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Show THE LEIII SUN, LEW. UTAH loosevelt Family Turns to Elliott and Eleanor Begin Back-to-Land Movement By BAUKIIAGE 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. . , , , j u- 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 b-r.s' birthday anniversary but he had been dead nearly two years. The mum 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 occupant's 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-painted farm house. T'vp rented from him for 22S years (that was 1941)," he told me then, "and he has yet to find a fault Whenever ; 5 he gets a chance he comes over here to say 'hello' 'hel-lo' and 'goodbye' but he doesn't find fault And I've made mistakes, mis-takes, too. Nobody No-body is perfect." The landlord had a pretty " -J good opinion of I " 'Vfl the tenant, too. as I learned Baukhage later. Smith knew that and was pleased, out it didn't go to his head. He is a typical, independent, self-respecting up-state 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. He told her about this house being over 100 years old and I told him about the well-water. 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. 1 take it he is a comfortably comfort-ably retired farmer now, Jiving 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-velts Roose-velts have other dwellings. They are going in for commercial farming, Mrs. R. said. Elliott hadn't been interviewed since the senate war investigating committee started 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 Roosevelt's 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 Tragedy in the It was a coincidence that while 1 was reminiscing on the subject of the Roosevelts' new adventure in tree-growing, 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 restored, re-stored, but not in time to save thousands thou-sands of acres of timber in some aros of America, notably Alaska. "The sawtimber burned in a single year in this country,' ' says my friend's memorandum, "would be sufficient, if converted convert-ed to building materials, to replace re-place every private house in the cities of New Orleans or Minneapolis. Min-neapolis. "If the wood below sawtimber dimensions di-mensions could be manufactured for paper, it would provide a 25-year 25-year subscription to a monthly pocket-size magazine for every man, 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 dresse for every woman and girl in America. Amer-ica. "In terms of dollars, our annual forest fire loss amounts to 35 million doitars in payrolls lost to woodworkers wood-workers and three-quarters of a billion bil-lion dollars worth of wood products. "The tragic part of all this is lhat 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-burners, railroads, campers and woodsworkers who are responsible 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 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. Neither Nei-ther is night life. "This is a challenge," Mrs. Roosevelt explained in her column, col-umn, "which Elliott and I will enjoy." Every farmer knows she's right about the "challenge." "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 scientifically 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-law had. I noticed that the New York Herald-Tribune made editorial note of Mrs. Roosevelt's plans and mentioned men-tioned that a lot of acres along the Hudson "were untilled." It mentioned that Dr. Samuel Bard, a wealthy retired physician. had a place not far from the Roosevelt Roose-velt estate where he carried on valuable val-uable experiments which made an important contribution to agriculture. agricul-ture. Mrs. Roosevelt hopes to con duct similar experiments. "If Mrs. Roosevelt," says the Herald-Tribune, "does no more than fasten 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 furrows fur-rows are turned." I wonder if you feel the way I do. I think, regardless of the color of one's political sentiments, 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. Forests money out of trees, one way or another, 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 non-cooperating match tosser can undo a lot of his work. iU. forest Service photo I Parachute jumpers are one of the most important factors in getting 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. FIRST VICTIM Deflation Producers of farm commodities, although strongly entrenched in the present economy and apparently destined to remain so, a least for the immediate future, may be the first group to feel the full impact of any reversal of the current inflationary in-flationary trend. That warning was issued by federal fed-eral reserve board researchers in a midyear study of the position of agriculture, indicating that, even in flush times, the well-being of farmers farm-ers is in a state of delicate balance. If the present boom were to develop de-velop into a tailspin, price falls in the agricultural commodity field probably would be greater than in other areas of the economy, the report re-port points out Record returns to ii--i---'y-)-rarei- ' rrrftffMWW'''.'