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i I fWO A if POUGHKEEPSIE SUNDAY NEW YORKER vn SUNDAY. MARCi4 31. 1944 War is Recorded in Oils and Water Colors stir a 1 KH NSt 35 i'. flUKl 1JH it.t. 'ii Olin Dows Now Working Up Preliminary Sketches He Made in England and at Front By HELEN MVERS Artists are at an advantage during a bombing or warfare.

Olin Doves laid. They are curioua to aee what is happening, how others react. That cushions the impact of the horror for (hfm, Ha should know. He was one of the 40 war artiete chosen early 'in the war, 20 of them 20 servicemen. One of the Army group, Mr.

Dowa served in the European theater for more than two years as an enlisted man in various units, drawings, Pinlingphotogiphjng.JhJ.hw Since he returned home the lafij, day ot last August he has bren working up the sketches snd preliminary water colors he made at English training centers and the front Into finished water colors and Mis He has done a little portrait and landscape work sines he came home, he said, but not much He hasn't been able to get going on them yet Mr. Dows was telling of his work ss a war artist and since his return, In his studio, the remodeled coach house of Glenbarn the Dows' estste south of Rhlnebeck One of his most sucessful wsr pictures, an arresting oil, stood on sn easel Water colors were ranging sround the. walls, standing on the floor and the low moulding As he talked he showed notebook sketches snd preliminary water colors of scenes at tha front, pen and Ink heads of soldiers, terrain drawings, big and little water colors, photographs of his work now owned by the War department, partly finished oils snd wster colors that "dldn come off" of subjects that he may have another try at later. Men Really Climb Rape Altogether, he must nave shown 300 pictures They're stirring pictures His men really climb a scrsmble rope, droop with misery and fatigue st the tall end of a truck to get out of the ram, lean back wesrlly on their i eioows to isvor Dare leet, busierea in days or mting in wet shoes, while they wait their turn with the medics You feel the dust snd desolation of ruined towns and a shattered monastery, the hsste and worry of refugees only a jump ahead of the fighting You remember his pictures, too, their decisive colors, the places, especially the people He's come a long way since he pslnted the murals for the Rhlnebeck and Hyde Park Postofflces Mr. Dows was In Washington when the war began, working for the Offlce of Civilian Defense He was In charge of poster work and "things ilka that," ha said, for the OCD, and doing similar work for the Treasury department.

After Pearl Harbor he urged the use of artists as war correspondents. "I wanted our Army to do what the British were doing," he said "They were using a group of artists to mske a record of the war The Army thought it would be politically Inexpedient at the time There are arguments against It, just as there are arguments against war photographers think you could undoubtedly find people opposed to using soldiers for a job like that, since the Army's Job Is fighting Some Army men questioned if It would be useful." Enlisted aa Private In Hit Mr, Dows enlisted In tha Army as a private In July, 1142, and was sent to Fort Meade. By tha next June ha had worked his way up to the rank of buck sergeant In the engineers, and waa "waiting around" to go to Offlcers Training school when Oeorge Blddle asked him If he would Uke to go to tha European theater as a wsr artist. There was a catch to the offer As a war artist, Mr. Blddle told him, the highest rank he could hold would be technical sergeant.

Mr. Dpws grabbed at the chance anyway. "I'd tried to get tha program going before it was tune for It," Mr. Dowi said, "so it lay In abeyance for about a year Then Oeorge Blddle returned to Washington from Brazil, where he'd been doing a mural, and went to work on the tame thing, with better luck than I'd had." A distinguished artist, Mr, Blddle a brother of former Attorney Oeneral Blddle. As a result of Mr.

Blddls's activities, 40 war artists were selected by a Jury of expert. Mr. Dows waa appointed head of the group of three that 1 1 1 in i mi i i in i lmmWmmmmAMMViflll1ira9mW.m 5aPl fc Mslfc MPsaaaaaal mINMM Wmmmi 1 1 1 i iH Wmmmlm9KmmWKmSmmmWlmWmWJMKSSi aMIIMHIH'illHWPIMWIMWPi 11" lilPPI I If mmWimJKmmmmrxmWM" sis i aUHsBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBa kKi in One of the People A' h' Modern Troubador Roy Godcs Sang Way Across the Atlantic fAnd a Good Part of Europe; Collects Folk Songs of Nations as Hobby By EILEEN DELANET "Home On the Range" got Roy Godea atarted and ever since ha has been collecting folk aonga of many nations and eiriging them aa a hobby. Son of Mr. and Mrs.

