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Section 1TA'GE i THE SUN, BALTIMORE, SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 8, IMS Books She Admired Dr. Carver VCanted No Greener Pastures By STANLEY HIGH pL iPK MIS' 2 ft of waste on the farms of Dixie and haylofts; worked, for his food, at whatever jobs turned up; took in all the learning that the one-room schoolhouse had to offer. "White folks' washing" paid his way through high school. Worked Through College He was admitted by mail to the University of Iowa, only to be rejected, when he arrived, because he was a Negro. Whereupon he opened a small laundry and at the end of a year had accumulated funds enough to obtain entrance to Simpson College, at Indianola, Iowa.

He washed, scrubbed and house-cleaned his way through three years at that school and went on to finish four years of agricultural studies at Iowa State College. There his genius with soils and plants won him, on graduation, a place on the faculty. Down in central Alabama, at about this time, Booker T. Washington founder and president of Tuskegee Institute was dreaming of economic emancipation for the Negro farmer. The dreams needed a man.

Dr. Washington chose young Carver. When Carver arrived in Tuskegee, in 1896, there seemed to be little for him to work on and nothing to work with. Dr. Washington wanted an agricultural laboratory; there was neither equipment nor money.

He wanted a school farm; the soil was defiant. He wanted grass on the Tuskegee campus; there was only sand. Today, in a glass case in the Carver Museum are the materials with which he made his first laboratory. For heat he rigged up a salvaged barn lantern. His mortar a heavy kitchen cup.

Beakers were made by cutting off the tops of old bottles rescued from the school dump. He turned an ink bottle into an alcohol lamp and made his own wick; used a flat piece of iron for a pulverizer; jugs for flasks; a discarded kitchen skillet for a dryer. Fertilizer From Forest The soil on his sixteen-acre "experimental farm" was sandy, eroded and impoverished. There was no money for fertilizer. He sent his students into the swamps and woods armed with baskets and pails.

Day after day they brought back muck and leafmold and covered the ground with it. Within a year he had turned the loss from those acres into a profit. On them he demonstrated that the South's worst soil can be made to produce not one sweet potato crop per year, but two. There, also, he harvested one of Alabama's first 500-pound-bale-to-lhe-acre crops of cotton. "Everyone told me," he says, "that the soil was unproductive.

But it was the only soil I had. It was not unproductive. It was only unused." He found other uses for it. From Macon county's multi-colored clays he made pottery, wallpaper designs, coloring for ornamental cement blocks. An inveterate enemy of waste, he turned corn, cotton and sorghum stalks into insulating boards; produced paper from the branches of wisteria, sunflowers and wild hibiscus; wove decorative table mats from swamp cattails; made table runners, using bright clay dyes for color, from feed and seed bags; synthetic marble from wood shavings.

To carry his Green Pastures gospel to the farmer he converted a second-hand buggy into a mobile agricultural school, loaded it Are Her By AMY The pomp and circumstance that are as sociated with the passing of a notable, the tes timonial meetings, the bronze plaques are, all of them, outward signs of respect and affection. But once the meeting is. over, and the plaque oxidizes, the departed's good works begin rapidly to fade from memory. At Goucher College, where the untimely death, last year, of Mrs. Anne Knobel Robertson, wife of its president, Dr.

David Allan Robertson, was a blow to all, this will not be permitted to happen. For years Mrs. Robertson had filled a unique place in the life of the Goucher faculty and student body. It might almost be said that she was the center of the college not in any academic sense, but because her home, 2229 North Charles street the "Lighted House" it was called was always open to anyone connected with the college. Her days "at home," the first Wednesdays of the month during the term, when members of the faculty, some students, friends from out of town, and many Baltimoreans met at her tea-table, were eagerly looked forward to by all those invited.

There one could meet a distinguished professor; an author or a poet; a jurist or a clergyman. Hostess Of Distinction There was a happy mingling of "town" and gown," perhaps the only such meeting place in the city. And there, standing near the door, beaming at the guests, ready with a smile or an introduction, to put the timid arrival at ease, was Mrs. Robertson, very regal and stately, very much the grandc dame. She loved nothing so much as being a hostess; and she was a successful one, inasmuch as she sensed the need of people to be brought together, and to be allowed to express themselves to each other.

