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Show JAYSON. UTAH THE I'AYSON rHKONKXE. looseveft Family Turns to Farming mil aIV By UAl'KIIAC.E uj A tuts st bedroom, with some of the neighbors. It was a sad occasion. It was the boss' birthday anniversary but he had been dead nearly two years. The room looked the same to Moses and his friends who had seen it often when occuthey came up there to talk over farm and other business. The former on the bed, his slippers were by the was lying gown dressing pant's courch. The boss was one of the landlords that tenants like. Moses told me farm house. that, five years before, when I visited him at his white-painte- d Ive rented from him for 22- $- he told me of relief to hear that he Is going in then, "and he for something constructive. War has yet to find a takes a lot of courage and skill, too, fault. Whenever but it isnt very constructive. Neither is night life. ,' he gets a chance he comes over Mrs. This Is a challenge, here to say helRoosevelt explained In her collo and goodbye umn, which Elliott and I will but he doesnt Every- - farmer knows enjoy. And find fault chalabout the shes right Ive made mislenge. Notakes, too. They arent going to try to raise body is perfect." wheat, corn, potatoes, or attempt to The landlord 14 cows, as Smith was doing had a pretty keep I visited him. They are going when good opinion of to continue raising Christmas trees, too. the tenant, a venture which the late President as I learned started and seriously pursued for later. Smith several years. Smiths 140 acres, that and which were devoted to knew general was pleased, out it didnt go to his farming, are only a fraction of the a He is head. typical. Independent, more than 1,000 acres, much of New York which is wooded, and part of which farmer. I remember he said to me has been devoted to a scientifthat day, sitting on the front stoop, ically - cultivated evergreen crop, in 1941: which make up the estate. "The President drove over here Mrs. Roosevelt explained that she a little while back, with Princess and her son couldnt afford to keep Juliana. He told her about this the estate as a country place, as her house being over 100 years old and mother-in-lahad. It I told him about the I noticed that the New York had gone bad. So he said go ahead ribune made editorial note of Smith and I Mrs. Roosevelt's plans and menand dig a new well. walked over to the new well. It was tioned that a lot of acres along the 100 feet deep. It will last 100 Hudson "were untilled." with the pride Smith said years, It mentioned that Dr. Samuel you find up that way in good things Bard, a wealthy retired physician, that last. had a place not far from the RooseBy this time you have guessed velt estate where he carried on valthat Smith was a tenant on the uable experiments which made an Roosevelt estate at llyde Park, important contribution to agriculN. Y. I take it he is a comfortture. Mrs. Roosevelt hopes to conduct similar experiments. ably retired farmer now, living In the nearby village of the "If Mrs. Roosevelt, says the same name. And Mrs. Eleanor "does no more than Roosevelt and her son, Elliott, fasten remembrance on the fact have taken over, I dont know that stability that land endures who will live In the farm house. of farming is that of a renewable The old Roosevelt hopirstead is world in which seedtime and hara museum now but the Roose-- vest are still more lasting than dyvelts have other dwellings. nasties and dictators . . . the new They are going in for commercial farming partnership will have done farming, Mrs. R. said. Elliott hadn't much of value before the first furbeen interviewed since the senate rows are turned. I wonder if you feel the way I war Investigating committee startdo. I think, regardless of the ed looking into the Hughes airplane, color of ones political sentiand ended looking the other way and blushing. The testimony had a ments, anybody who loves the soil can offer his well wishes lot to do with the night club cocktail-lounge to tills venture with the hope side of young Roosethat the young man will do as velt's activities but nobody could well With his hands in the earth find a hole In his war record. Even as he did with his plane in the his many critics admit that. air. Elliotts friends are heaving sighs g that was 1941), up-sta- well-wate- Herald-T- Herald-Tribune- , . : Tragedy in the Forests It was a coincidence that while I was reminiscing on the subject of the Roosevelts new adventure in my neighbor in the building across the street presented me with a couple of typewritten pages containing some striking facts about tree destruction. They are apropos, I think, now, as we move toward the close (we hope) of the worst season of forest fifes in a decade. This period of holocausts began before the ink was dry on bills passed by congress making deep slashes in the interior department's control fire for appropriations Many of the cuts later were restored, but not in time to save thousands of acres of timber in some ar;;s of America, notably Alaska "The sawtimber burned In a single year in this country, says my friend's memorandum, would be sufficient, if converted to building materials, to replace every private house in