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Show Some Scoii I At Idea of New Drouth TOPEKA, KANS. - There won't be a repetition of the 1934-38 "dust bowl" in Kansas, Texas and Oklahoma. Okla-homa. At least that's what a lot of people out here say as they scoff at the U. S. department of agriculture's agricul-ture's report that another drouth is developing. "Of course, If it doesn't rain for four years, it'll go blowing again," Eck Brown, banker and rancher of Dalhart, Tex., admitted: "but the soil is tied down now." The agriculture department's pessimistic pes-simistic prediction prodded a sore spot in the memories of Sooners and Jayhawkers alike. Farmers i . i j I jOKLA. i c i 5,1 j TEXAS DWINDLED . . . The old dust-bowl dust-bowl of the '30s gradually dwindled dwin-dled until It was no more. There has been plenty of rain the last few years. were fighting then to hold title to their land in the depths of a depression, depres-sion, prices were low, and dry, powdery pow-dery dust was piled in fence rows like snow drifts. The vagrant winds were "swapping" the farmers' real estate like careless horse traders. The people out in this part of the nation don't like "gloomy Gus" predictions. They've seen drouth, grasshoppers, blizzards, and other plagues, but they've managed to come through them all. A little "Duster" doesn't scare them, and rain always comes just 15 minutes before it's too late! |
