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Show THE SAUNA SUN. SAUNA, UTAH m&mm Cooperation With Mexico WNU Service, Union Trust Building Washington, I). C. In a few weeks now, international cooperation will probably be the subject of heated political debate. The opponents of this benevolent concept will, having exhausted other arguments against it, probably end up with the usual statement that about eradication; the fall clean up of the Infected stalks, the sterilization of seeds before they are shipped out or planted and other measures. We, on the other hand, have had the facilities of an office in Monterey, Mexico, where we are assisted in the study of the life and habits of the pest at first hand and improving our techniques in fighting be all right in theory but it wont work. While this controversy is going on up and down the land, a number of scientific gentlemen, who wont lose it. Conference on Agriculture meeting in Mexico City will have concluded its second session by that time. It is making a lot of progress but preceding it was n another meeting: the United commission, reports of whose session have not yet been made to the department of agriculture but interested officials know that when they are made, they will record definite, practical progress. They know this because they know States-Mexica- that this commission has already furthered cooperative projects which have resulted in the saving of many dollars to both the United States and Mexico, to say nothing of promoting good will In each country The through mutual assistance. commission has furnished concrete examples of International cooperation which prove that it is both possible and practical. Today, more cotton blossoms are unfolding under the Texas sun, more American fruit has the assurance of ripening and fewer cows will perish of tick fever because of Mexican-America- n cooperation to mention a few of the many positive achievements attained when wise men sit down together to work toward their common good. The story of this particular effort really begins back In July of 1942 at the first meeting of the Conference on Agriculture. At that meeting, energetic Senor Marte Gomez, Mexican minister of agriculture, took Secretary Wickard by the lapel, and said, in- efTect: The Americas all have some agricultural interests in common. But Mexico and the United States have many. New Project That started something which was continued by a long correspondence between the two countries furthered by American Ambassador to Mexico Messerschmidt and Secretary Wickard. Plans were laid for mergjng various projects on which there had already been some cooperation and others which were in the making. As an illustration, let me mention two projects which are supported by both governments. Carrying out these projects by the department of agriculture has required no extra appropriations from congress. It is merely an extension of already approved programs for getting (gratis) In assistance from the Mexicans. doing it, there has been a bilateral exchange of information, facilities and personnel. Take the largest project which has to do with the pink boll worm. This story starts in Egypt where the wicked foe of the cotton plant may have been flourishing since the days of the Pharaohs, for all I know. Anyhow, the worm turned up in Mexico in about 1911, having sneaked across the Atlantic from the banks of the Nile in infected seed cotton. By 1916, the family had grown and some of the more ambitious members decided to migrate again. They took wing and flew across the Rio Grande into the United States. Measures were taken against the pest and it never got out of control in the main cotton area. But in the Laguna area in Mexico, it has a firm hold and southern Texas is threatened. Naturally, the United States wants to keep all pests out of the United States and the best thing to do about It is what the Mexicans want most to do destroy them at the source. So, American experts from the department of agriculture have taught their Mexican colleagues what we boll-wor- r know Mexican Fruit Fly Another large project Is directed against the life, liberty and evil pursuits of the Mexican fruit fly. That insect, flourishing in western Mexico, has not disturbed us as yet but are being preventive measures worked out and the Mexicans have learned to sterilize their own fruit so that it can safely enter the United States. As a result of the joint efforts and studies, an obliging wasp has been Imported from Panama, which likes nothing better (in fact likes nothing else at all) but these fruit flies for breakfast, dinner and supper. The wasp has been introduced Into Mexico as a predator. The meaning of that title, you can figure out tor yourself. Other projects might be mentioned but this is not meant to be a technical article, it is merely the record of one kind of International cooperation which has been made effective with the admixture of a little patience and some wisdom. Great strides have been made in agriculture in Mexico in recent years and side by side with this growing progress and increased efficiency has developed a feeling of mutual confidence on the part of the two nations which have shared their