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Show THE PAGE TWO TIMES-NEW- NEPHI. UTAH S. Thursday, April 19, 194i Girls So Bad Won Fortune Fame, They Stage-Struc- k American Agriculture Owes Debt to Jefferson For Pioneer Work in Conserving Soil, Restoring American Engineer Plans Great Dams for Asia Interior Proposes Extensive Flood Control and Irrigation Systems for China, India, Palestine. Dr. U. S. Dept. of Savage of By BAUKHAGE News Analyst and Commentator. storage that will irrigate a hundred million acres and make it possible to double the present production of WNO Service, Union Trust Building, Washington, D. C. Recently I sat with a group of my colleagues at a rice. I will not deluge you with further Courts for I cannot produce them with such a flavor of enthusiasm and admixture of personal delight as Dr. Savage does, but I may add that he spent four months in India discovering and planning similar projects in the Punjab, along the Ganges, and in Afghanistan, on this and other trips. Dr. Savage, I might observe, is typical of a kind of government servant of which the world knows very little. He is one of the highly trained experts who prefer public service to financial rewards. These men turn down highly remunerative offers from business organizations. table and listened to a shy, elderly man, who might have been a professor of Greek, talk about dams. Just a moment before I had been in the newsroom reading of the terrible destruction which had levelled the cities of Europe. I couldn't help thinking of the paradox of civilization as this quiet man, who is the designing engineer for the greatest dams in the world, Grande Coulee, Boulder, Shasta, the Norris dam in the Tennessee valley and scores of others all over the world, outlined construction projects for Asia. His program is the exact antithesis of what is going on in Europe. John Lucian Savage is chief designing engineer of the bureau of reclamation of the department of the interior. He has just returned from 14 months in the Far East where he has conferred with Generalissimo of China and with Chiang officials in India and Palestine on construction projects which dwarf the world's greatest efforts in this Kai-she- Australia Asks for Dr. Savage's Help Back in 1940 a cable came from London asking the United States k direction. Dr. Savage discussed these undertakings as if they were some beautiful little works of art which had, perhaps, a utilitarian value, but which after all were creations of the imagination, important in themselves. In the course of a half hour or so he outlined projects which would affect the life of literally millions of people for untold generations and might well change the course, not only of their history, but the world's. He went to the Far East representing the U. S. government, loaned by the department of the interior to the state department as a specialist under its cultural program. Much has been said (with eyebrows slightly raised) about Uncle Sam's effort to spread American culture and help Import some of that product from other nations. Most people do not realize that cultural matters include 10,500,000 - kilowatt - waterpower I plants. "We went down the (Yangtze) river from Chungking," said Dr. Savage as tf he were describing a moonlight ride on the Potomac, "by steamboat and launch to within 15 kilometers (about nine miles) of Ichang." (Later it was explained that he had to stop because it happened that a war was going on in that vicinity.) "I had with me all the topographical data I could find and I had spotted three possible dam sites from these maps. I stayed with General (name omitted for security reasons). I asked him if he had any topographic maps that might be helpful to me. He replied that he had captured an aerial map from the Japanese." Studies Map, Selects Five Sites for Dams The map proved to be excellent and one could almost see the engineer's mouth water as he examined it, picking out sights simply crying to be dammed. Then, still as if it were all a great lark, he said that he went on down the river to within three miles of the battle lines (perhad haps the genial general-hos- t called off the war for the afternoon). Anyhow, Dr. Savage said, smiling, that he had selected five possible dam sites. The dam in the Yangtze gorge, he told us, will probably be about 750 feet high and there will be 20 tunnels of about 50 feet diameter to divert the river flow. Boulder dam on the Colorado, he told us for comparison, was 730 feet high and had only four such tunnels. There will be 24 generating plants, each generating 110,000 kilowatts of They will equal five electricity. times the ultimate capacity of the Grande Coulee dam and ten times its present development of 10,560,000 kilowatts. The average total output of electrical energy for one year on the Yangtze will be 71,300.000.000 kilowatt-hours- . Within the present ranee of distribution live more Chinese than the entire population of the United States 140 millions. Dr, Savage went into similar detail regarding more dams on tributaries to the Yanptze. The fatal result, beside regulating the river-floso that navigation can be improved nd ocean-goinships brought right up to Chungking, would mean water BARBS . . government for Savage's assistance in conjunction with the Burrinjuck dam in Australia. Before the department