davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Hartford chronicle., 1946-10-26

Weren't you thrilled to hear about Americas record breaking wheat crop? I know certainly was and my first thought was that now we housewives will once more be able to bake with the fine, white flour we've all been accustomed to using. The minute I heard the news I began planning to bake all the real delicacies that experience has shown are truly delicious when baked with normal extraction flour.
 One of my favorite company" recipes is for Parker House Rolls. You might like to try it:
Hartford chronicle., 1946-10-26

Bill Johnson and his boys are back at Otto s while Dick Fay Tor and gang are out preparing to go into a new spot.
Hartford chronicle., 1946-10-26

Soften yeast in lukewarm water. Scala milk and add sugar. salt and shorten ing. When lukewarm. add cup flour and beat thoroughly. Add beaten egg. yeast and beat well. Add enough flour to make soft dough. Turn out on board and knead until smooth and satiny. Place in greased bowl. cover and let rise in warm place until doubled in bulk. Punch down. Roll out A inch thick. brush with melted butter or margarine. Cut with inch biscuit cutter. Fold each round in half and seal edges. Place rolls inch apart on greased baking sheet. Brush with melted butter or margarine and let rise until doubled in bulk Bake in moderately hot oven (42o degrees p Is to 20 minutes. Yield: 3h dozen rolls.
 Serve these rolls at your next company" dinner or luncheon. I'm sure your guests - as mine always have will beg you to give them each a copy of your recipeI
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1946-07-26

phosphorus and potash will be ma
jor factor. More bushels per acre
can, and will, mean more food from
less land.
Increase Yields, Not Acres.
1.-THE wise farmer will be the one
who does not buy more land, but
who Increases the crop-yielding ca
r.acity of his present acreage by
soil improvement measures. He will
study the most practical uses of
plant food. He will consult agrono-
mists at state college and agricul-
tural stations for the most effective
methods of fertilizer application,
the analyses best suited to his par
ticular soil and crop conditions and
the quantities to use."
This advice to farmers to i'm
prove their present holdings rather
than to acquire greater acreage,
was corroborated by the commit
tee on farm land prices of the Amer
lean Bankers association which
urged member banks to admonish
would-be farm buyers "go Slow"
to discourage borrowing to specu-
late in farm lands, and to tell vet
Grams of "the hazards inherent in
excessive land prices"
Country bankers" a committee
spokesman said, "are fully cog
infant of the dangers inherent in the
present farm land price situation.
They are urging farm owners now
to reduce their debt and to plan saw
ings for farm improvement during
these years of high income, because
when conditions return to normal
and American agriculture is in COM
petition with other countries for
world markets, it is probable that
farm earnings will not support
prices at current levels"
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ToOn Seethes
With Lobbyists

