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THE SHAMROCK TEXAN, Shamrock, Texas
Monday, November 4, 1940
The Army’s New Scout Car—In Fighting Trim
Stewart Says—
Colonel Ayres
Holds Same Job
As in Last War
To Police Election Buying First Defense Stamps
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Members of the 22d Reconnaissance Cltveiandfohio" The^cars^do
8Cout car for the and can climb steep grades.__
Texas Has Good Feed Crop
Due To Drouth Resistant
Qualities Of Grain Sorghum
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To Head West Point
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
COL. LEONARD P. AYRES, re-
cently conscripted -by the govern-
ment as its chief statistician in
connection with its defensive pre-
paredness program, is better
known as an economist than as a
^ military man.
Texas has a dependable feed crop \ alized that a damaging plant disease
ef both grain and forage because of was present a considerable commer-
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the high producing and drought re-
sistant qualities of the grain sor- ---- ------„----
ghums. The almost inevitable sum- , greatly reduced,
mer drought often occurs early I - -
enough to jeopardize the yields of
torn and the corn plant can not in
cial increase had been made and
the damage from the disease was
New Milo Popular
In the spring of 1940. Texas Certi-
eom unu me v—— — —• --- ; jfjed Seed Growers alone sold more
its advanced stages recover from the ; one million pounds 0f Texas
effects of drought. The grain sor-1
effects of drought. Tire grain sor- | seed which is enough to plant
schr^ahrthon° ther a^hable mms- ! approximately 25 ^ Cent °£ the
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some grain on the available nuns- , ^ e devoted to this variety in
ture or are able to suspend growth . Texas This new strain of resistant
until moisture arrives and then pro- | ^ has tlcaUy repiaced the old
teed to produce grain anytime be- j susceptible milo in Texas within the j
fore frost. ; past {ive years. The few individual
Accordingly, the grain sorghums ; growers who failed to use the new
produce as large or larger average , resistant straln in 1940 sustained
. , , __ikon rr\m in t.Vlfi . - 1___
yields of grain than corn in the j large losses because Milo root
western two-thirds of the state and j wag agajn present in virulent form
fnvn era mnrp valuable than',.,. ■LT,rP.vtHc a nr? Dnrsn arc
the forage is more valuable than Milo> Milo Hybrids, and Darso are
.it
tom stover. The grain sorghum ap variedes susceptible to this dls-
graln in rations for fattening either j ease Fortunately Feterita, kafir, and
cattle, hogs or lambs is equal to , Hegari are resistant. During the past
Nevertheless, he
did do govern-
ment statistics
for Uncle Sam
during the last
World war, and
was drafted for
.«« | . the s a m e j 0 b
'''■%*%*[ tins time be-
cause his work
if H was so capable
§||||k h in that era.
HHEkn HR Since then
Colonel Avrcs he's been editor
of the Cleveland
Trust company’s bulletin, dealing
with business conditions, of the
moment and in prospect. The
company gave him a leave of ab-
sence for his present duty.
His bulletin has been one of the
most interesting publications of its
kind anywhere in the country.
Nevertheless, the celebrated
Pete Witt, also of Cleveland, didn't
approve of It. The northern Ohio
city has been the single tax capi-
tal of the United States ever since
the days of the late Mayor Tom
Johnson. Tom was a dyed-in-the-
wool believer In Henry George-ism
and Pete was his foremost lieuten-
ant. The single tax isn’t as mili-
tantly fought for now as it was
then, but Pete Witt never for a
minute lost faith in it.
Well, the single taxers’ philos-
ophy is altogether different from
Colonel Ayres' and Pete whole-
heartedly disapproved of the lat-
ter. He said the colonel’s commer-
cial forecasts were pure guess-
work—not a bit of science about
’em. “Why, if I were mayor of
it«m " Vio
Maurice M. Milligan, U.S. Attor-
ney for the Western District of
Missouri, has been named to con-
duct a nation-wide investigation
into frauds in connection with the
national election. His appointment
followed complaints regarding reg-
istration irregularities and other
violations.
"Sister Kay”
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Brigadier General Robert L.Eichel-
berger, commandant of the Presidio
in San Francisco, has been ap-
eom pound for pound as snown m sevt3ral years resistant strains ox in San Francisco, naa
many experiments. The grain sor- f the sUsceptibie varieties has j pointed West Point',
ghums are not so high in fat as K_ nnpr, hv the Station and ! Military Academy at j’
tom, but they are higher than corn
In protein and when supplemented
by feeds rich in fat such as whole
cottonseed, give excellent results in
the feed lot.
