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Show Thursday, February 27. 1947 THE TIMES- - NEWS, NEPIII, UTAH PAGE TWO Do You Know What Tw fir bs? A 'Pocket Veto h? r British Laborites Propose Drastic Farm Regulation 1 ml xmW kv' if (W By BAUKIIAGE it 1 1 Sews Analyst and Commentator. opportunity to state his case. If the offender Is a landowner a the expense of carrying out the orders exceeds the annual rent of the land, he can appeal to the agricultural tries. land tribunal. What about farming? The third step would be disposAgriculture was Britain's largest in 12 months or sooner. session before 1939 to but up Industry right the war Britain A landowner would have to submit a forced sale; a landowner-occupie- r produced than a third of might be forced to rent to an apthe food and feed proved tenant; a tenant's tenancy the islands con- would be terminated. The law doesn't end there. It sumed. By 1943 with the past and the future they were pro- deals ducing 70 per as well as the present. Experiments cent of the war- will be made to adjust farm boundtime rations for aries made many hundreds of years their own people, ago and the intent is to prevent the tAus. the Allied splitting up of farms into uneconom1 armies and refu ic divisions. 1- Stability, efficiency. Liberty? gees, within their borders. less r MM iy- IS BARBS . . As a whooping crane detective I am not worth a whoop. This perhaps is natural since I have no credentials as a naturalist. But in the course of leading the Fish and Wild Life service on a wild crane chase I I encountered some interesting facts. This Is the story: While I was in Florida I heard some convincing descriptions of whooping cranes, said to be found on a nearby plantation. I knew the whooping crane rapidly was becoming extinct and I had never heard of any of them having been seen in Florida so, when I returned to Washington, I immediately communicated my "discovery" to Mr. Lincoln, ornithologist of the Fish and Wild Life service of the department of the interior. He was very polite and patient and even agreed to ask Mr. Kelsey, one of the department's representatives, to interview my wife, who was still in Florida, as to the reports which she had It wasn't long before I heard from my wife that as a result of further consultation with the Audubon Bird Book and a very short conversation with Kelsey. there was unanimous agreement that the cranes were not whoopers but must be sandhills. It's an old story to the service but they take no chances and run down all clues. Even if the only proof the "discoverer" has is the earnest insistence that: "I know it was a whoopin' crane because I heard him a'whoopin'." Part of the reason for these meticulous inquiries is that the service is at present conducting a survey in hope of locating the nesting place of the whooping cranes. This spot never has been found, but it almost certainly is somewhere in Canada. Lincoln doubts that there are more than 50 of these birds alive today although there are records showing that the skies over the western plains once were darkened by the flights of hundreds, even thousands, of them. If, like the passenger pigeon, they disappear entirely. North America will have lost its tallest as well as one of its most beautiful birds. The whooping crane stands over four feet tall, has a wingspread of seven feet and flies with neck and It has white legs out straight. plumage except for black tips on the wings; has black legs and yellow bill and a bare red crown. A little less than two years ago National Audubon society approached the government and ofto fered furnish funds for the working out of a joint survey, the purpose of which was to locate the breeding, grounds and other points where the cranes gathered in order to arrange for their further protection. The one place in the United States where cranes are known to pass their summers is the national wild life refuge near Corpus Christi, President Truman managed to void a National Cat Week without ru!Tling anybody's fur. Shortly after New Hampshire's Republican Sen. Styles Bridges said that Russia was trying to make Germany a satellite, he lost his voice. But it wns laryngitis, not a Communist hex. . by Baukhage QUIZ Congressmen's Salaries "Star Spangled Ban. WHEN did become our national Released by Western Newspaper Union. STATE DEPARTMENT BEING CLEARED OF COMMUNISTS WASHINGTON. Not much attention has been paid the invisible honeycombing of tho state department by some mysterious force which writers seem to find it difficult to anthem? Not untiJ March 3, 1931 over 100 years after it was writ, ten. Which state supplied the most Presidents? Virginia with eight. Why are there no tall buildings hot: CLASSIFIED fj lxly LEARNING TO LIVE Club Week Will Emphasize in World Affairs Youth's Role FMrc. 4-- H U7JS7I7 "Working together for a better home and world community" is the theme around which 1,700,000 ruralboys and Club Week, girls are making programs for their National A part of the cooperative extension work of state March agricultural colleges, national department of agriculture and local counties, the club members have earned a reputation for "learning by doing," in practically every county in the United States, Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico. 4-- H 1-- 9. 