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THE CARROLLTON CHRONICLE
Roosevelt Family Turns to Farming
Elliott and Eleanor Begin
Back-to-Land Movement
By BAUKIIAGE
Newt Analyst and Commentator.
WASHINGTON. — Moses Smith, I understand, has retired.
He is leaving the 140 acres he has been farming for 27 years. His
landlord’s widow and her son are going to work it from now on.
The last time I saw Moses Smith he was dressed in his
Sunday clothes. We were both up in his former landlord’s
bedroom, with some of the neighbors. It was a sad occasion. It was the
boss' birthday anniversary but he had been dead nearly two years. The
room looked the same to Moses and his friends who had seen it often when
they came up there to talk over farm and other business. The former occu-
pant’s dressing gown was lying on the bed, his slippers were by the
couch. The boss was one of the landlords that tenants like. Moses told me
that, five years before, when I visited him at his white-painted farm house.
“I’ve rented from him for 22 <5:-:-
years (that was 1941),” he told me
then, “and he
has yet to find a
fault. Whenever
he gets a chance
he comes over
here to say 'hel-
lo’ and ‘goodbye’
but he doesn’t
find fault. And
I’ve made mis-
takes, too. No-
body is perfect.”
The landlord
had a pretty
good opinion of
the tenant, too,
as I learned
later. Smith
knew that and
was pleased, but it didn't go to his
head. He is a typical, independent,
self-respecting up-state New York
farmer. I remember he said to me
that day, sitting on the front stoop,
in 1941:—
"The President drove over here
a little while back, with Princess
Juliana. He told her about this
house being over 100 years old and
I told him about the well-water. It
had gone bad. So he said go ahead
and dig a new well.” Smith and I
walked over to the new well. It was
100 feet deep. “It will last 100
years,” said Smith with the pride
you find up that way in good things
that last.
Baukhage
By this time you have guessed
that Smith was a tenant on the
Roosevelt estate at Hyde Park,
N. Y. I take it he is a comfort-
ably retired farmer now, living
in the nearby village of the
same name. And Mrs. Eleanor
Roosevelt and her son, Elliott,
have taken over. I don’t know
who will live in the farm house.
The old Roosevelt homestead is
■ museum now—but the Roose-
velts have other dwellings.
They are going in for commercial
farming, Mrs. R. said. Elliott hadn’t
been interviewed since the senate
war investigating committee start-
ed looking into the Hughes airplane,
and ended looking the other way
and blushing. The testimony had a
lot to do with the night club—cock-
tail-lounge side of young Roose-
velt’s activities but nobody could
find a hole in his war record. Even
his many critics admit that.
Elliott’s friends are heaving sighs
★ ★
Tragedy in the Forests
of relief to hear that he is going in
for something constructive. War
takes a lot of courage and skill, too,
but it isn’t very constructive. Nei-
ther is night life.
“This is a challenge,” Mrs.
Roosevelt explained in her col-
umn, “which Elliott and I will
enjoy.” Every farmer knows
she’s right about the “chal-
lenge.”
They aren’t going to try to raise
wheat, corn, potatoes, or attempt to
keep 14 cows, as Smith was doing
when I visited him. They are going
to continue raising Christmas trees,
a venture which the late President
started and seriously pursued for
several years. Smith’s 140 acres,
which were devoted to general
farming, are only a fraction of the
more than 1,000 acres, much of
which is wooded, and part of which
has been devoted to a scientif-
ically - cultivated evergreen crop,
which make up 'the estate.
Mrs. Roosevelt explained that she
and her son couldn't afford to keep
the estate as a country place, as her
mother-in-law had.
I noticed that the New York Her-
ald-Tribune made editorial note of
Mrs. Roosevelt’s plans and men-
tioned that a lot of acres along the
Hudson "were untilled.”
It mentioned that Dr. Samuel
Bard, a wealthy retired physician,
had a place not far from the Roose-
velt estate where he carried on val-
uable experiments which made an
important contribution to agricul-
ture. Mrs. Roosevelt hopes to con-
duct similar experiments.
