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Friday, May . ifíl
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:he caldwell news
'HE CALDWELL NEWS
And The Burleson County Ledger
G B. CROMARTIE, Editor and Publisher
Anyway, We're Burying Our Dead
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Mother's Day
Next Sunday, May 10th, will be
Mother's Day. There will be millions
of flowers presented to mothers all
over the United States. Sons and
daughters everywhere will pay a
beautiful, sentimental tribute to then-
mothers.
This is as it should be. Our only
criticism of the observance of
Mother's Day as a speciul occasion
for doing sqmethiug lor mothers, .*
that it occurs only once a year. Some
times we wonder whether setting
apart a single day in the year for
this homage to mothers doesn't tend
to make children feel that they can
more or less neglect their mothers
the rest of the year. Not that the
mothers care. There is nothing u
child can do to its mother which can
alienate the mother's love. Some of
the finest, most touching examples
of mother love we have ever known
. or heard of have been expended upon
utterly worthless, thankless, useless
children. Mother love is the only
kind of love which does not demand
reciprocal affection from the object
of its devotion.
There is another side to the pic-
tore of Mother's Day. While we are
paying tribute to mothers we, as a
nation ate sacrificing the lives of
thousands of mothers. More than
16,000 women in the United States die
in childbirth each year. More than
10,000 of these wasted lives could be
aovad by proper maternity care. The
proof of that is the fact that there
la no such toll of deaths in any other
civilised country in the world, be-
cause everywhere else in the world
there is adequate care provided for
oil expectant mothers. A nation-wide
movement for the extension of the
work of the Maternity Center
Aasociation, which has been success-
ful in a limited field in greatly re-
ducing mortality in childbirth, has
been endorsed by the U. S. Public
Health Service and *he Federal Chil-
dren's Bureau. There is no commun-
ity too small or too poor to establish
a maternity center. Surely if mothers
are especially worthy of remem-
branc on Mother's Day, their live*
are worth sa\ ing ?
O
Looking Ahead at the
Weather
The art of forecasting the weather
has made tremendous advances sin , e
the U. S. Weather Bureau, oldest in
the world, was established 60 years
ago. Government forecasters are
now able to predict weather not mere-
ly tomorrow or next week, but the
general trend of weather condition -
for a long time ahead.
Looking ahead for the crop season
of 1931, Herbert Janvrim Browne, tin-
long range weather forecaster of
Washington, predicts that the after
effects of the drought of 1930 will be
felt all through the middle eastern
part of the United States. Not
enough moisture has yet been stored
up to make up for the shortage. Extru
heavy rains will be needed through-
out the growing season to insure nor-
mal crops. Thus far this year there
has been less than normal rainfall,
except in the extreme Southeast and
the Great Plains region. The subsoil
is dry in the Central Mississippi Val-
ley and the Middle Atlantic States,
as well as in parts of the Northwest.
And all over the country the water
table is low.
j AH of that means, among other
¡things, that the winter wheat crop
may easily fall forty million bushels
below government estimate, and that
j the rain shortage in the spring wheat
areas of the Northwest and Western
¡Canada will result of a crop as small
jas the low figures of 1929.
Such a continuation of comparative
i dryness will, of course, have its ef-
fect upon all crops, and while this
will mean misfortune to some farm-
ers, it should have the effect^ on the
whole, of materially raising the mar-
ket prices of all farm commodities
before the end of this year.
By Albert T. Reíd
úM
e
Farm Helps
THE WAY OF LIFE
By BRUCE BARTON
Whether We Peel That Way
or Not
A friend of mine tells me that he
has recently added to his income by
working in the evenings as a press
ogent for an amusement park.
It was his first cantact with that
peat industry which has grown up
out of the rather pathetic eagerness
of folks to be happy—to have their
minds diverted from their work and
worries.
He said: "My job has been hard
work, but it taught me one thing
that is priceless—how to look pleasant
whether 1 feel that way or not."
It reminded me of a conversation
I once had with the press agent of
O circus. In describing the freaks in
the side-show, he remarked: "Every
ao often we have to send them away
They get sucker sore."
"Sucker sore!" I exclaimed. "That's
new one on me. What's the mear,
of sucker sore?"
te explained that, in the parlance
of the circus, a customer is a sucker.
It is not a derogatory term, merely
the conventional phrase.
"The freaks sit there on their
raised platforms, listening to the
comments of the suckers who press
around them all day long," he said.
"The living skeleton heads the same
; rude jokes a hundred thousand times.
I The fat lady is poked at with
l umbrellas, and kidded by smart young
felows who imagine that their wise
cracks are something absolutely
fresh and new.
j "Day after day the freaks put up
with it, smiling patiently. But every
day the strain of their suppressed
emotions grows greater, until finally
they want to jump down off their
platforms and bite the customers,
i Then we have to send them away for
a rest. They are 'sucker sore'."
