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UNDERFOOT IN SPRING INTRIGUING By Bernard Martin. RODDED by gentle friendly showers and sunbeams, coaxed the by mushroom family its, seasonal sylvan landscape. pilgrimage through The majority of these fungi spring from soil or flourish in moss banks, but some families thrive on tree stumps and decaying Some woodsieties grow each month of the year but generally the season of the overnight arrivals for table use extends from April to the hard killing frosts of late October. Many species are as delicious as they are plentiful. Of course deadly amanita and several related plants must be avoided.

Under no circumstances should any mushroom be gathered for the table without positive identification. The mushroom family contains both gilled, the agarics, and nongilled species bearing formidable botanical names. Mycologists recommend a complex system of spore examination as a means identification. My wife and I gather the species pictured at the left. The morel with its tawny, spongelike conical cap is the most delicious we find.

Both the stem and the cap of this non-gilled Morchella are hollow. It flourishes in woodlands from midApril to mid-May. In summer we gather the common mushroom. In both button or full state, this BERNARD in room lands pink-gilled open is our meadows favorite. pasture or and We find pasture- August.

mush- it in mid-July Its delicate pink gills readily identify it as the species most commonly cultivated and made the common mushroom, the available in local markets. Throughout the season, we search the woods for the around the end of May the oyster mushroom and during morel fades away and so do 99 the fall months we seek the nonfungi pluckers. gilled coral mushroom. The cent of the But from summer until Janu- oyster grows in clusters on of fungi. deadwood and stumps.

When ary might find a crop, we note its lothe woods are full Along about now you we feel that prior to picking mush- cation. Season after season we in can return to the spot to reap its rooms you should indulge some sort of study, and are annual harvest. absolutely right. An excellent. For many years I slashed book for use of amateur this fungus from a single stump ogists is William S.

Thomas's at Bennett Springs. a and I Alas, new "Field Book of Common Mush- lake claimed the stump rooms." was forced to find another prois attractive ductive snag, which now supMushrooming an plies mushrooms for our trout and educational hobby, if pursued realistically. free succulents. branched coral abounds The woods dinners. The light yellow, manyare loaded with succulents woods during the bow-hunting but some of the are NOT EAT ANY deer season.

In deer camps loaded. from the Missouri Ozarks to DO NOT POSITIVELY and don't teach the high Cascades of WashingIDENTIFIED your wife in the has added zest to our evening mushroom identifica- ton state, this meaty mushroom tion if there's trouble meals. family. TIMES, SATURDAY, MAY 4, 1963. THE KANSAS CITY 46 MUSHROOM.

to form helium. Control of hydrogen isotopes this enormous force is as yet elusive. announcement by the Soviet Union atomic The committee that it had achieved a breakenergy in this field has attracted much attenthrough Russian scientists have held tion in this country. high-temperature at 40 second, million a stable hundredths of a degrees hundred thousandths. If this report is instead of correct, it does indicate progress.

The difficulty has been to find a container on earth that will not melt at the high temperaThe only solution so far has been to ionize ture. hydrogen and hold it in a strong magnetic "bottles" have leaked, as the field. touches the sides. Scientists in the plasma U. S.

S. the U. and in Great Britain, are increasing temperatures, densities and changing designs. doubts that the efforts eventually will No one be successful. It is a scientific quest of supreme to mankind.

The source of heavy importance hydrogen, deuterium, is the inexhaustible water of the sea. But man still is far from unlocking this source of energy. LIBERTY MEMORIAL FLAGS: IRRATIONAL FUSS. the flags of 98 nations fly at the THETHER Memorial probably won't be a Liberty American foreign policy. We factor in shaping doubt whether the presence of the flags would of Kansas City for Red subsoften up the people version.

We doubt whether their absence would cause Khrushchev or Castro to topple. the flags are symbols of Yet for some persons sufficient the importance Liberty Memorial association. to inspire picketing and association board 1 of protests to Next week the governors will vote on the flag question. We sympathize who give their time in a with them. For men to be caught up in a silly, emocivic.

enterprise such this is a poor reward. tional controversy as are those of nations The flags at the Memorial which the United States maintains diplowith recognition of the matic relations. They are fact that rededication of the Memorial in there are other nations and people the world. The in the spirit of hope for understand1961 was super-patriots the ing. of the cold war have caused a hope In the minds of some frustrations be equated with surrender.