the cities of New Orleans or Minneapolis. "If the wood below sawtimber dimensions could be manufactured for paper, it would provide a subscription to a monthly pocket-siz- e magazine for every man, woman and child In our 142 million population. "If it could be converted to rayon pulp, it would provide material for more than a hundred new dresses fur every woman and girl in America. "In terms of dollars, our annual forest fire loss amounts to 35 million doitars in payrolls lost to woods of a bilworkers and lion dollars worth of wood products The tragic part of all this is that 9 out of 10 forest fires could be prevented. Nine onr of 10 are traceable to human causes to incendiarists, causing more than 25 per cent of all fires; to smokers, careless debris-burnerrailroads, campers and woodsworkers who are responsible in the order named. Well, those are the sentiments of my neighbor, who is trying to establish a balanced cooperation among the men who make their money out of trees, one way or another. the people and the birds and the bugs who need to have trees, and tlie government and others who try to protect and preserve them. match tosser One can undo a lot of his work. . three-quarter- s, U - ... . . . Army Forest Service uhotoi jumpers are one of Parachute the most tmpostant factors in getting forest fires under control swiftly. Here, Dick Tuttle, near top of 100 foot lodgepole pine snag, is about to be assisted by Francis Luskin, forest guard. -- ii. i. Worried headline. Over France, assumes a pose, perhaps imploring to go away as the he safeguard, goal. So what happens? socked him right on the IN WASHINGTON . . . John Sampson Kirby. 69, (above) of Tennessee was placed under observation after a police had nabbed him packing depistol in the capitol building and claiming loudly that he had just been elected president of the United Producers although strongly entrenched in the present economy and apparently destined to remain so, at least for the immediate future, may be the first group to feel the full impact of any reversal of the current inflationary trend. That warning was issued by federal reserve board researchers in a midyear study of the position of agriculture, indicating tAat, even in of farmflush times, the wetl-beiers is in a state of deliciAe balance. ere to deIf the present boom velop into a tailspin, pr ee falls in the agricultural comm dity field probably would be greater than in other areas of the econctny. the report points out. Record returns to g to prosperous urban consumers and an almost unlimited demand from abroad could be reversed in h flash. The federal reserve board survey explained the danger of deflation to farmers by citing three factors now operating to keep prices high. The share of consumer incomes 1. going to food consumption is much larger than has been cus- tomary. Profit margins of producers and distributors are greater than usual. factors play an im-- . 3 Speculative portant part In maintaining prices on numerous markets. "Consequently, with any reversal food of inflationary tendencies, id nose he ire The customers have been worried over the lining problem for the last five or six years. CAUTION I cannot buy a house And theres nothing to rent: live in a barrel, except Gertrude Flynn Paul Whiteman has joined the ranks of disk jockeys. We take it his diet now includes laying off artistic ideals and using dignity sparingly. States. IN NEW YORK . . . Virginia Walton Brooks, 14, just returned from an African hunting trip with her parents, proudly revealed that she had shot not only an elephant and a lion but also such esoteric creatures as a kongoni, two gerenuks, fox, an an oryx, a s and a klipspring-er- . two bat-eare- d im-pal- a, dik-dik- IN CHICAGO . . . Mrs. Anna Metzger, 47, had had a pain in her leg for 40 years, finally became curious, pressed the irritated area and h sewing needle. pulled out a Highest Paid Lobbyist O F THE lobbyists registered with congress under the lobbying 700-od- d READY FOR INVASION! Rabbi Baruch S. Korff, cJ man of the political actio mittee for Palestine, claa will lead a parachute icJ of the Holy Land if the Inil tions Palestine commissio to recommend unlimited tion. as having received the highest fee. manager for the ReDanaher, who formerly served as an publican national committee at a salary of $25,000, has now listed himself as lobbyist for the Revere Copper and Brass company. It paid him $25,000 for getting the import tax on copper suspended. In addition to the S25.000 fee, Danaher also received $2,000 for appearances before the house ways and means committee and before the senate finance committee. Since the copper industry profited tremendously from removal of the import tax, Danahers fee was considered reasonable. As a matter of fact, other lobbyists probably were paid much more for performing other jobs by claiming they were paid for "legal services, not lobbying. This is one of the new dodges used by lobbyists which makes it appear that some of them merely worked for love. d n the Ion bo WALTER WIISCHEIJ two-inc- Peculiar People in the Big Burg SAY UNCLE: Ford Gives Up Abandoning Sabbath promenaders along Statisland's small town streets. Youd never guess this was part of a big city. Uppity