Is That So?
Wood which accompanies man
from red maple cradle to white
pine coffin, and made even the
page you are now reading is
the very fiber of our land.
From the moment the tree
began to grow, it had form and
plan. A3 it grew, it split rocks
apart, its roots traveled far in
search of water. Pliant, resil
iant, it adjusted itself to its sur
roundings: when winds blew, it
leaned with them, when snows
fell, it bent its boughs under
their weight; when' droughts
came, . its leaves curled and
drooped.
Within that tree was the power
of reproduction; the ability to
repair injuries . . . and go on.
Living, it sweetened the air. In
hot summers, it cooled the air.
It laid dust and tempered the
wind.
Felled, sawn and seasoned, it
laid bare the hidden beauty of
its figures and grains no two
pieces ever alike, and more love
ly, surely, than the most pre
meditated design. And color:
douglas fir with its heavy
growth layers of orange wood
on a yellow background; red
wood with its warm hue and
glossy sheen; rosewood with sun
set streaks of color; the chocolate
brown of walnut; and driftwood
gray of magnolia.
Look about your home now
and you will see some of the
1,000-odd native species of North
American trees: the table top
of walnut; the chopping bowl of
birch (as well as thread spools);
the paneled wall of elm; the
basket of woven willow splits;
the tobacco pipe of briar; the
roof shingles of red cedai;; the
hickory log upon the fire; the
Christmas tree of spruce; the
floor of oak; the fence of red
vood; the ash rake-handle,
strong, yet lean.
Pilgrims Exported Pine
How adaptable the uses of
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wood. From earliest days 30
years after they landed, Pilgrims
were exporting white pine even
as far away as Madagascar. No
where else in the world was
there a wood so light that grew
so tall. A single tree made a
mast tall as a ship could carry,
yet so light it was never top
heavy. Tough live oaks made the
sides of our frigate Constitution
appropriately nicknamed Old
Ironsides! Lincoln's cabin was
made of white oak logs the
rails he split were black walnut.
On rims of hickory and spokes
cf oak, pioneers rolled west to
the Pacific. Wood fired the river
steamers of the Mississippi and
ties cut from eastern forests
spanned the treeless plains with
railroads.
White pine built New Eng
land's loveliest colonial mansions
and churches. Because it works
smoothly under a plane and
shrinks or swells little when
properly seasoned, it has always
been a favorite of carpenters.
Black walnut which does
not splinter made rifle stocks
for the woodsman, and still does.
With handling it does not rough
en, it becomes smoother.
Short on good glues, our an
cestors learned to fit seasoned
hickory legs into chair seats of
green sugar maple: when the
maple shrunk, it clasped the
hickory legs in a grip that
scarcely nothing could loosen.
Ash for Bats
For toughness, not steel itself
is so shock-resistant as hickory.
That is why ski champions in
sure their lives by insisting upon
hickory. For his bat, the base
ball player prefers ash to ab
sorb the sudden crack of ball
against bat. For golf club heads,
persimmon is better.
Many are fhe uses of spruce
and quite astonishing. From the
little boxes which hold berries
for the market, to the Christmas
tree, and the top of a violin to
give a rich mellifluous tone.
The wood that holds the
graphite in your pencil is made
of eastern red cedar no other
wood can quite equal it for ease
in sharpening in all directions.
For the shingles on your roof
which will not rot or split, re
gardless of whether, it is usually
western red cedar . . . the same
wood the northwest Indians
used for their giant 40-man
canoes hollowed out by fire
from one log. Or for their great
totem poles to perpetuate and
keep fresh their past.
(Copyrighf, 1935,
by Eugene Burns)
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By FRANK JENKINS
Let's talk today for a moment
about the First Thanksgiving.
The Pilgrims left England in
search of more religious liberty.
They started out in two ships,
the Mayflower and Speedwell.
The Speedwell proved to be un
seaworthy, so they had to turn
back. Arriving in port, they
abandoned the Speedwell and
all of them crowded into the
Mayflower.
Then they set out again.
rjTHE Mayflower was 25 feet
wide (at the widest place) and
85 feet long. That is to say,
there was less than 2,000 square
feet of space below her deck.
There were 102 Pilgrims, plus
the ship's crew. If you will do
a little figuring, you will come
to the conclusion that each oc
cupant of the ship had less than
18 square feet of space at his
disposal even assuming that all
their gear (food, clothing, imple
ments, etc.) could be stored on
the deck and in the hold.
Remember that 18 square feet
of space is three feet wide and
six feet long just about big
enough for a grown man to lie
down in. In these crowded quar
ters they had to cross the stormy
North Atlantic at the beginning
of the stormy season.
It must have been rugged.
4 HHIVLVG in Capo CoS bay
they thought they were head
ed for the Hudson river at the
present site of New York, but
the ship's captain landed them
elsewhere they had to turn in
and build rude houses for winter
shelter. The houses were of logs,
chinked with mud, with thatch
ed roofs and dirt floors. The
only heat was a fire on the floor,
with the smoke finding its way
out through holes in the roof.
Many of them became ill.
There was no medicine. So many
of them died. There was little
enough food, so all of them were
hungry all the time.
Under these conditions they
passed the winter.
HOME spring, they planted gar-
dens of corn, barley and peas.
They had a break. Instead of
descending on them with knives
and tomahawks, the Indians
came in, led by one Squanto,
with food and agricultural ad
vice. The agricultural advice in
cluded the trick of putting a
dead fish in each hill of corn for
fertilizer.
Thus they got through the
summer.
TN THE fall, their crops turned
out quite well.
So
To show their gratitude to
God for their good fortune, they
planned a big feast. From their
gardens, they contributed grain
and vegetables they had grown.
The Indians came in with deer
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and wild turkeys, providing the
meat so essential for a REAL
feast.
It lasted three days.
Everybody was happy.
They were TRULY grateful.
That was the First Thanksgiving.
WHAT they had was little
enough.
But
It was riotous plenty in com
parison with what they had had
when they landed on the bleak
shore of Cape Cod bay a year
earlier.
A THOUGHT in closing.
A What we have is FABU
LOUS PLENTY in comparison
with what our forefathers had.
But there is discontent among
us. We are discontented because
we think we ought to have more.
The politicians who are out and
want back in are capitalizing
our discontent by telling us how
shamefully we have been mis
used and misled.'
T SOMETIMES wonder if we
wouldn't be happier if we
were more grateful for what we
have and . less discontented be
cause of what we HAVEN'T
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Olso, Norway (U.R) A
Foreign Office spokesman said
Saturday Norway had expressed
official regret to Russia for the
fact a bomb was thrown through
the window of the Soviet Em
bassy Friday night.
No casualties were reported
and apparently there was little
damage. The bomb was thrown
through a window into an ante
room which was not occupied
by any of the 80 Russians who
work in the grey stone building.
Police stepped up the search
for the culprits, believed to be
teen-agers.
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