farming is that of a renewable The old Roosevelt homestead is world in which seedtime and hara museum now but the Roose-vel- ts vest are still more lasting than dyhave other dwellings. nasties and dictators . . . the new They are going in for commercial farming partnership will have done farming, Mrs. R. said. Elliott hadn't much of value before the first furbeen interviewed since the senate rows are turned." 1 wonder if you feel the war investigating committee startway 1 ed looking into the Hughes airplane, do. 1 think, regardless of the and ended looking the other way color of one's political sentiand blushing. The testimony had a ments, anybody who loves the lot to do with the night club cocktail-soil can offer his well wishes lounge to this venture with the hope side of young Roosevelt's activities but nobody could that the young man will do as find a hole in his war record. Even well with his hands in the earth his many critics admit that. as he did with his plane in the Elliott's friends are heaving sighs air. white-painte- it up-sta- te well-wate- r. Herald-T- . in the Tragedy It was coincidence that while I a 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 conpress making deep slashes in the interior department's for fire control. appropriations Many of the cuts later were restored, but not in time to save thousands cf acres of timber in some aris 'J America, notably Alaska "The sawtimbcr burned In a in,le year in this country," itays my friend's memorandum, "would be sufficient, if converted to building materials, to replace evrry private house in the cities of New Orleans or Minneapolis. "If the wood below sawtimbcr dimensions could be manufactured for paper, it would provide a subscription to a monthly po magazine for every rruin. woman and child in our 142 tiiilli' n population. "If it could be converted to rayon pult. it would provide material for rrv re than a hundred new dresses for every woman and girl in Amertree-growin- kcl-siz- ica In terms of dollars, our annual fire loss amounts to 35 million rio'jrs ir. payrolls lost to wood- nrkers and of a billion d' liars worth iA wood products "Ihe tragic part nf all this Is .hat 9 out of 19 forrst fires could be prevented. Nine our of 10 frr three-quarter- s are traceable to human rausr to inrrndiarists, causing more than 25 per cent of all fires; Ut smokers, careless railroads, campers anil woodsworkers who are responsible In the order named. " Well, those are the sentiments of my neighbor, who is trying to establish a "balanced cooperation" among the men who make their debris-burner- s, Forests 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. r v.. torrt 'L. Service nholoi Parachute himpei are one of the most impo-.tan- t factors to getting forest fires under control swiftly. Here, Dirk Tuttle, near top of 100 foot lodgepole pine snag. Is about to be assisted by Francis Luskin, forest guard. -- , -- JO,,, , r 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. 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, let's 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, 0C0. 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 h 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, NEWS REVIEW you following race this season?" "Yes, it looks like the Yankees were a sure thing. They're great under that new manager, Ernie Bevin. Brooklyn is going great -- Mutual Defense James Monroe, fifth President of the United States, had his say, in spirit, at least, at the defense conference at Petropolis, Brazil, in August, 1947. When the conference agreed on a HEADLINERS "The 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, d an oryx, a fox, an two dik-diand a klipspring-er- . bat-eare- im-pal- a, IN CHICAGO . . . Mrs. Anna Metz-ge- r, 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. 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. CAUTION I cannot buy a house And there's nothing to rent: I'd live in a barrel, except I'm afraid I'd ferment. Gertrude Flynn movies have you "Two Mrs. Paulines' and ' Paul Whiteman has joined the ranks of disk jockeys. We take it his diet now includes laying off artistic ideals and using dignity sparingly. Highest Paid Lobbyist THE with rVact, lobbyists registered congress under the lobbying John Danaher, Connecticut Republican, shows up as having received the highest fee. d Danaher, who formerly served as an 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, Danaher's 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- d READY FOR "INVASION' . . . Rabbi Baruch S. Korff, of the political action committee for Palestine, claims he will lead a "parachute invasion" of the Holy Land if the United Nations Palestine commission fails t(. recommend unlimited emigration. fy a ihIPP ''Lf. WALTER WINCHE.LL two-inc- SAY UNCLE: Ford Gives Up y d snail-timin- hreat to Farmer Producers of farm cammodities, farmers attributed to prosperous although strongly entrenched in the urban consumers and an almost unpresent economy and apparently limited demand from abroad could destined to remain so, at least for be reversed in a flash. the immediate future, may be the The federal reserve board survey first group to feel the full Impact explained the danger of deflation to of any reversal of the current infarmers by citing three factors now flationary trend. operating to keep prices high. That warning was issued by fedshare of consumer incomes to food consumption is eral reserve board researchers in a IThe midyear study of the position cf much larger than has been cusagriculture, indicating that, even in tomary. flush times, the of farmmargirs of producers and ers is in a state of delicate balance. 2rrof!t are greater than If the present boom were to deusual. velop into a tailspin, price falls in 3 Speculative factors play an im- the agricultural commofiity field portant part In maintaining probably would be greater than In prices on numerous markets. other area of the economy, the re"Consequently, with any reversal port points out. Record returns Ut of inflationary tendencies, fxd Goal-keepe- The customers have been worried over the lining problem for the last DREW PEARSON Abandoning his laudable, if nonconforming, 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, TORRID ZONE: the rise being dictated by "the simCorn Declines ple necessity of keeping Ford Motor Thermometer-happAmericans, company on a sound economic struggling feebly in the moist basis." The action, following price inclutches of a record heat wave, could take cold comfort from the creases by virtually every other aufact that temperatures were being tomotive manufacturer, marked the exceeded in height only by the price defeat of Ford's lonely stand against the forces of inflation. of corn. All this gave rise to a disturbing With abnormally hot weather preIf the Ford dynasty is unvailing over most of the nation, question: able to hold the line against inflato