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Show THE PROGRESSIVE OPTNTOK -- T Immense Task of Soil Rebuilding Faces Managers of Nation's Six Million Farms phorus and potassium, in various compounds, have been drawn out of the soil by the plants that grew on it. The bigger and better the crop, the more vital minerals ex-tracted. Ordinarily, much of these elements is replaced by rotation, fallowing, or application of fertiliz-ers, but during these war years when every field must be made to yield to the limit, there is an an-nual loss. Also, the scarcity of fer-tilizers, and shortage of help and machinery have conspired to im-poverish the farmer's land. There is still another important factor in this present problem. That is the matter of Harvested crops rank next in de-pleting the soil and are in normal years responsible for taking out an additional 4,600,000 tons'of nitrogen, 700,000 tons of phosphorus and 3,200,-00- 0 tons of potash. Nearly a third of the fertile top-so- il of American farms has been lost due to erosion, floods and the damaging effects of overcropping, according to a statement issued by the Middle West Soil Improvement Committee. Six Inches of Topsoil. "A century and a half ago," says the statement, "there was an aver-age of nine inches of topsoil spread over the entire United States. To- - An aerial view of a large Georgia farm on which several soil conser-vation methods are used. In the upper part of the picture appears a large meadow strip, which serves as a safe water disposal area for sur-face runoff from adjoining fields. The curved bands are contour strip cropping, and terracing. The owner, Dr. A. C. Brown of Royston, also follows improved rotation practices. Land Being Mined by Excessive Cropping Will Need Fertilizer American farmers face the most gigantic soil rebuilding job in all history when World War II is fought to a success-ful conclusion. That is the considered opin-ion of farm economists, soil conservation experts and leading agronomists of state agricultural colleges through-out the country. What this job will cost, no one knows yet, but it will be consider-ably above the 250 to 300 million dol-lar expenditure farmers have been making for fertilizer in recent years. Virtually all of the nation's 6,000,000 farms will need serious attention. Two major reasons are cited by soil experts for this situation: lWartime crop goals necessary to produce foodstuffs, meat, dai-ry products, oil and fiber crops for victory, are eating up the soil's resources of nitrogen, phosphorus and potash much faster than they can be replaced today. Steps to correct this must be taken immediately the war crisis is over. ' 2 The long-rang- e job of soil con-servation must be stepped up. Big-scal- e operations can be post-poned no longer. The "fifth col-umn" attacks of erosion are be-coming more menacingly seri-ous. Wasteful farming practices over a century and a half have squandered precious topsoil to a dangerous degree. Farmers recognize that the pres-ent wartime drain on their soils' fertility level is a necessary contri-bution to victory. But they should bear in mind the imperative fact that wealth borrowed from the soil to help win this, war, must be re-paid later on. Dr. George D. Scarseth, head of the agronomy department of Purdue university, summed things up when he said: "Farmers in the Middle West and elsewhere throughout the nation are making a sacrifice in the war pro-duction program to an extent not fully realized by the world. Soils that have had to produce war crops by fertility exhaustion practices will not have dividends to pay. after the war, but will require their own kind of taxation in the form of fertilizers. "In reality, farmers are in the manufacturing business, the same as munitions makers, or steel pro-ducers. They are turning out essen-tial products for our armed forces. They are manufacturing foods, feeds; fibers and oils out of the raw materials of the soil the nitrogen, phosphorus, potash and lime. "Fortunately all our soils are not exhausted of their inherited riches. But exhaustion is on the way even with our best soils, and we face a future where these raw materials must be added to the soils as ferti-lizers in greater amounts than in the past'. Unless we do this, the productivity of the soil will sink to a dangerous level." Concerning the future outlook, he said: "Our war debt won't be only a matter of taxes and maturing bonds. Our farmers are asked to mine their soils because fertilizer materials are scarce. But crops must be made on the 'fat' of the soils.