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Southern Oregon News Review, Thursday, October 21, 1948 NEEDLECRAFT PATTERNS Washington D ip e stj Flowers for Your Teo Apron. Parapsychology Could Do Just Fine on Election Bets ByBAUKHAGE /Vetti Analyst an J Com m entator. WASHINGTON.—It won’t be long now before you’ll be able to settle those election bets. A tew days after the release of the official record of the negotiations with the Russians over the Berlin situation, I was sitting in the club with a couple of members of the Democratic administration. Talk had grown pretty tall in Paris and that morning, every other person I met. it seemed, asked me: are we going to have war? But Washington was as calm as a sleeping tabbycat. The club dining room window was open, and a lazy a u tu m n su n sw ee p e d down through tfe trees o f th e p a r k . Squirrels loafed around, showing little or no inter est in preparing for the winter, and when I repeated the question 1 had h eard so o ften that morning to my two Demo BAVKHAGE cratic friends, it aroused very little interest. Said they: "The Russians want Dewey. So we won't have war now. The Soviets know if they start ed a war at this time, it would cinch Truman’s election." Naturally my friends didn't indicate that they had any doubts as to the outcome of the election, but when we started talking odds, I noticed the con versation was confined largely to the race for the senate. After all, said my friends, even some Republicans concede that Dewey might face a Democratic up per house. It wouldn't take much of a push tither way. The Democrats have 45 seats now, and the Republicans only 51. The Democrats are con- Sdent that only one or two of their candidates are in danger. On the other hand, there are a number of stiff state fights in prog ress in which the Republicans are Deing pushed pretty hard. The Democrats feel that if they can get out a large vote in these uncertain states, they have a chance of win ning the four seats that would give them the edge. In other words the count then would be: Democrats 49; Repub licans, 47. That two-vote margin wouldn't assure Democratic domi nance on all senate policy matters, of course, because too many sen ators are given to leaping out of the party corral these days. On the other hand, many issues are bound io be settled along purely partisan lines. But far more important, the party of the majority gains control of the senate committees. The pre-election battles in which the Democrats seem to have the edge are in Oklahoma, West Virginia, Wyoming, and Kentucky. About in that order. Also Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa, and Idaho. The Democrats admit their weak est points are in Montana and Colorado. The Republicans by no means concede New Mexico, Rhode Island, and Tennessee, but the Democrats don’t seem too worried about those states. At this writing, it is useless to make predictions, for even between this calm moment and the time these lines are in print, skies may fall or some individual may stub his toe. Bets are collected after, not before, elections. It is fortunate, of course, that all writers as well as all bettors are not equipped with extra-sensory powers. It and when the day comes when we are, the fun will be taken out of reading, writing, and betting. And that day may come, believe it or not. I feel quite positive from the scientific proof offered, that most of the various forms of the supernatural are untenable. But, after attending a couple of lectures and reading considerable material on "parapsychology," I have be come convinced that certain things MAY exist which are at present considered impossible. I refer to extra-sensory per ception, clairvoyance, and psy chokinesis. And I see no reason why more scientists shouldn't give these subjects a more thor ough looking-into than they have deigned to indulge in up to now. Some have. Dr. J. B. Rhine, director of the parapsychological laboratory at Duke university, has been conduct ing experiments along these eerie lines for nearly two decades. He is a very modest man, and he leans over backward to avoid offering any conclusions or making any flat statements concerning these experi ments. I have read his book( heard him speak to an intimate group, take part in a forum and later answer questions at a private gathering under the auspices of the Wash ington Society for Parapsychology. For almost two decades, as I said. Dr. Rhine and his assistants have been trying to determine whether or not there is a scientific basis for telepathy (the transfer of thought from one human brain to another); clairvoyance (the ability to visualize things or events taking place be yond the vision or knowledge); or for that ability which may involve both of the former, precognition— the ability to predict things which will occur in the future. And also psychokinesis, the hardest one of all for the cynical to swallow. That is the power of mind over matter, e.g. abil ity to make dice fall the way you want them to by thinking at them. Roughly, this is an example of what has been done by Dr. Rhine and others. After long experiment and mathematical calculation, it is determined that by chance alone anybody can pick correctly five cards out of a pack of 25. That is just guessing, and it is even money the subject can do it. It he is right oftener (and may have been right consistently more often than five in 25) that is MORE than chance. If he is right often enough, it is said that he