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Show mxwm mm i mmOdii mT Mom1 Columnist's Thoughts Turn To Squirrels and Crabgrass 67 BAUKIIAGE New Analyti and Commentator. WNC Service, 1611 Era Street, N.W, Washington, D. C Summer waa creeping toward the Potomac, the flag over the White House hung limp aa a wilted petal, a hot tun, burning through the Infrequent In-frequent gapa in the heavy foliage, made jellow patchea on the lawn. The fountain splashed faintly, falling fall-ing like warm, futile tears. I moved slowly along the drive, wondering if I could garner even a modicum of answera to meet emptiness empti-ness left by the thousands of unanswered unan-swered questions the world is asking. ask-ing. I looked under the Japanese oaks whose tightly laced leaves, only a little above the ground, smother the young grass, hopefully starting up each spring, withering in the shadows shad-ows before July. There, bored and half asleep, 1 could make out the form of the old gray squirrel. Often this winter, he had coma to my rescue when other "dependable "depend-able sources" and "authoritative quarters" refused to yield up their secrets. But this time, he barely nodded, and looked away, deep in bis meditations, probably nuclear problem of tome tort A few momenta later, I was taking tak-ing dowa notes at a not very news-ful news-ful press and radio conference. The President, 1 feared, did not feel as cheerful as he looked. The handkerchief hand-kerchief In his breast pocket was neatly folded in its customary three flat, razor-sharp triangles. (Sometimes (Some-times bis answera were almost as sharp.) The great red carnations on the table behind his desk, which holds the photographs of members of his family, were already drooping. droop-ing. The low hum of the mowing machine came in the open windows that look toward the Potomac. Of what was said of import to the nation and the world, you will Baukhag t consults the eld gray squirrel. have read by the time these tines re printed. The rest waa trivia. We walked out of the executive offices. of-fices. 1 glanced under the Japanese Japa-nese oaks, but my friend, the squirrel, squir-rel, bad gone, the vista looked very bare and cheerless. So I went back and talked about U. Aa soon aa mail could reach me from Sturgeon Lake, Minn., I received re-ceived a letter and package. The writer said that aa I bad mentioned that it teemed Impossible to raise grass on the shaded parte of the White House grounds, I might be terested in this sample el quack grass which she offered, and she wrote: "If it won't grow there, I'll be glad to know there is some place tt won't grow." The next day, I acknowledged the gift, and opined that quack gran must be another name for crabgrass which I remembered as the bane of my lawn-mowing experience. Soon I received other communications. communica-tions. A landscape designer in Akron, Ohio, Informed me that "quack grass la not crabgrass. The former ta perennial; the latter la aa annual Quack grass (agropyron repens) propagates by seeds and creeping footstalks. Crabgrass re-seeds re-seeds itself each year." Another letter came from Robert L. ("Pop") Davit, "Amateur Mulch Gardener" of Thorsby, Ala. He referred re-ferred to my mention of crabgrass at a peil; and .then be went on: "Having spent years at my hobby of locking for the most - useful plant for growing summer sum-mer mulch la my ardent, and deciding that crabgrass waa It, I cannot resist a challenge. BAK6S ...6y Baukhag Musician - Charles Gulslkoff took 60 shirts with him when the Philadelphia Phila-delphia orchestra went on tour, Tha tour lasts 42 days. I suppose they're stopped in Pittsburgh.' - Inflation note from a reader who sends me some of hit 1940 bills. Seems he paid $2.75 for CM flooring floor-ing in 1940, snd $12.80 last month lor same. " -v Even though millions of garden-era garden-era agree with your remarks, ! Still challenge them. At present, pres-ent, I have a spring garden growing without any hoeing on land covered with a thick lay- er of last year's dead crabgrass. crab-grass. "Scarcely a weed can grow through it, not even this year's crabgrass. "You see, I em Pop.' the laziest gardener in the world, end I refuse to gather, haul and spread mulch when crabgrass will dj It for me, and do a better bet-ter Job of it I make it mulch the land for me by leaving It strictly alone. I may even encourage en-courage It with fertilizer. After I have gathered my early spring vegetables, I let the crabgrass take over. In early fall, when the crabgrass stops growing here, I mow It down. I then have that mulch gardener's delight, de-light, a mellow mulchy spot where most anything can grow without using spado or hoe. I use a potato digger to dig planting holes." But that Is not all. "Pop" may ba the laziest gardener In the world, but he it a vigorous poet He enclosed en-closed a poem of which (alas) 1 have room only tor one verse