- This means that a farmer of the future will have the handicap of a more exhausted soil and smaller crop yields to pay the taxes that will follow this war." Tremendous Drain. increased acreage. In order to pro-duce the extra crop quotas, not only do existing acres have to do a big-ger crop yielding job but more and more acres have to be tilled. Much of this land represents a lower strata of fertility level and hence it is not able to bear the burden of heavy cropping effectively. A glance at acreage figures tells the story. In 1941 the total harvested tecreage of principal crops in the United States was. 334,130,600. In 1942 it rose to 338,081,000 and in 1943 to 347,498,000 acres. New production goals for 1944 propose the use of some 380 million acres. of Land Ruined. When we turn to the long-rang- e job of soil conservation that has been accumulating since the pioneer set-tlers' plows first broke America's virgin farm land, we find an even more serious situation. Hugh H. Bennett, chief of the U. S. soil conservation service, is authori-ty for the statement that 50 million acres of the nation's 600 million till-able acres have been completely ru-ined for agricultural purposes. An additional 50 million acres, he estimates, are seriously damaged and a very large further acreage has suffered a marked decrease in soil fertility. As - a result of the soil conservation service's work and the efforts of agronomists at state agricultural colleges and experiment stations, significant steps have been taken in recent years in combating this menacing trend. But'the major task lies ahead. Six principal factors are responsi-ble for the foregoing losses, accord-ing to Mr. Bennett. They are ero-sion, leaching, the removal of ferti-lizer elements by harvested crops, livestock and livestock marketing, oxidation of soil organic matter, and fire. .' Erosion is the worst offender, re-moving annually 2,500,000 tons of ni-trogen, 900,000 tons of phosphorus and 15,000,000 tons of potash the three major plant foods which make the productions of crops possible. day this averages only six inches in depth. "The present war emergency, as well as the future of American agri-culture itself calls for a determined fight against the forces of soil de-pletion. The effectiveness of the in-dividual farmer's soil management plan in wartime as well as in the peace era to follow, can be aided by the cooperation of agronomists at state agricultural colleges and ex-periment st9tions Through research and experimentation over a long span of years, these experts have developed information concerning fertilizer needs for various crops and soils that is helpful to the farmer who is striving to rebuild his soil's productivity." In combating the destructive ef-fects of erosion, individual farmers and organized agriculture are con-fronted by . a stealthy, n enemy. Erosion's damage is grad-ual and in the first stages, barely noticeable. But once it gains head-way, winds and rains not only carry away valuable topsoil, but also re-move needed fertilizing elements such as nitrogen, phosphorus and potash. Conservation methods are the sur-est means of reducing these losses of valuable topsoil and plant nutrients. It has been found that soils having a cover crop suffer only a fraction of the losses from erosion that other farm areas experience. Not only will grasses and legumes provide ef-fective vegetative cover for holding topsoil in place and furnish a bal-anced ration for farm animals, but they promote nitrogen fixation, im-prove the soil tilth and help increase crop yields following in the rotation. This is particularly true where ade-quate fertilization is undertaken. Bonds Will Provide Funds. Fortunately the means for accom-plishing this soil replenishment are in the job hands of virtually every American farmer. Dollars invested in war bonds now that farm cash income is at the highest level in history and farm debt at the lowest point in many years, can provide the ready cash to pay for the pur- chase of nitrogen, phosphorus and potash needed to restore the fertili-ty level of farms later on. "It is not too early to begin plan-ning for this agricultural reconstruc-tion job, any more than it is prema- ture at present to lay plans for fu- ture political and economic peace " a statement by the Middle West Soil Improvement Committee concludes. "For it is becoming increasingly clear that the whole structure of fu- ture security will rest on the pro-ductivity of the soil. While every encouragement will be given to soil rebuilding projects by the federal government and by state agricultur- al agencies, the major responsibility for getting the job done will rest on the shoulders of individual farmers By earmarking part of present war bond purchases now for peacetime soil rebuilding expenditures farm ers can be ready when the materi-al- s and manpower become readilv available in the postwar era " ? "i I v Just how big a drain on the soil's fertility resources does this extra crop production impose? The answer is plenty! Take one . single crop corn for example. Agronomists estimate that the 1941 corn crop in ten midwestem states removed 2,645,404,730 pounds of ni-trogen, phosphorus and potash from the soil. Increasing wartime yields boosted this tax to 3,093,123,334 pounds in 1942 and 3,227,393,770 pounds in 1943. Large as this removal was, it rep-resents but a portion of the fertility loss from a single region. Add to it the fertility drain caused by pro-ducing huge yields of wheat, soy-beans, potatoes, alfalfa, clover, oats and other crops and you have some idea of the depreciation of fertility resources. But that doesn't tell the whole story, either, for the job of producing livestock and dairy prod-ucts requires heavy amounts of plant food, too. The plain fact is that every time a crop is harvested and hauled to mar-ket, or livestock are shipped to a packer's yards, some of the farm's fertility goes with them. Those es-sential elements, nitrogen, phos- - Hilly land often considered prac-tically worthless can be made to yield good returns by proper strip cropping. C. D. Blubaugh, Danville, Ohio, is shown weighing the harvest from such a field. He is one of the three million farmers now included in 693 soil conservation projects. Speaking Ski Gt W; Released by Western Newspaper Union. 