Herman Codes, 1 Church street, he began entertaining the family's company at the age of 10 and now, at 26, he haa sung his way acrosa the Atlantic and a good part of Europe. Like an llth century troubador, ney As Enlisted Man He Was Attached to Combat Photo Unit in European Theater Virgin on a pedestal After the bombardment the ssinU were broken in over the floor, but the Virgin still stood unharmed Germans Entangled In rentes Alter Baslogne Mr Dows was sent bsck to Mets lo do terrain drswinn Mets was then 'old stuff The object or a terrain arawing ne ssld, is make a realistic plrture which will explain a battle area II Is more resdlh understood thsn relief msp, and given more than a camera can catch. He showed whst he meant In one of his Bsstogne terrsln di swing. nwinrxi in The Infantrv Joufnsl The dlstsnt wire fences that he iT fehxJed grperre background wertWpaetuelty visible: JnrMlflfDtn the, wert part oh ffle problem Oermens became entangled In those cattle fencei and were mowea aown Tills drawing and the headquartera picture at Baslogne srt tin specific examples of things a photograph csn never get." he rsld Thi message center was too crowded snd smoky A flash bulb would tin. shown only a small portion of It He sent everything he did while he was In the Army to the Wsr e.

psrlment. he ssld The Historllsl Properties section kept whst it wanted for Its permanent collection of sr srt snd for reproducton In technics! pamphlets of the Wsr department, and returned the other After he finished the terrain drawings of the Meta area he went Into Germany with the 20th rorps part of Pat ton army. Mr Dows ssld crossed the Rhine st Mslni In April he wss sent to meet the Russians. There are many pictures of the last months of the wsr A country place In Palkenberg used as a Polish lsbor camp The broken and twist. ed remains of a Oerman hangar that looked, the artist said, "like a hui.

crushed beetle The dreadful desolation of Kassell, "where nqt a snltcs. of the town wasn hurt emphasized by the rosy red of a large section ot a brick wall In the foreground Ksssell was worse than St. Lo. Mr Dots ssld Some of St Lo was left standing on the surrounding hills Then there is a preliminary wster color of the meeting of Omens Rhlnehsrdt and Rosskov on the Elbe A gsy water color of Russian dancing In the road when they met the Americans A pen and Ink of mm sleeping on the deck of the Liberty ship that brought him home, one of 1 on a ship built to csrry 300 Some of it wss like a county fair" he said of the meeting of It Russians and Americans It wss a tremendously emotional thing, and everyone drsnk a lot of vodka They were awful nice, the Russians I never had time to work It all up." he said as he stacked some ot hit pictures "There are several things 1 like to work over, but 111 probsblj leave It pretty soon Most of It Is gone now OLIN DOWS FINISHING OIL OF leiat AIRBORNE HEADQUARTERS AT BASTOGNE. Given two points of emphasis by dark shaded hanging lamps, the picture shows the message center, a smsll cellar room filled with smoke and people," runners from the regiment, telephone operators, boys reading, sleeping.

Just trying to get warm and "away from the atuff outside Mr. Dows served as wsr artist with the Army for more than two years Since his return to his Rhlnebeck home last August he hss been working up preliminary sketches and water colore made at training centers and the front Bunds Ntw Yorh.r Photo were to cover the European theater His position ss hesd of the group When the wsr art program ended, he continued, the civilian artists waa purely nominal Mr Dows said They all held the same rank were allowed to stay If they wanted to About half of them did. and were Soon after their appointment Mr Dows and the two others of his I tsken over by Life All the magatlnea hsd an equal opportunity, but only group sailed lor England Here they were attached to the Historical sec Lire snd Collier's used It. H. J.

