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Show (Editor'! Note: This Is ether in the "Stories of States" series.) a lithe li-the By EDWARD EMERINE WNU Features There's no place like Missourias Mis-sourias any Missourian will tell you. Part northern, part southern, part eastern and part western, and wholly American, the "Show Me" state is a collection of individuals, indi-viduals, climates, soils, industries indus-tries and resources. "Build a fence around Missouri, cut it off from the rest of the world, and it will get alon all right," is a boast often heard. Missourians might be nearly riRht t that about their state being self-sustaining. Cut ofr from the rest of the world, they still could enjoy mountains, plains, rivers and lakes. They could eat beefsteak, lamb chops, ham and bacon, fresh fish, fried chicken, fruits, vegetables and bread, and still have plenty of whipped cream, pie, cake, sugar, potatoes Irish or sweet oatmeal, butter and eggs. Their shoes would be made in St. Louis, and they would have a choice of wool or cotton cot-ton clothing, straw or felt hats, light clothing or fur coats. Besides, they would have whisky, beer, wine, tobacco, to-bacco, corncob pipes and the Missouri Mis-souri mule. They might be short on gold and a few other luxuries, but they would have ceal, wood, lead, line, Iron, glass, clay, copper, nickel, nick-el, cobalt, steel, antimony, tungsten, arsenic and some oil and gas. Topography Is Diversified. Topographically, Missouri is more part of several other regions than region in itselt Northern Missouri Mis-souri is a continuation of the rich, rolling farm lands of Iowa. Western Missouri is a part of the great mld- TYPICAL FARM SCENE . . . Modem farms dot the rich and highly productive rolling acres of Missouri. Dere is shown the J. C. Penney farm near Hamilton. continental prairie. Southwestern Missouri is part of the Ozark plateau of Arkansas, and flat south-eastern south-eastern Missouri Is delta or bottom land characteristic of the lower Mississippi Mis-sissippi valley. The state's diversity is even pronounced in its people. The qoiet St. Louis business man Is unlike the go-getter from Kansas Kan-sas City. The farmer in northern north-ern Missouri speaks a different language than the delta agriculturist. agricul-turist. And the Osark people differ from all the rest. On one thing they all agree: Missouri is a great state! Missourians have a state pride as deep and fixed as any Texan's. There are no deserts, no barren peaks in Missouri. Corn grows tall. Mr SKwpj. LAND OF THE OZARKS . . . Sylvan scenes abound in the picturesque pic-turesque Oiark mountains. This Is a typical springfed stream in the mountain fairyland. Worthless Swamp Not many years ago much of the southeastern part of Missouri was a great wooded swamp. "Swamp-east" "Swamp-east" it was called. Today it resembles re-sembles Yazoo valley of Mississippi, with some of the richest soil in the world. First came the woodsmen who cut down the trees in the swampland. Next came a few settlers who were successful with diversified farming. In 1923 southern planters and share I I O "W V,rr ' .11. l. .. K l.'t.'',,.' 'ir V 3T A U K -A. woods are thick, fruits and berries abound, and beneath the soil's surface sur-face are rich stores of minerals. Ilgh In Industries. Although a rich agricultural state, Missouri has a two billion dollar manufacturing Industry even In normal nor-mal years. Meat packing at Kansas City and St. Joseph, boots and shoes at St. Louis, men's and women's clothing in all the large cities, tow bacco processing, airplane manufacture, manufac-ture, book and other printing, and Industries established to process the state's resources and raw products place Missouri among the ranking industrial states. Mining, lumbering, lumber-ing, cement making, com cob pipes '1 V and other products are Important industries. Both Kansas City and St. Louis rank high as wholesale distribution centers for the entire Mississippi-Missouri valley. Flour mills and cereal plants at St. Joseph Jo-seph had a tremendous war output. Missouri is one of the few middle states that yet markets ties, lumber, laths and shingles in large quantities, quanti-ties, supporting more than 300 commercial com-mercial sawmills. The state has the largest deposits of lead, zinc and coal in the Middle West. It also has valuable clays, building stone and sands. Missouri produces about 42 per cent of the annual production of baryte for the United States. With Its varied topography, Missouri Mis-souri has many scenic attractions. It has more than 240 recorded caves, many with several floors and some with underground streams. Besides its many natural lakes, it has Lake of the Ozarks which was created by the Bagnell dam across the Osage river, built in 1929. This lake is 129 miles long with 1.300 miles of shoreline. shore-line. Big Spring, with a measured daily flow of 640,000.000 gallons, is the largest In the world. All streams and lakes