Any for peace blowing the enemy and the to policy short of up world along with it is suspect. These emotions are understandable. But the inspire is not irreorganized Nor pressure old-fashioned patriotism and they can The central issue sistible. is love of country the question. self-appointed definers of loyalty can on is whether beliefs, even in a small way, impose their an entire city.

The Pentagon Buckles Down. Defense recently said that The secretary of armed 1 forces unification was proceeding apace. As examples, he cited consolidated buying the branches of: and sizes of among "Eighteen different four kinds types of belt buckles butcher kinds smocks, of exercise bloomers." and six Air Force Journal and Now itself the Spokesman of the Army Navy since 1863, says that Secretary Register, which calls the Services McNamara was premature. the Army and Navy agreed on a Originally, design. The Air 12-cent buckle of stamped-brass it silver the shape, but wanted Force The approved Marines stood aloof and demanded colored.

29-cent open-face cast buckle. a issued orders for the The Pentagon therefore in black enamel. 1 Then came 12-cent 1962, that the black buckle ominous trouble. Under field tests, it word in February, buckle was to chip. Back to the in showed an inclination drawing board.

has it that various At the moment, rumor black buckles are being tested by the Quartercenter at Natick, Mass. master Research enamel, anodized aluminum Whether oxydized best is as yet classior plastic is obviously the great Armed standing up Unification step is far from fied information. But Forces Buckle reality. a Bible Verse for Joday mete, it shall be measWith what measure ye ured to you--Mark 4.24. of Liberty.

with him a tonic Everywhere he went, he which took he did not hesitate of iron in his own case with a robustly for the people, to mix a to himself of more earthy trifle cheerful application spirits like Scotch and brandy. he arrived upon Once, in captured German obserlater in Normandy, the field of battle a vice-marshal who vation plane piloted by an air Winston Churchill the politician, campaigning for Parliament. looked with anxiety upon this enterprise. on of the war. clearly He had come to report progress "It is going quite well," he said, already has been made on Hitler's life by an attempt They missed the old rebels in Germany.

bastard but there's time yet." will the war be over, sir?" soon 64 asked a young lieutenant. "Ah," said grin, "as I said before Churchill with a great well. I should think it might be all is going over, say, men groaned. The old gentleman beamed in, say, five years." The all and off he went, back to widely upon us England, in the German plane. He had meant to tell us that he was symin action; but also that he had pathetic to men time for soldiers who simply wanted to go no mother.

War and were not made home to for men who had been made of sugar candythat sweet which on another occasion he had declared to be no proper part of the chemistry of Englishmen anywhere. (Copyright, 1963, United Features.) WOODS, THE The Kansas City Times. (THE Morning KANSAS CITY STAR) The Kansas City Star Company Owner Publisher MEMBER OF THE PRESS. The Associated Press exclusively entitled to the use for reproduction of all local news pub lished herein well as all AP dispatches. Net paid circulation, April, 1963: Evening (daily average): 341,848 345,096 (average) average) 381.438 Morning (daily SOUTH AFRICA ABOLISHES DUE PROCESS OF LAW.

HIS week, I by action of its Parliament, the come for Republic all of practical South purposes Africa a has police bestate. New legislation abolishes the basic right of citizen to be protected against arbievery trary Hereafter, any South African, seizure and 1 detention at the will of his be arrested and held ingovernment. white or Negro, may trial. Not only may he be definitely without to legal counsel. Even his family denied access may be refused permission to see him.

South Africa may seem a long way off. But of liberty, wherever it has once the extinction of consequence to existed, must be a matter engaged in free global peoples struggle everywhere. thee forces of tyranny. a What has recently been happening in this part defeat for our common of Africa represents a scale that cannot safely be ignored. cause, on a South African republic is no The primitive state, just emerging from centuries of bondage unpracticed in the art of self-gov- to and wholly ernment.