and refrain. Here it Is: "Bring me a hoe; pull 'em all upl Chick weed, crabgrass, dig, and cut! Stoop down lowl Nothing but trash, Goosefoot, pigweed and Johnston Johns-ton gran; Just no time to look at the sky, Fleecy clouds a-floating by; Work 'tO you've such a crook In the back That gardening pleasure's gone, alackl "Wisdom may have a foolish sound; Crabgrass mulch Is good for the ground, Let the weeds growl Bring me a chalrl Crabgrass mulch Is everywhere. every-where. Soft and thick and brown." Strategy MMre$ fit BattU Over OPA The battle over the OPA in thi senate baa brought out some of tht good old axioms on how to bring pressure on congress ... and how not to ... If ou want to set rout favorite hill passed. Anti-OPA atreteev all a Ion a has been to postpone action on OPA at Ions aa Doaslble. SuDnortera hava fought for action. At this moment tnougn soma unforeseen event may change the course, tt looki H the odds favored postponement but not aexeat It first appeared that ordinary con. ventional methoda used h tha tessional lobbyists were going to kill tne dul Then it looked as if spontaneously spon-taneously written letters were going to save tt In both cases, the effort was overdone. There were too many expensive advertisements In the newspapers, sponsored by the varioua business institutions fighting fight-ing price control; too much money easily Identified es coming from vcsiea interests was being spent then it was that John Q. Citizen sat nimseu down, took up his pen, or Often hla DenciL and ami, an undlctated letter because he (mostly (most-ly she) waa really stirred up. Congress Con-gress began to take heed of those letters. They were ohvionaW annn. tanous, they were written by mea ana women wno bad made up their Own mlnda. They wen vniara artlh convictions, and It was very likely inose convictions would ba registered regis-tered at the colls. But once mora. Pulton waa haanait on Ossa. There was a nation-wide organization by the labor people, the veterans, the women'a clubs. The mall and telegrams oiled un. but the tenatort weren't too Interested. The letters were sincere enough. But the majority revealed that the were Inspired, not by an inner urge, a iook into tne pocketbook or pantry, pan-try, but by the Dersuaaive voice over the phone or at the front door. Do what you will the kind of communi- canon proaucea c-y these methods very likely to have a second. hand appearance which tha experi enced congressman can recognize, That la why, despite the number or tetters ana telegrams, tha regimented regi-mented telephone calls, tenatort were content to discuss tha British loan, and even ponder such complicated compli-cated matters aa atomic energy, before hastening to line up tor OPA. Seems there's a special Jotei Stalin tulip named after tha gen- erausauno. wonder a lt'a red. The coal Industry it sick all right . . . and tome of Its nurses are getting get-ting pretty superannuated. This spring weather would tie tint if tt weren't tor aa occasional ta ta the ointment ONE of the few places wnere people with respect . . . Vermont a small full share of weight with the rest of making its own budget meet! The world has marveled at Vermont's scenic won ders. Many have witnessed the spontaneous explo sive splitting of quarry blocks at ries, where great blocks of granite suddenly snap loose with a sharp report. But the world should know Vermont's people, too. They were first stitutional prohibition of all human were first In the nation to provide universal mannooa suffrage, with voting not dependent upon property, owned or rented, or a specified yearly income. Vermont always hated slavery, and adopted annual resolutions against it crew more angry each year. The Georgia legislature requested President Pierce to employ enough able-bodied able-bodied Irishmen to dig a ditch around Vermont and float "the thing" out to the Atlantic newspaper gravely commented that ways foremost in the path of infamy." Years later, Robert T. Lincoln, Emancipator, came to Vermont to Manchester. A marker now stands nington where William Lloyd Garrison be edited the "Journal of the Times" early In the 19th century. Also, Bennington was the birthplace of John F. Winslow, builder of the "Monitor," Civil war fame. Vermont is a pleaaant place. The and the atmosphere dry. The summer season, between frosts. It from 110 to 160 days, depending on location and altitude. Evidences of the ice age still prevail in rounded and grooved ledges, polished rock surfaces, Ice-borne boulders end great deposits claya and gravels. The range of scenic interest is vast with mountains and broad valleys, river and lakes, and abundant forests. There will often be 10 feet of snow-cover snow-cover in the central part and 34 to 48 inches of rain fall through the year. Lake Champlain la 120 miles long, and there are many ethers, including Lake Wil- loughby. Lake Dunmore and siicTt Lake. From Mount Mansfield, 