'TPHE interest shown by the armed - services in almost every branch of sport is good evidence that Sergt. Joe Louis' exhibition tour to thea-ters of operation will prove to be one of the most popular shows yet staged by the army's special serv-ices division. Sergeant Louis, king of the heavy-weights, boxed before at least 1,000,-00- 0 soldiers during his recent five month, 20,000-mil- e tour of more than 100 army posts. He was accom-panied by hfs uniformed coterie of five boxers and a trainer. In addition to Joe, the group in-cluded Corp. Walker Smith, better known as "Sugar" Ray Robinson, welterweight, to boxing fans; Pri-vate George ("Jackie") Wilson, SERGEANT LOUIS First Sergt. George Nicholson, Corp. Robert Smith, Sergt. James Edgar and Corp. Robert J. Payne, trainer. It wasn't an easy tour for the boys. They started in August at Fort Meade, Md., on a series of one and two night stands. They swung through New England, reversed their trail, across the northern half of the country, moved down through California and re-turned eastward. Grueling Grind ' During the trip they played to thousands of soldiers daily in every army service command, visiting wounded in hospitals, special train-ing units and soldier prisoners in stockades. They staged impromptu boxing shows and made as many as six personal appearances in one day. There was the usual amount of griping concerning the Louis expe-dition within this country. But it wasn't serious. The routine was for Joe to box two or three rounds with Sergeant Nicholson, who happened to be Joe's favorite 'sparring .part-ner in prewar days, or with Cor-poral Smith, the other heavyweight. Smith and Sergeant Edgar boxed for three rounds and Private Wil-son usually sparred with a soldier volunteer. At least one factor kept the tour from becoming the usual two-a-d-vaudeville act. Joe often was chal-lenged by an ambitious soldier sta-tioned at some particular camp. The Brown Bomber was always agree-able. Be took on the hopefuls and never tried to make a match appear onesided. He never carried his oppo-nent, although naturally enough be held back on the lethal wallops which brought him a world title. More About Rule Changes Lou Boudreau, major league base-ball's youngest manager, has placed himself in the ranks of those experts who believe a few rule changes would prove a boon to basketball. Although baseball has brought him his greatest fame, the Cleveland pi-lot speaks with authority concerning the court game. If your memory isn't too fleeting, you'll hark back to the time when Lou, now an assistant coach at Illinois, scored 157 points for Illinois in the 1936-'3- 7 season and helped pace the team to a Big Ten championship. Lou added bis bit to the increasing criticism of basketball rules by ad-vocating the return of the center jump. He told the Chicago Basket-ball Writers' association that bas-ketball rulemakers should "make the rules coincide with the increas-ing speed of the game." "When I was playing basketball, if a team took between .40 and 50 shots a game, it was considered good," said Boudreau. "Now teams take between 70 and 80 shots. The game is so fast that it makes it tough on players, coaches and of-ficials alike. They don't have time to gather their wits and collect themselves as they did in the days when the ball was being brought to the center for a jump." Boudreau knows both sides. An as-sistant coach at present, he played basketball under the old rules, par-ticularly In high school when he led Thornton, 111., to a state title in 1933 and finished second the next two years. Like quite a few other coaches and medical experts he is interest-ed in seeing high school basketball slowed down for the sake of the youngsters who must burn them-selves out trying to maintain the rapid pace. Many authorities fee:' that today's game is too fast for growing youngsters. 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Doon'J hav e " , .... new friends for more tnD r(,: ; They have a nation-'0- " Aro recommended by ''' "V . By VIRGINIA VALE Heleased by Western Newspaper Union. a great comfort, while watching Universal s ' "Phantom Lady," to reflect that, no matter how menac-ing the villain is, he simply must not be allowed to kill the heroine. The picture's a murder mystery that comes very close to being as good as the best oi the super-thriller- s. There are some strikingly beautiful photographic shots, many excellent performances. The cast is headed by Ella Raines and Franchot Tone; it includes Alan Curtis, Thomas Gomez, Andrew Tombs and Elisa Cook Jr. All members of the Thursday Bob Burns airshow will be busy movie-making for the next