Roosevelt Family Turns to Farming
Elliott and Eleanor Begin
Back-to-Land Movement
By BAUKHAGE
N v m j XsM/yif and Commentator.
WASHINGTON.—Moses Smith, I understand, has retired.
He is leaving the 140 acres he has been farming for 27 years.
His Landlord’s widow and her son are going to work it from
now on.
The last time I saw Moses Smith he was dressed in his
Sunday clothes. We were both up in his former landlord’s
bedroom, with some of the neighbors. It was a sad occasion. It was the
boss' birthday an n iv ersary but he had been dead nearly two years. The
room looked the sam e to Moses and his friends who had seen it often when
they cam e up there to talk over farm and other business. The form er occu
p a n t's dressing gown was lying on the bed. his slippers were by the
courch. The boss was one of the landlords that tenants like. Moses told me
that, flve y ears before, when I visited him at his white-painted farm house.
‘T've rented from him for 22
■I
y ears (that was 1941),’’ he told me
of relief to hear that he is going in
then,
“ and he for som ething constructive. War
has yet to find a takes a lot of courage and skill, too,
fault.
W henever but it isn 't very constructive. Nei
he gets a chance ther is night life.
he com es over
“ This is * challenge." Mrs.
here to say 'hel
Roosevelt explained in her col
lo' and 'goodbye'
umn. “ which Elliott and 1 will
but he doesn’t
enjoy.” E very fa rm e r knows
And fault. And
sh e 's right about the “ chal
I'v e m ade mis-
lenge."
No-
takes, too.
They a re n 't going to try to raise
body is perfect." wheat, corn, potatoes, or attem p t to
T h e l a n d l o r d keep 14 cows, as Smith was doing
h a d a p r e t t y when I visited him. They are going
good opinion of to continue raising C hristm as trees,
the tenant, too, a venture which the late President
as I le a rn e d
sta rte d and seriously pursued for
la te r . S m ith
B xukhage
several years. Sm ith’s 140 acres,
knew th a t and which were devoted to general
was pleased, out it d id n 't go to his farm ing, a re only a fraction of the
head He is a typical, independent, m ore than 1.000 acres, m uch of
self-respecting up-state New York which is wooded, and p art of which
farm er. I rem em b er he said to me has been devoted to a scientif
that day, sitting on the front stoop, ically - cultivated evergreen crop,
in 1941: —
which atake up the estate.
“ The P resident drove over here
Mrs. Roosevelt explained th at she
a little while back, with Princess and her son couldn't afford to keep
Juliana. He told h er about this the estate as a country place, as her
house being over 100 y e a rs old. and m other-in-law had.
I told him about the well-water. It
I noticed that the New York H er
had gone bad. So he said go ahead ald-Tribune m ade editorial note of
and dig a new w ell." Sm ith and I Mrs. R oosevelt's plans and m en
w alsed over to the new well. It was tioned that a lot of acres along the
100 feet deep. “ It will last 100 Hudson "w ere untilled."
y e a rs,” said Sm ith with the pride
It m entioned th at Dr. Samuel
you find up th at way in good things Bard, a w ealthy retired physician,
that last.
had a place not far from the Roose
. By this tim e you have guessed
velt estate w here he carried on val
th at Smith was a ten an t on the
uable experim ents which m ade an
Roosevelt estate at Hyde Park,
im portant contribution to agricul
N. Y. I take it he is a com fort
ture. Mrs. Roosevelt hopes to con
ably retired farm er now, living
duct sim ilar experim ents.
in the nearby village of the
“ If Mrs. Roosevelt," says the
sam e nam e. And M rs. Eleanor
H erald-Tribune, "does no m ore than
Roosevelt and her son, Elliott,
fasten rem em brance on the fact
have taken over. I don’t know
th at land endures . . . th at stability
who will live in the farm house.
of farm ing is that of a renew able
The old Roosevelt hom estead is
world in which seedtim e and h a r
a museum now—but the Roose
vest are still m ore lasting than dy
velts have other dwellings.
nasties and dictators . . . the new
They a re going in for com m ercial i farm ing partn ersh ip will have done
farm ing, Mrs. R. said. Elliott hadn’t m uch of value before the first fur
been interview ed since the senate i rows are tu rned."
I wonder if you feel the way 1
w ar investigating com m ittee s ta rt
do. 1 think, regardless of the
ed looking into the Hughes airplane,
color of one’s political senti
and ended looking the other way
m ents, anybody who loves the
and blushing. The testim ony had a
soil can offer his well wishes
lot to do with the night club—cock-
to this venture with the hope
tail-lounge side of young Roose
v elt’s activities but nobody could I that the young m an will do as
find a hole in his w ar record. Even | well with his hands in the earth
as he did with his plane in the
his m any critics adm it that.