4-- Boy and girl experts in corn grow- ing and tomato canning were her alded in many states even before the cooperative extension work was put on a nationwide basis with pasact In 1914. sage of the Smith-Leve- r More than 11 million young people have been members since that time, methods demonstrating in practically every phase of farming and homemaking as their program was broadened and more leaders became available. Promote Democracy. Each club selects officers from Its own members, the young people making their own programs and carrying them out. Such practice in democratic procedures has provided young community leaders and deepened the interest of all former members in the educational, health and social facilities available to them and their neighbors. During the two world wars, club members rolled op Impressive records of prod action in food and feed crops, in conservation, in farm labor and In contributions of supplies and money for wartime causes. memIt is estimated that bers, during the recent war, produced 1.000.000 acres of home gardens. 43,000,000 head of poultry, head of livestock and 1,300,-00- 0 acres of food crops. They also conserved 74.000,000 quarts of food, collected more than 400,000,000 pounds of scrap, and sold or bought more than $200,000,000 in war bonds. clubs already are well Many started on the programs to help their communities. Activities that reach beyond into the "world community" are not uncommon, so this year's theme is based on actualities. Here are some examples. In Boone county, W. Va., each of the 34 clubs finished a project aimed at community betterment. Among these were sponsorship of a hot lunch at school, upkeep of the church and grounds, tree planting, a salvage program and planned recreation. One club operated a book exchange in the community. Another had members' teeth checked and re-- i paired, while another provided for the distribution of milk at school There are 802 members of the clubs in the county, which holds the enviable record for two years In succession of having every mem- - ber complete his or her year's work. Improve Community. mechanJohnson, Neb., has a ics club pledged to improvement of the home community. The club's biggest project has been the damming of a stream to create a comand recreation munity fishpond grounds. The recreation grounds were opened last summer with a big fishing contest. mechanics also asThe sumed responsibility for helping reduce fires. The village fire chief says there have been bnt two chimney fires in the past five years and those in homes not inspected by members of the club or the fire chief. The members inspected and helped refill the fire extinguishers of the business places of Johnson. A farmstead improvement project is starting In Dauphin county, club. Pa., under auspices of the Repairs of fences, buildings and driveways were undertaken first. The club's three-yea- r program includes ornamental plantings, painting and some new construction. The 21 members have the staunch support of their parents. Raise Guide Dogs. club members now California ara raising 60 per cent of the guide dogs from the kennels of Guide Dogs for the Blind, Inc., a charitable organization supplying dogs free for blind people. A Sumner county, Kas., farm organization financed construction of g a portable vat and the chemicals for the dip. Members of club1: contacted the sheep growers of the county, prepared a schedule for use of the vat and took A charge charge of arrangements. of 10 cents per head was made to cover services and cost of dip. As one of the four "II's" In the club's Inniirnla stands for health, this naturally has been an important club Interest. Recently this Interest has broadened to Include not only individual health activities but community as well. For the pst two years a committee of state rlub leaders has been at work formulating a broader national health program. A new venture in this field was 4-- 4--H 4--H 4-- H 4-- 4-- 4-- 4-- j i sheep-dippin- 4--H 1 4--H the club health camp held in Kansas in August, 1946, at the, new state club camp grounds. Each county sent a boy and girl chosen on the basis of physical examinations and background of club work plus interest in health and health leadership. A concentrated three-da- y training school gave this picked group of young leaders in the health field many ideas for making health activities more effective in their own communities. Typical community activity is that of the members in Rusk county, Tex., where a club committee is energetically carrying on a campaign to get everyone in the county to test the supply of drinking water. Foster Recreation. Importance of wholesome social occasions and organized recreation for rural communities and counties is recognized by programs. The club in NichoRamsey Workers' las county, W. Va., sponsors a recreation night each month. The whole neighborhood comes out to play games, sing and square dance. Willingness to study and understand people and conditions beyond the home community has led to many activities that make a good beginning for carrying on the theme: "Working together for a better home and world community." More than 300 Massachusetts girls of high school age, representing every county in the state, tame to Boston last spring to study their state capital and to get acquainted with each other. Twenty-fou- r Texas members and their state leader in 1945 made a tour of Mexico, accompanied by Mexican youth and their leaders. In 1946, Mexico youth spent 12 days with a group of Texas boys in a tour of agricultural areas in Texas. 