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Show The Cache American, Lojran, Cache Countv. Utah Pace Two SEinsr, American Agriculture Owes Debt to Jefferson Bolcre Top Favorite This Year A Complete Wardrobe for Baby For Pioneer Work in Conserving Soil, Restoring Its Fertility and Other Modern Farm Methods CIRCLE PATTERS S Released by Western Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE By ELMO SCOTT WATSON Released by Wtiltrn Newspaper Union. THE lead in Salome She Danced," Walter Wangers Universal picture, brought Yvonne DeCar-l- o what every young actress wants the big break that can send a career scooting horseman rode A LANKY steadily through the Vir pinia hills under a bleak March sky, his lean face brightening as he recognized familiar landmarks. lie was muscular and vigorous despite his 66 years, with tanned skin, clear hazel eyes, a kindly expression and abundant gray nair that still showed traces of its original brick-reThe rider urged his sorrel faster 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 was 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. Shed had skyward. two years of hard work and heartbreak at Paramount and never a chance to show got fine Singing all that werent d. what she could do. But I training there. she says. lessons, lessons in acting, Lessons sort of thing. new to her; shed been tree-crown- ed Monticrllo, Virginia Home of Thomas Jefferson. Madison, John Adams, the Marquis de La Fayette and Arthur Young, the famous British agricultural scientist. When he learned something new about agriculture, he recorded it in Farm Book" he kept in his own handwriting. One account tells how to lay out experimental plots to test the effects of fertilizer. In these tests, his plant foods were manure and gypsum. Unfortunately for him, Since his birth, April 13. 1743, Jef- fertilizers as we know them today ferson had traveled an eventful were not In existence. Like a modern scientific farmer, route. He had experienced some defeats and many triumphs. Virtually Jefferson learned that clover and every high office within the gift of other legumes would help heal the his fellow citizens had been his. He wounds of his soil and give his land had been state legislator and conbreathing spelL He discovered gressman; governor and minister; that legumes had a valuable power, but did not undersecretary of state, vice president and President for two terms. He stand that this lay in their ability had doubled the territory of the to impart nitrogen to the land. United States and built a powerful Crop rotation was another practipoliUcal party. Hit Ideals of lib- cal measure he championed. Thus erty were engraved In the law of the he divided some of his lands under cultivation into four large farms. land. And now in the fullness of his These were In turn subdivided into honors he was to spend the next 17 six fields of 40 acres each. This perperiod of rotation. yeaes In serene retirement as the mitted a Sage of Monticello,' busy amidst For example, the first field would be his farms. planted to wheat, the second to corn, A Famous Epitaph. the third to rye or wheat, the fourth Visitors to Monticello always and fifth to clover and the sixth to pause to study the epitaph chiseled buckwheat. Rotation and legumes on the gray granite shaft over Jef- helped save his land from exhausfersons grave. Written by the great tion and wastage. statesman himself before his death Pioneered In Contour Plowing. on July 4, 1836, it reads: Here In still another modern method of was burled Thomas Jefferson, Au- tillage, Jefferson pioneered. That thor of the Declaration of Independwas contour plowing which Is so efence; of the Statute of Virginia for fective today in saving soil and wa- 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 development of modern, scientific ' farming. So, on the birthday of this great farmer-statesmait Is appropriate to tell the story of his encourage ment of agriculture. For farming was one of the consuming interests of Jeffersons life. His roots were bedded in the earth. In many ways he was generations ahead of his time. He clearly saw the future possibilities of American agriculture and strove to make them a reality. Jefferson inherited an estate of 1,900 acres. He added constantly to Thomas Jefferson, the farmer that farm and by the time he marMartha Wayles ried Jefferson, Skelton on New Years Day, 1772, ter from costly run-offThomas his holdings exceeded 10,000 acres. aided by his Mann Randolph, the brilliant and A year later, the death of his father-in-lahusband of Martha brought the family an additional 40,000 acres situated in westJefferson, introduced the system of ern Virginia. plowing horizontally around hills. A further phase of Jeffersons As a practical farmer, Jefferson was constantly on the alert for new farm improvement program conin