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Show Comfortabij r; MakING this comicJ r Porch chair week-en- d project, widths of material with the hand saw j' Columnists Thoughts Turn To Squirrels and Crabgrass By BAUKIIAGE Neut Analyst and Commentator. WND Service, 1618 Eye Street, N.W., Washington, D. C. Summer was creeping toward the Potomac, the flag over the While House hung limp as a wilted petal, a hot sun, burning through the In- frequent gaps In the heavy foliage, made yellow patches on the lawn. The fountain splashed faintly, falling like warm, futile tears. I moved slowly along the drive, wondering if I could garner even a modicum of answers to meet emptiness left by the thousands of unanswered questions the world Is asking. I looked under the Japanese oaks whose tightly laced leaves, only a little aboe the ground, smother the young grass, hopefully starting up each spring, withering In the shadows before July. There, bored and half asleep, 1 could make out the form of the old gray squirrel. Often this winter, he had come to my rescue when other "dependand "authoritative able sources quarters refused to yield up their secrets. But this time, he barely nodded, and looked away, deep In his meditations, probably a nuclear problem of some sort A few moments later, 1 was taking down notes at a not very newsful press and radio conference. The President I feared, did not feel as cheerful as he looked. The handkerchief in his breast pocket was neatly folded in Its customary three flat razor-shartriangles. (Sometimes his answers were almost as sharp.) The great red carnations on the table behind his desk, which bolds the photographs of members of his family, were already drooping. The low hum of the mowing machine came In the open windows that look toward the Potomac. Of what was said of Import to the nation and the world, you 'vill p Even though millions of garden erg agree with your remarks, 1 still challenge them. At present, I have a spring garden growing without any hoeing on land covered with a thick layer of last year's dead crab-gras- s. at Vermonts scenic wonexplo- ders. Many have witnessed the spontaneous sive splitting of quarry blocks at some of its quarries, where great blocks of granite suddenly snap loose with a sharp report. But the world should know Vermonts people, too. They were flrst to express conScarcely a weed can grow stitutional not even this prohibition of all human slavery! They it, through years were first in the nation to provide universal manhood crabgrass. You see, I am Pop,' the suffrage, with voting not dependent upon property, owned or rented, or a specified yearly income. laziest gardener In the world, and I refuse to gather, haul and Vermont always bated slavery, and its legislatures spread mulch when crabgrass annual resolutions against it. Southern states adopted will do it for me, and do a betmore angry each year. The Georgia legislature grew ter Job of it. I make it mulch requested President Pierce to employ enough the land for me by leaving it Irishmen to dig a ditch around Vermont and strictly alone. I may even enfloat the thing out to the Atlantic ocean! A Virginia courage it with fertilizer. After newspaper gravely commented that Vermont was alI have gathered my early spring ways foremost in the path of infamy. vegetables, I let the crabgrass Years later, Robert T. Lincoln, son of the Great take over. In early fall, when Emancipator, came to Vermont to make his home at the crabgrass stops growing Manchester. A marker now stands on the lot in Benhere, I mow it down. I then nington where William Lloyd Garrison lived, and where have that mulch gardener's dehe edited the "Journal of the Times early in the 19th light, a mellow mulchy spot century. Also, Bennington was the birthplace of John where most anything can grow F. Winslow, builder of the "Monitor, the steel ship of without using spade or hoe. I Civil war fame. use a potato digger to dig Vermont is a pleasant place. The climate is cool planting holes. But that is not all. Pop may and the atmosphere dry. The summer season, between be the laziest gardener In the world, frosts, is from 110 to 160 days, depending on location and altitude. Evidences of the ice age still prevail in but he is a vigorous poet He enclosed a poem of which (alas) I rounded and grooved ledges, polished rock surfaces, e boulders and great deposits of unsorted sands, have room only for one verse and refrain. Here It Is: clays and gravels. The range of scenic interest is vast, with mountains and broad valleys, river and lakes, and Bring me a hoe; pull em all upl abundant forests. There will often be 10 feet of snow-covChick weed, crabgrass, dig