Illinois Valley News, Thursday, October 7, 1948
Washington Di&est?
Washington Social Hours:
Cold Turkey, Hot Gossip
Crop Roots Require
Oxygen and Water
By BAÜKHAGE
dnalyit und Commentator,
WASHINGTON.—Washington cocktail parties and other
social gatherings have been widely publicized as makers and
breakers of reputations, national candidacies and interna­
tional policies.
N ot a ll o f these a ffa irs m a y fo rg e o r fra c tu re the d e stin y o f nations
but m any often b rin g to g eth e r as g re a t a v a rie ty o f hum an in g re d ie n ti
as are to be found at any one place a t any one tim e , anyw here.
F o r exam ple I have ju s t retu rn e d*^--------------—— -__________ _
__
fro m lunch. I p ro b a b ly should say '
ily , had o u tlive d the Japanese oc­
. “ luncheon”
con-
cupation, and w ith his sister, had
’ sid e rin g w hat it
p a rtic ip a te d in the e ffe ctive P h ilip
f m ust have cost m y
pine underground, m em o rie s of
red-headed college
w hich made this d a y ’s c u rre n t tra g
m ate host whose
edy o f the P h ilip p in e s —the e ru p tio n
excuse fo r g iv in g
o f Ilib o k h ib o k volcano on C am iq uin
it was the fa c t th a t
isla n d —a de cid e dly m in o r concern.
he was c e le b ra tin g
On m y le ft was a p ro m in e n t Wash­
I his 55th b irth d a y
ington la w ye r. D u rin g a lu ll in the
but whose re a l re a ­
discussion o f in te rn a tio n a l, if not
sons la y beyond
cosm ic a ffa irs, he suddenly asked:
d ista n t fro n tie rs .
W hat was yo u r m o th e r’ s m aiden
The bearded I t a l­
na m e ? ”
ian scie n tist on his
“ A lice B lo o d ,” I replied.
le ft rem in d e d h im
th a t the occasion ,
“ Yes.” he nodded in sa tisfa c­
was unique
be­
tion, “ .My aunt, C la ra Brow n,
K U K IIA G E
cause it was h a rd ­
often told me about your m oth ­
ly lik e ly he would celebrate a s im i- |
er. They were classm ates (In g ­
la r occasion 55 years hence.
ham u n iv e rs ity ’78>, and she was
A little m acabre, I thought, but
a b ride sm a id a t your m o th e r’s
no one seemed to take it th a t way
w edding in La Salle, Illin o is .”
—least o f a ll the fe llo w -citize n of
S kip p in g
your
correspondent i
Dante who was e n jo yin g h im s e lf
im m e n se ly over his cold sm oked around the table, we a rriv e a t a
We exchanged
tu rk e y and doubtless became ly r ic fam ous scie n tist.
over the lira and oth er im p o rta n t I rem iniscences too, fo r he also was
tran sa lp in e in stitu tio n s before we a g raduate o f the same college. As
we ta lke d , I rem e m be re d an anec­
were through.
On the bearded one’s le ft was a dote about h im I had heard from
rep re se n ta tive o f the state d e p a rt­ m u tu a l college frie n d .
m ent who gave me a d isa p p o in tin g ­
ly eye-witness and unsensational ac­
count o f the recent p a rlia m e n t ses­
sion o f one o f o u r South A m e rica n
neighbors—a session which I had
judged from previous dispatches,
w ould be punctuated by re v o lv e r
shots.
We had heard ru m o rs of m ys­
terious shootings there w hich
were supposed to have made up
in p o litic a l significance w hat
they lacked in m arksm a nsh ip .
Also there had been hints of
cabinet changes due not only to
m istakes in p o licy, b lit to hasty
b u ria ls. I asked m y fe llo w guest
about it.
"O h, n o ," he said, "th e re w ere no
cabinet changes."
