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Show 8 THE BULLETIN, HIMiHA.M ('NVON- - I'TAH . TT. "-- """B Roosevelt Family Turns to Farming Elliott and Eleanor Begin Back -- to --Land Movement By BAUKHAGE 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 Sunday clothes. We were both up in his former landlord's bedroom, with some of the neighbors. It was a sad occasion. It was the 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 occu-pant'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 that, five years before, when I visited him at his white-painte- d farm house. "I've rented from him for 22 years (that was 1941)," he told me then, "and he has yet to find a fault. Whenever he gets a chance he comes over here to say 'hel-lo' and 'goodbye' but he doesn't find fault. And I've made mis-takes, too. No-body is perfect." The landlord had a pretty good opinion of the tenant, too, as I learned of relief to hear that he is going in for something constructive. War takes a lot of courage and skill, too, but it isn't very constructive. Nei-ther is night life. "This Is a challenge," Mrs. Roosevelt explained In her col-umn, "which Elliott and I will enjoy." Every farmer knows she's right about the "chal-lenge." They aren't going to try to raise wheat, corn, potatoes, or attempt to keep 14 cows, as Smith was doing when I visited him. They are going to continue raising Christmas trees, a venture which the late President started and seriously pursued for several years. Smith's 140 acres, which were devoted to general farming, are only a fraction of the more than 1,000 acres, much of which is wooded, and part of which has been devoted to a scientif-ically - cultivated evergreen crop, which make up the estate. Mrs. Roosevelt explained that she and her son couldn't afford to keep the estate as a country place, as her mother-in-la- had. I noticed that the New York Herald-T-ribune made editorial note of Mrs. Roosevelt's plans and men-tioned that a lot of acres along the Hudson "were unfilled. " It mentioned that Dr. Samuel Bard, a wealthy retired physician, had a place not far from the Roose-velt estate where he carried on val-uable experiments which made an important contribution to agricul-ture. Mrs. Roosevelt hopes to con-duct similar experiments. "If Mrs. Roosevelt," says the Herald-Tribune- , "does no more than (Itan remembrance on the fact that land endures . that stability of farming is that of a renewable world in which seedtime and har-vest are still more lasting than dy-nasties and dictators . . . the new farming partnership will have done much of value before the first fur-rows are turned." 1 wonder if you feel the way I do. I think, regardless af the color of one's political senti-ments, anybody who loves the soil can offer his well wishes to this venture with the hope that the young man will do as well with his hands in the earth as he did with his plane in the air. Baukhage later. Smith knew that and was pleased, out it didn't go to his head. He is a typical, independent, g up-sta- New York farmer. I remember he said to me that day, sitting on the front stoop, in 1941: "The President drove over here a little while back, with Princess Juliana. Be told her about this house being over 100 years old and I told him about the well-wate- It had gone bad. So he said go ahead and dig a new well." Smith and I walked over to the new well. It was 100 feet deep. "It will last 100 years," said Smith with the pride you find up that way in good things that last. By this time you have guessed that Smith was a tenant on the Roosevelt estate at Hyde Park, N. Y. I take it he is a comfort-ably retired farmer now, living In the nearby village of the same name. And Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt and her son, Elliott, have taken over. I don't know who will live in the farm house. The old Roosevelt homestead Is a museum now but the Roose-velt- s have other dwellings. They are going in for commercial farming, Mrs. R. said. Elliott hadn't been interviewed since the senate war investigating committee start-ed looking into the Hughes airplane, and ended looking the other way and blushing. The testimony had a lot to do with the night club cocktail-- lounge side of young Roose-velt's activities but nobody could find a hole in his war record. Even his many critics admit that. Elliott's friends are heaving sighs jr w w w Tragedy in the Forests money out of trees, one way or an-other, 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. I "V (U. fr orest Service ohotoi Parachute jumpers are one of the most important factors in get-ting 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. It was a coincidence that while I was reminiscing on the subject of the Roosevelts' new adventure in tree-growin- 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 department's appropriations for fire control Many of the cuts later were re-stored, but not in time to save thou-sands of acres of timber in some ars of America, notably Alaska. "The sawtimbcr burned in a single year In this country," says my friend's memorandum, "would be sufficient, if convert-ed to building materials, to re-place every private house in the cities of New Orleans or Min-neapolis. "If' the wood below sawtimber di-mensions could be manufactured for paper, it would provide a subscription to a monthly pocket-siz- e magazine for every nian, 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 Amer-ica "In terms of dollars, our annual forest fire loss amounts to 35 million dol'ars in payrolls lost to wood-vorker- s and three-quarter- s of a bil-lion dollars worth of wood products. "The tragic part of all this is that 9 out of 10 forest fires could be