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Show M Mil ;ill I'.INGHAM CANYON. I'TAH -- J Coveted Star Farmer Award Given to Four Rural Youths Top Honor Goes To Pennsylvania High School Boy By W. J. UKYDEN WNU Farm Editor. Outstanding young farmer of the United States is -I old William G. Carlin of Coatesville, Chester county, Pa. He has won the title of Star Farmer (if America-m- ost coveted honor that can be won by an American farm boy. Of what stuff are champion farm-ers made? In the case of William Carlin the answer would be summed Up in a statement of his zeal, his enthusiasm, and his attention to de-tail in developing a run-dow- n farm Into a high producing enterprise. The award was made at the re-cent National Victory convention of Future Farmers of America held at Kansas City. Carlin was chosen from among the 200,000 boys study-ing vocational agriculture in high schools of the country, who make up the membership of the F.F.A. Farming In partnership with his brother on 190 acres of land, Carlin has made an outstanding record in bringing run-dow- n farm land hark into nrndurtion. OUTSTANDING YOUNG FARMERS . . . Winners of Star Farmer of America awards, highest honors accorded to Future Farmers of Amer-ica members, were announced at the Kansas City convention. Upper photo: William G. Carlin of Pennsylvania, who won the title; lower photo, from left to right, are the sectional winners: Brody Lee Koon of Texas, Paul H. Smart of Kentucky and Dennis O. Heitman of Nevada. From this small beginning, the en-terprise has expanded until it now includes 20 head of beef cattle, 70 head of sheep and extensive crop acreages in tobacco, corn, soybeans and lespedeza. Smart has served as a director of Kentucky Farm Bureau federa-tion and Purebred Livestock Breed-ers association. First Nevada Winner. Dennis O. Heitman, 20, of Gard-nervill- Douglas county, is the first Nevada boy to win the Pacific re-gion award of the Star Farmer, be-ing selected from among 25,000 Fu-ture Farmers in 11 western states. He has complete responsibility for the management of a 1,500-acr- e cat-tle ranch owned by his mother. Heitman began his first farming program with four heifers and a quarter acre of corn when he en-tered hieh school In 1940 From this its on his projects, brought Koon the Star Farmer award. In seven years he has realized a net profit of over $16,000 from his own proj-ect-nearly all of which he has re- - invested in expanding his program. Outstanding as a community lead-er as well as in farming. Koon has served as a director of Northeast Texas Dairy association, director of the Dairy Herd Improvement asso-ciation and vice president of the Texas F.F.A. association. Honor War Victims. More than 15,000 farm boys from every state in the Union, Puerto Rico and Hawaii were present at Kansas City when the awards were presented. The Victory convention honored the more than 4,000 mem-bers and past members of F.F.A. who lost their lives in World War II. Future Farmers of America is the national organization of farm boys studying vocational agriculture. His accomplishments In soil re-habilitation are cited as exam-ples for farmers throughout the country. In 1940 the Carlin brothers took over a farm owned by their father and previously operated by tenants. Through the years the land had been literally "farmed out," with severe gully erosion present and with the soil in poor condition. Purchase New Farm. Through their classes in vocation-al agriculture in high school, these boys learned what had to be done to bring such land back into good production. Land that had produced only 25 bushels of corn to the acre in 1939 brought a yield of 55 bushels in 1942. By 1944 they had accumu-lated enough profits to buy 90 acres of land with a house and farm build-ings. Today the farm is a going business, with assets of nearly $15,-00- Its resources include 145 head of beef cattle, 15,000 chickens, 50 market hogs, 50 acres of corn, 65 acres of hay and 25 acres of oats and barley. Billy Carlin has been active in the affairs of his community. He is a member of the farm bureau, farmer's exchange, ex-change and grange. In 1944-4- 5 he was president of Pennsylvania Asso-ciation of Future Farmers of Amer-ica. Kentucky Boy Wins. Central region winner of the Star Farmer of America award. Paul H. Smart, 20, of Versailles. Woodford county, Ky., was chosen from among 55.000 Future Farmers in 13 central states. His first farming venture be-gan six years ago, when he was 14 years old, with four lambs and a small crop of tobacco. Main objectives of Future Farmers of America are to de-velop agricultural leadership, citizenship, im-proved agriculture and patriot-ism. In the emblem of Future Far mers of America, the owl is symbolic of wisdom and knowledge; the plow is the symbol of