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Show THE BULLETIN, BINGHAM CANYON. I TAB - 77 f WITH THE COLUMNISTS j Morgan Horse Typically American Government Runs Unique Breeding Farm in Vermont By BAUKHAGE Newi Analyst and Commentator. WASHINGTON, D. C Some time ago the world was star-tled to learn from Pravda, the official communist party news-paper in Moscow, that it was a Russian who discovered "wire-less" (as radio was called in its youth), and as if that weren't enough, it was announced later by the same authority that the electric light, which poor Thomas Edison certainly thought he had something to do with, was likewise a Russian invention. If I ever read, as some day I fear I shall, that sodas and lot-dog- s were first discovered on a pleasant afternoon by some mysterious Muscovite as he sat dreaming on his back steppes, I shall announce that tmrtsch and vodka are American products and that the Volga boatmen vere simply a prodigal local of the CIO maritime union. Meanwhile, however, I am re- - minded by the department of agri-culture that one thing which is as Amerl can as America and which no for-eigner had bet-ter try to appro-priat- e as a home - grown product, is the Morgan horse. Justin Morgan is immortalized in bronze and you can see him today standing viewed the Green Mountain boys when they came back from the War of 1812. The author has Joel say about Justin afterward: "He was just a little work horse that cleared the fields and helped Vermont grow up. Come to think of it, he's like us. He's American . . . that's what he is, American." The Morgan horse helped other states and territories grow up, too, for their equine brotherhood went West with the emigrating farmers, and more than one American sol-dier was proudly mounted on a Morgan as he went Into battle. Gen-eral Custer rode off on a Morgan horse when he went out to fight the Indians, a whole regiment of cav-alry had Morgan mounts in the Civil War. Baukhage on his Postal before the main stable of the United States Morgan horse farm which covers about 1,000 acres of rolling, wooded coun-try two miles north of Middlebury, Vt. The original farm of 400 acres was presented to the United States department of agricul-ture by Joseph Battell. Colonel Kattell had long been an ad-mirer and breeder of Morgan horses, and had founded the American Morgan register. The farm was established in 1907. The area was increased by an additional gilt of about 35 acres by Colonel Battell In 1!88. and by purchase of about 550 acres from Middlebury College In 1917. The land, underlain with limestone, is well adapted to the production of horses. In the selection of foundation breeding stock, and in planning subsequent matings, emphasis was placed upon size and quality, and ability to perform the three gaits, walk, trot and canter. These points Breeding Program Is Unc'er Way Now. "The Morgan horse breed-ers" Dr. McFee of the animal hus-bandry division of the department of agriculture told me, "have given more attention to the traits desir-able in a riding horse." (Forty de-scendants of Justin became famous as trotters. Some of you remember such names as Ethan Allen. Black Hawk and Dan Patch.) At the Morgan farm today usually about forty-fiv- e horses are under test. According to the official descrip-tion, the breeding program there calls for "the measurement of each youngster at one year of age, at two years, and at three years. All are trained under saddle and in harness and are put through con-trolled performance and endurance trials when about three years old. The data thus obtained form the permanent records of the individ-uals. They are used also in studies of sire and dam inheritance and as criteria for formulation the sta-tion's breeding program. For the tests of three-yea- r olds the depart-ment's horse specialists have de-vised specific trials to measure the walking and trotting gaits and the horses' endurance in harness and under the saddle." Always versatile, the Morgan was as chipper when he went to the meeting house on Sunday pulling the surrey with the fringe on the top as it was weekdays when it could drag a log to the sawmill which often took a team of its big brothers to budge. And where .buggies are still used, you'll often find a Morgan between the shafts. He is used on the trail, too, for his forte these days seems to be under the saddle. The Morgan horses have found homes far from the shadow of their native Green Mountains and today the stock probably Is Increasing more rapidly in California than anywhere in the East. I regret to say that on my last trip to Ver-mont, this summer, though mighty Mount Mansfield looked up at the heavens with the same stern profile that it did when I first panted, pack-lade- n to its top, the maple-suga- r tasted as good (though it cost too much), the mist still held the peak of Killingon as gently as ever in its graceful fingers. But I missed Morgan brood mares, with their foals, run in one of the pastures of the department of agriculture's I S. Morgan horse farm near Middlebury, Vt. continue to be emphasized. Also, every effort has been made to pre-serve adequate muscling and depth of body and to preserve and en-hance desirable temperament. The stocky stallion, original of the post-morte- effigy was named for its owner, a singing schoolmas-ter, was foaled in 