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Magic Trip Covers 6,000 Miles
By EUGENE BURNS
WANT TO TAKE A magic
u.wuwin j u: II J I'.
How long will it lake, you ask.
Just a few hours we'll be back
in time for supper.
What's magic about it? Listen,
with every olhcr step you'll
cover a mile!
What'll we see? You'll see an
enormous spread of landscape
reaching from the broad-leafed
trees of our hometown through
the spired forests 600 miles
north, up into the gnarled,
scrubby growth 2,000 miles away,
and then into the lichens and
mosses of the Canadian tundras.
Where'll we start? Up the
nearest mountain road, and then
finish with a two-hours' climb.
But don't worry, it won't be ex
hausting. Unlike any other trip you've
taken, this will be a vertical
trip, observing the side of the
mountain as we climb.
It's this way: perhaps some
time in your life you've noticed
a snow-capped mountain peak, or
seen a picture of a snow-capped
peak at the equator such a
15,000-foot peak carries on its
shoulders a floral spread of
fl.OOO miles, from the equator to
the Arctic. Reducing this to our
ills
size and fitting it to our nearest
mountain, it means that when
we look up just ten feet, that
spot carries plant life growing
six miles closer to the Arctic;
100 feet up is 60 miles closer
to the Arctic; 1,000 feet up is
600 miles!
And so, at this rate of almost
600 miles an hour, we'll pass
through a series of floral zones
from our broad-leafed forest
containing perhaps hickory, elm,
mountain maple, ash and beech
on into the white pine and firs,
and into the poplars and birches
of the highlands, and finally
into the scrubby growth, and be
yond that into the lands of
mosses and lichens.
Take Monument Mountain,
near Stockbridge, Mass. As
mountains go, this is a miniature
job. Yet, as we climb, with a
matter of minutes we'll travel,
floral-wise, from Massachusetts
to the Gaspe Peninsula. This is
that magiv I promised that
magic of climbing a mountain.
Now take a trip in your own
neighborhood, up the nearest
mountain. As I write this, I am
looking at a 3,000-foot peak. Its
base is ringed with a broad-leafed
forest of oak. Midway, the trees
change to firs. The top is crown
ed with a growth of scrub.
Now look more closely at the
forest at the start of your hike:
see among the hardwoods the
cover of wild flowers. In season,
trilium, skunk cabbage, violet,
geranium and columbine.
Then as you climb, notice the
woods of spruce and fire, a dark
forest realily, whose shade is so
dense that the floor is almost
clear of ground cover. Only
where the run manages to come
through, the berries and mosses
are thick, luxurious.
Yet, sharp as the contrast is,
look ahead. As we climb, there
is an even more pronounced con
trast we enter the scrub zone.
Suddenly we emerge from the
dark and into the light. Here the
scrubby pine, oak and birch are
widely spaced and they hug the
earth in beautiful contorted
shapes, but always in wonderful
harmony with their environment.
This is the forest that stands be
tween the tall spires and the land
of no trees, the Arctic. Because
this forest is knotty, spiraling,
and unprofitable to the lumber
man, it is a forest unchanged a
bit of our continent's original
landscape, unchanged by man.
From this scrubby zone, it is
only a short climb and see! Here
are mosses and lichens, harken
ing back to the beginnings of
plant life 50 millions and more
years ago. And beyond that, if
we don't run out of mountain,
is the land of snow, and raw
Arctic! So in a matter of hours,
we've come 6,000 miles, and
more.
This time we've looked at the
plant life the trees and the flow
ers. Next time, we'll look at
the changing animal life as we
climb and we'll find that the
mammals, birds, insects, reptiles,
worms all seek their own geo
grapical 'levels. But that calls
for another magical trip!
(Copyripht, 1354, by Eugene Burn!;)
'LIGHT BIKE CRAZE' SWEEPING THE COUNTRY
U.S. Bike Makers Hit by Imports
WASHINGTON (NEA) Any
day now the President's Cabinet
will pause in its concern over
vast national and international
crises and devote a session to
the "light bike craze" which is
sweeping the country.
While the administration has
been preoccupied with such grave
matters as Communist aggression
in the free world, a group of
U.S. allies has laid heavy siege
to the American bicycle business.