You too, are familiar with the
power of the pressure boys" as my
friend Kenneth Crawford called
them in his revealing book by that
name. Crawford estimated there
were 5000 active lobbyists in Wash
ington when World War II started.
There are many more now. Speak
er Rayburn said the town was
"seething" with them.
We all remember the seven-digit
sum of money contributed to cam
paign fund which came out of the
members dues of one great labor
union. True, the head of the union
later quarrelled with the president
whom he had helped elect because
the president refused to take his
orders. Nevertheless, this example
illustrates what "big money at
tempts, and sometimes succeeds in
doing.
We know, too, that when the en-
tire economy of the country was
locked to a dead center by strikes
in two essential industries, coal and
transportation, and that when the
government itself gave orders,
those orders were disobeyed Mi
nority rule was operating then. Mi
nority groups nullified the wishes of
the duly-elected Representatives of
the people.
My friend, with all his We
hemence, with his allegiance to
management, made no claim that
the demands of the railroad men.
the coal miners, were unjust. He
merely said that in order to obtain
what they considered justice, the
powerful leaders of the organiza
tons to which they belong were able
to play baseball according to foot
ball rules-temporarily at least.
The theory that the creation of the
laws of the land has been taken
from the hands of the elected repre-
sentatives of the people was put
forth by Crawford in 1.-THE Pressure
Boys" seven years ago when he
said: at is improbable that a SIN
gle important law enacted in the
last 10 years has been written by
its congressional sponsor or it's
nominal author. Administration
bills are prepared by New Deal ex-
perts in executive departments.
Legislation independently inaugu-
rated is almost invariably pre-
pared in the Office of a lobbyist.
Congress maintains legislative
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many of the few who say so much
to SO many, my friend launched
forth into TRADE on the respon-
sibility of the publicist.
You can't play baseball accord
ing to football rules" he said, shak-
ing menacing fist at me, land
that is what Washington officials are
doing. You studied political science
80 years ago. I studied it only 20
years ago. And you know perfectly
well that the present generation is
not following the rules laid down by
our founding fathers. You ought to
tell the public about it.
Nov maybe the principles of our
government are wrong. am not de-
Tending them. But I am saying that
we are deserving them. Rule of the
majority, a republican form of gov
eminent operated by the represent
atives of the people, is a travesty,
when legislation is jammed
through by minorities. And I mean
bureaucrats as we'll as lobbyists"
This happened when the senate
was neck-deep in the final debate
over the OPA and my friend
claimed congress was revolt
ing against what he called the high
pressure methods of the admins
tration. Since tie congress was tear
ing the administration measure to
shreds at that moment pointed out
that while it was true that congress
was sore at Stabilizer Bowles for
what they called propagandizing,
the example was not a very good
one. So he proceeded to develop his
theme with specific references all
too familiar to me and my col
leagues of the microphone and type
writer.
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out the community, it reduces the
number of susceptible individuals
to a point where the epidemic can
no longer maintain itself. Until a
new group of potential victims grow
up, which may be from four to six
years, that community should be
less vulnerable to attack"
DR.. Parran said there was dan
ger in "relying too strongly on this
theory" since recently exposed
areas may be "lulled into a feel
ing Of false security" while locali-
ties which have been free of the
disease for several years may
become unduly alarmed"
"The safest procedure by far" he
advised, sis for all communities to
prepare for epidemics.
DR.. Parran's article in the AHA
magazine was one of 10 on infan-
tile paralysis timed to reach more
than $500 member hospitals
throughout the country before on
set Of the polio epidemic season,
usually ranging from late June to
September.
The other articles provide in
formation on methods of treatment,
organization of community re-
sources, the key position of the gen.
eral hospital in the overall care
Of poliomyelitis patients, and the
role Of the National Foundation for
Infantile Paralysis in financing polio
treatment at general hospitals.
DR.. Parran said that all communi-
ties should inventory their facilities
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South Dokotans
See SUearing-In

Two recent visitors to Washing
ton, Mrs. Evelyn Baker and Mrs.
James Magee of Custer and Belle
Fourche, S. D., can tell their friends
back home in the Black Hills region
that while they were here they took
in three events which might set the
tone for all such future events.
The ladies, winners of radio con-
test to honor women who did their
bit during the war years, visited
Washington during the week when
three top-drawer government off
Gals, all close friends of Harry Tru-
man, were sworn into new jobs.
The swearing-in of cabinet off,
Ger used to be a rather modest af-
fair. The swearinee, his family, a
few friends, and his office staff,
few OF the press, usually gathered
in his new office, and the whole af-
fair was over in about the time it
takes for bride and groom to say
II do"
True, Fred Vinson and Lewis
Schwellenbach did travel to Capitol
Hill for their inaugurations as treas
ury and labor secretaries respec-
lively. But those events occasioned
no such hoopla as did the cere-
monies which made Monday-Tues-
day - Wednesday Washington news
one late week in June.
Mrs. Magee and Mrs. Baker and
five thousand other spectators, plus
the navy band, gathered on the
White House lawn to watch Mr.. Vim
son take over his new office as chief
justice of the United States; they
saw John Snyder's big moment
made bigger when President Tru-
man strolled from the White House
to the treasury portico to watch his
st. Louis crony take the oath as
head of the treasury department;
and they observed tall, young-look-
ing John Steelman's swearing-in as
reconversion director, a ceremony
which took place in the rose gar
dens of the White House.
Having observed these impress
sive occasions, the Black Hills visi-
tors could appreciate the widely
whispered remark of Undersec-
rotary of Navy John Sullivan. (Sul-
livan got his swearing-in done quiet
ly and additionally on June 1877 As
Sullivan congratulated John Steel
man after the rose garden cere-
mony, he asked, well, are you the
last OF the June brides?"
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and with more and better farm ma
chinery in immediate prospect,
many farmers figure it would be a
profitable move to work much more
land than heretofore" the state
ment points out. IF they will re-
member the bitter aftermath of
World War rs land boom, when food
prices were even higher than they
are today, they will see the hazards
Of such a move.
Sooner or later the present world
food emergency will be solved and
the mammoth demand for Ameri-
can food products will end. Then
American farmers will have to COM
pete in world markets. The only way
they can do this successfully is to
produce crops at a lower cost per
unit. In such program, the steady
use of fertilizer containing nitrogen,
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WHAT GOES up"
WHAT GOES up
Land Prices Soar
Released by WNU.

