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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1942
Alpha Phi Omega Goes On Outing To Camp Naish
Fourteen members of Lambda chapter of Alpha Phi Omega, national service fraternity defied threatening weather and pressing academic duties while they spent last night at Camp Theodore Naish near Bonner Springs, refreshing their memories with many of the experiences they enjoyed as boys.
Max Fessler instructor of economics, faculty adviser for the fraternity, was responsible for the party while Lewis Medlin, president, was their leader. The party expects to return to Lawrence about noon today.
"War and the Press" will be the subject of an address by Elmer F. Beth, acting chairman of the department of journalism, to the History club tomorrow. The meeting will be held at 4:30 in the English room of the Memorial Union building.
TO DISCUSS —
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"Unified America," "Post-War Re-
construction," and "Educative Freedom."
The series seeks to enlighten students on political and economic problem of the world today. Ukena said, and stresses the relationship between students and the solution of the problems.
Dates for the four following meetings have not been set by the commission. These will consist of lectures and one more panel discussion.
These open meetings are sponsored by the University YMCA and YWCA.
NAVAL RESERVE—
(continued from page one) will be placed on duty in training for service with the fleet.
Students who are interested in further details of the plan should see James K. Hitt, assistant registrar.
It is felt that this new plan of enlistment will enable many students who are in doubt at the present time as to whether they should continue in school, to make plans which will enable them to continue at least until the end of their sophomore year and which will give them an opportunity to compete on their home campus for positions as officers in the United States Naval Reserve.
WASHINGTON
(continued from page one) dered stone as fertilizers. He planted soil-strengthening crops—clover, rye, peas, oats, and carrots—and tested grasses new to Virginia land trefoil, timothy, spelt, and lucerne (our alfalfa.)
Had Whiskey Still
Next, he laid out his "botanical garden" in a plot near the flower garden. Here he experimented with fertilizers, new seeds, stands of grain, rotation of crops, conservation of soil, and even with implements which he had invented for cultivating the land.
Washington started raising hogs as a means to dispose of a waste product—the mash left from his whiskey still. After a test of the mash as a fertilizer had ailed, Washington bought a new Guinea hogs to try the mash as feed for them. They took it, liked it, and grew fat. Then came more pigs, more mash, more hog-fat, and Washington was a "pork success."
On Virginia estates livestock was badly fed and little cared for. Washington initiated a new deal, and his
care and breeding brought him fine horses, sheep, cattle, and hogs.
From the time he inherited his first farm from his father until he died at the age of 67, owner of five large farms bound together in one estate, Washington was at heart a farmer—first, last, and always. He regretted having to take time out from agriculture for revolutionary statesmanship and fighting. During six years of the war he never once set foot on his farm. He corresponded with Mrs. Washington regarding developments at home, however, and between battles collected information and opinions from farmers in other parts of the country to help him in his own ventures.
Invented Farm Tools
In the interval before he went back into public life as a framer of the Constitution and then as President, Washington conducted many of his experiments. He went enthusiastically into fruit-raising, although it never became his pet
A favorite sideline of Washington's was inventing implements for the farm. He was very interested in plows, of which he made several. His prize invention was his drill or "barrel plow" which sowed as it turned the soil.
project. He tried experiments with grafting, worked with his little boxes, and pampered his wheat.
Washington was idealistic about farming. After the Revolution he wrote, "I know of no pursuit in which more real and important services can be rendered to any country, than by improving its agriculture, its breed of useful animals, and other branches of a husbandman's cares."
Rather Farm Than be King
Washington never got away from his love of farming. Late in his life a sculptor came to Mount Vernon to make a statue of Washington. The artist would talk in vain of state affairs and of the Revolution, trying to put his subject at ease. One
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