" B u t w hat about these te rrib le
fu m o rs of g ra ft and c o rru p tio n ? "
“ W ell, the P re sid e n t in his a d ­
dress d id m ake p a rtic u la r reference
to the evils o f p o litic a l co rru p tio n
and to the im p o rta n ce o f selfless
lo y a lty on the p a rt o f the servants
o f the s ta te ."
" B u t was th a t a ll? ” I persisted.
"N o names, addresses, o r telephone
n u m b e rs? "
A C hech by A n y
O th e r N a m e • . .
N ot m an y years a fte r his g ra d u a ­
tion, th is scie n tist and his young
w ife a rriv e d in the c ity w here our
m u tu a l frie n d was in business, and
called on h im . The businessman
recognized the s c ie n tis t’s face im ­
m e d ia te ly but fo r the life o f h im ,
co u ld n ’ t re m e m b e r the m a n ’ s name.
D u rin g th e ir lunch, the scie n tist
re m a rk e d th a t he was going on an
extended tr ip in to Canada and had
u n fo rtu n a te ly run out o f m oney. He
wondered
could
. ,
------- he
" " get a
“ v check
u v tn |
cashed a t the businessm an’ s bank, i
he businessm an g la d ly acquiesced,
un " lg that when he saw the sig-
X
e the
n ^ m ^ g X
er they w ent to the bank, the scien-
Organic Matter Decay
Helps Soil to ‘Breathe*
\ r EARS ago the b r illia n t A le x a n d e r
| * Pope w ro te :
T hey had no poet
—and they d ie d ." He was re fe rrin g
to the dead and decadent e m p ire s of
the w o rld — " I n v a in th e y schemed,
in va in they bled. T he y had no poet
and are d e a d ."
Yale, this season, has 320 pounds
of poet. I f Pope was rig h t, Y ale
fo o tba ll won’ t die th is fa ll. "W e can
s till lose a ll o u r gam es and look
good," H erm an to ld me.
‘Not to the Old B lu e .” I said. ' The
Old B lue n e ith e r dies
n o r s u rre n d e rs ."
“ W h a t d o e s he
do?” H e rm a n asked.
Soils m u st " b re a th e " d e e p ly if
crop roo ts are to su p p o rt high
y ie ld s above the g round. These
roots need oxygen to g ro w and
reach out for. w a te r p la n t n u trie n ts
To b re a th e deeply, soils m ust
have re g u la r a d d itio n s o f o rg a n ic
m a tte r.
W ith o u t o rg a n ic m a tte r
soils tig h te n up. Soil p a rtic le s are
ja m m e d to g eth e r. The so il becomes
“ He expects you
a com pacted mass. T he re is little I
to w in a lo t o f fo o t­
room fo r e ith e r a ir o r w a te r. Roots
b a ll gam es w ith the
And it h a rd to forage in the tig h t
s p i r i t o f H in k e y ,
soil.
Shevlin, K ilp a tric k ,
When o rg a n ic m a tte r is added, it
Pudge H e ffe lfin ge r,
opens the so il fo r a ir and w a te r
C lin t F ra n k , W iddy
to soak in deeply. As it ro ts the
N e a le a n d a fe w
o rg a n ic m a tte r b u ild s so il s tru c ­
o th e rs ."
tu re . The hum us fo rm e d fro m o r ­
l il t KM AN
" B u t I haven’t any
ganic m a tte r sw ells and sh rin ks
of
these fellow s on m y team th is sea­
w ith w e ttin g and d ry in g .
Com
pounds th a t fo rm when o rg a n ic son," H erm an, the poet, said.
m a tte r decays help to s tic k these ! This was a b ig occasion at Yale
m in e ra l p a rtic le s to g e th e r in s m a ll and New Haven. I t was the firs t tim e
groups so th a t the so il is loose and Yale had ever had a poet coaching
the team since m y old and departed
w o rkab le .
