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Show i THE DEAVER PKKSS. BEAVER. UTAH Little White House Made a Shrine Story of Summer Sanctums 01 U. S. Presidents Traced I " ' v ' - 4 i i ;;.: , ( .v l, - Tmm mM 4mSm - m I fa J?l : - By BAUKIIAGE Seu s Analyst and Commentator. WASHINGTON. This summer the Warm Springs Infantile Paralysis foundation turned over a little house on the mountainside to the state of Georgia, which will run it as a museum and national shrine. And so another of the "Little White Houses" goes back to the people. It is the only one t in which a president spent his last days. In one of its ,three bedrooms President Roosevelt died. In its living room he spoke his last words. five-roo- m The Warm Springs house was different from other summer hideaways of presidents because it was really a home. The late President Roosevelt himself built it in 1932 at a cost of $8,700. He willed it to the infantile paralysis foundation. It was a very simple structure in which the architecture of the locality and a few Rooseveltian ideas are blended. There are the two bedrooms, a third fiuest room, a living room, a kitchen and that's all. But there is a view that would make a Park avenue penthouse atr-Vtif?- .(Cv" f TILLS SOIL WITH 'GADGET' . . . For a total outlay of $75 for welding farmer near Hillsdale, 111., and parts, James van Hyfte, built this highly efficient, light weight tractor. A 1928 car engine is the heart of the tractor. A double transmission gives the machine six speeds forward and three reverse, making it adaptable to any kind of load, speed, field or road condition. owner jealous. Like all of the houses which Pres-ident Roosevelt occupied, this little cottage is crammed with history, much of it still unwritten. Warm Springs was the symbol of Roosevelt's victory over disease and pain. Since then, largely be! cause of his ef- F forts, many hundreds of others have achieved similar victories in the community of which the i I Mjrr ' - s t 1 I If ! 1 i 1 1 4 O 'i "Little H o u s ft White e" was a part. The simple cottage was also the scene of his death. He was posing for a por- dollar pool." I have seen the pool. It is less than 20 feet across. Polly-wog- s wiggle in it, rocks green with years of moss, surround it. It has been there a long time and I doubt if anyone ever had the temerity to bathe in it, although "Shangri-la- " was a deserted boys' camp when it was taken over. It sits high on a mountain top beside a splashing trout stream surrounded by thick woods. NEWS REVIEW New Dust Bowl Feared; Corn Outlook Improves Thinking men experienced ranchers, grain men and bankers in the West are looking worriedly ahead to a revival of the dreaded dust bowl because transient farmers are plowing up thousands of acres of virgin range to plant wheat which Baukhage trait when the "terrible headache" came. He had signed his letters for the day and in his last signature, which I have seen, there is evidence that death was already "plucking at his sleeve." Late in the war, when it was difficult to go far from Washington, another "summer White House" In Maryland was established. It was The given the name "Shangri-la.- " President himself named it jokingly when, because of security reasons during the war, its location had to be concealed. It was discovered, thanks to a slip of the tongue on the part of Mrs. Roosevelt, and because absurd stories were written about the tremendous amount of money which had been expended on it as a matter of fact it cost very little to convert it was thrown open to the press. One article described its "million iAT-Jft- ... A certain amount of pomp RETIRED and circumstance must accompany even the decommissioning of t naval vessel. Here, Adm. Thomas C. Kinkaid, commander of the Atlantic reserve fleet, is piped aboard U.S.S. North Carolina. TWO U. S. BATTLESHIPS f np jh W ?3m 4Mf' 7 M iy MM. MM J T ' Vj g r h Havens of Oilier Prcsidcnls Ever since the days of Buchanan almost every President has seen fit to flee the banks of the Potomac when Washington weather begins to lure the mercury to the top of the tube. Although the United States army began being hot weather host to chief executives in Buchanan's time and continued to do so into the regime of the dashing Arthur, it was because Lincoln lived at the "cottage" just within the Eagle Gate of the Soldiers' Hume 'now uell within the city of Washington proper but once a distant suburb) that this summer White House became famous as the Lincoln Cottage. When G rover Cleveland became however, and shortly president, thereafter took a bride, lie felt that it was improper to live on the army in the summer months. So he bought n place of bis own called Rod Dak on a luh hill in the capital now known, in honor of his short domicile there, as Cleveland Park. It was a plain farm house when he bought it but it soon blossomed into a comfortable home. was a town Then Washington of some 175.000 people (1886 and Cleveland had an unobstructed view over the whole panorama down to the Potomac itself. When he was defeated he sold the place. When reelected he bought another. That effectually ended the Soldiers' Home tradition and it was really not until