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Show TUB BULLETIN. BINGHAM CANYON. ITAH imT-- J Little White House Made a Shrine Story of Summer Sanctums Of U. S. Presidents Traced By BAUKHAGE News Analyst and Commentator. WASHINGTON. This summer the Warm Springs Infan-tile Paralysis foundation turned over a little five-roo- m house on the mountainside to the state of Georgia, which will run it as a museum and national shrine. And so another of the "Lit-tle White Houses" goes back to the people. It is the only one in which a president spent his last days. In one of its three bedrooms President Roosevelt died. In its living room he spoke his last words. The Warm Springs house was different frnm other summer hideaways of presidents because it was really a home. The late President Roosevelt himself built It in 1932 at a cost of $8,700. He willed it to the infantile paralysis foundation. It was a very simple structure in which the archi-tecture of the locality and a few Rooseveltian ideas are blended. There are the two bedrooms, a third guest room, a living room, a kitchen and that's all. But there is a view that would make a Park avenue penthouse owner jealous. Like all of the houses which Pres- - ident Roosevelt occupied, this little cottage is crammed with history, much of it still unwritten. Warm Springs was the symbol of Roosevelt's victory over disease and nain. Since then, largely be-cause of his ef forts, many hun-dreds of others have achieved similar victories in the commu-nity of which the "L i 1 1 1 e White House" was a part. The simple cottage was also the scene of his death. He was dollar pool." I have seen the pool. It is less than 20 feet across. Polly-wog- s wiggle in it, rocks green with years of moss, surround it. It has been there a long time and I doubt if anyone ever had the temerity to bathe in it, although "Shangri-la- " was a deserted boys' camp when it was taken over. It sits high on a mountain top beside a splashing trout stream surrounded by thick woods. Today there Is one overstuffed chair in the corner of the solarium that somehow always seems to get turned around at a certain angle. Turned that way, a side table is within easy reach, a push button and a hand telephone with an ex-tension number on it. Lift it and the answer comes, "White House." It connects directly with the switch-board at 1600 Pennsylvania avenue. It fives me a rather strange feeling to look at that chair empty and realize what mes-sages went over the telephone beside It, what words were dic-tated while the long cigarette holder moved nervously to the ash tray on the table at Its arm. President Truman has not used "Shangri-la- " very often but when he goes there next he and Mrs. Truman will find a retreat which gives them more privacy than prob-ably any other spot on earth, Tucked away in the deep woods is a new. little cabin, just big enough for two No guest room, no parlor, just a cozy cottage with a neat, BMXlern kitchen, a dining room-sittin-room with a fireplace. There two-- is a company, three crowd. A sanctuary any president de-serves. posing for a por- - trait when the Baukhage "terrible headache" came. He had signed his letters for the day and in his last signature, which I have seen, there is evidence that death already was "plucking at his sleeve." Late in the war, when it was diffi-cult to go far from Washington, an-other "summer White House" in Maryland was established. It was given the name "Shangri-la.- " The President himself named it Jokingly when, because of security reasons during the war, its location had to be concealed. It was discovered, thanks to a slip of the tongue on the part of Mrs. Roosevelt, and because absurd stories were written about the tremendous amount of money which had been expended on it as a matter of fact it cost very little to convert it was thrown open to the press. One article described its "million BfVEL IN MOISTURE Famed Short Grass Country Of Kansas 'Outgrows' Name GARDEN CITY, -- 1 JSiSSLTSS hill, is outgrow.ng" M- sefcommon questim as "Where's the short grass r ratified visitor in this western re- - glon look around this season. The ihort grass has become long grass the often short wheat is tall wheat and the country itself just doesn t look the same. Nature is running riot. Moisture penetrates the ground to a depth or 8 to 12 feet. In May. sometimes a dry month. 5.28 inches of rain fell here. During the wheat growing teason since September fields have been soaked by 23.29 inches of rain. Frnm the days when there was little but buffalo to see the plains and fatten ou them, the grass, known as buffalo grass or short grass, has been famous for its succulence despite the fact that It lies close to the ground, never growing tall like bluegrass. But this year even that type of grass what little the plows have left as virgin sod is taller and more luxuriant than ever before. In the sandhills, along the Arkan-- i sas river pastures are growing so fast that an extraordinarily large number of cattle can be grazed. Even the sagebrush and cactus are reveling in the moisture, It is the wheat itself, however, which shows the most marked bene-fit from the soaking. Mothers are . getting afraid to let children play around the fields if they venture far among the stalks they may be hard to find. Many fields have wheat up to men's shoulders. Where fields have been sowed right up to narrow roads, motorists enjoy reaching out of car windows to pluck the large, perfectly filled heads. Some fields are so large that a person cannot see across them from a car. Combines in some cases make a three-mil- e drive without turning. Truly it is a record-breakin- g year for western Kansas. HE WAS RIGHT . . j9 ski, food orporation J all the way in court 7M his sauerkraut had bttTfl d,ed on r."