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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH. UTAH Raid Shelters Foil Jap Bombs In War Capital -- . China Rebuilds as Japs Destroy Farm Topics CORN HYBRIDS Chinese Take to the Hills DRAFT LAW BRINGS ABOUT HEALTHY ASSOCIATIONS THERE IS A JOB the new army is doing that may not be realized by all. It is breaking down the class consciousness that was growing all too rapidly. When the poor mans son and the rich maris son sleep under the same canvas or occupy adjoining bunks; when they wear the same kind of clothing, do the same routine jobs day after day, they find they are very much alike. They are both young men with the same aspirations, much the same likes and dislikes, both of them human. They find the top sergeant knows no distinction between rich and poor when it comes to naming a kitchen police detail; that the rich mans son can go to the guard house for any. infraction of army rules quite as quickly as the poor mans son; that in army regulations there is no rich or no poor all are sol- diers. Out of it all will come many thousands of lasting friendships between the rich and poor. When it is over and the poor boy goes to a factory job and the rich boy to the office desk, the friendship formed in the army camp will continue and will result in a better understanding in . that factory. Service in the army is making for better American citizenship that is fully as valuable as the making of soldiers. When the emergency is over, the draft law should be continued, with the age limit reduced to 22 years, so all American boys, rich and poor, may continue to get acquainted. The nation will be stronger because of such acquaintance. HOME TOWN PATRONAGE OR ELSE AS A SMALL BOY, I knew the then prosperous little town of VerI knew its four general with the merstores, chandise of that time. These stores constituted the foundation on which Vernon was built. Their existence was responsible for the comfortable homes of the town, for its two churches and for its, for that time, excellent school. those stores brought to the town made possible that hotel. The bank was dependent on the stores for its business. Vernon was a market place. Then came the invasion of the mail-ordcatalogue, with a concerted blitzkrieg on business of the town. The sales of the merchants declined. With that decline came a reduction in the quantity and variety of merchandise offered by local In time the stores merchants. closed. With them went the bank, hotel, homes, churches and the non, Iowa. well-stock- ed s er school. Today Vernon does not exist, even to the extent of a post office. What was once a market place, a social and cultural center, a place of comfortable homes, is now a corn field. The value of those acres and other farm acres surrounding the place that once was Vernon is not as great as it was 60 years ago. There have been all too many Vernons throughout America too many market places that have died because of the tendency to centralize merchandising. Whenever people of a community permit their market place to die from lack of home patronage they sacrifice their social and cultural center, their churches and schools, and turn what has been a place of homes into a field. That, continued to a logical conclusion, would make peasants of the American farmers. It would deprive them of all that makes farm life pleasant. NO FEAR FOR U. S. IN TRADE BARRIERS WHEN ANYONE attempts to tell you we, as a nation, must do things to protect our world markets, it is well to remember a few simple facts. America represents just about 50 per cent of all the purchasing power of the entire world. We are as great a market place as all other nations combined. We do, or can, produce 97 pei cent of all the commodities needed to maintain the American standard of living. We could build a trade wall around the country and suffer no serious inconvenience. Our one greatest item of export is raw cotton. We import in the form of manufactured products practically as mpch cotton as we export in bales. It is other nations, not America, that would seriously suffer from any trade barriers they might attempt against us. DEPLETE SOIL Around Chungking For Safety. High Fertility Necessary for Good Results. By GERALD WILSON (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) NEW YORK CITY. Attempts to bomb Chungking out of existence become more hopeless with every bombing, showing By PROF. A. L. LANG ( Illinois Agricultural Station, Utbana, Illinois.) that, as a national capital, inChungking can endure definitely, according to Mr. Ronald Rees, secretary of the National Christian council, who recently arrived in New York from China. Chungking was the last stop in a trip Residents of Chungking, war capital of China, dodge Japanese bombs made by Mr. Rees throughout and crudely rebuild their homes between raids, using bamboo poles daily China in the interest of work for walls and straw mats for roofs. Above, inset shows native doctors and relief projects being carrying a war stricken victim into one of the underground hospitals, financed by American churches blasted out of solid rock in the hills about Chungking. This one has 20 joined by tunnels and equipped with operating room, rethrough United China Relief. search wards and kitchen. Medical equipment and drugs are laboratory, According to Mr. Rees, residents sent from the United China Relief campaign fund, now being there being of are 16 times safer tosix-wee- ks cave-room- s, Chungking than they were day from two years ago, and there had been a drastic decline in d casualties until the recent accident that caused