and in the central part, and 34 to 46 inches of raincut! fall through the year. Lake Champlain is 120 miles down lowl but Stoop Nothing long, and there are many others, including Lake Witrash, lloughby, Lake Dunmore and Silver. Goosefoot, pigweed and JohnsLake. state and each section has its scenic ton grass; From Mount Mansfield, 4,393 feet attractions. Vacationists find alJust no time to look at the sky, is of most an kind excellent view of allure in Verthere high, every clouds Fleecy by; the White Mountains and Adiron-dackmont, Including hiking on the faWork til youve such a crook with Lake Champlain visible mous Long Trail and horseback ridin the back 80 'miles away. Vermont has over ing on the thousand-milbridle trail That gardening pleasure's gone, 900 peaks with an altitude of 2,000 system. alackl s, e may have a foolish sound; Crabgius mulch ground. Is good for the Let the weeds growl Bring me a chair! is everymulch Crabgrass where. Soft and thick and brown. i Strategy Misfires ! In Battle Over OPA The battle over the OPA in the senate has brought out some of the good old axioms on how to bring pressure on congress . . . and how not to if you want to get your favorite bill passed. Anti-OPstrategy all along has been to postpone action on OPA as long as possible. Supporters have fought for action. At this moment, though some unforeseen event may change the course, it looks as if the odds favored postponement, but not defeat. It flrst appeared that ordinary conventional methods used by the professional lobbyists were going to kill the bill. Then it looked as if spontaneously written letters were going to save it. In both cases, the effort was overdone. There were too many expensive advertisements in the newspapers, sponsored by the various business institutions fighting price control; too much money easily identified as coming from vested Interests was being spent. Then it was that John Q. Citizen sat himself down, took up his pen, or often his pencil, and wrote an undictated letter because he (mostly she) was really stirred up. Congress began to take heed of those letters. They were obviously they were written by men and women who had made up their own minds. They were voters with convictions, and it was very likely those convictions would be registered at the polls. But once more, Pelion was heaped on Ossa. There was a nation-wid- e organization by the labor people, the veterans, the women's clubs. The mail and telegrams piled up, but the senators werent too interested. The letters were sincere enough. But the majority revealed that they were inspired, not by an inner urge, a look into the pocketbook or pantry, but by the persuasive voice over the phone or at the front door. Do what you will, the kind of communication produced by these methods is very likely to have a secondhand appearance which the experienced congressman can recognize. That is why. despite the number of letters and telegrams, the regimented telephone calls, senators were content to discuss the British loan, and even ponder such complicated matters as atomic energy, before hastening to line up for OPA. ... Baukhage consnlts the old gray squirrel. ) ) t , i t , i I i l ; ' i i i I i , have read by the time these lines are printed. The rest was trivia. We walked out of the executive offices. I glanced under the Japanese oaks, but my friend, the squirrel, had gone, the vista looked very bare and cheerless. So I went back and talked about It. As soon as mail could reach me from Sturgeon Lake, Minn., I received a letter and a package. The writer said that as I had mentioned that It seemed Impossible to raise grass on the shaded parts of the White House grounds, 1 might be terested in this sample of quack grass which she offered, and she If it won't grow there, Ill wrote: be glad to know there is some place it won't grow. The next day, 1 acknowledged the gift, and opined that quack grass must be another name for crabgrass which I remembered as the bane of my experience. Soon 1 received other tions. A landscape designer In Akron, Ohio, Informed me that quack grass is not crabgrass. The former Is a perennial; the latter is an annual. Quack grass (agropyron repens) propagates by seeds and creeping rootstalks. Crabgrass reseeds itself each year. Another letter came from Robert L. (Pop) Davis, "Amateur Mulch Gardener of Thorsby, Ala. He referred to my mention of crabgrass as a pest, and then he went on: "Having spent years at my hobby of looking for the most useful plant for growing summer mulch In my gardens, and deciding that crabgrass was it, I cannot resist a challenge. lawn-mowin- g spon-tanou- s, YEAR AROUND . . . Top picture shows