the time of President Taft that a "working" summer headquarters was set up. Other Theopresidents took vacations dore Roosevelt "went home" to his beloved Sagamore Hill on Oyster Bay with a secretary or two. President Taft went to Beverly, Mass. When President Wilson went to Cornish, N. II., it was for reit and recuperation. In 1916 hp those the imposing Shadow Lawn In New Jersey and by that time uar was impending and his staff went with him. President Harding didn't want to "get away." He wanted people, lots of them, around him also 5'J cards. President Coohdue. too, it was said, didn't know wiiat to do with a vacation but he made as geographically varied a selection of summer White House sites as any president. First it was Swampscott where, as one dispatch put it. he was "tethered to a telegraph wire." As a matter of fact no telegraph wires actually entered "White Court." the great colonial mansion perched on the rim of New England's coast, but the telephone did and he made regular trips to near rock-boun- np T. Today there is one overstuffed chair in the corner of the solarium that somehow always seems to get will bring them two dollars a bushel. turned around at a certain angle. Under the stimulus of the two-Turned that way, a side table is within easy reach, a push button dollar wheat, buffalo grass is being nesota and South Dakota is about and a hand telephone with an ex- turned over at an unprecedented equal to that of last year, but heavy tension number on it. Lift it and the rate, and the prediction is that losses have been incurred as a reanswer comes, "White House." It when it quits raining the dust bowl sult of excessive rain. Most observconnects directly with the switch- will stage a savage comeback. ers agree that while the growing board at 1600 Pennsylvania avenue. The West again has become a corn crop is two to three weeks beparadise for speculators who are hind last year it still has time to It gives me a rather strange buying up land for $15 to $25 an stage a comeback, given favorable feeling to look at that chair-em- pty acre and planting it in wheat. One weather. and realize what mesSuch a shortened growing period, good crop will pay for the land and sages went over the telephone leave them a good profit besides. however, may result in reduced beside it, what words were dicSuitable primarily for grazing, the yields. Also, growers in the two tated while the long cigarette land normally is priced at from $2 states are reported to have turned, holder moved nervously to the in the past year, to planting corn to $10 an acre. ash tray on the table at its arm. a shorter growing period requiring with "Suitcase farmers" roll in President Truman has not used their tractors, plows and drills, put than formerly. Therefore, while the "Shangri-la- " very often but when in a wheat crop and then leave until corn may mature relatively earlier he goes there next he and Mrs. it is time to harvest the grain. No than formerly, it will do so at the Truman will find a retreat which one stays to check the inevitable expense of a smaller yield an acre. I ; gives them more privacy than prob- wind erosion. 1 DISCORD: on other earth. any spot ably The current world food shortage Tucked away in the deep woods is offers some TOWXSENDITES BACK AGAIN . . . Four thousand advocates of the justification for expand- Paris Clash a new, little cabin, just big enough the wheat Townsend national prosperity plan, in Washington for the seventh ancrop, but it would be ing Latest attempt to bring the opposfor two. No guest room, no parlor, difficult to maintain that rational nual Townsend plan national convention, converged on Capitol Hill to just a cozy cottage with a neat, outlook if resulting dust storms ing areas of the world into closer urge congress (for the 13th successive year) to pass their bill. Photo an of internameans modern kitchen, a dining room-sittin- caused a recurrence of the mass harmony by shows, left to right, Sen. Claude Pepper (Dem., Fla.); Dr. Francis tional conference has resulted, as room with a fireplace. There ruin and exodus from the dust bowl have all the others, in a complete, E. Townsend, creator of the plan; R. C. Townsend, his son, and Rep. two is a company, three a crowd. of the 1930s. Homer D. Angell (Rep., Ore.). unharmonious discordant, A sanctuary cacophde any president ony. serves. FAIR OUTLOOK: It was the Paris conference of Corn Prospect British, French and Russian repreAs July entered the Midwest's sentatives on Secretary of State scene with a gush of Marshall's save - Europe proposal agricultural by Lynn where the offices were warm air and sunshine, prospects located. In 1926 he chose an Adirondack appeared reasonably good for a MARSHALL ANGERED crop of corn in Minnesota "camp," near Paul Smith's. One of Angered at Soviet criticism of those primitive places millionaires and South Dakota this year. his European recovery plan. However, in those states, as In the build in the wilderness equipped Secretary of State George Marwith all the comforts of a modern rest of the corn belt, a long period shall rejected as a "malicious hotel. Kirkwood Camp, owned by of favorable weather conditions is distortion