of interior replied, Dr. Savage was reminded of what he already knew; namely, that United States officials may not receive emoluments of any kind from foreign governments. Our founding fathers were quite sensitive on that point. ". . . no person," says the Constitution, "holding any office of profit or trust under (the United States) shall, without the consent of Congress, accept any present, emolument, office, or title of any kind whatever, from any king, prince or foreign state." Savage, rather than delay the project while congress decided whether such emolument be permitted, wired the then commissioner of the bureau of reclamation: "Any assistance given to New South Wales will be gratis and I shall not accept any fee or other form of compensation or any reimbursement," As a government servant. Dr. Savage, although he cannot accept titles and awards from princes, has kings or foreign commoners, garnered plenty of honors from American institutions. They include his doctorate in science from the University of Wisconsin and the American Society of Civil Engineers' medal. Also he has that most coveted award, the Gold medal for outstanding engineering service, a joint award of the leading organizations of his profession. If culture can be served by damming rivers, and capital can be found to pay the bill, they'll be dammed by Savage. And so The war will wipe out a lot of ignorant sneers which "practical" men often direct at "longhaired professors." Perhaps the science of psychology gets the most Says wallops from the uninitiated. General Arnold in his second report on the army air force: "The RAF paid the AAF a compliment in 1944 by adopting our system of air crew selection and classification. Our psychological testing procedures were also adopted by the Free French." There are 20 psychological tests administered which have proved valid in predicting a cadet's chance to win his wings and his chance for combat success. "The aviation psychology program has paid off in time, lives and money saved," says General Arnold, "at a total cost of less than $5 per candidate." The Soviet Information bulletin published in Russia calls attention to the fact that the Russian guards created by Peter I. in 1700. were the first to enter Berlin in the Seven Years war. It further states that the traditions of the Soviet guards, created when the German armies were nearest Moscow, in the autumn of 1941, were inspired by the ancient Russian guards and "are preserved to this day." This is one of the many indications of how the Soviet government is continually looking bark on Russian history and Increasing national consciousness among the people, bypassing the ideology of communism and the landmarks set up by the revolution. .by Baukhage Apparently General Arnold of the air fores and not Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau is dictating what la to be done with German industry. The pupulation of Berlin is becom- ay reIng "radical, almost red." What ports of Swedish refugees. would you call that? An attempt at 't has been established that the ehery trees in Washington are blos- Obituaries of prominent Nazis are appearing in great numbers in German papers The "deceased" are (laid to have "urrierground." but not cettieii'f" s'tle Since Korean and not Japanese, they som earlier, trying to synchronize with Korean tnr!ep'(ience week protective coloring'' a r k In 1893, four sisters from an Iowa farm, ranging ir 17 to 22, appeared in a age from sketch of their own composition orl Cedar! an amateur program Rapids which started them on thej most fantastic career in American! theatrical history, says Collier's. Being so incredibly bad and lu. dicrous that they required a wire screen to protect themselves from thrown vegetables, the girls played in the Middle West until 1896, when their "reversed fame k contract won them a on Broadway. Seven years later, the Cherry Sisters retired to farm life with a fortune of $200,000. stage-struc- Its Fertility and Other Modern Farm Methods . Notes of a New York Newsboy: An exciting biog of a fine Ameri- By ELMO SCOTT WATSON Released by Western Newspaper Union. can, "Eisenhower" (Winston) by F. T. Miller, contains this interesting rode LANKY horseman A steadily through the a bleak hills "General Eisenhower paragraph: was aroused to outbursts of indignation at the subversive groups that were giving 'aid and comfort to the $l,000-a-weeenemy' at a time of our nation's peril. Ike's scathing remarks would scorch this paper. He had no tolerance for the 'damned deaf, dumb and blind fools' who could not see what was sure to happen if we failed to heed the warnings. The Axis was out to conquer the world and enslave humanity. Naziism and Fascism must be crushed if human freedom was to be saved. . . . Eisenhower had become known as 'Alarmist Ike' because of his constant pre- Band & Musical Instruments Will BUT, SELL,, TRADE musical Instrudictions." Expert repairing. Jennings-Pearc- e Move over, Walter and make ments. Co., 23 East 1st South, Salt Lake City. room for Eisenhower! Vir- under ginia March sky, his lean face brightening as he recognized familiar landmarks. He was muscular and vigorous despite his 66 years, with tanned skin, clear hazel eyes, a kindly expression and abundant gray hair that still showed traces of its original brick-reThe rider urged his