She could share the interests of all these types because she was a woman of great culture, enormously read, of comprehensive and divergent literary tastes. For all these reasons, then, the Goucher faculty and students, in concerted but spontaneous action a short while after her passing, proposed a memorial to her. This was in the form of a special collection of books which she had read, and liked, which she had intended to read (as her volumnious notebooks showed) or newly published works which it was felt she would have liked, Additions Provided For Already occupying a good many shelves in the Goucher Library, the collection it known as the "Anne Knobel Robertson Books." These volumes, it is felt, will have a special interest for Goucher students of today and tomorrow as a foundation library for an intelligent American woman. Additions will be made from time to time, to be purchased with the income from an endowment fund established especially for it. Dr.

Robertson, Ills son, Dr. David A. Robertson, and some of Mrs. Robertson's literary friends will help the librarian, Miss Eleanor Falley, in the selection of new titles. A bookplate has been designed by her son, with her initials in her own handwriting, under which is a special inscription.

Thus the Anne' Knobel Robertson Books, though they will probably be shelved with the others in the library, will keep their own individuality, and Goucherites may find what, to one woman of a high standard of literary taste, comprised satisfying reading. It is an interesting idea, well carried out. Already there are the gifts by President Robertson, of the books his wife especially admired. There are also a good many presenta Services MORNING EVENING THE emonal OREIF tion books by authors who knew Mrs. Rober son and had enjoyed her hospitality.

Terhaps the most interesting and revca ing thing about this varied collection. the touch that insures a link between future readers and Mrs. Robertson's personality, are the notes of Dr. Robertson on the flyleaves of the works which he presented. Ia the shortest phrases, and quite unconsciously, he gives us vivid glimpses, indeed an almost perfect character-sketch of the woman wh inspired the collection.

For instance this, the blank sheet of the life of the great En lish philologist' and scholar, Furnival: Meeting A Notable "On our first trip to London we wished meet the grand old man of English studies we saw him at the Aerated Bread Corny pany shop on Oxford street, slender, swift-moving with weathered cheeks, rosy under a mahogany tan, and white whiskers. He envied us the Swiss mountains, while he at Claxton-on-Sea had sun, and flatness, and sea-air, and lying on rocks, and doing nothing-" Or this, on the fly-leaf of Claude Fuest Life of Calvin Coolidge: "We lived in Wash ington during the Coolidge Administration, and were at the White House on several occasions. One day, David, then aged 9 or 10, having walked home from school, said to A.K.R., 'Mother what do you think? When I passed Dr Richardson's house White House car drew up, and the white collie jumped 'Why, David, said A.K.R., 'you don't mean to say that valuable dog was all 'Oh he replied, 'the President was there, A Novelist For Tea Robert Herrick, the novelist, "had tea, Joyed A.K.R.'s neighborly gifts sent to hira, especially the gooseberry jam, and her friendly, frank criticism." Written in a volume of poems by Siegfried Sassoon is this: "When A.K.R. became acquainted with hira and this volume, she liked the sincerity and reality they showed. When she met Sassoon, they liked each other at once, and at a meeting of the Poetry Society of students at the University of Chicago, he sat shyly in a corner with her shy of the young students, who solemnly read their own verses he expressed his awed appreciation of them.

No wonder, for that night there were present among others, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Glenway Westcott, and Vincent Sheean (Jimmy, he was then, and afterward for us)." Again: "A.K.R. met Violet Hunt at dinner at the W. L. George's home in London. Later, she invited her to luncheon at the American Club there.

From her, she learned many things about the Pre Raphaelites, and the beginning of the English Review, and its contributors, for Violet Hunt was a daughter of Holman Hunt and was known as Mrs. Ford Madox Hueffer. It's a long and rather pitiful story which seme day I may be able to A great many things are condensed Into Dr. Robertson's brief notes, but most of all there emerges, practically complete, a full-length portrait of "A.K.R." as Goucherites of today remember her, and as those of the future will know her. As a memorial, the "A.K.R." books seem peculiarly appropriate to the personality they are intended to per-petuate.