dress shops where patrons are served cocktails gratis. . . . The rich eccentric who "dwells in a Park avenue hostelry. Her idea of fun is tossing coins from her window to watch peasants scramble. . . . The cluster of saloons on South street, where g men gather. They have labeled that sector "The Jungle. en . . sea-farin- y farmers attributed EUC The mellow tones of Radio City's guides. .Most of them A hope to be announcers. cop who is stationed near an East 4!)th street dock. It's a favorite jumping-of- f place for those who want to end it all. . . . d Wall Streets from clerk to top exec all impecThe ... Well-dresse- cably attired. fancier near St. Patrick's explaining the varieties of pigeons to anyone willing to listen. . . . Fifth avenue window-dressin- g craftsmen who plan their latest creations in deepest secrecy to make certain rivals wont filch their ideas. A pigeon cathedral .1 ALONE Greta Garbo attempted in Paris incognito by lo head so that her large hat partly masked bet STILL Saturday crowds in the ice cream sodamats, where you'll find more gay-et- y than in the silk and mink joynts. who . . . The retired vaude magician amuses children in Central park with his d wizardy. sleight-of-han- Swanky salons of fortune-teller- s on upper Madison avenue. Among their clients youll find some of New Yorks wealthiest and most respectAn organ grinder able people. whose monkey has a tiny derby perched on its head. If you give a coin, it tips its lid. ... WALTER SHE AD Sell Strategy in the Economic War T) EGARDLESS of how peace-lovinAmericans try to rationalize the present uneasy state of world affairs, there is one stark, basic fact that stands at the bottom of it all. The United States and Russia are engaged in war vast, tremendously important political and economic war. What the outcome will be, the man on the street and the man on the farm docs not know. No more does the man in high office in Washington. It is like any war involving arms and troops; no one can say with certainty which side will win. All that can be done is to outline the chief aims and objectives and plan the strategy accordingly. In this case, the U. S. aim, on the surface, at least, is clear-cu- t It is, we are told, the securing of individual and national freedom in eastern Europe. U. S. strategy is equally well defined and is following a definite course. Eastern Europe is in desperate need of American credits, goods and services. The United States, in a continuing series of expedient maneuvers, is granting or withholding these goods and services as strategy seems to indicate. Will this plan of battle be successful, or does it amount to nothing more than shadow-boxin- g with Communism? No responsible observer expects any sensational results, simply because the Communist hold on eastern Europe is already too strong. Probprices may be particularly subject ably the most that can be hoped is that present U. S. methods will to downward pressures. at least weaken, to some extent, the Soviet influence in that While the financial position of pivotal zone. farmers has undergone a vast, general improvement as compared r wdth years ual farmers have increased their indebtedness, and the new debt is written on the basis of sharply advanced values. In particular, the report declared AN ISSUE that will loom large will demand for the states. That that land values must start declinIs in the coming presidential elec the spending of state ing before much longer. Thus, while for the money a will be to return the people development of state the farmer is enjoying a high leve tion projects when ie r'6,s local and state self the federal of income and prosperity as a result government can be inof the prevailing inflationary econ- - governrnent. Strange as it may be duced to pay the bill. Nevertheless, 'Sht of history, that will be just why the omy, the same forces which are n people of Boston, for now operating to his benefit appear more 8 Republican than a Demo-a- s example, should cratic demand. In that connection, a control of floodassist in paying for a lurking but altogether possible waters in the Los lere s one privilege neither party Angeles river is hard to danger to his future security. answer. lljiD g II. DUCES RESCl'f ft1 Skorzeny, former rescued officer who from Italian partis fall of the Fascist at opening fore a military shown g ol tribe chau, Germany. Deflation a Threat to Farmer of farm commodities, p prayer Lining l)I!FV PEARSON his laudable, if efforts to stabilize automobile prices, Henry Ford II announced that prices on "most models of Ford passenger cars and all truck models would be boosted from $20 to $97, effective immediately. It was an average increase of 4.2 cent, the announcement said, per ZONE: TORRID the rise being dictated by "the simCorn Declines ple necessity of keeping Ford Motor company on a sound economic Thermometer-happbasis." in struggling feebly The action, following price inclutches of a record aucould take cold comfort from the creases by virtually every other the marked tomotive manufacturer, fact that temperatures were being stand exceeded in height only by the price defeat of Fords lonely against the forces of inflation. of corn. All this gave rise to a disturbing