Research Program
The Research Program, led by R.
E. Karper, Agronomist in Charge ol
Sorghum Investigations, is being
conducted largely at the Lubbock
and Chillicothe Stations. Work is
also In progress at other substa-
tions. The Texas Experiment Sta-
tion work in sorghum breeding and
improvement has for many years
had a profound influence upon this
crop and the agriculture built around
it in the Southwest. At least 95 per
cent of grain sorghum acreage of
the state traces its origin to pure
line selections or new hybrid varie-
ties distributed by the Station. Pure
line selection has been extremely
effective in Isolating uniform, early,
and productive strains from the
mixed varieties introduced into this
country from Africa and the Orient.
The method for purifying sorghums
by bagging the heads to prevent
cross-pollination has played an im-
portant part in maintaining the
purity of grain sorghum seed and
has furnished a workable basis as a
foundation upon which rests the
registration and certification of seed
stocks. Today one seldom sees in
Texas the mixed mongrel fields so
common ten or twenty years ago.
Principal Objectives
A few of the principal objectives
in the present breeding work for
new sorghums for Texas' farms can
be briefly outUned as follows:
1. Resistance to milo root rot.
2. Dwarf, early combine types
which will yield well and stand up
In the field for combine harvest-
tog’
3. New sudan grass varieties,
producing better yields of more
palatable pasture and forage.
Sweet, juicy stem, non-shattering
seed, and resistance to leaf spot
have been incorporated into these
new strains.
4. sweet-stemmed kafir and ml-
5. Yellow seeded hegari and fet-
6. White seeded or tannin-free
sumac sorgo resistant to foliage
diseases. , t .
7. Breeding for resistance to
charcoal rot.
In 1935 a very serious plant dis-
been developed by the Station and | mRar^ Acade y a^ Wes^ Point,
seed has been distributed to farm- ! _Y._He succeeds -------
JN. X. Xie suaccuo .Viv: ,-----
seeu iuu> uccii -------- j k Benedict, who will take com-
ers. The list of resistant strains now ; of one of the f0Ur newly
. TV/riln nwarf I e.
Includes Dwarf Yellow Milo, Dwarf j
White milo, Early White milo, Dou- j
ble Dwarf Yellow milo. Sooner milo,
Darso, and Sumac. There is no long-
er, therefore, any reason for grow-
ers to suffer the losses from 25 to
100 per cent in grain and forage
that results from planting suscep-
tible strains on diseased land.
During the past two seasons seri-
ous damage to crops of grain sor-
ghum from Charcoal Rot, or Sclero-
tium bataticola, has been observed
over much of West Texas. Practic-
ally all varieties of sorghum are sus-
ceptible to this disease, but serious
damage has most frequently been
observed In milo. Feterita and He-
gari are also quite susceptible.
The advent of this new disease,
which attacks the base of the stalks
just before maturity, rots the pith
and causes the stalks to fall down,
is likely to cause a shift to varieties
that are not so seriously injured by
this disease. Resistance to this new
disease is one of the objectives of
the present sorghum breeding pro-
gram.
Sumac sorgo, the most popular
formed army corps.
forage sorghum in Texas, has seed
that are high in tannin content.
This variety is being converted into
a tannin-free type, the seed of
which are as palatable as that of
grain sorghums.
Work Progressing
The breeding work In obtaining a
Studies are under way to work out
the most succesful and satisfactory
procedure for me production of Hy-
brid Sorghum seed comparable to
the Hybrid Corn seed recently com-
ing into such prominent use. Sev-
eral angles of approach are being
tiled, but the use of a male-sterile
character recently discovered by J.
C. Stephens at the Chillicothe Sta-
tion gives the most promise at pres-
ent. There are a number of problems
that must be worked out before Hy-
brid Sorghum seed is a commercial
reality, but the studies of each year
bring the idea closer to reality.
Combinations Tried
A large number of dwarf, early
combine sorghums are being tested
in breeding blocks and a few of
them have been distributed in a pre-
liminary way for trial among farm-
ers. Many combinations of crosses
are being selected and tested for
yield, disease resistance and their
adaptability to combine harvesting.