O rg a n ic m a tte r should be added friend. B illy Phelps, tr ie d to help.
deep in the s o il as w e ll as in the
p lo w la y e r. M id d le W est Soil Im
p ro ve m e n t co m m itte e p o in ts out
th a t the best w ay to d riv e o rg a n ic
m a tte r down deep is th ro u g h use
of ta p-rooted legum es, such as al
" I t ’s no use, G ra n t,” B illy
Phelps told me once, “ they d o n 't
appreciate blockers and passers
down here. They a re so m uch
m ore im p o rta n t th a n poets and
philosophers. I o n ly w ish they
knew .”
M r. H e rm a n H ickm a n , the greatest
guard fo o tb a ll ever knew, a cco rd in g
! to Gen. Bob N eyland and th is w rite r,
the poet la u re a te o f the Sm oky M oun­
tains, the m an who helped to m ake
j five g re a t A rm y lines, now faces
only one k in k in his happy existence
—the gam e’ s greatest lin e coach has
no line to coach.
Has Good Hack field
He has a fine b a ckfie ld , headed by
I Bull N adherny, a scrap p y h a rd h it­
tin g h a ck—a finp fo o tb a ll p la ye r. He
I has L e v i Jackson who so fa r has
never liv e d up to his new spaper
fa lfa o r sweet clo ve r, re g u la rly n headlines—but who is about due.
the ro ta tio n . The roots o f these
He has o ther good backs. He has
legum es d r ill down 18 to 25 inches a high-class center in Y a le ’ s scrappy
below the plow la y e r.
captain, B illy Conway. B u t where
H e a vy stands o f legum es also are a11 lhose P olish nam es H ow ie
¡ T ' k V
^
Odell had — B arzila u ska s — P rc h lik
soils are w e ll s i c k p ^ t u h 8 ’s T plus b ig D avidson—a fine ta c k le — and
others?
, phate and potash fo r fu „ p r ^ d ^
“ Don’t get me w ro ng , G ra n t,”
Uon
when a
d t
P “ is
H e rm a n said. " T h is lin e m ate ­
' P’ owed l*hder to go w ith fh e root
r ia l I have is game, s m a rt and
| these legum es w ill b u ild the strue-
w illin g to give Its a ll. I mean
tu re tilth so il needs fo r h ig h yields.
th a t. We’ ll m ake ’em respect
us, even If we lose e v e ry gam e.
W e’ll w in some gam es and
lose some g a m e s ."
tis t w rote the check, and the tw o
men went to the ca sh ie r's window .
b u ’ n6
u
h3nded *" ,he
cheek, a ll the businessm an could
read was the nam e o f a bank in a
ve ry d ista n t c ity and the am o u n t—
five hundred dollars.
He had a lrea d y said to the cash­
ier. " I w ant you to m eet m y frie n d
One-Wheel Power Unit
. ” but could get no fu rth e r. T e r­
"T h a t's m y philosophy of life ,” I
" T h a t was a ll, " he insisted, “ It r ib ly em barrassed, he turn e d to the
said to H erm an. "T a k e a l i t t l e -
The pow er u n it, designed by C a rl­ leave a lit t le —but d o n 't e ve r take it
was a v e ry q u ie t session. F u rth e r­ scientist and said: " I 'm so rry, but
ton M. E d w a rd s, C o rn e ll u n iv e rs ity , a ll. "
m ore there was none o f the p ro to ­ I can’ t re ca ll yo u r n a m e .”
fo r L in c o ln A rc W e ld in g foundation, . _____
_ ___
, w„ o u others
„ ic I ,
col we observe at a Joint session of
N o tre _____
D am e
and one o r tw
o f course the ca sh ie r o ve r­
can be used to d riv e num erous fro n t can te ll you about th a t. " D o n ’t e v e r
the tw o houses o f the A m e rica n con­
heard
this
re
m
a
rk
and
w
ith
the
m ounted garden tools, fa rm tools, 1 take It a ll.” L ife doesn't w o rk th a t
gress T his p a rlia m e n t was called
n a tu ra l c ru tio n o f the b anker,
la w
n m ow ers o ..............
r snow *-• blades.
to order, the President came in,
............................