several hundred deaths from suffocation inside an underground shelter. This accident does not detract from Chungkings effective d precautions, its alarm system and its shelters, which make Chungking the safest war capital in the world, saicj Mr. Rees. When Japan first struck at Chungking in May, 1939, the city had very little defending air force, ft and few guns or airraid shelters. In May and June of that year, over 4,000 people were air-rai- ds air-rai- collected in this country. German-American- s Form Organization To Oppose Hitler air-rai- NEW YORK. Formation of the Loyal Americans of German De- claim that the 10,000,000 Americans of German descent are bound by ties of blood to follow him as leader. We warn our fellow citizens not to be deceived by clever Hitler agents, alien or native, or by anybody else who, blindly or willingly plays into Hitlers hands. Ideals Stated. a militant We urge every loyal American anti-Naorganization to act as cen- of German descent citizens and ter of practical guidance for the prospective citizens to join us in 10,000,000 Americans of German denotifying Adolf Hitler, his agents scent, on whom the Nazis have been and the world at large: that Hitworking for the past eight years, ler is dead wrong; that men and has been announced. The organiza- women of German descent in Amertion has directors,' sponsors and ica and tyranny the despise slavery killed. charter members in 18 states. and inhumanity which his terror Thousands in Caves. Headed by Robert F. Wagner Jr., imposed on the German people; that During the first breathing spell, state assemblyman of New York, as we are ready to fight for free7,000 stone cutters of Chungking got president, and Dr. George N. Shusdom and independence here and evbusy with dynamite and crowbars, ter, president of Hunter college, as erywhere; that side by side with all and blasted hundreds of roomy shel- chairman of the board, the organiza- our fellow citizens of many origins ters from the Sides of the sand- tion has secured the support of na- we shall uphold American unity by stone hill on which Chungking sits. tionally known political, manageproclaiming our unalterable faith in Today, the steep sides of the hill are ment and labor leaders. democracy; that we shall not be The Loyal Americans of German fooled by traitors of . Quisling or honeycombed with underground shelters, and most of Chungkings Descent stated: Every American, whatever stripe; that far from findpopulation can be accommodated in- whether native born, naturalized or ing us a stepping stone into Ameriside them. Some of the tunnels prospective citizen, must take a ca, Hitlers followers shall founder clear-cu- t house several thousand people. stand today. Any sympa- against the rock of our opposition! is completeHere is the picture of Chinas war- thy with Directors of the organization intime capital as given by Mr. Rees: ly irreconcilable with Americanism. clude: Karl Brandt, economist, When the Chinese government Through forthright action, if necesFood Research institute, Stanford moved in during 1938, Chungking sary by the ultimate sacrifice of life, Calif.; Gotthilf P. Bron-iscwas a quiet, picturesque, almost we shall meet the challenge with university, vice president, New executive medieval village, without electric which destiny confronts us in the York; Elisabeth Christman, secretary-tpower development, without railroad shape of Hitler and his henchmen. reasurer, Womens National We consider it our duty to meet connections with the rest of China, D. Union Trade Washington, league, and with no modern highways. To- the Nazis wherever they may have C.; Carl Holderman, regional diday, by contrast, Chungking is a enjoyed even partial success among rector, Textile Workers union (C. beehive of activity, the dynamo that the 10,000,000 Americans of Ger- I. Clara Leiser, O.), Newark, N. directs all the human and mechani- man extraction. The misled must writer, New York; J.; Mrs. William Alto the American lan cal energy that is developing free be guided back Neilson, Falls Village, Conn.; F. China. A large part of the relief way of life from which they have Wilhelm Sollmann, Wallingford, work for Free China is directed strayed through ignorance, misinfor- Pa.; Edward J. Volz, president, of We or e mation lack war-timguidance. from the capital. ChungInternational Photo Engravers unown them convince that their of shall a center the become has king this country and democ- ion, New York; Felix Wittmer, pronetwork of highways fanning out to all parts of China, and the center of racy are worth a fight to the finish. fessor, N. J. State Teachers colWe challenge Adolf Hitlers lege, Montclair, N. J. air transportation connecting with world Western the and with Europe, via Hongkong. The Chinese capitals most publiCrop Expect 1941 Record cized air link with the Western world service, LaSalle Map of Business Conditions. is its Hongkong-Chungkin- g maintained daily by two companies: the Chinese National Aviation corporation and Eurasia. Both planes leave Hongkong secretly, shortly after midnight, so as to fly undetected over Japanese-hel- d territory. The CNAC, line continues beyond scent, zi anti-aircra- Nazi-Germa- ny h, well-bein- g, Farm Chungking to Kunming and on to Rangoon. Another airline runs from Chungking through Chengtu and Lanchow, on to Russia and Germany. Chungkings airport has been built on a small island in the Yang- tze river. The now famous Burma Road, which connects with two highways leading from the south into Chungking, is only one road link now used to take medical and military supplies into China. Others are the Marco