1793 and died in 1821. He (I mean the stallion not the schoolmaster) had a romantic career and he is the progenitor of the breed, which as the department the quick tattoo of those small strong hooves on the hard high-ways, and the silhouette of an arched neck against the sky above a mountain pasture. I'm glad that Uncle Sam is doing his part, in the shadow of Justin's statue, to perpetuate the breed that is "just like us," as Joel said: American. of agriculture says, is one of the few breeds of horses developed in the United States. Justin was a "small, active , animal of great power and endurance, with the rep-utation of being able to outwalk, outrun, and outpull any other horse In Vermont and the neighboring states." He had the power to transmit these qualities, says the depart-ment, to his three known sons and the United States government is doing its share to perpetuate the characteristics for which his ilk is known: "beauty, easy keeping, soundness, endurance, and spirit coupled with gentleness." The first time I ever went to Ver-mont I was attracted to these plucky little horses. Later I learned more about the Morgan horse. He weighs less than 1.000 pounds, he is not over 14 hands high, round-barrelle-with powerful chest and leg muscles, a proud head and a stout heart. He has done a lot to develop the state of Vermont and his ad-ventures have carried him far afield. In a Actionized but remark-ably accurate story of "Justin I," Marguerite Henry tells how the boy Joel, who "gentled" Justin as a colt, later lost track of him and finally found him again and how Joel, in his cavalry uniform with a sprig of evergreen in his helmet, sat proudly on his diminutive mount when President Monroe re- - Beauty andHeal rB mg j and other SportTwS? up with them any hnjM by flesh thioughttB Here's one that helps' h I 1. Pull knees i, to ch.S "kH tew mcl.es tn, floor i 'iB from side t side "iB .r.RrSide. 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Won't barm . Stoyt soft nd TVyBenfeVodnrs-- ;" f I difference' 1 C.d H.iukF--- Mr SI ecBB EBRATE A BIRTHDAY . . . Triplets Maureen. Michael HOW TO CEI all dress,.d up, to celebrate and Miehele Yosco of Flushing. V Y., got their lirst Mrthdy. The, also had AU?JJJZ together-cle- an clothes, gooey cake and they spell washday for mother. E4UL MAUjON Republican Strategy Pays Profits HE Republicans brought themselves out of their first new I leadership session of congress in greater unity than any political party has achieved since long before the New Deal. Defections generally drew only three of their senators. This was accomplished by a peculiar inner system of organization. Normally steering committees are bossed by one .ir two men, but the Republicans made theirs truly representative of the party. For Instance, in the house Speaker Martin was boss, but he worked closely with Floor Leader Halleck (which is not unusual). They both cooperated genuinely with a steering comrrfittec, which made many decision to which both Martin and Halleck were opposed. Out of this system nf operating from the grass roots up, in-stead of from a top leadership down las Mr. Roosevelt did), came the dominant party characteristic of their first session. Now this guiding committee-leadershi- had an operating system which ivas kept completely under cover. They had a base policy trom the start. They strove (A) to keep down the amount of legislation, selecting only the hare essentials for beginning a new policy era for the country, and (B to get Hway from emergency and "must" legislation. Their delay on the union reform bill was deliberate. Nothing was said about this yardstick. They kept the Democrats from knowing their for-mula. But they feel rather good now about the way it worked out. . . PHIUJPS Letter for Special Delivery "Mr. Averell llarrlman, Secretary of Commerce, Washington, 1). C. "My Dear Mr. Ilarriman The pa-pers say that the Committee of Nineteen which is to look Into this country's capacity to do all our for-eign lending and underwriting has started on the Job in a big way and thai it will 'make a study un-matched in history.' Fine and dandy! Some such study to find out where the bottom of the barrel is, what's between it and the top, how big the bunghole should be and whether multiple spigots are ad-visable is certainly overdue, bub. And it will comfort most Americans to feel for the first time in many years that 'Stop, look and listen' is replacing the slogan 'Shoot the works, let the poorhouse come when it may.' " Bill Powell Is reported the Hollywood choice to play llueod Dowd in the movie of "Harvey." We can't Imagine him as even close to the type, and the actor we think would he a scream In It would he Barry Fitzgerald. He is the only performer on stage or screen who could touch Frank Fay. Why not, by the way, Fay for the picture ver-sion. Too much as the author Intended, eh? It is our guess that Holly-wood will put the rabbit into the play, visually. And that, were John Bunny alive, he would get the part. "So far as this airplane business Is concerned I have been in it 13 years and lost $14,000,(100." How-ard Hughes. "Is that good?" It seems to its, reatiing about ihost gay parties as an MMlfalJ interlude in the nar contracts routine, that there ibould hare been a "Miss $200 of NEWS REVIEW Rioting Flares in India; British Get Stern