Is speculative ownership of
land becoming the mo. l Enc
my" of future farm prosperity?
Are land prices due to tumble
as they did after World War I?
Will the cost of land go so high
that the farmer cannot make a
profit? These are questions that
are being asked from California
to Maine.
Land prices have already scared
II per cent above the 1859 aver
ages. They are approaching the
boom levels that followed World
War I. Many bankers are frankly
worried lest the crash and deflation
of the early 1905 be repeated.
Government figures show
farm land prices during World
War II more than doubled in
Indiana, North and South Caro-
lima, Kentucky, Tennessee, Colo
RADIO and Wyoming.
Increases of more than 80 per
cent have been recorded in Ohio,
Michigan, Georgia, Mississippi,
Arkansas and Montana. For the
country as a whole, farm real
estate values have jumped Is per
cent in the past year.
From the beginning of World War
I to the initiation peak in 1920, land
prices jumped 10 per cent. Prices
at the start of World War II were
lower than in 1914, but the in
crease this time is already II per
cent, although the actual prices are
not yet at the 1920 peak.
Higher Land, Less Profit.
Farm sales are continuing at the
high level they attained during 1945.
The number of farms resold after
a limited period of ownership has
increased, indicating speculation.
Farmers who have a "yen"
to acquire additional acreage,
says statement by the Middle
West Soil Improvement commit
tee, should bear in mind that
the higher the cost of land goes,
the harder it is to show a profit,
even at present prices received
for crops.
with sons home from the war
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Woman Has Churned
10 Tons OF Butter

EVERTON, MO. - Mrs. Gala O.
Fletcher of Everton, by actual &C.
count kept in an old ledger, has
churned 2l,000 pounds of butter by
hand in an old-fashioned brass
bound churn in her rs years. She ex-
plains that she has been churning
butter since she was four years old
when she had to stand on a wooden
box to grasp the dasher handle.
1T would be quite a lake if all
the cream I have churned should
flow into one pool" she said re-
Gently.
The churn she uses is a century
old and she has worn out many a
homemade dasher in it. She keeps
the cream only short time before
she churns it so that the butter she
makes will be sweet.
After the butter is churned she
places it in large earthen crock
which has been summing for several
hours. Then she starts working it
with a circular movement, using a
fiat wooden paddle. That works the
milk from the butter in about 10
minutes. She puts the butter away
for several hours and then works it
again to get out the last of the milk
drops. The finished butter is a gold
en- ball.
In order to have the best butter
milk, Mrs. Fletcher leaves flakes of
butter floating in it. After rs years.
experience she believes she under
stands all phases of butter making.
Contentment among cows is as
important to good butter as the
right kind of feed, she believes.
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provide sure-fire light for men,
bers Of the armed forces under the
wettest conditions of amphibious
and jungle warfare, but will soon be
available to civilians.
Accepted by the war department
in 1913 after rigorous tests, millions
OF the water resistant matches
were shipped from the factory to
fighting fronts. Most of the service
water-resistant matches were pack
aged in the familiar nickle-size
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1946-07-26