experiences. Minister Gomez is more than a political appointee. He is a trained agriculturist. Under himare many trained men, a large number who have attended American universities, notably in California. Mexico's department of agriculture employees are far less subject to political whims than formerly. Mexican agriculture is progressing and turning to the United States for advice and counsel. A veritable parade of Mexican agriculturists passes through the office of P. M. Amlee, of the Latin American division of the bureau of foreign agriMost of them cultural relations. speak English. If they can't, they can still pool their experiences, thanks to trained interpreters. This arrangement is not a war baby. It started before the war and an effort is being made to emphasize the common problems which exist in peace time so that the program will rest on a more permanent foundation. Of course, some of the war time ventures are embraced in the work of the United commission like the rubber growing projects, but the more profitable, solid and permanent arts of peace are the basis of the whole cooperational program. States-Mexica- War-Tim- e n Restriction It you think the government's war- time regulations are too severe in this country, look over this list of things you can be prosecuted for in Great Britain these days: Not washing your empty milk bottles (dairies are as short on soap). Trying to cut ahead a line of people waiting for a bus. Throwing a crust of bread into the garbage bin. Going to the seashore (the south coast of England and sections of the coast elsewhere are military areas). Buying clothes without giving up coupons. (A shopkeeper who tries to sell clothes without coupons is involved in the black market. Sooner or later, he finds himself in court along with many of his customers.) Being consistently late to work In the morning. Changing your job (without having the ministry of labor's permission). Driving to work (it is an offense to drive to work along a route served by buses or trains, however crowded they may be.) Throwing away a piece of string (it is needed for salvage). Selling an American alarm clock. (Only workers who have to get up between midnight and 5 a. m. are given these permits.) lend-lease- earth. Those Americans are our farmers. When that museum is built and put into operation, it will not be a place of static exhibits, a storehouse of ancient relics in glass cases with written or printed labels to explain their meaning. Instead, it will be a living museum full-size- d BRIEFS The national tuberculosis control program was set in motion by the new Public Health Service act signed July 3. The Vichy home radio has broad cast an announcement urgently requesting people who write and speak English very well to apply for positions ro he network. v P s f6'S' "X Jefferson's ideas with reference to by Baukhafte agriculture were far in advance of his day, declared James E. Ward, The Japanese Domei agency has head of tire division of social sciClemson college in a talk informed its clients in occupied East ences at An Experimental on Monticello: Asia that Germany's air weakness Farm at the meeting of he comin Europe is truly mysterious. That's mittee at Monticello. He was among putting it mildly. the first to practice crop rotation. He was a scientific farmer and in Five hundred delousing stations arranging for his system of rotation are being planned in Romania U he divided his cultivated lands into four farms of 280 acres each, and combat typhus. SsperTlser Farmers Insurance Greep Centlseslal Bank Bldg. Utah. Salt Lake City : v , vA' 7 ' ' v , w. V '!' Jf . A .J. y A V - w TRIBUTE TO THE FOUNDER OF MODERN AMERICAN AGRICULTURE Members of the National Agricultural Jefferson Bicentenary committee meeting in the rotunda of the University of Virginia. In the background is a statue of Thomas Jefferson, founder of the university. Seated directly behind the speaker at the microphone is Herbert A. Kellar, director of the McCormick Historical association, who outlined the plans for a national agricultural museum. places. The relation of agriculture to geology, geography, climate and soils, entomology, biology, chemistry and engineering also merit adequate attention. The National Agricultural museum should serve as the headquarters of important national farm organizations and provide appropriate quarters for this purpose. This would add prestige to the institution. An essential feature of the museum would be to establish close relations with educational institutions and organizations. On its part the museum should offer general and special courses in the form of lectures, seminars and laboratory research pertaining to various phases of the history of agriculture and of technology in this and other countries. These courses should be open to the public, and qualified students should be permitted to take them for educational credits. In addition, the museum should provide internships for individuals desiring to specialize in the history of agriculture and technology or to learn agricultural museum technique. In reciprocity, educational agencies should invite members of the museum staff to lecture and to give courses to the students of the institutions