Thursday, July 24, 1952
BROOKINGS-HARBOR PILOT, BROOKINGS, OREGON
(F oj [ What It's Worth .
By C lifford P. R o w ?
A re you getting sick and tired of listening to political conventions?
Are \o u gettin g fed up with the w rangling and argum ents relative
to the m erits of the various candidates and the
principles for which they stan d ? Do you feel
th at the entire perform ance is silly and unnec­
essary ?
If such are your tru e feelings, then it may be
possible that Joe Stalin is your man, Russia your
recommended residence and communism y o u r
ideal philosophy* tor the workings of a democracy
such as our can never be quiet or always e n te r­
taining. In the Soviet, on the other hand", the
leader will guarantee your never being bothered
by politics or needing to strain your mind in de­
term ining which p arty to support.
Personally, I love the verbal fisticuffs, the emo­
tional o utbursts and the violent differences in opinion that charac­
terize the American political convention. I may not agree with all
th at is said and done; nevertheless, I highly appreciate having it
bi ought home to me forcibly every tour years that decocracy is
still in existence and th at the right to express one’s opinion is
still held sacred.
N aturally everyone is aw are th at some skulduggery is present
in all politics. Such antics may even be nauseating at times, but we
are also aw are th at dishonest tactics will be taken care of in the
long haul. Conventions this month have been particularly forceful
in dem onstrating th at right will alm ost always trium ph when ex­
posed to healthful environm ent of public scrutiny.
While at tim es our dem ocratic m achinery may seem complicated,
involved and tedious, I still prefer it to the firing squad or the
death cham ber as a m eans of settling im portant political issues. As
long as men have the right to express their opinions fearlessly.
I know that I am still a free m an and th at when I cast my ballot it
will be a potent force and not a pitiable farce.
Wild Strawberry
The big red straw berries that
taste so good with shortcake and
cream come from plants growing
in home gardens and on truck
farm s. They are carefully tended
to m ake them produce berries that
are just right for eating fresh or
for m aking into preserves.
There was a time, though, when
^ th e oily straw berriee to be had
were wild ones growing in fields.
To get the tasty fruit in those days
THE
N a tio n a l W ild life
Federation
Attached to the same stalks that ation, is in fields, pastures, and
bear the flowers are the sweet the wild plants, experts have pro­
red berries. Though not as Targe duced the straw berries which w e
and a ttra c tiv e in shape as culti­ cultivate.
vated straw berries, the wild ones
Wild straw berries now r a n k
look and taste very much like the second to their tam e cousins, but
kind that comes from gardens.
they still furnish fruit for eating.
As you m ight guess, the reason And wherever they grow, they
! for the resem blance is th at Wild perform a useful service by cling­
S traw berries are ancestors of the ing to the ground and protecting
garden variety. By working with ¡soil against erosion.
W ild S tra w b e rry
open where th er Is sunshine to
keep the ground dry and to ripen *
the fruit in the late spring.
Like cultivated s tr a w b e r rie s - !
the wild straw berry is a low plant |
from three to nine inches high
that spreads over the ground,
it grows from runners, or shoots,
which reach out and take root at
m any places.
Fastened to the runners are
leaves, growing i n clusters of
three leaflets apiece. Each leaflet
has coarse teeth along its edge
and a rought, hairy surface. It
is aebout two inches long.
H ere and there among the leav*
es are small white flowers. Each
flower is from a half to three-
lourths of an inch in diam eter and
has five round, white petals
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If you were living in the eastern
I half of the United tSates, the
chances are th at you would have
found good picking. T hat is the
region where the Wild S tra w ­
berry has been abundant for years.
It is still plentiful from New Eng­
land to Florida and west to O kla­
homa and South Dakota.
The place to look for the platn
says the N ational Wildlife Feder-
grassy slopes. It grows out in the
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you had to take a basket and
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