for the treatment of polio, includ-
ing hospitals which normally do
not accept patients suffering with
contagious diseases, and he added:
"Such pre-epidemic planning is
necessary if adequate care is to be
given to all who contract the
disease. Under the guidance of those
officials charged with the commu-
nity's health and with the substan-
tial support of the National Founda-
ton for Infantile Paralysis and its
local chapters, every community in
the United States can be prepared
to meet epidemics of poliomyelitis
without fear or panic"
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SoAASA upOu ny lIlQlVluudl leBlSldLOTS
for assistance in writing any minor
pivate bills"
LaFollette Bill
Would Reuamp
Thomas Mechlin, writing on this
subject in the current Virginia
Quarterly Review, touches on the
subject of readymade legislation.
He tells how a lobby "gets its own
staff together and knocks out a bill
which the front office would like to
see made law eventually. 1t then
runs the draft over to a large law
firm which has one of its members
in congress. Although the con-
gresham cannot personally repre-
sent the client, the method used in
submitting the proposed legislation
through the body of the firm takes
care of that. If the lobby is
well-organized, it will exploit high
powered publicity from then on
OUT
I am constrained to admit that
much in all OF these assertions is
true. But I would like to mention
three hopeful signs on the horizon,
minuscule though they may be. Two
were measures introduced but not
acted upon in this session of con-
gress. They will be presented again
and have good chance of passing.
One is the LaFollette measure for
revamping congress, one provision
of which increases the technical as
sistance available to members. The
second is bill introduced by
Representative SABBATH of Illinois,
which provides for an all-inclusive
investigation of Hobbies. Most con-
gressmen don't like lobbyists and
Sabath's bill, as Mechlin admits,
was a capitalization of this feeling.
The third indication was a resolu-
ton introduced during the OPA
fight by Senator Taylor ID. of
1daho) authorizing the publica-
ton of document on how each SEN
ator voted on every measure. He
said that the people are becoming
more aware of their political re-
sponsibilities, that politics is no
longer solely in the hands of politi-
clans, ward-heelers and lobbyists.
Congress is sensitive to the need
of a restoration of majority rule,
but the only real hope lies within
the majority itself. Unfortunately,
the giant sleeps.
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Rocket Assembled Over a.
Miles, Above Stratosphere

In the United States, the first
man-made object to pass beyond
the shakespeare was a rocket
fred secretly at White Sands, New
Mexico, on October Is, 1915, says
Golfers. Developed by the
GALC1T organization of the Cali
fornia Institute of Technology, this
rocket, the starting weight of
which was $50 pounds, was pro-
PEELED by liquid fuel to a height Of
235, 1000 feet, or over A miles, &C.
cording to the radar equipment
that measured its flight.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1946-07-26

Matches which can be SUBJ
merged in water for four hours and
still light have been announced by
a U. S. match company. It is stated
the matches will Withstand innum-
cradle drenchings and still function,
and viii be boon to formers, hunt
ers, fishermen and others who often
get caught in showers.
These water-resistant matches
were developed during the war to
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1946-07-26

boxes for the armed forces, but an
other type, tiny waterproof light
little more than an inch long, was
also produced for emergency kits.
The water-resistant matches for
civilians will be sold in packages OF
eight boxes of pocket size, each box
containing 40 matches. These new
matches, which "shed water like
a ducks back" carry a money-back
guarantee Il they fail to light after
a four-hour submersion.
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a famed university
was sitting with me
in Burt's the other
day.
Burt's is a sort of
greenroom for ra-
dio folk and others
W h o m owe a n d
speak and have
their being in what
is euphemistically
referred to as
Washington's Ra-
dio center. Inspired
Cor infuriated) by
the presence of so
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1946-07-26
b A K BIS BY Baukhage

There are $50 acres of forest land
in the United States. Plenty of tall
timber to take to when the prices
start 10 rise.
Earl Browder plans to open
publishing house for Russian books
in New York City. Why don't we
get some pro-American Russian to
open an American book publishing
venture In Moscow?
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1946-07-26

The publicity man for the six
stunning Goldwyn girls touring the
country to boost the movie 1.-THE
Kid from Brooklyn" expected the
Presidents daughter to have them
to tea. Miss Truman was out of
town. I made the patriotic sug-
gestion they 60 to Annapolis in
stead. If there had been time to ar.
range it, I would probably have a
navy cross by now.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1946-07-26

azlne, official pub
LEGATION of the Amer
lean Hospitals asso-
citation, DR.. Parran
said such theoriz-
ing had no scien-
tific basis but was
founded on pre-
su1nptive evidence,
adding:
MANY observ-
ers have theorized
that as an epidem-
ic spreads through
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1946-07-26
INFAkTlLE PARALYSIS
No Community Is Sole
F rom Polio E pidemic