With abnormally hot weather preIf the Ford dynasty is unquestion: of the nation, vailing over most able to hold the line against inflagrains continued to deteriorate from tion, what, if anything, can? lack of moisture and prices of both corn and oats hit new record highs. THE SWIFT: September corn was selling at $2.45 a bushel and September oats Oysters Lose zoomed to $1.08:4. Oysters simply arent fast enough The grain market prices went to get away from predatory snails whose pace has been clocked offthrough the roof following a department of agriculture report that the icially at .000363005 miles an hour. ' corn crop countrys Plodding along on a treadmill at would produce only 2,437,000,000 the University of Maryland fish and bushels, a 223 million bushel drop wildlife laboratory, a test snail covfrom the August 1 estimate. ered 22 feet and Vi inch in 11 hours a pace swift and 30 minutes Although agriculture department had hoped earlier this enough, at least, to overtake an officials year for a 3 billion bushel corn oyster. Purpose of the laboratory's snailcrop to keep food production high, weeks of hot, dry winds shrivelled timing experiments is to slow the that hope, and the corn crops of little creatures up even more. As Iowa and Illinois, major producing things stand now, theyre doing too much damage to Chesapeake Bays sections, continued to decline oyster crop. FIRST VICTIM "Clothiers Problem'' "What new movies have you seen? "The Two Mrs. Paulines and The Egg and the Badman' were good, I thought, but I like Brute and 'The Huckster and Crossfire the Bobby Soxer. h ... . Im afraid I'd ferment. Monroe, inception. This was the burden of the MonIt is only roe doctrine in 1823: when our rights are invaded or seinriously menaced that we resent our for or make preparations juries in this hemisphere . . . defense Americas are making the Today, depreparations for hemispheric fense in advance of any menace or invasion of their rights. The mutual defense treaty embodies three main points: 1. In the case of armed attack from outside the hemisphere, all nations have the automatic right to meet the attack with military measures. 2. If military attack occurs inside the hemisphere, American nations may go voluntarily to the aid of the victim, with consultations to follow. 3. If attacks occur both Inside the hemisphere and outside the security region, immediate consultations will be called. Thus, despite the opposition of some Latin American nations to the "Monroe doctrinU. it appeared certain that the ism, policy hands off the Americas was in for a big revival in the atomic age. THE NOSE . . Goal-kin a recent soccer match at ON rnii.urs Id the United States, had his at least, at the Pole-Sout- i a the unions guns, too. Look at the way Tony Baksi and Tito are hitting the ball this -- fifth President of say, in spirit, defense conference at Pelropolis, Brazil, in August, 1947. When the conference agreed on a mutual aid treaty for North and South America .and their territorial waters, and set up a vast. North Pole hemispheric security zone, the celebrated Monroe doctrine was developed to its logical conclusion 124 years after its , "Are you following the baseball race this season? "Yes, it looks like the Yankees were a sure thing. They're great under that new manager, Ernie Bevin. Brooklyn is going great POLE TO POLE: Mutual Defense James my fiequi n. me into retracting the consumers. The Garble Sisters SpeaL Joint Defense Pact Set; Fear Large Corn Loss -- to ermvtl i NEW'S REVIEW heat-seare- d U. ob- 1, ? h cadets and navy midshipmen marines of stage mock beach "thebserv- battalion combat served After its completion, II. Camid tion as part of operation some of whom ers inspected the phases and talked with the marines, foxholes. In were still LESSON IN WARFARE Winrds are working against are onvmee me that the unions themselves "labor." they call themselves at the matter more thoroughly. unions in this country today. The I here are lid, 000,000 workers not are they Therefore 15,000,000. onlv claim to represent about are ao of labor. Ilu a even not majority ,11 labor They are which tries to nio.Hipohze on,,. They are of political of the country by sheer superior weight command. a, their means indeed any pressures,1' propaganda and States and if the K' ... there arc 140 000,000 people in the United size families same the raised have (if they represent 140,000,000 by run to ms others they are 25.000.000 people trying means, including intimidation. . ., V , write me asking their own furnish Thev then nv'VVhrvnri the consumers. With the sheer ('US ti ;ti o and Commentator. Moses Smith, I understand, has retired. WASHINGTON. He is leaving the 140 acres he has been farming for 27 years. His landlords widovand her son are going to work it from now on. The last time I saw Moses Smith he was dressed in his Sunday clothes. We were both up in his former landlords years Kepi'tent union people ,rlTH firecracker M oveinen t Labor AH Do Union Elliott and Eleanor Be;in Back - to - Land MALLOW pre-wa- ; lcU0a WRIGHT PATTERSON Rights of Local Government mountain a3 '""".Sk art HATTAN twice as big Dean, fine w rf breezed into jo acted as arms at the AnrlJ I vention. He wars. lk u achei |