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Southern Oregon News Review. Thursday, December 9, 1948 NEEDLEWORK PATTERNS Washington D ig e st; Gay Potholders Are Fine Gift S ä ä s s ä No Future to Presidency, Pension Plan Is Proposed By BAUKHAGE N « u j A n a ly tl and Commentator. WASHINGTON.—Harry Truman, President, is going to be able to consider one m easure which probably will come up in the approaching congress with more objectivity than some of his friends thought would be possible. It offers an answer to the question: what to do with ex-Presidents. The idea is not entirely altruistic, although the United States in the past has shown rather shabby gratitude in tossing aside, without further concern, the man who has served as the republic's head. Hutu nm l e m b ro id e rin g ÍÜ S I iïu h i'éï« Y l'a 'tlr r n No h i c o in , v o u r nume» addre»8 and p a tte r« llllllllH '1 SEWING tU H U B N M O U B W O B B S30 K oulii Weil» Poor Soil Drainage Is Serious Symptom Too Few Legumes May Aggravate the Problem If your once well drained soil is clogged up, don’t put all the blame on your drain tile system. The poor drainage may be due to damaged soil structure and loss of organic matter caused by overcropping. Too many grain crops year after year and too few deep-rooted leg umes in the rotation have slowed drainage down to a “ walk” on thou sands of farms. Failure to return plant nutrients, manure and crop residues to the soil have aggravated the problem. On such land the cushiony soil structure has been broken down. Many, if not most, of our form er^ chief executives might provide A Missouri newspaper editor, counsel and advice shortly after Bell’s resolution was based on their ex first introduced, claimed in an edi p e r ie n c e w h ich torial that the pension idea was could be most val alright, but that the amount of his u a b le . H e rb e r t pension, $50,000, seemed a little Hoover is an ex high. He. like Mr. Taft, felt that ample. At pres $25.000 a year would be a more ent. he is render equitable sum. Representative Bell’s in g im p o r ta n t reply to that objection was that it service as head of congress did fix the figure at $50,000, the commission taxes would shortly whittle it down appointed bv Pres to $25,000 anyway. ident T ru m a n Mr. Truman may have been which has just touched with what was intended as drawn up the plan solicitude on the part of his fellow- for the re-organi show-me’s but he did not feel the zation of govern matter was of immediate concern. BAUKHAGE ment departments So far as the memory of this man which congress will consider at its runneth not to the contrary, there next session. have never, in recent years, been Hoover has served in many other more than two co-surviving ex-pres useful public capacities since he left idents. Ira a O O T E P LE&uMEí» POOH the White House. He can afford to. Until the death of President Cool 0HA:NHGE OPEN SOIL FOQ 0 0 0 0 Indeed, he not only spent consider idge in 1933, he and Herbert Hoover K lA IN iûE. able sums out of his private funds were co-survivors. Coolidge had E on secretarial and research assist earlier shared that position w ith , ance when he was secretary of Chief Justice Taft until the latter’s ‘ Soil particles are jammed into a commerce, and later m the White death in 1930. Taft, who lived to hard, compact mass, instead of clus House, but he also voluntarily be 73 years old. co-survived and tering together in loose granules. turned back a part of his salary as outlived Theodore Roosevelt and j Circulation of air and moisture is President in 1932 when, under the Woodrow Wilson. cut off. Water ponds on the surface Economy act. the salaries of all instead of soaking in. Roots are up “ No office In the world to government employees were cut. against a “ concrete floor" that stops day,” wrote the English profes Franklin Roosevelt also turned them from stretching out for needed sor of economics and political back part of his salary under that nutrients. Crop yields are low. science, Harold J. Laski, “ car same act, and later, in 1943, when For unclogging poorly drained ries with it greater responsibili he was advocating a $25,000 ceiling soils, deep-rooted legumes such as ties than the presidency of the on all salaries. FDR again volun alfalfa and sweet clover are par United States.” tarily refunded to the treasury a ticularly important. The tap-roots No one who has made even a su portion of his own. open up tightly-packed soil and let perficial study of the duties of the , But not all presidents are born water soak in faster. When well fed president fails to realize how hard with, or acquire, silver spoons. with phosphate and potash the roots a job it is, hard in the sense of Few could afford the luxury of long hours, nervous strain, and put mineralized organic matter deep working for nothing and so, physical effort. Since the death of into the subsoil. when they leave office most The organic matter added by roots Woodrow Wilson, brought on by his have to look around for a job. herculean efforts during and after and tops of legumes, manure and Fortunately, former President World War I, much study has been crop residues contains compounds William Howard Taft, in the years given to the problem of lessening that stick soil particles together in before he was called back to Uncle the burden of the chief executive. clusters. That makes good tilth and Sam’s workbench as chief justice Herbert