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. "Y ★ ★ ★ 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 • • • 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 —• — 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 —• — 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, —•— 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. —•— 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 — •— 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 — • — 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. — • — 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 ,