are stocked with Ash, and the hunting of quail, ducks and other birds is widespread. The forests and hills of the Ozark mountains moun-tains are nationally famous. Spanned by Railroads. Missouri is one of the leading railroad rail-road states of the nation, being served by 13 trunk line roads. Agricultural products of Missouri include two and one-half billion pounds of beef annually; one billion pounds of pork; four billion pounds of milk; one million pounds of chickens; chick-ens; besides eggs, sheep, cotton, wool, corn, wheat, tobacco, soy beans and other crops. From Its rich historical bark-ground, bark-ground, Missouri has emerged Converted into Productive Farm Land croppers, running away from the boll weevil, discovered the incredible richness of "Swanipeast," where in places the alluvial muck had been as much as 200 feet thick. More than two million acres of Swanipeast today are drained by great ditches. What was once worthless worth-less swamp land is now worth up to $1,000 an acre! It produces almost twice as much cotton to the acre as any other non-irrigated land A. I "X (JT.LOUIJ j . y. I CT. r A M S A. as a friend!?, hospitable state, a little more southern than northern north-ern In accent, a little more western west-ern than eastern in its ways. LaSalle's explorations in 1682 located lo-cated what is now Missouri as a part of the vast Louisiana purchase. It was relinquished to Spain in 1762, returned to France in 1800 and purchased pur-chased by the United States In 1803. During the Civil war, Missouri, although al-though a slave state, furnished 108,. 773 troops to the Union and more than 50.000 to the Confederate army. Many Historic Sites. The state has many sites of historic his-toric and prehistoric interest At many places are traces of Indian villages and camp sites. Indian mounds and earthworks are numerous. numer-ous. The old home of U. S. Grant, built by the general himself, still stands outside the city limits of St. Louis. The boyhood home of Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) is preserved pre-served at Hannibal, and statues of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn have been erected. Missouri is known as "The Mother of the West." Inspired by reports of the Lewis and Clark expedition, a St Louis Spaniard named Manuel Lisa in 1809 organized the first of the fur-trading companies. Jim Bridger, first white man to see the Salt Lake valley, was a Missouri fur trader. The Oregon Trail led from Missouri to the Pacific coast, and Independence, St Joseph and other western Missouri towns outfitted out-fitted the men who conquered the West. Eastern terminus of the Pony Express was at St. Joseph, and the Santa Fe Trail was blazed from New Franklin to the Southwest with the Santa Fe railroad to follow later. It was the "Missouri Compromise" act of congress that brought Missouri Mis-souri into the union as a state in 1821. Born In turmoil, It has endured all the hardships of pioneering, insurrection, insur-rection, reconstruction and modern competition. Perhaps through the trials of generations its people have learned that a "show me" attitude is far safer than naive acceptance of things at face value! LOY AL SON . . . Fhll M. Donnelly, governor of Missouri, Is a loyal son who "never bothered" to leave his native state. Born at Lebanon, Mo., March 6, 1891, Donnelly attended attend-ed Missouri schools, practiced law In his native state, served as county and city attorney, and spent 20 years in the state legislature before being elected governor for a four-year term in 1944. He Is married and has one son. known. Today it has 400,000 acres in cotton, which, although only two i per cent of Missouri's farm land, i makes cotton the state's leading j cash crop. One of the largest developments, i consisting of more than 1,000 miles j of ditches which drain 530.000 i acres, is the Little River drainage ' district built by private enterprise without a penny of federal or state money. i v - J 1 k H,..!. !. l I II 'l ' ,1, 111! ,,111 lll.lll .1 1 1 Put in New Claim for. Merits Of Rammed Earth Buildings By BAUKHAGE Newt Analyst and Commentator. WNU News Service, 1G16 Eye Street N. W., Washington, I. C. WASHINGTON.-Is there a solution solu-tion of the low-cost housing problem as simple as the dirt under our p feet? Have we , been overlooking t a bet. which I P their eyea since? Anthony F. Merrill says so and so does a Baukhage convincing job of proving the contention m nis book "The Rammed Earth House," which I have just read. It seems Incredible! Incredi-ble! It didn't seem Incredible to Pliny who heatedly proclaimed that the Romans had, in AfricL and Spain, "walls of earth." They are "moulded rather than built," Pliny explains, "by enclosing enclos-ing earth within a frame of boards, constructed on either side. These walls will last for centuries, are proof against rain, wind and fire, and are superior in solidity to any cement. ce-ment. Even at this day (more than a century