| Show THE GARLAND TIMES GARLAND UTAH Comfortable Chair For Your Lawn Columnist’s Thoughts Turn To Squirrels —and Crabgrass Newt Analrtt acenic woThe world haa marveled at Vermont’ nder Many have witneased the apontaneoua splitting of quarry block at aome of lta quarof granite suddenly snap ries where great block loose with a aharp report But the world should know Vermont' people too They were first to express conThey stitutional prohibition of all human alaveryl were Drat in the nation to provide universal manhood suffrage with voting not dependent upon property owned or rented or a specified yearly income Vermont always hated slavery and lta legislatures adopted annual resolutions against it Southern states grew more angry each year The Georgia legislature requested President Pierce to employ enough Irishmen to dig a ditch around Vermont and float “the thing" out to the Atlantic ocean! A Virginia newspaper gravely commented that Vermont was “always foremost in the path of Infamy" son of the Great Years later Robert T Lincoln Emancipator came to Vermont to make his home at Manchester A marker now stands on the lot in Bennington where William Lloyd Garrison lived and where he edited the “Journal of the Times” early in the 19th century Also Bennington was the birthplace of John F Winslow builder of the “Monitor" the steel ship of Civil war fame The climate is cool Vermont is a pleasant place and the atmosphere dry The summer season between frosts is from 110 to 160 days depending on location and altitude Evidences of the ice age still prevail in rounded and grooved ledges polished rock surfaces boulders and great deposits of unsorted sands The range of scenic Interest is vast clays and gravels with mountains and broad valleys river and lakes and abundant forests There will often be 10 feet of in the central part and 34 to 46 Inches of rainfall through the year Lake Champlain is 120 miles long and there are many others including Lake WiLake Dunmore and silver lloughby Lake state and each section has its scenic Vacationists find alFrom Mount Mansfield 4393 feet attractions high there Is an excellent view of most every kind of allure in Vermont including hiking on the fathe White Mountains and Adiromous Long Trail and horseback ridwith Lake Champlain visible ndack SO miles away Vermont has over bridle trail ing on the thousand-mil- J$S peaks with an altitude of 2000 system TF WWW &£ 'lu r ijM i x&S x ' ' - V W 5t525‘ ¥ 4i" 'v : r? 'JA ill junnnrini '“Jnjfjij iiiMtiii YEAS AROUND Top plctare shows canoeing on Lake Bottom is Toll Rood House at the foot of ML Mansfield feet or over There are over lakes in the state and forests forest parks cover over a acres Hunting trapping 400 and fishing are always available to the rugged outdoor man There are recreational activities In Vermont all through the year — skiing into April fishing and other vacationing from May to late fall and touring and hunting to the openTourists ing of the winter season penetrate to every comer of the A Vermont Sugar Honse For 12 Years Vermont Vermont is a dairy with beef milk butter and cheese as important products It is also well suited to diversified farming and fruit growing Many sheep are raised there and it was in Vermont that the Morgan horse was Both in quality and developed leads all quantity Vermont states with a normal yield of about 40 per cent of the total The 33000 bearing apple trees in the state’s orchards yield a product of notable quality In industry Vermont is noted for lumber and lumber products woolen mills marble granite slate lime asbestos talc kaolin ocher and other soapstone Steel squares were inproducts in Vermont vented and are still manufactured at SL Johnsbury In recent years a growing number of writers and artists have their made Vermont permanent Others spend a part of the homes Dorothy Canfield Fishyear there er who loves her Arlington home is one of the state’s authors Robert Frost the poet lives in Shaftsbtiry Chester A Arthur was the first native Vermonter to become President of the United States later followed to the White House by Calvin Adm George Coolidge of Plymouth Dewey Levi P Morton John Deere A John B Mansfield Stephen John C Saxe Joseph Douglas Smith Taft Brigham Alphonso Young and many other figures in history were born in Vermont stafe and Was Independent Republic One of th outstanding features of Vermont is that It existed as an dependent republic with Texas the only other state so distinguished Vermont was claimed by both New Yrk- and -- New Hampshire and was called by some the New Hampshire Grants A convention of the aettlers was held in the Catamount tavern at Bennington in 1763 to discuss this controversy Already the militia known as the Green Mountain Boys had come into being At a convention In Westminster in 1777 Vermont was declared an state and the name of dependent was adopted New Connecticut but afterward the name was shortly to Vermont changed had been suggested several years earlier The Green Mountain Boys took part in all the conflicts of the Revolution and Bennington monument 302 feet high commemorates In Poultney when a lad Horace Greeley set type in a small print Salmon P Chase lived and shop studied law at Randolph Peacham