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Stella King SfamUton Stgrorii CARL L. FRY ESTATE, Proprietor. Wells. N. Y “A PAPER FOR THE PEOPIIE OF H A M ILTO N C O UNTY” ARTHUR A. HOYT, Editor, WeHi. N. Y. VOL. XLVIII NO. 12 WELLS, N. Y., THURSDAY^ MARCH 21, 1946 KANSAS SAHARA . . . In 1936 there were desomted homes such as this around Liberal, Kansas. Pasture lands were ruined and grasshop- pets aided drouth in destruction o£ crops. In mid-summer not a green thing was in sight. Many Sections Fearful Of New Dust Bowl in '46 (A WNU News Feature) THE “dust bowl’s” rich land, after several good years, is dry .enough in some spots to take wings again. But whether it will or 'Will not is the 64-dollar question. Millions of people would lihe to :know the answer—before the soil starts moving. So far, there has been “a little f ------------------------------------------------- blow” out in western Kansas and -Oklahoma and it’s dry too. But no one who went through the “black” blizzards o f-a th a t a new dust decade ago would compare this year’s storms with 'those years. “Another dust bowl may develop, but conditions would have to grow a lot worse than they are now be fore I would climb out on a linib with any such prediction,” one Kansas official has stated after snow and rain fell. The winter'has been a dry one in all the old dust bowl states. Wheat made little growth in some areas. -And the U. S. department of agri culture has reported bowl a] ^‘redlands” district of Kansas ■Oklahoma. • Some wheat damage has been re- ■ported\at Pratt and Liberal, Kans., but recently snows and rains have improved the wheat lands west of ^Hutchinson. At Amarillo, Tex., Gene Howe, newspaper publisher, is op timistic, pointing out that con ditions are not yet critical, and spring snows and rains may end the iihreat of a drouth. Both farmers and the government 'Combatted the tendency to plow up grasslands for planting during World War II, as was done in-World War I. The land is tied down better this time. Farmers have learned to •plow and cultivate so as to leave jmore stubble to hold the soil. In some places in the old dust bowl there has been little or no moisture all winter, and undoubted ly wheat is in bad shape. Whether 'Or not it will survive much longer jio one knows. Perhaps the fate of many fields hangs in the balance, -mid not until late spring will, the ■verdict be known. Even experts in the winter wheat belt differ widely in their opinions. •-Some say the wheat is already gone; others hold out for an 80 per '-cent - yield. Still others think that Tain any time within six weeks will give the fields new life. Wheat supplies are lower than for many years. Some of the mills are working only five days a week. In K a n s a n S a y s He P r e d icte d Drouth ^Cycle ^ PRATT, KANS. — The dry cycle is here again—just as Fred Reece predicted 11 years ago in an arti cle in the Pratt Daily Tribune. Recently Freii dug out the old article he had written in 1934 under the title, “Sun Spots.” And then he •sat down and wrote another one, in which he stated: “In my 1934 article I noted that observations over almost a century showed these increased sun spot •outbreaks occurred at fairly regu lar intervals of about 11% years. No body knew wh^ or if that rate would continue. But on the theory that it might continue, I ventured that 1946 might find us in the midst of another series of dry years. That year is here; the sun tornadoes are here, perhaps a bit late but they started their upsurge more than a year ago. Last year’s wheat crop was not much affected, probably be cause we have learned to conserve moisture. This year’s crop hangs in ' the balance between good subsoil moisture and a hot, dry, blowing surface. Maybe the memories of the dust bowl days of the '30s will enable you to guess the next two or ' tXree. some places in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas, a black market in wheat has sprung up. Latest fig ures show visible U. S. wheat to half, compared to a year ago. Mill ers are paying all the traffic will bear to keep their mills going. Newspaper editors in the wheat- lands, who make it their business to know crop prospects, have made their o'wn surveys. To a man they say “not yet” to the government’s prediction. It is going to take a lot more dust and dry weather to scare some of those grizzled old farmers who weathered the worst nature had to offer in..the ’30s. W h e re does th e dust com e from ? T h a t is easy, say the ed ito rs: “Oklahomans say it comes from Kansas; Jayhawkers say the dust plague originates in Oklahoma.JL—r “ Tfi^’' rivers arenjt •very low ye#, either, one Kansas citizen reported. “ T h e y ’r e a little too w e t to plow and a little too muddy to drink.” Some Scoff At Idea of Mew Drouth TOPEKA, KANS. There won’t be a repetition of the 1934-38 “dust bowl” in Kansas, Texas and Okla homa. At least that’s what a lot of people out here say as they scoff at the U. S. department of agricul ture’s report that another drouth is developing. “Of coursi% M it rain for four years, €*1 go again,” Eck Brown, bfhker'^p|>ancher of Dalhart, Tej?