sorrel !aster up the slopes of a hill that towered over the rolling countryside. Spurring to the top, he threw the reins to a colored groom, dismounted lightly and greeted a family group waiting for him near a stately house. Thomas Jefferson had come home to Monticello. The year Mas 1809. But a few days before he had bid farewell to the White House, wished his friend James Madison Godspeed in the Presidency and" rode out of Washington as a private citizen. d. tree-crown- gressman; governor and minister; secretary of state, vice president and President for two terms. He had doubled the territory of the United States and built a powerful political party. His ideals of liberty were engraved in the law of the A Z n 't "tia." p "Wfcif sT 1 1 l v CLASSIFIED tin DEPARTMENT .ZJ- ed Since his birth, April 13, 1743, Jefferson had traveled an eventful route. He had experienced some defeats and many triumphs. Virtually every high office within the gift of his fellow citizens had been his. He had been state legislator and con- land. And now in the fullness honors he was to spend the years in serene retirement "Sage of Monticello," busy his farms. m of his next 17 as the amidst Famous Epitaph. Visitors to Monticello always pause to study the epitaph chiseled on the gray granite shaft over Jef- ferson's grave. Written by the great statesman himself before his death on July 4, 1826, it reads: "Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, Author of the Declaration of Independence;, of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom; and Father of the University of Virginia." Most Americans are familiar with these achievements of the many-side- d Jefferson. Few citizens, perhaps, are aware of another of his contributions his work for the deof modern, scientific velopment farming. So, on the birthday of this great it is appropriate to tell the story of his encouragement of agriculture. For farming was one of the consuming interests of Jefferson's life. His roots were bedded in the earth. In many ways he was generations ahead of his He clearly saw the future time. possibilities of American agriculture and strove to make them a reality. Jefferson Inherited an estate of 1,900 acres. He added constantly to that farm and by the time he married Martha Wayles Skelton on New Year's Day, 1772, his holdings exceeded 10,000 acres. A year later, the death of his father-in-labrought the family an additional 40,000 acres situated in western Virginia. As a practical farmer, Jefferson was constantly on the alert for new ideas. He made Monticello into a farm experimental progressive where new machinery, new methods, improved stock breeding, new crops and tests in restoring soil fertility were tried out. Over a period of years he grew as many as 32 different vegetables on his farm. And he attempted to adapt and domesticate acres of plants, shrubs and trees from distant countries. His Land Impoverished. The "Sage of Monticello" had much to contend with. During hit absence on public business, overseers who farmed the land ravaged it, he said, "to a degree of degradation far beyond what I had expected." No attempts at diversification had been made. Unlike the farmer of today who can get advice from his county agents, agricultural college agronomists or experiment stations on whether his soil It deficient in nitrogen, phosphorus snd potash and then obtain the Correct analysis of mixed fertilizer, Jefferson had to depend on talks with his neighbors and his rending of farm papers and books published in Engfarmer-statesma- w land. So he corresponded frequently James with George Washington, Monticello, Virginia Home of Thomas Jefferson. Madison, John Adams, the Marquis fectively. Shaped according to de LaFayette and Arthur Young, the mathematical the computations, famous British agricultural scien- moldboard met the least possible tist. resistance from the earth. JefferWhen he learned something new son also devised a seed drill and a about agriculture, he recorded it in hemp brake. a "Farm Book" he kept in his own On the Jefferson plantation there, handwriting. One account tells how was a threshing machine which was to lay out experimental plots to test carried on a wagon and weighed the effects of fertilizer. In these about a ton. It was capable of tests, his plant foods were manure threshing as much as 150 bushels of and gypsum. Unfortunately for him, grain a day. There was also a drillfertilizers as we know them today ing machine, invented by one of Jefwere not in existence. ferson's neighbors. The instrument Like a modern scientific farmer, had a sharp iron that opened the Jefferson learned that clover and furrows and a small trough containother legumes would help heal the ing the sowing grain behind it. wounds of his soil and give his land "Jefferson's enlightened efforts at a breathing spell. He discovered soil conservation and the bettering of farming methods entitle him to that legumes had a valuable foremost rank among great Amerpower, but did not understand that this lay in their ability ican agriculturists," said an official to impart nitrogen to the land. of the Middle West Soil ImproveCrop rotation was another practi- ment committee. "He had an incal measure he championed. Thus stinctive feeling that man should be he divided some of his lands under a careful custodian of the soil