was the boyhood home of Thaddeus Stevens Eugene Field with recollections of hla boyhood in based several of his poems on local life In Vermont Few states have produced so many notables in all lines of endeavor as hardy mountainous Vermont Samuel Champlain exFrench was the first white man plorer known to have seen any part of Vermont When coming from Canada In 1609 he went up the long lake that bears his name The first settlement in Vermont though shortlived was also by the French when Captain La Motte built a fort and a shrine on Isle La Motte In 1688 Capt Jacobus de Warm established an outpost on what is now Chimney Point In general however Vermont was a land in the 17th and 18th centuries a mere passageway for French and Indian raiding parties seeking the English farther south and east From the earliest days Vermont gave attention to primary education The University of Vermont was chartered in 1791 Other institutions for higher education include Norwich university Northfleld the second oldest military college in the nation Bennington college SL Michael’s college There Trinity Burlington are three normal schools and two Junior colleges in the state One of the crowning features of Vermont is the province of the Green mountains Here are found Elthe highest peaks— Kllllngton len Lincoln Camel’s Hump Mansfield and Jay The physical of the state Is diversified however with the Vermont lowland west on the and much rolling counThe state's geology try eastward is complex and extremely fascinating Vermont ’The is nicknamed Green Mountain State” Its motto is “Freedom and Unity” The state flower is the red clover state bird hermit thrush state song “Hail Vermont 1 5i V A t - aw" MORTIMER Governor R PROCTOR of Vermont the battle of Bennington From 1777 to 1791 Vermont was a completely independent republic When all the ancient disputes were settled the state adopted the constitution of the United States and was admitted as the 14th state— the first to be added to the original 13 The capital was established In Montpelier In 1805 Men of Vermont have a noble a love of liberty and inheritage dependence that U and full appreciation of human rights and Commentator 1616 Eye Street NW D C Washington Summer was creeping toward the Potomac the flag over the White House hung limp as a wilted petal a hot sun burning through the Infrequent gaps In the heavy foliage made yellow patches on the lawn The fountain splashed faintly falling like warm futile tears I moved slowly along the drive wondering if I could garner even a modicum of answers to meet emptiness left by the thousands of unanswered questions the world is asking I looked under the Japanese oaks whose tightly laced leaves only a little above the ground smother the young grass hopefully starting up each spring withering In the shadows before July There bored and I could make out the half asleep form of the old gray squlrreL Often this winter be had come to my rescue when other “dependable sources” and “authoritative refused to yield up their quarters’ secrets But this time he barely nodded and looked away deep in his meditations probably a nuclear problem of some sort A few moments later I was taking down notes at a not very news-tThe press and radio conference President I feared did not feel as cheerful ss he looked The handkerchief in his breast pocket was neatly folded in its customary three flat (Sometriangles times bis answers were almost as sharp) The great red carnations on the table behind his desk which holds the photographs of members of his family were already droopThe low hum of the mowing ing machine came in the open windows that look toward the Potomac Of what was said of Import to the nation and the world you will WNC full making 900 this project d By BAUIUIAGE the few place where people apeak of thrift Vermont a amall atate pulling It reapect ahare of weight with the reat of the nation and it own budget meet! of ONE comfortable lawn chair Is a good J ust three stock widths of material simple cuts with the hand saw and you are MAKING Service Even though millions of gardeners agree with your remarks I till challenge them At present I have a spring garden growing without any hoeing on land covered with a thick layer of last year's dead crabgrass a weed can grow '"Scarcely through it not even this year's crabgrass tha “You see I am ‘Pop laziest gardener in the world and I refuse to gather haul and mulch when crabgrass spread will do it for me and do a better job of It I make it mulch the land for me by leaving It strictly alone I may even enAfter courage It with fertilizer I have gathered my early spring vegetables I let the crabgrass take over In early fall when the crabgrass stops growing here I mow It down I then have that mulch gardener’s delight a mellow mulchy spot where most anything can grow I without using spade or hoe use a potato digger to dig planting holes” But that is not all "Pop” may be the laziest gardener In the world but he is a vigorous poet He enclosed a poem of which (alas) have room only for one verae and refrain Here it Is: “Bring me a hoe pull 'em all upl Chick weed crabgrass dig and cutl but Stoop down low! Nothing trash ready to nail or screw the pieces together A pattern gives bill