of the truth" the RusIrvin Kirkwood, a newspaper pub- most essential. The frequent, heavy sian claim that American offers satuin must rains order that stop a lisher, was such place, to help put Europe on its feet The next year Coolidge repaired rated fields can return to normal. are inspired by imperialist moPlanted acreage of corn in Min- to the Black Hills of South Dakota i,' t t tives. He drew a stinging comwhere he lived in a spacious lodge United between States' parison among the trout streams, guarded efforts for world aid and Soviet by a troop of cavalry and making a aggrandizement in Europe. long, journey to Rapid City to attend to affairs of state and interview the press. which went on the rocks this time, The next year he again went to deepening the rift between Russia Wisconsin and on an island in a lake and the western powers. 28 miles southeast of Superior, lived Conflict arose over two main isin Cedar Lodge, making necessary sues: a trip three times a week. 1. Soviet Foreign Minister V. President Hoover, when he took M. Mololov opposed any plan office, almost immediately went down into his own oy wnicn tne great power r Mr, jeans could impose an economic proand for $15,01)0 bought "Rapidan." 4 r v s another mountain stronghold in the gram on the smaller nations o Blue Ridges. When he left office he Europe, while llritish Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin, backed promptly deeded the tract to the by French Foreign Minisiei commonwealth of Virginia, hoping '..3 Georges Bidault, wanted t perhaps, other presidential camp-tire- s draft a broad scheme for rewould burn there. But his suc...... I t;" construction of all Europe. cessor chose otherwise. I 2. Molotov placed his entire Warm Springs belongs to the www on the American aid .emphasis state of Georgia, countless thouS ,N THE 0LD aspect of the Marshall plan, but fnrt ,Ln. CANAL Coal barges li. desolate sands will visit it. as they do Hyde the Allegheny river at and Britain along France primarily Park and other local monuments. Pa., a mininS Harmarvillc, commumty near Pittsburgh. In background of p stressed a program for is now a part of the "Shangri-laphoto is the tipple srrrfnine Pa"t where cars are unloaded) of Wheelinr Europe. national park system. His Excellency, the Most RevMcel s Harmar mine. Result is that Great Britain and The next president, whoever he erend Dr. Mar Ivanious, archFrance probably will go ahead withbishop of Trivandrum, India, enmay be. may have it if he wishes, visit with baby Claude, out Russia on a western European without extra expense to the taxjoy ' . M , ' , , V M-- four-yea- r youngest of the prolific Dionne reconstruction program payer. But who knows? He may , dream-house- , which also includes of ikS a at of realization quinthe have same time hop- fV.. family V tS which we need hardly begrudge tuplets. The two met in Ottawa, ing for American credits and -Canada. ihim. $ MM52. ' M Isi fair-size- d faMfr MMi Just Friends .4lX MM'Mmmm twice-weekl- e well-line- " - hJiil: " self-hel- " r self-help- 7. - :rr' FA VOKAllU: a im FORECAST Downward Price Trend Seen The bank warned, however, that price rise apparently a combination of contingencies such as bad weather and a substantial Hearing an end, the probabilities deterioration of domestic crop prosseem to favor a downward movement of the price index in the next pects could upset its forecast. After examining the factors in12 months, it is predicted in a rein the present rise as comvolved released Price Level" on "The port pared with those in the price jump by Bankers Trust company. The report, prepared by Roy L. following World War I, the bank Reierson of the bank's economic de- said, "since the all commodity inpartment, added that "the prices of wholesale price index has not some manufactured goods may creased as much this time as in World War I, it is likely that the deshow a further modest, and probwill not be ably temporary, rise, but it is be- cline in the frice level lieved that any such movement will as severe during this correction " be more than offset by declines in period as it was in a cited number of facbank The the prices of farm and food comtors to support itf view. A collapse modities and other material." NEW YORK. -- With the postwar inflationary 1920-1921.- j j in farm prices does not appear irr minent in the near future, it sair Food prices, although below recent fiighs. are supported by a high level of employment and national income. Prices of many manufactured goods have risen onlv mod- estly despite greatly increased costs of labor and materials. Furthermore, it is pointed out. the greatly increased supply 0f savings and liquid assets may provide some support for the price level. The business inventory situation, moreover, does not appear comparable to the excessive monetary speculation following World War I. K ')? ' - - - ; -- iW J it IM SESJJIrSly; fE? OP'ON . . . 'r Member, of he pr a new. conference brf U 10 the 56th Bnu" convention of Ceneral Federation " R0O,fV C,obs rkln tZo Nfw L confided to Taft labor act "will undoubted create disanltv ln hf C0U"lrjr ,nstcd women are viUW "nity-.- nd concerned he Ju' .T" Ro n"e7 M' |