Polo road, running from n Chungking northward to the railhead at Udinsk; and the Northwest route from Chungking to Sergiopol on the Trans-Siberia- Trans-Siberia- n railroad. Population Increases. Chungking proper is spread out on a --promontory of solid rock between pine hills and valleys, with rivers on two sides: the Yangtze and the Chialing. Since the war has closed the Yangtze to Shanghai, both rivers are filled with small steamers, launches, junks and sampans, many of which did yeoman service in transporting dismantled inmachinery from Hankow and the dustrial coastal regions before the of Japanese advance. Because of the0 normal population the war, has been swelled by refugees, government officials, and war 100,-00- Major factors in present and expected farm prosperity are climbing food prices and a big harvest in prospect. Purchasing power increases as wheels again hum busily in factories over the nation. WTiether hybrid corn succeeds or fails in its job of producing bumper yields depends largely on the lands fertility level and the effectiveness of the individual farmers soil management program. Tests on soils varying in productivity and under different systems of soil management revealed that some of the better hybrids are more responsive to good soil and good soil management and more sensitive to poor soil and poor soil management, varithan most of the open-pollinat- ed eties of corn. Whether hybrids take up more plant food or use what they take up more efficiently than varieties has not yet been determined. The danger to future soil productivity lies in hybrids capacity to produce more bushels per acre when grown on naturally fertile soils. If farmers take advantage of the superiority of hybrid corn on good soil without recognizing the dangers involved from a more rapid depletion of available plant food, their soil will not be in condition to express hybrid superiority for long. On the other hand, if hybrid superiority on good soil is used to stimulate more and better soil enrichment practices, then there is an opportunity to go beyond what has already been accomplished. The farmer who follows good soil practices and has his soil tested to determine needs for limestone, phosphates and potash will cash in profitably when he plants hybrid seed corn. open-pollinat- 1 AGRICULTURE IN INDUSTRY ft By Florence C. Weed 5 ' 15 (This is one oi a series ol articles showing how farm products are hading an important market in industry.) Sweet Potatoes An old Negro laundress probably was the first to discover that excellent laundry starch could be made from the sweet potato. She mashed the potatoes, soaked them in water, then drew off this liquid and boiled it to make a fine starch. The first commercial venture was a small plant set up in Mississippi to make sweet potato starch. Now another plant is being started in Texas. Their product is used for sizing in the textile industry. Since many varieties of the sweet potato contain as much as 20 per cent starch, it seems likely that this new industry has good possibilities. The pulp left after the starch is extracted is being used for feed for beef and dairy cattle. Sweet potatoes have been experimentally converted into a thin transparent sheet which one day may be a competitor of cellophane. During the World war, sweet potato flour was used in the South. George Washington Carver, famed has uncovered scientist, Negro many possibilities in this crop of the South. He has used the sweet potato to obtain vinegar, shoe blacking, ink, library paste, dyes, candy, ginger, synthetic tapioca, chocolate compound, coffee substitute, molasses and rubber. The commercial crop of sweet potatoes is raised chiefly in Virginia, Louisiana, Tennessee and New Jersey. Since many southern varieties tend to grow oversize, there is a large quantity of culls in each crop. Some are fed to cattle but more are wasted. These conditions have led to an insistent demand for some means to use these in industry. ies. The total income is the largest in history, and still rising. In addition to having their income University. CHICAGO The upward trend in increased by the greatly improved farm income continues, with prices domestic market, farmers are also Roughage feeds are necessities in now averaging higher than any time benefited by the government agri- the dairy cows diet. since 1930, except for a short period cultural programs which are conof 1937. The growing season to date stantly being expanded and made Hedge, or Osage orange, makes has been very good for nearly all more effective. These programs in- excellent fence posts. , in t crops, and if the weather continues clude payments for favorable, the harvest this year is soil conservation and control of acrewith carbon disulphide Fumigation expected to be the largest on rec- age planted to major crops, higher is one of the best methods of treatloans on basic products, and gov- ing a corn crib to control corn ord. Markets for farm products are ernment buying for relief purposes weevils. probecoming better each month as the as well as under the lease-lenare Government industrial increased propayments gram. Beef from cattle fattened on grass greatly duction of both military supplies and about the same as last year, and as well as beef from cattle ripens consumer goods has made pay rolls account for a little over 6 per cent on grain, and it is just as juicy pnd larger and has added to the pur- of the total cash income received flavorsome, according to the U. S. chasing power of workers in the cit by farmers. bureau of animal industry. By L. G. ELLIOTT President La Salle Extension Rural Briefs - d |