Rule INDEPENDENCE: India Riots During the two days before fate-ful India became a land of free men, more than 200 died in a bloody orgy of violence and rioting in the huge northern province of Punjab. Lahore, the capital, was the cen-ter of the disturbance, but fierce fighting also took place throughout the west and east Punjab country-side. Wide sections of Lahore were aflame. This took place on the eve of In-dia's independence day, just before the Indian constituent assembly sat down to function as a free govern-ing body. Cause of the rioting, incited, as always, by terrorists, was the bit-ter disagreement arising out of the partitioning of India into two sepa-rate zones one for Hindus, the other for Moslems. In New Delhi, the Independence day ceremonial program began with two minutes of silence for those who died in the fight for free-dom which was finally achieved through amicable negotiations with the British. CO-O- P INQUIRY: Tn o Questions Although the public is not too well Informed about it. one of the most important and fiercely waged do-mestic post war battles is that being fought between private busi-ness and cooperative enterprises. Crux of the feud is the fact that cooperatives are while private business is not. From this evolve two basic questions: 1. What effect does have upon growth of the cooperatives? 2. Is a factor of discrimination against pri-vate business? A house small business subcom-mittee has begun an attempt to find the answers with an investigation of the cooperative community en-terprise at Greenbelt, Md. In the Greenbelt case, business groups have charged that the government has aided the cooperative in keep-ing private business out of the de-velopment area. This hearing, as well as others on the west coast, is being conducted by Rep. B. Walter Richlman (Rep., N. Y.) as acting chairman of the subcommittee. In view of the theory that taxes will remain high, compared with the past, for at least 50 years, ac-cording to economists, the feature of exist-ence will grow increasingly impor-tant. IRON HAND: Britannia Ruled It well may be true that "Britons never, never, never shall be slaves," as the anthem has it, but in view of Prime Minister Clement Attlee's new emergency action giv-ing the government stern powers over British industry and labor, many in the islands are now har-boring serious doubts about that. The emergency bill, which Win-ston Churchill charged invoked such restraints as the government has never before imposed except in time of war, has been passed by both houses of parliament and now for better or worse is law of the land. Designed to bring Britain out of her deadly economic slump, the bill empowers the government to com-mand labor and industry to do practically anything and every-thing, if it U in the national Rallying cry of the British con-servatives, led by Churchill, is "dictatorship." RED SAUCERS: Soviets Curious Those flying disks were fun while they lasted, but by this time every- - body has practically forgotten them. Well, almost everybody. Latest report having to do with the aerial chinaware is that Soviet agents in the United States have been ordered to solve the mystery of the disks. Presupposing the re-port to be true, it means, at least, that the saucers were not of Rus-sian origin. Soviet espionage agents here are said to have been advised that the Kremlin believes the flying saucers might have some connection with army experiments on methods of knocking out enemy radar. Tourist Trade Operating on the highly plausible theory that left-ove- r land mines are not only unhealthy for wandering tourists but are also bad for busi-ness, the French ministry of re-construction is working hard to clear all possible danger spots In former fighting areas around Prance. While the French admit' that erstwhile battle zones might1 attract heavy tourist trade they are not taking any chances. Anthony Eden, for-- j mer foreign secretary, got into the fight by j asking that parliament cut short a planned va-cation so the members can be on hand to exam-ine the measures which the government will or- - Eden der "The house cannot be an absent spectator while the govern-ment does a split over the g abyss," said Eden, also a member of the Conservative party. DREW PEARSO Congressional Junket for Peace OEN. GLEN TAYLOR of Idaho, a former cowboy vaudeville crooner O who has come to win the respect of his senatorial colleagues, will take an unusual trip this summer Whde some senators will be junketing to Alaska or touring Europe, Taylor will ride horseback from the Pacific to the Atlantic coast. The senator from Idaho candidly admits that it is a publicity stunt, but not for Tavlor, lor peace. Alone the way. Taylor plans to speak for the United Nations and world cooperation. At the last session of congress, he helped introduce a bill to strengthen the United Nations and help eliminate the veto power by which one nation can hold up the peace efforts of the rest of the world. Taylor feels that the Middle West is becoming isolationist, is worried over the threat of war and wants to dramatize the problem of peace. The Idaho senator planned to buy two horses in California and begin his trek from the Golden Gate bridge. San Francisco. One horse will follow behind on a trailer, while he rides the other, alternating each day. Taylor says he