Show TOE THE DAILY WASHINGTON Round Merry Trade Mark MarkBy MarkBy MarkBy By DREW PEARSON PEi and ROBERT ALLEN ARTHURDALE LE W. W Va On Va-On On the dirt road that runs south from irom you ou would have noticed ab about ut a year ago an o old d house reminiscent reminiscent rem rem- of Poes Poe's The Fall FaIl of th the House of Usher It looked down upon a desolate area lost in scrub oak underbrush and swamp There today is a cluster of new-built new white houses trim lawns in front flocks of chickens a a man pushing a through hills of beans another standing shoulder high in a acorn acorn acorn corn field and children far up on the hillside hillside hill hill- side picking berries in m the underbrush The gabled house is still there but it has taken on an almost cheery look And the name name of the place is now recorded as Arthurdale V. W. Va National Experiment Officially Arthurdale is a subsistence homestead homestead homestead home home- stead project of the interior department Unofficially and perhaps to the largest number itis it is known as Mrs Roosevelt's pet Its significance significance sig sig- goes beyond the connotation of any name For it is in a sense a laboratory in which is being tested the important all-important question question question ques ques- tion of whether the drouth sufferers of the northwest can be profitably moved d to new farms whether the perennially unemployed coal miners of the Alleghenies can be transplanted trans trans- planted to new industry whether large blocks of unemployed and economically mal maladjusted people c can n be picked up and resettled in more propitious areas without disrupting their own lives and the life of the affected locality Some visitors ors throng through Arthurdale monthly to see this piece display-piece tacked on the wall vall of the new deal What they see on the surface surface- is a cozy group of fifty white houses interspersed in intervals over acres each cach house having four to live five rooms and a garden plot of five acres What they learn on the surface is that each house is equipped with its own well an electric pump hot and cold running water a cellar and central central cen cen- heating Model Community ty There also is a federal school with tennis courts and artificial lake There are to be reading reading read read- ing clubs clubs- discussion groups and adult tion The community house will win shelter dances festivals and meetings of the Homesteaders' Homesteaders club No church as as such can be built on government property but services will be held in in Community h house use At the top of a sharp rise to the east of the colony lives Fred Harrison with his wife and two daughters He is a tall tail lean mountain man an with blue eyes and slow quiet speech I Yes I was a miner I 1 mined at Elkins and at Weaver But Im I'm no good for mining now and haven't been since three year ago when I broke Imy my ray hands This one I crushed against the top of a mine car when it pitched up against a low beam and this one here got jammed sos so's the h hand nd was drove back to the wrist Then my wind went bad miners bad miners miner's asthma they calls it and it-and and I was no good for the mines But I can still hold a drill and I work here in a quarry for the government getti stone out for foundation work ork And of course I can handle farm tools all right I was raised i ion on a farm till I was 14 when I went into the mines We work on pay for the government till tm quarter to three then we lay layoff off and work our land Yes Ive I've got more corn here than I c can ri use but butI I believe the plan is to trade it in to the co cooperative p and md get things what I haven't got I aint just sure about that but butI I know the gov government will wm fix it up all aU right He Ic treads softly over th the new grass grass' on his grad graded d terraces which slope down to t the e edge of the woods It is on only three weeks since he brought his family over the hills to the newhouse new new- newhouse newhouse house and ever everything thing every bl blade de of gr grass ss is precious Presidential Plagiarism The president is being threatened with suit for In a recent radio address he used the phrase Do your part Now from a New NewYork NewYork York state woman comes protest That was my phrase I wrote rote to you and nd suggested it as a rallying cry for the nation nahan Now you have used it and given me no credit I am retaining a lawyer who assures me rae that for a fee of oC he can can make it possible for forme forme forme me to get what is only my due Of a similar nature are letters from many other originators nd authors of the thee e C C C C. C the N R H A. A A the P PV Vt V A and so on All AIl protest that the president has stolen their ideas and called them his own o S S S Mrs Florence Forence Kahn San Francisco's hard hardworking hardworking hardworking working congresswoman set some high water records last session in obtaining federal grants for her district Regardless of p party affiliation affiliation tion lion she has a way of getting things done S S S The secret is out Chairman Joseph P. P Kennedy Ken Ken- nedy of the securities exchange e commission is isa isa is isa a brain truster It has just been disclosed that the former Wall Street operator taught at Harvard for a short while following his tion from college Copyright IJU 1031 by bi J United Feature Syndicate Inc |