Southern Oregon News Review, Thursday, February 19, 194H
Restoring W illiamsburg
Cost 35 M illion, 30 Y ears
T w ic e - T o ld W h i t e H o u s e T a l e R e t o ld
The grentest undertaking of Its
kind In history Is the restoration
of W illia m s b u rg , V u ., w h ich wus
started back in 1927 and will not
be com pleted until 1957 at the cost
of some $;151(MH),OO(), says Collier's.
The project com prises the raz ­
ing of 6(H) buildings erected ufter
Proper Treatment
the y e a r 1800 and the restoring of
nearly
404) colonial houses, shops,
Will Halt Termites
schools, churches und loverns.
Although unfinished, the town Is
Tests Show Need for now
attractin g 500.000 tourists an­
nually
who come to sec it and its
Protecting All Lumber 4,000 inhabitants
living and work­
A visit to tropical Burro Colorado ing in the environm ent th at pre­
island in the Panama canal zone 21 vailed there in the 18th century.
John Adams Hung Clothes
On Limb, Swam in Potomac
By BAUKHAGE
A' p m j Analyst and Commentator.
WASHINGTON.—At a recent press and radio conference,
one of the reporters ribbed the President about the balcony
he was building on the White House, which the Washington
fine arts commission objects to as destroying the architec­
tural beauty of the building.
years after a lernule test building
was erected to test effectiveness of
coal-tar creosote and zinc chloride
in protection of wood against ter­
Someone suggested he might conduct a "back porch" political cam­
paign from it. Mr. Truman came right back with the remark that it was
a front porch. That, in a sense, is correct, for the southern facade of the
F R IE N D IN N E E D . . . Kathleen Brandi, 11, of Washington, D. C., won
White House originally was intended as the front of the building.
herself a staunch and feathered friend in this wild pigeon after *'un-
Of late, the President has been -------------------------------------------------------
freeslng*’ it when she found the bird frosen In a snowbank near her
given to historical anecdotes—he's
home. Now her constant companion, it sits on her shoulder, takes
“ According to Adams' diary
a great student
food from her mouth.
. . . 'She continues to make her­
of American his­
self noxious to many persons;
tory — and this
tolerated by some and feared
time he- told us a
by others, by her deportmant
story
which
I
and her books; treating all with
have heard be­
a fam iliarity which often passes
fore from presi­
for impudence. Insulting those
dential lips anent
who treat her with incivility,
the White House
and then lampooning them in
“front yard" of
her books. Stripped of all her
other days.
In
sex’s delicacy, but unable to for­
the time of Presi­
feit its privilege of gentle treat­
dent Adams, the
ment to others, she goes about
President Truman, who seems to
story goes, a ca­
like a viragoerrant in enchanted
run to 10-point programs, tossed an­
Charles F. Brannan, assistant
nal skirted the
armour, and redeems herself
other one to congress—concerning secretary of agriculture, heads the
lowered edge of
from the cravings of indulgence
the preservation and protection of new food saving setup. Originally
the grounds, and
BAUKHAGE
by the notoriety of her eccen­
civil rights—and then stood aside to started by the citizens' food com­
P a n a m a test house. This photo
that
gentleman
tricities and the forced currency
await the explosion.
mittee last fall, it has been carried
shows th at tre ate d wood had not
was fond of slipping down to its
they give her publications . .
It came quickly. Southern Demo­ on until now under the direct lead­
been attacked by term ites .
banks for a swim au naturel in the
crats, hopping mad over at least ership of the cabinet food com-
early morning hours.
"Although Adams chronicled all four of the 10 controversial points, ! mittee.
mites has shown that despite tills
There was, in those days, said unusual incidents while swimming, began to talk seriously of calling a
“ termite heaven." inhabited by
j
Major
emphasis,
it
was
under­
Mr. Truman, a certain female jour­ and had referred to Mrs. Royall in Dixie convention to split away from
some 45 different kinds, termites
stood,
would
be
placed
on
meat
as
nalist who had been unable to get his diary, he makes no mention of M r. Truman on the civil rights
the pivotal item in the cost of can be defeated by proper wood
an interview with the President. So the supposed meeting of this woman issue.
living
merry-go-round;
however, treatment.
she slipped down to the canal bank while swimming.
