Evening Star Newspaper, January 17, 1932, Page 85

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON RYAN 1781932 1 N ~ CERMANY THE SWISS CONFEDERATION Yaurguupy g LJ BESANCON - == MED/TERRANEAND =SEA == > [BurinG THE MiDDLE AGES SwiTzER- LAND, ENTIRELY SURROUNDED BY MORE POWERFUL NATIONS, WAS ASSAILED” ON ALL SIDES,BUT STOOD> FIRMLY, LIKE A ROCH RESISTING THE GREAT WAVES THAT DASHED UPON IT FROM ALL DIRECTIONS. ©,1932. 8y 7 Cannoit MANSFIELD — * N it~ THE HISTORY OF SWITZERLAND CONTAINS MANY EXAMPLES OF MASS HEROISM AND MASS SACRIFICE. IN 1444 A BAND OF 1200 SwWiSS BoLDLY ATTEMPTED TO CUT THEIR WAY THROUGH A FRENCH ARMY OF 30,000 YO AID THE BESIEGED CITIZENS OF BASLE. OVERWHELMED, THE Swiss sTooD> THEIR GROUND AND DIED FIGHTING ! i fl DEVOUTLY RELIGIOUS PEOPLE, THE SWISS KNELT AND PRAYED FOR VICTORY JUST BEFORE- GOING INTO BATTLE . THEY WERE ALSO UNUSUALLY MERCIFULTO THEIR VANQUISHED> FOES, CONSIDERING THE GENERAL BRUTALITY OF THAT PERIOD. ——» DRAWN 2y GERTRUDE BAG WELL , Box 307, WINSTON-SALEM, NoRTN CAROLINA HIGH LIGHTS OF HISTORY JoMN GULLO, 1089 HOLMDEN AVE., CLEVELAND, OHIO. HEROES OF SWITZERLAND—PART VI BUT UNLIKE A ROCK, THE RESISTANCE OF THE SWISS WAS NEVER WORN AWAY. THE LOFTY MOUNTAINS THAT HEMMED THEM 1N WERE THEIR MOST VALUABLE ALLIES, CONFINING THE ADVANCE OF AN ENEMY TO THE NARROW,EASILY-GUARDED> PASSES. ONLY TEN OF THE 1200 SAVED THEIR LIVES BY RUNNING AWAY, BUT ON RETURNING HOME THE FUGITINES FOUND THEMSELVE S SHUNNE]D BY THEIR FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS. FOR INSTANCE, IN 1499, WHEN THE SwiSS WERE MAKING REPRISALS AGAINST THE GERMANS ACROSS THE RHINE THEY FORCED THE SURRENDER OF ROSENECK CASTLE AND STIPULATED THAT EVERYONE WITHIN THE WALLS EXCEPT BARON VON ROSENECK,WoULD BE GRANTED HISLIFE AND ALLOWED TO GO FREE, CARRYING HIS MOST TREASURED POSSESSIONS . The Swiss Fighting Spirit ACCUSTOMED TO FREQUENT ATTACKS FROM ENEMIES AND THE CONSTANT STRUGGLE WITH THE FORCES OF NATURE- IN THEIR RUGGED HOMELAND, HARDENED> BY THE EXERTION OF MOUNTAIN CLIMBING, THE SwWiSS BECAME A RACE OF FIGHTERS UNEXCELLED IN THEIR DAY. THE SwiSS WOMEN AND> GIRLS PLAYED AN IMPORTANT PART IN WARTIME-, WHENEVER A HOSTILE ARMY INVADED THE COUNTRY, THEY DROVE THE CATTLE HIGH UP INTO THE MOUNTAINS FAR. OUT OF THE ENEMYS REACH . . . . . MuUCH TO THE AMAZEMENT OF THE VICTORS THE BARONESS VON ROSENECK CAME STAGGERING OUT, CARRYING HER WOUNDED HUSBAND! TOUCHED BY HER INGENUITY AND DEVOTION, THE SWISS NOT ONLY SPARED THE BAROKN'S LIFE, BUT PERMITTED THE HEROIC LADY To REMOVE ALL HER VALUABLES ~ o By J. CARROLL 319 VALLEY ROAD, WEST ORANGE, NEW JERSEY. MANSFIELD WA DuRING THE t4™H anp 15™ CENTURIES THE HARDY SWISS MOUNTAINEERS FACED THE MIGHTY ARMIES oF AUSTRIA ,FRANCE , TTALY AND BURGUNDY AND DROVE THEM BACK “LIKE SMOKE BEFORE THE WIND —° Lt THEY WERE VALIANT FIGHTERS ,T0O, WHEN OCCASION DEMANDED. IN 1405, WHEN THE SWISS WERE HARD-PRESSED BY AN AUSTRIAN ARMY, THE WOMEN SEIZED WEAPONS AND RAN TO THE AD OF THEIR MEN FOLK. AT THE SIGHT OF THIS ARMY OF AMAZONS, THE- AUSTRIANS HASTILY RETREATED: FAILING IN ALL THEIR EFFORTS TO CONQUER THE SWISS,EUROPEAN RULERS TRIEP> TO WIN THEIR FRIENDSHIP AND HIRED> COMPANIES OF THE INTREPID