*', adnnittp<|! the soil is tied 4own now.” . The agriculture department’s pes simistic prediction prodded a sore spot in the memories of Sooners and Jayhawkers alike. Farmers d w i n d l e d bowlowl off thehe *3030s The old dust- b o t * gradually dwin dled until it was no more. There has been plenty of rain the last few years. were fighting then, to hold title to their land in the depths of a depres sion, prices were low, and dry, pow dery dust was piled in fence rows like snow drifts. The vagrant winds were “swapping” the farmers’ real estate like careless horse traders. T h e people out in th is part of the n a tion don’t like “gloomy Gus” predictions. They’ve seen drouth, grasshoppers, blizzards, and other plagues,. but they’ve managed to “'come'through ■\them \^11. A little “Duster” doesn’t scare them, and rain always comes—^just 15 minutes before it’s too late! BACK IN 1935 . . . Sand storms worked havoc in Oklahoma and other .plains states. The above picture was taken in Western Oklahoma and shows d rifts of san d around buildings on an abandoned fa r m . C h in a , A u s t r a l i a a n d Iran P l a n Irrig a t io n P r o i e c t s WASHINGTON, D. C. — In 1945, more than 170 engineers represent ing 30 foreign countries visited the United States for the purpose of studying reclamation and irrigation projects, and they are now return ing to their native soil to begin work on similar works in their own coun tries. Heading the list is China, with 66 engineers, while India follows with 24, Australia with 11, and other na tions 'famous for deserts — Iran, Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan—have sent delegations varying in number from one to nine. Through unified development of such famous river valleys as the Changes, Yangtse, Euphrates, Ti gris and Irrawaddy, it will be pos sible for surrounding areas to be irrigated, and for the owner-rjations to establish hydro-electric power production, flood control, municipal water supplies and improved navi gation, In many cases the United States will send its' own engineers abroad to assist these areas, in terior officials! said. Wornout Land Needs Cultivation And Fertilizing to Regain Vigor The notion of giving worn-out farm land a “rest cure” has for tunately just about passed, says J, C. Hackleman, professor of crops extension at the University of Illi nois college of agriculture. “Calcium leaches out of the soil, and every ton of beef, pork or mutton or milk produced on these pastures *refhoves liitrogen, phos phorus, potassium and calcium or lime just as surely as does a crop of corn, oats, wheat or hay,” Hackleman says. “In addition, as these permanent pastures becom e less productive they provide less cover, and the result is more loss through erosion, until on rolling pas tures the present crop is largely w eeds or u n p a latab le weed grasses.” But these worn pastures are not hopeless, according to the crop spe cialist, and the response of most of them to treatment is almost mir aculous. Five simple steps will transform the average worn-out pas ture into a productive acreage in one or, at most, two years. The steps are to test the soil and treat it with needed minerals, disc these minerals thoroughly while prepar ing a reasonably good'seedbed, re seed with a mixture of legumes and grasses, control grazing for at least a year and clip weeds, giving the legumes and grasses a chance. Because of an increase of culti vated acreages during the war, greater acreage is now really ready for legumes than before the war, Hackleman says, of the fields limed in recent years majority RED CROSS POSTER COMES TO LIFE . .................... ■ . P f c . C a m p b e ll Gordon poster, and Peggyggy •winningQg poster, the war. Pegg;y' Neel, Red Cross hospital worker, examine the aph made of them at New Caledoni'a during \resting at her'M^' m e'lK ’ Neel, Red Cro a photograph made of them at New var. Pegg Ne’el is'restin g at her '’' ' Private Pyle has re-enlisted in the army. b u lw a r k ag a in s t encro a c h m e n ts of C o m m u n is t id e a ls and am b itions fro m th e E a s t . H e reco m m e n d e d t h a t th e ato m ic bom b be k e p t sec r e t. have not yet grown a legume, he believes. Rock phosphate which was used to the full extent of its availability during the last war years will also show up in improved alfalfa and clover production. RIOTS