Most of us can sympathize with
the freaks; we, too, have been sucker
sore. There have come days when
• our tired nerves rebelled against the
demands of the customers who give
us a living; when we grumbled at the
job for which we should have been
grateful; when it seemed that all in-
terest had gone from our work, leav-
ing only dull routine.
It is wise on such days to pull down
Hie desk and walk out of the office
and say: "I will not be back until to-
morow."
Bui e.en thi: c .re does not always
work, or can not always be applied.
Soon or late we have to face the fact
that life is a fight, not a picnic. And
one of the elements of victory, in
the words of my friend, is the
capacity to "look pleasant, whether
we feel that way or not"
Commercial fertilizers won't give
satisfactory results in the garden un-
less the soil is well supplied with
humus and moisture. Turning under
green crops or coarse manure will
furnish humus and increase the
moisture-holding power of the sojl
Cutting too much pulpwood with-
out an assured market is risky for
the farmers, according to the Virginia
extension forester. If the wood is
not sold, it will be only a few months
until decay sets in, and much work
and wood will be wasted.
appropriation of $287,000 made at the
last session at the request of Con-
gressman John Garner.
A series of at least three storage
dams are to be constructed on the Rio
Grande. One is in the Big Bend sec-
tion and will be designated as the
main storage dam. Another will be
located between Eagle Pass and
Laredo. The third near Roma will be
a control dam.
HUMORETTES
Phone your local news to 69.
Angus—That settles it!
Sandy—What settles it?
Angus—Soda.
Sandy—Settles what?
Angus—Sour stomach.
Mrs. Homesteader: "We've got
, some new neighbors. Only ten mile j
j west of us."
Mr. Homesteader: "The eavesdrop-
pers!"
Poultry manure is a good fertilizer
for the farm garden, but it is so
rich in nitrogen that it may bum the
roots of shrubbery, trees, flowers, or
vegetables if placed in direct contact
with the roots or spread on the sur-
¿'ace in considerable quantities. Don't
apply more than eight or ten pounds
to 100 square feet.
Raspberries, like other small fruits,
are dependant on an ample supply
of moinsture in the soil. The soil
should be tilled and should be sup-
plied with humus not only during the
growing and ripening of the fruit but
also while the canes are developing.
Some gerdeners mulch their rasp-
berries to a depth of several inches
with straw, leaves, or green hay. j
THE FAMILY DOCTOR
By JOHN JOSEPH GAINES, M. D.
MWM
Is.
More About "Colds"
"Colds" and "heart disease" seem
to be in the vast majority of Ameri-
can ailments, if one keeps his eyes
open to complaints at home and
watches reports of sudden deaths
out-state. And colds are considered
not at all serious, though extremely
inconvenient to have on hand.
Let me again hammer this truth
home: The proper time to "break up
o cold," is at its very beginning.
When you begin to feel a little
"shivery/' and Win to sneeze fre-
ouently, with vague and shifting littk
about the different muscles,
a general indolent in incapable
tg, lack of appetite—maybe
Irish and apathetic, you are tak-
a cold; and the time to begin
is right then and there,
mind that, there is no de-
r in mind that,
for a purgati
is gMMJtivsly I
ve unless the
not functioning;
a non-irritant like
licorice powder
of i
within easy reach.
I I am aware that the patients re-
sents this admonition, but, the thing
to do, if you would be correct is—go
to bed and cover up warm, not mat-
ter what the time of day. If you do
this, you can break your cold com-
pletely within 24 hours—if you take
a simple glass of hot water every
Ihour. Add lemon juice if you wish;
'the kidneys need flushing quite as
i much—often need it more than the
bowel.
The principle is, restore the sur-
1 face circulation; most anything that
| keeps the skin warm and full of blood
| will cure a cold in short order, if
; taken early. If you wait two or three
days before beginning to treat, you
jmay as well figure to wear the cold
¡out by your Hheer powers of resist-
!ance—and you may get a cough that
lasts the better part of the winter,
¡simply by your neglect.
Warm, dry feet make a pretty good
insurance against colds. It was once
said, "keep the head cool, the feet
Most farmers judge the effect of,
green manuring by the quantity ond
quality of the uucceeding crops, but'
failure to produce an increase crop!
yield can not always be blamed to |
green manuring, says the U. S. De- ¡
partment of Agriculture. Both tem- j
perature and moisture of the soil;
greatly influence the decomposition
of green manure. Lack of moisture,
as well as temperaiures lower than
t)5 degrees F., retard growth of the
bacteria. Experiments have shown
that under the best conditions suc-
culent green manure was nearly all
decomposed in seven days, but at
low temperatures more than 14 days
were needed.
o
Flood Control
Survey Starts
WORK BEGUNS BY DEPARTMENT
ON RIO GRANDE
PROJECT
SAN BENITO, May 7. (UP).—
Work has been started under direc-
tion of G. E. Hale of the state reclam-
ation department for surveys of the
Rio Grande from El Paso to its
mouth in preparation for giant
storage and flood control works.