prevented. Nine our of 10 are traceable to human causes to incendiarists, Causing more than 25 per cent of all fires; to smokers, careless debris-burner- s, railroads, campers and woodsworkers who are respon-sible 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 ON THE NOSE . . in a recent so. cer matJHH Frrxn. e, assumes J pose, perhaps implorigHF to go a ij ,s ne MfpjP goal. So what happPns,M 01 socked him ripht M theL ' :.: i ; "v '.' :.... .j LESSON IN WARFARE . . . Army cadets and navy midshipmen ob-served combat battalion of marines stage mock beach landing opera-tion as part of operation Camld II. After Its completion, the observ-ers Inspected the phases and talked with the marines, some of whom were still In foxholes. P41JI. MALUM Do Unions Represent All "Labor"? people write me sking firecracker words u.on WITHmo are the consumers ? lheyjnen answer, which is that they "'"Ssfve epithets from volume of their orga"gjgjg 'fa labor house--! such nebulous mJzJtlCttoSl wifeT," t7heyTareSfryningi 'trtSm Wat unions themselves are Kir simply because they call MM. Well let's look at the matter more thoroughly. 60,000,000 workers In this country today The unions J?"..." to represent about 15,000.000. not even majority of labor. They are aooui They are I eJourth They are one-four- th which tries fiJ of the country by sheer superior weight Treasures, propaganda and Indeed any means at their command. in the United States and if the Now there are 140.000.000 people unions represent one-fourt- h (if they have raised the same sue fam.hes as trying to run 140,000.000 by any others, they are ?5,000.000 people means, including intimidation. i i --i. M h. L PHILLIPS The Garble Sisters Speak "Are you following the baseball 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 guns, too." "Look at the way Tony Baksi and Tito are hitting the ball this sum-mer." "What new movies have you seen?" "The Two Mrs. Paulines' and 'The Egg and the Badman' were good, I thought, but I like 'Brute Crossfire' and 'The Huckster and the Bobby Soxer.' " "Clothiers Worried Over lining Problem" headline. The customers have been worried over the lining problem for. the Utt hie or six years. 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 Paul Whiteman has joined the ranks of disk jockeys. We take it his diet now includes laying off artistic ideals and using dignity sparingly. NEWS REVIEW Joint Defense Pact Set; Fear Large Corn Loss POLE -- TO -- POLE: Mutual Defense James Monroe, fifth President of the United Slates, had his say, in spirit, at least, at the inter-Americ- defense conference at Petropolis. 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 Pole-Sout- h Pole hemispheric secu-rity zone, the celebrated Monroe doctrine was developed to its log-ical conclusion 124 years after its inception. This was the' burden of the Mon-roe doctrine in 1823: "It is only when our rights are invaded or se-riously menaced that we resent in-juries or make preparations for our defense ... in this hemisphere . ." Today, the Americas are making preparations for hemispheric de-fense in advance of any menace or invasion of their rights. The mu-tual 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 In-side the hemisphere, American nations may go voluntarily to the aid of the victim, with con-sultations to follow. 3. If attacks occur both Inside the hemisphere and outside the security region, immediate con-sultations will be called. Thus, despite the opposition of some Latin American nations to the U. S. --espoused "Monroe doctrin-ism," it appeared certain that the "hands off the Americas" policy was in for a big revival in the atom-ic age. TORRID ZONE: Corn Declines Thermometer-happ- y Americans, struggling feebly in the moist clutches of a record heat wave, could take cold comfort from the fact that temperatures were being exceeded in height only by the price of corn. With abnormally hot weather pre-vailing over most of the nation, 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 depart-ment of agriculture report that the country's heat-seare- corn 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 corn 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 stead-ily. READY FOR 'INVASlAtf Rahbi Baruch S. K man of the political a iH mittee for Palestine, B j will lead a "parachute B-o- f the Holy Land if the iB lions Palestine commisfltl) t. recommend unlimitedBd ' Iheadliners i i IN WASHINGTON . . . John Samp-son Kirby, 69, (above) of Tennessee was placed under observation after police had nabbed him packing a pistol in the capitol building and de-claiming loudly that he had "just been elected president of the United States." IN NEW YORK . . . Virginia Wal-ton 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 crea-tures as a kongoni, two gerenuks, an oryx, a bat-eare- d fox, an im-pal- a, two dik-dik- s and a klipspring-er- . IN CHICAGO . . . Mrs. Anna Metz-ge- r, 47, had had a pain in her leg for 40 years, finally became curi-ous, pressed the irritated area and pulled out a two-inc- h sewing needle. SAY UNCLE: Ford Gives Up Abandoning his laudable, if non-conforming, efforts to stabilize auto-mobile prices. Henry Ford II an-nounced that prices on "most mod-els" 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 sim-ple necessity of keeping Ford Motor company on a sound economic basis." The action, following price in-creases by virtually every other au-tomotive manufacturer, marked the defeat of Ford's lonely stand against the forces of inflation. All this gave rise to a disturbing question: If the Ford dynasty is un-able to hold the line against infla-tion, what, if anything, can' THE SWIFT: Oysters Lose Oysters simply aren't fast enough