T. In Other Words accompanies himself on tha guitar. The piano was nil urn instrument but there want always one available so be taught himself to play the guitar. Now his ambitions have branched out to accordion and concertina and while la England on military duty he picked up a eon i certina which ha carried across 1 Europe with him and is now learn i ib ui iua nuooy 01 coutcuui ioik aorigs, he aald that It Just sort of grew on him. Be would hear a song, like It, and then pick it out on his guitar.

Then he would learn the words and alng them lor his own enjoyment. When he learned a new song, he would Jot it down so aa not to forget It anal his collection now numbers almost 300 folic songs of many countries One af Few Amatenn Although be la non professional, Mr. Oodea haa done quite a bit of entertaining and hopes tome day to reach the professional status. Home Just a mocth after serving with an Air Corps Weather squadron In Europe for three years, he waa associated with a group of professional entertainers at Camp Upton before going overseas. He was one of the few amateurs chosen for thlarwork and with his guitar and li.oarltone voice, entertained the sol Jt" Uert wno were undergoing the dlf I rlmtlr 4arai nrlafcAra.Hi'wo.

Inft tnww life. The Army, however, had different plans for him, he said. He was placed in a weather squadron and aent overseas but this did not Interfere with his music. He Just packed up his guitar, cleared his throat, and sang lor the soldiers on the weary trip across the Atlantic Weathermen are said to have one of the moat tiresome Jobs In the Army since there Is very little activity but Mr. Oodei lightened the hours at i weather stations In England.

France, lwtusl, ucruiaiiy aou ncjiuui with frequent singing of the favorite songs of his compatriots. Spanish Sengs Fapalar The aonga that rated most popular with the soldiers were Spanish folk aonga and culypso music, Mr. Oodes said. He attributed their appeal not only to the music Itself but also because moat of them tell a story legend with a satirical bent As for himself, be said that he waa found beautiful music In every language and is Impartial las to Its source. The local trouBador brought home With him songs from every country he 'Visited and sings them in their original languages.

Asker" how he overcomes language difficulties, he Ji said' that he hss a knowledge of aMnlBW VrOnh mrtii Da BJJ MIOU, HUM MU fVIIUfUC helps In songs from those countries but where he doesnt know jjie language he learns the songs phonetically Every singer has his own system of learning to sing 'n another language, he ssld For himself, be, writes the words to a aong af they sound to him rather thsn as they reiiy are ana in mat way fa jflgmeaeaeaeaeaeaeaeaeaeae! Vtt f. "'viVtftaasssassP BaaaaaaaaaaasfstaWhh aaaPU tlon for food snd billeting, but worked under a general directive from Washington The primary function of the Historical section, Mr Dows explained, was to collect history ss It wss made Two Weeks With Z9th Rangers Mr Dows was In England a year We hsd a lot of troops then at ln atallatlons all over England he ssld. snd he hsd series of ssOgnments with the vsrlous outfits, ususlly when they were on maneuvers His first and toughest was a two week trip with the 29th Rangers That begsn with a 30 mlle hike He made the preliminary sketches of the bare footed bo waiting their turn for treatment on that trip serosa the moors he said The moors are Just Uke bogs The boys kept moving every day There were msneuvers every day. and they were neer drj "The tough part was having wet feet all the time he said and then walking on them day after day Another of his English assignments wss with Sen Ice and Supph which Is "huge and fantsstlc," concerned with everj thing from Armv dumps to sssembllng gliders A aster color propped sgslnst the well showing helmeted soldiers working In hue bakery tells of one of Service and Supplv activities, he said That bakery supplied all the surrounding srea with bread as he recalled It SO 000 loaves a dav It was set up on a "The Canadians hsd an art program." he ssld "Their men were sll csptalns They went around In groups of three an historian, painter snd driver, attached to certain units. Just ss we were Of course dldn hsve the mrne or the prestige but in the nelit It as more useful to be an enlisted man People were what Interested me and jou got closer to them ss an enlisted man In England he was sttached to the 186th Slgnsl Photo unit and went whf a fleet ot some 90 vessels will be (he tsrgel letting the ships fa! with It to Normsndy Iste In June of 1944 sbout three weeks sfter dsy wriere they msy iruiuni Ulllt VI IIITll IWU IIICII1 JJIIUMI (UC I We see In the psper where the first shsd was pulled out of the river The fellow who caught It made no bones about It.

