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Browning chief., 1946-05-31
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Browning chief., 1946-05-31
Washington lI{:2:k5S
Columnist's Thoughts Turn
To Squirrels and Crabgrass
WNU Service, 1916 Eye Street, NV,
Washington, D. C.
By BAUKHAGE
Ne1Cs Analyst and Commentator.

WNU Service, 1916 Eye Street, NV,
Washington, d. C.
Summer was creeping toward the
Potomac, the flag over the White
House hung limp as wilted petal,
a hot sun, burning through the in
frequent gaps in the heavy foliage,
made yellow patches on the lawn.
The fountain splashed family, fall
ing like warm, futile tears.
moved slowly along the drive,
wondering if I could garner even a
modicum of answers to meet empti-
ness left by the thousands of unan-
swered questions the world is ask
ing.
l looked under the Japanese oaks
whose tightly laced leaves, only a
little above the ground, smother the
young grass, hopefully starting up
each spring, whitening in the shad-
ows before July. There, bored and
half asleep, could make out the
form of the old gray squirrel.
Often this winter, he had come
to my rescue when other "depend-
obiC oooiSCo ollo lldllNC
quarters" refused to yield up their
secrets. But this time, he barely
nodded, and looked away, deep in
his meditations, probably a nuclear
problem of some sort.
A few moments later, l was TAX
ing down notes at a not very news
full press and radio conference. The
President, I feared, did not feel as
cheerful as he looked. The hand
kerchief in his breast pocket was
neatly folded in its customary three
fiat, razor-sharp triangles. (Some-
times his answers were almost as
sharp.) The great red carnations
on the table behind his desk, which
holds the photographs of members
of his family, were already droop-
ing. The low hum of the moving
machine came in the open windows
that look toward the Potomac.
OF what was said of import to
the nation and the world, you will
Browning chief., 1946-05-31
Strategy Misfres
In Battle Ouer OPA

The battle over the OPA in the
senate has brought out some of the
good old axioms on how to bring
pressure on congress and how
not to if you want to get your
favorite bill passed.
Anti-OPA strategy all along has
been to postpone action on OPA as
long as possible. Supporters have
fought for action. At this. moment,
though some unforeseen event may
change the course, it looks as if
the odds favored postponement, but
not defeat.
1t first appeared that ordinary con-
ventional methods used by the pro-
fessional lobbyists were going to kill
the bill. Then it looked as if spon-
taneously written letters were going
to save it. In both cases, the effort
was overdone. There were too
many expensive advertisements in
the newspapers, sponsored by the
various business institutions fight
ing price control; too much money
easily identified as coming from
vested interests was being spent.
Then it was that John @. Citizen
sat himself down, took up his pen,
or often his pencil, and wrote an
indicated letter because he (most-
ly she) was really stirred up. Con-
gress began to take heed of those
letters. They were obviously spon-
taneous, they were written by men
and women who had made up their
own minds. They were voters with
convictions, and it was very likely
those convictions would be regis
tered at the polls.
But once more, Pelion was heaped
on Ossa. There was a nationwide
organization by the labor people, the
veterans, the women's clubs. The
mail and kilograms piled up, but
the senators weren't too interested.
The letters we're sincere enough. But
the majority revealed that they
were inspired, not by an inner urge,
look into the pocketbook or pam
try, but by the persuasive voice over
the phone or at the front door. Do
what you will, the kind of communi-
cation produced by these methods is
very likely to have second
hand appearance which the expert
enced congressman can recognize.
That is why, despite the number
of letters and kilograms, the regi-
mented telephone calls, senators
were content to discuss the British
loan, and even ponder such compli-
Gated matters as atomic energy,
before Fastening to line up for OPA.
Browning chief., 1946-05-31

