Wisconsin School of the Air; Afield with Ranger Mac; 8

The Wisconsin School of the air invites you to go on a field where the Ranger mech now to take you on another radio hike down the nature trail. Here's your guide Ranger Mick. Hello boys and girls. No sun no moon no mourn no noon no warmth no cheerfulness no helpfully no comfortable feel in any member no shade no shine no butterflies no be snow them bright domes wept a comin from the mountain tops from the snows high towers and summers old. November and I was quite early demonstrated that it is a sort of a rapscallion month so it might be well for us to forgo all getting outdoors this morning on our trip appeal. Our bodies are not yet to adjust to do the rigors of winter and we should be quite careful about exposing ourselves unduly so our trip this morning will be to a library. Our trip will be to one

of the many libraries that are maintained in hundreds of cities and little and big in our state. Here we find a very pleasant lady who asks us whether that is something she can do for us as she is a lady who has learned how to care for books and to put books on the shelves in correct order so that they may be found quite readily. Good books are true friends and it is her work to help people make that acquaintance. Just as there is a directory for people living in our communities. So how is the library a directory. These friends and where they can be found on the shelves that directory is a case of cards on which are written the names of books and their authors all placed in alphabetical order. So let's go to this case quietly and

discover where we can find some books that will tell us about the life of our hero par this morning. Books are friends whose acquaintance we develop in quietness. You notice many old men reading at the tables that are many old people now and many of them visit their libraries to enjoy the Princeps of books over at the table. Is the lady whom you may know old as she is working up a speech to give at the next meeting of the PTA of your school. Over there is the county agent. If you could look over his shoulder you would find he is studying about rats. He is going to carry on a campaign against rats in his county and he wants to find out about the destruction caused by rats in history particularly like the bubonic plague called Black Death that wiped out over

half the peoples of England back in the Middle Ages. We came to the library to look up the life and accomplishments of a man by the name of Carver solo in the card index we referred to the letter C coming along we find Carver. We noticed many names under Carver. We want Carver George Washington. We find quite a number of cards under that name showing that there are a number of books giving his life history. How can we find one of these books without looking over all of the books on the shelves below his name. Is the number 900 below 900 we find Al 91 are now we go to the shelves and find the books under the classification of 900. It is written on the back

of the book. So is the index number. L 91 R.. So all we look along the books in the 900 classification in alphabetical order until we come to L.. 91 are we find the book and its name is right using above color. Now let's sit down in the quiet of the library and find out about this man who loads above color George Washington Carver George Washington Carver was born a slave the exact date of his birth is not known. The date of your birth is recorded in the courthouse of the county in which you were born. But the coming of another black baby into the where at that time was of no great consequence except to his slave parents. But a number of years. He did not even have a name when

he became a great man. Historians traced back events as best they could and their problem doubt that he was born in 1864 when the Civil War was raging. He never saw a spa there. His father was sold on the auction block and when the pickaninny was a month old when this black baby was about six weeks old some slave stealing readers swept down on the carver plantation and kidnapped many of the slaves. Among them was George's mother who huddled her baby in her arms as she stumbled along beside the horse of her captors are. The mother lived and the mother died from this terrible strain and a tiny Orpen boy was left in the care of the kidnappers. Moses Carver the owner of the plantation from which the boy was

stolen sent a man to bargain with the slaves for the ball. With these thieves for the boy he finally gave the captors a horse in exchange for the pickaninny boy and the kidnappers thought they got the best of the bargain. At the plantation the colored baby was nourished back to life by the carvers. He grew to be a sickly frail lad but he showed a willingness to help about the plantation and an Amish DMN cleverness in what he did. So all of the carvers who were the kindly people of any kind of their slaves. I decided to give the boy a name. They named him George Washington Carver as a little tyke. He thirsted for knowledge. He would get up early in the morning before the work started about the house and wander alone in the woods near the

