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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER. RANDOLPH. UTAH roposea Mm Gems of Thought Agricultural Museum Would God to whom little boys say their prayers has a face very like their mothers! J. M. Barrie. Men are the sport of circumstances, when the circumstances seem the sport of men. Byron. Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright; for the end of that man is peace. Psalm npIIE Tell Story of the Men Who Have Contributed Much to Greatness of America: Her Farmers By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. Wright, I was SAYS Teresa and lonesome By ELMO SCOTT WATSON Released by Western Newspaper Union. the United States SOME day have a national mu- seum, the purpose of which will be to tell the story of those Americans who, since this nation was founded, have contributed so much to its prosperity and to its standing as the greatest nation on 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" which presents graphically not only the history of agricultures 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 made a pilgrimage to Charlottesville, Va., there to visit the o University of Virginia and to and pay tribute the man Mont-icell- whom Claude R. Wickard, secretary of agriculture and chairman of the committee, charac- terized as the Founder of Modern American Agriculture Thomas Jefferson. Another speaker on this occasion and the man who made the proposal for a national agricultural museum was Herbert A. Kellar, director of the McCormick Historical association in Chicago. Speaking on the subject of Living Agricultural Museums, he said in part: 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 trees, 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 paintings, of agricultural leaders, 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. The evolution of agricultural 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 d originals. The museum should develop a special library, include provision for publishing magazines, bulletins and books, house and operate a radio station, maintain close relations with the agricultural press, cooperate with the land-gracolleges, and possess a microfilm and photostat laboratory for reproducing copies of literature about the museum, as well as pictures of its exhibits. An important part of the museum should be the exhibits devoted to the social aspect of agricultural development. The life of the rural people should be fully portrayed for each era and for all classes and places. The relation of agriculture to geology, geography, climate and soils, entomology, biology, chemis- nt meat-packin- g, full-size- nt 37:37. Friendships the privilege Of private men; for wretched when I first came to Hollywood, but I had a job to do, A and did the best I could. swell job it was, too, and now shes doing another one; mak- ness knows No blessing so substantial. -T- great- ATE. The main rewards of life do not go to those with the sharpest teeth and the longest claws. Dr. Frank Kingdom. ing a screen comeback. After 18 months absence from pictures, due to illness, she is currently appearing with Gary Cooper in International Pictures and Casanova Brown, will be starred in two other pictures before very long. After making a hit in two Broadway successes and refusing a Hollywood contract be- - WD RIB'S LARGEST SEIUB AT Palm Leaf Bible Bible in a Parisian library is printed on palm leaves. A - WhM'J's builds the 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. try and engineering also TERESA WRIGHT merit where the Dalrymples were located 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 and increase the opportunity for service. 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 I research pertaining to various of the history of agriculj phases ture 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. Jn 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 ingreater degree than the national stitution. These branch museums should take advantage of the existence in numerous places in this country of notable sites of representative flouragricultural activities which a for and ished in a former day Where posconsiderable period. sible such activities should be recreated at the original locations. to mind Among those which come are the production of wheat, com, tobacco, cotton, rice, sugar cane, indigo, hemp, flax, vegetables, fruits, flowers, cattle and livestock, dairying, stock farming, maple sugAs ar, turpentine and lumbering. opinstance in each far as practical erations should be shown for several periods such as the colonial, Civ- ante-bellu- il war, reconstruction and early 20th century. Likewise, wherever earlier periods are shown, some attention should be given to present day evooperations to show contrast and obof Collections physical lution. and jects, such as implements assembled be also machines, should where .pertinent to the particular activity. The bonanza wheat farming of the Dakotas from the '70s to the 90s has long vanished yet- we know - dependable cause she felt she wasnt ready for it she mad four outstanding pictures, won an Oscar for her work in "Mrs. Miniver," and was starred in her fourth one. 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 e or an lumber camp. There are a number of tobacco, cotton, rice and it Power Plant SNAPPY FACTS At Paramount they claim that Lucy Tarr is the homeliest girl in Hollywood, and Lucy doesnt care. Shes been signed for the role of a hillbilly in Murder, He Says, star- old-tim- ring Fred MacMurray. well-kno- sugar cane plantations in the south, and cattle ranches, dairies and stock farms in the Middle West and West where original ownership of land has passed and original agricultural activities are now changed. Some of these could be acquired and reestablished to operate as formerly. In other instances the ownership has changed, but the original have been held together and still produce agricultural crops, though not always the same as before. Westover and Curies Neck and Claremont on the lower James are plantations of this type. Again, there are a surprising number of famous holdings which even today are owned by the same families which were in possession a hundred or more years ago. Shirley, the Carter estate on James river; Folly, the Cochran plantation in Augusta county; Walnut Grove, the McCormick farm in Rockbridge county; and Berry Hill, the Bruce plantation near Halifax, all of which are located in Virginia, meet this pattern. The same is true of the Middle-to- n estate on the Cooper river, and Hampton Hall, the Rutledge plantation on the Santee river both in South Carolina. In Louisiana, Rose-dowthe Bowman family estate resiand the Cottage, long-tim- e dence of the Butlers, should be added. The list could be considerably enlarged. In other cases such as Mount Vernon, Washingtons estate, Stratford, the Lee plantation, Monticello, the residence of Jefferson, and the Hermitage, home of Andrew Jackson, memorial associations operate these places as museums, with major attention given to the main dwellings. The national park service operates Wakefield, the Washington house, and Arlington, the Lee residence, as well n as other places. In keeping with the establishment of branch agricultural museums in various parts of the United States it would be appropriate to set up a Jefferson Agricultural Memorial association which might operate in connection with the Thomas Jefferson Memorial foundation at Monticello, Shadwell, Poplar Forest or other places directly associated with Jefferson. On one or more of these original Jefferson plantations two types of activities might be on display. One would be to carry out and reproduce the agricultural experiments recorded by Jefferson in his Garden Book and his Farm Book, including his development and trial of the moldboard plow. A second would be to relate these early enterprises to the latest and most advanced agricultural experiments of the present day. Set up side by side on the same plantation they would provide striking contrast between the early time 'and today and would indicate the evolution of agriculture in the United States. tflight Truck . tf Passenger Car Light Tractor job out of my looks, ABOUT RUBBER Ive got a she boasts. m now Nealy in A Tree Grows 20th Century-Fox- s in Brooklyn, is to get his first starring role in Columbia Pictures Rusty. Its a new sort of boy and a dog story, telling of the reformad tion of a vicious dog by a boy. Young Donaldson scored a personal triumph in Once Upon a Time, with Cary Grant and Janet Blair. Ted Donaldson, ten-year-o- ld completing the role of About tons of products wars movod from farm to markot by motor vehicles in 1942, and even a greater amount is expected to be transported by highway this year. Shipments of this volume call for the us of a tremendous number of tires. 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