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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER Seme Scoff "S i Mesa of FJeiv BsrouSh , a Making Over Old or Sewing New Curtains Housing Bill Suffers Rough Going in Congress There wont TOPEKA, KANS. "dust be a repetition of the 1934-3bowl" in Kansas, Texas and Oklahoma. At least thats what a lot of people out here say as they scoff Taft Breaks With Conservatives in Backing at the U. S. department of agricuAdministration Measure; Long-Ranltures report that another drouth is developing. Building Policy Asked. 'A "Of course, if it doesnt rain for four years, itll go blowing again, Eck Brown, banker and rancher of ' .ja....o-.miu ... By BAUKIIAGE Dalhart, Tex., admitted: "but the News Analyst and Commentator. In 1936 there were desolated homes such as KANSAS SAHARA soil is tied down now. this around Liberal, Kansas. Pasture lands were ruined and grasshopThe agriculture departments pes- WNU Service, 1616 Eye street, N.W., United States was ready to carry not a green out its international obligations and pers aided drouth in destruction of crops. In Washington, D. C. simistic prediction prodded a sore thing was in sight. use force to check aggression, the D. is C. the memories of Sooners in It WASHINGTON, spot fully and Jayhawkers alike. Farmers expected that what is left of the following sentence has been before the American people, plan for settling Americas number me: one problem the problem of find- now in the height of their might and ing a home will be cut up by con- majesty, are no longer a sovereign gress and pasted together In some nation. That sentence is from Nathaniel new, strange shape by now. If it is still in the works when you read Peffers book, Americas Place in these lines there is a possibility that the World which the Saturday Rewhat finally emerges from the hop- view of Literature calls a "stubborn(A WNU News Feature) I per will be more what the patient ly and trenchant discussion. planners wanted and less like agree with that description of the THE dust bowls rich land, after several good years, is what the various pressure groups book and believe that what Peffer dry enough in some spots to take wings again. But whether wanted. says is true and that it i,s vital for it will or will not is the question. Millions of people The interesting thing to me about Americans to understand why it is ! OKLA. would like to know the answer before the soil starts moving. the debate on this measure in the true. Peffer says that we have lost our So far, there has been a little beginning was this: although the administration features of the bill went independence and our autonomy "in blow" out in western Kansas and some places in Texas, Oklahoma squarely against the conservative that which matters most in the life Oklahoma and its dry too. But no and Kansas, a black market in TEXAS grain of our conservatively in- of the nation peace or war. And one who went through the black wheat has sprung up. Latest figgrained congresses, it had one then he shows with his stubborn blizzards of a decade ago would ures show visible U. S. wheat to DWINDLED . . . The old dust-bochampion who usually sits as far realism how this has come about, compare this years storms with half, compared to a year ago. Millof the 30s gradually dwin away as he can possibly edge from how in the beginning (before 1776) those years. ers are paying all the traffic will America had no control over its more. was it no died until There anything of even a pale pink hue. bear to "Another dust bowl may develop, keep their mills going. own destiny because it was so ReI to refer Sen. of been the Robert has rain last Taft, plenty but conditions would have to grow Newspaper editors in the wheat-land- s few years. publican of Ohio. What Mr. Taft weak, now because it is so strong. who make it their business to a lot worse than they are now beAnd he shows clearly and consays never falls on deaf ears in the know fore I would climb out on a limb crop prospects, have made senate even ears the that, no matter how vincingly if are hold to title to doubting one their own surveys. To a man they were fighting then with any such prediction, anxious we may be to stay out of Kansas official has stated after snow say "not yet" to the governments their land in the depths of a depres- ones and sprout from the heads of those cruelly affronted members foreign broils, any major war In Euand rain fell. prediction. It is going to take a lot sion, prices were low, and dry, pow' once referred to as "the sons of wild rope or Asia will eventually involve The winter has been a dry one in more dust and dry weather to scare dery dust was piled in fence rows the United States. Our sincere but Vox Taft to the conservjackasses. snow The drifts. winds like some vagrant of those grizzled old farmers all the old dust bowl states. Wheat futile dream of splenis ative his VOX. masters romantically were the real farmers made little growth in some areas. who weathered the worst nature estate "swapping The two key features to the ad- did isolation is forever broken. like careless horse traders to had offer 30s. in the And the U. S. department of agriministration bill were the subsidy Where does the dust come from? The people out in this part culture has reported that a new dust which would grease the way for Must Lose Life That is like Gus the nation the dont editors: easy, say "gloomy to in the be forming bowl appeared To Gain It "Oklahomans say it comes from predictions. Theyve seen drouth, quick construction of the lower-price- d "redlands" district of Kansas and of and the type homes, Many thinkers have pondered price Kansas; Jayhawkers say the dust grasshoppers, blizzards, and other Oklahoma. which would make it cheaper over this question. In tracing Ameceiling in but to Oklahoma. plague originates plagues, theyve managed Some wheat damage has been rell for ricas international affairs, this auThe rivers arent very low yet, come through them all. A little to live in a house than thoritative and provocative writer That owner ported at Pratt and Liberal, Kans., either, one Kansas citizen the is, profit. present doesnt scare them, and of a reported. "Duster but recently snows and rains have house could sell his property traces our course through the great too 15 a comes to wet little minutes rain "Theyre plow always just for any price he could get without crises whose milestones are marked improved the wheat lands west of and a little too muddy to drink. before its too late! Hutchinson. At Amarillo, Tex., Gene restriction, but owner number two with the dates 1776, 1787, 1861 and Howe, newspaper publisher, is op would have to ll it for what he 1941. 