!road and J not fermented and J itself. - TILLS SOIL WITH 'GADGET' ... Far a total outlay of $75 for welding and parts, James van Hyfte, farmer near Hillsdale, BLi built this highly efficient, light weight tractor. A 1921 car engine Is the heart of the tractor. A double transmission gives the machine six speeds forward and three reverse, making it adaptable to any kind of load, speed, field or road condition. H I MUM ATOM BOH Prof. T. I). J. Leeci figure in development ofdl ican-Briti- weapon of iS says, "by comparison ill bomb is a clumsy raethdl tack." He is a New . .M NEWS REVIEW New Dust Bowl Feared; Corn Outlook Improves Thinking men experienced ranchers, grain men and bankers in the West are looking worriedly ahead to a revival of the dreaded dust bowl because transient farmers are plow-ing up thousands of acres of virgin range to plant wheat which will brine them two dollars a bushel. Under the stimulus of the two-dolla- r wheat, buffalo grass is being turned over at an unprecedented rate, and the prediction is that when it quits raining the dust bowl will stage a savage comeback. The West again has become a paradise for speculators who are buying up land for $15 to $25 an acre and planting it in wheat. One good crop will pay for the land and leave them a good profit besides. Suitable primarily for grazing, the land normally is priced at from $2 to $10 an acre. "Suitcase farmers" roll in with their tractors, plows and drills, put in a wheat crop and then leave until it is time to harvest the grain. No one stays to check the inevitable wind erosion. The current world food shortage offers some justification for expand-ing the wheat crop, but it would be difficult to maintain that rational outlook if resulting dust storms caused a recurrence of the mass ruin and exodus from the dust bowl of the 1930s. FAIR OUTLOOK: Corn Prospect As July entered the Midwest's agricultural scene with a gush of warm air and sunshine, prospects appeared reasonably good for a fair-size- d crop of corn in Minnesota and South Dakota this year. However, in those states, as In the rest of the corn belt, a long period of favorable weather conditions is most essential. The frequent, heavy rains must stop in order that satu-rated fields can return to normal. Planted acreage of corn in Min- - $ nesota and South Dakota Is about equal to that of last year, but heavy losses have been incurred as a re-sult of excessive rain. Most observ-ers agree that while the growing corn crop is two to three weeks be-hind last year it still has time to stage a comeback, given favorable weather. Such a shortened growing period, however, may result in reduced yields. Also, growers in the two states are reported to have turned, in the past year, to planting corn requiring a shorter growing period than formerly. Therefore, while the corn may mature relatively earlier than formerly, It will do so at the expense of a smaller yield an acre. DISCORD: Paris Clash Latest attempt to bring the oppos-ing areas of the world into closer harmony by means of an interna-tiona- l conference has resulted, as htva all the others, in a complete, discordant, unharmonious cacoph-ony. It was the Paris conference of British, French and Russian repre-sentatives on Secretary of State Marshall's save - Europe proposal MARSHALL ANGERED Angered at Soviet criticism of his European recovery plan. Secretary of State George Mar-shall rejected as a "malicious distortion of the truth" the Rus-sian claim that American offers to help put Europe on its feet are inspired by imperialist mo-tives. He drew a stinging com-parison between United States' efforts for M aid and Soviet aggrandizement in Europe. which went on the rocks this time, deepening the rift between Russia and the western powers. Conflict arose over two main is-sues: 1. Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov opposed any plan by which the great powers could Impose an economic pro-gram on the smaller nations of Europe, while British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin, backed by French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault, wanted to draft a broad scheme for re-construction of all Europe. 2. Molotov placed his entire emphasis on the American aid aspect of the Marshall plan, but Britain and France primarily stressed a self-hel- p program for Europe. Result is that Great Britain and France probably will go ahead with- - out Russia on a western European four-yea- r reconstruction program of self-hel- at the same time hop-ing for American credits and sup- - plies. AVIATION NOTES Airport Chatter Lorin Duemeland of Bismarck was elected president of the North Dakota Flying Farmers and Ranch-ers association at concluding ses-sions of the annual convention. The Dakota Flyer, an aviation paper ed-ited by Geneva Show, youthful Mott. N. D., aviatrix, was named of-ficial association publication. . . . In the first annual air tour spon-sored by the aviation committee of the Illinois State Chamber of Com-merce 32 planes visited 16 commu-nities on a 731 mile flight. Most of the 16 communities will vote on establishment of a local airport authority this year, and purpose of the tour was to acquaint citizens