The Goucher faculty and student, and Dr. Robertson himself, have created something quite unique, which seems des-tinued to become important to Goucher, SUNDAY SUN Newi From Homt tember-Novcmber parlay, won ia the Sixth Congressional District from E. Brooke Lee, who had another setback in his own Mont-gomery county when a home-rule opposition group won out. Ellison Elected Another Republican elected wai Daniel Ellison, City Councilman, who opposed former State Senator Joseph M. Wyatt.

The four other Democratic Congressional candidates were elected. All sitting judges throughout th State and all other Democratic ea-didates In the city triumphed. City voters defeated by three to one the proposed $32,000,000 loan to expand city watershed facilities, but Mayor Howard W. Jackson is considerinf asking City Council authorization if engineers consider the expansiot necessary. Voting was light.

In the first action involving tho $5 Federal auto-use tax stamps, three Baltimoreans and three men from the counties were named defendants in criminal information! filed in the Federal Court charginf they failed to purchase the stamps. Shipping Aid Coming After a series of statement! by men connected with Baltimore shipping that this port was being neglected. Senator George L. Radcliffe, after conferring with War Shipping Administration officials, announce the city would get a larger share than heretofore, and quickly. Jimmy Chinese colony leader, charged at a farewell party iven for a Chinese laundry owner who enlisted in the Army Air Corps, that "several members" of the colony had been unable to get waf Turn to Next Paget Dr.

George Washington Carver, with exhibits, borrowed a horse and made regular tours of the countryside. This was the first of the "movable schools" which today, housed in truck and trailer and sponsored by the United States Department of Agriculture, cover all of Alabama. When Dr. Carver made the first of these journeys, Macon county, like most of the South, grew cotton and little else. To save the soil and add to farm income, he became an itinerant advocate of sweet potatoes and peanuts.

Today, the sweet potato is a Southern farm staple; this year, 10,000 acres in Macon county alone were planted to peanuts, and peanut farmers throughout the United States will get better than $50,000,000 for the peanut crop. More than any other person, Dr. Carver has helped to break cotton's throttlchold on the South's economy. Garden Missionary In his Macon county pioneering, Dr. Carver found scarcely any vegetable gardens, few pigs, chickens or cows.

Pellagra produced by an unbalanced diet was widespread He, therefore, preached kitchen gardens and followed his preaching with recipes showing how to prepare and preserve vegetables. He gave the county's Negro farmers their first instruction in live-stock raising and followed that with lessons in "The Pickling and Curing of Meat in Hot Weather." Today, according to the county agricultural agent, there is hardly a Negro farm in Macon county without a vegetable garden, pigs, chickens and at least one cow. Pellagra has virtually disappeared. What Dr. Carver first advocated and proved in his unpromising locality is now a basic part of the work in every county of the South.

Dr. Carver insists that the starl-where-you- Cut Along Sun, Baltimore. November 8, 1942 registered as New Yorkers disturbed the early Sunday morning of the York Hotel at 1200 Madison street, pushed hotel clerks guests into a washroom and escaped with $300 from a cash box. The "no-smoking" campaign in streetcars during winter months a new turn when signs were posted, warning that smoke may throat irritation to those with colds, causing sneeze and illness. They "Do Not Smoke." Hunting Maryland's season admonitions to eat all salvage the ringing in enemy a are formula will work anywhere.

A number of years ago he spoke before a Negro organization1 in Tulsa, Okla. For illustrative materials he spent an early morning on Sand Pipe Hill, near Tulsa. He came back with twenty-seven plants, all of them containing medicinal properties. "Then," he said, "I went to Ferguson's Drug Store and found seven patent medicines containing certain elements contained in those plants from Sand Pipe Hill. Those preparations were shipped in from New York.