Vermont is pre-eminently a dairy
state, with beef, milk, butter and
cheese as important products. 1t is
also well suited to diversified farm
ing and fruit growing. Many sheep
are raised there, and it was in Yer
mont that the Morgan horse was
developed. Both in quality and
quantity Vermont leads all maple
producing states with normal
yield of about 40 per cent of the
total. The $4,000 bearing apple
trees in the states orchards yield
a product of notable quality.
In industry Vermont is noted for
lumber and lumber products, WOOL
en- mills, paper-making, marble,
granite, slate, lime, asbestos, tale,
soapstone, kaolin, ocher and other
products. Steel squares were in
vented in Vermont and are still
manufactured at St. Johnsbury.
In recent years a growing num-
ber of writers and artists have
made Vermont their permanent
homes. Others spend part of the
year there. Dorothy Garfield Fish
er, who loves her Arlington home,
is one of the states authors. Robert
Frost, the poet lives in Salisbury
Chester A. Arthur was the first
native Vermonter to become Presi-
dent of the United States, later fol-
lowed to the White House by Calvin
Coolidge of Plymouth. Adm. George
Dewey, Levi P. Morton, John Deere,
John B. Mansfield, Stephen A.
Douglas, John c. SAKE, Joseph
Smith, Alphonso Taft, Brigham
Young and many other figures in
history were born in Vermont.
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have read by the time these lines
are printed The rest was trivia.
We walked out of the executive Of
fees. glanced under the Japa-
nese oaks, but my friend, the squir-
rel, had gone, the vista looked very
bare and cheerless. So l went back
and talked about it.
AS soon as mail could reach me
from Sturgeon Lake, Mimi, l re-
ceived a letter and a package. The
writer said that as had mentioned
that it seemed impossible to raise
grass on the shaded parts of the
White House grounds, l might be
interested in this sample of quac.i
grass which she offered, and she
wrote: "If it won't grow there, I'll
be glad to know there is some place
it won't grow"
The next day, acknowledged the
gift, and opined that quack grass
must be another name for crabgrass
which l remembered as the bane
of my lawn-mowing experience.
Soon I received other communica-
tions.
A landscape designer in Akron,
Ohio, informed me that "quack
grass is not crabgrass. The former
is perennial; the latter is an
annual. Quack grass (agropyron
repens) propagates by seeds and
creeping rootstalks. Crabgrass re-
seeds itself each year"
Another letter came from Robert
L. ("Pop"D Davis. "Amateur Mulch
Gardener of Thorsby, Ala He re-
ferred to my mention of crabgrass
as a pest. and then ne went on:
Having spent years at my
hobby of looking for the most
useful plant for growing sum-
mer mulch in my gardens, and
deciding that crabgrass was it,
l cannot resist challenge.
Browning chief., 1946-05-31

In Poultney, when a lad, Horace
Greeley set type in a small print
shop. Salmon P. Chase lived and
studied law at Randolph. Peacham
was the boyhood home of Thaddeus
Stevens. Eugene Field, with rec
objections of his boyhood in New
fame, based several of his poems on
local life in Vermont. Few states
have produced so many notables in
all lines of endeavor as hardy,
mountainous Vermont.
Samuel Champlain, French ex-
plorer, was the first white man
known to have seen any part of
Vermont. When coming from Can
ada, in 1909, he went up the long
lake that bears his name. The first
settlement in Vermont, though short
lived, was also by the French, when
Captain La Motto built fort and
shrine on Isle La Motto. In 1890,
Capt. Jacobus de Warm established
an outpost on what is now Chimney
Point. In general, however, Ver-
mont was a no-man's land in the
18th and 18th centuries, a mere
passageway for French and Indian
raiding parties seeking the English
farther south and east.
From the earliest days, Vermont
gave attention to primary education.
The University of Vermont was
chartered in 1871. Other institutions
for higher education include Nor
wich university, Northfield, the Sec
ond oldest military college in the ma
ton; Bennington college; Middle
bury college; St. Michael's, Win
sooki; Trinity, Burlington. There
are three normal schools and two
junior colleges in the state.
One of the crowning features of
Vermont is the province of the
Green mountains. Here are found
the highest peaks-Killington, Ell
len, Lincoln, Cameps Hump, Mans
field and Jay. The physical geog-
graphy of the state is diversified,
however, with the Vermont lowland
on the west and much rolling coun-
try eastward. The states geology
is complex and extremely fascinat-
ing.
Vermont is nicknamed 1.-The
Green Mountain State" Its motto
is Freedom and Unity" The state
flower is the red clover; state bird,
hermit thrush; state song, Hail,
Vermont
Browning chief., 1946-05-31