1917 was the warning that was v .wvny.wyv .w 'swjiWM,vvtw timistic, pointing out that conpaid (plus, of course, reasonable not heeded. We were drawn into ditions are not yet critical, and cost for Improvements). war then, not of our own making, These two conditions may have but we did nothing to shape world spring snows and rains may end the threat of a drouth, been good or bad. Whether they affairs which followed and which, Both farmers and the government were or not they were opposed for inexorably, drew us for the second combatted the tendency to plow up two main reasons: first, because time into a world conflict in which we had no direct concern. grasslands for planting during they were considered "government World War II, as was done in World interference" and therefore radical, It may seem a far cry from dipm War I. The land is tied down better and second, because powerful lob- lomatic intrigue and the vicissitudes u $ fI this time. Farmers have learned to bies, the profits of whose principals of human hatreds, organized murwould have been curtailed, put all der and lust, to the world of the plow and cultivate so as to leave more stubble on top to hold the the pressure they could on congress. spirit but I could not help thinking soil. In spite of the feeling that the as I considered the efforts I witIn some places in the old dust spirit of the housing bills was "lib- nessed at Nuernberg of a certain bowl there has been little or no eral, if you prefer that word to text in the Bible; the words of Jesus moisture all winter, and undoubted"leftish" or "New Dealish, Senator as recorded in the gospel of St. Mark (XVIII:35), "For whosoever Taft supported It. He had made ly wheat is in bad shape. Whether BACK IN 1935 . . . Sand storms worked havoc in Oklahoma and or not it will survive much longer careful study of housing and come shall save his life shall lose it; but other plains states. The above picture was taken in Western Oklahoma no one knows. Perhaps the fate of and shows drifts of sand around to the mature conclusion that the whosoever shall lose his life for my buildings on an abandoned farm. administration idea, as embraced in sake and the gospels, the same shall many fields hangs in the balance, and not until late spring will the the bills introduced by Senator Wag- save it. verdict be known. ner in the senate and RepresentaI am well aware of the fact that Even experts in the winter wheat tive Patman in the house, was as the devil may quote the Scriptures belt differ widely in their opinions. nearly the right sort of legislation with the best of us but I do not Some say the wheat is already as could be obtained. The CIO took think one has to be charged with the same view. gone; others hold out for an 80 per Mephistophelian tactics when he cent yield. Still others think that Now when viewpoints as different traces a parallel between the loss of our nations sovereignty in the sense rain any time within a month or as these two arrive at agreement, In 1945, sent delegations varying in number the WASHINGTON, D. C. six weeks will give the fields new citizen is inclined to which Mr. Peffer expounds it and simple more than 170 engineers represent- from one to nine. life. think that their joint approval is the loss of our spiritual life in the Through unified development of pretty sound sponsorship. Wheat supplies are lower than for ing 30 foreign countries visited the New Testament sense. It is needless to iterate here that many years. Some of the mills are United States for the purpose of such famous river valleys as the TiLabor Wants the principles upon which this naworking only five days a week. In studying reclamation and irrigation Ghanges, Yangtse, Euphrates, gris and Irrawaddy, it will be pos- Planned Action tion was founded derive directly projects, and they are now returnsible for surrounding areas to be The CIO has printed a very busi- from the Christian philosophy. Howto ing their native soil to begin work irrigated, and for the owner-nation- s nesslike booklet on the subject in ever, we have never fully lived up on similar works in their own counto establish hydro-electri- c power which we are reminded that we to that philosophy since we still feel tries. production, flood control, municipal have always had a housing short- It necessary to indulge in that highthe list is China, with 66 water supplies and improved naviHeading age because our cities just grew like ly unchristian procedure which I 6 9 engineers, while India follows with gation. In many cases the United Topsy, that the shortage is steadily once heard the late Lloyd George 24, Australia with 11, and other naStates will send its own engineers as "organized savagery growing and that estimates show tions famous for deserts Iran, abroad to assist these areas, in- that by the end of this year almost war. War has always been justified The dry cycle Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan have terior officials said. PRATT, KANS. three and a half million families will as a measure of defense defense as Reece Fred is here again just be homeless unless they are taken of our citizens, our territory, our predicted 11 years ago in an artiin by relatives or double up with sovereignty. cle in the Pratt Daily Tribune. others as the President suggested We have now lost our sovereignty Recently Fred dug out the old will have to do meanwhile. in that we must be willing to die to they article he had written in 1934 under The reason that we always had a save it Let me replace the word the title, Sun Spots. And then he housing shortage, according to the "life with the word "sovereignty" worn-ou- t The of notion aculous. Five will giving