“If Mrs. Roosevelt,” says the
Herald-Tribune, “does no more than
fasten remembrance on the fact
that land endures . . . that stability
of farming is that of a renewable
world in which seedtime and har-
vest are still more lasting than dy-
nasties and dictators . . . the new
farming partnership will have done
much of value before the first fur-
rows are turned."
I wonder if you feel the way I
do. I think, regardless of the
color of one’s political senti-
ments, anybody who loves the
soil can offer his well wishes
to this venture with the hope
that the young man will do as
well with his hands in the earth
as he did with his plane in the
air.
★ ★
It was a coincidence that while I
was reminiscing on the subject of
the Roosevelts’ new adventure in
tree-growing, my neighbor in the
building across the street presented
me with a couple of typewritten
pages containing some striking
facts about tree destruction. They
are apropos, I think, now, as we
move toward the close (we hope) of
the worst season of forest fires in a
decade.
This period of holocausts began
before the ink was dry on bills
passed by congress making deep
slashes in the interior department’s
appropriations for fire control.
Many of the cuts later were re-
stored, but not in time to save thou-
sands of acres of timber in some
areas of America, notably Alaska.
“The sawtimber burned in a
single year in this country,”
says my friend’s memorandum,
“would be sufficient, if convert-
ed to building materials to re-
place every private house in the
cities of New Orleans or Min-
neapolis.
“If the wood below sawtimber di-
mensions could be manufactured
for paper, it would provide a 25-
year subscription to a monthly
pocket-size magazine for every
man, woman and child in our 142
million population.
“If it could be converted to rayon
pulp, it would provide material for
more than a hundred new dresses
for every woman and girl in Amer-
ica.
“In terms of dollars, our annual
forest fire loss amounts to 35 million
dollars in payrolls lost to wood-
workers and three-quarters of a bil-
lion dollars worth of wood products.
“The tragic part of all this is
that 9 out of 10 forest fires could
he prevented. Nine our of 10
are traceable to human causes
—to inccndiarists, causing more
than 25 per cent of all fires; to
smokers, careless debris-burn-
ers, railroads, campers and
woodsworkers who are respon-
sible in the order named.”
Well, those are the sentiments of
my neighbor, who is trying to
establish a “balanced cooperation”
among the men who make their
money out of trees, one way or an-
other, the people and the birds and
the bugs who need to have trees,
and the government and others who
try to protect and preserve them.
One non-cooperating match tosser
can undo a lot of his work.
(U. S. Forest Service photo)
Parachute jumpers are one of
the most Important factors in get-
ting forest fires under control
swiftly. Here, Dick Tuttle, near
top of 100-foot lodgepnle pine
snag, is about to be assisted by
Francis Luskin, forest guard.
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PAUL MALLON
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LESSON IN WARFARE . . . Army cadets and navy midshipmen ob-
served combat battalion of marines stage mock beach landing opera-
tion as part of operation Camld II. After its completion, the observ-
ers inspected the phases and talked with the marines, some of whom
were still in foxholes.
NEWS REVIEW
Joint Defense Pact Set;
Fear Large Corn Loss
POLE-TO-POLE:
Mutual Defense
James Monroe, fifth President of the
United States, had his say, in spirit, at
least, at the inter-American defense con-
ference at Pelropolis, Brazil, in August,
1947.
When the conference agreed on a
mutual aid treaty for North and
South America and their territorial
waters, and set up a vast, North
Pole-South Pole hemispheric secu-
rity zone, the celebrated Monroe
doctrine was developed to its log-
ical conclusion 124 years after its
inception.
This was the burden of the Mon-
roe doctrine in 1823: "It is only
when our rights are invaded or se-
riously menaced that we resent in-
juries or malfe preparations for our
defense ... in this hemisphere . . .”