E lliott’s friends are heaving sighs | air.
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★ ★
Tragedy in the Forests
Some Helpful Ideas in
Planning That Wedding
' ’P 'H E S E huve been hard days for
the British. Not only on the eco
nomic side, but also In sport.
Only recently they saw Babe Did-
rickson Z aharias, the Wonder Worn-
_
un, rem ove their
w om en’s golf crown
for the first time, i t 1 1 / H A T ti beautiful w e d d in g !”
but also had to
' ’ T he p e r f e c t e n d in g to a
w atch an A m eri perfect dny — hearing the (latter,
can. Willie T urnesa. ing com m ents of your guests ai
take over the B rit you and the groom w alk up tin
ish A m ateur ch am
aisle.
pionship. while an
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T ti« loveliness of uny w edding d riie n d l
Irishm an l u g g e d
the am ount und kind of plann ing Ilia '
home th eir Open on
goes Into It. If you w u nt y o u r l to be m e n
Cup in golf.
o r a h lr. sta.'t plann ing w e ll In ad van ce
O u r booklet No 204 can help you C ov
Bobby Locke, a
r r s e v e ry d e ta il fro m the e n g a g e m e n t t<
LESSON IN W ARFARE . . . Army cadets and navy m tdahlpm ea ob
lone
w
anderer
from
O idriekson
the w edding recep tio n e x p en se*, itre«».
served com bat battalion of m arin es stage mock beach landing o p era
the veldts of South etiq u ette , ev e ry th in g Semi 25c In coin fol
tion as p a rt of operation C am ld II. After its com pletion, the observ
Africa, has been the E m pire's lone “ llo w to T ia n Y ou r W ed d in g " Io W e e k l,
N ew s p a p e r S ervice. 241 West l l l h St.. N r »
e rs Inspected the phases and talked with the m arines, som e of whom
winner.
Y o rk I I . N . Y . I ’rln t na m e , ad dress with
w ere still in foxholes.
They have seen their boxers and rone, booklet title and No. 204.
tennis players, their scullers anil
others left behind. The latest is de
feat of their W lghtman Cup tennis
squad by a stronger A m erican group
of girls.
Six y e a rs of war. under constant
fire, plus the stringent food situ a
tion la te r have been partly respon
To b r ig h t e n tarnished gold
sible for the B ritish debacle. The
decline, however, began m any years pieces, rub them lig h tly w ith a
ago, in the wake of the Doherty tooth brush dipped in am m onia
B rothers, m any fine polo players, and baking soda.
POLE-TO-POLE:
Vardon. Taylor, Braid and Joyce
Stews and soups are m uch m ore
W ethered. plus a num ber of O lym
yiutunl Defense
tasty if you use leaves o f c a u li
pic
stars.
James M onroe, fifth President of
More than one or two generations flow er, cabbage, a n d s i m i l a r
the l ulled States, bad his say. in spirit,
will
pass before G reat B ritain will greens as flavoring.
at least, at the inter-American defense
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regain any part of her old glory, and
conference at Petrópolis, Brazil, in
even then, her dom ain will be out- | When peeling onions, breathe
August, 1947.
num bered by the United States at through the m outh und your eyes
When the conference agreed on a
least th ree to one.
should not w ater.
m utual aid tre a ty for North and
At the moment, however, it seem s i
South A m erica and their te rrito ria l
th at G reat B ritain has a m uch m ore | Itinxe w hite organdy in n solu
w aters, and set up a vast. North
im portant Job ahead than winning tion of salt w ater. T his w ill add
Pole-South Pole hem ispheric secu
gam es
to its stiffness.
rity zone, the celebrated Monroe
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doctrine was developed to its log
tHympic Discussions
To keep flowers fo r table decora
ical conclusion 124 years after its
T here are now two so-called tion over a fa irly long period dip
inception.