MOUNTAINEERS TO FIGHT FOR THEM. IN FRANCE AND TTALY FOR CENTURIES PICKED TROOPS OF SWISS MERCENARIES WERE THE MONARCH'S PERSONA L BODYGUARD. Hilli T T Wheat Failure Hits Russia USSIA, which started the wheat year like a lion, ended up like a lamb, with much of the Spring wheat area failing to make a crop. The heavy shipment of wheat into the export market during the early season caused con- siderable anxiety among the wheat raisers of other lands, but these heavy shipments follow- ing the completion of the Winter wheat harvest fell off greatly. In many instances contracts for Spring delivery were either canceled or re- written at a much lower pricc because of the inferior grain which was produced. The Russian wheat fields nevertheless stand as a constant threat to the American wheat raiser, for a bumper crop on the 348,000,000 acres reported to be sown this year would pro- duce a yield which might well put a serious dent in the market for American wheat. T he Woodlot Comes Into Its Ozon N these days of financial difficulty among the farmers, every peossible source of income is being exploited. The neglected “woodlot” is re- ceiving its attention, and many of the lessons the Forest Service has sought through years of education to bring home to the farmer are now being learned through necessity and through envious observation of the fortunate situation’ of those who did take advice. An example is found, for instance, in the case of an Indiana farmer, who paid $570 for a cut- over tract of land back in 1900. T 2 investment, to the short-sighted, may have seemed foolish, but the farmer was looking into the future. He replanted the tract with young trees, and care- fully cultivated them during the early years of their growth. Up to date he has obtained from his 20 acres enough lumber to erect five of his farm buildings, has cut all the cordwood and posts he needed for his personal use, has sold $700 worth of products from the woodlot and has a stand of timber left for which he was recently offered $3,000. With all that realized upon, he still has the 20 acres left. Another farmer in Iowa has supplied his home with fuel wood and has produced 16,0600 board feet of construction timber from a small woodlot of two and a half acres during the past 17 years. These two examples are cited as showing what a careful farmer can do with land ordinarily considered worthless, either because of its un- availability as plow lands or because it has be- come submarginal—that is, low in fertility. By proper care and selection, only matured trees are taken out for lumber, and fuel wood is ob- tained from deformed trees or trees taken out to prevent crowding. Orient Boosts Cotton Market HE Orient seems to be stepping into the breach to save the cotton farmer who has been faced by a seriously curtailed Europesga” market. The Europeans purchased 36 per cer’ less cotton in November than in November, 1930, but the exports to Japan and China to= taled 1,184,000 bales, nearly double the pur« chases for November, 1930. Staying Up Nights “I told you our boy would be 2 bad ome stay up, once he got to the city.” “Why do you say that?” “I just got a night letter from him, the rascal.”