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Show JmM'f.C JmMf.C JmMfC ' . ] Columnist's Columnists ' Thoughts Turn TurnTo TurnTo TurnTo To ToSquirrelsand Squirrels Squirrels-and Squirrels and - - and Crabgrass CrabgrassBy Crabgrasserr By errBy err BAUKIIAGCI BAUKIIAGCNews BAUKHAGCNews BAUKHAGC BAUKIIAGC I News " Analyst nalyd and Commentator WNU WNV NNU Service 1616 Eye ye Street tr et N W WWashlnctoo , 1616Eye Service1616E 1616E Wasbing Wasbingo Washlnctoo Washington D C CSummer o . - theSummer creeping toward ward "dto-otomac "dto dto otomac " the thePotomac was towardWhite Summer White WhiteHouse WhUa WhitePotomac overHouse over the Potomac - the flag g House hung Ifmp limp as * a wilted ' petal petala through the In Infrequent infrequent a hot sun burning frequent gaps In the heavy fol age agemade agemade patches on the lawn lawnThe lawnfaintly yelloW made damg The fallThe rh e"tountaia etountaia " tountam fountain splashed splash splashle leda da faintly falnUy faUina tall fall tallIng Ing mg likealong IAe lIke v . warm arm futile tutJle le tears tearsI I driveI moved sloaly slov.ly slovly slowly . along g gwondering the drivewondermg drive drivewonderms wonderms wondermg wondering it if I could garner S " " " even a amodicum amodicum amodicum modicum of at answers ansyers , to meet emptl empti emptlness emptiness emptiness ness left by the thousands of ot un unan unanawered unantwered an answered swered awered quest ons the world is askjng asking ask asklug lug jng ing , jngI ingI I looked under the Japanese oakswhose oakswhose oaks oakswhose whose lightly ughtJy tightly laced leaves only a ahttle alittle alittle httle little abo/e abo e abOle above / the ground smother the theyoung theyoung theyounff young : grass hopetulb hopefull hopefully ) starting startmg up upeach upeach upeach each SprIngHtherIng spring withering \HtherIng HtherIng \ in m the shad shadows shadows shadows ows before July There bored and andhalt andhalf andbait halt half asleep I could make out the theform theform theform form of at the old gray squirrelOften squirrelOften squirrel squirrelOften Often this winter he had come comefa cometo cometo fa to my rescue rescuehen when \\hen hen \ other depend dependble dependIIble dependable IIble able ble sources and authorItative authorItativequarters authoritativequarters authoritativequarters quarters refused rcluscd to yield up theIr theIrsecrets theirsecrets theirsecrets secrets Cut Dut But this time he barely barelynodded barelynodded barelynodded nodded and looked away deep In Inbls inhis inbis bls his meditations probably a nuclear nuclearproblem nuclearproblem nuclearproblem problem of some sortA sortA sort sortA A few moments later I was tak takIng taktag taking Ing down notes at a not very newsful news newstu1 newsful tu1 ful press and radio conference . The ThePresIdent ThePresident Thepresident PresIdent , , I feared did not feel as ascheerful ascheerful ascheerful cheerful as he looked The hand handkerchIef handkerchief handkerchief kerchIef In jn his breast pocket was wasneatly . wasneatly as asneatly neatly folded in Us its customary three threefiat threefat threeflat fiat fat , , , razor sharp triangles ( Some SometImes Sometunes Sometimes tImes tunes his answers were almost as assharp assharp assharp sharp ) The great red carnations carnationson on the table behind behmd his desk whIch whIchholds whichholds whichholds holds the photographs of members membersof membersot ot of his family were already droop droopIng drooping drooping Ing The low hum of the mOWIng mOWIngmachIne mowingmachine mowingmachine machIne came c me In the open wmdows windows wmdowsthat windowsthat windowsthat that look toward the PotomacOf PotomacOf Potomac PotomacOf Ofhat Of \\hat hat what \ hatas hat \ was \\as as said of import to tothe tothe toie the nation and the world you w 11 4 / as asx ase asi x e -i i - ro " ( ' R 6 t tb 4 4I4 b I4 I4Baukbage * , I , Baukhafe Baukhage Baukbage consults the old gray graysquU"rel graysquirrel Craycquirrel Craycquirrelhave I squU"rel squUrel squirrel " squirrelhave have read by the time these Ilnesare linesare lines Ilnes linesre are re printed pnnted The rest was trIVIaWe triviaWe trivia triviaWe We walked out of the executive of offices offees offlees fices fees I glanced under the Japa Japanese Japanese Japacese nese oaks but my friend the squlr squtr squlrreI squtrrel squirrel reI rel had gone the vista looked very verybare bare and cheerless So I went back backand backand backand and talked about itAs ItAs it itAs As soon as mail mai1 could reach me from mefrom Sturgeon Lake Man Mmn I re recelved received received celved ceived a letter and a package The Thewr Thewr Thewr wr ter sa d that as I had