They should be shipped in from Sand Pipe Hill. 'Where there is no vision the people Dr. Carver's faith is as great as his genius. The Bible, he told me, is as important to his work as his laboratory. For difficult jobs he has two favorite Scripture verses.

One of them he calls his "light" passage. It is Proverbs 3, 6: "In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy paths." The other is his "power" passage. It is Philippians 4, 13: "I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me." Revered By His Race Only Booker T. Washington is more revered than Dr. Carver among Negroes.

"This is the only question colored people have to answer," I heard him say to a group of Negro preachers, "have we got what the world wants?" He told about hearing a group of white men in search of a man who could locate oil. "They forgot to say whether they wanted a while man, a red man, a yellow or a black man; they only said they wanted man who could locate oil." "Don't go looking for Naboth's vineyard," he said, "every one of you probably has all the vineyard he needs." Dotted Line And Mail To Someone In The Servlc Edition Letters Service to has been called this one time Negro slave "the first and greatest chemurgist," that ia, one who puts farm products to industrial use. Million-dollar businesses have been built all or in part from his discoveries largest among them being the peanut industry. His crop-pioneering put many millions every year into the pockets of Southern farmers. With a horse-and-uggy farm demonstration unit, he helped blaze the way for the vast extension program of the United States Department of Agriculture.

He has been showered with offers, honors and awards. Thomas A. Edison invited him to join the Edison staff at $50,000 a year. Henry Ford has recently given him a laboratory for wartime food research. Last June the Progressive Farmer gave him its annual award for "outstanding service to Southern agriculture." The Theodore Roosevelt Medal came to him in 1939 as "a liberator to men of the white race as well as the black." "What other man of our times," asked the New York Times, "has done so much for agriculture in the South?" Stays In The Deep South The world that thus seeks out Dr.

George Washington Carver still finds him in the scientific parish where he has worked for forty-six years: Macon county, Alabama, and the campus of Tuskegee Institute famed Negro school. It is his own philosophy that keeps him there: his belief that there are no greener pastures than those near-by. Science-wise, he has reduced that belief to a formula: "Start where you are, with what you have, make something of it, never be satisfied." Now, approaching 80, he is still making that formula work. He took me recently through the George Washington Carver Museum at Tuskegee built from hi3 savings to house the results of his near-by explorations and discoveries. He still wears the familiar battered cap and the frayed, gray sweater.

His voice is frail and his shoulders stooped. But there are no signs of frailty in his mind and spirit. 'This," he said, with a wave of his long arms, "is Macon county, Alabama, and a few ideas a scratch on the surface of what can be made of it." In a small field behind the museum he pointed out half a hundred strips of pine board, exposed to the sun. They were freshly painted: bright blues, yellows, reds, greens. Paint From Back Yard "The reason farmers down here don't paint their homes." he said, "isn't because they are lazy or don't care.

It is because thoy don't have cash money to buy paint. The paint that's weathering on these boards costs next to nothing. The color comes from the clays right here in Macon county. The base is used motor oil." This home-grown paint, made and proved by Dr. Carver at Tuskegee is now being used by the Tennessee Valley Authority in a demonstration of rural home beautification in fourteen TV'A localities.

Dr. Carver was the first and still Is the greatest exponent of the use of the South's idle lands and waste products to balance the Southern farm diet. This required more than agricultural knowledge, so he learned to be an expert dietitian and cook. His "Forty three Ways to Save the Wild Hum Crop" is not a scientific dissertation on pest and blight control. It is a collection of Carver-proved recipes by which the wild plums "with which Macon county has beet unusually blessed" can be prepared for the table and preserved: plum marmalade, syrup, vinegar, soup, sandwiches.

Even Soup From Nuts His famous experiments with the peanut led to the production of more than 300 useful articles. Among those now being commercially manufactured are his peanut butter, flour, various oils and fertilizer. But most widely used of his peanut discoveries are the recipes In a pamphlet for the farmer's wifer "105 Different Ways to Prepare the Peanut for the Table." There is almost everything in it-peanut soup, bread, patties, pie crust, doughnuts, cheese. With such ider use the peanut crop increased from 700,000,000 pounds in 1920 to 1,600.000.000 in 1940. When the United States entered the war.