Focus of the current disunity was other foods also would be covered
This will be good news to farmers
at dawn, waited until he was im ­
"While Adams lived in the White a bill, up for approval by the senate in the voluntary program. Based on and home owners who sec their
mersed, then sat on his clothes and House, Mrs. Royall was a resident labor committee, to create a na­
specific recommendations of the wood foundations, walls and floors
stayed there until he answered her of Washington, but travelled about tional commission against job dis­
food industry and public representa­ fall away before the onslaughts of
questions, decently draped in the most of the time. She was known as crimination on grounds of race,
tives, it is theoretically designed to the wood destroying “disease.”
waters.
an author at that time, but not as a creed or color.
meet the twin problem of scarce
After 21 years the impregnated
I repeated the story on the air as newspaper woman. Her journalistic
Sen. Allen J. Ellender (Dem., food supplies and high prices.
wood was sound, but a eot of un­
Mr. Truman told it, and in the next career began two years after L a.) predicted that if the bill were
Biggest talking point the admin­ treated wood left in the house was
day’s mail received a letter from Adams retired as President. In 1831 approved in its present form the
istration had in its attempts to riddled by termites.
Mr. Daniel J. Kelly Jr., of South she established a newspaper aptly party would erupt into open w ar­
solicit public support was the de-
Bend, lnd., who is a collector of named ‘Paul Pry,' and later she fare. Both foes and backers of the
This would seem to indicate that
; partment of agriculture's somber
early historical newspapers.
in
building a house or farm building.
founded another small newspaper, measure agreed that it would be a prediction that the nation is heading
•11 lumber, including the shingles,
W’rote Mr. Kelly:
the ‘Huntress.* It does not seem pos­ close thing.
I for a serious meat shortage in the
*‘I enjoyed your reference in a sible that Anne Royall could have
The four proposals that most in­ I spring. And by way of emphasis should be treated as well as the
fence posts. It was found that when
recent broadcast to the newspaper interviewed President Adams, at flamed the southerners were the
Brannan added that meat rationing
the termites found no edible wood,
woman who sat on President least in her capacity as a journalist. ones calling for (1) a federal anti­
I “by price” already is in effect be­
Adams’ clothes until he agreed to
lynching law, (2) a permanent fair cause many people cannot afford to that is untreated wood, that they
soon moved to new territory.
give her an interview.
“ Adams was mentioned In
employment practice commission, buy.
Tests have shown that soil-poison­
“The President Adams was John .
'Paul P ry’ just once, on July 28,
(3) an end to Jim Crow rules in
ing, although beneficial. Is less per­
Quincy Adams, and the woman
1832. There are references to
transportation and (4) outlawing of F O R S A L E :
manent and should be resorted to
newspaper reporter was Anne Roy-
him in the August 1, 1840; Au­
state poll taxes.
only where structural control meth­
all. However, the story does not con­
gust 20, 1842; December 14, 1844;
Remainder of the points advo­ Sonic Eftfis
form to the facts, and you might
February 6, 1847, and the March
U. S. government has hung out a ods are impractical, or in addition
cated by the President were: A
mention this to President Truman
4, 1848. issues of the ‘Huntress.*
“for
sale” sign on 46.8 million dozen to them.
permanent commission on civil
the next time the story is brought
Mrs. Royall also mentioned
Another aid is to discourage ter­
rights, a joint congressional com­ eggs that it bought last spring to
mite activity by adequate drainage,
Adams in her 'Sketches,* p. 186,
up.
mittee on civil rights, a civil rights support domestic prices.
“John Quincy Adams was an ar­
ample ventilation and removal of
and in her 'Black Book,’ p. 126.