after Hannibal) Spain still holds watch-towers that were erected erect-ed by Hannibal." The idea of houses of earth is not Incredible to Clinton P. Anderson, Ik - ; Pliny said the . f Xt I Romans were ."t'wM the first century I j A. D. and to L f which most peo- f 1 f iehave shut "1 L 1 ever fc f Tf- ' " 1 St. i IF f ' 1 i nrrt. The old And new in rammed earth houses. Top panel shows modern mod-ern structure at Claremont, Calif. Bottom shows church at Sumter, 8. C, which has stood through more than a century and weathered several hurricanes and an earthquake. secretary of agriculture, who has written the preface to the book. "If Tony Merrill and his rammed-earth rammed-earth builders want either my blessing bless-ing or my cooperation," says the secretary, "they may be assured of them both." Rammed-earth, according to Merrill, Mer-rill, is a term describing "both the material and the process of wall building by which earth is tamped into the shape of a wall or building block. In essence, a compressed block or section of earth will, when tamped, assume the shape of the form Into which it is pressed and, when the moisture dries out harden into a permanent shape suitable for use as a building material." The reasons set forth by Merrill as to why, if this method of building Is so good it has not been widely adopted, are logical: One there's no money In it, except the money saved by the builder. Two contrary con-trary to the impression among sellers sell-ers of building materials, Merrill Insists In-sists it would help rather than hurt their business. The man who builds a rammed-earth house can't afford any other kind. And he has to buy everything floor, roofing, plumbing everything in fact except the walls, which sre free except for the cost of the forms and the tamping. Merrill's thesis is that anyone willing to acquire the rudimentary knowledge of building, can build a rammed-earth house himself with three bedrooms, spacious living, dining and cooking facilities and all plumbing and heating equipment for less than $5,000. He can outli as BARBS Apples are better than brushes for cleaning teeth, says the Farm Journal. Jour-nal. Now you're going to make the dentist anti-apple, too. Ten thousand lives are sacrificed annually because of inability to see accurately in night traffic. But inability in-ability to see some things that happen hap-pen can be a blessing. good or better a dwelling than most of the so-called defense homes, so widely used during the war. for $3,000. And there are already modest mod-est cottages in a number of places which cost little more than a thousand thou-sand dollars for two members of a family to build, Solons Have Good Laugh on Selves When Bob Hope or Henry Morgan or even Senator Claghorn pokei fun at congressmen, that's supposed to be humorous. It's always open season on politicians in this country where people riddle their public officials of-ficials with gagi instead of guns. But it is not generally realized that legislators like to laugh, too even when the laugh's on them. And at least one of tnem enjoys congressional congres-sional jokes so much he's written a 350-page book about them. Compiling the congressional Joe Miller may seem a far cry from steering policies of the senate judiciary judi-ciary committee, but Senator Wiley has been working on the humorous project since 1939 when he first was elected to the United States senate. Last year he got around to sending send-ing a letter to all his colleagues in the house and senate, asking them their favorite jokes. He was deluged del-uged with stories good, bad and corny; and most of them jokes on or about congress and congressmen. All of which Inspired the title of his book, "The Laugh's With Congress." Con-gress." Under the title "The Women God Bless m," he relates how In the Tynan1 1 3 1 tMiiF ; closing and very literally hot sessions ses-sions of the 79th congress, the then Sergeant-at-Arms Wall Doxey ruled twice within three weeks that, although al-though women in slacks could be permitted In senate galleries, women wom-en in shorts would be inimical to the dignity of the senate and were to be barred from the gallery. All of which moved Sen. Richard Russell of Georgia to remark: "In hot weather, I am sometimes envious that I cannot wear shorts myself. Mr. Doxey Is supposed to be an authority on what creates confusion con-fusion in the senate, but personally, I have no objection to shorts." (If this had been printed in the record there would have been "laughter" after that one.) Another story claimed as the favorite fa-vorite of former Sen. Guy Gillette of Iowa and Arkansas' young Sen. William Fulbright is a true one. As Senator Gillette tells it, his colored maid had noticed that the senator, then a representative, had his picture pic-ture In the paper. Underneath was a caption to the effect that he might be nominated for the upper chamber. cham-ber. "Is a senatuh higher than a representative?" the maid wanted to know. "Yes." Gillette