4,393 feet high, there Is an excellent view of the White Mountains and Adiron-dacks, Adiron-dacks, Miith Lake Champlain visible 80 miles away. Vermont haa over 900 peaks with sn altitude of 3,000 r : YEAR AROUND . . Top picture shows canoeing en Lake WiB-eughby. WiB-eughby. Bottom Is Toll-Road House at the foot of Mt Mansfield. feet or over. There are over 400 lakes in the state, and forests snd forest parka cover over a half-million acres, Hunting, trapping and fishing are always available to the rugged outdoor man. There are recreational activities In Vermont all through the year-skiing year-skiing Into April, fishing and other vacationing from May to late tall, and touring and hunting to the opening open-ing of the winter season. Tourists penetrate to every corner of the A Vermont Soger Hoese For 12 Years Vermont One of tha outstanding features of Vermont Is that it existed aa an Independent In-dependent republic, with Texat the only other state to distinguished. Vermont was claimed by both New Yrk and Few Hampshire and was called by some the New Hampshire Grants. A convention of the settlers, was held in the Catamount Cata-mount tavern at Bennington In 176S to dlscusa this controversy. Already the tnilitia, known at tha Green Kl fhisv 1 speax 01 win state pulling its the nation and some 01 its quar to express con slavery 1 They its legislatures Southern states ocean! A Virginia Vermont was "al son of the Great make bis home at on the lot in Ben lived, and where the steel ship of climate is cool of unsorted sands. state and each section has its scenic attractions. Vacationists find al- most every kind of allure in Vermont Ver-mont including hiking on the famous fa-mous Long Trail and horseback riding rid-ing on the thousand-mile bridle trail system. sffMKWJWw'.'.lw.l..y-, le)staiMfr ifftaa ----iriTlffii rr. 'naT iiTitilhitssss! Vermont is pre-eminently a dairy state, with beet, milk, butter and cheese as important products. It is also well suited to diversified farming farm-ing and fruit growing. Many sheep are raised there, and it was in Vermont Ver-mont that the Morgan horse was developed. Both In quality and quantity Vermont leads all maple-producing maple-producing states with a normal yield of about 40 per cent of the total The 85,000 bearing apple trees In the state'a orchards yield a product of notable quality. In Industry Vermont is noted tor lumber and lumber products, woolen wool-en mills, paper-making, marble, granite, alate, lime, asbestos, talc, soapstone, kaolin, ocher and other products Steel aquares were Invented In-vented In Vermont and are still manufactured at St Johnsbury. In recent years a growing number num-ber of writers and artists have made Vermont their permanent homes. Others spend a part of the year there. Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Fish-er, who loves her Arlington home, Is one of the state's authors. Robert Frost the poet lives in Shaftsbury. Chester A. Arthur was the first native Vcrmonter to become President Presi-dent of the United States, later followed fol-lowed to the White House by Calvin Coolidge of Plymouth. Adm. George Dewey. Levi P. Morton. John Deere, John B. Mansfield. Stephen A. Douglas. John C. Saxe. Joseph Smith, Alphonso Tart, Brigham Young and many other figures In history were born In Vermont Was Independent Republic Mountain Boys, had come Into tutns At a convention in Westminster In 1777. Vermont was declared an to-dependent to-dependent atate and the name of New Connecticut was adopted, but Shortly afterward the name was Changed to Vermont Verd-Mont had been suggested several yeart earlier. The Green Mountain Boys took part In all the conflicts of the Revolution, and Bennington monument monu-ment 802 feet high, commemorates 4 ! -?4 - 7 CU.VCN COOllDCi I In Poultney, when a lad, Horace Greeley set type in a small print shop. Salmon P. Chase lived and studied law at Randolph. Peacham was the boyhood home of Thaddeus Stevens. Eugene Field, with recollections rec-ollections of his boyhood In New-fane, New-fane, based several of his poems on local life in Vermont Few states have produced so many notables In all lines of endeavor as hardy, mountainous Vermont Samuel Champlain, French explorer, ex-plorer, was the first white man known to have seen any part of Vermont. When coming from Canada, Can-ada, In 1609, he went up the long lake that bears his name. The first settlement In Vermont though shortlived, short-lived, was also by the French, when Captain La Motte built a fort and a shrine on Isle La Motte. In 1690, Capt Jacobus de Warm established an outpost on what Is now Chimney Point In general, however, Vermont Ver-mont was a no-man's land in the 17th and 18th centuries, a mere passageway for French and Indian raiding parties seeking the English farther south and east From the earliest days, Vermont gave attention to primary education. The University of Vermont was