steps simple sat down and wrote another one, is because we never had a in the rest of the Biblical text, CIO, worn-oufora land cure farm rest has the t transform pasaverage in which he stated: housing policy. We have a public which would then read: Whosoever "In my 1934 article I noted that tunately just about passed, says J. ture into a productive acreage in school educational policy; a police (and that means a nation as well C. of one at two The Hackleman, or, crops professor most, years. observations over almost a century protection policy; a war and navy as a person) shall lose his sovereignIllisteps are to test the soil and treat showed these increased sun spot extension at the University of As a result, we have a ty for my sake and the gospels, the it with needed minerals, disc these policy. outbreaks occurred at fairly regu- nois college of agriculture. "Calcium leaches out of the soil, minerals thoroughly while prepar- pretty good school system, our police same shall save it Until America lar intervals of about 1U4 years. Nogive us reasonable protection to and all the nations are willing to body knew why or if that rate would and every ton of beef, pork or ing a reasonably good seedbed, re- life and property; we have never sacrifice their sovereignty to a highon mutton a milk these seed with or mixture of and on the theory that continue. But produced legumes tost a war nor suffered invasion. er, world organization, whose tenets grasses, control grazing for at least But we cant have roofs over our are it might continue, I ventured that pastures removes nitrogen, phose with the gospels in 1946 might find us in the midst of phorus, potassium and calcium or a year and clip weeds, giving the heads. we can never war, proscripting as as a lime and does a chance. another series of dry years. That grasses crop legumes just surely That is what the current bousing hope to win back a sovereignty in Because of. an increase of cultiyear is here; the sun tornadoes are of corn, oats, wheat or hay, legislation is supposed to provide. accord with the Christian principles here, perhaps a bit late but they Hackleman says. "In addition, as vated acreages during the war, a One more factor may be injected which are the foundation of our nastarted their upsurge more than a these permanent pastures become greater acreage is now really Into this controversy which could aftion. less less for Last before the than wheat ago. legumes productive they ready provide year crop years fect it materially: the veteran, chief A loss is and result more the Hackleman was not much affected, probably becover, war, says. majority sufferer from homelessness, is as yet A former American military govcause we have learned to conserve through erosion, until on rolling pas- of the fields limed in recent years Once organized, he ernment man says our state departunorganized. moisture. This years crop hangs in tures the present crop is largely have not yet grown a legume, he could the other pressure ment and Britain and France are the balance between good subsoil weeds or unpalatable weed believes. groups. keeping Russia from searching Nazi moisture and a hot, dry, blowing grasses. Rock phosphate which was used assets in foreign countries. It seems But these worn pastures are not to the full extent of its availability surface. Maybe the memories of Since I heard forthright speeches strange that if Russia has been r the dust bowl days of the 30s will hopeless, according to the crop spe- during the last years will also of Senator Vandenberg and Secre- slighted in any way we havent enable you to guess the next two or cialist, and the response of most show up in improved alfilfa and tary of State Byrnes which sounded heard about it in a loud voice before of them to treatment is almost mir three. clover production. a sharp warning to Russia that the now. 8 ge .'-- ... mid-summ- er "... Many Sections Fearful Of New Dust Bowl in 46 64-dol- k. re-se- shrunken? your curtains ARE heart . . . heres not one but six ways of making them over or of sewing new ones with little fabric. The budgetll balance If you reuse old You'll be delighted at their curtains. Instructions 829 has direcsmartness. tions for 6 curtains. 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UM OMIT OltICTI four-squar- 53,000 New Farms Planned for Missouri Basin WASHINGTON, L. Ickes, former D. C. - Harold secretary of inte- rior, estimated just before resigning his office that more than 400 irrigation and multiple purpose projects are needed in the United States. About 100 of these have been authorized and some of them are already in operation. By building 415 irrigation and multiple - purpose projects, almost 200,000 new farms would be made available for settlement of veterans and others, reclamation experts claim. The same reservoirs, impounding storage for irrigation, would make possible the generation c of great blocks of energy to be used for pumping irrigation water, serving rural electrification needs and stimulating food processing, mineral and related industries. Construction of reclamation proj hydro-electri- ects would increase employment opportunities on a nationwide basis, they say. Much of the material for building dams, power plants and canals comes from the 31 states outreside of the arid and serai-ari- d gions of the west. Approximately 53,000 new irrigated farms could be created in the Missouri fiasin, and the population would vastly increase, if proposed reclamation projects embracof the U. S. are ing nearly carried out, Mr. Ickes declared. one-sixt- h BARBS . . . by The term "collective bargaining was first used in London in 1891 by Beatrice Webb and was promptly popularized in this country by Samuel Gompers of the AFL, says a 20th Century fund survey. Plastics from bituminous coal are now being made into linoleum for floor coverings. Wonder if theyll be in "striking" designs. WirailM TO GET MORE If your blood LACKS IRON! You girls and women who suffer so from simple anemia that you're pale, weak, dragged out this may be due to lack Lydla E' Plnkham's ?im?irai1,neSo trythe home ways to build up red blood best In such cases. 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