Even though millions of garden
ers agree with your remarks, I
still challenge them. At pres
ent, I have a spring garden
growing without any hoeing on
land covered with thick lay
er of last years dead crab
grass.
Scarcely a weed can grow
through it, not even this years
crabgrass.
"You see, I am Pop the
LATEST gardener in the world,
and I refuse to gather, haul and
spread mulch when crabgrass
will do it for me, and do a bet
ter job of it. I make it mulch
the land for me by leaving it
strictly alone. I may even en-
courage it with fertilizer. After
I have gathered my early spring
vegetables, let the crabgrass
take over. In early fall, when
the crabgrass stops growing
here, I NOV it down. I then
have that mulch gardeners de-
light, mellow mulchy spot
where most anything can grow
without using spade or hoe.
use a potato digger to dig
planting holes"
But that is not all. Pop" may
be the LATEST gardener in the world,
but he is vigorous poet. He en-
closed poem of which (alas)
have room only for one verse and
refrain. Here it is:
Bring me hoe; pull 'em all up!
Chick weed, crabgrass, dig and
Stoop down low! Nothing but
trash,
Goosefoot, pigweed and Johns
ton grass;
Just no time to look at the sky,
Fleecy clouds a-foating by;
Work til you've such a crook
in the back
That gardening pleasures gone,
alack!
Wisdom may have a foolish
sound;
Crabgrass mulch is good for the
ground,
Let the weeds grow! Bring me
chair!
Crabgrass mulch is every
where,
Soft and thick and brown"
Browning chief., 1946-05-31
6kERhNfRH k6kER{N
FOO Sy2@9n ~ l1g1gIJJ JJaJdn State
!I2y9lgNy NgQIgQN yaIQn State

ONE of the few places where people speak of thrift
~ with respect Vermont, small state pulling its
full share of weight with the rest of the nation and
making its own budget meet!
TIE world has marveled at Vermonts scenic Won
ders. Many have witnessed the spontaneous explo-
sive splitting of quarry blocks at of its quar-
rleS, where great blocks of granite suddenly snap
loose with sharp report But the world should know
Vermonts people, too. They first to express con-
were first in the nation to provide universal manhood
suffrage, with voting not dependent upon property,
owned or rented, or specified yearly income.
Vermont always hated slavery, and its legislatures
adopted annual resolutions against it. Southern states
grew more angry each year. The Georgia legislature
requested President Pierce to employ enough able
bodied Irishmen to dig ditch around Vermont and
float 1.-The thing out to the Atlantic ocean! Virginia
newspaper gravely commented that Vermont was cal
ways foremost in the path of nfamy.'
Years later, Robert T. Lincoln, son of the Great
Emanclpator came to Vermont to make his home at
Manchester A marker now stands on the lot in Ben
nington where William Lloyd Garrison lived and where
he edited the journal of the Tines early in the 18th
F. Wnsow, builder of the Monitor" the steel ship of
Civil fame.
Vermont is pleasant place. The climate is cool
trosts, is from ITO to 60 days. depending on location
and altitude. Evidences of the ice age still prevail in
rounded and grooved ledges polished rock surfaces
ceborne bouders and great deposits unsorted sands
cays and gravels The range of scenic interest vast
with mountains and broad Valleys river and lakes and
abundant forests There will often be feet of snow
cover in the central part and "a 46 inches of rain
long, and there many Others including Lake Will
OuPhby. Dllnn1Ore md
Browning chief., 1946-05-31

the battle of Bennington.
From 1777 to 1891 Vermont was
a completely independent republic.
When all the ancient disputes we're
settled, the state adopted the con-
stitution of the United States and
was admitted as the 18th state-the
first to be added to the original 13.
The capital was established in
Montpelier in 1905.
Men of Vermont have a noble
heritage, love Of liberty and in
dependence that is deep-rooted, and
full appreciation Of human rights.
Browning chief., 1946-05-31

Mountain Boys, had come into being.
At convention in Westminster in
1777, Vermont was declared an in
dependent state and the name of
New Connecticut was adopted. but
shortly afterward the name was
changed to Vermont. Verd-Mont
had been suggested several years
earlier. The Green Mountain Boys
took part in all the conflicts of the
Revolution, and Bennington monu-
ment, 302 feet high, commemorate
Browning chief., 1946-05-31

Seems there's a special Josef
Stain tulip named after the gen.
eralissimo. Wonder if it's red.
The coal industry is sick all right
-. and some of its nurses are get
ting pretty superannuated.
This spring weather would be fine
II it weren't for an occasional flu in
the ointment.
Browning chief., 1946-05-31