chartered in 1791. Other institutions tor higher education include Norwich Nor-wich university, Northfleld, the second sec-ond oldest military college in the nation; Bennington college; Middle-bury Middle-bury college; St Michael's, Win-sooki; Win-sooki; Trinity, Burlington. There are three normal schools and two Junior colleges in the state. One of the crowning features of Vermont is the province of the Green mountains. Here are found the highest peaks Killington, Ellen, El-len, Lincoln, Camel'a Hump, Mansfield Mans-field and Jay. The physical geog-graphy geog-graphy of the state is diversified. however, with the Vermont lowland on the west and much rolling country coun-try eastward. The state's geology is complex and extremely fascinat ing. Vermont is nicknamed The Green Mountain State." Its motto it "Freedom and Unity." The state flower is the red clover; state bird, hermit thrush; state song, "Hail, Vermont" MORTIMER SL PROCTOR Governor at Vermont the oattle of Bennington. From 1777 to 1791 Vermont was a completely Independent republic When an the ancient disputes were settled, the state adopted the constitution con-stitution of the United States and was admitted at tha 14th state the first to be added to the original 11 The capital - was established In Montpelier in 1805. Men of Vermont have a aoble heritage, a love of liberty and in-dependence in-dependence that it deep-rooted, and full appreciation tt human rights. Colder Winter Ahead Cooler weather with old-fashioned winters like grandpop used to know are returning, the United States Weather bureau ays: Weather trends come in 50-year cycles, it explains, and for the past half century cen-tury we have been moving sway from the winters in which folks had to dig through the snowdrifts to locate lo-cate clothespoles. t Now will come a slow move back to the days when grandpop often walked into the second story of the old farm right from the snow level 'And a good thing It will be to tnnirhpn nn the citizenry," declared Elmer Twitchell today, "we've been getting soft In sissy-like win-fera win-fera when the folks thought a bus tard was any snowfall that kept a limousine down to 40 miles an nour in anen country. 'Blizzard Sweeps City has been the routine headline every time a snowdrift got nau-way nau-way up a milk bottle en the windward wind-ward porch. What's become of the old fash ioned fellow who had three fingers missing from the deep freezes7 Where's the native once common to every community who got around on a wooden leg most of his life because of exposure In an Icepack in his own back yard? Where are the countless folks who went around all their lives with tender ears and noses because Of frostbite in their early days? "When I waa a boy," he contin ued, "yon had to face the house southward or you'd get four or five loads of snow in the bedroom right through a door crack. It was noth ing to have a fire freeze up ever night Once every winter they had to get a anowplow to dig me out of bed . . . and I slept in the attic! "Big cities get out super-plows to fight a snowstorm that old-timers would tackle with a whiskbroom, and without bothering to put on anything any-thing but, a pair of pants and an open shirt "Let the old-fashioned winters come back for the good of the race!" he concluded. "There will be less squawkin' about minor inconveniences." in-conveniences." Feltman's famous restaurant at Coney Island, in existence for 72 years and known to millions, is changing hands. We link the old place up with our first visit to the big city. How it dazzled us with its city-block dimensions, its dozen separate restaurants and its several bars. And how we thought we were splurging when we went there for a full course dinner for $1.25! With beer 5 cents a schooner! And cocktails two for a quarter! DIETING A PLEASURE I'm giving my tummy to Poland To China I'm giving two chins; A jowl I am giving to simplify living For Bulgers and Slovenes and Finns. Those rolls on my waistline are going To help a cause worthy and great; While famine now marches I'm giving giv-ing np starches This time my reducing can't wait ("Henry and Clara Ford Married 58 rears. Veins item.) Here's to Henry Ford and Clara, For so long a happy pair-a; For 58 years they rode together That's mileage, sir, In any weather! Here's to Clara and here's to Hen! On quite a journey they have been; No couple made a journey Oner; I guess the bumps were pretty minor! The Hobos of America have voted to hold their 1947 convention u ouanu, Decause tne cities usually usual-ly chosen are too cold in the spring. In this announcement you have a reflection of the American mood these days. A bum used to be willing will-ing to take his fun where he could find It and always cenvenience of locale and economic considerations counted most But now the climate must be right regardless of traveling travel-ing distance and general expenses. The modern hobo refuses to loaf except near the Gulf Stream and he prefers to get there by plane. 