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Washington Social Hours:
Cold Turkey, H ot Gossip
By B A U K H A G E
Vet«-* 1 nah tl and Com nirnlalnr.
WASHINGTON.—Washington cocktail parties and other
social gatherings have been widely publicized as makers and
breakers of reputations, national candidacies and interna­
tional policies.
Not all of these affairs may forge or fracture the destiny of nations,
but many often bring together as great a variety of human ingredients
as are to be found at any one place at any one tinte, anywhere.
For example I have just returned'®’-
from lunch. I probably should say ily, had outlived the Japanese oc­
“ luncheon"
con­ cupation, and with his sister, had
sidering what it participated in the effective Philip­
must have cost my pine underground, memories of
red-headed college which made this day's current trag­
mate host whose edy of the Philippines—the eruption
excuse for giving of Hibokhibok volcano on Camlquin
it was the fact that island—a decidedly minor concern.
he was celebrating
On my left was a prominent Wash­
his 55th birthday ington lawyer. During a lu ll in the
but whose real rea­ discussion of international, if not
sons lay beyond cosmic affairs, he suddenly asked:
distant frontiers. “ What was your mother’ s maiden
The bearded Ita l­ name?”
ian scientist on his
"A lice Blood," I replied.
left reminded him
“ Yes.” he nodded in satisfac­
that the occasion
tion, “ My aunt, Clara Brown,
was
unique
be­
BAUKHAGE
often told me about your moth­
cause it was hard­
er. They were classmates (Ing­
ly likely he would celebrate a sim i­
ham university ’78). and she was
la r occasion 55 years hence.
a bridesmaid at your mother’s
A little macabre. I thought, but
wedding in La Salle. Illinois.”
no one seemed to take it that way
—least of all the fellow-citizen of
Skipping
your
correspondent
Dante who was enjoying himself
around the table, we arrive at a
immensely over his cold smoked
famous scientist. We exchanged
turkey and doubtless became ly ric
reminiscences too, for he also was
over the lira and other important
a graduate of the same college. As
transalpine institutions before we
we talked, I remembered an anec­
were through.
dote about him I had heard from a
On the bearded one’s left was a mutual college friend.
representative of the state depart­
ment who gave me a disappointing­ A C h e c k b y A n y
ly eye-witness and unsensational ac­
count of the recent parliament ses­ O th e r N a m e . . .
Not many years after his gradua­
sion of one of our South American
neighbors—a session which I had tion, this scientist and his young
judged from previous dispatches, wife arrived in the city where our
would be punctuated by revolver mutual friend was in business, and
called on him. The businessman
shots.
recognized the scientist's face im ­
We had heard rumors of mys­
mediately but for the life of him,
terious shootings there which
couldn’ t remember the man’ s name.
were supposed to have made up
During their lunch, the scientist
in political significance what
remarked that he was going on an
they lacked in marksmanship.
extended trip into Canada and had
Also there had been hints of
unfortunately run out of money. He
cabinet changes due not only to
wondered could he get a check
mistakes in policy, but to hasty
cashed at the businessman’s bank.
bnrials. I asked my fellow guest
The businessman gladly acquiesced,
about it.
thinking that when he saw the sig­
“ Oh, no,” he said, “ there were no nature on the check, he would rec­
ognize the scientist’s name. Togeth­
cabinet changes.”
“ But what about these terrible er they went to the bank, the scien­
tist wrote the check, and the two
rumors of graft and corruption?”
“ Well, the President in his ad- 1 men went to the cashier’s window.
dress did make particular reference But as the scientist handed in the
to the evils of political corruption check, all the businessman could
and to the importance of selfless read was the name of a bank in a
loyalty on the part of the servants I very distant city and the amount—
five hundred dollars.
of the state.”
“ But was that all?” I persisted. | He had already said to the cash­
“ No names, addresses, or telephone ier, “ I want you to meet m y friend
. . . ” but could get no further. Ter­
numbers?”
“ That was a ll," he insisted, “ It rib ly embarrassed, he turned to the
was a very quiet session. Further­ scientist and said: “ I ’m sorry, but
more there was none of the proto­ I can’t recall your name.”
col we observe at a joint session of
the two houses of the American con­
gress. This parliament was called
to order, the President came in,
spoke his piece, and went out.”
At this point, my host broke
In. He insisted that I repeat the
story of the opening of this sum­
mer's special “ turnip” session of
congress which nobody outside
of a few m illion radio listeners
who happened to be tuned in had
heard before.
L e g itla tiv e F a u x P a t,
D e L u x e S ty le
This July 26 when a very angry
house of representatives was called
to order, it was known that the regu­
la r chaplain could not appear. So,
when a stranger took the rostrum,
the less-somnolent members rose,
bowed their heads, as is the custom,
to listen to the prayer. The first
words
they
heard
resounding
through the chamber were: “ Where­
as the public interest requires that
the congress of the United States
should be convened at 12 o’clock
noon on Monday, the twenty-sixth of
July, 1948, to receive such communi­
cation as may be made by the Ex­
ecutive; Now, therefore, I, H arry
S. Truman, President of the United
States . . .” and so on. . . .