There always hss been lot of enthusiasm attached to the first sp pesrsnee of shsd Once again the theme aong of the rlvennen Is "Rot. Roe Roe Your Host," or sometimes known aa Shad Up But now the arfival of the shad season crestes some problems Note this dialogue between a husbsnd snd a wife who rent one of those frosts food lockers He Shsd sre slsrtlng to come up the river pretty fast, my desr She 'Well, last years aren going down very fast In the locker, ou Thats the problem In a nut shell The 1946 models are coming off the assembly line the 1945 editions still are In hock snd there no trsds la vslue Everyone Is eagerh aasltkng that atomic bomb test out in ihe Psctflr he sain We traveled around in a Jeep Our problem wss to get across rwiunsmj ine Army siwas provides exua transportation" They Were Around the Hshtlni One of his pen and Inks lios the units first bivouac In Normandy The men sie sleeping in a Held under an apple tree and a ramouflauge net Is hung from the lower limbs over them and their Jeep They alas slept under spples trees In Normand) he said trees Just like those you see In Dutchess county In another Normsndy scene men sre bathing and aash lng their clothes aiound an old sell while a line of tank destroyers on the left, In famish nets, lire over their heads We hit Trojes sbout the middle of September he said slopped there (or 10 dss because of the ahortsse of sas then went on The 3rith committed to battle Yes, were around race track, and could be assembled for onentflnn In slv hnnr. "The only local man 1 ever met while I was across excent for Allan committed before St Lo, Ryan In London, was a Poughkeepsle boy who worked In that held bakerv fighting he said "About the first thing people you met would ask was Where are Very murh round according to his pictures In one photograph of a you from!" I met a lot of people who knew Rhlnebeck They'd say It was "ttr color n0 oaned by the War department the rubble Is deep and as is nnlmiert msi In Hi Tn A rnt 1 Ik. .1 aw 1 gooa town, inti mey naa mopped at Brenman Arms or that w.e lu.i.ru tu; nun uys imir miir 1 I at hllllltmae r4 iL. i i "Vsssar Offering Studies for Men headline We thought It had bees right along That dog which wandered into the house a ear ago this fast approaching July and refused to budge Is, we now believe a bird dog of sorts Her only shortcoming is Inst she mants to eat nothing but meat and thats a regrettable temperament to have thee da)s Fix snythlng else up as fancy as snythlng, anrl she turns up her nose She likes chicken mesc She won chsse a live chicken but alll sit down and watch It vlslonlng the potential tepast She wants her meat cooked But lately we have found out how to entice her to eat almost everything Just throw the stuff out In the yard for the birds and she'll beat It out of the house and gulp It down, every time The other morning a woman waa driving her car rast In Mansion street and a mere man shot his csr out of Balding svenue and she had they remembered the trees snd the nice houses Lot to Bee In Training a bulldozer hsd due out roads snd when the Infantrv beaan marchlnt in I to do some fsney msneuverlng to svoid crssh We do not pretend to bt It was brilliantly clcsr daj Mr Dows said the colors were wonderful reader but oh! what we think she ssld1 Two water colors that Mr Dows had piled In a group of those that he i tnrrt on thing In one of his pen and Inks sn exhsusted considers unsuccessful show maneuvers at the Assault Training center In fnlnMr 'he street In another twocals sit In a cellarway beside aouuiern engiana in one, men witn lull equipment run ashore through I shallow water under a sullen sky In the other they are storming a hill "They took a regiment at a lime and ran It through the assault course," he said "There was a lot to see there They used live smmunl tlon Boys were killed and drowned In that training Another of his English wster colors shows men In faded blue fstlgues playing volley ball on either side of a high net An iron hut Is on the left That scene was on one of England great estates Mr Dows said The lawna were torn up.