plantation. He wanted to know what was in every plant and about every animal and insect and bird a Webster's spelling book fell into his hands and this provided him the only education for the purse. Ten years in the woods he had a favorite breed in the hollow of this tree he built a shelf for his spelling book. Soon he mastered everywhere in that spelling. Next reply and the colored lad attending a one room school in a nearby town. Here he earned his clothes and food by running errands sweeping out stores and doing all kinds of odd jobs. In the early morning he would explore the woods just does he did on the plantation. In a year's time he had mastered all that the teacher in the log school could teach him. So he braved the world once more a to a time

to high school in a distant city. Here he earned his board and keep as a cook dishwasher and housekeeper. He was twenty years of age. When he finished high school a strong healthy six footer the next step was college. He had fine standings in high school but he had difficulty getting into college because he was a Negro. Finally he found one at that what it meant him. Here he became popular with and had many friends who gave him work to provide the necessities of life. After three years he entered the Iowa State College at Ames Iowa. He did so well that upon graduation he was invited to become a teacher in the chemistry department of that college. While teaching he took advanced work and finally finished college with a doctor's degree

the highest degree that can be granted knowledge he was ready to go back to his own people. He went to Tuskegee Institute Alabama which was under the leadership of another great Negro Booker T Washington here and he started his work at that was to become a great benefit to all mankind. And he started it with nothing just as he started everything even his own life with nothing. He had no equipment and his laboratory was an old shanty. Now our hero the cotton field the South had grown cotton for so many areas supplying the mills of England now that the land would no longer yield cotton abundantly. They planted cotton nothing but cotton year after year with no rotation. Then along came the boll weevil destroying much that could grow. The South was in a

bad way so our negro chemists started to work on the wheat but people he developed so many uses for the sweet potato that the demand for it increased and gave the farmers of the South a crop that could be grown profitably instead of cotton. Then he started on peanuts. He managed a little farm at Tuskegee just to show how he could be profitably and at the same time restore the saw oil. The peanut plant is a little like alfalfa and clover. Are they goons in a few years. Peanuts were grown so widely that the market could not take all of that were grown. So he took peanuts into his laboratory. He tore the peanut into port 18 different parts. He came out of his laboratory with three hundred different uses for peanuts. We think of peanuts as good at baseball games and at the circus and the monkeys and elephants.

But through Dr. carvers discoveries peanuts are now used in 300 different ways from breakfast foods to shoe polish from ice cream to actual Greek. They include starch flour milk cheese vinegar pickles oils Inc. Wood stands Lin oleum add beauty lotions butter saving cream paper and believe it dandruff cure in 1900. There were over there were only 50 tons of peanuts grown in the Empire ourselves. Now with the state of Alabama alone raises over a hundred dollars on this modest unassuming Nigro made the happy af and more prosperous part of our nation. He was a deeply religious man. Here's what he said. I said to the creator why did you create the pinata.

And then I tried to find out why he is one of the nation's greatest men. He received the highest awards that the nation has to give. He accepted them all in a way that is a lesson in humility. Refusing money reward or even praise for all that he had done. He merely smiled and said God has been kind to this poor old negro today test Institute. It is a great college. Quite different from the ramshackle shanty that Carver started in among the buildings is the laboratory for the treatment of infant child paralysis. It bears Dr. carvers name the basis for this treatment. This dreaded disease is would you believe it peanut oil. So out of nothing the sick child who was traded for a horse created things of everlasting value to all mankind. He

went to nature discovered new uses for the provisions of nature. He studied with patience and humility and a deep sympathy for his people and for all mankind. Now let's put the book back on the librarians desk because she wants to put it back there and be short of that it's in the right place. Until And let's return to the classroom until we meet on the trail again. May your hours be happier because you made the acquaintance of a man who wrote words about color and circumstances to become one of the greatest of Americans and may the Great Spirit put sunshine in your heart today evermore heap much the familiar Indian farewell brings us to the end of another trip. A field where the Ranger mech Ranger will be back next week at the same time to be your guide for another radio trip dominate your trail. This

is the Wisconsin School of the air.