August 29: ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY

August 29, 2024 Brooklyn Eagle History

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ON THIS DAY IN 1905, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reprinted the following story from the Chicago Evening Post: “According to the twelfth census, the forest products of the United States have an annual value of $575,000,000. This is aside from the value of firewood, farm materials and other wood products for which no statistical returns are available. Of the figures reported by the forest service of the Department of Agriculture, the forests as a source of wealth rank with the mineral products as second to the farms. But in addition to this the forests have an immense value, both as a source of future supply and as a protective covering for water sheds. If our forest wealth is now equal to our mineral wealth, it is within the probabilities that a time will come when the forests will outrank the mines. Every ton taken out of the mines reduces permanently the total of their wealth. The mines can be worked out, and we have not yet discovered any way of restocking them. But with the forests it is different. They may be treated like the annual crops of the farmer. Their wealth producing powers can be kept up. Careful and scientific woodman-craft and lumbering coupled with energetic reforestation are preserving and will continue to preserve the forest values indefinitely. This is the aim of the government forestry work. And the best promise of its continued success is the interest that is now taken in it by the lumbermen themselves. The fellers of trees and sawyers of lumber have seen a great light. They are co-operating with the government. They now realize that under carefully supervised cutting and reforestation they can eat their cake and have it, too. Enlightened self-interest is the chief hope of our wooded acres.”

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ON THIS DAY IN 1920, the Eagle reported, “LONDON, AUG. 27 — Prof. Albert Einstein, the German philosopher and scientist, whose recent discoveries in the realm of physics have made him famous, contemplates leaving Germany, owing to the persistent hostility of the Pan-Germans, which has taken the form of derision of his theory of relativity, says a Reuters dispatch from Berlin.”

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ON THIS DAY IN 1943, the Eagle reported, “Gil Hodges, a 200-pound shortstop uncovered by Dodger scouts in an Indianapolis tryout camp, worked out with the team. Hodges is not yet signed to a contract.”

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ON THIS DAY IN 1946, the Eagle reported, “U.N. HEADQUARTERS, LAKE SUCCESS (U.P.) — The United States, Britain, France and Australia today joined in charging Russia with attempting to set up its own rules for admission to the United Nations by opposing the application of Trans-Jordan on grounds Russia has no normal diplomatic relations with that country. Australia led the fight on the announcement by Andrei Gromyko that he would blackball Trans-Jordan on behalf of Russia. Gromyko’s announcement came after the United States and Britain announced they would veto the applications of Albania and Outer Mongolia. Gromyko said Russian would oppose Trans-Jordan because she had no ‘normal diplomatic relations’ with that state. Paul Hasluck, Australian delegate, charged that there was nothing in the U.N. charter which required applicants to establish diplomatic relations as a preliminary to membership. He demanded that Gromyko offer further explanation of the Soviet position and ‘produce substantial grounds either for or against Trans-Jordan.’ Hasluck was joined immediately by Herschel V. Johnson, U.S. delegate, who said Gromyko had advanced ‘a very novel doctrine’ and one which he felt was ‘contrary to the fundamental law of this organization.’ Alexander Parodi, France, took the same position, pointing out that possibly the Soviet objection arose from the circumstances which produced the lack of diplomatic relations rather than from the non-existence of such relations.”

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ON THIS DAY IN 1946, the Eagle reported, “WASHINGTON (U.P.) — The cost of home-made hot cakes and waffles is going up. OPA today authorized increases of from 2 to 3 cents in the retail ceiling price of the popular 20-ounce packages of prepared plain pancake and waffle mix. The same boost goes for prepared buckwheat pancake mix.”

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ON THIS DAY IN 1950, the Eagle reported, “LONDON (U.P.) — Princess Elizabeth’s 2-week-old daughter — third in line for the British throne — has been named Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise, the royal family disclosed today. The naming of the little Princess came as a pleasant surprise to Britons who had believed they would have to wait at least a month before learning her name.”

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ON THIS DAY IN 1952, the Eagle reported, “‘She’s Working Her Way Through College’ with Virginia Mayo, Ronald Reagan and Gene Nelson, and Randolph Scott in ‘Carson City,’ both in Warner-Color, are on the RKO Brooklyn and Queens screens.”

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NOTABLE PEOPLE BORN ON THIS DAY include “M*A*S*H” star Elliott Gould, who was born in Brooklyn in 1938; Olympic gold medal-winning sprinter Wyomia Tyus, who was born in 1945; Olympic gold-medal winning track and field athlete Bob Beamon, who was born in 1946; animal behaviorist Temple Grandin, who was born in 1947; former Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, who was born in 1955; Hall of Fame jockey Jerry Bailey, who was born in 1957; “Risky Business” star Rebecca De Mornay, who was born in 1959; guitarist wizard Tony MacAlpine, who was born in 1960; former N.Y. Giants linebacker Carl Banks, who was born in 1962; “Girlfriend” singer Pebbles, who was born in 1964; U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, who was born in 1967; “Spy Kids” star Carla Gugino, who was born in 1971; “Glee” star Lea Michele, who was born in 1986; former N.Y. Mets pitcher Noah Syndergaard, who was born in 1992; and “Strip That Down” singer Liam Payne, who was born in 1993.

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DEEP THOUGHTS: John Locke was born in England on this day in 1632. As the founder of philosophical liberalism, his ideas influenced the American colonists and were enshrined in the U.S. Constitution. He died in 1704.

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MUST-SEE TV: The final episode of “The Fugitive” aired on this day in 1967. David Janssen’s Emmy Award-winning adventure series about a wrongly convicted doctor on the run concluded in a two-part episode whose second part was the highest-rated show ever broadcast up to that time. An estimated 78 million people watched “The Judgment,” in which the one-armed man confessed and Dr. Richard Kimble was found innocent of murdering his wife. The ratings record held until 1980, when “Dallas” revealed who shot J.R.

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Special thanks to “Chase’s Calendar of Events” and Brooklyn Public Library.

Quotable:

“What worries you, masters you.”

— philosopher John Locke, who was born on this day in 1632