told her, "they are so considered because a senator represents an entire state and a representative represents a district of a state." The maid's next question was: "Well, is there anything lower than a congressman?" congress-man?" Gillette is said to have been forced to imply that there was Indeed In-deed nothing lower than a congressman! congress-man! by Baukhage They now have a combination skl-blke. skl-blke. It has a speed of 70 miles per hour but it won't work uphill. I understand from Radio Dally (which I read hopefully for a notice no-tice of my favorite commentator) dance bands are folding up like accordions. ac-cordions. But you can't take the groan out of groaner. J 1 a IPS! " X7HEN billions, not mere mil- lions, begin to pour into sport you have a sure sign that the dan ger spot is ahead. Record-breaking crowds in college football have been a big factor in college professionalism, profession-alism, which has reached an all-time all-time high. The tidal wave of gold, coming with a record boom also has broken all betting marks in both college and professional sport. The wonder i i that more scandals haven't crashed the headlines. This will happen unless sport in general gets stronger guardianship guard-ianship than it has drawn to date with harsher penal-tics penal-tics attached. Just as pro football foot-ball was coming to the finish of one of its greatest years, the Giant scandal developed and mem .- t J'V .- i m,mm bers of the Cleve- GranllandRice land Browns, facing fac-ing a championship play-off. got Involved In-volved in a drunken brawl with police. po-lice. In both New York and Cleveland, Cleve-land, police were kept busy with pro football players for various reasons. Merel Hapes was barred from the Giant-Bear game and Capt. Jim Daniels of the Browns was barred from the Brown-Yankee contest in Cleveland. Rumors are not always true but they at least demand closer watching watch-ing than many of them have drawn. In the reign of Judge Kencsaw Mountain Landis, I happen to know that the old Judge was not only respected re-spected but also actually feared by anyone even lightly involved. I don't think anyone in sport today is afraid in any way of anyone directing sport. Too Much Temptation The Judge suspended Buck Weaver Weav-er for life because Weaver, who hadn't taken a dime, had failed to report the conspiracy. I've had more than a few ball players ask me not to print the fact that I met them at some race track. They were afraid the judge might hear about it. Any ball player caught playing around with a bookmaker or any type of gambler would have been up before the judge for rugged punishment pun-ishment in a rush. Sport, financially, has gotten toe big. Too much money is involved. Discipline has gone haywire. There has been too much temptation for the weak to resist, knowing the golden gold-en doubloons that are rolling around. Too many, high in sport, have been asleep too long. The receipts have been too good. The dream has been too pleasant. They have re. fused to heed "the rumble of a distant dis-tant drum." The great majority of athletes are honest. Yet too many are undisciplined undis-ciplined and too many out of condition. condi-tion. We have no sympathy for grown athletes who say they have been tricked or fooled by gamblers. gam-blers. Any athlete, who after the first suggestion of a crooked proposition doesn't go directly to his coach, has no place in any game. It may come to the point that any athlete under any form of suspicion may have to be watched. Certainly any jockey, football, baseball or basketball player, play-er, to mention only a few entries, seen in company with any gambler needs watching. Only a Few Crooks As some philosopher once said "Rubes can think up more crooked things than crooks can invent." In my opinion the great bulk ol sport is clean. But among so many involved, there are sure to be a few who are cither crooked or weak. And it takes only a few of these to upset the works. This is why the game today, college and pro, needs eternal vigilance and harsher penalties. pen-alties. The average person you meet will tell you that college football players play-ers should be paid, considering the big money college athletic assocL atlons take in. This may be O. K. but don't call them amateurs. Foi they are not. They are only fake professionals. I recall some years ago running across Dizzy Dean when Ole Diz looked worried. "I've just been called before Judge Landis," he said. "I haven't been doin' anything, But I'm still skeered." That's the type of rulership sporl needs today an iron hand plus ev ery known way of finding out what ii going on. To take anything foi granted is the surest way of wading wad-ing into heavy trouble. The Babe Still Tops When Babe Ruth entered a New York hospital some time ago, ac entire nation was shocked to heal that he was seriously ill. News ol ! his recovery has lifted the pall. 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