Today, the Americas are making
preparations for hemispheric de-
fense in advance of any menace
or invasion of their rights. The mu-
tual defense treaty embodies three
main points:
1. In the case of armed attack
from outside the hemisphere,
all nations have the automatic
right to meet the attack with
military measures.
2. If military attack occurs in-
side the hemisphere, American
nations may go voluntarily to
the aid of the victim, with con-
sultations to follow.
3. If attacks occur both Inside
the hemisphere and outside the
security region, immediate con-
sultations will be called.
Thus, despite the opposition of
some Latin American nations to the
U. S.-espoused “Monroe doctrin-
ism,” it appeared certain that the
“hands off the Americas” policy
was in tor a big revival in the atom-
ic age.
TORRID ZONE:
Corn Declines
Thermometer-happy
struggling feebly in
clutches of a record
could take cold comfort from the
fact that temperatures were being
exceeded in height only by the price
of corn.
With abnormally hot weather pre-
vailing over most of the nation,
grains continued to deteriorate from
lack of moisture and prices of both
corn and oats hit new record highs.
September corn was selling at $2.45
a bushel and September oats
zoomed to $1.08%.
The grain market prices went
through the roof following a depart-
ment of agriculture report that the
country’s heat-seared corn crop
would produce only 2,437,000,000
bushels, a 223 million bushel drop
from the August 1 estimate.
Although agriculture department
officials had hoped earlier this
year for a 3 billion bushel corn
crop to keep food production high,
weeks of hot, dry winds shrivelled
that hope, and the corn crops of
Iowa and Illinois, major producing
sections, continued to decline stead-
ily.
Americans,
the moist
heat wave.
HEADLINERS
Do Unions Represent All “Labor”?
WITH firecracker words, union people write me asking
VV “Who are the consumers”? They then furnish their own
answer, which is that they are the consumers. With the sheer
volume of their organized mail, and explosive epithets from
such nebulous unidentifiable characters as “a labor house-
wife,” they are trying to crowd me into retracting my frequent
economic analyses showing the unions are working against the consumers.
Indeed, they are trying to convince me that the unions themselves are
all labor, simply because they call themselves “labor.”
Well, let’s look at the matter more thoroughly.
There are 60,000,000 workers in this coimtry today. The unions
only claim to represent about 15,000,000. Therefore they are not
all labor. They are not even a majority of labor. They are about
one-fourth. They are one-fourth which tries to > monopolize the
whole economy of the country by sheer superior weight of political
pressures, propaganda and indeed any means at their command.
Now there are 140,000,000 people in the United States and if the
unions represent one-fourth (if they have raised the same Size families
as others) they are 35,000,000 people trying to run 140,000,000 by any
means, including intimidation.
★ / ★ ★ ★ j
H. L PHILLIPS I
The Garble Sisters Speak
IN WASHINGTON . . . John Samp-
son Kirby, 69, (above) of Tennessee
was placed under observation after
police had nabbed him packing a
pistol in the capitol building and de-
claiming loudly that he had “just
been elected president of the United
States.”
IN NEW YORK . . . Virginia Wal-
ton Brooks, 14, just returned from
an African hunting trip with her
parents, proudly revealed that she
had shot not only an elephant and
a lion but also such esoteric crea-
tures as a kongoni, two gerenuks,
an oryx, a bat-eared fox, an im-
pala, two dik-diks and a klipspring-
er.
IN CHICAGO . . . Mrs. Anna Metz-
ger, 47, had had a pain in her leg
for 40 years, finally became curi-
ous, pressed the irritated area and
pulled out a two-inch sewing needle.
SAY UNCLE:
Ford Gives Up
Abandoning his laudable, if non-
conforming, efforts to stabilize auto-
mobile prices, Henry Ford II an-
nounced that prices on “most mod-
els” of Ford passenger cars and all
truck models would be boosted from
$20 to $97, effective immediately.
It was an average increase of 4.2
per cent, the announcement said,
the rise being dictated by “the sim-
ple necessity of keeping Ford Motor
company on a sound economic
basis."
