Show TOE SALT 12 LAKE TRIBUNE SUNDAY MORNING JUNE J 1937 EVOLUTION OF A BUySTBOWL "DESCRIBEE Thti flvt plrtaret tel! grtphlrtlfy the tory tf a man's heedleaa emanrulation soil ol Boota are essential to bold the soil in (Hare ' Wh yen torn the foil yon dratroy lii Arm any rotate yonr crop nd re if Bri toil ? Tltalico nsed by turning It Into pasturo land Some Savants Say That Erosion Recurs in Cycles and Is Not Due to V Man’s Exploitation of the Soil e skunk odor to be for warning coal miners and other underground workers in case Of4 fire is taking the fclace of the alarm bell It is a very powerful odor and goes under the scientific name of butyl mercaptan As oon as it is released in an underground working all employes stop work Instantly and leave by the nearest exit Details of a newly developed drill capable of boring a hole In the earth five feet in diameter and 115 feet A Used ' a tube In the laboratory the odors are measured to determine the amount of' extra fresh air necessary to make any bad smell imperceptible As a result of these tests a filter using activated1 carbon has been put in use in tha equipment Television stands ready (o make its bow to the public It will not take the place of radio the motion picture the It is a new Stage or anything else form of entertainment People will still go to motion picture shoys they will still listen to radio broadcasts but in addition to all this they' will have the opportunity to both see and hear events in ' their homes which until now they could1 only hear factory-mad- of a mile) deep (almost comes from the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers The drill works on the principle — eooky —cutter — of — the — level Is reached a When the 1125-fochamber can be hollowed out and ths operations repeated for another J125 feet and so on Just about this time SI years ago dynamite was ’discovered quite by accident and as a result of an unanticipated explosion in the laboratory of Ascanio Sobrero an Italian scientist He had been pouring some glycerin drop by drop Into a mixture of nitric and sulphuric acid When some of this product was poured into water oily drops collected on the surface Sobrero scooped out one of the drops and tried to evaporate it over a spirit lamp A terrific explosion followed but that marked the discovery of nitroglycerin and the beginning of the manufacture of dynamite In an endeavor to improve methods in railroad sleeping cars stale odors mustiness and other Impurities In ths air are now being er -- more In the way of actors writers costumes - scenery' than any other known field of entertainment Rehearsals will have to be more thorough than for radio since' actors cannot read scripts if they are seen All in all a tremendous new industry will grow up with television For a long time television will be limited in Its coverage and it will be available only In large cities and centers of population This cannot be otherwise Once television is offered to the public Its ’future will be In the hands of the piople if they want television It Is reasonable to assume that stations will be built to accommodate them When television stations begin to qperate for the public programs will be built to entertain This is taking place in England today Meanwhile like a huge ship completed and ready for launching television Is on the ways ready for the engineers and others Interested to start It on Its plunge Into the sea of public frozen and carried to the laboratory for examination All the moisture in samples of the air together with any odors are condensed and frozen Inside approval Once more the “black blizzard” mmiiE of Write ORDERS Y O Q monTHiv conTESTS One every month 'from March Straight through October 1937 $740000 Worth of Prizes Awarded every month! 2000 fUnn-ICST- ORDERS on Grocers for 6 Cans of Each a White Star Tuna 200 ORDERS dn procers Each for $25QO In Trade 7C amrife ' ) Is raging Despite widespread rain and snow in the southwest in ths spring ominous clouds of dust— black and gray and yellow— once more are swirling over denuded farmlands and billowing in suffocating undulations over cities in that hapless cluster of states — Kansas Colorado Oklahoma Texas and New Mexico —which has come to be konwn as a “dust bowl" Sines last year’s ruinous visitation which has cost ths nation millions in crop and livestock losses and has practically expunged hunting and fishing In -- that region may have been the regrets and the recriminations the proposals for remedial legislation the predictions of dire disaster ’Twas a sort of divine punishment for folly the farmers shouldn’t have plowed up the eoil indiscriminately — they shouldn’t have been- - 1m- pelled by greed for two-collwheat to exhaust the soil with overplanting they shouldn’t have— 1” And so went the tale of travail Intoned with a wail However a 'saner view s has come to be ' generally ac- - Thaf itTahow're-cognlze- -- to P&JLGG T you (ot 1572-15- nt -- iwusiw& with but tnclott two labtU awarded mjBoof winners of tuoi with ttc k totiy - prim In cim of tits duplicatt Entries will bn eligible for prile lecordin ceived Each month 2000 cans of Whitt Sur prises of Tun will be awarded and dittnb-- ' uted At abe and of each month 200 12500 grocery orders will be : award will lard" la tuu lng this menace within bounds A up that the latter Is the case Dr A noteworthy example of such initiative E Douglas of ths University of Arialready exists— It Is that taken