Yellow seeded sorghums are pre-
ferred in the channels of trade and
usually bring a premium on the
market. Yellow seed color is being
Incorporated in such white seeded
varieties as Hegira, feterita, and
kafir. In order to obtain attractive
yellow colors with Hegira and feter-
ita, it Is necessary at the same time
to eliminate the colored undercoat
non- shattering, sweet - stemmed, j to the breeding and selection pro-
juicy Sudan grass of distinctive seed cess- Sweet stemmed var
color is progressing satisfactorily, both B ackhul kafir andl Dwarf jel-
Swcetness, juiciness, non-shattering low milo are alao betag developed.
seed habit, a certain amount of re
slstance to several foliage diseases,
and Sienna glume color have been
introduced into Sudan grass by
The purellning of the grain sor-
ghums has not only Increased the
yields by inclusion of only the high-
est yielding types, but by causing
crossing with Leoti sorgo. The'more uniform maturity, thereby
breeding process has consisted of j helping to evade: damage from1 the
back-crossing to Sudan grass several sorghum midge. Uniform.height has
times with selection following each
hybridization. A large number of
strains that appear to be much su-
perior to Sudan grass are In the
breeding rows. One or more of the
better strains will be Increased for
distribution as soon as their merits
for palatabillty, grazing and yield
have been decided upon.
Early Hegari is a recent addition
to the list of varieties adapted to
Texas. Seed of this new variety was
farmers and to the
also been secured which facilitates
harvesting the heads by machinery.
Thus the breeding work of the Tex-
as Station with this Important crop
has removed it- fram the category of
doubtful and erratic yields and has
enabled uniformly high production
under practically all of the soil and
climatic conditions prevailing In the
Southwest.
1935 a very serious piain uu- distributed to uumwa ^ v..-
Pythium arrhenomanes, which Certified Sorghum Seed Growers
Milo Blight or Milo Root Rot this year. The value of Hegari itself
me widespread in Texas. For- ! is well known, but the place of tills
Ltelv the presence of the disease new variety has not been fully de-
- - ----- ------« termlned for the different regions
of the state. In West Texas It will
be valuable as a forage and grain
producing type for late planting and
is a valuable early grain sorghum
for South Texas. When planted in
June, Early Hegari produces large
yields of both grain and forage.
recognized before it became
serious and a resistant strain
Yellow milo which is now
Texas milo was isolated by
and was ready for dls-
1 1937 to Texas farmers
Certified Seed Growers,
it became generally re-
Wife Preservers
this town,” he told me, the last
time I saw him, "I’d have that
chap run out of it, as a fortune
teller."
A Criminal Alien
Not long ago a veteran Wash-
ington correspondent for a foreign
newspaper had to register as an
alien. He’s been in this country
since away back under the Hoover
administration, but he’s never
been naturalized
One of the questions put to him
was, "Were you ever convicted of
a crime?”
Unhappily, while prohibition still
reigned, the guy once had been
caught taking a drink in a speak-
easy and had been penalized for It.
Regretfully he mentioned the inci-
Ident in the questionnaire, turned it
In to the proper official and start-
ed to get out, hoping to escape be-
fore his malefaction was noticed.
“Hey," yelled the official, stop-
ping him, “you can’t get away
with this.”
“W-w-what?” stammered the
miserable outlander, who hadn’t
realized that his offense was de-
plorable.
“Heck, no,” rejoined the func-
tionary “Taking a drink in a
speakeasy was no crime.” And he
scratched it off the record. "Gum-
ming up our registration with that
kind o’ stuff!” he muttered impa-
tfently.
Passion for Anonymity
Lowell Mellett has just been
named as one of President Roose-
velt’s executive assistants—“with
a passion for anonymity ”
The president himself asked for
six of these aides, specifying the
“anonymity passion” as the most
essential of their qualifications.
Congress provided him with the
sextet, though it didn’t specify
anonymity The White House nev-
er has named the full six of them,
but it does pick oqe now’ and then.
And (by gravy) they certainly are
anonymous. Their appointments
are announced at the time they’re
made, and that’s the last that ever
is heard of them. What they do,
as executive assistants, heaven
knows. I don’t believe it would be
possible to get a full list of ’em.
Mellett the Invisible
Lowell undoubtedly Is personally
acquainted with as many newspa-
permen as any scribe in the
U. S. A. He’s worked, on impor-
tant journalistic jobs, from ocean
to ocean. He’s been a Washington
managing editor. But he always
has been quite an advanced liberal.