ment oned onedthat that it seemed impossible to raise raisegrass theWhite theWbite grass raisegrass on the shaded parts of the beforested beterested White Wbite House grounds I might be terested in this sample of quack shewrote grass quackgrass \ which hlch she offered and she wrote 111be 11be llbe it 11 If it wont won t grow there I 11 ll placeIt be glad to know there Is some place It won t growThe growThe grow growThe The next day I acknowledged the the6 theg g it " and opined opmed that quack grass must grassmust be crabgraswhich crabgrasswhich another name for crabgras crabgrass s < which I baneof banof remembered as the ban bane of " my lawn mowing mowmg experIence Soon experienceboon experIenceSoon I I received other commumca communica tlans tions commumcatlans communications AkronOhio A des gner m in Akron Ohio informed mformed me that quack quackgrass grass is not crabgrass Tl TI formeris a e former is isa a perennial the la latter ttcr Is an annual anannual Quack grass ( agropyron repens agropyronrepens ) ) pi piopagates propagates Opagates by seeds and andcr creepmg creeping andcreepmg andcreeping eIlnS ) rootstaIks rootstalks footstalks Crabgrass re seeds reseeds ilself Itself , each ) - year ear earAnother Another yearAnother letter came from RobertL Robert Robertr- Robertr Robertri L - , ( i Pop p ) ) Davls DavIs Amateur atcur Mulct Mulch Mulctler Gardener " of Thorsby Ala He re re-rrea re rrea ler ferred terred " - crabgrass to my mention of ot crabgras- crabgras crabgrass - as s a pest and then he went onHaving onHaving on onHaving Having spent years at my hobby myhobby of ot looking tor for the most Useful mostuseful plant tor for growing sum summer mer mulch In my gardens and deciding anddeciding itI that crabgrass was It Itcannot I cannot resist a challenge Even though millions of gardeners gardeners garden- garden gardeners - ? ers agree with your > ) our remarks I Istlll Istill Istill stlll still challenge them At pres present present present ent I have a spring garden gardengrowing gardengrowing gardengrowing growing growingIthout \ without \\Ithout Ithout any hoeing hoemg on onland onland onland land covered with a thick lay layer layer layer er of last year s dead crab crabgrass crabgrass crabgrass grass grass'Scarcely Scarcely 'Scarcely ' a , need yeed weed can grow growthrough growthrough growthrough through it not even this year } ) ear scrabgrass s scrabgrass scrabgrass scrabgrassYou crabgrass crabgrassYou You see I am Pop thelaziest the thelaZicst thelaziest laZicst laziest gardener In the world worldand \ worldand orld orldand and I refuse to gather haul and andspread andspread pread spread mulch when crabgrass crabgrasswill crabgrasswill crabgrasswill will do da ) it tor for me and do a bet better better better ter Job yob ] ob of it I make it mulch mulchthe mulchthe mulchthe the land for me by leaving leavmg itstrictly it itstnctly itstrictly stnctly strictly alone I may even en encourage encourage encourage courage it with fertilizer After Alter AfterI AlterI I have gathered my early sprmg spring springvegetables sprmgvegetables springvegetables vegetables I let the crabgrass crabgrasstake crabgrasstake crabgrasstake take over In early fall faU when whenthe whenthe whenthe the crabgrass stops growmghere growinghere growmg growing growinghere here I mow it down I then thenhave thenhave thenhave have th th- th tht th.t . + - > t mulch gardener s de deIIght delight dehght IIght light a mellow meUow mulchy spotwhere spot spotwhere spotwhere where most moat anything anythmg can grow growWithout growwithout growwithout Without using usmg spade or hoe I Iuse Iuse Iuse use a potato digger to dig digplantmg digplanting digplanting plantmg planting holes holesBut holesBut But that is not all Pop maybe may maybe maybe be the laziest gardener in the world worldbut worldbut worldbut but he is a vigorous poet He en enclosed enclosed enclosed closed a poem of which ( alas ) Ihave I Ihave Ihave have room only tor for one verse andrefrain and andrefrain andrefrain refrain Here it Is'Bring is is"Bring "Bring Bring 'Bring ' " me a hoe pull puII cm em all aU up upl uplChIck upChick ! ! ChIck weed crabgrass dig andcut andcutl and andcutiStoop cut cutl cutlStoop cutiStoop ! Stoop down lowl fowl Nothing NollilDg buttrash buttrash but trash Goosefoot pigweed and Johnston Johns Johnston Johnston ton grassJust grassJust grass grassJust Just no time to look at the sky skyFleecy skyFleecy Fleecy clouds a floating floatmg by byWork byWork byWork Work til trl you ve ye such a crookIn crookin crook crookin in the bac back backThat backThat ! " That gardening pleasure pleasures s gonealackl gonealackl gone gonealack alack alackl 1 I , I Wisdom may have a foolishsound