Surveying crews started at Gran-
jena, west of Hidalgo, at the western
entrance to the main flood (control
channel in the valley.
While this study is being made, an-
other force of men directed by George
Commons of Mercedes, started build-
ing guageB at several points to
measure the flow of the Rio Grande,
amount taken out, and the loss in
handling. Guages are being placed
at McAllen, Edinburg, San Benito
and other points.
With two phases of the genera) sur-
vey under way, a third and more
difficult part will be started soon.
This is the survey of domsites on
the Lower Rio Grande.
Carl Keeler of El Paso, engineer
at the office of the international
waters commission at El Paso, will i
arrive this week to complete prepar-1
ations for the survey of darn<-ite«
Keeler is in charge of all federal work
in this section, working under Com-
missioner Lawson of El Paso, is th I
only remaining American member of
the commission.
W. E. Anderson, San Benito, for
mer member of the international
commission, la advisory engineer.
Surveys an being financed bp ao
i. F. POLANSKY
Caldwell, Texas
THE SEASON'S NEED
Lawn
MOWERS
$9.75
If you have any sort of a
lawn there is a growing
need for a Lawn Mower.
The ball bearing
mower makes this a
very superior
m o w e r. Four
blade reel, 14
inch widths.
The kind
that cut-
easily.
Other
g o o d
tools.
SPADES
RAKES
HOES
FILES
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Improper bundling of fleshly cut
-t'ed is often responsible for poor
stands of potatoes thought by grow-
ers to be the result of poor seed, says
tue U. S. Department of Agriculture.
If you don't intend to plant freshly
cut'seed immediately, store it in open
crates or spread it out thin on the
floor and turn it over every once in
a while until the cut surfaces are
dry. The storage of freshly cut seed
in sacks, barrels, or bulk is dangerous
as it may generate sufficient heat to
injure its vitality or cause it to decay.
An absorbent such as land planter or
flowers of sulphur helps to dry the
out surfaces. Don't expose freshly
cut seed potatoes to direct sunlight.
Cade's
USED CARS
SELL FAST
Come in at once and look over this
stock of Used Cars . . . Here are
some of the biggest bargains we havo
I ever been able to offer.
—IB Years in the Business—
Our success has been built by
satisfying our customers.
. . SOLD ON EASY TERMS . .
¡'29 Ford Tudor
Sedan
'29 Ford
Touring
'29 Ford
Coupe
'29 Ford 4-Door
Sedan
'29 Chevrolet
Sedan
'29 Ford Pick-Up
Roadster
'29 Ford Pick-Up
Roadster
'29 Whippet 4-Door
Sedan
'28 Ford
Coupe
'28 Ford Sport
Coupe
'27 Overland Six
Coach
'27 Chevrolet
Coupe
'27 Chevrolet
Coupe
'27 Chevrolet
Touring
'27 Chevrolet
Touring
'24 Ford
Touring ..
'24 Ford
Touring
'24 Ford
Roadster
'24 Ford
Roadster
One year free service and guaranteed by us.
CHICK SALE
NEW LOW PRICES . . . THE LOWEST YET
Chicks hatched April 28th—-over one week old now
$6.50 per 100 $30.00 per 500
Don't delay. Get yours now and save money. Only
one more hatch and then we are through.
Raise White Leghorn chicks now to make money next
spring. Remember—few chicks have been hatched this
year and the egg crop is bound to be short next spring.
This means profits to the farmer who has a flock of
nice layers.
Don't wait This bargain won't last long
SUN-TEX HATCHERIES
Harry Herman, Operator
Caldwell, Texas
$295.00
250.00
325.00
450.00
395.00
265.00
250.00
265.00
295.00
250.00
175.00
150.00
135.00
110.00
135.00
85.00
95.00
49.00
85.00
TRUCKS
'27 Ford Ton Truck
cab and body
'27 Ford Ton Truck
cab and body
'24 Ford Ton Truck
cab and body
$165
150
95
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the rsnedy can always be the suae.
Good old Castovial There's comfort te
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frequent un. Aa altan as Baby hat •
fretful spell, is feverish, or cries and can't
sleep, let Castoria soothe and quiet him.
Sometimes M'i a touch of colic. Some*
Urna constipation. Or diarrhea — a
condition that should alwavs be checked
erithout delay. Just keep Castoria handy
and give it promptly. Belief will follow
very promptly; if it doesn't you should
call a physician.
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