A large majority of its inhabitants, be sure, have never been allowed to acquire political experience. It is not oppressed human these Negroes, however, who have betrayed directly to freedom. That responsibility checks the nation's white electorate. which had already condemned Parliament virtual exile in barren The most South that has now ended Africans to is the same one territory for the entire population. chosen almost exclusively by perdue-process-of-law And it was When the final blow sons of European ancestry.

dealt to their inherited concept of personal was voice was raised liberty, hardly a legislative in protest. in South Africa, of course, The loss started years ago with of freedom took place segregate the Negroes and keep gradually. It the in the status of decision 1 to them perpetually (when second class citizens. From this day tionalists impossible to maintain assumed control of the government), any it became framework of democracy. Stage by logically normal the power of stage, the restraints such a system were voluntarily imposed upon the state through the mechanism of majority under discarded rule.

South Africans of English At last, even many who had originally opposed the governdescent, their consent to ment's apartheid program, dictatorship in fact, if gave For the mounting tide of Negro measures establishing a not in name. to racial discrimination apparently resistance What the long-range future had terrified them. Africa, unhold for the Republic of South may intervenes, is fearful to conless some life in a country without miracle template. But today, its own sufficient personal liberty provides foretaste of woes to tragedy, as a probable come. ENERGY STILL IS UNLIMITED FAR AWAY.

has dreamed of low-cost FOR DECADES his man cities and drive the dynaenergy to light used successfully the mos of industry. as well as water He has fossil fuels, coal, oil and gas, atomic fission. But power. Now future- one that inhe is turning to the alluring dream of the the for all timespires hope of solving earth the thermonuclear fuproblem is to duplicate on sion reaction of the sun, under incrediof the sun. Deep in the interior of 100 million ble pressures hydrogen atoms and temperatures degrees centigrade or form more, helium.

of the are being converted to energy that we experience fused to mass duplicated this in a is heat and light. Man has bombs to as using uranium fission limited way by needed to cause achieve the high temperatures Churchill, By William S. White. -The greatest Englishman of at his last age, laying and down perhaps a of political any age, career is and as splendid as all as as in the long story of free old this century govthat is splendid ernment. decision, at 88, not Sir Parliament extinguishes a light Winston Churchill's again to run for who now lives and in the life of every free of this great man struggles on.

By and civility and the public loss and steadfast world will be darker. candle of courage gallant ability, not only the man who gallant the forever, This Hitler until at last the New is England summoned itself to do its simple duty against World and in his memorable phrase, had to mankind so, the rescue of the Old. to come the man who alone among to This is wartime Allied leaders truly understood not only the top which lurked in Soviet Russia. the peril the man who could have This world from much of the is not only saved the postwar presently -if looming only he could have persuaded menace of international Roosevelt to share his hard-eyed view Franklin of postwar Soviet purposes. Churchill is also much more.

But Winston justification for is a towering tism-an informed, compassionate creative conservatism doggedly devoted to but also concerned traditions tomorrow. He personifies both of yesterday the needs of the English tongue, and of majesty and glory action as well as thought. capacity writings will be a timeless monument to promote the he has so used, His him and to language loved -and so enriched. he has shown to all men the As a man, honor and duty but also in way to live, in and gaiety-and, if need be, the right way die, than is inevitable to any sensible without posturing or complaint, and no more fear man contemplating the great enigma. a war correspondent sitting in England A 1943 and waiting for D-day, this columnist to travel sometimes in the had the honor Minister Churchill on his missions of Prime meaning.

To say that Churchill in his hand- affectionate but military tough and demanding hand -is to speak England plain truth. mushrooms that thrive in Kansas and Missouri properly identified, are safe to eat. Among the oyster and coral. These, advice unto those that love would By Maj. P.

E. Bishop. and new fangled HEN in 54 A. Agrip- meates, to beware of licking ever, strange pina, spouse of the Caesar ever Claud- lovin' honie sweetness among of one thornes, do not least coun- the ius, spiked his tervaile the sharpness and on with an Amanita rhalloides, pricking of the other." tell she not only did in Another gentleman, Tertullian stool? Claudius, but she chalked up a by name, had this to say about black mark against mushrooms that mushrooms: still hasn't been erased. Add this to recent publicity corresponding pain that "For every color they display South kinds of death mous.

who there is a technicolor and gaily and just so many same. dream in wives about as there are species." flail their and clearings while un- This sort of help to propaganda popularize certhe influence of mushrooms. tainly didn't jungle der family whose kith and kin ing Then note that the name fungus and a harbored a few definite glad. came from funus (funeral) actually still ago (put Of thousands of species, most in motion). botanical bluebeards.