The action, following price in-
creases by virtually every other au-
tomotive manufacturer, marked the
defeat of Ford's lonely stand
against the forces of inflation.
All this gave rise to a disturbing
question: If the Ford dynasty is un-
able to hold the line against infia.
tion, what, if anything, can?
THE SWIFT:
Oysters Lose
Oysters simply aren’t fast enough
to get away from predatory snails
whose pace has been clocked offi-
cially at .00363005 miles an hour.
Plodding along on a treadmill at
the University of Maryland fish and
wildlife laboratory, a test snail cov-
ered 22 feet and 'A inch in 11 hours
and 30 minutes — a pace swift
enough, at least, to overtake an
oyster.
Purpose of the laboratory's snail-
timing experiments is to slow the
little creatures up even more. As
things stand now, they’re doing too
much damage to Chesapeake Bay's
oyster crop.
FIRST VICTIM
Deflation a Threat to Farmer
Producers of farm commodities,
although strongly entrenched in the
present economy and apparently
destined to remain so, at least for
the immediate future, may be the
first group to feel the full impact
of any reversal of the current in-
flationary trend.
That warning was issued by fed-
eral reserve board researchers in a
midyear study of the position of
agriculture, indicating that, even in
flush times, the well-being of farm-
ers is in a state of delicate balance.
If the present boom were to de-
velop into a tailspin, price falls in
the agricultural commodity field
probably would be greater than In
other areas of the economy, the re-
port points out. Record returns to
farmers attributed to prosperous
urban consumers and an almost un-
limited demand from abroad could
be reversed in a flash.
The federal reserve board survey
explained the danger of deflation to
farmers by citing three factors now
operating to keep prices high.
1 The share of consumer incomes
* • going to food consumption is
much larger than has been cus-
tomary.
h Profit margins of producers and
“• distributors are greater than
usual.
"3 Speculative factors play an im-
*-L portant part in maintaining
prices on numerous markets.
“Consequently, with any reversal
of inflationary tendencies, food
prices may be particularly subject
to downward pressures.”
While the financial position of
farmers has undergone a vast, gen-
eral improvement as compared
with pre-war years, many individ-
ual farmers have increased their
indebtedness, and the new debt is
written on the basis of sharply ad-
vanced values.
In particular, the report declared
that land values must start declin-
ing before much longer. Thus, while
the farmer is enjoying a high level
of income and prosperity as a result
of the prevailing inflationary econ-
omy, the same forces which are
now operating to his benefit appear
a3 a lurking but altogether possible
danger to his future security.
“Are you following the baseball
race this season?”
“Yes, it looks like the Yankees
were a sure thing. They’re great
under that new manager, Ernie
Bevin. Brooklyn is going great
guns, too.”
“Look at the way Tony Baksi and
Tito are hitting the ball this sum-
mer.”
• • •
“What new movies have you
seen?”
“The ‘Two Mrs. Paulines’ and
‘The Egg and the Badman’ were
good, I thought, but I like ‘Brute
Crossfire’ and ‘The Huckster and
the Bobby Soxer.' ”
DREW PEARSON
*Clothiers Worried Over Lining Prob*
lem"—headline.
_*_
The customers have been worried over
the lining problem for the last five op
six years.
• • •
CAUTION
I cannot buy a house
And there’s nothing to rent:
I’d live in a barrel, except
I’m afraid I’d ferment.
Gertrude Flynn
• . * •
Paul Whiteman has joined the
ranks of disk jocl^ys. We take
it his diet now includes laying off
artistic ideals and using dignity
sparingly.
★ ★
Highest Paid Lobbyist
Q F THE 700-odd lobbyists registered with congress under the lobbying
act, ex-Senator John Danaher, Connecticut Republican, shows up
as having received the highest fee.
Danaher, who formerly served as an all-round manager for the Re-
publican national committee at a salary of $25,000, has now listed him-
self as lobbyist for the Revere Copper and Brass company. It paid him
$25,000 for getting the import tax on copper suspended.