livestock ideas. He made Monticello Into a cerned experiments farm breeding which he carried out in coexperimental progressive where new machinery, new meth- operation with his friend and neighods, improved stock breeding, new bor, James Madison. The Sage of Monticello brought crops and tests in restoring soil fertility were tried out. Over a period system into management and invenan ,of years he grew as many as 32 tion into work. Each farm was different vegetables on his farm. independent unit, directed by a stewAnd he attempted to adapt and doard and worked by four male slaves, mesticate acres of plants, shrubs four female slaves, four oxen and four horses. Jefferson hated the and trees from distant countries. institution of slavery and did everyHis Land Impoverished. had thing he could to raise the physical The Sage of Monticello much to contend with. During his and moral level of his slaves. The absence on public business, over- considerate treatment of the colored seers who farmed the land ravaged folk on the plantation surprised many a visitor. To stimulate the it, he said, "to a degree of degradation far beyond what I had ex- slaves initiative, Jefferson praised them when they did something well pected. No attempts at diversification had been made. Unlike the and rewarded them when they farmer of today who can get advice achieved something out Of the ordifrom his county agents, agricultural nary. The slaves responded to their kind master with great devotion. college agronomists or experiment Plow. An stations on whether his soil Is deBut slaves and oxen were not the ficient in nitrogen, phosphorus and potash and then obtain the correct only means used to cultivate Jefferson's lands. With a lively sense analysis of mixed fertilizer, Jefferson had to depend on talks with his of inventiveness, he was one of the neighbors and his reading of farm first Americans to use farm mapapers and books published in Eng- chinery. Half a century before the steel plow was invented, Jefferson land. So he corresponded frequently plow with a designed an with George Washington, James moldboard that turned the soil ef six-ye- s. son-in-la- high-temper- Shaped according to the computations, 4- 1moldboard met the least possible fI resistance from the earth. Jefferson also devised a seed drill and a i hemp brake. On the Jefferson plantation there was a threshing machine which was St carried on a wagon and weighed about a ton. It was capable of s threshing as much as 150 bushels of ) grain a day. There was also a drillYVONNE DeCARLO ing machine. Invented by one of Jefferson's neighbors. The instrument had a sharp iron that opened the studying ballet dancing since she furrows and a small trough contain- was nine. But the ballet work came In handy for Salome so did ing the sowing grain behind it Jefferson's enlightened efforts at everything else shed learned. So soil conservation and the bettering now, at 20, she feels that shes really of farming methods entitle him to getting somewhere, after wasting an foremost rank among great Amer- awful lot of time! --fican agriculturists, said an official In 1922, when Gary Cooper went of the Middle West Soil Improvehe He had an in- from Montana to Hollywood, ment committee. stinctive feeling that man should be took along a pair of chaps, which a careful custodian of the soil en- he wore as a cowboy extra when he trusted to his care. His work in soil broke into the movies. The chaps Improvement, however primitive it disappeared; he didn't see them was, helped pave the way for mod- again till he spied them on an extra ern soil science. Were he alive to- In his new picture, Along Came A costume company had day, he would be a crusader for soil Jones. conservation, for sounder farming owned them in the meantime, and methods, for playing fair with the no doubt many a cowboy has land by returning to it fertilizer ele- pranced across the screen in Cooments removed by growing crops pers pants. Cooper wanted to buy them back, but couldn't get delivery and the effects of the elements." till the picture was finished; as proArtist and Architect. In his own words, the business of ducer of the film, hed rented them! farming kept Jefferson busy as a Some more of New York is being bee in a molasses barrel." He was often either drawing or designing or reproduced in Hollywood; Monosketching. Now it was a plow, now gram has acquired more land and is a carriage, now a building, now a adding an elevated structure to Us fence and now a garden. A lover New York set and planning to build of flowers, he laid out a garden and part of the Bowery as it was In the planted rare specimens. An archi- Gay 90s. Go to Hollywood and see tect who learned the art by inde- New York. pendent study, he drew blueprints RKOs studio school has been for many buildings, many of which still stand as a monument