Hoover has spoken of the a loose, well-drained soil. The organic matter helps the soil of the supreme court, possessed “ vast and intolerable labor" of the enough of the world’ s goods so that man who sits in the White House hold more water longer. Roots find he could afford to render at least for four years or more. Merriman it easy to get at moisture and plant semi-public services teaching in the Smith in his book: “ A President Is nutrients. Crop yields increase. Harvard law school — a position Many Men,” commenting on the which a man of slenderer means "complicated and burdensome” might have had to turn down in quality of the task, makes this pithy It Was a Tough Fight favor of a higher salary from some observation: “And his job is one purely private enterprise. His son, with no future.” Sen. Robert Taft, mentioned this The "ex ” has a value and the WgjBSf. recently when he suggested that problem of finding it can be solved former presidents should receive a easily by congress without the substantial pension, “ perhaps $25,- knowledge of algebra. 000 a year.’ ’ • • * Ex-presidents also should have U. S. Population the privileges of the senate floor, Taft believes, with the right to Growth Studied What size population do we want speak, but not to vote, on pending legislation. In so honoring them for the United States? Or does it make any difference? the nation would benefit. The question is important enough Coolidge might or might not to merit a continuing study by the have welcomed an opportunity U. S. commerce department, and to take on some governmental the conclusions which have been responsibility after his presiden reached so far appear to have an tial term expired. As it was, important bearing on the problem he accepted a lucrative position of securing world peace. with an insurance company and “ Whatever the future of world continued his private law prac organization, the relative popula tice as well until be died. tion of the various nations will be Most presidents leave the White a matter of profound importance House poorer than when they went in determining the 3hape of things in. Franklin Roosevelt wrote a to come.” $2,000 personal check every month That statement was made in a to meet White House expenses, and Bcdragged and worn is this report by the national committee other recent residents have estimat Rhode Island Red hen which won on immigration policy, headed by ed that they had to go down into the Earl G. Harrison, which is plump top egg-laying honors for the old sock to the tune of $25,000 a ing for immigration increases in country in 1948 at the Maine egg- year over and above what the gov laying test. The new champ, ernment gives them, to meet the this country. owned by George B. Treadwell of In 1923 the commerce depart cost of living in the executive man Spencer, Mass., turned out 337 ment estimated that a population of sion. at least 200 million and very prob eggs and scored 368.7 points, there ably 300 million could be support by trimming all entries in 18 Why Not Provide official egg-laying tests held ed in the U. S. without lowering the For Ex-Preaidenta? habitually high American stand throughout the United States. When the pollsters were writing ard of living. off Harry Truman as merely an The Harrison group pointed out “ ex.” come January 20, the pro that "even if we accept the lowest Fanning Is Dangerous ponents of the idea of providing for figure, it is still 35 millions In Terms of Accidents former chiefs of the United States more than the peak which the Farm ing is dangerous. Of the were pointing out that Harry Tru American population will reach in eight major occupational groups in man does not have the private 1990.” the country, farming is fourth in means that Franklin Roosevelt or These are some of the assertions terms of the frequency of fatal ac Herbert Hoover had. the group made in a special report There was some talk that Mr. on immigration and population cidents. According to a report released by Truman might run for representa policy: tive of his home state as President Population of the U. S. should be safety engineers of the Lumbermens John Quincy Adams did. Adams 159 million in 1970. That of Russia Mutual Casualty company of Chi served 17 years in the house and, should be 251 million—an extremely cago, 52 farm workers per 100,000 if anything, increased his prestige sharp increase Italy, Spain and were killed accidentally last year. Only more dangerous were min by doing so. But Mr. Truman’s fel countries back of the iron curtain low Missourian, Rep. C. Jasper also are expected to show popula ing, construction work and transpor tation. Safer groups were wholesale Bell, had another idea in July of | tion gains. 