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'" 5:!' 4 ''::ItIl':" ?: ( - A606'''1 IP"' ' — '' :ik""xv- - all the old problems Of course if the New World could not be depended upon to maintain the Old World continental wars might be less terrible in some respects but since we're here and since we are a civilized nation we are hug manitarian as well as and patient But our soil isn't as patient as we are There's a limit to it now foreseen and as we extend our means to supply Europe with food a arm of government is trying to determine if we may be as humanitarian aiiwe want to be and still not destroy our soil heritage for generations to der its veteran founder H H Bennett is already at work implementing their come "Soil fertility traded for Old World money built industrial America" former Secretary of Agriculture Henry A Wallace recently stated but added: "It was a costly trade—how costly we are just plans apparent that our surpluses in storage (they're not really surpluses but are in storage because almost 40 per cent of our citizens who need them can't afford to buy them) are to be whisked away beginning to grasp" at no long distance in the future the But it became more costly and finally Bureau of Agricultural Economics amounted almost to disaster when we threw millions of acres of land into food4 through its county and state- planning is work the activities of production during the last war many the action agencies which have to do ' which never should have been devoted ' ''"' '::'"'"'' :':''"':': to growing crops as they were unsuited with soil water grass and trees :'": ' We "! to that kind of agricultural strain can't escape some drastic losses Thus the crux of our problem this time of some kinds in the years just aheadfor I our farmers are still paying for the last is that of conservation of our soil re:a war according to official U S Departsources so far as may be possible No :4r"44A1 4 1 but ment of Agriculture reports to the tune ' of approximately $4000000g0 a year It7fsstatedly agronoMiste orthe De- in riducea Yields abandoned acres and partment of Agriculture that this may lost fertility In addition to this there is an enormous indeterminate damage be the last time Europe can count on us to reservoirs irrigation systems power to pull it out of the fiery furnace of famine planta and harbors due to sediments Extreme-caris counseled by the exfrom erosion And the cost of erosion in perts because the suggestion is already humarksuffering and reduced opportuin Washington Made nity is incalculablev But the Soil CofoArvation Service is that millions of acres of marginal lands taken out of cultivation with governpreparing to save what it can under the '''' ment assistance dining the past sixl impacts ahead The Service is slowly years may have to go back into food being expanded to help ascertain that production perhaps more than 50 00- - every acre of every field pasture and oodlot of every farm will be used se- 000 of these acres In every agricultural county of cording to its individual physical and 4 II ::ii United States we have effective county economic adaptabilities and that every -::404 committees which know just how to get acre is treated according to its individ4p c4'OF :''' production without soil destruction and - ual needs This may involve the use of m 014 i 44 4'4'"i: the new Soil Conservation Service !In- - many novel types of terracing strip k:f ot " 4 cropping contour cultivation crop rotav tion retirement of certain lands the ”"91z4117 moment they show signs of strain and ::: 1::' Water diversion Amerous other weap1':430$1011M!!as$141000:1"101:aolpit'!':'i":1110101111166141''""abolow0001011!!:77777''1010000010iiiiitH"'''''"":"701197747' ons are also in the arsenal of the SCS for the expected emergency - '' There's a new governmental- - weapon :o::::: - ::::::::::::::"" ':::: too :"::::::-:for soil protection It is called a ?:::'''':- '2 4 0"4 :!':'-- ': ' "Soil Conservation District" and once 'Z5:::i::'' q ::::::'L 4P t 00 :':::::::::i:-':::organized it actually operates as a gov'‘:'vofiallioVil' ' ' W :::''''" ' 4 004" 4te :::::::: ernmental authority such as a county ::::?:::ia:: :::it:- vif1144"' e:t'Zir:ltt5:::'::: '" timt!:!!77754: ::f:S:R?:'':1R:1'a:Pi:ii:::0414"A' or municipality It's thoroughly demo :::i::::::::Mi'i5 :30'!'''''''''::fAits4 'I!' '" '''10::::!1:'::: ::y :::g475g:W:?::"4:4 - cratic in functioning but it packs full :i:N::A'?:7::::?t771"::i:i 4'7:''4i°'6'4' ::M'e1??:::'1:0:::::'::l1441n authority to make its judgments and !::::i- 0 455?':4 :''fr:' t 41r :iii !:i:':!:::::4::::i:'::::':-:':::V::regulations effective with the help of 0 4i-441700 local courts Thirty-si- x tiAe"$!k::::'i - 0 States already 43411 :170::::rN'::::!!:::44R:Oli:''R'''''"?ig? have passed laws permitting farmers to ''''''"'"::111 !': 400:n4 r-vt:''':"'N" :k': :::!:i:n!:'::':-):'-:::::'::"t4i " I if1 ' organize such Districts and by August K44 100"Z7--0''(3let of this year 300 of the Districts had i" 4 :ii:::f'':!''