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Show t ' I Tuesday, July 151947 THE DRAGERTON TRIBUNE, DRAGERTON, UTAH PAGE TWO Lfele Whiftd House - AAcadle . o Shroine isA'f? i A Story of Summer Sanctums Of U. S. Presidents Traced i ' 3G$7CSG CLTiCAU A ,- X I ' , 3 EDITORS NOTE: Tbit newspaper, through special arrangement with the Washington Bureau of Western Newt-papUnion at 1616 Eye Street, N.W, Washington, , D. C., is able to bring readers tbit weekly column on prob-- 1 lemt of the veteran and serviceman and bit family. Questions may be'ad-dressed to the above Bureau and they will be answered in a subsequent column. No replies can be made direct by snail, but only in the column which unit appear in this newspaper regularly. er By BAUIOIAGE Newt Analyst end Commentator. 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 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. WASHINGTON. five-roo- m 7 & V ' f' i I 16 Million Veteran s 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 guest room, a living room, a kitchen and that's alL But there is a view that would make a Park avenue penthouse owner jealous. Like all of the houses which Pres- ldent Roosevelt occupied this litUe dollar pool. I have seen the pool. cottage is crammed with history, It is less than 20 feet across. Polly-wog- s much of It still unwritten. wiggle in it, rocks green with Warm Springs was the symbol of years of moss, surround it It has Roosevelt's victory over disease been there a long time and I doubt if anyone ever had the temerity to bathe in it, although Shangri-l- a 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 t 'S-'K- RIGHT . . . Jack Ladin-ik- l, food corporation head, went ali the way in court to prove that his sauerkraut had been mishandled an railroad and that it had HE Latest tabulation of potential veteran population by Veterans administration indicates that the minimum for World War II will be 16 million. VA said the potential population will increase until official end of the war, which has not as yet been declared. By comparison, World War I produced 4,627,000 veterans; the Civil war, 1,849,000 Union army veterans, and the Spanish-America- n war, 381,000 veterans, a combined total of 6,857,1)00 for the three wars or considerably less of the minimum estithan mated for World War II. TILLS SOIL WITH GADGET . . . For a total outlay of $75 for welding and parts, James vau Hyfte, farmer near Hillsdale, HI., 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. NEWS REVIEW New Dust Bowl Feared; one-ha- WAS not fermented and exploded by itself. lf t Gen. Omar Bradley, director Corn Outlook Improves of has announced that unless con-- " gress restores funds slashed from VA appropriations by the house, he will be forced to fire 15,000 employees of administration. Many' of these are veterans. VA, Thinking men experienced ranchers, grain men and te bankers in the West are looking worriedly ahead to a revival Today there is one overstufled of the dreaded dust bowl because are transient farmers plowchair in the comer of the solarium that somehow always seems to get ing up thousands of acres of virgin range to plant wheat which Questions and Answers J turned around at a certain angle. will bring them two dollars a bushel. Q. My son volunteered for the woods. posing for a portrait when the "terrible headache" Came. He had signed his letters for the day and lit his lkst signature, which I have seen, there is evidence that death already was "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 bad 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 far-flun- g Turned that way, a side table is within easy reach, a push button and a band telephone with an extension number on it Lift it and the answer comes, White House." It connects directly with the switchboard at 1600 Pennsylvania avenue. It gives me a rather strange feeling to look at that chair-em- pty and realise what messages went over the telephone beside It, what words were dictated while the long cigarette holder moved nervously to the ash tray on the table at Its arm. President Truman has not used "Shangri-l- a very often but when he goes there next he and Mrs. Truman will find a retreat which gives them more privacy than probably any other spot on earth. Tucked away in the deep woods is a new, little cabin. Just big enough for two. No guest room, no parlor, just a cozy cottage with a neat, g modem kitchen, a dining room with a fireplace. There two is a company, three a crowd. A sanctuary any president de serves. room-sittin- Havens of Other Presidents J 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 cotta ge'V just within the Eagle , Gate of the Soldiers' Home now well within the city of Washington proper, but once a distant suburb) that this summer White House became famous' as the Lincoln Cot-- , . tage. . When Grover Cleveland - became president, however, and shortly j thereafter took a bride, he felt that it was improper to live on the army in' the summer months. So he bought a place of his own called Red Oak ot a high hill in the capital now known, in honor of his short domicile there, aqCleveland Park. It was a plain farm house when he , bought it but it soon blossomed into a comfortable home.r' Then Washington was a town ' of tome. 173,000 people) (1886) and an unobstructed , Cleveland , had view over the whole panorbrfta down to the Potomac Itself. When he was defeatecLhe sold the place. When reelected he bought an- . ether. 