labor and tillage of the soil; the rising sun is emblematic of progress, and the day that will dawn when all farmers are trained and have learned to the cross-sectio- of an ear of corn rep-resents common agricultural inter-ests, since corn is native to Amer-ica and grown in every state, and the eagle is indicative of the na-tional scope of the organization. Their motto: "Learning to do, do-ing to learn, earning to live, living to serve." small beginning his program has been expanded from annual profits on the projects. Today his assets include 30 head of beef cattle, 60 swine, 40 sheep and some 20 acres of growing crops. Texan Gets Award. Outstanding young farmer of the year in the South is Brody Lee Koon, 19, of Brashear, Hopkins county, Tex. The young Texan was selected from among 95,000 Future Farmers in the southern region. Koon al-ready is established in farming as one of the outstanding dairymen of northeast Texas. A farming pro-gram that began with one Jersey and has expanded into a herd of 55 registered Jerseys, along with a gen-eral crop program on 255 acres which he bought last year from prof- - Need Time for Democratic Roots to Take Hold in Japan By BAUKHAGE !Vmm Analyst and Commentator, WNU Service, 1616 Eye Street, N.W., Washington, I). C. WASHINGTON. Recently one of Jannn's liberal newspapers took oc- - easion to admon-ish its readers j against substitut-in- g General Mac- - Arthur for the I emperor as an I object of rever- - ence. The paper I pointed out that I MacArthur was a symbol of democ- - racy, but not a living god. In so doing, the editor touched on a matter of deep ' Germany and Japan lived in a seml-- I feudal atmosphere for centuries. Of course, the Germans belonged to western civilization but ever since 1870 they grew under what amount-ed to a military dictatorship in a highly disciplined society, a rigid class system with complete subser-vience to authority. In these re-spects Japan is similar. Like Germany, after World War I, Japan has suffered a crushing de-feat, has deposed an emperor, has absolutely no training in democrat-ic organization or democratic ac-tion, no experience In parliament-ary government as we know it. Po-liti-parties organized in the sense that we know them were utterly strange to both nations, and both peoples lived under an economy and a society based on the support, mor- - ally and materially, of a huge army and navy. These are some of the difficulties which the Weimar republic faced and the young Japanese democracy Is facing. Strong Influences represented by big busi-QM- I and the aristocracy of blood and uniform, common to Japan and Germany, are at least latent in the former. But perhaps the greatest parallel danger in Japan today and the thing that eventually destroyed the Weimar republic is the economic situation produced by inflation. Many students of history feel that Hitler never would have gotten even a start in Germany if it had not been for the chaotic condition caused by the terrible inflation. Inflation today is one of Japan's greatest problems. Economic Chaos Breeds Controls significance to Haukhage the future of Ja-pan and one which poses one of the greatest problems of the occupation. I doubt if most people realize it. This situation was revealed to me by a very earnest and very widely experienced observer. Just back from Japan. The burden of his theme was the strange unreality which seems to envelop the life of the Japanese people like a mist. Let me give you, as nearly as I am able, the gist of his Impressions, supple-mented by other current reports of observers. The remarkably successful record made by General MacArthur In one year's occupation of Japan can be written down on the credit side of America's postwar undertakings. It is, nevertheless, only a be-ginning. Unless the structure is completed on the foundation we have laid, all of our work will go for nothing. On the negative side, we have dis-armed Japan and destroyed its mili-tary machine. We have taken over its industrial power. The business monopolies have been broken up On the positive side, according to MacArthur's own report, "the average Japanese no longer cringes In the presence of the police or other public authorities; his home has be-come his castle; he registers his opinion on public issues, uncon-trolle- d except by his own conscience; he enjoys the rig' it of assembly and petition; he worships as he chooses In accordance with his individual religious faith; he enjoys the right individually or col-lectively to demand correction of unjust labor practices; electoral dis-crimination has been removed." That is probably literally true. But it does not tell the whole story for, according to my informant, there are indications that the prog-ress made, the reforms achieved in the political, economic and