IN WASHINGTON . . . John Sam p
schools
of thought about holding the the stems into hot w ater before
This was the burden of the Mon son Kirby, 69, (above) of Tennessee
roe doctrine in 1823: “ It is only was placed under observation after ■ next set of Olympic gam es in Lon placing them in a bowl containing
The stems expand
when our rights a re invaded or se police had nabbed him packing a don. No one can say whether cold w ater.
riously m enaced that we resent in pistol in the capitol building and de these gam es help or hurt interna w ith the heat and take up m ore
juries or m ake p reparations for our claim ing loudly that he had "ju st tional relations Many believe they m oisture,
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defense . . . in this hem isphere . . .’’ been elected president of the United do. Ju st as m any are certain they 1
don’t. They should help, of course. ’ M any foods m ay be reheated
Today, the A m ericas a re m aking S tates.”
if the incredible hum an race had and served again w ithout change
p reparations for hem ispheric de IN NEW YORK . . . Virginia Wal
even a fair am ount of sanity.
in fluvor if heated in a double
fense in advance of any m enace ton Brooks, 14, ju st returned from
T here is already a definite split boiler and steamed through, in
or invasion of their rights. The mu- j an African hunting trip with her
tual defense tre a ty em bodies three parents, proudly revealed that she over the translation of " a m a te u r stead of bringing it in contact
m ain points:
had shot not only an elephant and ism ." of which there is no large w ith d ire c t heat.
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a lion but also such esoteric c re a am ount in any gam e today.
1. In the case of arm ed attack
You
can
give
v a rie ty to waffles
T here are debates about food dis
tures as a kongoni, two gerenuks,
from outside the hem isphere,
bv
adding
two
cups o f finely
crepancies.
T
here
is
certainly
no
an oryx, a bat-cared fox, an im-
all nations have the autom atic
deep and abiding affection for the cTiopped apples to each two cups
pala,
two
dik-diks
and
a
klipspring
, right to m eet the attack with
United States, and its constant vic of flour used in a standard w affle
er.
m ilitary m easures.
recipe.
IN CHICAGO . . . Mrs. Anna M etz torious Olympic m arches.
2. If m ilitary a tta c k occurs in
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The
Olympics
at
London,
in
1908.
j
ger, 47, had had a pain in her leg
side the hem isphere, A m erican
Sew lingerie guards in sheer
alm
ost
brought
on
a
break
betw
een
j
for 40 years, finally becam e cu ri
nations m ay go voluntarily to
blouses to assure even straps. A
ous, pressed the irrita te d area and England and the U. S., in an inci
the aid of the victim , with con
n a rro w tape stitched at the shoul
dent
over
the
Johnny
H
ayes—Do-
pulled out a two-inch sewing needle. ,
sultations to follow.
der seams w ill do the job pe rfe ct
rando
Pietri
m
arathon,
where
Pi-,
3. If a tta c k s occur both inside
ctri,
exhausted
and out.
was ly. Leave the end closest the neck
SAY UNCLE:
the hem isphere and outside the
dragged
over
the
line
ahead
of unstitched. Use snap to attach.
security region, im m ediate con
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Hayes.
Eventually
Hayes
was
de
Ford
Gives
Up
sultations will be called.
Jars
w
hich
do not take stand
clared
the
winner.
There
hdve
been
Abandoning his laudable, if non-
Thus, despite the opposition of
a
rd
lids
or
perhaps
have m in o r
m
any
other
incidents
that
were
not
conform ing, efforts to stabilize auto
some L atin A m erican nations to the
flaws can be m arked w ith a s m a ll
mobile prices, Henry Ford II an too happily wrought.
U. S.-espoused “ Monroe doctrin
We believe the gam es should be piece of adhesive tape. O r tie a
nounced that prices on "m ost m od
ism ,” it appeared certain th at the
els” of Ford passenger cars and all resum ed for several reasons. One s trin g around the shoulder of the
“ hands off the A m ericas" policy truck m odels would be boosted from | is th at England, the probable goat, ja r . These m a rks w ill save you
was in for a big revival in the atom
one of the least likely to succeed, when selecting ja rs fo r canning.
$20 to $97, effective im m ediately.
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ic age.
It was an average increase of 4.2 w ants them.
Another
is
th
at
after
the
1940
D
ried
beans
are best when
per cent, the announcem ent said, i
TORRID ZONE:
the rise being dictated by “ the sim- I lapse, thousands of young athletes cooked in soft w ater, fo r hard
pie necessity of keeping Ford Motor in this country, as well as in oth w ater toughens the skins.
Corn Declines
com
pany on a sound economic er countries, are now in hard tra in
T herm om eter-happy
A m ericans,
ing to m ake the team , and are
struggling feebly in the m oist b asis.”
keen to have their chance. They de
The
action,
following
price
in
clutches of a record heat wave,
M J MF LOW M C E .
serve this chance.
could take cold com fort from the creases by virtually every oyier au
fact th at te m p e ra tu re s w ere being tom otive m anufacturer, m arked the Sweden s Track Stars
defeat of F o rd 's lonely stand '
exceeded in height only by the price j
against the forces of inflation.
