The Flatonia Argus (Flatonia, Tex.), Vol. 58, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 23, 1933 Page: 2 of 6
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jW Ropecky, Editor
Entered at the Post Offict
at ’Halonia, Texas as seconi
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. March '8. 1879. ^
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J. W. Bailey Jr., congress-
man-at-large, will be a candi-
date for United States senate
next year. He is a very able
man and an outstanding wet.
It is hoped that the recogni-
tion of Russia by our govern-
ment will be of great benefit
to Texas, because Russia may
buy large quantities of raw
cotton here.
The repeal of prohibiton
means that a number of so-
called “nuisance taxes” will be
repealed by next congress. ja big irrigation project is es-
INSPECTING ' EXPERIMENT
STATIONS
The editor of the Arftu vu
away from the dffied all of
last week, raakjng a trip
through north and west Texas
inspecting seven of the ^Experi-
ment Stations of the A. & M.
College located in that part of
the state. This itinerary carried
us to Temple, Denton Iowa
Park, Spur, Lubbock and to
Sonora, making a total of
1416 miles for the round trip.
It was a most interesting trip.
At the Temple station most
of the experiments are with
the cotton root rot and soil ero-
sion. After several years study
it was establUl.ed that cotton
root rot is produced or brought
about by small substances in
the soil, called sclorotia, peb-
ble like and producing fungus,
which is deadly to cotton roots.
These substances have been iso
lated and kept alive for 4
years, but how long they may
continue to live is a problem
yet to be solved. So tar only
partial remedy for root rot is
rotation of crops and early
breaking of land, but there is
no definite remedy as yet esta-
blished how to exterminate
these pests.
At the Denior station most
experiments are with miall
grain, oats and wheat. Here
they produce certified pure
oats and wheat seed and hand
same to planters.
At Iowa Park station, where
Among others, no doubt, will
be the 2c tax on bank-checks.
Our state will offer for sale
one half of the five million vu
dollar bond issue for relief .growing vegetables and cotton.
tablished on the Wichita River,
where thousands of acres of
fertile land can be irrigated
by gravity flow, extensive ex-
periments are carried on by
, |growing vegetables and cotton,
work on Dec. 1st. The Federal i Kine cotton is produced there,
government is asked to supple- better than bale per acre and
ment this by $1,600,000 grant.'
Note the advertisement in
this issue of the Argus of
our new combination offer of
The Argus and The Pathfind-
er—value $2.50—both- papers
one year for only $1.90. Place
yoi<r order now.
Another special session of
the legislature is in prospect
early next year. More relief
money will be needed and
funds for financing the state
centennial celebration are to be
provided. ,t gg p
State attorney general Jim-
mie Allred continues to have a
political bee in his hat. He in-
tends to make a race next year
for governor or for the Uni-
ted States senate Definite an-
nouncement is promised on
Dec. 16th.
Order the. Argus for that
relative or friend of yours as
a Christmas present. ]L% will
mean to them a regular week-
ly visitor from the old home
and a pleasant reminder the
year round of your kindness
and generosity.
There is no other economic
subject the average citizen
knows less about than money.
This may seem strange, but it
is true. He uses it daily, but
the tokens with which he bar-
ters, are not really money at
all, and their actual value lies
m the credit of the govern-
ment issuing them. Gold is the
only real money, it is seldom
seen and is jealously hoarded
by the treasuries.
with fine staple, bring on the
market $5 premium per bale.
Root rot is here however, do-
ing lot of damage to cotton,
alfalfa, and fruit trees. New
industry is developing here in
raising good quality onion
seeds at a very reasonable
price.
The Chillicote station has
produced and given to far-
mers Sudan Grass and several
grain sorghums, Milo Maize,
Feterita etc. Now they are de-
veloping additional new crosses
along this line, along with the
Lubbock station. These new
grain sorghums will produce
valuable yellow grains, larger
heads and of uniform stalks so
they may be more readily har-
vested by machinery.
At Spur, much attention is
given to conservation of soil
.nd little moisture or rainfall
they have in that section. Cot-
ton and grains are principal
crops. Cotton is producing bet
ter than half bale per acre. All
through this section cotton was
killed by, recent frosts and
picking—rather gathering of
cotton was in full swing, here
they pull whole bolls and gins
separate lint from the spurs
and make a real job of it. Gins
are operating 24 hours daily.
At Spur feeding of beef cattle
with ensilage is being done.