One of the outstanding features of
Vermont is that it existed as an in
dependent republic, with Texas the
only other state SO distinguished.
Vermont was claimed by both
New York and New Hampshire,
and was called by some the New
Hampshire Grants. A convention Of
the settlers was held in the Cata-
mount tavern at Bennington in 1785
to discuss this controversy. Already
the militia, known as the Green
Browning chief., 1946-05-31

teet or over. There are over 400
lakes in the state, and forests and
forest parks cover over a half-rnil-
lion acres. Hunting, trapping and
fishing are always available to the
rugged outdoor man.
There are recreational activities
in Vermont all through the year
skiing into April, fishing and other
vacationing from May to late fall,
and touring and hunting to the open
ing Of the winter season. Tourists
penetrate to every corner of the
Browning chief., 1946-05-31
b A K B S by Baukhage

Musician Charles Guisikoff took
go shirts with him when the Phila-
delphia orchestra went on tour. The
tour lasts AZ days. I suppose they're
stopped in Pittsburgh.
Initiation note from a reader who
sends me some of his 1910 bills.
Seems he paid SITS for CM floor
ing in 1910, and $3.50 last month
for same.
Browning chief., 1946-05-31

state and each section has its scenic
attractions. Vacationists find al
most every kind of allure in Ver-
mont, including hiking on the IA
nous Long Trail and horseback rid
ing on the thousand-mile bride trail
system.
Browning chief., 1946-05-31

HERE'S one of the most exqui-
- site crocheted doilies ever
made-it's an heirloom piece lent
me by a friend who collects lace.
The Irish crocheted dolly is IA
inches in diameter, has 10 "roses"
around the edge and 16 cal
monds" radiate from the center
rose.
To obtain complete crocheting instruc.
tions for the Heirloom Dolly pattern No.
5196) send 20 cents In coin, your name.
address and pattern number.
Browning chief., 1946-05-31

Lake.
From Mount Mansfield, 4,393 feet
high, there is an excellent view of
the White Mountains and Adiron-
dacks, with Lake Champlain visible
30 miles away. Vermont has over
300 peaks with an altitude of 1000
Browning chief., 1946-05-31
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Evening star., 1946-09-01

can't co-exist, whose side shall we
take? If that of British imperial
ism, another war is certain. If that
of the U. S. S. r., it may not be-"
In his summary, which includes
seven-point program for dynamic
democracy" Mr.. Adamic concludes
that the world is in one awful mess,
as he had confidently predicted, and
what this country ought to do is take
prompt steps toward effecting an
theological compromise primarily be-
tween the United States and the
Soviet Union.
Mr.. Adamic has written an ex-
tremely puzzing book. The puzzle
grows out of its shapelessness, It's
speculation-plus s-innuendo air, and
the fact that when he gets around
to his "seven points," to which ap-
parently the whole book is building,
he has no more to say than what has
been said dozen times before, fire.
quently better. He has used 90
minute dinner as an excuse for a
lecture, virtually ignoring the fact
that neither of the two men he is
discussing fit into the postwar pic
ture he deplores.
Evening star., 1946-09-01
Reviewed by
MIRIAM OTTENRERG-

Early in 1912, Mr. Adamic and his
wife were invited to dinner at the
White House. They spent 80 min
utes there, part of it in the presence
of President Roosevelt and Prime
Minister Churchill. Now Mr. Adamic
has written a book advertised as
zone observers views of the Roose-
Churchill relationship and its
effect on the postwar world" and is
presumably based on that 80 min
utes.
Mr.. Adamic explains in a note that
no member of the Roosevelt family
nor any one else p resent at the din
ner saw the book in script 1t is
therefore impossible to judge the ac-
curacy of his report on the dinner
Accurate or not, it is incredible to
this reviewer.
The author believes he was in
vited to dinner because he had writ
ten "Two-Way Passage"-a proposal
that while Europe was otherwise en-
gagged, the United States develop
teams made up largely of first and
second generation Americans to en-
ter Nazi-held countries as soon as
they were liberated and to help work
with the people toward rehabilita-
ton. Mr.. Adamic believes that in
January. 1912, when our position in
the Philippines was desperate and
the Japs were approaching Singa-
pore, President Roosevelt wanted to
use him and his book to needle Mr..
Churchill.
This is typical passage:
why had F. D. R. given Church
III my book to read? I had sensed in
Mrs. Roosevelt's words that it wasn't
all plain sailing with Churchill. WHAT
was the difficulty the issue between
the President and his British guest
right now? Had they had an argu-
ment, a disagreement, that after
noon? Was Roosevelt putting the
screws on Churchill about something
and using my book and me to give
them an extra turn? If Churchill
thought F. D. r. was seriously in
terested in my idea, it would make
for lot of tension between them"
What Else Did They Overlook?
Even if you are willing to accept
the authors egocentricity, it is still
difficult to believe that Mr.. Roosevelt
at dinner with strangers would
suddenly cry, Winston, We forgot
Zog" referring to Albania s signature
on the United Nations document
and then burst mto roars of laugh
ter.
Comments Mr.. Adamic darkly:
What else have they overlooked
of course, the conduct of the
war is on their hands. They may
be doing as well as can be expected
Perhaps they are doing extremely
well. But"
After he has written the dinner
Evening star., 1946-09-01
The Most Remarkable Case in the
Records of Our Country's Courts