Dr. Carver took the food problem directly to the housewife. Last March he published his own victory garden bulletin: "Nature's Garden for Victory and Peace." Its frontispiece quotes from Genesis: "Behold I have given you every herb to you it shall be for meat." Inside Is a list of more than a hundred grasses, weeds and wildflowers which can be used for food and more than fifty of Dr. Carver's recipes showing how to use them. They Include chicory coffee "some prefer it to real pie "similar to apple or from sour grass; "asparagus tips" from the stalks of silkweed; wild clover "for delicate and fancy grass-salad sandwiches which have a considerable vogue on the Tuskegee campus; wild primrose tops "cooked like turnip greens." Orphaned By Slave Raiders Few people have had less to start with on the road to miracle-making than Dr.

Carver. Born In Missouri around 1864, he never knew his father and mother they were carried off by slave raiders when he was a baby. A white planter, Moses Carver, raised the child, gave him his name (the Carvers called him George Washington), and because of his poor health let him do women's work, cooking, sewing, laundering. But a strange fire burned in him. The only book he remembers in the Carver home was a blue-backed "Webster's Speller." He memorized It.

Having fallen on hard times themselves, the Carvers were unable to send him to school. Ht went on his own; slept in barns Baltimore, Sunday, November 8, 1942 The Week's News State's Voters Spring Surprise Trie Sun Gov. Herbert R. O'Conor was elected to a second term by the voters on Tuesday, but political dopesters are still producing alibis by the long ton as to why the race with the Republican nominee, Theodore R. McKeldiri, was so close.

(See Yardley, Page 2). In 1938, O'Conor's Baltimore majority was 41.000 and his State-wide majority 66,000. Tuesday he obtained in the city only 3,641 more than McKeldin, and then rolled up 12,000 more for his majority in the counties, upsetting the tradition that the city is the Democratic stronghold. Republican J. Glenn Beall, who before the primary and after a winning streak at the Cumberland race track suggested himself as a Sep- The Sunday The Week's News (Continued from Page 2) Lieut.

William Vernon Gough, of 1728 Darley avenue, awarded the decoration for ferrying nurses from Corregidor after the fall of Bataan. When asked what happened on the flight, he said: "Nothing." He landed, took aboard his passengers, took off without mishap. Bachelors Cotillon Off For the second time since 1807, the Bachelors Cotillon this year has been canceled. Instead there will be the New Year's Eve cotillon at which the debutantes will dance their coming out figure. Arrangements for the ball will be very simple, it was explained.

The First Monday German was previously canceled in 1918: Home on leave this week also was Lieut. William J. Tate, with a tale of being adrift three days irt a rubber boat. His home is at 3005 Chelsea Terrace. Another brother was attached to the Yorktown when it sank, a third is seeking admission to the Naval Academy and a sister is secretary to the naval air station commandant rt Honolulu.

Revision of schedules and rearrangement of routes by one bus company here will save 1,000,000 tire-miles annually. Smokes For State Yanks Montfaucon Post No. 4 announced it was sending 5,000 packages of cigarettes in care of Sunpapers correspondent Lee McCardell to Maryland troops in the British Isles. First pictures of the Marylanders in training and in their new quarters in Britain were published in The Sun this week. Thirty merchant marine recruits were sworn in at ceremonies in Sun Square on Monday.

They became naval reservists enlisting for a two-year period. State Roads Commission engineers are cutting their road construction program to fit the reduced income from gasoline taxes, expected to be in 1943 only fifty-eight per cent, of normal. A well-dress Negro couple who quiet and took cause them to cough or expose the smoker to were headed simply: Season Opens wild waterfowl hunting opened Monday, with to conserve ammunition, game killed, and to grease and feathers hunters' ears. Returning used shells to sporting goods stores for salvage of the metal also was recommended. Last year's game weighed 497 tons, game commission officials stated.