DURING STRIKES CONTINUE ^ . . Representative of other strik e s , tw o p ick e ts an d a policem a n strik e th e p a v e m e n t in th e action- packed scene as they clashed in front of the Western Electric com pany’s Kearney, N. J., plant. The police seem to have the situation well in hand. While some strikes have been settled, others have been announced to start during April. Violence has been reported in various parts of the country. MAV SUCCEED M A N N E R H E IM Premier Df, Jubo K. Paasi- kiwi, who is slated to succeed’ Field Marshal Carl Gustav Man- nerheim.as president of Finland, who recently resigned due to fail ing health. Mannerheim is 78 and served as wartime commander of all Finnish armed forces. He has been exp e c ted to resig n fo r som e KEEPS CANDIDATE IN ARMY . , . Lt. Col. Harold G. Hoffman, former governor of New Jersey, and again a candidate, received set-back when army ordered him into hospital for observation. He wants to run as a Republican. UPhiHipr r Winston Churchill and a , Missouri Degree i (Winston Churchill went to Missouri with President Truman, where he re ceived a degree from Westminster college at Fulton, Mo.—News Item). Missouri, meet England. . • • A John Bull, meet Huck Finn! . . . Eton, this is Kansas City. . . . Westminster Abbey, shake witli Westminster College! . . . An ex-British premier in Missouri. . . . Downing street and Main s treet.. . t London and Kansas City. . . . ' Plymouth and Hannibal. . . . ■.( Liverpool and Independence! . Shropshire and Calloway. . « • 'Nottingham and Taney. ; . . The Thames and “Big Muddy !*' This is Westminster College, Winnie. . . . ' ' Westminster away out ahiong the lohghoras. , Its name |s English hut it’s all Mis* souri. . . . 7 . It’s not one of the big eoUeies Bui it’s k right smart one. . s . It is n o Ykle or Harvard in lires* tige. . . . Bui it teaches teached.” they “stay There must be Missouri stuff in you, Winnie. . . . The stuff of Huck Finn and Joe Folk. . . . Claiborne Jackson and Charlie H a rd in . . . . Alec McNair and Mark Twain. You don’t really need a degree. . , , You’ve got more than an Injun has feathers. . . . . But this one won’t hurt you: “The Honorable Winston Churchill Honorary Old Grad of Westminster, Missourians have to be shown. « s You showed ’em,'Winnie. . . . >wh the world. You showed - --------------- .-,-aryprary degree.egree. . . . And some Missouri ham and can* As you h a v e _____ _ __ .. Have an hop d died yams! . . .. Help yourself to Missouri hospital . ity. . , , / . But don’t let that Truman hoy Give you any of those Eastern ' cigars! MAINE WINTERS SOFTENING UF “TI)e State is warming up. At North Jay a house that was built by mistake so the keyhole in the front door, lines up with the pre vailing winter winds has some times taken in as much as 37 bushels of snow through the key-r hole in a single storni. It’s been five years now since any storm has blown in more than 18 bush els. No storm this winter has blown in more than 15.”—John' Gould of Lisbon Falls, Maine, in the New York Times. CAN YOU REMEMBER— Away back when you could find a place to get away from trouble? ■ When anybody with fair eyesight coiilA tell the difference between ^a $5,000 one- family home and a $125 chicken house?, And away back when it isolated a man if he said he hadn’t a shirt to his back?. Boyhood’s Greatest Thrill AGAIN AND AGAIN . . . This gentleman since 1894 appears in Washington on every occasion to voice his opposition to one and all measures before congress. Now he is ag a in s t loan to B ritain . He is “General” Jacob S. Coxey, leader of Coxey’s army in 1894. He now wants to protest against the United States loaning any money to anyone in Europe. Buffalo Bill was born 100 years ago. We feel sorry for kids to whom he is a remote figure. What a thriUer the Buffalo Bill Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders was to the small fry of yesterday! It came every year back home,, and one of our earliest memories is see-, ing Buffalo Bill in the flesh, riding down Whalley avenue in an open hu^5gy,; .at. the head of the Injuns, cpwbdys and buffalo' hunters. The show was held in Westville, just back of the Nick Hubinger mansion. Once, lacking money to get in, we climbed, a tree to see the show and we almost imagine we go{ riddled by stray bullets in the hold-up of the Deadwood stage. H E B E AND W e B E Ilka Chase is running a-fever aft er reading the reviews on “I Love Miss Tilli Bean,” . . . Clifton Fin negan is our favorite radio comic. “A Walk in th e Sim” is th e most graphic war seen. . . . A “Applejack . . . There will be a big black market m. beer this summer. Jhic war picture ye ed has , A book title with a kick, :k for Breakfast.” . . . STAINED pa g e !