At Lubbock cotton, grain
sorghums and tree culture are
main experiments, as well as
feeding of hogs and curing of
meats. Here they have devel-
oped tree-like cotton stalks
with very small leaves, espe-
cially ^prepared for ndachine
cotton picker. The College has
developed a machine and just
then it was in operation on
the station. Well cured hams
SAFE WALKING
The Travelers Insurance
Company has issued an inters
esting report on the hasards
faced by pedestrians on streets
and highways, that deserves
wide notice.
Many of the facts produced
In one of its recent releases
the alwaysrcautioug (Standard
Statistics Company, which
makes a business of fact find-
Many oi tne tacts produced *»* uninfluenced by opinion gl-
are certainly obvious to anyone prejudice, reports that real es-
who bothers to think about, tat? Yal“e» extreme y de«
“safe walking” at all—but if I Hated, that building costs are
the statistics mean anything, and *bat time 18
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those who have thought about
it are rare. It’s obvious that the
safest place for the pedestrian
to cross a street is at. an inter-
section with the signal—yet
thousands of people were kill-
ed last year because they cros-
sed against the signal, or went
diagonally from corner to cor-
ner or crossed the street
in the middle of the
block. According to the
Travelers, crossing in the mid-
dle of the block has 156 per
cent more chances of resulting
in death to the offender than
in crossing properly.
Darkness adds greatly to pe-
destrian hazards, especially
along highways where cars are
moving at high speeds, when
it is often impossible to see
persons dressed in dark cloth-
ing until it’s too late to stop or
avoid them. The influence of
the seasons is likewise import-
ant—in the first and last quar-
ters of the year the rate of
pedestrian deaths is 25 per
cent greater than in the second
and third quarters.
Safe walking is something
the country needs to learn. Last
highly opportune for con-
struction as an investment.
It’s difficult to see how, un-
der any imaginable circum-
stances, real estate values
could sink lower. They’ve
touched the absolute bottom—
now they’re moving up. And
construction, under the spur of
recovery plans,ris moving out
of the doldrums that kept the
industry at a standstill for 3
years, and is reaching sounder
levels. *
Bankrupt prices aren’t going
to be offered us much longer.
In the near future, we’re going
to pay twenty or fifty or a
hundred per cent more to build
and repair than we would have
to pay now. We’re going to pay
more for land, lumber, roof-
ing materials, cement heating
equipment — everything that
is needed for home building.
Yes, it’s really the time to
build. Opportunity is knocking
now more loudly than it ever
knocked before — and thou-
sands of people with money to
spend are taking advantage of
it. As for those other thou-
sands of others who have the
me country neeas 10 learn. Last------ , ------- ■ —
year the pedestrian death toll)money but Prefer to walt and
came to 13,500—a ghastly 9ee” well> they »ight medi-
achievement for
and ignorance.
carelessness
RECOGNITION OF RUSSIA
BY U. S.
Washington, Nov. 21.—Af-
ter many conferences with the
State Department and Presi-
dent Roosevelt Maxim Litvi-
noff, the Soviet foreign minis-
ter, finally succeeded in secur-
ing recognition of his govern-
ment. More conferences are
carried on here this week to
work out details of new rela-
tions between these two gov-
ernments since there were no
connections between the U. S.
and Russia the past 16 years.
Immediately after final deci-
sion on recognition President
Roosevelt left for a vacation
in southern states. First U. S.
ambassador to Russia will be
Wm. Bullit, under-secretary in
the office of secretary of the
State, who has made for se-
veral years a special study of
Soviet Russia and has recom-
mended recognition of this go-
vernment for the past 5 years.
The Russian government on
the other hand named Alex-
ander Antonovich Trovanovs-
ky as ambassador to U. S. Tro-
vanovsky was a former artil-
lery officer in the czar’s army
and former ambassador to Ja-
pan. He is recognized as an
outstanding figure in the sovi-
et government.
It is understood that (he so
viet government will permit
freedom «of worship to all Ame-
ricans living in Russia, settle-
ment of debts and claims had
been negotiated and new trade
treaties are being perfected.
of Kansas an opportunity to
■«y at the ballot box whether
they desire to attempt to main-
tainJ£?0™k,t'on' in the changed
conditions which now exist.
The election will be held in
November next year and no
doubt both sides will wage a
vigorous campaign.