encultivation into four large farms. trusted to his care. His work in soil These were in turn subdivided into improvement, however primitive it six fields of 40 acres each. This perwas, helped pave the way for modmitted a period of rotation. ern soil science. Were he alive toFor example, the first field would be day, he would be a crusader for soil planted to wheat, the second to corn, conservation, for sounder farming the third to rye or wheat, the fourth methods, for playing fair with the and fifth to clover and the sixth to land by returning to it fertilizer elebuckwheat. Rotation and legumes ments removed by growing crops helped save his land from exhaus- and the effects of the elements." tion and wastage. Artist and Architect. In his own words, the business of Pioneered In Contour Plowing. In still another modern method of farming kept Jefferson "busy as a tillage, Jefferson pioneered. That bee in a molasses barrel." He was was contour plowing which is so ef- often either drawing or designing or fective today iaVeaving soil and wa- - sketching. Now it was a plow, now a carriage, now a building, now a fence and now a garden. A lover of flowers, he laid out a garden and planted rare specimens. An architect who learned the art by independent study, he drew blueprints for many buildings, many of which still stand as a monument to "the many-side- d genius of their creator. In addition to Monticello, the best examples of his architecture are the capitol at Richmond and the University of Virginia. Aside from his agricultural inventiveness, Jefferson designed a machine to unique produce stereotyped letters somewhat after the fashion of the modern mimeograph. He designed an ingenious dumbwaiter and built himself a handy weather-vane- . Because of the fact that his farm Thomas Jefferson,, the farmer and those of his neighbors were located far from big cities, Jefferson ter from costly Jefferson, built a number of industrial estabThomas lishments to make himself and his aided by his Mann Randolph, the brilliant and friends reasonably self - sufficient. husband of Martha His most ambitious projects were a Jefferson, introduced the system of flour mill and a nail factory. Ilia Own Hour Mill. plowing horizontally around hills. A further phase of Jefferson's The flour mill was a stone buildfarm Improvement program con- ing four stories high. A canal three-fourtof a mile long led to the cerned experiments In livestock breeding which he carried out in co- dam above the mill and cost several operation with his friend and neigh- thousand dollars. The nail factory bor, James Madison. employed ten workers, who drew $2 The "Sage of Monticello" brought a day. It supplied nearby stores as system into management and inven- well as neighbors, including James tion Into work. Each farm was an Monroe, with nails. It closed In 1812 Independent unit, directed by a stew- when It was unable to obtain rods. ard and worked by four male slaves, There was also a small cotton mill four female slaves, four oxen and which manufactured homespun from four horses. Jefferson hated the cotton obtained In Richmond. Three institution of slavery and did every- spinning machines wove cloth for thing he could to raise the physical all Jefferson's slaves. Wagonloads and moral level of his slaves. The of homespun were also sold to merconsiderate treatment of the colored chants. Like other plantations of folk on the plantation surprised the time, Monticello had a smithy many a visitor. To stimulate the where wrought iron work for the slaves' Initiative, Jefferson praised plantation was made. them when they did something well Although debt acquired during his and rewarded them when they public life and a depression in farm achieved something out of the ordi- prices following the Napoleonic wars nate The slaves responded to their brought financial crisis to his later kind master with great devotion. years, Jefferson was eminently satAn All Metal Plow. isfied with farming as a career and But slaves and oxen were not the a way of life. "Cultivators of th earth," he once only means used to cultivate Jefferson's lands. With a lively sense wrote to John Jay, "are the most of inventiveness, he was one of the valuable citizens. They are the most first Americans to use farm ma- vigorous, the most independent, the chinery. Half a century before the most virtuous and they are tied to steel plow was Invented, Jefferson their country and wedded to its indesigned an all metal plow with a terests and liberty by the most lastmoldboard that turned de soil ef ing ties." The same tome also offers a run-off- raw-bone- INSURE your poultry future with our 100 pure top ranking, money making strain of Leghorn chicks hatched from breeding hens. 2 to 6 years old. Straight run, Chicks $14.00; chicks, $28.00. pullet .rune, May, July. Volume disthrough count. We pay expressage. 