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 Theo, presidents took vacations dore Roosevelt went home to hie beloved Sagamore Hill on Oyster Bay with a secretary or two. Presi- dent Taft went to Beverly, Mass. When President Wilson went to Cornish, N. H., it was for rest and recuperation. In 1916 be cbese the imposing Shadow Lawn la. New Jersey and by that time war was Impending mad his staff went with him. President Harding 'didnt want to get away. He wanted ' people, lota of them, around him also '52 cards. President Coolidge, too, it was said, didnt know what 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 Courts" the great colonial mansion perched on the rim of New England's -- rock bound coast, but the telephone did and he made regular trips to near , - Under the stimulus of the two- dollar wheat, buffalo grass is being turned over at an unprecedented rate, and the prediction is that when it quits raining the dust bowl will stage a savage comeback. The West again has become a paradise for speculators who are buying up land for $13 to $25 an acre and planting it in wheat. One good crop will pay for the land and leave them a good profit besides. Suitable primarily for grazing, the land normally Is priced at from $2 to $10 an acre. Suitcase farmers roll in with their tractors, plows and drills, put in a wheat crop and then leave until it is time to harvest the grain. No one stays to check the inevitable wind erosion. The current world food shortage offers some Justification for expanding the wheat crop, but it would be difficult to maintain that rational outlook if resulting - dust storms caused a recurrence of the mass ruin and exodus from the dust bowl of the 1930s. FAIR OUTLOOK: Corn Prospect As July , entered the Midwests agricultural scene with a gush of warm air and sunshine, prospects located. appeared reasonably good for a In 1926 he chose an Adirondack d crop of 'com in Minnesota near Paul One of Smiths. "camp, those primitive places millionaires and South Dakota this year. However, in those states, as in the build in the wilderness equipped with ail the comforts of a modern rest of the corn belt, a long period hotel. Kirkwood Camp, owned by of favorable weather conditions is Irvin Kirkwood, a newspaper pub- most essential The frequent, heavy rains must stop in order that satulisher, was such a place. The next year Coolidge repaired rated fields can return to normal. Planted acreage of corn in Min- to the Black Hills of South Dakota where he lived in a spacious lodge among the trout streams, guarded by a troop of cavalry and making a long, journey to Rapid City to, attend to affairs of state aijd interview the press. The next year he again went to Wisconsin and on an isand in a lake 28 miles southeast of Superior, lived in Cedar Lodge, making necessary a trip three times a week. V President Hoover, when he took almost office,, immediately went down into his own .Jeans and for $13,000 bought "Rapidan, & another mountain stronghold in the Blue Ridges. When he left office he promptly deeded the tract to the A commonwealth of Virginia, hoping perhaps, other presidential campfires would burn there. But his successor chose otherwise. at Warm Springs belongs to the state of Georgia, countless thousands will visit it, as they do Hyde Park and other local monuments. is now a part of the Shangri-la- " national park system. Ilis Excellency, the Most Reverend Dr. Mar Ivanlons, archThe next president, wkoeverihe he' wishes, bishop of Trivandrum, India, enmay be, may have it without extra expense to the taxjoys visit with baby Clande, payer. But who knows? He may youngest of the prolific Dionne realization of family 'which also, includes 'quinhave a dream-house- ,' which we need hardly begrudge tuplets. The two met in Ottawa, Canada. him. by Lynn 'where the offices were fair-size- Just Friends twice-weekl- y ' well-line- d If, tin K - -- FAVORABLE FORECAST DISCORD: Paris Clash ' army and left for service on February 17 of this year. He was only 17 then and he has n(t been permitted to make an allotment although he has tried twice and been turned down. They held out pay for the first three pay days and then paid him np all they had held out saying my allotment was turned doyni. How can they keep him from making me an allotment when he was my dependency to help on the farm? I am not able to work and his father is crippled and not able to work mneh. And we have another son five mbntha old to take ' care of. Please tell me what steps to take to help get my pay allotment started- - .My son, says he la going to ask for a depende'ncy discharge if the government doesnt grant an allotment Mrs.- - Ev A. J Vernon i. ican-Briti- sh Ala. There Is no reason why, if your son asks for a proper allotment and you ar dependent upon him either fully or to a degree, that you should not receive your allotment. Without knowing all the facts, it would apthat your case has been inpear ony. and found n to be devestigated It was the Paris conference of that yoiiwrite to pendent Suggest and French Russian repreBritish, the Office of Dependency Benefits, of State 4300 sentatives on Secretary Goodfellow Blvd., St. Louis 20, Marshalls save - Europe proposal Mo., giving all details, your, son's full name and serial number and " perhaps they can give you an MARSHALL ANGERED " answer. Angered at Soviet criticism of Q. Onr son has been receiving a his European recovery - plan, disability pension and It has been Secretary of State George Marcoming here at home for our use. shall rejected as a malicious He la in another city. Some time distortion of the troth the Rusago we received notice for him to sian claim that American offers report for another physical 'examito help put'Enrope on Its feet-arnation but we dont know whether inspired by Imperialist mohe did or not. At any rate, the n tives. He drew a stinging checks have stopped coming for no between United States apparent reason. Can you tell ns efforts for world aid and Soviet the reason and what we should do aggrandizement In Enrope, about It? Mrs. L. W. S., New Madrid, Mo. A. The chances are the pension which went on the rocks this .time, deepening the rift between Russia checks were discontinued when your son failed to appear for physi- -' and the western powers. cal examination