and there were huts and mud everywhere One of his few pictures with feminine subjects shows English women peeking soldiers rations. The one in slacks walking from center front to the back should sue Mr Dows Or give up slacks In one of the best of his English pictures men slump In sleep in the back of a weapons csrrier, a big truck Parts of other trucks winding ahead, and the nose of one behind tell of a long moving line The men were then leaving England Meanwhile, Congress had refused to appropriate money for war artists, so the program was officially over In fact It had officially ended the month after Mr Dows landed in England The Armv artists were to be used according to their abilities In his partlculsr case this meant that he and his assistants were assigned as photogrsohers to (he Histories! section and given more extensive military duties But he kept on painting snd sketching Never Ran into Any Trouble "Actually as far as jetting the ob done was concerned II dldn make much difference, Mr Dows said Congress hsdn prohibited war art It Just hadn't appropriated money for It The boys wsnted It done just as they wanted news photoersnhy Commsnders were slwsis i never ran into any troUDie He alwas carried a small notebook and a fountain pen at the front. he said some'lmes pencil He carried water colors too, but he never hsd chanie to use them He used a camera a lot This Spy Not Glamorous One of his pen and Inks made In Troea shows the head of a French Gestapo spy. an Algerian Mr Dows drew It on the back of a German map when he was actlnn as In'erpieter It was surprising that a spy could be so dirty snd rsttj he said You alwas Lhink of a spy as glamorous After Trojca he went back to Paris to work up his material from his sketches notes, photographs snd the dlsry that he alwajs kept st he front Lste In December he wss assigned to Bsstogne The painting on the easel wss of the headquarters of the 101st Airborne at Bastogne around Christmas time he said This was the message renter the ganglion of Ihe whole division." he ssld It wss Just a small cellar room filled with smoke and people Run nets were coming In from the regiment Supplies weie coming in Mall was coming in from outside for distribution The bos wcie sleeping reading, listening to the radio Just tr)lng to get warm and away from th stuff outside Every once In a while shell would drop outside for Bss togne was birleged city Even aftei It was opened up they were still bombarding 11 Its all In the plttuie a long narrow canvas about 36 18 Inches the sleepets the telephone operalois the bo reading Stars and Stripes, those listening to (he radio the runners the ol with the mall sack The entire gioup Is given two points of emphasis two drop lights with dark shades In another of his Bastogne pictures soldiers sweep up broken glass in a monastrrv court while nuns eaie loi lelugee wounded Before the bom bsVdment Mr Dows said a statue of a saint stood on either side of the ROY OODES ale of his songs he learns by heart and does not try copy them He has a repertoire that consists of French, 8panlsh. Portuguese, Russian and German aonga aa well as folk songs from every part of the United Slates Flans to Return to College Since his education was interrupted when he wss Inducted into! the Army, Mr Oodes Is now plsn 1 nlng to go back to college He attended Antloch college In Ohio for two years and later transferred to New York university to which he I hopes to return In order lo sttsln two ends, he will continue his study of Spanish and will also take courses that will prepare him for foreign commerce or diplomatic work In this way, he will nt himself for a career that will enable h'm to travel and learn new songs aa he goea along He also plans to take courses In voice training and continue his musical education and If he Is good enough, he said he may take a fling at professional entertainment Mr Oodea has other Interests out side of his music He said thst he plays a fair game of rheas and his secondary hobby Is photography His Interest In these pastimes, he said Jokingly, exceeds his skill He sUo haa what he calls a modest collec.