1946 0e aios-an for each dinner! "Mother, slice the bread much thinner!' thin-ner!' J?Vmfn "ieans to Tighten Tight-en Belts." Headline. . Jth most American, to that they think their belts are tightened If their pant, tort draj to the floor when they inhale. Governor Dewey has signed a bin raising the speed limit in New York SS 22fto governor was seldom observed or enforced the new one will be. Wanna Ett A HUMAN tidal wave, headed tot almost any sort of sporting competition, bat ttrwcfc baseban in s record sweep. All past records art being submerged in the way of at. tendance figures, even on the part of those teams who are conceded nothing better than sixth place. It would, not be surprising to tea the newly bedecked Yankee sta dium, unaer ine operation of Larry MacPhaiL crowd tha two million mark before Octo-bar Octo-bar reports. The Yankees are practically prac-tically sure to let an all-time count at tiie busy turnstiles, with the Tigers not too far away. The On k a and tha GrantlandRlce Dodgers also should surpass their best year, with many thousands added to the list A sporting crowd Is willing to take a heavier beating than any other section of the human rsce. All these frenzied multitudes ask It a chance to buy a ticket, then let uinra take Its course. These crowds make the sardine look UkeJ a rover In the wide-open-spaces, with room to spare. The Kentucky Derby eet a new high in several directions. So probably prob-ably will the Louis -Conn Intermingling Inter-mingling at the Yankee stadium in June. The Rush to Sport We have been asked to explain this overwhelming rush to sport After all, we have tew who can match in ability and color the beadliners of the Golden Age following fol-lowing the First World war. I am referring again to Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey. Bobby Jones, Man o War, BUI Tilden, Tommy Hitchcock, Hitch-cock, Devereux Milburn, Walter Hagen, Rogera Hornsby, Earl Sande and Red Grange. We hava no such galaxy of famous namet with which to conjure, although Di-Maggio, Di-Maggio, Williams, Nelson, Hogan, Arcare, Blanchard, Davis and a tew others may be just as good. It may be that the glamour at past years takes en tee keen a haa and glint. But that Golden Age of Sport produced a pretty fair collection col-lection of talent and eolor. No such talent has been proved In this present pres-ent postwar era op to date, but It may happen later. It may be that the coming season in various sports will give us' champions cham-pions that can match the Old Guard of the lost and golden era. We don't believe so. But we know that sport will give us greater crowds than ever were known in the past We know that there will be more money than ever before wagered on the races through the mutuels and thr- bookmakers a total surpassing surpass-ing 2 billion dollars. New York alone will pass 500 million through the mutuels. In this era of peace following the blackness of the world's greatest war, there are two details that make this possible: (1) the reach for release the excuse for taut nerves and (2) more widespread cash than this country has ever known previously. It Is the tame in England, even more so. This it no knock against the human race. It is only a natural reaction, even if It isn't the wisest and the tanest reaction. When was the human race ever sane or wise? Some Big Questions The season will annn heeln to un. roll a number of answers to vari ous important questions. No. 1. How witt the Yankee nlteh. ing staff make out? Witt It be con. slstently good enough to be even fairly close to the pitching strength of Tigers, Redox or Indians? Or ,1 - A . A No. 2. Can the Tiger infield hold up well enoueh ta eive ' Steva O'Neill's crack pitching staff the cnance to win again? No. 8. Can Leo Durocher find enough pitching to keep hla Dodger, ut with the Cardinals and Cubs? Especially the Cubs. No. 4. How far win the Cardinals be in front by tha first of August? No. 5. Will the Giants' somewhat some-what jittery defensive play crowd Mel Ott's team out at the first division? divi-sion? No. 6. What about the teason'a Impending pitching duel between Bob FeUer and Al Newhouser? No, 1. Also the A. tVs aJQ around batting championship among Ted Williams, Joe DiMaggio and Dick Wakefield? No. 8. How many homt runt can Hank Greenberg deliver to offset the natural and expected deficit fat toot speed? No. t. To what ban clubs are i tew of the Cardinals' pitching surplus sur-plus headed? No. 10. How. win pesky and Doerr of the Red Sox compart with Rizzuto and Gordon of tha Yankees? No. 11. What art tha odds on either Phlttiet ar Athletics leaving tho ancient and moldy tePir? No. 12. How wfll the old New York Boston' argument concerning the an-around ability jot Joe Gordon Gor-don and Bobby Doerr work out? No, 13.. 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