!0:: 1!ste:-''igici:'''"' 1 - been organized embracing more than ' e ':" ': :s??f'' ':'-- ::''''k:::?:C1-':::'':":'''190000000 acres Almost a million and 1":: 1 a half farms are included in these Die- I ! A : tricts and approximately 300000 addi- 11t&)(i::-?NA14-:ro: : 44( 4 tional families are included in districts m:::-!:now in the process of organizations 4-''if':': ' : I'M4 t :i A district possesses numerous au !:::7i:''':i:-- Nkl i t : As it has become 4re5ent newly-organiz- ::: "::'":'4 :I17Mtm:3ttortroo45vx':7: :: zkV'1''- 3 s ' - ded into iii l m iobsFarrauvpteirdoltiet n region )01" as but she t in the - i en egu an :arly the arteries and arthritis cml t i Is - one ' L r: rc " 1: ::ui -- - 935 speech input equipment to meet the individual needs custom-bui- lt of broadcasting stations or motion picture studios regardless of size or operhas been- announced ating requirements hflunetibn—lr-ithi-évéd- employing the principle of unit construction in electrical and mechanical aspects f::1: ibt1'' ::::::'4 ::3:ii::::':':'4 nily unh B I am ard of N to conta 'riday m was safe n home— s of his al cm the into th me Chri: '44 : 0:": '4k: ki5:''N ?- happiest 'F- - oture naper is r He ' 4ti "- "i r' L :'4: k:t?: :44vzs'' q - 47 4'4 -- i I A I I ' iSaid to be more elaborate than any other outdoor public address installation in the United States a new sound New London system at" Ocean Beach of crescenConn serves a full half-mil- e I beach 11 t-shaped i Sulfathiazole the latest addition to the sulfanilamide family has proved effective in bringing about the recovery of a child suffering from staphylococcus bac aureus (a yellow - (::t ' I - 1- - ----- -- ' t z ii' ' -0 - e floor I f !: tie state -- 4:- t I ' man i the loo: y keepi since r t 1 'el' It ath 11 severe tvag not 1 study: ould ma k oboes lisitteata but - a 1 v --- Frank contacte 714 — 1 1 a moi of the nn with In -- -"- Wadi Webb lategal bv lbw ' Intainou little bo of a neat identifi( °- :4 1 Investigation has revealed that the turtles of Florida lay giant loggerhead more than 300 eggs each according to the magazine Natural History The eggs are buried in the warm sands approximately 150 the first time a few less the second time and about 80 the last time w le curlyistan w exclusiv i:: Fw-A'1-::- 6 1 und inaper S -- I A new line of Flexibility- the at thlenbro ' '? birch Canada's most important hardwood is finding increased use in airplane construction the Dominion Forest Service reports - - 20C as being inst him -- iYellow I isol he child As "Europe will be a howling hell this winter Harvests are rotting in the sun The situation Is very serious?! Ordinarily continental Europe annually imports about 150000000 bushels of wheat from overseas in addition to more than 2000000 bushels of flour 140000000 bushels of corn 24000000 bushels of barley and 35000000 bushels of oats Europe will not receive these imports if the war lasts through winter moreover its own harvests are reported by both British and American government offices to be at least 33 per cent under normal not only betause of farm hands serving with the colors but be''''''"r cause the severe cold last winter brought about bad crops Behind this desperate picture arises Had He This Kind of Protected the lethal phantom of disease which 1 No Land During World War U S Surgeon-GenerThomas Parran Uncle Sam Could Have Avoided says may compel a peace to be made Food deficiency nearly always is accomGreat Soil Losses He Suffered panied by the rapid spread of typhus W641411444144444444414144414441b4WIK4 typhoid fever malaria plague dysenteriun't) ineningitis (inflammation of tery encephalitis influenza smallpox the membranes surrounding the spinal tetanus and pneumonia and the dreaded cord and brain) The Journal of the botulism is spread by contaminated American Medical Association reveals food Once under way epidemics of these diseases are hard if not impossible to stop Disabling diseases due to lack of essential vitamins are Greene County Indiana is the site of already being reported from Europe the discovery of a large yelp of practicalthe is if lead reveal richest Serious as must be the drain on United Tests ly pure States soil to compensate for Europe's deposit in the state and one of the most valuable in the nation follies it is compounded by the fact that there likely will beno compensation for the 'United States Our foodstuffs for