to the moved to a showboat, currently in many-side- d genius of their creator. use by the troupe filming "The Sixteen-year-ol- d In addition to Monticello, the best Amorous Ghost. examples of his architecture are the Donna Lee and Alfalfa Switzer, forcapitol at Richmond and the Univer- merly of Our Gang, are in the picture so the school came to them. sity of Virginia. Aside from his agricultural invenIf you look hard when you see a Jefferson designed tiveness, g machine to RKO's youll unique produce stereotyped letters some- catch a glimpse of Joan Crawford: she Joined the extras portraying what after the fashion of the modern mimeograph. He designed an members of a theater audience 'and seated herself near her husband, ingenious dumbwaiter and built himPhillip Terry, whos featured. Just self a handy weather-vane- . Because of the fact that his farm did it as a sentimental gesture, to and those of his neighbors were bring him luck. Producer-Directo- r located far from big cities, Jefferson John Auer didnt know she was ou built a number of industrial estab- the set till the scene was finished. lishments to make himself and his Pat Kirkwood, the young English friends reasonably self - sufficient. His most ambitious projects were a actress, will be the first star to come to Hollywood under a new plan for flour mill and a nail factory. exchange of screen players between His Own Flour Mill. The flour mill was a stone build- Metro in California and Metre in ing four stories high. A canal three-fourt- England. She will star in No Leave, of a mile long led to the No Love, with either Van Johnson dam above the mill and cost several or Robert Walker. thousand dollars. The nail factory Texan Parks Johnson and the CBS employed ten workers, who drew $2 a day. It supplied nearby stores as Vox Pop program have been comwell as neighbors, including James mended for broadcasting Monroe, with nails. It closed in 1812 In a resolution passed In the Texas when it was unable to obtain rods. state legislature, which has also InThere was also a small cotton mill vited Parks and Warren Hull to which manufactured homespun from originate a show in their house of cotton obtained in Richmond. Three representatives. spinning machines wove cloth for A black eye helped get Dickie all Jeffersons slaves. Wagonloads of homespun were also sold to mer- Tyler the role of Eddie Breen in The Bells of St. Marys. When he chants. Like other plantations of the time, Monticello had a smithy went to see Leo McCarey, who rewhere wrought iron work for the membered him as the Nazi boy in Tomorrow, the World, on Broadplantation was made. Although debt acquired during his way, Dickie apologized for the eye. I love to fight, said he, but a public life and a depression in farm gave me this Shiner yeswars the newsboy following Napoleonic prices "Youll have plenty of brought financial crisis to his later terday. McCarey years, Jefferson was eminently sat- fights in this picture, isfied with farming as a career and warned him. a way of life. Cultivators of the earth, he once Pretty Sharon Douglas, who is wrote to John Jay, are the most heard as Babs on William Ben-dix- s Sunday night comedy drama, valuable citizens. They are the most The Life of Riley, on the Blue vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous and they are tied to Network, has a featured role in Our Hearts Were their country and wedded to its in- Paramounts terests and liberty by the most last- Growing Up, sequel to Our Hearts Were Young and Gay. ing ties. fectively. mathematical Posterity many things to remember about Jefferson that it has largely overlooked his association with the violin; yet that was 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 lad with a fiddle case tucked under his arm was a familiar figure. The story is told that one evening when Jefferson was paying court to raw-bone- d Wales SkeHon, the young 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 Towering above her harpsichord. was their rival with his fiddle under his chin and his bow busily sawing the air. The rivals silently slunk away. In later years, long after Martha Martha V uVy! fir multi-writin- a, war-effo- His Violin Was Solace to Jefferson in His Old Age Playinghas had so 1296 ( Jefferson had died and the violinist she used to accompany was pressed by family cares and affairs of state, he continued to play his beloved Cremona. The sort of thing he played is revealed now in the old music books, which have been treasured by his family through all the intervening years and which were recently presented to the Thomas Jefferson Memorial foundation by his Miss Fannie M. Burke of Alexandria, Va. Skelton rt ODDS AND ENUS-J- oan Blondell has been signed to join Clark Guble and Greer Carson in This Strange Adventured. . . 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