canoeing on Lake Bottom is Toll Road House at the foot of Mt. Mansfield. half-millio- n Vermont is a dairy state, with beef, milk, butter and cheese as important products. It is also well suited to diversified farming and fruit growing. Many sheep are raised there, and it was in Vermont that the Morgan horse was Both in quality and developed. g quantity Vermont leads all states with a normal yield of about 40 per cent of the total. The 35,000 bearing apple trees in the state's orchards yield a product of notable quality. In industry Vermont is noted for lumber and lumber products, woolen mills, marble, granite, slate, lime, asbestos, talc, soapstone, kaolin, ocher and other products Steel squares were invented in Vermont and are still manufactured at St Johnsbury. In recent years a growing number of writers and artists have made Vermont their permanent homes. Others spend a part of the year there. Dorothy Canfield Fisher, who loves her Arlington home, is one of the states authors. Robert Frost, the poet lives in Shaftsbury Chester A. Arthur was the first native Vermonter to become President of the United States, later folmaple-producin- his frontage-- he boasted, pounding and can lift elephants, pianos chest! on my 20 men I want said shaw-boreOh, foof! off mine! to keep Wi e, geog-graph- y ; i Musician Charles Guisikoff took 80 shirts with him when the Philadelphia orchestra went on tour. The tour lasts 42 days. I suppose theyre stopped in Pittsburgh. Inflation note from a reader who sends me some of his 1940 bills. Eeems he paid $2.73 for CM flooring in 1940, and $12. 8P last month for same. Seems theres a special Josef Stalin tulip named after the generalissimo. Wonder if it's red. The coal Industry is sick all right . . and some of its nurses are ting pretty superannuated. get- This spring weather would be fine werent for an occasional flu In the ointment If it mount tavern at Bennington in 1765 to discuss this controversy. 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Famous Cereal Brings Relief to ... trs V may self-mad- e oMMOoTb5 Wht deep-roote- you ?iportant t so pe The Quipping Post: Nicol Smith, author of the soon-du- e book, "Into Siam, Underground Kingdom, was an officer in the OSS. . . . One day he found himself seated next to quiet little man at a Washington banquet. . . "Im Nicol Smith, Cloak and Dagger, said Snath introducing himself. . . . "Gled to mitt you, was the reply. "Im Abe Lapidus, Clukk and Suiter! . Add snappers to people who boast of being men: Horace Greeley stifled one such with this: That, sir, relieves the Almighty of a terrible responsibility!" . . . Several members of the literati were moaning about the shortage of good hooch. John Powers sighed and intoned: Thats what is knowm as wishful tanking. havent M been d out fc that no has It V The pollenation of pU fected not only by wind, sects, birds and man, h ... mem the battle of Bennington. From 1777 to 1791 Vermont Mountain Boys, had come Into being. was -P- ublic. At a convention In Westminster In Whn disputes were 1777, Vermont was declared an ind; th! state adopted the con dependent state and the name of If!?, stitution of the United States anri New Connecticut was adopted, but was admitted as the 14th state-the shortly ifterward the name was first to be added to the original 13 Verd-Mochanged to Vermont. The capital was established in had been suggested several years Montpelier in 1805. earlier The Green Mountain Boys Men of Vermont took part in ali the conflicts of the nob,e brn age, a love of have Revolution, and Bennington monuand liberty ence that is ment. 302 feet high, commemorates full and appreciation of human rights the pari ' and go (or One of the pet newspaper quips deals with the reporter assigned to cover an affair staged by the GreatHe turned er New York Fund. his copy in carelessly and tardy. . . . The city editor bawled him out. Whats the idea, barked the boss, "of writing among the most beautiful girls was a Congressman? You've got him wearing skirts!" I cant help that, was the ply. Thats where he was! aq pink, ;e r;u j were MORTIMER R. PROCTOR Governor of Vermont apro ver-a- ... The For 12 Years Vermont Was Independent Republic One of the outstanding features of Vermont is that it existed as an independent republic, with Texas the only other state so distinguished. Vermont was claimed by both New Y"rk and New Hampshire and was called by some the New Hampshire Grants. A convention of the settlers was held in the Cata stores Zachary Scott was at a meeting where a lad with a fine war record It was dull, made a speech. and the audience started walking A man who meant well got out. "Gentlemen, up and announced: please sit down. This boy has gone through hell for us, we can do as much for him!" WhatHirn7 lowed to the White House by Calvin Coolidge of Plymouth. Adm. George Dewey, Levi P. Morton, John Deere, John B. Mansfield, Stephen A. .Douglas, John C. Saxe. Joseph Smith, Alphonso Taft. Brigham Young and many other figures in history were born in Vermont. departn still the Is ... 