couple of months. The "Arkansas Traveler" will be performing in "Belle of the Yukon," with Dinah Shore and Gypsy Rose Lee; Spike Jones and his City Slickers in "Ziegfeld Fol-lies- .' Ella Raines was signed by Charles Boyer and Howard Hawks to a con-tract when neither had seen her act yet they made her sole asset of a producing company capitalized at $1,000,000! During her first year in pictures she made good with lead roles in four pictures for three dif- - ' - t ' : , J I X N x'st - i . - I ,: m I i i ELLA RAINES ferent companies. Now under con-tract to Universal, she's beautiful (brown hair, green eyes), talented (See "Corvette "Cry Havoc," "Phantom Lady"), and her name is really Ella Raines Trout; her hus-band is Capt. Kenneth Trout, who has the President's Citation, the Dis-tinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal. The crew of a U. S. submarine In the Pacific was the first audience to hear the musical numbers of Samuel Goldwyn's "Up in Arms"; advance copies of records of songs by Danny Kaye and Dinah Shore were present-ed to Lieut. Com. H. J. Kossler, USN, by RKO Radio. Mijrcy McGuire has been besieged by Sinatra fans by letter and in person who want to know how she. felt when she worked before the cameras with him. "They tell me I'm lucky," says she as if she hadn't known all along what a break it was for her. But where they saw it as a thrilling experience, she saw it as a big help in her career. And that recent personal appearance tour didn't hurt, either. Bud Abbot and Lou Costello can claim the title of "The World's High-est Priced Dishwashers" since their recent appearance at a bond rally at Victory House in Los Angeles. Made members of the Dishwashers' Union, they auctioned off their serv-ices. Ted Lewis bought them with $25,000 worth of bonds, invited 12 guests to dinner. The comedians demanded that he double his pur-chases before they tackled the job. "Wide Horizons," the new radio series on Mutual Sunday afternoons, is practically a must. Eddie Dowl-in-the is a star-mak- as well; he launched Bob Hope, Kate Smith and William Saroyan. His new discovery i Maria Mendoza. Three daughters of famous fathers are working at Warner Bros these days. Karen Hale, daughter of Alan makes her film debut in "Cinderella Jones," in which Walter Brennan's daughter Ruth also appears. Dolores Pnnz is in musical sequences of Jame" directed by her father. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra one of the world's greatest, will launch a series of five broadcasts over NBC 0n March 25. under baton of Desire Defauw. The s have been titled "The Fes- - -l- oriSw-r for this year's ACadfmCOinSiderati0-- ' " ver again f0TLAward' w Mah 20, leT. dio on sents the story on MilU thP original screen cast air witt Released by Western Newspaper Union. INTERESTING BACKGROUND OF PACIFIC ISLANDS SOME HALF DOZEN years ago, when in Honolulu, I learned of a res-ident Frenchman who owned a Pa-cific island lyine about 1,300 miles south of the city, a possible landing base for the Hawaiian-Ne- Zealand 'air line then being considered. The (Frenchman's home was but a short distance from my hotel and I called on him. He spoke no English and i could not understand his French, jnor he my English, so we enlisted the services of his Hawaiian wife 'as an interpreter. What he may i.ave said I do not know, as his ,wife refused to translate it on the grounds it was something he should not say. "Had he not talked too much, his deal would have been completed, the island sold, before the navy stopped him," she said. , I went to the navy to find out what it was all about. ; That island. Palmyra, 1,300 miles away, is within the city limits of Honolulu and the city had imposed a city tax which the French owner thought unreasonable. When his pro-tests were unavailing, he proposed to sell and a Jap had offered to buy. The Frenchman had been a South Sea island trader, operating a- - small fleet of trading boats, and had used the island as a rendezvous. It was but one of the thousands of uninhab-ited coral atolls of the Pacific. It was horse-sho- e shaped, with suffi-cient space and water inside the horse-sho- e to float a navy or provide an excellent landing place for sea-planes. The navy objected to the island passing into the hands of a Jap owner, and had prohibited the sale, but had induced the city to lower the tax assessment. Today Palmyra island and John-son island, some 400 miles to the west of Palmyra, are American air-fields playing a part in the battle of the Pacific. Had that Frenchman not talked too much both islands might have been Jap airfields. While in Honolulu, I watched the departure of a dozen native Hawai-ian boys as they sailed away for Johnson island on a school vaca-tion trip. Johnson island was then a land, no nation had claimed it It was but a dot on the broad Pacific, only some three miles in diameter, and at no point more than six or seven feet above sea level. Those boys claimed it as American territory, a part of the city of Honolulu. Midway island, 1,100 miles northwest of Honolulu, is also within the city limits. In area that city, lying far out in with its surrounding fortifi-cations representing