social life of the country, are only forms and it will take a long time many years before those forms can be hardened into enduring substance. The reason for this is that the life of the individual Japanese and acts of their government, actually are dominated by a supreme power It is quite possible that the Wei- - mar republic, even under the best conditions and with the material and moral assistance of the democratic ' nations (which it did not get) never would have succeeded. On the oth- - er hand, it never had a fair trial, for economic chaos forced the dic- - which, while it is not constantly visi-ble, is no less potent that is the power of the U. S. occupation forces. Recover From Stunning Loss At first the Japanese were utterly stunned by the suddenness of their crushing defeat. Gradually they dis-covered that they were being well treated and they assumed a attitude, an almost servile loyalty, obedience, friendliness and an apparently complete sympathy with the Americans. But that does not mean they actually have ab-sorbed our culture, socially, political-ly or otherwise. Nor does it mean that they have been able to build up any real or lasting structure of their own An utterly exotic demo-cratic culture has suddenly been superimposed upon them. It would be absurd from the standpoint of human psychology or human experi-ence to expect that Japan, an almost feudal nation, a land of powerful tradition and a thoroughly oriental viewpoint, could possibly about-fac- e In a period embracing even decades. Certainly not in years. In addition to the wide gulf that exists between Occident and orient, there are many obstacles which stand in the way of the achievement of a democratic Japan. Let us look at this conquered country through the eyes of a man who had the opportunity to study, first-han- the rise and fall of democracy in Germany under the Weimar republic. It so happened that this observer also watched the attempts at the westernization of Turkey after the last war. Both GENERAL MacARTIIlR tatorship. There was no time to establish in the minds of the people or in the processes of government, a real, solidly built democratic phil-osophy. It is inconceivable that without a long period of education the Japanese can evolve politically to the point which the Germans nev-er reached. America's greatest bulwark of democracy is conceded to be the public school. A whole new curriculum must be laid down for the Japanese. At pres-ent the shortage of books is serious. The old books are, of course, almost useless. There is likewise a short-age of trained teachers. Another factor essential to the growth of a democratic government is security, without which individual effort cannot flourish. Today in Japan no Japanese work-er is sure that his wage in the rapid-ly deteriorating currency will pro-vide him a livelihood. No industri-alist is certain he will have pur-chasers and many are not sure their factories will be allowed to operate until the question of reparations is settled. In other words, the Japanese lives, thinks, acts, by the grace of a su-- I perior force, the American high command. Remove it, and the anti-democratic forces will be let loose; maintain it without a solid founda-tion of native grown democratic structure springing from the people themselves, and you are merely re-moving a substitute for a MacArthur Of an Uncle Sam, or a Mikado, and another will quickly be found. Ut-O- ut rramsr hard to come by v ?m Proves that the thin. W -a- nd w,th very expense "e too. W A simple sut of hIKi igned i " cut-ou- t frame Hon to any room fe91 a table or have a n al V u?lrtan fHml Jure room that ,n'K0 ucll.furnVdyf it av'Lml Pattern 264 Eiv.s , .B&. S2 cul'ln. 'or the i aW' designed in simple S cut by hand or with Z pattern may be obtained bvL with name and address direct MRS. Rl'TH WYETH fl Bedford Hills, v Y. B Enclose 15 cent ... fl Name , Bm Address Hf 1 Vitamins.nd CTB Scott'sat yiiordnurB IrrCfaThabi"; JKS i tion-th- row. heavy p, : of the kidni - 0T.r-t.w- d "dJtlXom&m ! and other ' blood. fain nuitS;"8 S h.L?cdl.f of MdMyWgSj or urination. pjafi'' Bl rati. They ha" "2g b pJti" 11 in j? fesf ''Mil Columnist at Work! you can positively get delivery on a Dodge or Plymouth, within four weeks, at about $2,200. In Sweden! All show windows there display (J. S. 1946 cars. . . . Espionage (and counter-espy- ) is terrific there, more so than during the war. . . . Russia allegedly has 125 intelligence agents working out of the Stockholm em-bass- y almoit twice the number the British have dittoing. We got none, huh? . . Howard Hughes, the says he wishes his biogra-phers would get things right for once. One mag piece said he 17 million from his pop. "I inherited $300,000!" he exclamation-marked- . . . . They tell you that the biggest spender in the