..' ( f f ... -Li ,N . . - t '4 , ivf- :JW't"iiy . i V LESSON IN WARFARE . . . Army cadets and navy midshipmen observed ob-served combat battalion of marines stage mock beach landing operation opera-tion as part of operation Camid II. After its completion, the observers observ-ers Inspected the phases and talked with the marines, some of whom were still in foxholes. NEWS REVIEW Joint Defense Pact Set; Fear Large Corn Loss POLE-TO-POLE: Mutual Defense Mnttmm. fifth President of tU Kiatet. had his say. in Sitirit, at least, at the inter-American 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-South Pole hemispheric secu- ntv zone, the celebrated Monroe doctrine was developed to its log ical conclusion 124 years alter its inceDtion. 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 hemispnere . . . Today, the Americas are making preparations for hemispheric de fense in advance of any menace or invasion of their rights. The mutual 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 Inside In-side the hemisphere, American nations may to voluntarily to the aid of the victim, with consultations con-sultations to follow. 3. If attacks occur both Inside the hemisphere and outside the security region, immediate consultations con-sultations will be called. Thus, despite the opposition of some Latin American nations to the U. S. -espoused "Monroe doctrinism," doctrin-ism," it appeared certain that the "hands off the Americas" policy was in for a big revival in the atomic atom-ic age. TORRID ZONE: Corn Declines Thermometer-happy 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 prevailing 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 $1.08. The grain market prices went through the roof following a department depart-ment of agriculture report that the country's heat-seared 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 steadily. stead-ily. a Threat farmers attributed to prosperous urban consumers and an almost unlimited 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 going to food consumption is much larger than has been customary. cus-tomary. 2 Profit margins of producers and distributors are" greater than usual. 3 Speculative factors play an im- portant part in maintaining prices on numerous markets. "Consequently, with any reversal of inflationary tendencies, food Farming : .a ... A HEADLINERS wmmm IN WASHINGTON . . . John Sampson Samp-son Kirby, 69, (above) of Tennessee was placed under observation after police had nabbed him packing a pistol in the capitol building and declaiming de-claiming loudly that he had "just been elected president of the United States." IN NEW YORK . . . Virginia Walton 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 creatures crea-tures as a kongoni, two gerenuks, an oryx, a bat-eared fox, an im-pala, im-pala, two dik-diks and a klipspring-er. klipspring-er. IN CHICAGO . . . Mrs. Anna Metz-ger, Metz-ger, 47, had had a pain in her leg for 40 years, finally became curi ous, pressed the irritated area and pulled out a two-inch sewing needle. SAY UNCLE: Ford Gives Up Abandoning his laudable, if non conforming, efforts to stabilize automobile auto-mobile prices, Henry Ford II announced 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 to' 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 covered cov-ered 22 feet and Vt inch in 11 hours and 30 minutes a pace swift enough, at least, to overtake an oyster. ; Purpose of the laboratory's snail- timing experiments is to slow the little creatures up even more. As things stand now, they're doing too much damage to Chesapeake Bay's l oyster crop. to Farmer prices may be particularly subject to downward pressures." While the financial position of farmers has undergone a vast, general gen-eral improvement as compared with pre-war years, many individual individ-ual farmers have increased their indebtedness, and the new debt is written on the basis of sharply advanced ad-vanced values. ' In particular, the report declared that land values" must start declining declin-ing before much longer. Thus, while the farmer I enjoying a high level of income and prosperity as a result of the prevailing inflationary economy, econ-omy, the same forces which are now operating to his benefit appear as a lurking but altogether possible danger to his future security. s - - i PAUL MALWN Do Unions Represent All "Labor"? t T rTTH firecracker words, union people write me asking VV "Who are the consumers"? They then furnish their own answer, which is that they are the consumers. With the sheer volume of their organized mail, and explosive epithets from such nebulous unidentifiable characters as "a labor housewife," house-wife," they are trying to crowd me into retracting my frequent economic analyses showing the unions are working against the consumers. Indeed, they are trying to convince me that the unions themselves are all labor, simply because they call themselves "labor." Well, let's look at the matter more thoroughly. There are 60,000,000 workers in this country today. The unions only claim to represent about 15,000,000. Therefore they are not all labor. They are not even a majority of labor. They are about one-fourth. They are one-fourth which tries to monopolize the whole economy of the country by sheer superior weight of political pressures, propaganda and indeed any means at their command. Now there are 140,000,000 people in the United States and if the unions represent one-fourth (if they have raised the same size families as others) they are ?5,000,000 people trying to run 140,000,000 by any means, including intimidation. H. 1. 