to get away from predatory snails whose pace has been clocked offi- - cially at .000363005 miles an hour. Plodding along on a treadmill at the University of Maryland fish and wildlife laboratory, a test snail cov-ered 22 feet and Vi inch in 11 hours and 30 minutes a pace swift enough, at least, to overtake an oyster. Purpose of the laboratory's snail-timin- g experiments is to slow the little creatures up even more. As things stand now, they're doing too much damage to Chejapeake Bay's oyster crop. DREW PEARSON Highest Paid Lobbyist OF THE 700-od- d lobbyists registered with congress under the lobbying act, John Danaher, Connecticut Republican, shows up as having received the highest fee. Danaher, who formerly served as an d manager for the Re-publican national committee at a salary of $25,000, has now listed him-self 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 be-fore 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. i A A . KjSj Vv:;;v 4 B-- JB1HJ BL STILL ALONE ffl, Greta Garbo attempted B in Paris incognito by lowW head so that her lar6e-- hat partly musked ber WALTER WINCHELL Peculiar People in the Big Burg Sabbath promenaders along Stat-e- n 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 g men gather. They have labeled that sector "The Jungle." The mellow tones of Radio City's guides. Most of them hope to be announcers. ... A 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. . . . Well-dresse- d Wall Streets from clerk to top exec all impec-cably attired. 4, A pigeon fancier near St. Patrick's cathedral explaining the varieties of pigeons to anyone willing to lis-ten. , , . Fifth avenue window-dressin- g craftsmen who plan their latest creations in deepest secrecy to make certain rivals won't filch their ideas. Saturday crouds in the ice cream sodamats, where you'll find more gay-et- y than in the silk and mink joynts. . . . 1 he retired vande magician who amuses children in Central park with his sleight-of-han- d wizard y. Swanky salons of fortune-teller- s on upper Madison avenue. Among their clients you'll find some of New York's wealthiest and most respect-able people. ... An organ grinder whose monkey has a tiny derby perched on its head. If you give a coin, it tips its lid. IL ULCE'S KKSCUEK Skorzeny. former Germ officer who 'rescued m from Italian partisans m fall of the Fascist goxetvm of nis shown at opening tribunal fore a military chau, Germany. 1 WALTER SHEAD Strategy in the Economic War at stds at the bott- o- ot it all. The United States engaged n war-v- ast, tremendously important political and ecoSc wa? What the outcome will be, the man on at,H h on the farm does not know. No doe, thVml ma" in Washington. It is like any war Zo v nZ nTjl can say with certainty which side will win A T is to outline the chief aims and oojectivcs and 1 T dne accordingly. strategy In this case, the U. S. aim on . , It is. we are told, the securir' of indtvidM ' , iS clear-ut-easter- n Europe. U. S strateTv freedom " a definite course. TS"J " Allowing its, goods and services. The United in f Z, ' America "ex-pedient maneuvers, is granting or witflS 'T of.ex" as strategy seems to indicate. eoods services Will this plan of battle be nothing more than r ll a " J1 amUnt t0 sible observer expects any sensatTnn,, No respon- - the Communist hold on eastern Euri t S'mply becaus ably the most that can be honed is t0 stlon Pr- - at least weaken, to some exten, thef I. mHhods wi pivotal zone. Influence in that FIRST VICTIM Deflation a Threat to Farmer 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 in-flationary trend. That warning was issued by fed-eral reserve board researchers in a midyear study of the position of agriculture, indicating that, even in flush times, the well-bein- g of farm-ers is in a state of delicate balance. If the present boom were to de-velop into a tailspin, price falls in the agricultural commodity field probably would be greater than in other areas of the economy, the re-port points out. Record returns to farmers attributed to prosperous urban consumers and an almost un-limited demand from abroad could be reversed in a flash. The federal reserve board survey explained the danger of deflation to farmers by citing three factors now operating to keep prices high. IThe share of consumer incomes to food consumption is much larger than has been cus-tomary. 2 Profit margins of producers and distributors are greater than usual. Speculative factors play an im- - 3 portant part in maintaining prices on numerous markets. "Consequently, with any reversal of inflationary tendencies, food prices may be particularly subject to downward pressures." While the financial position of farmers has undergone a vast, gen-M- l improvement as compared with pre-wa- r years, many individ- - ual farmers have increased their indebtedness, and the new debt is written on the basis of sharply ad- - vanced 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 econ-omy, the same forces which are now operating to his benefit appear as a lurking but altogether possible danger to his future security. MOUNTAIN Ogg HATTAN . ' 'Mb H twice as blfWM Dean, former prv 1 "rass.n fine art of breezed Into Wf r( acted as arms at the ventlon. He 1 wars. WRIGHT PATTERSON Rights of Local Government AN ISSUE that will ioom large in the coming presidential elec-tion 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 Demo- cratic demand. In that connection there is one privilege neither party will demand for the states. the That is spending of state money for the wie lederal government fu" bilL thelest why the people of Boston for example should assist in ' contro1 paymg flood waters in ill Angele. river is hard to answer |