Potato Eyes
RONA MORRIS WORKMAN
ROCKING W RANCH
We celebrated the Fourth in a
rather peculiar manner on the
Rocking W this year. Knowing
that practically every man, his
wife and dog would be heading
for the coast or other wide-open
spaces, we decided it would be
safer, far more comfortable and
doubtless more productive if we
remained at home and planted po
tatoes.
Now to the average consumer
of the lowly spud, I can well be
lieve that the task of planting
them must seem a most un-in-
teresting one.
I have indeed
often heard the expression “as
uninteresting as a potato” used
to describe some particularly stu
pid person, but I don’t think that
is fair to the potato. Heaven
knows that I get tired of cooking
them, for my Big Boss is one of
those “meat - potato - and - gravy
men” and I could have macaroni,
rice, spaghetti and bread and
beans on the table at the same
time, yet he would look question-
ingly around and inquire mildly,
“What, no potatoes?” So I have
cooked the darn things at least
twice a day—and often three
times—for thirty-two years and
doubtless will continue to do so
until he or I move on to the
place where, I fondly hope, there
are no potatoes to peel or cook.
However, my personal feelings
toward a potato does not destroy
the fact that they are interest
ing. They apparently have that
certain something which appeals
to the masculine nature; in that
respect they do resemble blondes,
although I have never heard of a
wife being jealous of a potato.
One can do a lot of thinking
while cutting potatoes for plant
ing. Our New Daughter helped
me cut them thq other day. She
confided to me that she, being
reared in the city, had never
thought how potatoes were prop
agated. Had she been asked, she
would probably have replied that
they must come from little seeds,
like carrots or radishes, and the
idea of their having “eyes” seemed
very amusing to her. Potatoes
not only have eyes, but they
have as many diseases as a neu
rotic woman and can prove just
as exasperating. Sometimes they
make a fine showing of growth,
like some folks I have known, but
when you start digging you find
that they have produced nothing
but a few warty, scaly little runts
fit only to be thrown into the
discard. A bad potato can also
infect the soil where it grows
just like a bad human being and
make it unsafe for another gener
ation, and if your seed is not
clean and good, you cannot ex
pect, no matter how caruful you
are, to raise a firm, healthy crop.
Yes, potatoes are rather like
folks.
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And I was thinking, as I cut
two eyes to a piece, that plant
ing potatoes is like living. Some
of us are rather “small potatoes”
in this big world, but if we come
of good stock, if we have no inner
rot and we “winter well,” then we
can add our quota of “eyes” to
the common, good of the future.
If we are free of the disease of
hatred and fear and greed we
shall not infect the portion of the
earth in which we have grown,
nor will the ‘seed-eyes” we give
to the world carry any taint of
destruction.
If one grows good disease-free
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potatoes and sends them out into
service, he is doing his best for
the food supply of the world. If
the e\es of these potatoes are
planted, the good is multiplied. I
wondered as I sat in the occa
sional bits of sunshine by the
barn and plied a busy knife, if
our thoughts and words could not
be compared to seed-eyes. They
are a part of us; they embody the
wholcsomeness or the rot of our
inner core, and they produce their
like if they are planted in the
soil of a receptive mind.
Scientists are just beginning to
realize the importance and the
actual force of thought, although
two thousand year- ago a Master
Psychologist said “As a man think-
eth—so he is,” and He but re
peated a truth which had been
handed down from the remote
past. Modern phychologists have
re-discovered that thoughts not
only affect the one who thinks
them but also others within the
radius of that thought—and they
have not yet found out exactly
how far a thought can tyavel. You
can no more know where your
seed-thoughts go, or in what gar
dens they are planted, than you
can know where your seed pota
toes go when you send them to
market.
It has been my observation that
folks are more concerned with the
seed they plant in their gardens
than they are about those ‘they
sow in their minds, and they cer
tainly do a great deal more fer
tilizing and cultivating of their
vegetable gardens than they ever
think of doing for their mind
gardens. Yet it is reasonable to
believe that you cannot raise
anything worth having in a mind
that is fed constantly with trash,
gossip and petty fault-finding.
The seed-thoughts which may
come from such barren hungry
soil will never produce “good po
tatoes.”
I think potatoes are very like
use common folks. They and we
form the foundation of meals and
of a country, yet there are so
many of us that we, like pota
toes, are taken for granted. But
I am very sure that it is upon
us, the common people of the
world, that the real responsibil
ity for the future of our civili
zation rests. If we can keep free
from the rot of greediness, the
scale of political corruption, the
blight of racial hatred and mis
understanding, and will realize
our value in the scheme of things,
the future of the world is safe.
I have been sitting at the edge
of the clover field while writing
this and watching thq Big Boss
mowing. It is quitting time. The
big grays are looking longingly
toward the barn and their supper
of oats and hay. Perhaps the
Big Boss is also thinking of his
supper. I must wander back to
the house, build a fire and peel
potatoes. I think I’ll give him
ham and brown gravy with his
potatoes tonight, with fresh straw
berries and perhaps hot biscuit
and gooseberry jam. After all,
my man has had a busy day.
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last few days.
Mr. and' Mrs. Chet Fugate, Mr.
and Mrs. Norgard and) children of
Portland and James Bonnick cele
brated the 4th together at the
Fugate home on Rock Creek.
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the D. R. DeVaney home were:
Mrs. L. C. Boesk, Mr. J. L.
Counts, Mr. and Mrs. B. Burndt,
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. DeVaney Mrs.
A. B. Counts and! Mr. and Mrs. H.
Counts and daughter.
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