Show pu mily elliott and eleanor be begin am back to land movement by BAUKHAGE news new analyst 4 and ald commentator washington moses smith I 1 understand has retired he is leaving the acres he has been farming for 27 years his landlords widow and her son are aping to work it from now on the last time I 1 saw moses smith he was dressed in his sunday clothes we were both up in his former landlords bedroom with some ot 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 they came up there to talk over farm and other business the former 0 occupants dr essing dressing gown was lying on the bed his slippers were by the church the boss was one of the landlords that tenants me like moses told me that five years before when I 1 visited him at his white painted farm house ive rented from him tor for 22 y deais ars that was 1941 he told me then and he has yet to find fand a fault whenever A he gets a chance he comes over h here e re to say hello and goodbye but he doean doesn t find fault and ive made mistakes too nobody Is perfect the landlord had a pretty good opinion of the tenant too too a as a I 1 learned Bauk baukhage haga 1 later a t e r S smith m ith knew that and was pleased out it dian didn t go to his head hea d he is a typical independent self respecting upstate up state new york farmer I 1 remember he said to me that da day Y sitting on the front stoop in 1841 1941 th the president drove over here a little while back with princess juliana he told her about this house being over years old and I 1 told him about the well water it had gone bad so he said go ahead and dig a new well smith and I 1 walked over t to 0 the new well it was leet feet deep it will last years said smith with the pride you find up that way in good things that last by this time you have guessed that smith was a tenant on the roosevelt rooseve t estate at hyde park N Y I 1 take it he be Is a comfortably ay iy retired farmer now living in the nearby village of the same name and mrs eleanor roosevelt and her son elliott have taken over I 1 dont know who will live in the farm house the old roosevelt homestead Is a museum now but the roose belts have other dwellings they are going in for commercial farming mrs R said elliott been interviewed intel viewed since the senate war investigating committee started looking into the hughes airplane and ended looking the other way and blushing the testimony had a lot to do with the night club cock tall tail lounge side of 0 young roose belts activities but nobody could find a hole in his war record even his many critics admit that alliotts elliotts EUi Elli otts friends are heaving sighs of relief relict to hear that he is going in tor for something constructive war takes a lot of courage and skill too but it very constructive neither Is night life this Is a challenge mrs airs roosevelt explained in her column no which aich elliott and I 1 will enjoy every farmer fanner knows a hes right about the challenge 11 they arent going to try to raise w wheat heat corn potatoes or attempt to keep 14 cows as smith was doing when w hen I 1 visited him they are going to continue raising christmas trees a venture which the late president started and seriously pursued for or several years smiths ac acres re which were devoted to ge general farming are arb only a traction fraction of the more than 1000 acres much of 0 which Is wooded and part of which has been devoted to a scientifically cul cultivated it bated ever evergreen gree n crop which make up the estate mrs roosevelt explained that she and and her son afford to keep the he estate as a country place as her mother nother in law had I 1 n noticed 0 that the new york her a ald id tribune made editorial note of mrs Roosevel ts plans and mentioned that a lot of acres along the hudson were untilled unfilled it mentioned that dr samuel bard a wealthy retired physician had a place not far from the roosevelt estate where he carried on valuable experiments which made an important contribution to abric agric agriculture I 1 mrs roosevelt hopes to con conduct similar experiments it if mrs roosevelt says the I 1 herald tribune does no more than fasten remembrance on the fact that ladd endures that stability of farming arming is that of a renewable world in which seedtime and harvest are still more lasting than dynasties and dictators the new farming partnership will have done much of value before the first furrows are turned I 1 wonder it if you feel the way I 1 do I 1 think regardless of the color of ones political sentiments anybody who loves the soll soil can offer his well wishes to this venture with the hope that the young man will do as well with his bis hands in the earth as he did with his bis plane in the air |