Louisiana State U. Press; $780,
SPAR NAMES
side Of the case the judgment was
given, between Clark and Zulime.
OF equal Importance to the suit
was the existence of will presum-
ably made out by Clark in 1918
providing for Myra and removing
the stain from her name. This
will was allegedly destroyed and the
1911 will substituted. Here was the
other major element in the case.
Myra Clark, who married Mai.
Gen. Edmund Pendleton Gaines
after the death of Whitney, pro-
vides the drama in the story. Pas
sionately convinced of the business
OF her claim, she fought on despite
many defeats to ultimate victory.
The case shuttled between New
Orleans and Washington. In WASH
ington, Myra, as the wife of Gen
Gaines, made friends in the Ma
tion's highest circles and was re-
garded by those she met as per-
son of great ability and charm.
Certainly those two assets were
needed to bolster case that, set
forth fairly by a writer sympathetic
to Myra's cause, appears to this
reader to lack solid foundation.
Mr. Harmon does a fine Job with
an intricate situation. He succeeds
in making the issues involved and
the tortuous paths they take clear
and interesting. Readers interested
in stories out of life will find THE
Famous Case of Mary Clark Gaines"
worth their time.
Evening star., 1946-09-01
XIX Century Britain
Was Tough Going
TO SEE A FINE LADY
By Norah Lofts. (Altred A
Knopf; $2.50.)
Reviewed by
NINA PEMBERTON.

1t was tough going in England in
the early 10Th century if you had to
work for living in domestic service
ITO See Fine Lady" deals with
the finer art of imposing the cruel
and frustrated will of an employer
Mrs. Stancy, upon a stanch dairy
maid, Araminta Glover. In the set
tling Of cold and bleak house in the
English countryside, some of Mrs
Stancy's savage and brutal PERSONAL
ity almost seems to seep out and
haunt the reader.
Araminta Glover went to work as
a dairy maid at the Abbey for two
reasons. First was that she did not
wish to marry certain young
laborer and follow the same pattern
Of marital drudgery as had been hel
mothers, second because Mrs
Stancy paid four pounds a yeal
salary and that was twice what she
had been getting. AS it happens
the extra two pounds yearly didn't
bring much sunshine into Ara.
minta's life but a rich and uncon.
ventional (by English standards al
least) young bachelor did when he
proposed marriage.
The merit of the book lies in the
well-drawn characters, although the
narrative plot Is nothing more thar
ordinary.
Evening star., 1946-09-01

By Nolan B. Harmon, jr.
Reviewed by CA
Here Is another truth is stranger
than fiction" story.
This time it is the history of a
law suit lasting more than so years.
It is the story of an indomitable
little woman, Myra Clark, who set
out to prove she was the legitimate
daughter of a rich New Orleans
gentleman and the legal heir to the
great fortune he left at his death.
The struggle began in 1885 shortly
after Myra Clark married William
Whitney, and it ended in 1891, six
years after she died. During that
period the suit, in various aspects
of its numerous phases, appeared
innumerable times in the city and
State courts of Louisiana and more
than II times before the United
States Supreme Court. Called by
that court "the most remarkable
case in the records of our country's
courts" the suit at different times
had the foremost lawyers and jurists
of the Nation defending or prose-
cutting it.
Basis of the suit was the un-
recorded marriage between Daniel
Clark and his beautiful Creole mis-
tress, Zulime Carrier DesGrange,
in Philadelphia in 1902. (zulime
Carrier had previously married
Geronimo DesGrange, who was
later found to have contracted an
earlier liaisonD Myra Clark was
the issue of the relationship, legiti-
mate or not, depending on which