world today is Robert Arida, a Syrian. He al-legedly maintains an apt at the Ambass; "bought" Hitler's yacht from the Bwiddish Gov't for only 400 Gs. It has a crew of over 100. ... He has three pleasure planes and spends $250,000 monthly, What British Gov't gave it to him? Sallies In Our Alley: Shermlnt Billingsley was still gabbing about the night club owner on the coast who was stuck up and robbed of $400. . . . "Glad It wasn't me," said the Stork Club- - man. "Can you Imagine what El Morocco's Pcrona and the others would say if I ever was found with only $400 on me?" Sights You Never See from a Sight-Seei-ng Bus: The elderly lady In the West 70s. She starts each dawning with a suitcase loaded with cartons of milk and sets them BUt all over the neighborhood for pussycats. . . . Passersby waving to the mayor who always ta-ta- s back. No kiddin' seen it wid me own eyes. . . . The little old chap who cadges drinx in the 3rd Ave. joynts with a piece of rope. Bets you a drink you can't tie him up tight enough to keep him bound. Always wins. . The picketing bar-bers. They all need haircuts. . . . The 5 ayem Drawl (between oodles) at 50th and 8th. Such slugging! "There's No Business Like Show Business": It happened recently on the coast. . . . Sid Slate and his wife had a tiff. ... So she packed up and left for Los Angeles. . . . Sid phoned his best chum, Sid Gold, to meet her at the deppo and straighten things out. . . Which pal Gold certinny did. . . . Mrs. Sid Slate will become Mrs. Sid Gold after she is Freenovated. Erich Remarque, the book-write-gave Ingrid Bergman his only bottle of that fiery Calvados that he speaks about in his "Arch of Triumph" best-clicke- r. . . . Howard Koch and his bride came to town to work on the screenplay of "Earth and High Heaven." Had to dwell in six dif-ferent hotels in seven days. On the seventh his wife forgot which hotel, whereupon they decided to return to H'wood. . . Natalie Schaefcr, the actress, lost a big money fashion-ann-ouncer job in Detroit. Be-cause the man who was going to hire her wouldn't wait more'n 2lk hours for Natalie to finish a phone con-versation. Imagine! The beest! Fannie Hurst may give Nor-ma Shearer her first screen story, "She Walks in Beauty," for Norma's return to the films. She'd play a woman her own age. A Hollywood novelty! Don Anieche wonders if anybody ever called the President Harried Truman. . . . Eddie Jalfee is con-vinced there's something very fishy about the meat shortage. . . . Bill Schiller rates a patty-eak- e for the campaign he's waging as candidate for the state senate. He's fighting for education and housing of vets. . At the Glass Hat two Repubs were indulging in their pet pastime -p- anning Truman. "The whole na-tion," said the first, "is laughing up their sleeves at him." . "You kiddm'"' asked the other. "Who's got sleeves?" Lew Parker found out why the ser.es games at St. Louis didn't break attendance records. Most of the Missourians are In Washington! The boss of a New y0rk union announced that ,ts long strike was ove., and he ordered everyone back to work at a midtown hotel. But one Ud continued to picket after all rrun,ed workine- "Hpy-"- ' vou he laDOr boss- "Why dnt go to work?" "I dunrio," shrugged the picket You ve had me on strike so long I forget what I used to do!" p.fcherlCH E; bscrves t Pullet of the St Cards was ene strik away Sr.ke I V JUSt ab0ut ne mre bt,inf, gia' r7tl r thi"ks that in Geo?- - Arm Saxie Dowell National thing Sue since Branch Rick- - r.te, y0SR,d baseman A felt blackboard msl a dandy job of cleanuiM of a kitchen range, Place breaded chops rB in the refi igerator I rS: hours before they areBi" They will hold the crumBw When using the food gB nuts, raisins, glazed fruj little flour. This keeps tMj Sticking in the grinder.S Steel knives left in ifl may lose their handles Use very little water wl ing oil cloths, as it isiikK through and destroy theB' Choose thread a hadW than the fabric you areH The result will he a bctft to the eye than if the thiH exactly the same shad' Holiday Turkeys Will Be Plentiful CHICAGO. Despite heavy drains on the nation's poultry supplies dur-ing the critical meat shortage, Americans will sit down to turkey and cranberries for their Thanks-giving and Christmas meals as usu-al this year. Reports compiled from all turkey areas indicate that more than 41 million turkeys will be marketed, the second largest crop on record and only nine per cent under last year's e high. Although a larger percentage of turkeys will be marketed early be-cause of the meat shortage, there will be plenty of birds left for the holidays, according to Cliff B. Car-penter of the poultry institute. Experts Culling Mass of Secret Data on Germany WASHINGTON. World's biggest editing job is under way in Ger-many as experts of the