and to arrange for regular visits of students to the museum for the purpose of information and instruction. In all the activities of the museum its facilities should be developed to promote a better understanding of democracy, as illustrated in our agricultural development. These and like activities fully carried out would undoubtedly justify the designation of the National Agricultural museum as a Living Agricultural museum. Establish Branch Museums. In addition to a National Agricultural museum located in Washington, there should be associated with it branch museums situated in different parts of the United States. These would be of such character as to merit the designation, Living Agricultural museums, to an even greater degree than the national institution. These branch museums should take advantage of the existence in numerous places in this country of notable sites of representative agricultural activities which flourished in a former day and for a considerable period. Where possible such activities should be recreated at the original locations. Among those which come to mind are the production of wheat, corn, tobacco, cotton, rice, sugar cane, indigo, hemp, . flax, vegetables, fruits, flowers, cattle and livestock, dairying, stock farming, maple sugar, turpentine and lumbering. As far as practical in each instance operations should be shown for several periods such as the colonial, V as where the Dalrymples were located and have information about them. The lumber camps of the same period in Michigan and Wisconsin no longer exist, yet we have voluminous records of particular companies and a few tracts of virgin timber are still standing. It would still be possible to acquire wheat land and timber, and to reestablish and operate a bonanza wheat farm or an lumber camp. & VEGETABLES CALIFORNIA FRESH FRUITS and Vegetables From Grower toYoe Picked tedsy Shipped teday Caa tout ova (ruin and vegetables PlumL Fetches, Apples, Squash and Melona Only $1.0 (I. a. h. Marysville) Fer Delicious Box Specify kinds scented. Send enter to Box 6B OrciwrW and Garden Freak . $13,0001 . MARYSVILLE Do Nothing Till You Hear From which was high on the Hit Me, Parade only a few broadcasts ago (and has garnered a mint for Duke Ellington), was written by Cootie Williams, Dukes genius. Cootie peddled it to Ellington for $25. CALIFORNIA Photographs Copied ... Its real name is: Concerto for Cootie . . . Rooms are so d scarce in Norfolk, Va., that Herb Fields and his band (playing at the Palomar) had to rent six motor cars to sleep in. . . . The name Winchell appeared in the Congressional Record long before the current one started worrying those in Washington, who have good reason to worry. His name was n There are a number of Winchell. The oldest papers tobacco, cotton, rice and Benj. In the files of Congress relate to Ben sugar cane plantations in the South, and his son Ruggles. The papers and cattle ranches, dairies and stock to 1758. . . . Radio netdate back farms in the Middle West and West where original ownership of land works have altered the has passed and original agricultural lines of the song, Beyond the Blue Horizon. The wordage lies the risactivities are now changed. Some of these could be acquired and reestabl- ing sun has been switched to the setting sun." ished to operate as formerly. In other instances the ownership Midtown Vignette: It happened in has changed, but the original the Stork Club the other night. . . . have been held together Corp. Brod Crawford, former Hollyand still produce agricultural crops, wood actor, saw a lieutenant at the though not always the same as be- bar, a buddy from Movietown. . . . fore. Westover and Curies Neck He greeted him by his first name, and Claremont on the lower James of course. . . . The lieutenant stifare plantations of this type. Again, fened and in tones colder than there are a surprising number of Sophie Tuckers x replied: famous holdings which even today "Address your superior officer as a are owned by the same families soldier. . . . After 15 minutes of which were in possession a hundred heated argument the session ended or more years ago. Shirley, the when the officer gave the corporal Carter estate on James river; Folly, a direct order. . . . Infringement of the Cochran plantation in Augusta which is punishable by a court marcounty; Walnut Grove, the McCorA witness to the episode tial. mick farm in Rockbridge county; relayed it to a colonel seated in the and Berry Hill, the Bruce plantarear. He was Col. Butch Morgan, tion near Halifax, all of which are one of the real tough guys who fly located in Virginia, meet this pat- our fighting planes. He is the most tern. The same is true of the Middle-to- n decorated hero in this war. . . . estate on the Cooper river, and Colonel Morgan walked over to the Hampton Hall, the Rutledge plantalieutenant and said: Lieutenant, tion on the Santee river, both in where do you know Corporal CrawSouth Carolina. In Louisiana, Rose-dow- ford from?" . . . Hollywood, sir, the Bowman family estate was the reply. . . . What did you and the Cottage, long-tim- e resiasked call him ill Hollywood? dence of the Butlers, should be Colonel Morgan I called him added. The list could be