with the need for careful and ade-quate air planning. . . . "It is no more unusual to have a plane than It is to have a car. In fact, this airplane is much less trouble than some of the cars we used to have." That is the assertion of Harmon Cranz, a pilot-farme- r of Ira, a Sum-mit county, Ohio, village northwest of Akron. Cranz, who uses his plane chiefly for pleasure flights, has converted part of the barn into a hangar. . . . For the first time in its history, Parks College of Aero-nautical Technology at East St. Louis, 111., is inviting its 2,000 grad-uates from each of the 48 states and a dozen foreign countries to re-turn to the campus August 2 fo a reunion and homecoming, too Mark Twain once said every-one talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it. But he didn't know Davy Crock-ett Jr., who has helped save an $80,900 apple crop by "warm-ing up" the weather with a cou-ple of personal planes. Taking off from the Hagerstown, Md., airport at 3:30 a. m Crockett and a fellow pilot flew their Aeroncas to the re orchard threatened by frost. Cruising back and forth 50 feet above the trees, the two planes raised the temperature two degrees in 10 minutes. The pilots, warm-ing the air by keeping it circu-lating, patrolled the area for V,i hours, after which the danger of frost was past. Air Museum Providing a comprehensive, per-manent exhibit of the air weapons used in World War II, a national air museum will be established in the mall adjacent to Smithsonian insti-tution in Washington, according to tentative plans approved at a con-ference of aviation men and army air forces officers. It is planned that historic aircraft and items of aeronautical equip-ment, both foreign and domestic, which already have attracted wide-spread public interest in temporary displays and air shows will be turned over by army air forces to the museum. A total of more than 100 aircraft and several thou-sand items of aeronautical equip- ment will be made available to the museum. Airplanes earmarked for the mu-seum include the Enola Gay, the which dropped the first atomic bomb; Flak Bait, historic veteran of the European theater, and the Memphis Belle. TEACHING ... A f,rrner reconnaissance pilot, Lee A. Har-P- er of Logan, Ohio, uses his flyin experience as an aid m teaching 'Ohio farm veterans. Harper, now vt'nal agriculture instruc-tor, uses his own plane to fly dl- - ETXf ,0.his students' farms Ohl! C'aSsroom LaurelviUe. Show Postponed Postponement of the Aircraft show, tenStivefy eheduled to be held in Chicago No-vember 9 has been announced by Sin Industries association utPtTr1(airCr8ft to coni portion of the air-Plan- to be displayed at this year', show, council members felt that Postponement to next spHng Provide more howlng o, opportunity pTan a new models now iD readiness for public dj , SPOON-FE- D ORPHAN V young to feed itself and 'W mama or papa to take in a nice, comfortable S little wood thrush is ttiM from a spoon. It was dtM its parents in PhiladelphiiB Havens of Other Presidents by Lynn where the offices were located. In 1926 he chose an Adirondack "camp," near Paul Smith's. One of those primitive places millionaires build in the wilderness equipped with all the comforts of a modern hotel. Kirkwood Camp, owned by Irvin Kirkwood, a newspaper pub-lisher, was such a place, The next year Coolidge repaired to the Black Hills of South Dakota where he lived in a spacious lodge among the trout streams, guarded by a troop of cavalry and making a long, twice-weekl- y juurney to Rapid City to attend to affairs of state and interview the press. The next year he again went to Wisconsin and on an island in a lake 28 miles southeast of Superior, lived in Cedar Lodge, making necessary a e trip three times a week. President Hoover, when he took office, almost immediately went down into his own well-line- jeans and for $15,000 bought "Rapidan," another mountain stronghold in the Blue Ridges. When he left office he promptly deeded the tract to the commonwealth of Virginia, hoping perhaps, other presidential camp fires would burn there. But his sue cessor chose otherwise. Warm Springs belongs to the state of Georgia, countless thou-sands will visit it, as they do Hyde Park and other local monuments. "Shangri-la- " is now a part of the national park system. The next president, whoever he may be, may have it if he wishes, without extra expense to the tax-payer. But who knows? He may have a dream-house- , realization of which wo need hardly begrudge him. Ever since the days of Buchanan almost every President has seen fit to flee the banks of the Potomac when Washington weather begins to lure the mercury to the top of the tube. Although the United States army began being hot weather host to chief executives in Buchanan's time and continued to do so into the regime of the dashing Arthur, it was because Lincoln lived at the "cottage" just within the Eagle Gate of the Soldiers' Home (now well within the city of Washington proper but once a distant suburb) that this summer White House be-came famous as the Lincoln Cot-tage. When Grover Cleveland became president, however, and shortly thereafter took a bride, he felt that it was improper to live on the army in the summer months. So he bought a place of his own called Red Oak on a high hill in the capi-tal now known, in honor of his short domicile there, as Cleveland Park. It was a plain farm house when he bought it but it soon blossomed into a comfortable home. Then Washington was a town