Gradually the members real­
ized that the man addressing
them was not the substitute for
the absent chaplain of the house,
but the substitute for the equal-
ly-absent reading clerk whose
duty it is to read bills and offi­
cial communications.
It was most embarrassing. The
voice they were hearing was not the
voice of a man repeating the word
of God; it was the voice of the sub­
stitute clerk repeating the procla­
mation of the man at whom they
were maddest. The members didn’t
like to make public admission of
their error by sitting down, and so
they had to stand through the pain­
fu l 114-word pronouncement which
had torn them from the bosom of
fa m ily and constituency, and brought
them back to heat-ridden Washing­
ton.
Next to the state department offi­
cial who had unw ittingly provided
the excuse for my anecdote was the
consul-general of the Philippine re­
public who happens to be’ the son
of another college classmate of
mine He. ¡ike the rest of his fam ­
Of course the cashier over­
heard this remark and with the
natural crution of the banker,
said to the businessman: “ This
w ill be fine, M r. X, but w ill you
please endorse this?” M r. X
turned it over, noted the name
but did not recognize it, trem ­
bled to think of what would hap­
pen to his bank account if it
bounced (and he was sure it
would), and signed. Farewells
were spoken, the scientist de­
parted. Day after day the busi­
nessman awaited the call from
the bank.
In fact, he told me he had picked
out a space on the wall where he
intended to frame the paper so that
he could call attention to it casu­
ally should some other vaguely
identified caller request a sim ilar
favor.
Nothing happened.
A month or so later, another col­
lege friend came to town. The busi­
nessman related the story, describ­
ing the scientist and his occupation.
Unaccountably his listener burst
into laughter.
“ Didn’t you know,” he said be­
tween gasps, “ That man’s tech­
nical as well as scientific infor­
mation which he acquired at
school along with his Ars Mag-
ister made him a cool m illion
the year after he was gradu­
ated?”
At the luncheon there was also a
Chinese oil expert who merely lis­
tened and an ERP representative
who left early.
And now back to my red headed
host. He related the adventure of
one of the guests who had been un­
able to appear. It seems this gen­
tleman had formed a corporation
called “ World Development, Inc.”
or something very sim ilar. When
my host heard his glowing pros­
pectus, he said, "A ren’t you cover­
ing a lot of ground.”
“ Oh, no,” said the promoter who
since had acquired considerable in­
fluence in international affairs,
"this is just a subsidiary of the In­
ter-Planetary corporation.”
Then I had to go, so I never knew
what master-plan for the rebuilding
and exploiting of the nation, the
world or the sidereal spaces were
discussed or consummated. But 1
have no doubt you can go a long
way in Washington—starting with
cold turkey.
\AEARS ago the brilliant Alexander
■ Pope wrote: “ They had no poet
—and they died." He was referring
to the dead and decadent empires of
the world— “ In vain they schemed,
in vain they bled. They hnd no poet
and are dead.”
Yale, this season, has 320 pounds
of
poet. If Pope was right. Yale
Soils must “ breathe” deeply if
crop roots are to support high football won’ t die this fall. “ We can
yields above the ground. These still lose all our games and look
roots need oxygen to grow and good.” Herman told me
“ Not to the Old Blue." I said. "The
reach out for water plant nutrients
Old Blue neither dies
To breathe deeply, soils must
nor surrenders."
have regular additions of organic
’ ’ W h a t does he
matter.
Without organic matter
L do?” Herman asked.
soils tighten up. Soil particles are
"He expects you
jammed together The soil becomes
[
to win a lot of foot-
a compacted mass. There is little
room for either air or water. Roots
ball games with the
find it hard to forage in the tight
s p i r i t of H in k e y ,
soil.
Shevlin, Kilpatrick,
When organic m atter is added, it |
Pudge Heffclflrffcer,
opens the soil for a ir and water ’
Clint Frank, Widdy
to soak in deeply. As it rots the '
N e a le and a few
organic m atter builds soil struc­
others.”
HICKMAN
ture. The humus formed from or­
“ But I haven’t any
ganic matter swells and shrinks of these fellows on my team this sea­
with wetting and drying. Com­ son.” Herman, the poet. said.
pounds that form when organic
This was a big occasion at Yale
m atter decays help to stick these and New Haven. It was the first time
mineral particle» together in small Yale had ever had a poet coaching
groups so that the soil is loose and the team since my old and departed
workable.
friend, B illy Phelps, tried to help.