'
A way.
said to the businessm an: "T h is
I c u ltiv a to r tool b a r can be attached
spoke his piece, and went o u t.”
H e rm a n H ic k m a n d re w at least
w ill be fine. M r. X, b u t w ill you
one lu c k y break. He cam e to Y ale
A t th is po in t, m y host broke
please endorse th is ? " M r X
a t a tim e when E li was at its low est
in. lie insisted th a t I repeat the
turn e d it over, noted the name
ebb. I t m ust have been at a low
s to ry of the opening of th is sum ­
hut d id not recognize It, tre m ­
ebb since Howie Odell, its coach, le ft
m e r's special " t u r n ip " session of
bled to th in k of w h a t w ould hap­
fo r W ashington u n iv e rs ity , w here
congress w hich nobody outside
pen to his hank aecount if it
fa r w estern coaches don’ t b elieve he
of a few m illio n ra d io listeners
bounced (and he was sure H
I is headed anyw here.
who happened to be tuned In had
w o u ld ), and signed. F a re w e lls
heard before.
Yale, th is season, plays th is sched­
w ere spoken, the s c ie n tist de­
u le — B ro w n . C onnecticut, C o lum bia,
p a rte d . D ay a fte r day the busi­
L e g is la tiv e F a u x Pas,
across the le a i o f the fra m e . Cast i W isconsin. V a n d e rb ilt, D a rtm o u th ,
nessman aw aited the c a ll fro m
e r wheels on each end o f the tool i K ings P oint, P rin ce to n and H a rv a rd
D e L uxe S tyle
the bank.
| b a r w ill a d ju st depth and g ive three
T his J u ly 26 when a ve ry a n g ry
In fa ct, he told me he had p icke d points on the ground fo r balance, i 1 ale Doesn't Rate
house o f rep re se n ta tive s wns called
space on the w a ll w h e re he AH w e ld in g on th is u n it can be
I d o n 't believe th a t Y ale rates w ith
to order, it was know n that the re g u ­ intended to fra m e the p a p er so th a t done w ith a 3 16-inch d ia m e te r e le c­
W isconsin, V a n d e rb ilt, o r P rinceton.
la r ch a p la in could not appear. So, he could c a ll a tte n tio n to It casu­
trode. using a p p ro x im a te ly 180 a m ­
when a stra n g e r look the ro s tru m ,
Yale should be outclassed by
a lly should some o th er va g u ely peres w e ld in g cu rre n t.
the less-som nolent m em bers rose, id e n tifie d c a lle r request a s im ila r
C o lu m b ia , W isconsin. V a n d e r­
bowed th e ir heads, as is the custom , fa vo r.
b ilt and P rinceton. I under­
to lis te n to the p ra y e r The firs t
stand B row n. D a rtm o u th and
N oth in g happened.
w ords
they
heard
resounding
H a rv a rd are fa r b e tte r than a
A m onth or so la te r, a n o th e r c o l­
Herds and Flocks
th ro u g h the ch a m b e r were "W h e re ­ lege frie n d cam e to tow n The b u si­
y e a r ago.
I know C olu m bia
as the p u b lic in te re s t req u ire s th a t nessman relate d the sto ry, d e s c rib ­
should be a fa r b e tte r team . I
A ll n ig h t lig h ts help to p revent
the congress o f the V n ite d States ing the scie n tist and his occupation.
know P rin ce to n w ill be.
should be convened at 12 o’ cl ock
U n a cco u nta b ly his lis te n e r b u rst sta m p e d in g o f tu rk e y s on range
T his leaves H e rm a n H ic k m a n of
noon on M onday, the tw e n ty-sixth of in to la ughter.
B lackhead o f t u r k e y s causes Tennessee, A rm y and Y a le in
J u ly , 1948. to rece ive such c n m m u n i-
heavy losses
Phenothiazine pow tough spot.