There is one stipulation, however.
division in the justice department;
dent and accomplished swimmer
But nowhere did the woman
tightening of civil rights statutes; Only foreign users will be allowed wood debris.
and he enjoyed a daily plunge into
who was supposed to have been
home rule for the District of Colum­ to buy them.
the Potomac even while President.
involved in the Potomac shore
For the comfort of U. S. house­
bia; statehood for Alaska and Ha­
He was also an ardent diarist, and
incident ever refer to any inter­
waii; equalization of naturalization wives the agriculture department
his diary contains many a mention
view with John Quincy Adams.
opportunities, and settlement of was swift to point out that these
of his dips in the river.
evacuation claims of Japanese- eggs are not the kind that can be
“The
supposed
Incident
still Americans.
“Anne Royall was Adams’ Wash­
used readily for home consumption.
ington contemporary — a vicious makes a good story, and especially,
Because 1948 is an election year, They were shelled, dumped into
writer and a malevolent journalist. I suppose, when newspaper men are and a presidential election year at huge containers and frozen before
In 1829 she w’as convicted of being interviewing the President, and that, the program, which otherwise the government bought them in the
a 'common scold.’ Her first con­ when news is somewhat dull. How­ might be ignored, was certain to first place.
tact with Adams was in 1824 when ever, I cannot believe that any of get hot partisan debate.
Agriculture department decided
she called at the White House to de­ the known facts can justify the truth
In answer to M r. Trum an’s firm to sell the eggs to foreign buyers
mand a pension as a Revolutionary of this old story.*’
statement that “ something must be when it was unable to sell them to
war widow. Adams mentioned her
But, I insist, it’s a good story and done” about the civil rights issue, bakers and confectioners in this
in a very uncomplimentary manner I, for one, will not disillusion any southern Democrats replied that country because egg production has
in his diary.
President as to its authenticity.
they were thinking of calling an all- been going up and egg prices down.
southern convention to pick its own
presidential candidate.
Bunching vegetables for retail
Some thought that too drastic a
sales takes a lot of work when
step, but at Jackson, Miss., Walter
the produce must be taken to a
Sillers, speaker of the Mississippi
parking shed. The tying wheel de­
Coming away from a debate on poses. In 1936 tithing itself was abol­ house of representatives, said he
signed by Alfred F. Foote can be
taxes I couldn’t help feeling that the ished but the law provided that over flatly favored such a course in order
taken into the field and moved
discussion, scholarly as it had ap­ a period of 60 years a sum should be to withhold at least part of the
from place to place. The notched
peared at points, and ringing with paid yearly until the amount con­ South’s electoral votes from Mr.
rim of the wooden top holds a
altruism at others, had offered a sidered the tithe redemption fund to Truman.
standard bunch of broccoli while
political potion, only slightly fla­ be the capital of the tithe on a given
S E L F R A T IO N IN G :
it is being tied. The pipe frame
vored with any essence of eco­ piece
of
property,
had
been
is welded to the wheel spindles,
nomics. How willing is congress to reached.
Second Best
and the whole machine can be
depart from the past, if such a de­
That is what Farm er Waddell ob­
Manifestly stymied in its efforts
handled like a wheelbarrow.
parture affects political futures?
jects to. But he’ll pay or get out, to get congress to pass rationing
Pondering this, I came upon a and he will never live to see the day and price control legislation, the ad­
dispatch in the London Daily Herald when he doesn’t have to support the ministration tried a new approach
from Romney Marsh, Kent. It re­ church against his will.
in the form of an appeal for nation­ IN WASHINGTON . . . Miss Nora
Martins (above), daughter of Bra­
o •
o
counted how, in the lamp-lit sitting
wide self-rationing.
zilian ambassador Carlos Martins,
room of a six-century-old farm, a
Romania chose to change its royal
G reater public support of an in­
72-year-old farmer, Archibald Ed­ purple to pure red when it bounced tensified drive for voluntary food was declared Miss United Nations
win Waddell, complained to a re­ King Michael. But how nice, nobody conservation would have to be de­ of 1948, proving that all diplomats
porter that he was about to be can tell him he can't have “ the veloped if living costs are to be are not necessarily old fuddie-
duddies.
thrown into bankruptcy because he woman I love."
curbed, the administration decided.