without giving adeConflict ' arose over two main isquate reason for not reporting. Sugsues: gest you have your son report to the 1. Soviel Foreign Minister V, VA offife where he obtained his M. Molotov opposed any plan pension and which has his case -by which the great power record. could impose an economic proQ. Is it possible for me to get the gram on the smaller nations o' VA to give me a copy of my case Europe, while British Foreign record? Id like to have it since I Secretary Ernest Bevin, barked have been taking treatment at a by French Foreign Mlnistci .VA hospital for several months and Georges Bidault, wanted try dont seem to get any better. Maya broad scheme' for re. draft be I could find out what the trouble s of nil Enrope. construction Is. I have asked for a copy several 2. Molotov placed his entire times. G. F. K., Chesterton, Ind. emphasis en the American aid A. VA regulations require that-an- y aspect of the Marshall plan, but person entitled to a copy of any Britain and France primarily record shoujd make written appli' p stressed a program for cation to the office where the record Enrope. is located and state specifically the Result is that Great Britain and particular record or paper desired France probably will go ahead with- and the purpose for which such out Russia on a western European copy is to be used. Approximate foujtyear reconstruction program cost must accompany the applicaat the same time hop- tion. Fees .are as follows: Written of ing fer American credits acd sup- copies, per 100 words, 25 cents; plies. photostat copies, per sheet, 25 cents; certifications, 25. cents., Q. Can you tell me where my brother, is? He la J. E. E., seaman N second clasa, 2879621, 2nd Division, U.S.S. Manchester. He was last beard from in April, 1947. I. C. D.. Eubank, Ky. " A. No, not without his full name in farm prices does not appear imjrhich you dor not give in your minent in the near future, it laid. etter. Food prices, although below recent q. My husband has been overfiighs, are supported by a high level seas since last February. He la of employment and national in- serving with the 1539th AAF as an come. Prices of many manufacHP in Japan. Would you please tell tured goods have risen only mod- me when he will be returned to the estly despite greatly increased states and what procedure I would costs of labor and materials. lave io take to get him released Furthermore, it is pointed out, rom the service. Mrs. J. L. H., the greatly increased supply of Lewistown, Pa. savings and liquid assets maj proA. There is no way of knowing vide some support for the price vhen your husband, will be re- - -level The business inventory situa- urned. He apparently has been in tion, moreover, does not appear he service less than a year and if comparable to the excessive mone- lis is an enlistment which does not tary speculation following World txpire until February his time will War I. lot bo up until that time. Latest attempt to bring the opposing areas of the world into closer harmony by means of an international conference has resulted, as have all the others, in a complete, discordant, unharmonious cacoph- OUTMODES ATOM BOMB 4 , .v Paof. T. D, J. Leech is leading figure In development of an Amer-- J weapon , of which hq says, by comparison the atom bomb is a damsy method of atHe la sTftw Zealander. tack. A. , ... SPOON-FEToo ORPHAN young to feed itself and having no manta or papa to take care of it in a nice, comfortable nest, this little wood thrush is fed by hand from a spoon. It was deserted by its parents in Philadelphia' 7 D e kom-pariso- self-hel- GERMAN PARTY BOSS . . . Frau Maria Von Bredow became Germanys first woman party leader when the military government licensed her equal political rights for women? party. She ia a countess in her own right. self-hel- ' ' s NEW YORK. With the postwar inflationary price rise apparently nearing an end, the probabilities seem to favor a downward movement of the price index in the next T2 months, it is predicted in a report on "The Price Level" released by Bankers Trust company. The report, prepared by Roy L. Reierson of the banks economic department, added that the prices of some manufactured goods . may show a further modest, and probably temporary, rise, but it is that any such movement will be more than offset by declines in the prices of farm and food commodities and other materials. The bank warned, however, that , 4v combination of contingencies such as bad weather and a substantial deterioration of domestic crop prospects could upset its forecast. After examining the factors involved In the present rise as compared with those in the price jump following World War I, the bank said, , "since the all - commodity wholesale price index has not increased as much this time as in World War I, it is likely that the decline in the price level will not be as severe during this correction period as it was in The bank cited a number of factors to support its view. a 1920-192- T r SS ' 4 7 I j; Downward Price Trend Seen V i nesota and South Dakota is about equal to that of last jrear, but heavy losses have been Incurred as a result of excessive rain. Most observers agree that while the growing corn crop is two to three weeks behind last year it still has time to stage a comeback, given favorable weather.' Such a shortened growing period, however,' may result In reduced Also, growers In the two yields. states are reported to have turned. In the past year, to planting corn requiring a shorter growing periods, than formerly. Therefore, while the corn may mature relatively earlier than formerly, it will do so at the expense of a smaller yield an acre., 'J ''V t v I s ; WARNS OF COLLAPSE . . . Predicting a collapse of our economy unless immediate steps are taken, Emil Rieve, chairman st CIOs full employment committee, says rising living costs have not been checked. |