" D id n 't you kn o w ,” he said be­
ca tio n as m ay be m ade by th Ex-
The best team s in the Iv y league
d e r m ixe d in the m ash a t the rate
tween gasps. "T h a t m a n 's tech­
e c u tiv e ; Now, th e re fo re . I, H a rry
o f one ounce d a ily fo r 100 b ird s, has should be P e n nsylvania. P rin ce to n
n ic a l as w e ll as s c ie n tific In fo r­
S T ru m a n P resident o f the U nited
been found e ffe c tiv e in p re ve n tin g and C o lum bia. A t least th e y have
States . . .’ ’ and so on.
m a tio n w hich he a cq u ire d at
losses, because it d estroys cecal m uch the best m a te ria l. C olum bia
school along w ith his Ars M ag-
G ra itu a llv the m em bers re a l­
w o rm s w h ich are c a rrie rs of the has the best backfield m a te ria l—
la te r m ade him a cool m illio n
ized th a t the m an addressing
and a p re tty good line. P rin ce to n
blackhead organism s.
the y e a r a fte r he was g ra d u ­
them was lint the substitute fo r
and P e n n sylva n ia have the best all-
a te d ? "
I
■
the absent ch a p la in of the house,
», , u .
u
",
I T o m ake lam bs tic k p ro o f s o n v around s tu ff
A the luncheon there was also a th cm w lth D p T M lx
P >
but the su b stitute fo r the equal-
Penn State and A rm y should have
2 , i" v n d
n PF P P
m e re ly I .- , 50
ccn, w # tta b , , , p
ly-a bse n t rea d in g c le rk whose
tw o o f the best team s in the E a st—
d u tv I t is to read b ills and o ff!
w ith R utgers and V tlla n o v a c h a l­
who le ft e a rly.
d" , ‘n * ea" on!' ° ' w„a tc r n" d
r ia l co m m u n ica tio n s.
lenging. Don’ t sell e ith e r short.
And now back to m y re d -h e .d e d L‘ * d ^ L c E in d e ? ' n
ii
- , » j .1
j
a
w around neck and ears
One aopli
B u i H e rm a n H ickm a n honest­
It was m ost e m b a rra ssin g
The host He
relate d the a d ve ntu re o f , a f,
M
,
.1
.
. . . .
, ca tio n should last fa r tw o or three
ly faces the toughest challenge
v o ic e they were h e a rin g was not the one o « f the
guests who had been un- weeks
«tree
of the lo t. He hasn’t two men
vo ice o f a m an rep e a tin g the w ord able to appear. I t seems th is gen- ,
____
who could m ake C olum bia or
o f G od. It was the vo ice of the sub- j tle m a n had fo rm e d a c o rp o ra tio n
-e
.
T w o essent|ai s f o r live sto ck and
P rin ce to n .
And Yale dot sn’t
s tltu te c le rk re p e a tin g the p ro c la ­ called "W o rld Developm ent, In c .‘
p o u ltry in late su m m e r are shade
m a tio n o f the m an nt whom they I or som ething ve ry s im ila r
lik e to lose.
When ‘
and
w
a
te
r
w e re m addest. The m em b e rs d id n 't 1 m y host heard his g lo w in g p ro s­
, M y suggestion Is th a t Yale give
lik e to m ake p u b lic adm ission o f I pectus. he said. “ A re n ’t you cover- I
H erm an H ic k m a n a chance— and
th e ir e rr o r by s ittin g down, and so in g a lo t o f g ro u n d ."
DDT Proves Effective
tnat doesn't mean 1948— 1949 any­
th e y h ad to stand th ro u g h the p a in ­
"O h. n o ," said the p ro m o te r who
way I d o n 't believe Yale has ever
fu l 144-word prono u n ce m e n t w hich since had acq u ire d considerable in 1 On Peach Tree Borer
had a fin e r coaeh o r a hum an be
D
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,
when
used
as
a
tru
n
k
h a d to rn them fro m the bosom o f fluence
in
in te rn a tio n a l
a ffa irs , I
sp ra y, w ill co n tro l the peach tree i mg who could mean m ore to Yale
fa m ily and co n stitu e n cy, and b rought " th is is ju s t a s u b sid ia ry o f the In
, b o re r, a cco rd in g to the New Y o rk fo o tba ll than Herm an H ic k m a n can
th e m b a ck to h e a t-rid d e n W ashing
te r-P la n e ta ry c o rp o ra tio n ."