Considering that all these it's are edible, a few are poisonous, hand nasty allegations are a few more are inedible due to true, miracle that a its self-respecting taste, and at least one species fungus will still show pretty be considered deadly. Un- tus As a champion of "Cham- can obnoxious and over cap. submit this defense fortunately, those pignons," I deadly types are not adorned of future fungi, with a death's-head or label to unfortunate enough to spring forth into this collectors with their morass of prejudice. acquaint with The lack interest, apathy, dainty In the older days mushrooms poisonous properties. and even fright, shown to said to appear where the succulents with a food value "fairies danced" or the were equal to vegetables is not so "devil spat," or they were considering what's, been formed during "claps thun- than written about them.

like or strange, teen-agers, have these enlightened days we been maligned der and flashes of lightning." en masse ever since they were all know that make the In discovered. good mushrooms the Comelves, will An Ancient Opinion. munists the bad ones. DeterAuthors of past centuries mining who made which mushtreated mushrooms in a very room is our problem. loose and reckless manner, as Many Tests.

is illustrated by John Many ways of determining will this paragraph 1597 by one edibility have been advocated. Gerard: dwell "If they peels, they's good" are trot "Many wantons that famous last words; for the deadneere the sea, and fish at will ly Amanaita Phalloides will peel has are very desirous for change birds of as readily delectable diet to feede upon the of 'Campestris (Meadow the mountains; the hills and or cham- Mushroom). such as Agaricus dwell upon Many a piece of silver has pion grounds, do long after sea of been boiled with bubbling fungi fish; many that have plenty and later earnestly studied for both, doe hunger after of tarnish. Supposedly the the earthie excrescences, called signs tarnished silver indicated a Mushrums: Whereof and full some of poi- are poisonous mushroom and the very venemous mess could be fed to the son; others are not so noisome; This method is whole and neither of them very in a class with the first-worthwhole- neighbor's cats. some meat To conclude, a few of them are good do Once upon a time a French to be less.

eaten; and most of them asserted that soaksuffocate and strangle the simple eat- ing fungi in vinegar and salt mycologist er. Therefore I give my Napoleon Led France By Henry J. Taylor. May 5, 1821, the great news in the world rang from a rock. The giant enchained on St.

Helena had died, age 52. In Paris's Pere-Lachase cemetery the broad, wet stones near single names -Balzac, Moliere, Musset, Racine, Fontaine. Each is all that is needed. Bonaparte went them one better. He was buried in a spring-side spot between weeping willows.

"Here lies" was on the stone. No name. body was dressed in his tavorite, uniform, covered chasseurs the cloak de he wore at Marengo. He had taken charge of Europe's destinies for 15 years. Yet his life like a mountain road windwas ing back and forth on itself.

THE FRENCH ARMY had been created to give a Napoleon The retreat from Moscow, victories any Napoleon. Soon to the fate of Napoleon and his after his Corsican thunder rolled down the shores of Europe. On on a hill overlooking Porto-Fer-, a faded, draggled green banner, rajo, Elba, brightened only by knotted with a bright gold two ro- the scarlet flowers of the Afrisette, was a the can flame trees. "It must be addevice of crossed cannons: General the mitted, my island is terribly of Army of Italy. This was Bon- per- he said.

He reinvaded sonal standard of Napoleon alone. The thunderbolt it aparte, and he age never 28. changed it; this had not spent itself. All Europe knew Europe, man his approach, are rewhose genius we admire Successive headlines in Paris, but whose we did vealing: "The Corsican Monster ambitions abhor. reporting He went everywhere.

is Lands in Gulf of "The Or he? "The history Cannibal Marches Toward of Rome iargely the history of the "The Usurper Enters said Napoleon. all his career, all Grenoble." "Bonaparte at LyYet, curiously, in all his travels, ons." "Napoleon at Fontainhis life foot Napoleon in the city bleau." "His Imperial Majesty Bonaparte never set Expected Tomorrow in Rome. Russia? Moscow had been Ejected from Europe, he stood are, left to right, the morel, eliminate poison. His method never caught on, howfor he died in agony. "Well then," say the few friends I can still get to talk the subject, "how does one a mushroom from a toad- My astute answer is, "A mushroom is a mushroom is a toadstool," meaning, I hope, the names are synonyOur problem is still the Which the good ones which are the bad ones? There is no easy way of makthis determination, and I'm I'm glad because I can wander around in the woods without putting out my to make a left turn.

haven't had to race another family to a tree full of Pleuroulmarius nor have I dueled a meadow full of lovely Campestris. Prolific in Area. This area is amply blessed mushrooms. Books are readily available, but mycology Ansel Stubbs, John, experts are remarkably, scarce. knows about mushrooms boys know about basebail girls know about boys.