by the zona and Carnegie Institution of WashDakotas which are challenging the ington famous tree geneologist who hydra-heade- d monster dust and has mad invaluable contributions to drouth with a congeries of hundreds science on the basis of his discovery of man-mad- e lakes and dams to back tre rings tell an accurate story that up and conserve surplus rainfall and of ths period during which trees aur-vithus ward off the evil days that have has found on examination -- of befallen their sister states to the south these that the same -- southwest-— — Utah too -- has taken time by the which rings is now experiencing the rigors fetlock when it found that grass of a "dust bowl” has weathered two would not take root It planted weeds and major1200 two minor drouths in the to check erosion And It worked years The two extensive past As Is Invariable under the circumdry periods lasted 25 years covering stances there is considerable calamity 9 the periods of and howling but as always there Is that and ' the minor ones approximately counter-curre15 of unquenchable optilasted years one occurring in 782 mism which makes all things possl- and the other in 1435 approximately ble even such a gargantuan task as Narrow rings sliver thin graphically which has told the story -- of these periods for “ winning back the top-so- il been blown away “through the parawide rings denote years of generous rainfalll and the compressed ones lean lyzing and 'wholly unforeseen combination of protracted dry spells and and arid seasons Bill-Bak- er modem farming Implements Oklahoma archaeologist From the bare factual basis of presenafter having examined 55 evergreens t-day conditions— with toppling rail of an ‘average of 132 years in Cimarron revenues and crashing airliners closed — rcounlyln - ihAttaUr -coneurred -with and of Dr Douglas and stated that the drouth schools such dis aggravation eases as pneumonia and Influenza cited had only a year or more to go It is as duststorm casualties in addition to now in its fourth year he said and the major Items livestock and crops drouth cycles do not last longer than —these jittery literaliats go back a five years according to the lore of tree thousand and more years in history rings While G R Parkinson meteorand recall that once the lower part ologist of Kansas City offers a brand-neof Egypt between Cairo and AlexanHe ascribes duststorms theory dria was the ’’granary of the world” to the interplay of vast air forces some once the great "between rivers” that iweeping in from the Pacific ocean land of the Euphrates and the Tigris some from the Gulf of Mexico And with Babylon the capital of the former again comes Dr Waldo R Wedel of domain and Bagdad of the latter were the Smithsonian Institution who is fields now All fertile are sandy convinced because of certain recent wastes and cliffs of lifeless clay and archaeological discoveries In the great Babylon and Bagdad are but a memplains that there was a “dust bowl” And the transformation was here long before Columbus landed in ory the West Indies and that It converted brought about by the same causes which have given America a “dust the Pawnees a peaceful farming peo-p- ie bowl”! into nomads driven from their Is the inference drawn from But fertile fields by similar blows that this picture entirely correct? Was it today upheave the soil and carry it man’s work that brought about this sway desolation or was It an ' Immutable A final cheery note is added to this mass of evidence by the statement of process of nature expressed In cycles with a naturally greater depletion of Professor Horace J Harper Oklahoma soil from cultivated land than from Agricultural college soil expert which pasture land? emphasizes that it is indeed an ill wind More and more the evidence is piling that doesn’t blow a bit of good Texas Ubtl-rtplka- 2 bin U tki tafItihli remit— a ll'black kill trail away sweeping away terming a fertile region lata a “dost bawl" And censlateatly la last w st Your to try mty contain 53 word or Icm ttllinf in your own way “Why I bmp WMie Sr- -r Tuns on mr pantry shelf” Eacn BBr muat be accompanied br two labels (or from ITSte Star Tatee Alao men- lion the name and addreaa of pour grocer Submit as many entries at ““ ' f cropi big 1278-129- the mistakes that were made 'were national rather than individual i£hat if there is a feeling of guilt it must be one shared alike by all— and that the problem of the great plains ia therefore a matter of natlohal' regen‘ eration The government has shown an acute awareness of the situation' and with deeper study of the’eauses Of the havoc wrought by the duststorms has come keen appreciation that a long-terand systematic program of reclamation of the land by the planting of sorghums legumes and Sudan grass is the solution It is agreed among authorities who have carried op these studies that such action must be immediate for the area of the "dust bowl" thus far restricted to west of the meridian may be expanded greatly this year and crosa that line as its natural trend Is eastward And this threat it is pointed out should serve as warning for the territory surrounding ths “dust bowl” to' take local action and not lean altogether on federal intervention in keep- th aiadi la (raw ve ar ceptedand Along mm tin mmmI wlada taking mr heavier loll if tki priceless earten loam which km keoa top-io- ll - and to easy Tuna-Tepantry shelf! 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