California Institute of Technology sciwhich Europe ordinarily would pay in entists have unearthed the fossilized cash or goods must flow across the camel with bones of a browsing type of Atlantic as perhaps the greatest relief neck which once roamed a giraffe-lik- e venture of all time k: w Oregon's miocene forests The discovery la Complicating the food situation and was made near Madras ruzili insuring that Americans themselves are once again destined to go on a Great Rows of Trees Have Been x4 — $'4' tAr464 rationing -- Planted - on the- - Plains-t- obasis for certain essential foodstuffs Proas— n VW tect the Soil from the 1 experts say is the fact that Europe's ""07 Danger stalled an air conditioning system which Imminent famine relief must be provided 1 of Winds Causing Dust Storms can be rented by the day or evening in spite of the fact that the United ' t::'!":d :':7::' u17i7':4-14- " :'11 along with the auditorium it serves 444ti4444sytt44s4s4444444444 States has been embarked for some time 41 ' --' 4114e A 43' i( $:s' on an effort to supply sufficient food to '''' ': credited to a professor at Western Re- :4§ ' '' 4' Ni: i t about 40 per cent of its own people now serve University Cleveland O By this t svAL4 '' 4: Scientific investigation has revealed method the coal is owed ' tsoc: 0 2 fine at the suffering to varying degrees from mal4 ground that bulls are color-blin- d :::::31:::::-:4 nutrition exploding colliery and mixed with water contain- :::::: At4:1114!': 4 t v-: the belief that they fight when they see ing certain chemicals in which it is car- When we realize that the shortages t :: 4 red It has been determined that it is ried in suspension k are confined to almnst half of our popu4 i:: —-''''7 1 :4 la the movement not the color that infuri lation they loom more formidably 's 0 Many ates the animals of these people are already in bad phys- of the marihuana Investigation drug ical condition They are the ones who to determine whether it has any corn- - 1 '''' A new somewhat unconventional airwill be the principal sufferers t1 1060 sy00 f' which might be beneficial to during ' er ponents i '7e' "' the coming food campaign In fact It -plane is said to be practically spin '''1 mankind is being undertaken by Dr '777 be said 40 this that may proof per cent of our Roger Adams at the University of Mipeople will be the ones who really will nois make the sacrifices in Europe's behalf The new U S liner America has 14 i But whatever the cost to the U S of A "Venetian" type screen formed of oplo" lifeboats which use a manually-operate- d levers instead of fine wires flattened to form slats as narsuccoring Europe much of it must be system of push-pu- ll oars or motor Crew or passengers can row as pencil leads is the newest idea represented by setbilcks to our programs to deflect the sun's rays and still admit I for taking marginal soilsout of produc operate the boats which have a maxition It has cost several hundred milmum speed of six miles an hour ample daylight for visibility i lion dollars for the government departments concerned to take marginal lands Immo A Dayton 0 high school Instructor out of production to give them a long in This Almost Food Land Development of a system for the de Last War Hee 24 been the has Been Devoted Destroyed granted patents on a tailrest They need many decades of rest in of coal by pipe line like oil is ac less airplane to Strip Cropping Corn and Oats to Conserve Its Riches The Closelivery most cases but now it's likely that they won't get it 444444444k Growing Dais Catch Any Soil That May Drift from the Corn Rows ' I ounced t 100000 I alien wa t '' iI 1( cion of nsg se S T (P thorities for obtaining real soil protection The supervisors may petition local courts to order recalcitrant land occupiers or land owners to observe the soil conservation ordinances The court order if issued may provide that if a land occupier fails to employ the conservation measures the regulations require then the supervisors may go on his lands do the neceeiary work and collect the costs from the land occupier or owner or as in a few states the court can fine him for committing a misdemeanor This whole idea is- something new— nation-wid- e soil conservation with democratic authority behind it And it shows the trend America is taking to save what it c of its r and air practice the Enl T s is n ly Excavation has stetted at a spot near Beeville Texas which i s said to have been a favorite resort foranimals that roamed the American continent millions of years ago Among the remains of animalsI filgnva been found include the mastodon elephant horse bison peccary and sloth i I - 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