30 years experience. Write for factual folder. GRAHAM HATCHERY A PULLET FARM BAT WARD. CALIF. When he was given the Peabody award for "presenting outstanding radio humor over a period of 12 years," Fred Allen was introduced on the air this way: "Three great men of American humor," said the announcer, " are Mark Twain, Will Rogers and Fred Allen!" "Fine state humor is in," Allen "Two of them are dead and one is out of work!" House Trailers and Cars 60 USED CARS AND 20 USED FACTORY built house trailers. MORGAN MOTOR AND FINANCE CO. Salt Lake City. 114 South Main St. OFFICE EQUIPMENT Stories about newspapermen are as arresting as the yarns they write. Horace Greeley inspired some of the best bits of newspaperman stuff. He was once parked in a hotel lobby reading his Tribune when a stranger informed him: "I never read that sheet. I feed it to my goats." . . . Greeley merely intoned: "If you continue reading other papers and feed your goats these Tribunes, one fine day you'll wake up and find that yqur goats know more than you do!" When Joseph Pulitzer retired, he sent his staff a message which deserves to be framed in every newsboy's office. The Pulitzer prize advice is now a part of the masthead of a St. Louis newspaper: "I know that my retirement will make no difference in its cardinal principles; that it will always fight for progress and reform, never tolerate injustice or corruption, always fight demagogues, never belong to any party, always oppose privileged classes and public plunderers, never lack sympathy for the poor, always remain devoted to the public welfare, never be satisfied with merely printing the news." Add Good News: One of the Bund camps in New Jersey has been turned into a boys' vacation camp. Happy to learn that a part of the U. S. once again belongs to Ameri. The legit stage takes bows ca. as a haven for intellectual issues. Yet' the season has produced only one expert play on a serious theme: "A Bell for Adano." . . Trend of the Times: We used to hear a great deal about Nazi supermen now we hear more about American super- g .. . s. son-in-la- Hoop-l-a Isn't everything: A. J. Cronin's "The Green Years" has list longtopped the fiction best-seller than "Forever Amber," despite the latter's publicity barrage. . . The house foreign affairs cofhmittee is now probing America's war criminal policies. We hope they will spotlight the peculiar activities of the state dep't boys dealing with that problem. . . . Joseph Conrad once said: "Gossip is what no one claims to like but everybody enjoys it.". . . hs widow who was to become his bride, two other suitors, coming to call, paused before knocking to peep in at the window and see what their chances were. They caught sight of the widow Skelton seated before the harpsichord. Towering above her was their rival with his fiddle under his chin nd hit bow busily sawing the air. The rivals silently slunk away. r years, king after Martha In violinist she used to accompany was pressed by family cares and affairs of state, he continued to play hit beloved Cremona. The tort of thing be played Is revealed now in the old music books, which have been treasured by his family through the intervening years and which were recently presented to the Thomas Jefferson Memorial foundation by his great great granddaughter. Miss Fannie M. Burke of Alexandria, Va. WE BUT AND PELL, Office Furniture, Files, Typewriters, Add-IMachines. Safes, Cash Registers. SALT LAKE DESK EXCHANGE SS West Broadway, Salt Lake City, Utah. Trailers Used Cars (fouL J62Cp JPlSUfYL ed Moods And Fatigut) Aro Often Symptoms Of Constipation I jJ For constipation take Nature's Remedy (NR Tablets). Contains no chemicals, no minerals, no phenol derivatives. KB Tablets are different act different. Purely vegetable $ combination of 10 vegetable formulated over 60 vears aeo. 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Try itl Two soldiers and a sailor on Broadway, reports Jan Murray, WNU W 15-- 43 were discussing their plans after curfew time. The first serviceman said: "Gee, it's midnight. Let's have some fun riding through the park in a hansom keb!" . . . "Naw," naw'd the second. "Let's call up Mabel and Jean!" . . . "Oh, nuts!" said the lielp Them Cleanse the Blood of Harmful Body Waste third. "Let's do something really exTour kidneys are constantly Altering citing! Let's go to some restaurant enute matter from the blood stream. Bui and watch the civilians eat!" kidneys sometimes las m their work de His Violin Was Solace to Jefferson in His Old Age Playing Posterity has had so many things Martha Wales Skelton, the young Skelton Jefferson had died and the to remember about Jefferson that it has largely overlooked his association with the violin; yet that wis one of the outstanding interests of his youth. About the old Virginia capital of Williamsburg, where he attended the college of William and Mary, the redheaded, lad with a fiddle case tucked under his arm was a familiar figure. The story is told that one evening fchen Jefferson was paying court to WHITE LEGHORN CHICKS lightful anecdote about General Eisenhower's mother. . . . Whenever soldiers pass her home at Abilene, Kans., she proudly remarks to neighbors: "I have a son in the army, too!" six-ye- multi-writin- CHICKS de- the strange sidelights of the war Is the almost complete brush off most newspapers have given to the fighting in Burma. Reports of the battles in that sector are buried on 'inside pages or ignored. Many Americans will prob- ably be surprised to learn that bit-- ! ter righting has taken place there, which has resulted In important Al-- . lied victories. . . . And the battles are continuing. . . . During the last year the amount of Japs killed in the Burma theatre equals the num- ber eradicated in the Pacific! 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