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.' " DREW PEARSON Highest Paid Lobbyist OF THE 700-odd lobbyists registered with congress under the lobbying act, ex-Senator John Danaher, Connecticut Republican, shows up as having received the highest fee. Danaher, who formerly served as an all-round manager for the Republican Re-publican national committee at a salary of $25,000, has now listed himself 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 before 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. WALTER WINCHELL Peculiar People Sabbath promenaders along Stat-en Stat-en 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 sea-faring 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-off place for those who want to end it all. . . . Well-dressed Wall Streets from clerk to top exec all impec-, cably attired. WALTER SEEAD Strategy in the Economic War O EGARDLESS of how peace-loving Americans try to rationalize the AV present uneasy state of world affairs, there is one stark, basic fact that stands at the bottom of it all. The United States and Russia are engaged in war vast, tremendously important political and economic war. What the outcome will be, the man on the street and the man on the farm does not know. No more does the man in high office in Washington. It is like any war involving arms and troops; no one can say with certainty which side will win. AH that can be done is to outline the chief aims and objectives and plan the strategy accordingly. In this case, the U. S. aim. on the surface, at least, is clear-cut It is, we are told, the securing of individual and national freedom in eastern Europe. U. S. strategy is equally well denned and is following a definite course. Eastern Europe is in desperate need of American cred-its, cred-its, goods and services. The United States, in a continuing series of expedient ex-pedient maneuvers, is granting or withholding these goods and services as strategy seems to indicate. Will this plan of battle be successful, or does it amount to nothing more than shadow-boxing with Communism? No responsible respon-sible observer expects any sensational results, simply because the Communist hold on eastern Europe is already too strong. Probably Prob-ably the most that can be hoped is that present U. S. methods will at least weaken, to some extent, the Soviet influence in that pivotal sone. WRIGHT PATTERSON Rights of Local Government AN ISSUE that will loom large in the coming presidential election elec-tion will be a return to the people ie 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 Democratic Demo-cratic demand. In that connection, there is one privilege neither party "Clothiers Worried Over Lining Problem" headline. The customers have been worried over the lining problem for the last five 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. in the Big Burg A pigeon fancier near St. Patrick's cathedral explaining the varieties of pigeons to anyone willing to listen. lis-ten. . . . Fifth avenue window-dressing window-dressing craftsmen who plan their latest creations in deepest secrecy to make certain rivals won't filch their ideas. Saturday crowds in the ice cream sodamats, where you'll find more gay-ety gay-ety than in the silk and mink joynts. . . . The retired vaude magician who amuses children in Central park with his sleight-of-hand wizardy. Swanky salons of fortune-tellers on upper Madison avenue. Among their clients you'll find some of New York's wealthiest and most respectable 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. will demand for the states. That Is the spending of state money for the development of state projects when the federal government can be in-' duced to pay the ML Nevertheless, just why the people of Boston, for example, should assist in paying for a control of flood waters in the Los Angeles river is hard to answer -- V,V ON THE NOSE . . . Goalke In a resent sorcer match t Fran. . assumes ....... . ........ if.ajtr.! poser perhaps Imploring the J to go away as he safeguard! goal. So what happens? The -" socked him right on the Dost f g lis . , vhich jAlih READY FOR 'INVASION' fount Rabbi Baruch S. Korff, cwL'une, man of the political action feme niHtee for Palestine, clainuj N will lead a "parachute invasiardr of the Holy Land if the Uniledas n tions Palestine commission is s; to recommend unlimited emipn o tion. Id-fa ire STILL ALONE . Greta Garbo attempted to irCount in Paris incognito by lowtrit.'pje head so that her large-briErank hat partly masked her feiifing f state tL DUCK'S RESCUEB.-J flj GlrnriAnv CnrmOT SKorzeny, former w t - - officer who -rescued" MfEWTi from Italian partisans alum, fall of the Fascist g overf-d V shown at opening of hi' sei fori, s military tribunal "iched chau, Germany. ! Gen . S, A. sr ri T u 1 V .niclle MOUNTAIN COMES ' fcs u HATTAN . . . Vta ition twice as big was "M8 tion Dean, former prPand fine art of "rssslmt. ilassn breexed Into New "ries acted as assistant JUdevo arms at the Americail how vention. He is 'P-to-c wars. JBKMM'JW'M gBC Mil A , ? ? 1 l I V ' ' ' ! -f ' co ' " . i the V.re i i - 'n t t , -j t high. 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