plans to ride horseback every inch of the way, even in-cluding western deserts and the Rocky mountains. He figures the trip will take him three months. a. WALTER WINCH ELL Land of the Melting Pot This underlines America's reputa-tion as a melting pot: We have 256 dilferent religious denominations. ... A democratic form of govern-ment In America had its origin in Virginia under Governor Yeaniley two years before the Pilgrims land-ed at Plymouth. . . . Polish. Ger-man and Irish workers began to battle their oppressors in Virginia long before the Revolutionary war exploded. . . During nine of the last ten years America's annual im-migration quota was not tilled. Those who say the Indians are a vanishing race are spread-ing a myth. Their population has doubled during the past dec-ade. . . . Many American Indian reservations have modern homes. They look like any oth-er small town. Historians have said that the American Revolution was the achievement of an "aggressive minority." The colonies consisted of men and women who came from Ireland, England. Scotland, France, Germany. Holland, Switzerland, Sweden, Poland and Italy. And ev-ery religion also was represented among the soldiers who formed Washington's army. AMERICA IS A NATION composed of minorities. And when compared with the rest of the world's popula-tion Americans as a whole also are a minority. . . . Bigots who hlame all our troubles on foreigners should be reminded that only 10 per cent of America's population is foreign-horn- . . . . Atul we must not forget America's most beloved immigrant the Statue of Liberty. WILTER SHEAD Cost of Living Spirals IN PRESIDENT TRUMAN'S state of the union message to congress last January he warned of the spiral of inflated prices. In the succeeding seven months the President filed with congress two economic reports on conditions in the country, and in both of these he urged congress to do something about the high cost of living. In addition, more than a month before adjournment of congress he sent a special message urging posi-tive action against the continued spiral of living costs. He also made a plea to private industry to reduce costs voluntarily. All through the long months until congress adjourned, no ac-tion was taken. In the meantime, living costs reached their peak immediately before adjournment. As prices soared, profits soared and 1947 earnings will be approximately 50 per cent above last year's record of $12,539,000,000. On the last day of the session the senate named a joint committee and appropriated $100,000 for it to hold hearings to probe the question of whether or not there is a high cost of living problem. That is all congress did. These hearings probably will get under way in 4-- X-NO THUMB ON SCALES Extend Prepackaging to Meat That old caricature of the butcher resting his thumb on the scales as he weighs out the meat soon will vanish completely from the Amer-ican scene if the trend toward pre-packaging of fresh cut meats con-tinues at its present pace. Approximately 100 stores across the nation currently are operating their meat departments on that ba-sis, and their cash registers are re-cording ample proof that attractive- - ' ly cut meat wrapped in cellophane and placed in display cases sells it-self as efficiently as a butcher's sales talk could. With the popular cuts of meat in weights most in demand placed in open-to- p refrigerated cases, the housewife can shop at her leisure and net be compelled to wait her turn in line. From the retail stand-point, prepackaging cuts down store overhead and increases turnover. Although so far, prepackaging largely has been confined to retail shops, large chains are becoming more interested in streamlined mer-chandising plans. One has a meat e experiment in operation in about 10 Detroit stores, with the prepackaging done at a central dis- tribution point. At least one local of the Amal-gamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen's union has vetoed the idea of g fresh meats, but general opinion among other union local, u that the practice would be a favorable one insofar as it would allow butchers to heirskled trade instead of spend-ing time serving customers teSf,Tr demand' which "dmit.: peculiar turns at times, can nevertheless, be anticipated by analyzing customer buying habits wooid be cu"t ' St0akS and chP in several thicknesses! could ;irtuaUy every cust! up exactly the kind and cut of meat he had in mind Experiments have almost wholly d.sproved the theory uhat loss of Personal service ln Dutcner would result in a decline of 21 Pnnclpaily because attractively Packaged meat display, become an efjecnve .elllng medium WRIGHT PATTERSO Useless 'Jobs' ill Remain OLITICS being politics, regard-less P of which party is in power, it probably was too mi ch to expect any considerable reduction in the many agencies, bureaus and admin-istrations of the federal government. Useless as many of them may be to John Q. Public, they do provide Jobs, and jobs represent patronage. Those bureaus we.re created by a Democratic administration. but the jobs they represent can be filled cy a Republican administration if and when there comes such a change. As long as the jobs are filled by Democrats the present ad-ministration wants them contin-ued. Anticipating a possible change, the Republicans wish to retain these jobs. |