In addition to the $25,000 fee, Danaher also received $2,000 for
appearances before the house ways and means committee and be-
fore the senate finance committee.
Since the copper industry profited tremendously from removal of the
import tax, Danaher’s fee was considered reasonable. As a matter of
fact, other lobbyists probably were paid much more for performing
other jobs by claiming they were paid for “legal” services, not lobbying.
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WALTER WINCHELL
This is one of the new dodges used by lobbyists which makes it appear
that some of them merely worked for love.
Peculiar People in the Big Burg
Sabbath promenaders along Stat-
en island’s small town streets.
You’d never guess this was part of
a big city. . . . Uppity dress shops
where patrons are served cocktails
gratis. . . . The rich eccentric who
dwells in a Park avenue hostelry.
Her idea of fun is tossing coins
from her window to watch peasants
scramble. . . . The cluster of saloons
on South street, where sea-faring
men gather. They have labeled that
sector “The Jungle.”
The mellow tones of Radio
City’s guides. Most of them
hope to be announcers. ... A
cop who is stationed near an
East 49th street dock. It’s a
favorite jumping-off place for
those who want to end it all. . . .
Well-dressed Wall Streets—from
clerk to top exec—all impec-
cably attired.
WALTER SHEAD
A pigeon fancier near St. Patrick’s
cathedral explaining the varieties
of pigeons to anyone willing to lis-
ten. . . . Fifth avenue window-
dressing craftsmen who plan their
latest creations in deepest secrecy—
to make certain rivals won’t filch
their ideas.
Saturday crowds in the ice cream soda-
mats, where you’ll find more gaiety than
in the silk and mink joynts. ...The retired
vaude magician who amuses children in
Central park with his sleight-of-hand wiz-
ardy.
Swanky salons of fortune-tellers
on upper Madison avenue. Among
their clients you’ll find some of New
York’s wealthiest and most respect-
able people. ... An organ, grinder
whose monkey has a tiny derby-
perched on its head. If you give »
coin, it tips its lid.
★ ★
Strategy in the Economic War
T) EGARDLESS of how peace-loving Americans try to rationalize the
present uneasy state of world affairs, there is one stark, basic fact
that stands at the bottom of it all. The United States and Russia are
engaged in war—vast, tremendously important political and economic war.
What the outcome will be, the man on the street and the man
on the farm does not know. No more does the man in high office
in Washington. It is like any war involving arms and troops; no one
can say with certainty which side will win. All that can be done
is to outline the chief aims and objectives and plan the strategy
accordingly.
In this case, the U. S. aim, on the surface, at least, is clear-cut.
It is, we are told, the securing of individual and national freedom in
eastern Europe. U. S. strategy is equally well defined and is following
a definite course. Eastern Europe is in desperate need of American cred-
its, goods and services. The United States, in a continuing series of ex-
pedient maneuvers, is granting or withholding those goods and services
as strategy seems to indicate.
Will this plan of battle be successful, or does it amount to
nothing more than shadow-boxing with Communism? No respon- v
sible observer expects any sensational results, simply because
the Communist hold on eastern Europe is already too strong. Prob-
ably the most that can be hoped is that present U. S. methods will
at least weaken, to some extent, the Soviet influence in that
pivotal zone.
tr ★ ★ ★
WRIGHT PATTERSON !j
Rights of Local Government
A N ISSUE that will loom large
in the coming presidential elec-
tion will be a return to the people
the rights of local and state self
government. Strange as it may be
in the light-of history, that will be
more a Republican than a Demo-
cratic demand. In that connection,
there is one privilege neither party
will demand for the states. That is
the spending of state money for the
development of state projects when
the federal government ean be in-
duced to pay the bill. Nevertheless,
just why the people of Boston, for
example, should assist in paying for
a control of flood waters in the Los
Angeles river is hard to answer.
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