1946 during the last session of the For other nations: Population of and retail trades, manufacturing, 79th congress. Germany, Denmark and Finland service industries and public utili He proposed that the house and will remain approximately station ties. senate enact a bill to provide an ary, while the population of Eng annual pension of $50,000 for men land, France, Sweden and Switzer Early Egg-Laying Cited who had served as president of the land is expected to hit a downward As Not Good for Hens United States. Bell pointed out that trend. army officers, congressmen, sena By the end of this century—and Healthy pullets can be fed to in tors, cabinet members, heads of that's only about 51 years away, re duce the starting of egg-laying dur government departments, and even member — the population of the ing the fourth month, but experi the most humble of federal work United States will be proportionate enced poultrymen usually avoid this ers are provided with retirement ly smaller in relation to Russia, early production on the theory that pay and he couldn't see why the China and India than it is now. such pullets do not make as large head of the federal government It means that the great, teeming or rugged hens. should be discriminated against in population masses of Asia are mov Egg size continues to be small for this regard. He felt that In the long ing forward numerically with a a longer period where pullets are run, retirement pay for a chief ex force and Inexorability that is encouraged to lay early, thus reduc ecutive would be a step toward bet bound to exert a profound effect on ing long-range profits through pre ter government. “ the shape of things to come." mature development. 8 77i<’ Amateur Colleges * '• lia g e 1. O I. F.nclitsa 20 cents for pattern. No------------------ HERE are now probably eight Name--- or 10 strictly amateur colleges Address . oi universities in the United States. The others are either semi- pro or strictly pro in many de Salesman Vacuum-Cleans tails. There is at least a taint of pro Herd of 46 Dairy Cows fessionalism connected with any I A vacuum clean er m anufuctur college that prose lng firm reports that one of its lytes, solicits or | products increased the output of a gives out a scholar dairy herd. The 4« bovines wers ship or a dim» to infested with lice. Using u clean«-» any athlete. Only with u furniture brush nttach those colleges that ! ment, a c o m p a n y e a le e m a r treat an athlete as cleaned the entire herd and burned they would a lead the leavings. Milk production in ing math or Eng creased about 25 per cent. lish scholar come under this heading. Which are these Grantland Rice few colleges? We | first contacted Jim Gregg, an alumnus of Sewanee, the university that started the pure amateur plan. Sewanee has had its day of glory 58 20 from 1892 to 1936. It has had its great teams, its leading stars— Simkins, Lanier, Lex Stone, Faul- Useful Potholders kenberry, Harris Cope, Rex Kilpat V O U can croch et these clever rick (brother of the general, and " and e ver so useful su gar and much bigger) Kirby-Smith, etc. cre a m e r potholders in no tim e at a ll. The p a ir illu stra te d w i n - "But,” as Jim Gregg put it, m ade of w hite cotton, tVimmed “ Sewanee decided In the win with a bold blue. A grand idea ter of 1945-1946 that 'big-time foi kitchen showers. football' didn’t belong in Se wanee's scheme of scholastic life. The athlete was to be treat ed as any other student. T “Sewanee had no fault to find with other universities. We simply believed that subsidized football was not for us. Then the problem of a schedule came up. We finally lined up Centre, Mississippi college, Presbyterian, Hendrix, Maryville, Hampden Sydney and Kenyon. Only one of these failed to keep its agreement. Hendrix dropped out because the cost of traveling to Sewanee and Millsaps was added. “ We tried to get others to Join us— such as Washington and Lee, Davidson and the Citadel, but they declined to leave the Southern conference because they claimed they needed the money they re ceived from big guarantees, and also they were afraid of their own alumni groups. We’ll get more fol lowers eventually. “ Gate receipts are unimportant. (As we understand it, there are no gate receipts. Possibly nominal ones against the $4 and $5 collect ed today.) Football at Sewanee cost the university $19,000 in place of the $500,000 or $1,000.000 that Michigan, Notre Dame and others earn from the sport. Foot- ' ball is simply treated as Latin, I English and math are treated— a I necessary part of a university's curriculum.” In other words, Sewanee's educational course wasn’t ar ranged to strengthen the Bears, Packers, Giants, Eagles, and Forty-Niners, where four years of college is a waste of time. Not a bad thought. j “ Sewanee has about the right 1 idea,” Johnny Kieran says. "Only i if they will do the right and smart ’ thing and abolish gate receipts you i won’t have to bother with foot ball pay rolls or proselyting. Let the public in free. This settles all arguments.” It is the only way that all argu ments will ever be settled. 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It also has one of the best football layouts in the game, a new stadium that can handle 55,- 000 spectators, the most modern one yet built. In Dr. John A. Hannah, it might also be noted that Michigan slate has one of the leading college presi dents of the country, whose slant on football is sound. The Big Nine was also the Big Nine in 1908. That is the year when Michigan revolted. The Wolverines stayed out un til 1917 when they finally re turned to the fold. The Big Ten stuck until Chicago university abolished football, and ever since then there have been at tempts by several outsiders to take Chicago’s place. The Big Nine has been in no hurry to make it the Big Ten again. But, if there is any change, Michigan state is almost certain to be the one selected. Michigan state and Michigan are something like California and U. C. L. A. The first two are state uni versities in Michigan, just as the two others are state universities in California. 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