Southern Oregon News Review, Thursday, August 5, 1948 Washington Di9est> CROCHETED IRISH ROSE DESIGNS SHADED PANSIES AND PINEAPPLE Disturbed About World? Sun Spots M ay Hold Clue S597 Storage of Surplus Fowl Is Profitable By BA I K11AGE A’ cm j tn alyil and Conimrnlalor. WASHINGTON.—If you w ere disturbed over the m ayhem and m isunderstandings ra m p a n t in the m onth of Ju ly , relax , there m ay be a scientific explanation. Sun spots. F or the first tim e in 11 y e ars, th ere is a m axim um num ber of u ltra violet rays about, released by eruptions on the surface of the sun-rays which m ay cause tem pers to flare, em otions to get oft balance, glands to be affected so that abnorm al behaviour results. This isn 't fantasy. Medical science has revealed the effects of over exposure to the ultra-violet ray. - Sun spots m ay have been respon- gible for the disturbances you and I read about on just one single day last Ju ly —on that day in Haiti a publisher w a s assassinated by an otherw ise gentle young poet because the bard had lost some kind of a scholarship; a 33-year-old painter who lived n ear the otherwise pleasant and peaceful New England home of House Speaker Joe M artin at Attleboro, Baukhage Mass., did a dance when he heard his wife was dead— it seem s he had shot her in the head; here in Washington, a 22- year-old husband knocked his wife down, tried to stab her with a b u tc h ^ - knife, attacked an innocent passerby and started a fist fight with a policem an; a vitam in plant blew up, a prisoner becam e ill of benzedrine poisoning, a ta n k e r in Chicago caught fire, Jim m y Roose­ velt feuded with the other m em bers of the California delegation and the Russians kicked up the usual fuss. You and 1 probably had our own troubles—all perhaps due to nothing but the rash on Old Sol’s physiognomy. is som ething in it for virtually every fa rm e r and. if there w ere enough books to go around, could be utilized by everybody who raises a lawn, not to mention people who run a ir­ ports or playgrounds, or any other enclosure of greensw ard. There is a growing interest in this sifbject. One m em ber of the d e­ partm ent of agriculture called it “ a big swing to g ra ss” on the part of farm ers over m ost of the country. Not just as feed but for m any p u r­ poses and functions. One farm er near here, for instance, said to a friend of mine recently that he had quit growing corn for silage. He uses grass entirely. In ease you have forgotten, you have a chance to get a De­ partm ent of A griculture Y ear Book because of a law passed in A braham Lincoln's tim e. Congress every year appropri­ ates a sum of m oney; the de­ partm ent prep ares the book, (under the incum bent editorship of Alfred Stefferudi the govern­ m ent printing office prints, binds and delivers 241.000 copies to m em bers of congress. They pass them around as far as they go. T hat's the law. This volume is probably one of the few “fre e ” books which is not w asted for it goes alm ost ex­ clusively to people who w ant it and Scientists will tell you th at sun spots w ere known by the Chinese use it—in this order—(1) farm ers, before the telescope m ade them a (2) sta te ag ricu ltu ral colleges, (3) com paratively fam iliar subject of other colleges for G.I. courses, (4) astronom ical concern. They a re not some high schools. L a te r on I shall give you an idea uniform in size or shape and som e­ tim es appear singly, som etim es in of the contents of the cu rrent volume groups. A single spot m ay be large which deals com prehensively with enough to take in our whole plan * the subject of grass (including with room to spare. Groups exte, 1 legum es and associated plants) be­ over areas th a t m ay include m il­ ginning with the history from colonial days, the place of grass in lions of square miles. dun spots do not appear to have building soil and feeding livestock, a definite duration. As a rule, they specific inform ation applying to 10 last but a short time, som etim es sections of the United States and not m ore than a day. But one is pictures and descriptions of a 100 different grasses and legum ss. tinued for 18 months. The num ber of sun spots varies greatly in a G u a rd Y o u r L ib e rty — periodicity that is not strictly K n o w D a te s a t L east reg u lar but th at reaches an a v e r­ I t's alm ost im possible to believe age of slightly over 11 years. th at any A m erican would not know And last month Dr. Roy M ar­ the m eaning of the approaching shall, director of Fels plan etari­ V-J day. But will A m ericans, 172 um in Philadelphia, echoed an years from now, rem em ber th at earlier suggestion m ade here in Septem ber 1 m arked the official W ashington. He said that sun end of the bloodiest w ar in history! spots could have a definite effect P e rh a p s this sounds absurd to on the behaviour of people. And you. It wouldn’t if you had read the he rem inded us that sun spots results of one of a series of polls reached their last m axim um taken by the W ashington Post. Ju st frequency (before July, 1948) in before July 4, the Post Interview ers 1937—when H itler started his asked a num ber of individuals: blitz. “F ourth of July is alm ost here. Can It was several y ears ago th a t no