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Frontier No Poor Man's Game
BY PETER EDSON
NEA Washington Correspondent
MOSES LAKE, Wash. — (NEA) — Reclamation
Commissioner Michael W, Straus played a modern
Moses here at Moses Lake the other day. He was in
the middle of a sagebrush Jesert instead of being
in the bullrunshes or the wilderness, however. And
instead of striking & rock to bring forth a gush of
water, he ceremoniously opened a gate valve on a
ditch.
Water from the Columbia River Basin irrigation
canal system flowed onto the 120 acres of this new
promised land given to Donald D. Dunn. He is the
lucky young man who won the Veterans of Foreign
Wars national contest.
Don Dunn received, completely free, an $85,000
farm, graded and planted in a single day, and a
conrpletely furnished modern farm home, also built
in a day. Merchants, contractors and workingmen
of this dusty boom-town community furnished the
equipment and the labor for this modern miracle.
All of this is a far cry from the experience of two
of the congressmen now representing this north
west country.
Rep. Lowell Stockman, the six-foot-six congress
man from near Pendleton, OQre., whose district
covers the tremendous eastern end of the state, still
remembers vividly his experience getting a start
during the depression. He saw it coming, he says,
and saved $650 which he buried in a tin can.
He lived on that during the. lean years while
banks failed and mortgages were foreclosed. Today
he operates a 3,000-acre wheat ranch which he dry
farms, Jetting half of it fallow on alternate years.
STARTED FARMING ON
815-. A-WEEK SHOESTRING
Rep. Walton Horan of Washington, whose father
was one of the pioneer settlers near Wenat
chee, wasg a little more fortunate during the depres
sion days in that a bank was able to carry him
through. But the bank allowed him only sls a week
to live on. And his wife had to raise five children
on that.
Contrasi that with the $85,000 worth of simple
necessities which Donald Dunn has been given for
his new start in life.
All this past is but prologue for the still more in
teresting story of Mr. Dunn which is to come. How
will he make out in the future? Having been
washed eut and having lost all he had on another
farnr in Kansas by the 1951 floods, Don Dunn
couldn’t ask for more.
“1 ought 10 clear SIOO an acre on the 80 acres of
cultivated land,” he says. “Other farmers all around
here are doing it.”
For the first 10 years, Don Dunn will have to pay
$5.50 an acre for his water. Thén for the next 40
years he’ll have to pay an additional $2,13 an acre
towards the construction costs for the canals that
bring him the water. By the time he is 80, this will
be paid off,
Any young farmer receiving an $85,000 head
start, clear of debt, should, of course, make money
or else there’s something radically wrong with the
American farm economy.
A group of 21 foreign agriculture, irrigation and
public works officials, currently touring the United
States wunder State Department auspices, was in
Moses Lake to see the farmr-in-a-day demonstra
tion. :
What they saw no doubt amazed them, but for
various reasons it also shocked them. In most of
their countries, $85,000 would be enough to modern~
ize the agriculture for a whole village,
MANY NEW SETTLERS LIVE IN
TRAILERS AND TENTS
_ Not all the 6,500 new farmers expected in this
Columbia Basin in the next seven years get any
such a plush start. Along the highways can be seen
many new settlers living in trailers or even tents.
Some of them are building their own houses and
shacks with their own hands and no help.
Also along the roads at frequent intervals can be
seen the abandoned farms and farmr houses of
earlier settlers who came here full of hope, like
Donald Dunn, and failed to make a go of it.
Bureau of Reclamation advises that every weteran
making application for a farm in this area under the
land-drawing system should have at least two years
of farm experience and an average of $4,500 in
liquid assets to see him through the first year.
Eighty percent of the land is now privately
owned and sells dear. The land sold by the govern
ment under the five-year anti-speculation law is
priced at from $1 to $lO an acre, 20 percent down,
the balance in 20 years.