• • •
refused to pay 75 pounds and 3
As an initial step representatives IN NEW YORK . . . Sam Yachter,
shillings — some $300 — in “tithes.”
A dentist now reports that he has of 18 consumer, producer and dis­ a landlord, got tired of complaints
successfully transplanted wisdom tributor groups met W'ith Clinton about inadequate heat and hot
“1 shall probably die mutter­
teeth in cavities left by missing Anderson, secretary of agriculture, water from his tenants, offered to
ing,” Waddell said, "against
molars. But did he transplant the to map details of the nationwide give them his building, got no
this wicked, anti-social cus­
takers.
program.
wisdom?
tom.”
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Light Bulb Brooder
For previous refusals to pay
tithes, there had been four seizures
from his farm: bullocks, sheep,
pigs, farm implements, furniture,
his clothing and his cart-horse.
“ M y father,” the old man con­
cluded, “who farmed for 70 years
in Kent, paid 1,400 pounds in tithes,
and two of my brothers were forced
to emigrate. I am fighting against a
rope that has tightened around my
neck, and around the necks of so
many others who love the soil.”
Few people realize that tith­
ing, payment of one-tenth of the
product of the land, a custom
which comes down from feudal
days when it was collected by
the parish priests, and later the
Church of England, is so mod­
ern, and that its effect will be
felt until the year 1996.
Originally the tithe was paid in
produce, but in 1836 it became a
fixed rent still paid to the church.
In 1925, the law was changed to
make the tithe payable into what
was called "Queen Anne’s Bounty,”
a fund used for general church pur­
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Get Your Rockets Tuned Up
Science has advanced to the point
where, when you talk about taking
a trip to the moon, people no longer
look sorrowfully upon you as one
who has been affected by the fabled
light from that lunar orb.
An actual journey to the moon
may become a reality sooner than
one would have expected five years
ago. Right now, in several parts of
the world, there are small groups of
earnest experts who are quite seri­
ous about the prospects of travel
between the planets.
One of those organizations is the
British Interplanetary society, a
group of about 450 members nearly
one-third of whom are rocket and
supersonic research scientists. An­
other third is made up of mechani­
cal and electrical engineers, radio
and radar technicians.
Many researchers working on
m ilitary rocket-powered weapons
believe that their work on rockets
can be just as important for a
peaceful future a3 it might be for
war. From the aspect of motive
power they know that by the time
they can send a rocket halfway
around the world they are likely to
be within easy reach of the next
phase—interplanetary travel.
That time may not be very far
distant. Present velocity of a V-2
type rocket is about two miles a
second. The velocity required to
send one to the most distant spot
on this globe is about five miles a
second; and the estimated velocity
needed to get a rocket out of the
earth’s gravitational pull is seven
miles a second.
But actual travel in space is still
a secondary consideration. After
man has succeeded in shaking off
earth’s gravity pull with his rock­
ets, the first thing he will do is to
shoot a load of scientific instru­
ments into space.
The visionary scientist sees him­
self sending instruments to the
moon or to Mars. Or arranging it so
that part of his rocket would be­
come a satellite to one of the plan­
ets. Thus, through a development
of television, he might see such
things as the secrets of the dark
side of the moon.
A wealth of research — literally
out of this world—would be opened
up long before an attempt could be
made to begin human interplanet­
ary travel.
It is possible to construct an elec­
tric brooder for baby chicks at little
cost. Box lumber, wall-board or
similar material may be used. The
globe is'protected by a tin can. For
the curtains, burlap may be used.
The burlap or cloth should be cut
three or four Inches high about
every two inches.
Flies Resistant to DDT
Developed by Scientists
A strain of DDT-resistant house­
flies, requiring nearly twice as
much of the chemical to kill them
as ordinary flies, has been devel­
oped by the USDA. The possible fu­
ture development of DDT-resistant
houseflies in nature is of consider­
able importance to public health.
The problem depends somewhat on
how long it may take for wild flies
to develop such resistance. This
would complicate control.