It has U.S. hike makers back
peddling into oblivion, they claim.
A major cause ot their current
complicated trouble is the sud
den urge of American kids to ride
lightweight foreign bicycles.
In 1049 only 16,000 bikes were
imported into the U.S. Last year
the country was swamped with
600,000 foreign makes which sold
like hot cakes. This year, at the
rale they're still coming in, an
estimated 000,000 foreign bi
cycles will be sold in the U.S.
NEW COMPETITION
England, Germany, Belgium,
France and Italy, in that order,
are the countries responsible for
this new competition to Ameri
can firms.
19th ANNUAL
ST. PAUL
RODEO
JULY 345
ST. PAUL, ORE.
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after June 21
The 1954 import estimate is as
tronomical to the U.S. bike in
dustry because it represents close
to half of their total normal year
ly output, which ranges from 2.2
million to 1.8 million bicycles,
The Cabinet is scheduled to
lake up this two-wheeled question
as a result of a new service being
provided to American business
men by the Business and Defense
Services Administration o the
Department ot Commerce. The
bust in the bike business happens
to be more crucial than some of
the other problems of the coun
try's businessmen. But it's typical
of what BDSA is trying to do for
them.
At a recent emergency meeting
called by BDSA, bike makers
aired their problems and formed
an action committee to prepare a
pica for help to the U.S. Tariff
Commission. BDSA is helping
collect all the information on the
situation and prepare brief1- lor
the Commission. And top Com
merce officials have promised to
get it to the Cabinet for consid
eration at that level.
REDUCTION OF DUTIES
One of their many troubles, the
bike men complain, is the reduc
tion of duties on foreign bikes
from a peak of 30 per cent to
the present 7!i per cent levy.
They're seeking both hiked duties
and a quota on imports.
One of the most popular ot the
heavier U.S. hikes about 45
pounds retails for $74.95, al
though you can got them for as
low as $44.95. The standard light
bike around 36 pounds which is
made in America to compete with
the foreign lightweights, retails
for $54.95. The equivalent foreign
number goes tor $.19.95, and less
in some cases.
Here are some of the oilier
MAKE WORK EASIER!
LOOKS LIKE PLENTY OF BUSINESS for bike makers
in tliis typical American school yard, but U. S. makers
claim they're being ridden into oblivion by imports from
Europe.
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complicating factors in Ihc bike
situation as revealed at the recent
meeting:
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in Europe as a primary means of i
transportation, bike manufactur
ing is a much larger industry
there. One English firm is capa
ble of making more bikes than I
all U.S. firms put together, even
though bicycling adds up to a
$500 million industry in the U.S.,
employing 80,000 persons.
HAVE ADVANTAGE
This means European firms
have the advantage of economics
of mass production methods in
addition to much lower wage
scales.
The idea of a lightweight bike,
originated in Europe, with three
speed gears and a hand brake.:
also stems from Hie facl that
they're mostly used by adults for
transportation, American bike!
makers have gotten into heavier
bikes with balloon lires to make
them Stand up to the heavy abuse
given them by American young
sters, who are the biggest bike
customers in the U.S.
U.S. bike makers are against
switching over 100 per cent to
light hikes because they will still
be unable to compete with for
eign makers under present terms.
And they are convinced that it's
just a "craze" which the kids
will get over when they learn thai
the lighter bikes aren't standing
up under heavy abuse,
Meantime, however, the indus
try is suffering. Several firms
have sold out to bigger organiza
tions which are going to add some
other lines of merchandise to the
plants' output. Several others arc
close to financial failure. None is
working to full capacity.
Factory Work Speeded
By Two-Way Radio
NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (in
Two-way short-way radios in com
pany trucks have speeded intra
planl operations 50 per cent at
the Hell Aircraft Corp. here.
The radio system has eliminat
ed problems in distribution and
liming of pickups and deliveries
at manufacturing, engineering
Bnd administrative locations scat
tered over Bell's 05-acre facility.
Supervisors and foremen in dis
tant sections of the plant can con
verse with the dispatcher when
necessary.
Eventually the radios will be
lied into the company's modern
fire department for civil defense.
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