Office of Technical Service screen an esti-mated 3 billion pages of once-secr-technical and scientific data on German factories, industrial and scientific processes. From this mass of data, experts probably will select about 3's million pages to be re-turned to this country for study by industry, schools, government Agen- cies and other interested organiza- tions. Less than one million pages have been returned to this country Approximately 100 OTS editors supervisors and microfilm opera-tors, 600 Germans and an undis-closed number of military person-nel are engaged in the task. The data now being culled is in addition to first-han- d reports which 650 technical experts have made on German secret data. OTS, which is the outgrowth of five former war and postwar gov- ernment agencies, publishes a week-ly "Bibliography of Scientific and Industrial Reports." Work is now in progress on the second volume of reports, the first containing 26.000 abstracts of indus-trial and scientific data, both for eign and American. The latter also were secret during the war. Best sellers on the agency's current list are reports on German soap, electronics, leather, adhesives paints, varnishes, lacquers and syn- thetic waxes. State's Unique One-ma- n Probes Realize Results LANSING. MICH. Michigan's unique one-ma- n grand jury system Is developing into a sizable govern-ment activity, with seven inquiries now in progress in six counties and more than $600,000 in state and lo- - cal funds earmarked to pay the bills. Targets of the jurors range from gambling, bribery and liquor con-trol to labor and local courts. An estimated 2,800 witnesses have tes-tified before the inquisitors. As an aftermath of the investiga-tions, nearly 200 citizens haye been indicted, the list including legisla-- : tors, state and local police officials, labor leaders, bankers, industrialists and gamblers. The Michigan system of one-ma- n grand juries dates back to the De-troit police court procedure of the 1880s. The statute providing for the system, which was not written un-til 1917. enables a justice of the peace, police judge or judge of a court of record to act as a grand juror whenever, upon filing of a complaint by a citizen or official, he has cause to suspect that a crime has been committed within his jurisdiction. Provision is made for subpoening witnesses, who may be punished for contempt of court. Legality of the one-ma- n probe has been upheld several times by the Michigan Supreme court, most re-cently in 1945. More Women Listed As Heads of Families WASHINGTON. - Another after-math of war years was disclosed in a census bureau report that increas- - ing numbers of women have moved into positions of "heads of families" that is. the major bread-winne- r for the family. In 1940 only 15 per cent of Amer- - ican families looked to a woman as the family head, the report re- - veals, while by V-- Day, the per-centage had climbed to nearly 22. This means, the bureau says, that three million more families have a woman as the main support. Dad Solves 'Pal Problem -- Enters School at Age of 31 CROWN POINT. IND. A new so-lution to the old problem of a father becoming a pal to his children has been provided in the experiences of Gabriel Sabau all he has to do is go to school! At 31. Sabau, the father of three youngsters, had never worried much about the problem of being a pal to his tots He stumbled on a solution of the good eompanion an-gle accidentally whei he started to school as a freshman this year. Although they at first were amused by the idea of their dad going to school, the children soon looked forward eagerly to his com-pany. "Daddy, we're glad you're going to school. You're such a good com-panion these days." insisted his old- - est daughter. Dale Marlene, 10. after the first week. Besides attending classes daily at Crown Point high school. Sabau works at night for a steel mill His Wife, who also is employed, rushes home at noon to prepare lunch for him and their three children, two of whom are in elementary school Sabau. army vetetan. entered high school 10 years after quiUmg the eighth grade. Under the speed up course, he hopes to complete four years work in 18 months rhn he'll continue his studies at purdup BARBS . . . by Haukhage In Salt Lake City, 50,000 deer con- - i tributed their fat to the fatless pub- - lie. Early news conferences held by Commerce Secretary Averell Harri-ma- n failed to reveal any secret and sinister bonds connecting him with Wall Street, the Kremlin, Secretary Wallace or the Florida hurricane. Washington is full of dead leaves, and live politics, and it's hard tc avoid slipping when you tread on either. Three new elephants arriving at the New York zoo made no com meat on the elections except to say that if the donkey led an ace, they would trumpet. |