Show ii r r 1 I ff e i- i E g. g C E- E Yv f f 2 24 4 4 i j J S Editors Editor's Note This Is another an- an another other In the Stories of or the States series S By V ED EDWARD ARD EMERINE El L S Features r-f. r Th There's Theres es no place like Missouri Mis- Mis MisS S as as any Missourian will tell you Part northern part southern part eastern and w part western and wholly I V s American the Show Me Me MeS S state is a collection of individuals individuals indi indi- climates soils industries industries indus indus- industries tries and resources Build a fence around Missouri l cut it itS S off from the rest of the world and it will get along all right S 5 is a boast often heard Missourians might be nearly right J I at that about their state being self Cut off oil from the rest of ot the world they still could enjoy enjoyS S mountains plains rivers nn and lakes I They could eat beefsteak lamb S chops ham and bacon fresh fish fried tried chicken fruits vegetables and bread and still have plenty of ot whipped cream pie pic cake sugar potatoes potatoes Irish Irish or sweet sweet oatmeal oatmeal butter and eggs Their shoes would be made in St. St Louis and they would have a choice of ot wool or cotton cotton cotton cot cot- ton clothing straw or felt hats light clothing or fur coats Besides they would have whisky beer wine tobacco tobacco to to- bacco corncob pipes and the MisS Missouri Mis Mis- S sour mule They might be short on gold old and a few tew other luxuries but butS S they would have coal wood lead zinc iron glass clay copper nickel nickel nick nick- el cobalt steel antimony tungsten arsenic and some oil and gas S Topography Is Diversified Topographically Missouri is more morea moren a n part of ot several other regions than thana a region in itself itselL Northern Missouri Missouri Missouri Mis Mis- is a continuation of the rich rolling farm tarm lands of ot Iowa Western WesternS S Missouri is a part of the great mid mid- 4 I 0 XV V A. A ARAS CITY i 4 S A JR K A. A N S S woods are thick fruits and berries abound and beneath the soils soil's surface surface surface sur sur- face are rich stores of minerals High In Industries Although a rich agricultural state Missouri has a two billion dollar manufacturing industry even in normal normal normal nor nor- mal years Meat packing at Kansas City and St. St Joseph boots and shoes at St. St Louis mens men's and women's clothing in all aU the large cities tobacco tobacco tobacco to to- bacco processing airplane manufacture manufacture manufacture ture book and other printing and industries established to process the states state's resources and raw products place Missouri among the ranking industrial states Mining lumbering lumber lumber- ing cement making corn cob pipes 5 j S 4 4 4 I S t tc L 7 I II I TYPICAL FARM SCENE Modern farms dot the rich and highly productive rolling acres of Missouri Here Is shown the J. J C. C Penney farm near Hamilton continental prairie Southwestern Missouri is part of ot the Ozark plateau of Arkansas and flat southeastern southeastern southeastern south south- eastern Missouri is delta or bottom bottomland bottomland bottomland land characteristic of the lower Mississippi Mississippi Mississippi Mis Mis- valley S The states state's diversity is even pronounced in its people The J quiet St. St Louis business man is S. S unlike the go-getter go from Kansas Kansas Kan Kan- sas City The farmer in northern north north- L em ern Missouri speaks a different S language than the delta S 'S S And the Ozark people differ from all the rest On one thing they all ali agree Missouri Isa Isa is isa a great state Missourians have havea a state pride as deep and fixed as any Texans There are no deserts no barren barrenS S peaks in Missouri Corn grows tall ta f y V JS U t hII hI- hI I t f y I Iy LAND OF THE OZARKS Sylvan scenes abound in the picturesque picturesque pic plc Ozark mountains This Is a typical stream in inthe the mountain fairyland r and other products are important industries Both Kansas City and St. St Louis rank high as wholesale distribution centers for the entire Missouri Mississippi-Missouri valley Flour mills and cereal plants at St. St Joseph Joseph Joseph Jo Jo- seph had a tremendous war output Missouri is one of the few middle states that yet et markets ties lumber laths and shingles in large quantities quantities ties supporting more than commercial commercial com corn mercial sawmills The state has the largest deposits of lead zinc and coal in the Middle West It also has valuable clays building stone I and sands Missouri produces about 42 per cent of the annual production I of for the United States With its varied topography Missouri Missouri Mis Mis- I has many scenic attractions It has more than recorded caves many with several floors and some with underground streams Besides its many natural lakes it has Lake of ot the Ozarks which was created by the Bagnell dam across the Osage i river built in 1929 1920 This lake is miles long with 1300 miles of shore shore- j I line Big Spring with a measured daily flow of gallons is I the largest in the world All streams and lakes are arc stocked with I fish and the hunting of quail ducks and other birds is widespread The forests and hills of the Ozark mountains moun are nationally famous Spanned by Railroads Missouri is one of ot the leading railroad rail raU road states of ot the nation being served by 13 trunk line rO roads Agricultural products of ot Missouri S include two and one half billion I pounds of beef beet annually one billion I pounds of pork four billion pounds pound of milk one million pounds of ot chickens chick ens besides eggs sheep cotton wool corn wheat tobacco so soy r beans and other crops From its rich historical background back back- ground liss l Missouri uri has emerged as a friendly hospitable state a little more southern than northern northern northera north north- ern era in accent a little more wes western west vest em ern than eastern in its ways was LaSalles LaSalle's explorations in 1682 located lo 10 what is now Missouri as a apart apart I part of the vast Louisiana purchase It was relinquished to Spain in 1762 returned to France in 1800 and purchased purchased pur pur- chased by the United States in 1803 During the Civil war var Missouri although al though a slave state furnished troops to the Union and more than to the Confederate army Many Historic Sites The state has many sites of ot historic his his- torte and prehistoric Interest At many places are traces of Indian villages and camp sites Indian mounds and earthworks are numer numer- ous The old home of ot U. U S. S Grant built by the general himself still I stands outside the city limits of St. St Louis The boyhood home of Mark IS I Twain Samuel L. L Clemens is pre pre- S served sered at nt Hannibal and statues of ot otTom 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 St. Louis Spaniard named Manuel Manucl Lisa in 1809 organized the first of the trading fur 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 j jand and Independence St St. Joseph and other western Missouri towns outfitted outfitted out out- fitted the men who conquered the West Eastern terminus of the Pony Express was at St St. Joseph and the Santa Fe Trail was blazed from New Franklin to the Southwest with the Santa Fe railroad to follow tallow later It was the Missouri Compromise act of congress that brought Missouri Missouri Mis Mis- into the union as a n state in 1821 Born in turmoil it has endured au authe all the hardships of ot pioneering Insurrection insurrection 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 F f ff 4 i LOYAL SON SO Phil M. M Donnelly g governor vernor of ot Missouri is a loyal loal son who never bothered to leave his native state Born at Lebanon Mo 1 March 6 1891 1891 Donnelly attended attend attend- ed cd Missouri schools practiced lawIn lawin law lawin in his native state served a as county and city attorney and spent 20 years in the state legislature before bC being befog Dg elected governor for a year four-year term in 1944 He lie is married and has one has son son |