the bastion that protects pur West coast, is several times larger than any other city in the world. PRIVILEGE OF SAYING 'YOU ARE FIRED' ONE REASON for our ever-i- n creasing multiplicity of government bureaus, administrations or depart-ments is said to be the President's dislike to fire any one. To avoid that he but creates, by executive decree, a new bureau and transfers to it the job the inefficient appointee failed at doing, leaving him on the pay-roll but without any real duties to perform. To me that unwillingness to fire is an appealing trait, even though it may be expensive for the government. Throughout a lifetime of acquaintances I have known only three people who courted the privi-lege of discharging employees. To those three the privilege of saying "you are fired" provided a thrill. All three of them were always very much afraid of being fired. Not that they feared losing a job, but they did not want the stigma of hav- - ing been discharged. All three were unhappy individuals with but few, if any, real friends, and they hated themselves. OTHERS MUST HELP FEED AND CLOTHE EUROPE WITHIN LESS than six months we spent more than 126 million dollars ' for food and clothing for the people of North Africa. Within the next six months it is expected we will have poured more than 500 million in food and clothing into Italy. Such items represent but a small start in the job that lies ahead. The people of Europe, friend or enemy, must be fed and clothed. It cannot be done in a strictly idealistic way. It is not a job for the welfare enthusiast who spends the other fellow's money. It is a job for practical, "hard-heade- d Individuals who realize we, alone, cannot save Europe at the expense of starving America. We can do a considerable portion of the job but there are others who must help or the American people will rebel. NO INDIVIDUAL, group, class or party in America has a monopoly on the desire and intention to win the war. Even the most rock-ribbe- d iso- -' lationist proposes to see that job to a finish. There might be an argu-ment as to the methods or cost of winning, or under what leadership, but there is no argument as to the intended result. THERE IS an always needed les-son that 10 million men in the armed services have learned. There must always be a boss. THE AMERICAN who does not want to make any needed sacrifice to further the war effort is the rare exception. What most of us gripe about is the way the irresponsible, arbitrary bureaucrat tells us, rather than asks us, to do things. We do not like to be treated as slaves. GOSSIP IS a d sword that can seriously injure both the gossip- - er and the gossipee. WE MISS many a ray of sunshine by looking only for the clouds. Ammonium Nitrate Will Boost Yield'of Hay Or Brings Pasture to Grazing Stage Earlier mal load, the nitrogen-treate- d will have exceeded grass it by 700 to 1 000 pounds of herbage containing 175 to 250 pounds of protein per acre fig ured on a dry basis. ' 3 The inclusion of 20 to 30 pounds of nitrogen with phosphorus or s and potash in a first treat men for general pasture improve ment, may be expected to increase the returns the first year by to Per cent instead of 25 per cent without nitrogen mmeral The use of nitrogen as a means of increasing vitally needed hay and pasture production to meet wartime feed requirements, was recommend-ed by Dr. D. H. Dodd of the Ohio State university. Summarizing the results of a se-ries of experiments, Dr. Dodd de-clared that: 1. Sixty pounds of nitrogen, equiv-alent to 175 pounds per acre of am-monium nitrate applied to a good sod of timothy or other hay-typ- e grass by April 1, will on the aver-age produce an extra ton of 6 to 9 protein hay if cut at the proper early stages. 2. A similar application of nitro-gen applied to a good grass pasture sod will bring the herbage to the grazing stage two to three weeks earlier than without the nitrogen. By the time untreated pasture is mak-ing sufficient growth to carry its nor- - More Nitrogen Is Available This Year So -5 and -4 Grades Are Recommended The hasthesTrri7Trr Plant food as the Ac" ' to Texas dmg Station Circular Nroal Tr "T pounds of the latter ?'. J 32 Texas in the 1941-4- 2 season the grade has But as 2 more plant food, 400 nound" 500 pounds of the 4 Thu 6qUal sents an repre" Of the fcrtiTOj1 ratio 1 sandy loamoTior an acre of or 2 . crops is recommended 6eId Each dollar spent for fertilizer has brought an average gross return in increased yields worth more than $3, says Dr. L. G. Jones of the Texas A. and M. college, depart-ment of agronomy. He bases this on information obtained by the American Fertilizer association, add-ing that this result was obtained through timely application of the three fertilizer elements, nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. For most humid areas nitrogen and phosphorus are the limiting fac-tors of plant growth. During 1943 most mixed fertilizers were limited to 3 per cent nitrogen. But since considerably more of that element will be available in 1944, the fertilizer used extensively the past season has been replaced with grades containing more nitrogen. The most popular of these grades are and |