tlon ot records thst Includes everything from classical to boogy woocle mus'c His favorite orchestra was that ol the late Qlenn Miller and he recalls with pleasure the last time he heard him In Paris There Is one more Item thst Mr Codes picked up In Europe and of wmen ne was reluctant lo speak It Is the Bronre etsr medal swsrded for meritorious stllon In Centrsl Europe When I ssked him sbout It Bottles Out Sap's Flowing ha atlirtyHltPH that I Irwsar ail tnia cUUAci nv yvuuucimuon. me mu ora collection. Have you noticed what appear to be gallon wine bottles hanging on the trees of 8U Andrew on Hudson along the North road? Thats exsclly what they are St Andrew Is experimenting with msple srup Risking this year using old altar wine bottles ss sap conlslners We have only 10 trees tapped this year Were Just trjlng It out William Schmllt said A novice of the Society ol Jesus Mr Schmllt Is In charge of the project Of course, were making It Just for our own use to take the place of augsr Anything that results In a saving at this end means Just that much more for those whe need It so badly That all that counts Next )ear we hope to do more One batch of sap about 40 gallons had already been boiled up he said yielding about three quarts of sjrup The woik was done In a steam pot right in Ihe kitchen he said He hsd no Idea ho much syrup would be msde this year since he Is new at the work and so doesn know how much longer the ssp will run And the bottles They re old wine bottles he said We use a lot of altar wine up here The bottles keep the sap cleaner than If It were In uncovered palls It doesn't make much difference what you use ist so long ss you keep It clean The Ldmund Van Wvck farm at Manchester Bridge Is one nl the few In the cotint where sjrup Is made every veer This has been a very poor season a spokesman for the farm said or rather spokrswomsn who asked that her name be withheld Weve never made It to sell she said but we do usually make about 12 gallons a sear Thats enough lor its and for some our friends and relatives Thus ear we got only four gallons The trees were lapped ihe latter psrt ol February but we had poor luck, very poor The ssp stopped runntrg so we took our buckets down They ususlly figure "thst 30 gallons of ssp will make one gallon of syrup she said Of course, this Isnt really the maple syrup section, she ssld Tints up around Watertown and Lake Champlaln, In this ats(e From there the tsp Is trurked over to Vermont for boiling The season has been poor here she said because It got warm too quickly Its the same this year as It was last spring she continued Freezing nights snd sunny ds)s are what make the ssp run The nights haven been cold enough Why, the peepers have been singing for more than a week That'a very early But Its lovely weather. Isnt it? Thl lime of year I always think of a little poem of A that I dipped many yeais ago It goes Mv tomcat Is shedding his tinderclo The robins hoarsely sing. Without much on the man nequlrs pose The darn fools think It spring Mrs Robeit H'cks of Salt Point road Is alio her who found that the sap flow decreased sharply In mid Match according to her iiughter Mrs Charles Fowx who lives In the same house Her mother made (wo or three quarts of syrup earlier In Ihe season Mis Fowx said, from the sap ol two or three trees She i always wanled to Iry making syrup, but this Is (he first jesr she has." Mrs Fowx ssld It Isnt (oo much of a Job Its Just a matter of waiting until the ssp bolls down She has sn oil burner In her kitchen range that she be using for hest so It Isn expensive either It wouldnt pay me to do It with am electric range Mrs Alvln Bacon of Cream atreet neatly alduitcps Ihe fuel problem by cooking her ssp In an outside fireplace over a flte made of branches thst hsve broken and fallen during the winter She cleans ur her property snd makes her syrup at the same lime Such wood doasn burn well In a stove she pointed out, snd whst she has left she uses later In Ihe season for csnnlng Last jrar was (he first I tried making mi up she said This vesr 1 did II sgsln snd got between four and IH qusiU I begsn towaid the end of Fali'u ary and finished up the middle of Ihls month The sap stopped flowing then We haven many sugar maples ana those are smsll It doesn psy to tsp a water maple It tates too long to boll up the sap Of course four or five quarts Isn much but It does help stretch our sugar Mrs William Halstesd nt East Park doesn agree that the svrup season ended In mid March The sap did slow down then, she ssld, but susppy nights started It flowing briskly sgsln 8he and her husband had four trees tsppod she said While the sap ran slowly they considered tapping two others 8hes glsd they dldn because she has all the ssp she can handle Her stove was then full, and a milk pall of sap was swatting hei attention Juat now the ssp Is running wonderfully she ssld 'I csn keep up with It.