4-- H 4-- 4-- 4-- 4-- 4-- good-neighb- 4-- Boost Good Citizenship. club members were InEight cluded in the 140 young people front 30 states attending the Encampment of Citizenship held in New York City July 1 to August 10. The national club camp held in Washington, D. C. last June, and the National Club Congress in Chicago last December featured discussions of the responsibilities of citizenship, problems and opportunities of youth, and other features relating to the task of "Laamlng to live in a changing world." Four-members are making every effort to acquaint boys and girls in their communities with the program of the club and ex. tending to them an Invitation to Join in "Working together for a better home and world community." Alaskan Moose Attack Trains; Governor Defends 'Antics' WASHINGTON. Although moose make a farce of railroad schedules. ered on of the hazards as well as Governor Gruening. rejecting the one of the delights of railroading In are one of the major handicaps to railroading in Alaska, the militant request In a reproving telegram Alaska." animals have a staunch defender in to the Interior department, said: Johnson, obviously not at all de"The delay Is nr t sufficiently seri- lighted by antics of the wayward Gov. Ernest Gruening. In re uesting that moose who ous to warrant killing these noble beasts, complained that on a single be reduced animals whose presence on the railday last winter they caused M sched-ul- e These days. Drmoerats whether make pests of themselves to mooseburgers. Col. John P. John-io- road, while an occasional handicap delays' and one derailment. be or they dissentirg deserving, can manager of the Alaskan rail- tj speedy transportation, is more Principal complaint Is that the move around with considerable safe road, pointed out that the animals than a compensating feature as an moose flnd their way Into deep ty without having to dodge attack trains, cause derailments and attraction to tourists in the sum- - cuts made by snowplows through lope along ahead of the engines to iirr time. They should be consid heavy drifts and then rnfni i,f nui I see that Winston Churchill g"ave the thirsty Arglojhobes a fine chance by opining that prices for Scotch were too low I of- ficial diplomatic headquarters of policy, the citadel of the world movement to establish freedom of the individual from dictatorships, especially freedom to express himself this state depart- Whooping Crane George Casely Is one of the farmers who has Increased his production on SO acres in Devon, England. With daughter, Sylvia, he Is pitching hay. of fat stock, milk and eggs will know actual prices and other conditions of sale a year in advance, and minimum prices and conditions (which include any quantitative limitations) for two years ahead. There is planning and regulation for you! "Stability, however," says Britain's minister of agriculture, "is not enough." And then he goes after efficiency with foot, horse and guns. Two requisites for efficiency are promotion of research into farming problems and an organization which will provide the individual farmer with technical advice. Very good. The United States government does a pretty good Job on that score. "The point is: What does the British government ask in return for what it intends to offer? "Both the farmer and the landowner have parts to play," it says and points out that "the rules of good husbandry require the farmer to maintain his holding at a reasonable standard of efficient produc- Tex. No nest of a whooping crane is tion, bearing in mind cleanliness of the land, maintenance of fertility known to have been seen within 20 and freedom from disease and pests. years or perhaps longer. The birds The rules of Rood estate managehave been observed parsing over the ment require the landowner to main- Dakotas. Manitoba and Saskatchewan and it is taken for granted tain his estate with adequate buildings, drainage, ditches and hedges, that somewhere north of these points so that the occupier can be an ef- the nesting grounds are located. ficient producer." None has been discovered although And that is not merely suggested one government plane and a plane In the bill, it Is required. The farmbelonging to a collaborator (a coler or the landowner will live up to laborator is a person paid by some these conditions or he will lose his private institution but who is perland. The first step against an mitted to use department of the inis to place them under forterior facilities) have flown over mal supervision after they have many thousands of square miles in had a chance to state their case. this area.) Every possible effort has The next step will be to issue spe. been made to locate the nest for it cific instructions as to what is to be is here that protection is most done again giving the offender the QOVERNMENT "ma I The state department, our first-han- - J in Washington, D. C? A law describe. The figures have been published, of 1910 sets the maximum height ; but not widely. J am an intense at 160 feet. a