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Show THE TIMES-NEW- Thursday, May 7, 1936 NEPIII. UTAH S. - , n Flood Prevention i of Checking Soil Erosion WORLD'S BEST COMICS I Ruin Is Ahead Unless Some Action Is Taken, Expert Says. Lighter Side of Life as Depicted by Famous Cartoonists and Humorists ) Overdue THE FEATHERHEADS II r1 x you mavf A CLEM COLLAR, of no- Ml MAlf? r. k WJ V2fu-- vM&' PES qdurse i weep A r.. n I f T ISSsaS sSL JL ,J r- -, Is Matter Such disastrous floods as ttmse of recent weeks ran be prevented only by ast undertakings to prevent- - soli erosion, according to covernment ex perts. They attribute these flondg to de nuding the soli of the vegetation that receives and holds water In the soli and holds the top soli in place. The water from rains and melting snow now rushes over the bare soil without sinking In and carries the top soil away, to boot. Thus our fertile soil Is steadily being washed Into the sea, and life and property are more and more Im periled by floods. Example of a country that did not perceive the same danger now confronting us Is China. denuded of trees and other natural vegetation hundreds of years ago and now the perennial victim of the most disastrous floods since the time of the sos without benefit to us and carries with It valuable top soil. The nation's only real flood safety, according to 11. II. Bennett, chief of the soli conservation service, lies in a nation-widprogram of crop adup-tatlon, rotation, and reforestation calculated to hold American top soil. particularly that of hilly and mountainous regions, where It belongs, and to give It the utmost degree of porosity so that heavy rains will have a fair chance to drain off e K8 Aound itie House AW m cloth dipped In vinegar and rubbed over the kitchen stove before It Is blacked will remove all the grease that may have accumulated on It. A To keep celery crisp thoroughly wash It and cut for serving. Place Millions Spent. It In a cheese-clotbag and store It We hare spent hundreds of mil In a cold place. lions of dollars In attempts to con trol floods once they develop, but we Flannels and blankets will keep scarcely have begun to attack the soft and white and will not shrink If problem at the source the preven washed with a tablespoon of am tion of floods. monia In the water. Under a new government subsidy much may be done to restore the Paste an envelope on the Inside fertility of soil and something may cover of your cook book to hold be done to halt the wind erosion of recipes you have clipped and want to the soil that produces the great dust save. storms of the last few years. But virtually nothing will be done toward of onion Juice One permanent reclothing of the soil with added toteaspoonful each quart of potatoes gives the verdure necessary to the absorpthem a different flavor. tion of flood waters at the source. Bell Syndicate. WXU Servlc. Morris L. Cooke, engineer and ad ministrator of rural electrification, has been preaching for years the ruin that awaits us unless we mend FOR THOSE WHO our ways. TA'KE IN Soil Erosion Damage. "We must attack the problem of soil erosion control as we would an armed foe about to defeat us." said Mr. Cooke. "Let things go on as they Here's a baking powder, now are going and In 50 years we tested and used exclutried, will have a total area of really fer tile land not much more than three sively by experts. times the size of Nebraska. We are likely to go the way of Asia Minor and Tibet unless we sense our dan gerous situation and act promptly." This Is no fanciful picture, accord' lng to Mr. Cooke. A single dust storm, he says, has swept away as much as 300,000,000 tons of fertile top soil from the wheat belt; the Mississippi liver carries 400.000,000 tons of top Your Grocer soil to the Gulf of Mexico every year; more than 100,0000,000 acres already have been destroyed as crop bearing soil, while another 125,000,- 000 acres have been seriously im paired for crop bearing and an addi tional 100,000,000 acres are seriously threatened. The total annual damage amounts to $400,000,000. "We unwittingly have broken the balance of nature's forces," says Mr. Cooke, "by clearing too much of our forests, turning under too much of our sod, and grazing too much of the remainder in such manner as to de W 1933 We have WMU stroy the grass roots. planted tile, dug ditches and straight ened and cleared creeks and rivers PLATES REPAIRED to hasten run-ofMade to look like new Consequently less $3.00 plus postage rain and snow penetrates Into under PLATE I.AB. 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JACOBSSON Hanging a Chandelier ADAMSON'S ADVENTURES The FIRST QUART" Tells the Story Out of the experience of thousands of motor- ists has been developed a simple method of the "First comparing oil performance Quart" Test. It is just a matter of noting how many miles you go after a drain-anrefill before you have to add a quart. If you are obliged to add oil too frequently, try the "First Quart" Test with Quaker State. See if you don't go farther before you have to add first quart. And, the oil that that tell-tastands up best between refills is giving your motor the talent lubrication. Quaker State Oil Refining Company, Oil City. Pa. Retail Price . . . 35 per Quart ... d- (SltS6.br Consolidated NO SUCH COURAGE A Just Toned Them Aside Oliver was careless about his personal effects. When mother saw clothing scattered about oa chair and floor she Inquired: "Who didn't hang up his clothes when be went to bed?" A mufTled voice from under tha blankets murmured, "Adam," By GLUYAS WILLIAMS TAPS wrigu.y a t enjoy WHILE, vou t 'YZh i WORK. SJ ffcMER HiCKS MIM IWEOtKfEW DP. CAUS'PMW COWDHT ASKS f& PERFECT ESfS tmii it'lffr I I y A CI 4 H Gt2tL Jj ;r gTWXlj alb much. What's the matter nowl Well, every time I get some young man Interested In me he grows serious and asks me If Mother Daughter PEQOESt BEfOSED fWtR HIH WHILE EMUER V UP A6AIH, TRIES gtlUE5-fOttTo 6EfHIM0fEa ft S10RV ttf-J- FATHER DEPART . CAL15 OM Ik PRINK OF WtfER? ME HAVE ft S'6H6. 6f Of WB HM fAiwra Tuck him op agni THINK EaX take after you. 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