conBrod, was the answer. . . . Well, siderably enlarged. In other cases said the Colonel, when you meet a such as Mount Vernon, Washingfriend off post, you address him by tons estate, Stratford, the Lee plan- his first name, and dont go pulling tation, Monticello, the residence of your rank on him and thats a diJefferson, and the Hermitage, home rect order from your superior offof Andrew Jackson, memorial assoicer. ciations operate these places as museums, with major attention given It has been estimated that 55,000,-00to the main dwellings. The na- Americans go to the movies tional park service operates Wake- - every week. The film industry is field, the Washington house, and Ar- - one place where mediocrity pays lington, the Lee residence, as well handsome dividends. Producers of n as other B films are among Americas highplaces. est paid executives. Those celluloids In keeping with the establishment of branch agricultural mu- also reap the most loot. . . . Too seums in various parts of the United many ambitious youngsters believe States it would be appropriate to set that beauty is the only qualification (or film success. up a Jefferson Agricultural Memorial association which might operQuotation Marksmanship: Ray ate in connection with the Thomas Jefferson Memorial foundation at mond Moley: Walks as if balancing V. Monticello, Shadwell, Poplar Forest the family tree on his nose. or other places directly associated Kitchen: Theres no use itching for with Jefferson. On one or more of something unless youre willing to these original Jefferson plantations scratch for it. . . . H. Savoy: She two types of activities might be on was as light as a feather, and she display. One would be to carry out didn't weigh much either. . . . A fork is an implement and reproduce the agricultural A. Bierce: experiments recorded by Jefferson used by a civilized man to put dead in his Garden Book and his Farm thin'gs in his mouth. . . . Toni Eden: Book, including his development and An American who takes off his coat trial of the moldboard plow. A sec- for his country is worth 10 who just ond would be to relate these early take off their hats to the flag. . . . enterprises to the latest and most Billy Sunday: Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at advanced agricultural experiments of the present day. Set up side by first . . . J. Lorimer: The best way side on the same plantation they to hold a man is to make him want to hold you. . . . Maude Warren-der- : would provide striking contrast beEverybody is able to give tween the early time and today and would indicate the evolution of pleasure in some way. One person may do it by coming into a room, agriculture in the United States. another by going out navy-crowde- old-tim- e well-know- well-know- n land-holdin- Werk guaranteed; any size $3.00. Extra yrtnts $1.M each. Beautiful, natural oil Sl.M. Insure your pictures and storing end lull eeler directions. Work returned C.O.D. In ene week. Write if you need nere Information FRANK BALL. (M Ninth B. Itr., (alt Lake. Mrs. Jones Found That She Spoke Out of Turn Mrs. Jones went shopping. When she returned, she saw that men from the telegraph company had arrived with their van outside her house. There they were, to her disgust, with a pole and a hole in the ground. She proceeded to tell them all about it.. How dared they put up a pole right In front of her house. The property would lessen in value. She was going to complain. The foreman let her have her head for about five minutes. Then: Im very sorry, madam, he said, politely, but were not putting the pole up. We are taking it away. Its been standing in front of your house for two years! Ice-bo- ... ... 0 well-know- ... America's First Scientific Farmer each farm into seven fields of 40 acres. The boundaries were marked by rows of peach trees. The seven fields indicated that his system of rotation of crops embraced seven years. He reduced corn to one year in seven and tobacco seems to have been eliminated entirely. He alstressed the maxim that ways where the soil is left bare the sun absorbs the nutritious juices of the eaith. Consequently, in his d nat desig rotation system, he FRUITS A Soldiers Letter to mores Mrs. Luce, in the Nation, should A Water-bur- y be read by everybody. editorialist complained about a New Yorkers one unimportant error In the same edition the editorialists own paper apologized for three of its own. Hawl . . . Hero Commando Kellys Satevepost fee ($25,000) and the $25,000 from Zanuck were taxed ... (.'ST ante-bellu- Thomas Jefferson AGENTS EXTRA INCOME Part tiro work insuring automobiles, trucks and homes in your neighborhood. Build a secure income NOW and for postwar days. Write or phone collect. ... Let us consider for a moment what should be the character of a National Agricultural museum. It should probably be located in Washington, or other appropriate place In the United States, housed in one or more large buildings, and surrounded with appropriate landscaping. Here, outdoors and under glass, should be shown in cultivation representative treffi, shrubs, fruits, plants, flowers, and other vegetation of the United States. The outer walls of the buildings should present bas reliefs