W inning is a good, b ig p a rt of it.
ton
Then I had to go, so I never knew State a g ric u ltu ra l e x p e rim e n t sta
' But w in n in g is n 't e v e ry th in g H er
lio
n
.
The
new
m
ethod
o
f
bo
re
r
N e x t to the sta te d e p a rtm e n t off!
w hat m aste r-p la n fo r the re b u ild in g
i m an H ic k m a n can do m ore good fo r
r ia l who had u n w ittin g ly pro vid e d
and e x p lo itin g o f the n a tio n the co n tro l takes the place o f older
[ a college losing than m ost coaches
the excuse fo r m y anecdote was the w o rld o r the sid e re a l spaces were m ethod» using ethylene d lc h lo rid e
can w in n in g I m ean In the way th a t
co n su l-g e n e ra l o f the P h ilip p in e re
discussed o r consum m ated
B u t I o f P D B crysta ls, since It Is non
counts
p u b lic who happens to be the son h a te no doubt you can go a long in ju rio u s , la b o r-sa vin g , tim e saving
U only w in n in g counts then N otre
D D T Is used at
of
,>'h»r college cla ssm a te o f 1 way in W ashington s ta r tin g w ith and inexpensive
the ra te o f tw o pounds to each 100 D ,ln e an'1 M ich ig an are the only tw e
cold tu rke y.
n
He lik e the re st o f his fa m
gallons of w a te r
I n a jo r colleges le ft.
R u b in g e n tly -w a rm in g , s o o th in g B e n -G a y fo r feist
r e lie f fro m m u scu la r soreness a n d p a in . B e n -G a y con­
ta in s u p to 2 V i tim e s m o re m e th y l s a lic y la te a nd
m e n th o l—fam ous p a in -re lie v in g agents k n o w n to e v e ry
d o c to r—th a n fiv e o th e r w id e ly o ffe re d ru b -in s . In s is t
on g e n uine B e n -G a y , th e o rig in a l B a u m e A n a lg é siq u e .
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hands you through its time-tested
direcl-to-dealer selling plan
Hotfoot it to your Sparton dealer, and see for
yourself what sensational radio values Sparton
is dropping right in your lap.
You’ll find sparkling, new 1949 sets—including
gorgeous radio-phonographs—priced as much as
$50 below the retail prices of comparable models.
For Sparton sells direct to one exclusive dealer
in a com m unity. . . (possibly a neighbor of yours i
. . . chojw oil middleman expenses, and passes
the savings to you.
Don’t take our word for it. Check Sparton sets
for style, quality, tone with other models, in
town or out. Then compare prices. See if Sparton
doesn’t give you the biggest dollar’s worth in
radio today. If there is no Sparton dealer in
your town, please write Sparton, Dept. WN
Jackson, Michigan, for the name of the nearest
dealer.
A C H A llfN G IN O VALUE!
D istinctive S p arto n A M -
L M ra d io - p h o n o g r a p h
w ith fast, quiet, roll-out,
au to m atic record-changer
. . . big 10* speaker . . .
built-in F M and A M a n ­
ten n as . . . continuous
tone control . . . double
record-storage space each
side . . . m any o th er fea­
tures. M odel 1060 in
hand-rubbed w alnut ve­
neer. J u s t tr y 1 1 / Q 9 ! ’
to m atch it a t
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FOOTBALL SEASON SPECIAL! L uxury- r *vied
portable, beautiful, sim ulated leather
finish . . . operates on batteries or AC or
D C cu rren t . . . light w eight . . . perm a­
n en t m agnet speaker . . . built-in loop
a n te n n , M odel CAM-06. Sen-
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The Sparks-Withington Company, Jackson, Michigan
Sea these new models at your Sparton dealer's now