Areas that have been free of in
fantile paralysis outbreaks for a
number of years may be more vul-
nerable to the disease than those
with recent epidemic experience,
DR.. Thomas Parran, surgeon gen.
eral of the U. S. public health serv-
ice, recently stated.
Discussing "cycles of epidemics"
in the June issue of Hospitals maya
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1946-07-26

A bright young railroad executive
who has his cum laude in law from
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Washington l{{:235
Few Legislators Authors
Of Bills They Introduce
By BAUKHAGE
Neics Analyst and Commentator,

WNU Service, 1916 Eye Street, NV,
Washington, d. C.
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drafting service which writes bill.
for committees, but it seldom i!
called upon by individual legislator.
for assistance in writing any minol
pivate bills"
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-05
EDWARD SACHS y
MORNING WATCH
1oo.Years Old

It is with great satisfaction that we note that the state
Of Iowa is planning a centennial celebration this summer.
We are mooestly blushlng, as we write this deathless piece
Of prose, knowing that any minute, Gov. Robert D. Blue of
the Hawkeye state will dispatch a wire to the Morning
Watch asking us to be the principal speaker.
For if it wasn't for our daring work as a reporter for
the Associated Press, there wouldn't be any celebration.
We know that may come as the biggest piece of news re-
leased in these parts since the Pirates won a ball game
but there it is, no Sachs, no celebration. Climb upon our
knee, cuties, and ahN spin a yarn OF the days when men
we're men and restaurants gave you butter with your
bread, not signs from the OPA telling you why you get
cleo instead.
It was summer and we were on our way to Des Moines,
thinking that we were to be a sports writer Tor the Az.
Upon arriving we were dispatched to the Iowa state house
and except for rare occasions when we slipped out for our
laundry and the latest comic books, there we stayed sur
WIS 7So71so wh 6s wsn3ed Ia Somebody S's to ta aseas Down TN the Dr. 5 Pepper r signs ms
from the state highways.
It was "a terrible experience ;.oI The governor u would ,, call !, =
,s's se ne lex fassslSn to . "Whv Us dd tss1s f te st sS be 1e q speG Ms i ssssloe
tax" Are You planning 70 rum for re re-e ise c Never having
been mn in dp%a b aelore we o" didn't ~h.t know IN " what mat to 70 ask; s ama II s we ns1'
For a while it was our job to say, Thank you, Mr.; Governor" at
voice sounded like Paul Mum and they gave him the job instead.
At last the lady from the wcTU. probably afraid that W would
sd de oe hot 54 m nu1x1a day ya whe ns the 1 qs seumds of T the ~ Advancing IL DE- snanfs
could be heard ear in the d distance ea,+ we popped sat the auesdo Mt mr. Mr. Gq %rad
Astre asked Ginger Rogers if she wanted to hop the next one not
im' strike has a question received such comment. "oh, that old
hing who cares" Throw the bum OUT
But we stuck to our guns and for weeks we would lay in. wait
for our chance. If the governor wanted to call a cab guess who
drove u diskuished as a Yellow wearing a big sign with the
question? If he went out to lay a cornerstone, guess who gave
him the trowel. Al last he cracked and named the committee.
Again. the AP lad triumpbed.
We went back to the office and told them about it and everything
was wonderful. They shook our hand and told us we didn't have to
sweep the floor anymore and that we could have a wastebasket of
or very own. why, Sachs" said the boss. IF you keep up this
kind of work We'll even pay you a salary"
It was too good to Il st. And it didn't. Shortly after III scoop,
We misspeled the name of a jantor at one of the high schools and
~ c+,r+ad fo freouent the offices With a monkey wrench. s o we
came South-losing the janitor in a railroad station in Hiram, Ohio,
but we know if it wasn't for our work, the state OF Iowa Wouldnt be
700 years old this summer. A.