of materials large cutting diagrams and Illustrated construction steps When you ere assembling materials for outdoor furniture this year be urt to ask your dealer about the new war plastic glues developed during the on both If this type of glue is spread the piece will have a aides of a Joining longer life nil lawn chair is mads with pattern 269 which reader may fet by return mail by sending name and address with 15e direct to: MRS RUTH WYETH SPEARS N Drawer It HUl Settlor ZdcIom U cent for Deelgn No 169 - Name Arwaa Plant Pollenation pollenation of plants is afnot only by wind water inbirds and man but also by mammals such as Javanese bats and Australian honey mice Th fected sects Goosefoot pigweed and Johnston grass Just no time to look at the sky by Fleecy clouds Work ’til you’ve such a crook in the back That gardening pleasure's gone alackl may have a foolish sound Crabgrass mulch is good for the ground Let the weeds growl Bring me a chairl Crabgrass mulch Is every- where Soft and thick and brown "Wisdom Strategy MUfiret Battle Over OPA In Bankhage squirrel consults the old gray read by the time these lines The rest was trivia are printed We walked out of the executive ofI glanced under the Japafices nese oaks but my friend the squirrel had gone the vista looked very bare and cheerless So I went back and talked about It As soon as mail could reach me from Sturgeon I reLake Minn ceived a letter and a package The writer said that as I had mentioned that It seemed Impossible to raise grass on the shaded parts of the I might be White House grounds terested In this sample of quack grass which she offered and she wrote: “If it won’t grow there I’ll be glad to know there Is some place it won't grow” The next day I acknowledged the gift and opined that quack grass must be another name for crabgrass which I remembered as the bane of my experience Soon I received other- communications A landscape designer in Akron Ohio informed me that “quack grass Is not crabgrass The former the latter is an Is a perennial annuaL Quack grass (agropyron repens) propagates by seeds and creeping rootstalks Crabgrass reseeds Itself each year” Another letter came from Robert L (“Pop”) Davis "Amateur Mulch Gardener” of Thorsby Ala He referred to my mention of crabgrass s a pest and then he went on: have spent years at my “Having hobby of looking for the most useful plant for growing mulch in my gardens and was it deciding that crabgrass I cannot resist a challenge BARBS Charles Musician Gulsikoff took 60 shirts with him when the Philadelphia orchestra went on tour The tour lasts 42 days I suppose they're topped in Pittsburgh Inflation note from a reader who tends me some of his 1940 bills Seems he paid $273 for CM floorand $12 80 last month ing la 1940 lor same The battle over the OPA hr the senate has brought out some of the good old axioms on how to bring and how pressure on congress not to if you want to get your favorite bill passed strategy all along ha been to postpone action on OPA as long as possible have Supporters At this moment fought for action though some unforeseen event may the course it looks as ll change the odds favored postponement but not defeat It first appeared that ordinary conventional methods used by the professional lobbyists were going to kill the bill Then it looked as if spontaneously written letters were going to save it In both cases the effort was overdone There were too many expensive advertisements in the newspapers sponsored by the various- - business institutions fighttoo much money ing price control Identified as coming easily from vested interests was being spent Then it was that John Q Citizen sat himself down took up his pen or often his pencil and wrote an undictated letter because he (mostly she) was really stirred up Congress began to take heed of those letters They were obviously they were written by men and women who had made up their own minds They were voters with convictions and it was very likely those convictions would be registered at the polls But once more Pelion was heaped on Ossa There was a e organization by the labor people the veterans the women's clubs The mail and telegrams piled up but the senators weren’t too Interested The letters were sincere enough But the majority revealed that they were Inspired not by an inner urge a look into the pocketbook or pantry but by the persuasive voice over the phone or at the front door Do what you will the kind of communication produced by these methods it very likely to have r secondhand appearance which the experienced congressman can recognize That Is why despite the number of letters and telegrams the regimented calls telephone senators were content to discuss the British loan and even ponder such complicated matters as atomic energy before hastening to line up for OPA by B aukhage Seems there’s a special Josel Stalin tulip named after the generalissimo Wonder If it's red coal Industry is sick all right and some of its nurses are pretty superannuated The This spring weather would if it weren't for an occasional the ointment be fine flu la "Discard Harsh Laxatives" Say Happy Famous Cereal Brings Relief to Millions I Constipated? 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