Four firemen were hurt and damage was done when flames swept through an entire block of business houses on the Willow Spring road in Dundalk. Liquor sales, in many cases exceeding previous Christmas trade, preceded the tax dead line, dealers reported. Women's Land Army Dr. S. H.

DeVault, director of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics at the University of Maryland, urged training of a women's land army as part of the solution to the farm labor shortage. He also suggested that high-school boys be given training to aid farmers. A Halloween party at the USO was a series of surprises for British sailor guests to whom the type of celebration replete with witches, pumpkins, corn stalks and apple bobbing was a new experience. The seventy-second Liberty ship was launched at Fairfield and the seventeenth custom-made vessel went down the ways at Sparrows Point this week. Within two days after the tick-els for "This Is the Army" went on sale here, all were sold out.

The Irving Berlin show has a soldier cast and is produced for Army Emergency Relief. Loss of one of the Liberty ships built at Fairfield was characterized as "a challenge to shipyard workers to turn 'em out faster" by J. M. Willis, general manager of tho yard. This week the War Department announced the record-breaking road-construction job, the highway link through Canada to Alaska, had been completed.

Also this week the Service Sun received a letter from a Baltimorean, member of the engineering regiment responsible for the job. It was the first communication received from this area. From Dawson Creek, British Columbia, October 22, Sergt. Joseph W. Onorato, whose Baltimore home is at 4407 Forest View avenue, wrote "I am a native of Baltimore," in fact, the only one in my company, and I really enjoy Vie Service Edition of The Sun.

For six months we were in the Canadian wilderness working on the Alaska Highway. During that time we were out of contact with the outside world and, believe me, news from home was highly appreciated. I have two brothers in the service. One in Alaska with the army and one in the navy. Without doubt they also eagerly await each copy.

Whoever thought up the idea deserves my sincere thanks. Yours for bigger and better editions." First Class Fireman Robert W. Kaiser, member of a navy submarine crew, wrote to his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles S.

Otto, of 2701 Tivoly avenue, that he had just come ashore after many weeks in the Pacific: "I have received The Service Sun you send each week which I and the crew on the sub enjoy reading. The navy is the place to learn a trade. I expect shortly to advance as motor machinist mate. The spirit of the navy is, bring the Japanese to their knees." Sports At A Glance Futurity Day, designated by the Maryland Jockey Club as army relief day, netted for the emergency relief fund, representing the total net receipts for that day. When Alsab was withdrawn from the Pimlico Special, opening-day feature, making the race a walkover for Whirl-away, the plan to give the opening-day net proceeds to the AER was canceled and Futurity Day was substituted.

The latter's net proceeds were $28,000 more than the former. Walter Stahler, of Baltimore, and Bert Lynn, of Alexandria, split first and second prize money in th Recreation Inaugural, when 113 bowlers competed. Their seven-game score was 1,025. Winnv Guerke placed third with 960. Maryland college football scores: Notre Dame 9, Navy Maryland 13, Florida Buffalo U.

26, Johns Hopkins Western Maryland 14, Franklin and Marshall 14. Prep-school games saw two upsets of pre-game dope when Mount St. Joe held City College to a 0-to-0 tie when the Baltimore City College boys had been expected to make 2 to 5 touchdowns and Severn held Polytechnic to a 7-to-7 tie, though the latter was heavily favored to win easily. Other prep scores: St. James 18, Boys Latin Calvert Hall 6, Forest Park St.

Alban's 26, Friends Gil-man 21, Loyola Southern 0, Patterson Park St. Paul's 19, St. Andrew's 6. Maternity Ward Some persons have been reported removing the tires from their automobiles and putting them in the cellar at night. But Arthur Brooks' recapped tire, he believes, is safer yet.

He can't even get it himself. He left the tire at a service station in the 1400 block East Fayette street to be recapped and when he went to get it. he found that No-Nox, the station owner's fox terrier, had temporary priorities. No-Nox and her four newly born puppies were snuggled on some cloth fender covers right in the center of the tire. Arthur's efforts to move the family and get the tire brought only snaps and snarls from No-Nox.

So Arthur decided the tire was just as safe there and said he'd call back for it later..