To level the land costs an average of $4,500. To
put in the water system cosis $2,000. Farnr machin
ery averages $3,000, livestock $2,500, farm build
ings $2,000, and a house $5,000,
Thie totals $19,000 required capital, including the
house. The range in actual practice is from SIO,OOO
to $85.000. Farming on this new frontier is no lon
ger a poor man’s game.
To those that have the experience, the skill and
tha capital 10 handle it, there are stories of vast re
turns—ss6,ooo crops on 50-acre tracts. And they go
#outh for the winter in Cadillacs.
Yes, youag Mr. Donald Dunn will be worth keep
fag an eye or to see how he makes out. ,
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Compare Home-Front, Battle
Sacrifices-Thank Your Stars -
Soon the Korean war will he two years old. Since
the truce talks began about two weeks after the
first anniversary, it is fair to say the second year
has largely added up to stalemate.
Yet there is something terribly cruel in such a
view of this strangest of all wars. It seems to imply
that nothing~is happeinng, that no blood is being
shed, Still we all know this is not so, that casualty
lists continue to be issued, that the total of men
killed or wounded rises weekly by blocks of a hun
dred or more,
1f you stop and think a moment, you realize that
this war is no stalemate to the families of men
whose names appear on those lists. It is bitter com
bat, with the full horror that surrounds any other
war we have ever fought.
Equality of sacrifice is really impossible of attain
ment in war. No matter how noble the man feels
who gives up a soft office job and heads for the
plane factory or steel mill, he is not in the same
category with the man who is living in mud and
spilling his blood on the batilefield,
No manpower controls, no excess profits tax, no
“conscription of capital” can hope to equalize
home-front sacrifices with battlefield suffering.
But unhappily, we have to face the fact that the
inevitable equality of sacrifice is vastly greater in
this present conflict than in previous wars. This is
not all-out combat in which every man has his ap
pointed station and is expected to serve.
This is all-out war for a few—and booming
peacetime, marred only by the nervous tensions of
the Cold War, for the many. This is death and hor
ror for some, and no pain at all for most others.
Perhaps it is humanly impossible for people liv
ing in a state of half war-half peace to acquire a
full consciousness of the gravity of the times unless
the war strikes directly at them. Most people do not
easily conjure up the troubl'es of another. They are
absorbed in their own, however small they may
seemr to the man who is fighting for his life at the
front.
Maybe we shall have to acknowledge that it is
too much to expect citizens enjoying prosperous
conditions at home to worry unduly over a war
that appears quite remote, wholly confusing, and
without effect directly upon them.
No one would pretend, either, that it is easy to
endure the strains of the Cold War. Living on what
General Eisenhower calls a “high plateau of ten
sion” is a new experience for most Americans, and
they can be forgiven for adjusting to it slowly.
Still, they ought to have erough awareness of the
battlefield sacrifices of the fcw, not to complain
about the relatively mild sacrifices they themselves
must make.
You may not like your tax bill, but did you ever
live in the mud for a year in all kinds of weather?
Every home-front American ought to thank his
lucky stars that he has nothing more painful to
worry about than some inconvenience imposed on
him to make things better end easier for his fight
~ing representatives in Korea. At home ‘a man’s life
is reasonably secure. But in Korea he may die any
time—even in a stalemate,
Welcome Change
One of the best signs of the inrproved posture of
the Western nations is the way in which French
authorities have dealt with the series of Corffhunist
uprisings that greeted General Ridgway’s arrival in
Paris,
A few years ago French leaders would have
trembled at the idea of clapping a top Communist
like Jacques Duclos into jail and raiding Red head
quarters.
But this is 1952. France is stronger militarily and
economically, as is many another nation in the
North Atlantic Alliance, The French understand
Red tactics for what they are, and are not afraid to
call Moscow’s bluff. So Duclos resides in jail and
Red headquarters all over Paris have been ran
sacked.