has extra sensory perception. In other words, he is able to perceive what the card is without the use of his senses, but rather by some undefined, un measured, unclassified ability which science as yet cannot explain. Clairvoyance is a common expe rience. An example might be of the mother who has a vivid and alarm ing impression of a train wreck. It may be a nightmare, a waking hal lucination, or just an intuition. The wreck seems to be connected with her son, perhaps with some definite place like a tunnel. It turns out later that her son was actually in jured in a wreck at the spot where her dream assigned it. Careful checking of such ex periences is now going on, and Dr. Rhine feels that the re sults in these cases too, arpear to show that some unknown process is involved, unexplained in terms of our ordinary senses. As to psychokinesis, experiments have seemed to prove that dice rolled in a mechanical cage could be made to fall, oftener than they would by the laws of chance, ac cording to the way the subject wished them to fall. Dr. Rhine and his associates are trained psychologists. They say they are not trying to convince anyone that the above-mentioned qualities are actually possessed by certain individuals, but they are trying to investigate their apparent existence. • • • suver. ONE yurd for this wonder ful pattern. • • • Efficient Fertilizer Use Boosts Yields Good Soil Management Must Aid Plant Food Every ton of fertilizer can be stretched or used more efficiently, boosting crop yields at the same time. Many farmers, says Middle West Soil Improvement committee, use fertilizer as a crutch. They try to make it substitute for good man agement practices. They put plant food in the soil without making sure the plant can send out Its roots to use it. Fertilizer is essential in giving the soil plant nutrients to feed crops. But fertilizer can't do the whole job. It must be teamed with other practices that build and main tain soil structure and keep the top soil "nailed down." The soil needs good structure so roots can grow and reach out for plant food. Roots need air and wa ter to live. When a soil is packed down and tight, there is no room for the air and water needed by roots and plants for high crop production. The way to build soil structure is to grow legumes and grasses regu larly in the rotation. These legumes make a thick layer of good soil. YOU CAN S-T -R -E -T -C -H YOUR baseball campaign is over. But tho surest sign of the end is Ute clarion call that rings across the landscape —"Wait Till Next Year " What about next year? What can be done o v er a winter to make the ! White Sox, Cubs, ■ P h illie s , R eds, Browns and Tigers , look vaguely like ; m a jo r le a g u e teams? Who is go ing to whittle those killing margins of 35 and 40 games a w a y fr o m th e teams at the top? ! T h e g a p s in [ DI MAGGIO th e A m e r i c a n league especially are worse than disgraceful. Some of the American league teams wouldn't run 1-2-3 in several of the stronger minor ieagues. They are parasites, willing to live off the money they draw from plest em broidery on such u fabric- better teams, but not willing to spend Important cash to keep In the race. The second division of the Na tional league has far better ball players than the second division of the American. At least such teams as the Phillies and the Reds made attempts to get bettor ballplayers —such as Richie Ashburn. Hank Sauer, Virgil Stallcup and others. Both teams should have finished better than they did. It has been something of a shock to see Chicago, with two clubs crawling along in the mire, offering a stout defense for the two cellar championships. Both Cubs and White Sox have been terrible all the year. Washington has been a joke. It is hardly a good minor league outfit. All Teams Need Talent They add organic matter. Such soil has plenty of air space. Water soaks in quickly and more of it is held. Weak, scattered stands of legumes won’t build soil structure. For strong, leafy stands and vigorous roots, the legumes need phosphate and potash that can be added in commercial fertilizer. Getting thick stands isn’t the whole story either. All these crops can’t be cut for hay or graze close and still be expected to build the soil. At least a part of these crops must be turned back to the soil. P riv a te Life of Bossy A nd N ow a Book On John Garner I had another adventure which might be called parapolitical. There was nothing psychic about it, but it included a piece of hindsight that is interesting. The hindsight is that of former Speaker of the House and Vice- President John Nance Garner. He said he wished he had never left the house of representatives to run for vice-president. He felt that if Franklin Roosevelt had had a man like Speaker Joe Cannon in the speaker’s chair—a no-man—Roose velt could have avoided some of the mistakes Garner thinks he made. In other words, Garner would have liked to play Cannon to Roosevelt This came out in connection with a gathering of a few of the news friends of that over- six-feet-tall-Texan who looks like Abraham Lincoln and talks like Will Rogers. A man who was brought up on a ranch, but thought cows were a novelty until he was 10 because all they raised on his father’s ranch were buffalo. He is Washington correspondent for more dallies than any one I ever heard of, and once we wangled him one vote for the vice-presidential nomination for the lark ot it. Now he’s author of a book. I’m talking about Bascom Tim mons and