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both the Federal go-
t and the states are
forward to liquor as
of providing tremen-
of new revenue,
to a great danger, how-
that there will be too
fingers in the flowing
nd that this legal stuff
too expensive by the
m the ultimate
:e there may be
^ if interesting to observe
that Kansas Legislature had —
adopted a resolution, 38 to 2iand bacon is put away and
in the Senate and 95 to 24 in packed in dry slacked 'lime
the House to give the people and wa9 in good state of pre-
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At Sonora a ranchman’s
station is maintained, where
sheep, goats and beef cattle
are being raised and treated
for various diseases. This is a
most valuable station for the
livestock industry. Several
dangerous diseases, as the
sore mouth, swell head and
bitter weed poisoning had been
successfully combated. Just
during the past season 1,343,-
000 doses for the first disease
had been distributed among
the west Texas ranchmen,
which proved to be 100'J ef-
fective.
While in this ranch para-
dise, where deer and wild tur-
key abound and the hunting
season has just opened, it was
business.
■fin !
the bootlegger to ito° much temptation to return
--- (home without some game. We
were lucky enough to bag a
real six-point buck and
brought home the venison. This
being the first one in our life
—and perhaps the last one—
sportsmen will appreciate our
feelings on the way home. Dur-
ing the first day of the hunt-
ing season about 350 bucks
were slaughtered in this hilly
country.
Have brought along a few
specimens of the various farm
products which are now exhf
bited at the Argus office for
your inspection. We have been
convinced that farmers here
cannot compete with cotton
planters of the Northwest,
where one man can cultivate
160 acres of field, produce
bumper crops and gather same
with a machine at a very small
cost. Cost of cotton picking by
a machine to estimated at $2.50
per bale and cotton produces
from one half to one bale per
acre. Same may be said of
sorghum grains, which produ-
ces many tons per acre of
grain and is cut by a ma-
chine, which heads tne grains
and threshes it out with only
one operation.
tate on the fact that by the
time they do find out that
things are really changing, it
will probably be too late to do
anything about it.
TROUBLE IN THE FARM
BELT
There’s trouble in the farm
belt. There have been strikes
and violence and threats. Far-
mers have refused to pay tax-
es and debts. Strikers have pre-
vented through force of arms
the movement of farm pro-
ducts from producer to distri-
butor.
The cause lies in the fact
that the agricultural income,
as a whole, has been declining
while urban income, which
controls the cost of living, has
oeen going up. The exchange
value of farm products re-
cently touched one of the low-
est points of depression.
One can ympathize with far-
mers facing this condition. But
the thing they should attack
is the actual cause of the con-
dition—instead of tilting at
windmills. Violence never cur-
b’d an economic ill, and it ne-
ver will. The great difficulty
faced by those seeking to aid
the farmer, is lack of organiza-
tion. Millions of producers are
unorganized, with no one who
is controlled by their desires,
to speak for them. It has been
too much of every man for
himself, with the result that
few have prospered.
Certain g*roups of farmeiyj
all
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Corn interests' are seeking the enactment of ' laws
making mandatory the blending of coi'n aJcohol with ga**
soline. Wheat interests want wheat alcohol blended with
gasoline. Both will add to the cost of motor travej. Le-
gislators are considering higher gasoline*taxes and di-
version of motor tax revenues collected for roads - to
“other purposes.” There is agitation not only for further
taxation, but further regulation and restriction of high-
way use. It looks like a tough legislative year for the pio-
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have shown how to change all
this. The cotton growers of
the South, for example, are in
sounder position than in a long
time—because they have an
established, well supported co-
operative with which to fight
their battles. The milk produ-
cers of New York are in a si-
milar position, and when vio-
lence broke out there among
non-organized farmers, it was
the cooperative which did most
to restore order and point
out of the futility of dumping
milk shipments and blocking
highways and waving guns.
Other cooperative groups, in
other parts of the country,
have equally impressive rec-
ords. ,
It is these organized farmers
who are getting somewhere by
standing solidly behind their
cooperatives. And that means
real agricultural progress.
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Dr. A. Lampe, veterinary
•urgeon from La Grange, Texas
will be in Flatonia December
the 1st. Bring your sick stock
and have them treated.
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Kopecky, Joseph. The Flatonia Argus (Flatonia, Tex.), Vol. 58, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 23, 1933, newspaper, November 23, 1933; Flatonia, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth988786/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Fayette Public Library, Museum and Archives.