fascinating booklet We have them. to see prepared failed I reader, yet of questions and answers about our GovYour Maybe you missed them. At least ernment. Send 25c (coin) for "Know Serv-Jcto Weekly Newspaper you missed the only important part Government" 243 W. 17th St., New York 11, N. Y, in about them in the restricted way Print name, address, booklet title and which writers had to touch them. No. 202. They wrote the story leaning backward as if the heat from the figures was too hot for them. At any rate, here are the figures see if they are Government Mystery of the control was strict Baukhage but it worked. And the British with their socialist government do not intend to let it slip back if regulation can stop it. To that end a bill is now before parliament which would bring the American farmer down to Washington with, a pitchfork in each hand. The "two pillars" of the new government policy are "stability and efficiency." The agriculture bill would create stability by guaranteeing prices. It provides: (1) That the prices and other market factors of wheat, barley, oats, rye, potatoes and sugar beets be fixed in the year before these crops are to. be harvested. (2) Prices and other factors affecting fat stock, milk and eggs, to be announced for a period of one year and also minimum prices and other conditions, including quantities, for a further period of two years. Consequently the producer ir.n IN iwnu Ml : IliyOsa By Paul MalkQ WSV Bervice. 1616 Eye Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. One by one Brit-Bi- n WASHINGTON. is nationalizing her basic indus- fffl I ment has cleaned out 202 employees from its midst in connection with its investigation of Communist tactics within. You cannot call the 202 Communists, sympathizers, or even describe them. Oh no! Some resigned at the mere threat of investigation. Sensitive souls, no doubt! Some quit when asked by investigators about themselves. They were insulted, unquestionably! Others just ran at that particular time. A desire to be free no doubt seized them like a spasm-Wel- l, anyhow, 202 seem to have had a spasm to be free of government probers and left. Of the 3,000 suspects to spasm sensitivity originally coming into the department from the Office of War Information and two other bureaus, the investigators went after 314. Only 59 were given a clean bill ol spasm resistance and 53 cases still are being investigated mind you, these 53 are still in the department. BYRNES KEPT IT QTJIET Now, the Byrnes regime clearly did not consider it advisable for anyone to talk about this fault any more than necessary or to consider there might be spasm addicts in other state bureaus. In fact, Byrnes denied frequently there were any Com munists in his department when congress pressed him. ' Actually he started weeding them out while denying they were there. Repeatedly in this column he was told they were there long before congress pressed him, and repeatedly he denied it, finally chasing them privately. That seems to be the truth of the matter. In any event, the important thing now is that only one of these chased 202 can be called a Communist by a legal and respectable writer who desires to avoid the trouble of proving It. That single one was Indicted. Of course he denied ardently he was a Communist, as they ali do. However, the government investigators fonnd he had been an organizer for the Communist party prior to his employment by our government, and so they decided to prove he was what they knew him to be. Certainly the other 201 must be called "spasmists," no, not even that, but "some possibly sensitive to certain type of spasm investigation." That is what must be done wider the sound rules of newspaper and radio libel and related established practice by a reasonably cautious person. Personally I think this kind of foolishness has gone about far It represents really only enough. our own sensitivity to accusations ol unfairness and on a proposition which involves actually spies and foreign sympathizers in our own official departments. THEY WOULDN'T TOLERATE fS The Communist government would have no hesitancy similar to ours. They must consider us rather stupid. If Stalin found any of our Democrats or Republicans in his foreign office, they would be shot. The very existence of such a condition is unequivocally ridiculous and embarrassing to our diplomatic negotiations. While the Russians would not tolerate an outsider foi a second, we welcomed them in during the Roosevelt administration and we now cover up, deny and avoid calling a Communist what he is after finding him in our own government and labor organization like CIO cannot get rid of them. Communists should be granted no more equal rights. An act of congress should be passed, as I have advocated before. Whatever rights are granted to our political psrtiei in Moscow should be granted to Muscovites here and not a single right more. The negotiation of rlghti should be aimed toward reciprocity. Then with dictatorships we will havf the right of negotiating on an equal plane. The Communist party would be put on the same plane a Democrat enjoys in Moscow, And aWv all there is no need to call a spad a "spasm." DEPARTMENT AUTOS, TRUCKS & ACCESS. 1 aMIMON FARM MACHINERY & EQUIP. 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