It may not be easy to cope with Communist
strike maneuvers, but everything indicates equal
firnmess will be mustered for that battle,
Singing and Thinking
Allied occupation authorities have offered no
objection to West German restoration of “Deutsch
land Über Alles” as the national anthem. They
might as well go along. Once a national anthem has
taken hold of a people, there is no stopping it. If a
policeman were assigned to each conquered citizen
with power of life or death over him, he will still
hum it under his breath,
The theme of Germany over everybody else, of
course, has had its unpleasant connotations in the
last half century. Twice the German people, hypno
tized by false leaders, tried 1o put themselves over
others by wars., For that matter, however, most
nations have national anthems which sing of war,
conquest and national superiority.
More thoughtful German people say the song is
intended only to express deep love of country, that
Germany is for the German people before all
others.
It is to be hoped this interpretation will guide
the thinking of the German people in the future. A
philosopher once said that, if given the power to
compose the songs that people sing, he would con
trol that country. It all depends upon what they
think as they sing the songs. If the singing of a
national anthem instills thbughts es rapine and
slaughter against neighbors, the song is bad.
Safest place in case of a bomb attack is under
the piano, says a safety official. Those who were
really scared would crawl under an upright, pre
sumably.
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Studies Confinue, But No Sure
Remedy For Psoriasis Is Found
BY EDWIN P. JORDAN, M. D.
Written for NEA Service
The frequency with which I
receive inquiries conceérning pso
riasis (pronounced with the p
silent) is evidence of how badly
more information is needed on
this curious skin disease. L. W.
writes, for example, “Please tell
me what causes psoriasis, and is
there a known cure?”
These are $64 questions since
the exact cause of psoriasis is not
known and there is, as yet, no
cure. So far as cause is concerned,
it is known that several members
of the same family may be af
flicted, but just why is not clear.
It is also known that psoriasis
is quite often associated with cer
tain kinds of arthritis, though
here again, just what the connec
tion is between the two conditions
is uncertain.
Psoriasis, because of its peculiar
appearance, is a source of a good
deal of worry to those who have
it, but although one physician has
written me concerning serious
complications from the disease, it
is generally considered relatively
harmless so far as life and general
health is concerned.
If the psoriasis starts suddenly
there is likely to be severe itch
ing. In the more chronic cases
(which are more frequent) there
is little or no itching. Those parts
of the skin which have become
involved for a long time generally
become covered with a thick scale.
When the scale is scraped off,
tiny bleeding spots appear under
neath,
Many treatments are bein used
for psoriasis. Most of them pro
duce good lesults the first time
they are tried, but too often the
improvement turns out to be only
temporary, and when it is repeated
the good results that happened the
first time fail the second.
REMEDIES INCLUDE COAL TAR
The remedies most often used by
skin specialists for psoriasis in
clude ointments containing coal for
exposure to ultraviolet rays (pso
riasis is usually better in the sum
mer) and X-rays. Almost every
year, too, there is a report of some
new and “better” treatment, but
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INFECTIONS
Such as Athletes Foot, Ring
worm and Jockey lich yield
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as yet there is none which has
stood up and really does the job
for everybody without any fail
ures.
Some day the right treatment
will come, but until it does, psori
asis will be discouraging to treat
for patient and doctor alike. How
ever, it is being carefully studied
and some greatly improved treat
ment could come at any time,
NO MORE VOTING
ROCHESTER, N. Y. — (AP) —
One Wayne County farmer isn’t
going to bother voting this year
because he doesn’t think one vote
means a thing.
“A couple of years ago they
were votin gon centralization of
the school district here, I didn’t
vote,” he said. “Then some fella
came "around and said, ‘Thete’s
going to be another vote on the
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proposition and you'd better vote.
We lost the last time by one vote.
So I voted.
“Well, there must of been 800
or a thousand vootes cast and after
it was over the same fella came to
me again nd said: ‘What do you
know about that—we last by one
vote again.
“Now nobody can tell me that
man happen twice in a row so I
decided that’s the last'time I'll
vote.”
Cotton should be cultivated shal
low and often enough to control
weeds and grass, agronomists of
the Extension Service say.
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