you tell m e why we celebrate it? ” less an institution than the con­ Eighty-five per cent of all persons serv ativ e and careful Sm ithsonian, asked had the rig h t answer. the capital’s g reat scientific o rg an ­ Twelve per cent had no idea why ization, speculated on the possibility the F o u rth is a holiday, and 3 per th a t there m ight be a relationship cent thought it was the anniversary between sun spots and w ars, as well of A rm istice day. the end of the as sun spots and w eather. W eather Civil w ar, em ancipation of the affects crops, crops affect economic N egroes or some other event. One conditions. Sun spots which release of those who had no idea at all on ultra violet ray s which affect em o­ the subject was credited with a col­ tions m ight, an official rep o rt to lege education. congress suggested, disturb nego­ Asked w hat the day m eant to tiations between individual lead ers them , 39 per cent said, in various which m ight involve nations in w ar ways, th a t it m eant national free­ —th a t’s the reasoning, anyhow. dom ; to 18 per cent it spelled per­ Some m ay think it far-fetched. sonal freedom and liberty in gen­ Shakespeare did when he said: “The e ra l; 11 per cent said it didn't fault, d ear B rutus, is not in our m ean nothin’ nohow but a holiday. stars, but in ourselves.” Poets are How m any of us who adm it th a t frequently rig h t but not, perhaps, lib erty —freedom —is our inherent im m une to the violence of the violet right, know w hat freedom is? Few, ray. (W itness the H aitian poet who unless they have lived in a country shot the publisher.) i w here one practices th at quick, ap- At any rate, the Sm ithsonian listed ; prehensive look to right and left, considerable technical data showing I before he d a te s com m ent. It’s a de- that sun spot activity frequently ! pression gesture. I’ve seen it and I shuddered. had preceded w ars. Some scientists say sun spots m ay j I have quoted W. E. Woodward have good effects, too—resulting in before. In his “ New A m erican h eav ier foliage, b etter crops, m ore H istory," he says: ra in s—as well as th eir evil tenden­ “ L iberty im plies responsibility cies to disturb in terpersonal re la ­ and the vast m ajo rity of m an­ tions, not to mention radio com ­ kind has alw ays hated responsi­ m unications. bility worse than death. So in However, th ere is little we can all ages, men have run around, do about it, for as fa r as we bolding it out before them as know the sun is like a leopard— one holds a golden vessel, offer­ it can ’t (or won’t) change its ing it to anyone who possesses spots. enough vulgar enterprise to take • e • it aw ay from th em ." O n e ‘F r e e ’ B ooh This “ vulgar en terp rise” is afoot Is N o t W a s te d today, snatching liberty, right and I t you a re one of the lucky fa rm ­ left and tossing it into a totalitarian ers who wrote your congressm an lim bo of the things m ankind really prom ptly, asking for a copy of the loves—loves but does not alw ays D ep artm en t of A griculture 1948 cherish except in m em ory. Y ear Book, you have a tre a t in One m ight p a ra p h ra se an ancient sto re for you. The first copies al­ proverb: “A fool and his liberty read y have com e from the govern­ a re soon p a rte d ." Folly is not in­ m en t p rin te r but it will be som e curable. It can be exchanged for tim e before the bulk of the printing wisdom. P erhaps some of the is read y for delivery. "re a lists” who scorn such a b stract This y e a r s topic is a live one: subjects as political science and GRASS. history would do well to encourage It deals with the general subject study of cur liberty, how we cam e of g rassland ag ricu ltu re and th ere by it and why it is worth keeping. of active Olympic flesh A CARGO is now In London. It is p a rt of the pageant of some 3, (MN) c o n t e s t a n t s from m ore than (10 nations where, as usual, it will be the U. S. against the To assure that poultry of various rest of the planet, classifications is properly held in with the U. S., as locker plants or freezers, it is advis­ usual, a hot favor­ able that the fowl be wrapped in ite to win. water-proof, moisture-proof paper. This is a strong Latest scientific methods call for U. S. team , ably enclosing the fowl in a strong mesh coached and well Gil Dodds fabric, known as stockinet. why?h trained. T here is keeps the prepared locker paper only one large fly in the sticky oint­ tightly pressed around the chicken, ment. thus eliminating all air pockets in­ In the eight running races side the wrapping and preventing from the 100 m e te rs to the m a r­ the paper from becoming loose at athon, the U. 8. will be lucky to any time. win as m any as two. After Poultrym cn and farmers with a leaving the 200 m eters behind, surplus of poultry have found it there will be dark clouds on the horizon for the other six running races unless Mel Whitfield can handle the 800 m eter gallop. We should be O. K. in the hurdles and the Jumps, including high and broad. We have won every Olympic pole vault, with one exception—Gonder, France, in 1900. We have won ev­ ery high jum p with two exceptions, i We have won every broad jum p ex­ cept one. P etterssen, Sweden, 1920. | We have won m ost of the shot