1 by Baukhage jacks. When you are Ji pf course. outdoor furniture assembling, this yean? and dyes dealer about your the pUstic glues developed tZ work. Sine If this type of glue u J? take sides of a joining, the pu&l they course yoi longer life. This lawn chair is mad. them first-yo269 which ... In Poultney, when a lad, Horace Greeley set type In a small print shop. Salmon P. Chase lived and studied law at Randolph. Peacham was the boyhood home of Thaddeus Stevens. Eugene Field, with recollections of his boyhood in New-fanbased several of his poems on local life In Vermont. Few states have produced so many notables in all lines of endeavor as hardy, mountainous Vermont. Samuel Champlain, French explorer, was the first white man known to have seen any part of Vermont. When coming from Canada, in 1609, he went up the long lake that bears his name. The first settlement in Vermont, though shortlived, was also by the French, when Captain La Motte built a fort and a shrine on Isle La Motte. In 1690, Capt. Jacobus de Warm established an outpost on what is now Chimney Point. In general, however, Vermont was a land In the 17th and 18th centuries, a mere passageway for French and Indian raiding parties seeking the English farther south and east From the earliest days, Vermont gave attention to primary education. The University of Vermont was chartered In 1791. Other institutions for higher education include Norwich university, Northfleld, the second oldest military college in the nation; Bennington college; Middle-bur- y college; St. Michaels, i; Trinity, Burlington. There are three normal schools and two Junior colleges in the state. One of the crowning features of Vermont is the province of the Green mountains. Here are found the highest peaks Killington, Ellen, Lincoln, Camel's Hump, Mansfield and Jay. The physical of the state is diversified, however, with the Vermont lowland on the west and much rolling country eastward. The states geology is complex and extremely fascinating. Vermont is nicknamed The Green Mountain State. Its motto is Freedom and Unity. The state flower is the red clover; state bird, hermit thrush; state song. Hail! Vermont. a- - ght well tor a cheei It happened into the minor govt official bristled American Consulate. . . . Ignoring the room full of people, he stormed deover to the receptionist and Conthe with audience an manded He was politely informed sul. there were several ahead of him. he belBut I am Gonzales! lowed, impatiently glancing at his wrist watch. "At two oclock I have the appointment. I am Joe Kelly, replied the American in his best Notjh Pole and at two o'clock you manner, have the disappointment. I BARBS ready to nail or screw J together. A pattern PvJ ... Aires. god readily EASY CONSTRUCTION 1 man times, asking PROPORTIONS STRAIGHT CUTS '",4 ... In Buenos any ,sUg me trial easilywealth of 6000 Gardner . time Ann Sheridan, The Jose Iturbi in Hollywood. Ann that suggested man talented when she came to phone him When she arrived . . York. New bit foggy about a was here she him as his name and addressed A few hours Shurbert. Jose 11 later she received a reply., was addressed to: man. Hy j vain attempt hal for ours' ARMS s paper-makin- A Vermont Sugar House Lr tried to do land have ; WIDE Win-sook- feet or over. There are over 409 lakes in the state, and forests and forest parks cover over a acres. Hunting, trapping and fishing are always available to the rugged outdoor man. There are recreational activities In Vermont all through the year-ski- ing into April, fishing and other vacationing from May to late fall, and touring and hunting to the opening of the winter season. Tourists penetrate to every corner of the vegetarian,of debunked able-bodie- d Wisdom FOR WINTER STORAGE Shaw is a hater George Bernard . . . sort of physical exertion. he bicycling Outside of occasional all athletics. Once, they the few places where people speak of thrift ONE of respect . . . Vermont, a small state pulling its full share of weight with the rest of the nation and making its own budget meet! The world has marveled a BE LIFTED OH MAY Notes: Neuspaperrnans Beside being which race? yes CHICGERS, GNATS, INSECT r 2 vat 6-1- Odorless Colorless-t- ot For Housewives, Sportsmen, StYPicnlckers,Flshermeit,Gimr IqijrTHOMPSOH HOWARD &ei |