In addition to the U. S., there is
of corn.
All this gave rise to a disturbing little Sweden, with the best distance
With abnorm ally hot w eather p re question: If the Ford dynasty is un runners in the world, who deserves Sold a t Local S tö re t
vailing over m ost of the nation, able to hold the line against infla
the chance to show what her sta rs «rotto I Mooucn co . M mm «», u «
i grains continued to d eterio rate from tion, what, if anything, can?
can do against all-world com peti
lack of m oisture and prices of both
tion. Can you im agine what Swe
corn and oats hit new record highs. HIE SWIFT:
den’s mile, and longer-distance run Planning for the Future?
Septem ber corn w as selling at $2.45
ners would have done in 1940 to the
a bushel and Septem ber oats Oysters Lose
Buy U. S. Savings Bonds!
rest of the world?
zoomed to $1.08%.
O ysters sim ply a re n ’t fast enough
I don’t believe any set of Olympic
The grain m a rk e t prices went to get aw ay from predatory snails gam es can lower the present in ter
through the roof following a d e p a rt whose pace has been clocked offi national standard of fellowship and
m ent of agricu ltu re report th at the cially at .000363005 m iles an hour.
friendliness, of which there is prac
country’s heat-seared corn cron
Plodding along on a treadm ill at tically none left.
would produce only 2,437,000,000 the U niversity of M aryland fish and
Insofar as
and field goes,
bushels, a 223 million bushel drop wildlife laboratory, a test snail cov
the U. S. has alw ays been given a
Women In your ’’40’»’’l Dors thia
from the A ugust 1 estim ate.
ered 22 feet and % inch in 11 hours
functional ’middle-age’ period pecul
big edge in other years, and has
iar to women cause you to suffer hot
Although agricu ltu re departm ent and 30 m inutes — a pace swift yet to fail. So there will be nothing
flashes, nervous, hlghstrung, weak,
officials had hoped e a rlie r this enough, a t least, to overtake an new along this line.
tired feelings? Then do try Lydia E.
I Ink ham's Vegetable Compound to
year for a 3 billion bushel corn oyster.
relieve such symptoms. It’s fas nous
So fa r as food is concerned, I
Purpose of the lab o rato ry ’s snail
crop to keep food production high,
for this purpose I
Taken regularly—Plnkham s Com
weeks of hot, dry winds shrivelled tim ing experim ents is to slow the have seen more than a few of our
pound helps build up resistance
th at hope, and the corn crops of little c re a tu res up even more. As sta r athletes lose because they were
against such distress. Thousands have
In 1924, Paavo N urm i,
reported benefltt Also a very effective
Iowa and Illinois, m ajo r producing things stand now, they’re doing too overfed.
stomachla tonic. Worth trying!
Finland’s
distance
star,
gave
me
a
sections, continued to decline ste a d m uch dam age to C hesapeake B ay’s
few chunks of his m ain training
oyster
crop.
ily.
com VÔÛ no
food, which consisted of hard bread
It was a coincidence that while I [ money out of trees, one way or an
was rem iniscing on the subject of other, the people and the birds and
the Roosevelts' new adventure in the bugs who need to have trees,
tree-grow ing, my neighbor in the and the governm ent and others who
building across the street presented try to protect and preserve them.
m e with a couple of typew ritten : One non-cooperating m atch tosser
pages containing some striking can undo a lot of his work.
facts about tree destruction. They
a re apropos, I think, now, as we
m ove tow ard the close (we hope) of
the worst season of forest fires in a
decade.
This period of holocausts began
before the ink was dry on bills
passed by congress m aking deep
slashes in the interior d ep artm en t's
appropriations for fire control
Many of the cuts later were re
stored, but not in tim e to save thou
sands of acres of tim b er in some
are a s of A m erica, notably Alaska
“ The saw tim ber burned in a
single year in this country,”
says my friend’s m em orandum ,
<U.
f o r e s t S e rv ic e p h o to .
“ would be sufficient, if convert
P arachute jum pers are one of
ed to building m aterials, to re
the most im portant factors in get
place every private house in the
ting forest fires under control
cities of New O rleans or Min
swiftly. H ere, Dick Tuttle, near
neapolis.
top of 100-foot lodgepole pine
“ If the wood below saw tim ber di
snag, is about to be assisted by
m ensions could be m anufactured
F ran cis Luskin, forest guard.
for paper, it would provide a 25-
y ear subscription to a monthly
pocket-size m agazine for every
m an, woman and child in our 142
m illion population.
“ If it could be converted to rayon
pulp, it would provide m aterial for
m ore than a hundred new dresses
for every woman and girl in A m er
Producers of farm com m odities,
ica.