At present, Mr. Stubbs is photographing and preserving my- he cological specimens which later turn over to K. U. He indicated that he would not be adverse to identifying unknown species for confused amateurs. Who knows, maybe someone turn up wit a species he hasn't seen.

But please don't down to his house with a morel because I assure you he seen such before. Morels, incidentally, are probably known and sought hatter mushroom in Missouri. Growing like a small pitted sponge, they are easily identified. When the spring sun warms the banks of the Missouri river, numerous Homo their sapiens through the willows can seen beating way seeking these dainties. The mushroomers are those with paper sacks on their arms.

Don't try to talk mushrooms to those with 1 girls on their arms. They couldn't care less. FORTY YEARS AGO in The Star the Files of May 4 and 5, 1923. From A group of top officials of the Missouri Kansas Texas railroad yesterday toured the properties here and company's A. F.

Adams of Kansas City, reelected director, was dincently ner host for the last night. Henry chairman of the board of direcRuhlender of New tors, said the company spend 15 million dollars this year on improvements. Dr. J. F.

Hassig of Kansas Kansas, was secCity, retary of the Kansas State Medical society for the 3-year term. The two Army fliers who started Wednesday from New York landed in San Diego, Thursday, making the trip without a stop in 26 hours. Miss Edith Margaret Maloney and George A. Jakobe married April 28. Sir Arthur Conan creator of "Sherlock Holmes," rived in Kansas City Friday morning on a lecture tour.

He spoke at the Grand theater that night. Both banks at Buckner, in Eastern Jackson County were robbed this morning by five bandits, two entering each bank and one keeping a Cadillac car at the curb. The banks opposite corners. The are loot consisted of $6,000 cash on and $25,000 in registered federal bonds. Mrs.

R. Crosby Kemper reported the loss of an $1,800 bracelet Mission Hills Golf club yesterday. Miss Mary rich Osage Indian girl, 22, was married here today to Bobby Corbett, 23, a World war veteran and welterweight boxer. Dissection. How thin is skin and yet how strong, when you consider all the wrong it covers.

Go within dark sinners or bright lovers. You'll find a conflict of some kind. There are no winners. -Mary Chalkley Schott. and Himself to Disaster.

pictured in this famous painting conquests. burnt seven times before it was to defeat the French. The burnt Kremlin, at the moment, contained a double throne tor two brothers. Bonaparte's invading force totaled 857,000 men. Reaching the heights of Smolensk, with the Russians arranged below him, he cried: "I have them." Napoleon was wrong.

Crows and packs of white dogs followed the retreating procession of corpses. At least the Russians DO longer. had the heart to fire at the frozen shadows Napoleon had left to wander' after him. When Czar Alexander saw Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier, was the ominous prelude by Napoleon was enchained on St. Bonaparte's said: "If Helena six years; he had needed statue on the Place, should become less time to conquer continenVendome pedestal he were that high I And giddy he became; tal Europe.

And today it is angiddy." the illusion was considerable. In other May and 142 years since later Napoleon stated of the world said, in the truly Brithis Russian disaster: ish manner, "Goodnight, foryears "It even a severe trial but 1812 was ever." came through it perfectly." Had it really been incapacity? monstrous pride, You might as well say a person affectation arro- succumbing to typhus dies of gance spoiled his character. incapacity. Napoleon succumbed RETREAT to himself. So do others who turn giddy.

each in his own WELLINGTON'S at Waterloo, and then the grow while anguished men was the had struck his and might well trick that did him in fashion, But Napoleon in "Don't, please don't! There is cry tent. conflagration of a limit on the profits of power." He had been consumed the immense useless conquests. (Copyright, 1963, United Features.) his own.