puts | and the ham m er throw s. But in the last 40 years we have won only one race beyond the 400 m eter m ark. Finland has taken over the 5,000 and 10,000 m eter runs and we haven't bagged a m arathon since Johnny H ayes tu rn ed the trick in 1908. Poultry Held in Locker For Sale at Price Peak profitable to place some of the oirds, A Nation of Sprinters We have been largely a nation of as well as game fowl, in storage for their own consumption as well as j sprinters, lacking the essential qual- for sale to local m arkets when prices I ity of stam ina th at is even m ore im ­ portant than sheer speed. On this become higher. next occasion, P atton and Barney Considerable demand has been found for ducks, geese and turkeys Ewell will have trouble overpow er­ ing LaBeach in the two shorter as well as for chickens. During the past few years some sprints. We have no one to handle Herb poultry raisers have found an ex­ cellent m arket for smoked fowl and McKenley of Ja m a ic a , who has run the 400 below 46. Whitfield has a a most satisfactory m arket price. terrific battle on his hands in the Only quality fowls should be so stored and handled, and then only 800 as the stam ina-infested Swedes, headed by L ennert Strand, take when proper w rapping m aterial is over the 1,500 m eter test. Any slight utilized and proper storage facilities chance we ever had in this race, are available. the best race on the card, vanished with Gil Dodds. And Dodds at his best was a long price. Whitfield Modern Agronomists can be the te a m ’s leading star. Debunk Copybook Line We have heard every reason "Hay is dried grass.” That line in­ under the sun for our inability variably appeared in copybooks to develop a distance runner. handed out to pupils in old-time The autom obile? Well, the Finns w riting classes, but agronomists at and Swedes also have autom o­ Ohio State university claim the biles. Running tim e takes too c o p y b o o k publishers apparently long? It does for us. Lack of knew considerably more about Interest? Why? A m arathon is teaching pupils to w rite than they a far bigger race to win than did about haymaking. the 100 yard or 100 m eter dash. Some dried grass is excellent live­ Do we develop race horses to run stock feed but other cured grass is four furlongs or a m ile and a half just fair quality bedding, agrono­ and two miles? Speed is im portant mists insist. in a horse, but no m ore im portant The best time for cutting hay is than his ability to go the route. when plants have made almost their The Kentucky D erby is a mile greatest grow th in weight but still and a qu arter. We have no derby contain a high percentage of protein. types in our Olympic runners. They For red clover, the recommended a re from four to six furlong ru n ­ cutting time is when the plants are ners. E xactly they a re from one- in the half bloom stage. The most half to one furlong operators. hay of high quality will be hauled from the alfalfa field if cutting is Plenty of Competition When you have 61 nations and started before the half bloom period. some 5,000 athletes no one can say w hat has taken place in the last 12 y e a rs since the Berlin gam es. T here Renovated Tractor will be form idable com petition from Sweden, Finland, A ustralia, E n g ­ land, Ja m a ic a , also Czechoslovakia. Young John Kelly should take c a re of the scullers and Cali­ fornia should hold Its own in the eight-oared race. We have not done so well at m en ’s sw im ­ m ing since Johnny W eismuller sta rte d clim bing trees and beat­ ing up gorillas. We have won the last five eight-oared races but h aven’t been any too hot at This steel shod tractor was in the four-oared types, with and good operating condition, so the w ithout a coxswain. farm er decided to adapt it for rub­ One interesting fe a tu re 1 of these ber tires. The tires, tubes and rims gam es is the com parative tim es and cost $119. In addition to the new m easu rem en ts from 1896 to 1936— agricultural implements being pur­ the first and the last. chased this year, many are being F o r exam ple in 1896 W. W. Hoyt re-modernized. won the pole vault with 10 feet 9% inches. In 1936 E arl Meadows won U. S. Per Capita Consumption with 14 feet, 3'/« inches—a lift of n early four feet. of Dairy Products In 1896, E. H. C lark won the high jum p a t 5 feet, 1114 inches. In 1936. Johnson won a t 6 feet 7 and 15/16 inches—alm ost a foot higher. In 1896 B urke won the 100 m eter run in 12 seconds. In 1936 Owen won evith 10.3. The 400 m e te r run dropped from 54.4 to 46.5, nearly 9 seconds. The 1500 m eter run dropped from 4.33.4 in 1896 to 3.47.8 in 1936. This m eans a difference of m ore than 45 seconds. You wouldn’.t think it pos­ sible th a t such wide gains could be m ade in such a short period of tim e. Thinning of Vegetables Assures Best Growth Most gardeners make the mistake of not thinning their vegetable rows sufficiently. They hate to pull up part of their plantings and thus al­ low all of the seedlings to be crowd­ ed. Thinning should be done when the soil Is moist and the seedlings are one to two inches tall. If taller than two inches, don't pull them up; cut them off at ground level for best results. 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