showing the evolution of agriculture in this country from the primitive Indian culture of the time of first settlement to the mechanized farming of the present day. On the inner walls should be placed large murals depicting famous agricultural events and scenes. Thus, might be found Eli Whitney experimenting with his cotton gin, Elkanah Watson holding the first agricultural fair, Cyrus Hall McCormick trying out his first reaper, or Lincoln signing the act colleges. creating the land-graOf equal interest would be the portrayal of different types of agricultural operations, such as the production of wheat, corn, tobacco, cotton, sugar cane, rice and other field crops, the cultivation of fruits and flowers, and the raising of cattle and livestock. In addition to murals there should be a gallery of of agricultural leadpaintings ers, representing all types of activity. A theater should likewise be provided where lectures, music, plays, ballets and moving pictures of agricultural interest might be presented. Dioramas and Operating Models. of agricultural The evolution machinery, rural architecture, electrification in farm regions, transportation, milling, tanning, and other types of processing should receive separate attention in appropriate exhibits, including the use of dioramas, operating models and originals. The museum should develop a special library, include provision for publishing magazines, bulletins and books, house and operate a radio station, Civmaintain close relations with the il war, reconstruction and early 20th agricultural press, cooperate with century. Likewise, wherever earlier the land-gracolleges, and possess periods are shown, some attention a microfilm and photostat laborashould be given to present day tory for reproducing copies of litera- operations to show contrast and evoture about the museum, as well as lution. Collections of physical obpictures of its exhibits. jects, such as implements and An important part of the museum machines, should also be assembled should be the exhibits devoted to where pertinent to the particular the social aspect of agricultural de- activity. The bonanza wheat farming of the velopment The life of the rural people should be fully portrayed for Dakotas from the 70s to the 90s each era and for all classes and has long vanished yet we know meat-packin- Trailers Used Cars th seum, the purpose of which will be to tell the story of those Americans who, Bince this nation was founded, have contributed so much to its prosperity and to its standing as the greatest nation on which presents graphically not only the history of agri-- I cultures past but also the story of its present and its promise for the future. The establishment of such a museum was forecast recently when the National Agricultural Jefferson Bicentenary committee macle a pilgrim-- i age to Charlottesville, Va., there to visit the University of Virginia and Monticello and pay tribute to the man whom Claude R. Wickard, secretary of agriculture and chairman of the committee, characterized as the Founder of Modern American Agriculture Thomas Jefferson. Another speaker on this occasion and the man who made the proposal for a national was agricultural museum Herbert A. Kellar, director of the McCormick Historical association in Chicago. Speaking on the subject of Living Agricultural Museums, he said in part: bwlsif, The Intelligentsia: Sumner Welles Time of Decision," a special, is rated In Washington and London as the most important book yet on the diplomatic history of this war and the diplomatic future of the world. . . . Look mags color photo of FDR was taken since his recent illness the best of him yet. And you cant retouch technicolor! . . . Anita Colby, the darling of the Stork, Morocco and Colony set (who made the Powers girl famous), is now feminine director of the Selznick Studios, if you will podn their lorgnette. . . . Eth Barrymore is being booked for a lecture tour. Her subject will be the high points in the life of the Barry- the United States SOME day have a national mu- By BAUKIIAGE Inter-America- n WE BUT AND BELL rfle Funuturs. File. Typewriter. MS Registers. ig Machines. Safes, Cash BUT LAKE DBBK EXCHANGE A WssS Sail Lsll City, lllak Notes of an Innocent Bystander: Released by Western Newspaper Union. AVu.t Analyst and Commentator. The OFFICE EQUIPMENT By ELMO SCOTT WATSON Bilateral Exchange of Information, Facilities and Personnel Does Much To Boost Farm Output. their jobs if the administration changes here in Washington, and who pester themselves not so much about votes as about pests, will be calmly reading the reports of an international organization which has already proved that it does work. DEPARTMENT So Much to Greatness of America: Her Farmers Big Boost to Agriculture cooperation between nations might CLASSIFIED Proposed National Agricultural Museum Would Tell Story of the Men Who Have Contributed nate any land to be fallow, but rather cultivated certain plants, especially legumes, because he accepted the idea that such planti would absorb fertility from the atmosphere and store it in the soil. Another observation can be verified by a study of this rotation system. 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