of some 175,000 people (1886) and Cleveland had an unobstructed view over the whole panorama down to the Potomac itself. When he was defeated he sold the place. When reelected he bought an-other. That effectually ended the So-ldiers' Home tradition and it was really not until the time of Presi-dent Taft that a "working" summer headquarters was set up. Other presidents took vacations Theo-dore Roosevelt "went home" to his beloved Sagamore Hill on Oyster Bay with a secretary or two. Presi-dent Taft went to Beverly, Mass. When President Wilson went to Cornish, N H., it was for rest and recuperation. In IMS he chose the imposing Shadow Lawn in New Jersey and by that time war was impending and his staff went with him. President Harding didn't want to "get away." He wanted people, lots of them, around him also 52 cards. President Coolidge, too, it was said, didn't know what to do with a vacation but he made as geographi-cally varied a selection of summer White House sites as any president. First it was Swampscott where, as one dispatch put it, he was "teth-ered to a telegraph wire." As a matter of fact no telegraph wires actually entered "White Court," the great colonial mansion perched on the rim of New England's rock-boun-coast, but the telephone did and he made regular trips to near- - I Just Friends His Excellency, the Most Rev-erend Dr. Mar Ivanious, arch-bishop of Trivandrum, India, en-joys visit with baby Claude, youngest of the prolific Dionne family which also includes quin-tuplets. The two met in Ottawa, Canada. GERMAN PARTI B0sS Maria Von lirrdow many's Brst woman M when the military censed her "equal pw'W for women" party. countess In her a" "W Precautions Listed For Polio Outbreak Observance of six simple precau-tions may help you avoid infantile paralysis should outbreaks occur in your community this summer, ac-cording to Dr. Hart E. Van Riper, medical director of National Foun-dation for Infantile Parlysis. These common sense rules are: 1. Wash hands thoroughly be-fore eating. 2. Keep flies away from food. 3. Do not swim in polluted wafers. 4. Avoid over-tirin- 5. Be guided by your physi-cian's advice concerning tonsil and adenoid operations. 6. Avoid sudden chilling, such as plunging into cold water on a very hot day. "June through September," Dr. Van Riper said, "is the time when infantile paralysis cases are on the increase in the north temperate zone. Consequently they are months in which these precautions should be especially observed." Last year was the worst polio year in three decades, with more than 25,000 infantile paralysis cases reported. By June 7 this year, Dr Van Riper said, 1,000 cases had been reported to the U. S. Public Health service. This figure is 192 cases less than the number reported for the comparable period last year, he explained. It is estimated that of infantile paralysis victims in this country 50 per cent recover completely 25 to 30 per cent show slight residual paralysis, 15 to 20 per cent show marked after-effect- s and S to 10 ner cent die. I FAVORABLE FORECAST Downward Price Trend Seen . NEW YORK. With the postwar inflationary price rise apparently nearing an end, the probabilities seem to favor a downward move-ment of the price index in the next 12 months, it is predicted in a re-port on "The Price Level" released by Bankers Trust company. The report, prepared by Roy L. Reierson of the bank's economic de-partment, added that "the prices of some manufactured goods may show a further modest, and prob-ably temporary, rise, but it is be-lieved that any such movement will be more than offset by declines in thf prices of farm and food s and other materials." The bank warned, however, that a combination of contingencies such as bad weather and a substantial deterioration of domestic crop pros-pects could upset its forecast. After examining the factors in-volved in the present rise as com-pared with those in the price jump following World War I. the bank said, "since the all - commodity wholesale price index has not in-creased as much this time as in World War I, it is likely that the de-cline in the price level will not be as severe during this correction period as it was in 1920-1921- The bank cited a number of fac-tors to support its view. A collapse in farm prices does not appear im minent in the near future, It said Food prices, although below recent highs, are supported by a high level of employment and national in- - come. Prices of many manufac- - tured goods have risen only mod- - estly despite greatly increased costs of labor and materials. Furthermore, lt is pointed out, the greatly increased supply ol savings and liquid assets may pro-vide some support for the price level. The business inventory situa-tion- , moreover, does not appear comparable to the excessive mone-tary speculation following World War L I Never Off Duty LYNCHBURG. VA. -- Although he was off duty. Randal! Hudson city fireman, pitched right in and helped extinguish a fire at 215 Lansing ave enue. It was his own home. warns orcoiM dieting a "J,nM omy" unless taken. En.il K M no's fun employ m says rising bt U been checked. Shoplifter Is Original, But It's Same Ending HOLLIDAYSBURG PA A1 though his shop lifting scheme had the merit of originality, it s i, wasn't good enough. James M But ler 'learned. He entered two stores and l.fted a luncheon set, electnc iron and sweater valued at Later he returned and asked for rt funds. The ruse worked fZ Ume bu, at the second Ze incious clerks su called police. |