foolish foolishsoundCrabgrjs foolishsound sound soundCrabgr soundCrabgras soundCrabgrjs Crabgr Crabgras s mulch is good for thegrou thegrou the thegrou grou dLet d dLet dLet Let the " veeds "eeds eeds gro gre vl vi Bring Brmg mea mea me mea a chair chairCrabgrass chairCrabgrass chairCrabgrass Crabgrass mulch is everywhere everywhere every everywhereSoft whereSoft where whereSoft whereSoft Soft and thick and brown . * . * . Strategy Mrsfires Mrsfrres MrsfrresIn MisfiresIn In Battle Over Ovcr OPAThe OPAThe OPA OPAThe The battle baltle over tl tI e a OPA In the thesenate thesenate thesenate senate has brought out some of the thegood thegood thegood good old axioms on how to brmg bring brmgpressure bringpressure bringpressure pressure on congress and hownot how hownot hownot not to if It youant you want \\ant ant \ to get yourfavorite your yourfavorite yourfavorite favorite b 11 ll passedAnti passedAnti passed passedAnti Anti OPA CPA strategy all along has hasbeen hasbeen hasbeen been to postpone action on OPA as aslong aslong aslong long as poss pass ble Supporters have havefought havefought havefought fought tor for action At this moment momentthough momentthough momentthough though some unforeseen event maychange may maychange maychange change the course it looks as if 11 ifI ifthe 11the Uthe I the odds favored postponement , , but butI butnot butnot butnot not defeatIt defeat defeatIt It first appeared that ordinary ordmary con conI convent convent convent vent onal methods used by the pro professlonal professional professional fesslonal fessional lobbyists were going gomg to killthe kIll kIllthe killthe the bill Then it looked as it If spon spontdneouslj spontaneously spontdneously tdneouslj taneously written letters were gomg going gomgto goingto goingto to save it In both cases the effortwas effort effortwas effortwas was overdone There were too toomany toomany toomany many expens ve ye advert sements m in mthe inthe inthe the newspapers sponsored by thevarious the thevanous thevarious vanous various business busmess institutions fighting fight fightmg fighting mg ing price control too much moneyeasily money moneyeasily moneyeasily easily ident rdent fied fled as coming commg from fromvested fromvested fromvested vested interests mterests was being bemg spentThen spentThen spent spentThen Then it was that John Q Citizensat CItizen CItizensat Citizensat sat himself down dov.n dovn . took up his pen penor penor penor or often h s pencil and wrote an anund anand anund und and ctated stated letter because he ( mostly most mostly mostly ly she ) was really reall reaU } ) stirred up Con Congress Congress Congross gress began to take heed of those thoseletters thoseletters thoseletters letters They weie were wel e obviously spon spun spontanous spuntanous spontanous tanous they were written by mei meiand me meand ' : ! and women who had hadmade made up thenown their theirown theirown own minds minrls : They were voters wIth wIthconvIctlons withconvictions withconvictions likelythose Itkelythose convIctlons convictions and it was very Itkely likely those convict ons would be reg s stered stered stered tered at the pollsBut polls poUs poUsBut pollsBut But once more Pelion Pehon Pelson was heaped heapedon on Ossa There was a nation wIde wIdeorgamzation wideorganization wideorganization orgamzation organization by the labor people thp this thpveterans thisveterans theveterans veterans the vomen s clubs Thf The Thema Thema ma I and telegrams Piled UP but - - - the senators weren t too mterested interested mterestedThe interestedThe interestedThe The letters were sincere SlDcere enough But Butthe Bu'the Buthe Butthe ' the majority revealed that they theywere theywere theawere were msp insp red not by an 11 ii ner urge urgea a look into the pocketbook or pan try pantry but by the persuasive voice over ove ; overthe the phone or at the front door Do Dowhat Dowhat Dwhat ( what you will the k nd of communicat commUni commUnicat communicat cat on produced pr'Jduced prJduced ' by these methods Is Isvery isvery 1 : very likely to have p I e ' second secondband secondhand hand appearance wh ch the experl experi experienced experlenced experienced enced congressman can recognizeThat recognizeThat recognize recognizeThat That Is why despite the number numberat numberof numbeof at of letters and telegrams the regl regi regimented reglmented mented senatorswere telephone calls senators senatorwere slloan shloan were content to discuss the Brit sh loan compl1cated complyGated and even ponder such compi compl1 comply ; cated Gated matters as atomic energy before energybefore hastening hastenin ? to tn Ime line Imp up nr > for < < i . 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