“In term s of dollars, our annual although strongly entrenched in the
forest fire loss am ounts to 35 million present economy and apparently
dollars in payrolls lost to wood destined to rem ain so, at least for
w orkers and th ree-q u arters of a bil the im m ediate future, m ay be the
lion dollars worth of wood products
first group to feel the full im pact
of any re v e rsa l of the cu rren t in
“ The trag ic p a rt of all this is
flationary trend.
that 9 out of 10 forest fires could
T h at w arning was issued by fed
be p revented. Nine our of 10
e ra l reserve board re se a rc h ers in a
a re traceab le to hum an causes
m idyear study of the position of
—to incen d iarists, causing m ore
agriculture, indicating that, even in
than 25 per cent of all fires; to
flush tim es, the well-being of farm
sm okers, careless deb ris-b u rn
ers is in a state of delicate balance.
e rs, railro ad s, c a m p e rs and
If the present boom were to de
w oodsw orkers who a re respon
velop into a tailspin, price falls in
sible in the o rd er n a m e d .”
Well, those are the sen tim en ts of the ag ric u ltu ra l com m odity field
m y neighbor, who is trying to probably would be g re a te r than in
estab lish a “ balanced cooperation” other a re a s of the economy, the re
am ong the m en who m ake their p o rt points out. Record retu rn s to
NEWS REVIEW
Joint Defense Pact Set;
Fear Large Corn Loss
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FLASHES?
LYDIA I.PMKHAMS
FIRST VICTIM
Deflation a Threat to Farmer
farm ers attributed to prosperous
urb an consum ers and an alm ost un
lim ited dem and from ¿broad could
be reversed in a flash.
The federal reserve board survey
explained the danger of deflation to
fa rm e rs by citing three factors now
operating to keep prices high.
The share of consum er incomes
• going to food consum ption is
m uch la rg e r than has been cus
tom ary.
Profit m argins of producers and
• distributors are greater than
usual.
Speculative factors play an im-
• portant p a rt In m aintaining
prices on num erous m arkets.
“Consequently, with any rev ersal
of inflationary tendencies,
food
I
2
3
prices m ay be particularly subject
to downward p ressu res.”
While the financial position of
fa rm e rs has undergone a vast, gen
eral im provem ent as com pared
with pre-w ar years, m any individ
ual fa rm e rs have increased their
indebtedness, and the new debt is
w ritten on the basis of sharply ad
vanced values.
In p articular, the report declared
th at land values m ust sta rt declin
ing before m uch longer. Thus, while
the fa rm e r is enjoying a high level
of income and prosperity as a result
of the prevailing inflationary econ
omy, the sam e forces which are
now operating to his benefit ap p ear
as a lurking but altogether possible
d anger to his future security.
studded with fish. It was stronger
37—47
or tougher than my teeth, so I can ’t W NU—13
rep o rt on its personal effectiveness
All I know is th at Nurmi had twice
the stam ina of any U. S. distance
runner. The Swedes will probably
have the sam e.
We excel in events that call for
H elp T h e m Cleanae th e Blood
quickness and agility, such as the
o f H a rm fu l Body Waste
shorter dashes, the jum ps, the pole
Your kidneys are constantly Altering
waste matter from the blood stream. But
vault, etc. Hut when it comes to
kidneys sometimes lag In thslr work—do
stam ina, we have rarely shown the
not set as Nature Intended— fail to re
move Impurities th a t, If retained, may
fiber needed to go the longer routes.
poison the system and upset the whole
In racing parlance, we belong to
body machinery.
Symptoms may be nagging backache,
the sprint division, not to the Derby
persistent headache, attacks of dl»inees,
and longer tests. We have few ath
getting up nights, swelling, puffiness
under the eyes— a feeling of nervous
letes who have the patience needed
an xiety and loss of pop and strength.
to get ready for a 3,000, 5,000 or 10,-
Other signs of kidney or bladder dis
order era sometimes burning, scanty or
000-meter drive.
too frequent urination.
Checking up both sides of the a r
There should he no doubt th at prompt
treatm ent Is wiser than neglect. Use
gum ent, I believe the 1948 Olympic
Doan's Pills. D oan'i have been winning
gam es should be held, even if the
new friends for more than forty years.
Th ey have a nation-wlda reputation.
m argin in their favor is slight. The
Ara recommended by grateful people tha
wishes of thousands of young com
country over. A l t your niigtbort
petitors are m ore im portant than
the sedate philosophies of older
men.
Watch Your
Kidneys/
D oan spills