When his newspaper bosses turned
conservative he quietly evaporated.
Nobody knew much about It. He
simply turned up missing.
Then the New Deal chose him
as director of the office of govern-
ment reports. He could have made
a splash in that berth. It brought
him into contact with publicity op-
portunities aplenty. He stayed as
quiet as a mouse Instead.
Besides being a presidential ex-
ecutive assistant he remains gov-
ernment reports director — twin
positions. I’ll gamble that he
makes no more noise as twins than
he did in his individual capacity.
I’ve worked alongside that boy on
several newspapers and boarded in
the same house w-ith him. Yet he’s
so anonymous that I scarcely know
him any more. He surely has a
passion for it.
President Roosevelt purchases from Postmaster General Frank C.
Walker at the White House the first of an issue of stamps featuring na-
tional defense. The stamps are in one, two and three-cent denominations.
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“Fisherman’s Luck’
"Sister Kay” the beautiful nurse
at University College Hospital, in
London, has been identified as the
Duchess of Kent. She completed her
50-hour course and now is a quali-
fied nursing auxiliary. On a recent
visit to the hospital by the Duke,
she was presented and curtsied like
the other trainees. _
Safety Hints
For Winter
Constipated?
eat sau
Never
_____constipation,
les and back pains.
Now, I
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An outdoor fireplace may be used as a
ti-ash burner and sc do double duty.
ADLERIK A
Tindall Drug and Shamrock Drug Co.
Use extra caution with ladders on
snowy, Icy or frozen ground. Prongs
or spikes on the lower ends of the
ladder prevent slipping.
Stay off the windmill ladder and
platform when Icy.
Use salt on steps or porches to
melt ice. Scatter ashes or sand on
walks to prevent slipping.
Nail down loose* boards and re-
place missing ones In board walks.
Snow may conceal a dangerous trap.
Drying clothes, shoes or kindling
in a bake oven or near the stove has
started many fires. Better let things
dry more slowly at a safe distance
from the fire.
Lanterns are used more frequently
in winter for chores in the bam.
Provide a safe hook to hang the
lantern where it cannot be accident-
ally upset.
Inspect gas pipes carefully. Nevei
allow them to be used to support
clothes lines, clothing or utensils.
Gas tubing should not be used in
any connection where pipe can be
used.
Gas heaters exhaust the oxygen
in a room. For this reason they are
not safe to use in a bathroom or
other small room.
Never look for a gas leak with a
lighted match or flame. Air the
room, then spread soapsuds on the
joint. If there is a leak, the suds
will bubble.
Thaw frozen water pipes with hot
water, not with flame—more than
one house has burned in zero wea-
ther from using flame on the water
pipes, when the flame ignited wood
near the pipes.
Open the garage door before at-
tempting to start your car. Carbon-
monoxide gas is formed in greater
amounts by a cool motor. The gas
is tasteless and odorless, and does
not make its presence known until
too late.
Proper adjustment and equaliza-
tion of the brakes on your car is
especially important in winter when
roads are slippery. Do not apply
brakes suddenly on slick roads;
practice the art of shifting to sec-
ond gear to reduce speed.
The safest way to illuminate a
Christmas tree is with an electric
lighting set using only small bulbs
that generate little heat. Sets with
broken Insulations or with improper
fittings are hazardous, and should
be checked before using.
The supply of first aid antiseptics
and bandages should be replenished
i for winter emergencies. Prompt first
aid treatment of all minor cuts and
wounds will forestaU many serious
infections.
H«rdv fishermen, dragging in their strong cotton net, bring in
,n unwanted catcK floating mine-in this painting by the noted d-
lust,alive artist, Anton O. Fisher. Urn* knovvn^forjts
lustrative artist, Anton u. nsiiei. ------- . « . i
endurance in the fishing industry, cotton likewise plays an imP°rta»
-oart in naval war, with cotton cellulose probably serving as the base
for the explosive in the fishermen’s mine. Clothing for sim ~rs, eanva
for deck coverings, cellulose for explosives—all are prodr.:.; of cotton.
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Montgomery, Arval. The Shamrock Texan (Shamrock, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 51, Ed. 1 Monday, November 4, 1940, newspaper, November 4, 1940; Shamrock, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth528767/m1/6/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Shamrock Public Library.