his book, "Garner ot Tex as,” the only complete record of that fiery gentleman from Uvalde whose record for integrity and po litical ability in the house of rep resentatives is one tew can rival. “Timmy” wrote it from his own notes and absolutely free hand. He probably knows Garner better than anyone on earth. It’s a good book. It contains many interesting things including the "hindsight” I quoted. Timmons is not only popular among newsmen, but he's popular with congressmen, presidents, cops and cats. One of his cats had Its portrait painted by Howard Chand ler Christy; another was operated on by a specialist at Johns Hop kins, both thereby setting up feline records in their respective fields, as their master has in his. It you’re interested in "Garner of Texas,” you’ll be interested In what Tim mons of Texas has to say about him. P ert and pretty apron with the New Look. Pattern 7071 haa em broidery trans fer; pattern. Uur Improved pattern visual with raay- to-aee charts und pliotos, mid complete directions makes needlework easy. In the current craze for dissect ing private lives even Bossy is not immune. The inevitable prober comes up with these statistics: Bossy grazes only seven and a half hours daily, regardless of how much feed she gets'. She does GO per cent of her grazing during daylight hours, 40 per cent at night. She spends five hours a day eating at a rate of 50 to 70 bites per minute. She chews her cud seven hours a day and spends 12 hours lying down, at nine dif ferent times. While grazing, she travels two and a half miles in the daytime and one and a half at night. She drinks 10 times a day. Erosion Takes Alarming Toll of Good Crop Land Erosion is taking an increasingly alarming toll of good crop land in the United States. Estimates by the department of agriculture indi cate that about 100 million acres of once good crop land have been ruined or nearly ruined for profit able cropping by erosion, another 100 million acres have been badly damaged and still another 100 mil lion acres are eroding too fast. There are now approximately 460 million acres of good crop land in the U. S., including acreage now in crops as well as about 100 million acres that need clearing, drainage, irrigation or other Improvement. All but about 7t4 million acres of this 460 million acres are subject to erosion unless protective meas ures are adopted. Planting of Windbreak Will Improve Farmstead Ranked as a major farmstead im provement project, planting of a windbreak around farm buildings not only improves the appearance of the farm but also saves fuel and gives wind protection to the build ings and livestock. In addition to the regular wind break on the north and west of the farmstead, many farmers also are planting a garden windbreak on the south and west of the garden. Every team in the league will need new talent. They all need pitchers—especially pitchers who know in what county the home plate is located. The Braves need outfield speed and outfield arms. The Red Sox need four or five good, depend able pitchers. There is a heavy deficit in catchers. The crop is running thin. There is a definite need for better physical conditioning. Few ball players know what real condition means. This goes for legs and arms The Pirates proved what smart management and a sack full ot doubloons could do In a year—from a tie for last place up to a hot spot In pennant contention. A smart, aggressive front of fice can make a big difference. A stupid, timid front office can wreck any team. And there are more than a few of the latter brand now operating. You can look at the standing of the clubs and at least guess who most ot them arc. We’U take up the case of the American league first: Yankees—First of all, the Yan kees need Bucky Harris. Harris has been one of the best in the game. It would be a baseball crime to let him go, an act of complete stupid ity. After this, the Yankees need infield and pitching help badly. At least two harder hitting inflelders and at least two new dependable pitchers. Their outfield is high grade, but their catching isn’t any too hot. And Joe DiMaggio is getting no younger. Pitchers for Red Sox Red Sox—At least three good pitchers in addition to the crop they have—which has been forced to depend on Red Sox hitting pow er. Even two good additional pitch ers would be enough. Indians—Less than any other American league club. The Indians can use some outfield help, one more inflelder and another good pitcher. Athletics—Just about double the speed they now have. Far too slow. Joost and Majeski hardly likely to repeat 1948’s brilliant play. Tigers—The biggest disappoint j ment in baseball. Still have a fine pitching staff. Someone should clean out most of the others by sales and trades. Club spirit poor Present squad is going nowhere. Browns, White Sox, Senators —Browns much the best of these derelicts. They have some good ballplayers. White gox and Senators will need heavy cash and several years to reach even partial respectabil ity. They will likely continue to be clinging parasites, living on the rest of the league—prac tically beyond all hope for a long time to come. Here are a few National league’s needs for 1949: The Braves—More outfield speed and better throwing arms. Pitching help to relieve Sain and Spahn, two fine workmen. At least two new dependable pitchers needed badly. The Dodgers—They were easily the best team in the league this season by six or seven games. 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