You know trees vsry don jou? 8ome are rlrher than others There Is sn Instrument thst tells you the sugsr content of the sap but we haven one The trees we use give sbout pint of syrup from every six quarts of sap We mske syrup every jejr for our on use We use It on pancakes snd I use It to sweeten Ice cream we have quantities of that Then I use it In prepared puddings, too. These besullful dsys hsve been a help WhP thins your sap Even If you use covered pail, it runs down the trees Into the bu kets verv thing has been Just right this ear." Speaking of cars and things, we counted three trucks during 1st afternoon rush trsfflc period, mind you double psrked In Msln street. And In every Instance there was sufficient spare at the curb to have gotten out of the way From 8y Presten "A discharged Vet went to every clothing store In town without getting a suit Finally he parked himself In front of a store snd watched the people walk out empty handed You know he mused 'this would mske great location for a clothing 'Elizabeth Rose, a graduating nurse at Vasaar, went Into a Main street store the other afternoon and asked for a pair of nylons The clerk looked at her and quipped Sorry we have no nylons How sbout three pounds of butter? Entre Nous we get as excited this time eerh jesr as the most fsnallc trout fisherman but never have been trout fishing and probably never will Wed rather plug from a boat Radio programs listen to moat Tex Roy and Rov Jackson Speaks We re Ihe greatest picnic enthusiast In the world who goes on the least number of plcnica But we once thought we could give Jack Mulvey a go In downing hamburgers, but It was no soap Jack has the happy facully of enjoying the 10th hamburger as murh ss (he first We couldn taste 'em sfter the fourth We wonder whether men with today life span of 5 gets any more out of life thsn when the Jig wss up at 50 This year we re golrig to plant lest radishes We ususlly plant a field of them and stop estlng them sfter tin 10th burp Today a automotive age an automobile salesman making his rounds In an opposition car Attending the New York Tlower show, Henry Downer was stopped In his tracks when he saw a man who waa a perfect image of a horticultural friend who had died seversl years sgo The resemblance was such thst Mr Downer hsd to resasure himself his friend actually had died Then Inquiry divulged (he fellow before him was his late friends twin brother whom he never hsd met. A Paqe Out of the Past TEN YFARS AGO March 'I. 1936 Mavor Spralt ordered food tickets lo be distributed to 396 WPA workers whose pay checks were delsyed In srrlvlng here Mrs Noel deCordovs was elected captain of the women team of Ihe Dutchess County Oolf and Country club Samuel Senslper.

city, and William Pulver MUlerton, were hopored for atta'nlng high scholastic averages at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Joseph Finn wss victor over Francis Doerr In the pocket billiard tournament at the YMCA and was awarded the championship I ine oleic uepanmeiii or aauca uun lurnra inumos aown on a pro violin gave a Joint concert at Ihe Albany Institute of Music The new elght fare on the local trolley line wss put into effect and the trolley company reported that there was no change In ps trnnsge Mr and Mrs Wllllsm Edson snd dsughler, Virginia, visited 'President Herding st the White House in Washington, while en route home from a trip In the south FIFTY YEARS AGO March 11, 1IM Residents of the vlllsge of Fish klll were preparing to vote on ihe proposal that the town be incorporated The principal objection waa that Incorporation would eeuss a rise In taxes William and Clarence Re) nolda ParT thT niX I nVt program, arguing th the high Im1l. Hayt and company had tui schnnl population waa steadily de I oresslng and that the then present facilities were not put to full use TV.ENTY.flVE VEAR8 AOQ March II, 1921 President Peter Troy of the New York State Motor Federation and President Lyman Brown of the Poughkeepsle Automobile club, attended a conference on roads and taxes at Syracuse Mrs Joseph Darrow was elected president of the Poughkeersle High school Alumni sssorlstlon Chstirs Gilbert Bprraa al the 000 000 annually In 19J0 to I piano and Earle Hummel on the, In 1940, tons especially designed for the uniforms of the Davy Crockett firemen and presented them to the company Jacob, the milliner, had incandescent lamps placed In his front show window In order to dlsplsy his goods "red Anderson left with a er of fellow naval apprentices on a training ship for a cruise In European waters Attendsnce st county fsrm meel lnes lumrjed from a total of 1'.