The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-03


 where you can think about we have finally finished bri You know, Lespedeza is one of the good things the JapS brought to this country-an excellent type of hay. I'll bet this was the latest hay crop ever harvested in this part of Maryland, and it was all MT. RoOSevelt's fault.
 We got delayed first of all by the new silo. The only place I could get a Silo was in Kalamazoo, Mich. They promised to send it in a hurry, but it didn't come, and didn't come. Meanwhile, the corn was getting ripe, and I was cuss- ing out the railroads and the way MT. Roosevelt was handling things. Finally, the Silo tiles arrived, but not the silo hoops. Somehow or other, the bureaucratS held the hoops out on me for three more weeks, so we diGn't get the silo built until late August, by which time the corn was almost bone dry. Despite that, we started cutting. That is, we tried to start. But by that time, the labor whict had promised to help had gone off to other jobs.
 then arranged to get some German prisoners from Camp Meade, but every time they were due to come, it would rain. It hadn't rained much all summer, but just when we were ready to bring in the corn, it rained and rained. I guess that was about the only thing can't blame {. on President Roosevelt. How ever, we finally got the German prisoners. The first bunch was pretty good, but the second al- ready had become indoctrin- ated with Roosevelt ideas. They wouldn't work.
 So 1 brought part of the office force out and put them to work in the cornfield. Mrs. P. drove. a truck. Hal Horan of Time magazine, who thought he had come down for a vacation, found himself working two inches off his waistline. Even his wife cut two acres of corn.
 Well, we finally got the corn in the silo, by which time it was al- ready late for the hay. Then it rained some more-and kept on raining. Every time we'd get some hay cut and all raked it, it would rain again. At long last, however, the hay is in the barn, but now Henry is going to quit and I have to find 8 new dairyman.
 FARMER VERSUS COLUMNIST
 All of which makes you realize how touch it is to be farmer especially during the Roosevelt ad- ministration. Tough as it is, how ever, I sure would a lot rather be a farmer than a newspaper columnist at election time. Some times I almost think the British are right, and that it's cheaper to have king.
 Actually, of course. it's a great tribute to our democracy that it can pull through all this name calling, and it will--even if read- CTS do call a columnist all the names in the phone book before it's over, and even if editors, usual- ly most tolerant, do get jittery and temperamental.
 I dropped in to chat with an editor out in POnca City, Okla, some time ago. At the time I went into his office, I cOnsid- cred myself no amateur critic of MT. Roosevelt. At least, I knew that MT. Roosevelt con sidered me no amateur. I had watched him closeup for 12 long years and thought I knew a lot of the thnigs that were wrong with him.
 But before I had talked to that Ponca City editor for fifteten min- utes, I found I didn't know any, thing. He knew more about what was wrong with Roosevelt than all the newsmen in Washington put together. In fact, there wasn't anything right with him.
 And the longer that editor talked, the sOrrier I got to feel ing for MT. Roosevelt, until, by that time left, I was defin- itely taking his side.
 Sometimes wonder if that isn't one trouble with some of the news paper critics in this campaign to- day. Some of them are so bitter ly Roosevelt that people dis count what they say.
 CRITICISM OF
 ADMINISTRATION
 Looking back over the. years, can remember Q whale of a lot Of