Organic m atter should be added
“ I t ’s no use. Grant,” Billy
deep in the soil as well as in the
Phelps told me once, "they don’t
plow layer. Middle West Soil Im
appreciate blockers and passers
provement committee points out
down here. They are so much
that the best way to drive organic
more Important than poets and
m atter down deep is through use
philosophers. I only wish they
of tap-rooted legumes, such as al
knew."
Crop Roots Require
Oxygen and Water
Organic Matter Decay
Helps Soil to ‘Breathe’
Mr. Herman Hickman, the greatest
guard football ever knew, according
to Gen. Bob Neyland and this writer,
the poet laureate of the Smoky Moun­
tains, the man who helped to make
five great Arm y lines, now faces
only one kink in his happy existence
—the game’s greatest line coach has
no line to coach.
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falfa or sweet clover, regularly îr
the rotation. The roots of these
legumes d rill down 18 to 25 inches
below the plow layer.
Heavy stands of legumes also
can be secured by lim ing according
to soil tests, and by making sure
soils are well stocked with phos­
phate and potash for fu ll produc­
tion. When a good top growth is
plowed under to go with the roots,
these legumes w ill build the struc­
ture tilth soil needs for high yields.
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He has a fine backfield, headed by
Bull Nadherny, a scrappy hard h it­
ting back—a fine football player. He
has Levi Jackson who so far has
never lived up to his newspaper1
headlines—but who is about due.
He has other good backs. He has
a high-class center in Yale’s scrappy
captain, B illy Conway. But where
are all thdse Polish names Howie
Odell had —Barzilauskas—Prchlik—
plus big Davidson—a fine tackle—and
others?
“ Don’t get me wrong. Grant,"
Herman said. “ This line mate­
rial I have is game, smart and
w illing to give its all. I mean
that. We’ll make ’em respect
us, even if we lose every game.
We’ll win some games and
lose some games."
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"T hat’s my philosophy of life ." I
said to Herman. "Take a li t t l e -
leave a little—but don’ t ever take it
all.”
Notre Dame and one or two others
can tell you about that. “ Don’t ever
take It all.” Life doesn’t work that
way.
Herman Hickman drew at least
one lucky break. He came to Yale
at a time when E li was at its lowest
ebb. It must have been at a low
ebb since Howie Odell, its coach, left
for Washington university, where
far western coaches don’t believe he
Is headed anywhere.
Yale, this season, plays this sched­
ule—Brown, Connecticut, Columbia,
Wisconsin, Vanderbilt, Dartmouth,
Kings Point, Princeton and Harvard.
across the rear of the frame. Cast­
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bar w ill adjust depth and give three
points on the ground for balance. Yale Doesn't Rate
I don’t believe that Yale rates with
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trode, using approximately 180 am­
Yale should be outclassed by
peres welding current.
Columbia, Wisconsin, Vander­
bilt and Princeton. I under­
stand Brown, Dartmouth and
Harvard are far better than a
year ago. I know Columbia
should be a far better team. I
know Princeton w ill be.
A ll night lights help to prevent
stampeding of turkeys on range.
This leaves Herman Hickman of
Tennessee, Arm y and Yale in a
Blackhead of t u r . k e y s causes tough spot.
heavy losses. Phenothiazine pow­
The best teams in the Ivy league
der mixed in the mash at the rate should be Pennsylvania, Princeton
of one ounce daily for 100 birds, has and Columbia. At least they have
been found effective in preventing much the best material. Columbia
losses, because it destroys cecal has the best backfield material—
worms which are carriers of the and a pretty good line. Princeton
blackhead organisms.
and Pennsylvania have the best all-
around stuff.
To make lambs tick proof, spray
Penn State and Arm y should have
them with DDT. M ix one pound of two of the best teams In the East—
a 50 per cent wettable DDT pow­ with Rutgers and Villanova chal­
der in 25 gallons of water and apply
lenging Don’t sell either short.
it to the back, belly, sides and
But Herman Hickman honest­
around neck and ears. One appli­
ly faces the toughest challenge
cation should last for two or three
of the lot. He hasn't two men
weeks.
who could make Columbia or
Princeton. And Yale doesn’t
Two essentials for livestock and
poultry in late summer are shade
like to lose.
and water.
My suggestion is that Yale give
Herman Hickman a chance—and
that doesn’t mean 1948—1949 any
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DDT, when used as a trunk ing who could mean more to Yale
spray, w ill control the peach tree football than Herman Hickman can.
borer, according to the New York
Winning is a good, big part of it.
State agricultural experiment sta­ But winning isn't everything. Her­
tion. The new method of borer man Hickman can do more good for
control takes the place of older a college losing than most coaches
methods using ethylene dichloride can winning. I mean In the way that
of PDB crystals, since It Is non- counts.
injurlous, labor-saving, time-saving
I f only winning counts then Notre
and inexpensive. DDT Is used at Dame and Michigan a rt the only two
the rate of two pounds to each 100 major colleges left.
gallons of water.
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