deteriorate continued from grains lack of moisture and prices of both tion, what, if anything, can? corn and oats hit new record highs. THE SWIFT: September corn was selling at $2.45 a bushel and September oats Oysters Lose zoomed to $1.08i. Oysters simply aren't fast enough The grain market prices went to get away from predatory snails a roof the following departwhose pace has been clocked offthrough of ment agriculture report that the icially at .000363005 miles an hour. corn crop country's Plodding along on a treadmill at would produce only 2.437.000,000 the University of Maryland fish and bushels, a 223 million bushel drop wildlife laboratory, a test snail covfrom the August 1 estimate. ered 22 feet and V4 inch in 11 hours Although agriculture department a pace swift and 30 minutes officials had hoped earlier this enough, at least, to overtake an year for a 3 billion bushel corn oyster. g crop to keep food production high, Purpose of the laboratory's weeks of hot. dry winds shrivelled experiments is to slow the the and corn that hope, crops of little creatures up even more. As Iowa and Illinois, major producing things stand now, they're doing too sections, continued to decline much damage to Chesapeake Bay's oyster crop. I r, THE NOSE . . . in a recent sorcer match at Paris. ON Over Lining h ... Deflation a new "The Egg and the Badman' were good, I thought, but I like 'Brute Crossfire' and "The Huckster and the Bobby Soxer.' " for North and Pole hemispheric secu rity zone, the celebrated Monroe doctrine was developed to its logical conclusion 124 years after its inception. This was the burden of the Monroe doctrine in 1823: "It is only when our rights are invaded or seriously menaced that we resent injuries or make preparations for our defense in this hemisphere . . ." Today, the Americas are making preparations for hemispheric defense in advance of any menace or invasion of their rights. The mutual defense treaty embodies three main points: 1. In the case of armed attack from outside the hemisphere, all 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 to 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. "Monroe doctrinism," it appeared certain that the "hands off the Americas" policy was in for a big revival in the atomic age.t Pole-Sout- 5- five or six years. mer." seen?" South America and their territorial waters, and set up a vast. North "Clothiers Worried Problem" headline. guns, too." "Look at the way Tony Baksi and Tito are hitting the ball this sum"What inter-Americ- mutual aid treaty one-fourt- The Garble Sisters Speak Are the baseball Joint Defense Pact Set; Fear Large Corn Loss POLE TO POLE: -- one-four- th fS- H. I. PHILLIPS FIRST VICTIM well-bein- firecracker 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 WITH one-fourt- h. heat-seare- .t Thursday,, September 11, 1947 prires may be particularly subject to downward pressures." While the financial position f farmers has undergone a vast, general Improvement at compared r with years, many Individual farmers have Increased their indbtedness, and the new debt is written on the basil af sharply advanced values. In particular, the report declared that land values must start declin ing before much longer. Thus, while the farmer is enjoying a high level of income and prosperity as a result of the prevailing inflationary economy, the same forces which are now operatirg to his benefit appear as a lurking but altogether possible danger to hn future security. pre-wa- Peculiar People in the Big Burg Sabbath fancier near promenaders along Stat- en island's small town streets. You'd 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." sea-farin- g The mellow tones of Radio City's guides. Most of them A hope to be announcers. cop who is stationed near an East 49th street dock. It's 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. ... Well-dresse- WA A V$if.l. Patrick's pigeon cathedral explaining the varieties St. of pigeons to anyone willing to ten. lis- Fifth avenue craftsmen who plan their latest creations in deepest secrecy to make certain rivals won't filch their ideas. . . . window-dressin- g f ' ; . . ALONE. Film star Greta Garbo attempted to arrive in Paris incognito by lowering her d head so that her hat partly masked her features. STILL . large-brimme- Saturday crowds in the ice cream sodamats, where you'll find more gay-et- y than in the silk and mink joynts. . . . The retired vaude magician who amuses children in Central park with hit sleight-of-han- d wizardy. Swanky salons of fortune-teller- s avenue. Among their clients you'll find some of New York's 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. on upper Madison ... LTER SHE AD Strategy in the Economic War EGARDLESS of how peace-lovinAmericans 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 in Washington. It Is like any war involving arms and troops; no one can say with certainty which side will win. All that can be done is to outline the chief aims and objectives and plan the strategy accordingly. In this case, the U. S. aim, on the surface, at least. Is clear-cu- t. It is, we are told, the securing of individual and national freedom in eastern Europe. U. S. strategy is equally well defined and is following a definite course. Eastern Europe is in desperate need of American credits, goods and services. The United States, In a continuing series of expedient maneuvers, is 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 observer expects any sensational results, simply because the Communist hold on eastern Europe is already too strong. Probably the mini that can be hoped is that present U. 8. methods will at least weaken, to some extent, the Soviet Influence In that pivotal tone. TO g W. llt'Cfc'S KKSCL'fcK . . . Otto Skorzeny, former German army officer who ' rescued" Mussolini from Kalian partisans after the fall of the Fascist government, is shown at opening of his trial before a military tribunal in Dachau, Germany. iK A:-- . . 1 WRIGHT PATTERSON Rights of Local Government that ANin ISSUE the coming will loom large presidential election will be a return to the people the rights of local and state self government. Strange as it may be in the light of history, that will be more a Republican than a Democratic demand, In that connection, there Is one privilege neither party will demand for the states. That Is the spending of state money for the development of state projects when the federal government can be Induced to pay the bill. Nevertheless, Just why the people of Boston, for example, should assist in paying for a control of flood waters in the Lot Angeles river Is hard to answer. MOINTAIN COMES TO MANHATTAN . . . Natural as life and twice as big was "Man Mountain" Dean, former proponent of the fine art of "rasMing," when he breexed Into New York where he acted as assistant sergeant-alarm- s at the American Legion convention. He Is a veteran of jnth wars. |