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CP oo SECTION B Medford PAGES 1 to (0 Tribune MEDFORD, OREGON. MONDAY, AUGUST 1. 1960 Introducing Brooms With Long Handles Called Major Project in India By PATRICK J. KILLEN united Press International New Delhi -IUPD- If India's army of house and street sweepers ever march into his tory stiffbaeked and proud, the credit should go to Prime Minister Nehru and India's leading American housewife. Both Nehru and Mrs. Ells worth Bunker, wife of the American ambassador to In dia, are attempting to straight en up the sweepers by putting long handled brooms in their hands. For centuries, India's low ly sweepers have bent for ward from the hips or squat led to use their short, handle less brooms. The result has been generations of bent-backed sweepers, their lungs coat ed with dust. I Local Legend According to a local legend, the position of India's sweep ers was first called to Nehru's atSnlion by Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt on one of her trips lo India. Whatever the incen tive, the hardworking prime minister went after the prob lem in earnest this year. In a lettfQi sent on June 12, Nehru instructed the chief ministers of India's '15 states "to take up this matter wit your municipalities and cor porations and insist on long handled brooms . . . being Riven to their staff of clean 1 ers. etc." The prime minister wrote that all jer the word long servants use the stand up models. To date, the progress has been encouraging. As the re sult of Nehru's letter, the Punjab state government has ordered staff members to use the long handles and the Delhi municipal corporation is con ducting trial sweeps. , The Times of India has sug gested that sweepers them selves lake the initiative. In an editorial, the newspaper said, "They (sweepers) must insist that the next time they take the floor, it shall be with a handle of some respectable length. Only thus can they en sure that the government suc ceeds in carrying out what will no doubt be its most sweeping reform lo date." Agricultural Attaches Are Among Most Important U.S. Officials Abroad By GAYLORD P. GODWIN United Preit International Washington - (I'Pll - Agricul tural attaches are among the more important officials the United States maintains abroad. They are so regarded by the agriculture depart ment. The principal functions of an agricultural attache are to report on agricultural pro duction, trade policy, and market development. In short, he is representa tive of the American farmer abroad. He works constantly to find markets and promote good will for American farm products. The United States is the world's biggest exported and the second biggest importer of agricultural products. This fact makes the work of the attache of utmost importance. The American farmer and farm industry are dependent to a large degree on foreign markets, and the American consumer is dependent on many agricultural products that are not grown domestical ly. To keep American farm products and trade interests alert to the agricultural situ ation in all parts of the world is a job which falls largely on the shoulders of the attache. Hunts ior Markets The attache has to hunt markets for American goods. He is busy with agricultural reporting and analysis, trade promotion and market devel opment. He negotiates with foreign governments. He ad vises the American ambassa dor. He assists official visitors and traders. He tries tp.brcak down trade barriers, and he reports dangerous infestations and outbreaks of such epi demics as foot-and-mouth dis ease in animals. The United States always has been vitally interested in agricultural conditions in for eign countries. Even during c o 1 o n ial and revolutionary times, diplomats, scientists, and travelers made it their business to find and to bring back seeds or animals that showed promise of adapting to American climate and soil. As U.S. agriculture developed, farmers became even more interested in finding new strains to improve crops and livestock. And as agricultural production increased, farm and government leaders turn ed to the problem of finding and developing markets 'or U.S. abundance. Important Mission At all times, of course, dip lomats, agricultural explorers, special agents. agricultural commissioners, and finally r--ricultural aMachrs have cer- ried out an important mission Today the American agricul tural attache serves his coun try with a degree of technical competence and broad agri cultural knowledge that is un matched in history. Christopher Columbus took samples of tobacco back to Spain after his voyage in 145)2. But the credit tor ini tiating the first American agricultural export in' stry goes to John Rolfe, husband of Pocahontas, who shipped American tobacco to England in 1613. In 1770, Benjamin Franklin sent mulberry cultings and silkworm eggs home lo Penn sylvania from England, hop ing to create a silk industry. Other diplomats emulated Franklin by sending home foreign varieties of seeds and animals for development in the new country. These early emissaries act ed sort of hit and miss. Now the business of an agricuiiur al attache is technical and pre- CONSULATE MADE EMBASSY Washington 'UPH- The Am erican Consulate at Abidjan, Ivory Coast, will become an embassy Aug. 7 and will rep resent the United States to each of four neighboring coun tries becoming independent -the republics of Dahomey. Ni ger, Upper Volla and Ivory Coast - he State Department announced SuC2332kht. CLOGSTON'S Weather Stripping and Screens . Estimates Gladly Phone SP 1-1014 Evenings lively barred a host of other handled brooms are usediapPlica"ts; "ivi,,, ,i j- .... . i Mansfie Why then do we carry on with a primitive, out-of-date method which is inefficient and psychologically wrong? Bending down in this way to sweep is physically more tir ing and encourages a certain subservience in mind." Became Interested Mrs. Bunker told United Press International she first became interested in the prob lem shortly after her arrival in 1957. Her sweeper - a vital cog in any Indian household -used a typical Indian broom, a two-foot bundle of bamboo splinters tied together at one end. Mrs. Bunker promptly gave her sweeper a long handled American broom and a few instructions. Today the sweep-, er handles the broom like an upright housewife. For the past three years, Mrs. Bunker has spent her spare time developing an im pressive variety of Indian made long handle brooms. Working with her have been an Indian broom maker, a furniture manufacturer and the Vivekananda Horticulture Research laboratory at Almo ra which grew broom corn at her request. The Ambassador's lady turned over five long handled samples to the president of the All India Women's Con gress last March. She also en couraged American house wives in India to have their Mansfield Wants Newsmen in China Washington - IUP1I - Senate Democratic whip Mike Mans field (Mont.) has urged that the State Department use the Edgar Parks Snow case as a springboard lo get more American reporters into Red China. Snow, representing the Eowles publications and Look magazine, was cleared by Washington and Peiping last month to go behind the Bam boo curtain which has effec- Mansfield told United Press International the State De partment should now vigor usly renew negotiations with China to permit entry of the U.S. ' newsmen or else estab lish a system of exchange. 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