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Weevil Must Be Controlled
Prospects lor a big cotton crop in the Valley are
food—
If the plants recover from the setback caused by
heavy rains late in May and—
If boll weevil damage is checked.
This is the opinion of H. P. Boyd, vice president
of the Valley Gin Co. and an authority on Valley cot
ton crops.
It is too early yet to say that a good cctton crop
Is in prospect, even if the weevil is controlled. Boyd
explains but the indications are favorable, he points
out.
The weevil infestation is the heaviest in years, he
declares, after a recent inspection of fields in all sec
tions of the Valley. It is not too late to control this
menace, but prompt action is required.
Large acreages of Valley cotton turned yellow
after the rainstorms of May because of too much
water. The plants appear to be recovering from this
damage in large areas.
The department of agriculture of .the United
Elates recently issued the statement that poisoning
cotton to control weevil infestations would prove
profitable if cotton was likely to sell at a profit, if
the poisoning was carried out in a manner to pro
duce results and if prospects for a crop were good,
considering that the weevils were controlled.
It appears that the present Valley crop will ful
fill these requirements for successful poisoning. It
remains only to do the work in an effective manner
_that is. poison often enough and early enough to
reduce weevil damage.
The first bale of the present crop Is ginned. But
one bale of cotton does not make & profitable yield
any more than one swallow makes a summer.
To reap the benefit to the individual growers and
to the Valley as a whole every possible bale must be
matured and gathered.
Th© United 8tates department of agriculture re
port for June 1 indicates the cotton crop throughout
the belt is not in good condition and this argues well
for favorable prices. This is another reason for
making every effort to mature a big crop in the
Valley.
The report as related to Texas says:
“In Northern and Central Texas rains continued
intermittently until the end of the month until prac
tically the entire state was well soaked. Some sec
tions had 15 to 20 days of rain with an aggregate of
over 15 inches In localities. Lowlands have been
flooded and the higher ones badly washed. High
winds early in May made a large part of the soil very
dry and gave prowing crops a severe setback
This a good reason for producing as large a cotton
crop in the Valley as circumstances will permit.
Advocates of World Peace
' Pres Hoover’s Memorial Day address sounded a
Mgh note for the outlawry of law. Gen. John J.
Pershing in his Memorial address declared for world
peace for all time. He implored the peoples of all
nations to banish the war god Mars and all his imp*
and satellites. World peace will come when civilised
man rules in all countries and under all skies. Greed
makes for war. Trade rivalry makes for war. Land
lust makes for war. Surplus population makes for
war. "Man’s inhumanity to man makes for war "
Creed prejudice makes for war Racial prejudice
makes for war. Man has some distance to travel be
fore he will look upon himself as a thoroughly civilized
being opposed to bloodshed and every ready to accept
the golden rule as his guide.
Jute Sacks Given the Acid Test
A Laredo newspaper writer reports the saving of
approximately 1625.000 to the onion industry of Texas
during the season of 1929 as the result of the substi
tution of Jute and saxoline sacks for onions. One
shipping firm used 100.000 jute and saxoline sacks.
Wore than 1800 carloads of onions were shipped from
Laredo while the season was on. Perhaps this is the
reason that Jute, which comes from India and other
countries, remains on the free list. Sacks instead of
crates led to this saving of more than $625,000 for the
onion growers of the commonwealth.
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Two Gallant Texas Colonels
Two lieutenant colonels have been added to his
tUff by the governor. He honored warriors of the air,
endurance heroes of the sky. Reginald L. Robbins
did James are the Texans in the spotlight. Sen.
Julian Hyer of Port Worth was master of ceremonies.
The new colonels are modest men They are not
spot lighters. They are not publicity speakers Like
Lindbergh, they are not given to speech. Col. Rob
bins told it all when he said to a tumultuous audience
under the big dome "We don’t speak like we fly.” It
was well said. There are flyers. There are talkers.
And the talkers are ever In evidence on the ground.
Speaking fs one aeronautical expert to another,
we’d say what that Zepp needs is more *ip.—Macon
Telegraph.
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If you see a home advertised now with a “beauti
ful view,” it jneans a delicatessen Is visible from the
front window.—Kay Features.
Hoover’s economic commission says we are “Just
on the fringe of prosperity." Most of us are on the
ragged edge —Elizabethtown 'Ky.l News.
‘ When an art expert can’t tell a copy of an old mas
ter from the original, a simple layman wonders why
the copy Isn’t worth as much as the original —South
ern Lumberman.
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_ By H. 1 PHILLIPS ‘ I
THE SAD CASE OF THE SPINACH ADDICTS
Children can be trained to like spinach. It's all
done by stimuli. The Institute of Child Welfare Re
search at Columbia Teachers College has been doing
it for the last year. Different taste stimuli, pleas
ant, unpleasant and awful, were given to the chil
dren over a period of 30 days, after which the kiddies
got so accustomed to it that they didn't mind.
According to the teachers, some children became
so fond of it that they became addiets. This brought
the experiments to an end and frightened the teach
ers very badly.
It is all very well to change over a child to a point
where he will eat spinach without a battle, but it is
another thing when the little one gets so he becomes
a regular spinach hound and wants it in everything,
including strawberry shorcake.
"It gave me an awful scare,'' confessed Miss Ma
tilda O. Schwartzburger, one of the teachers who con
ducted the big spinach experiment. "When I saw
the litUe dears taking their spinach with a smile and
not even muttering at me, I was delighted.” she said
today, "but when they begsn to demand it three
times a day, and even for dessert. I grew cold all
over.
'I guess we gave them too much spinach stimuli.
At any rate, the first time I experienced misgivings
was when 21 little boys and girls between the ages of
5 and 9 got up a round robin demanding an all-spin
ach breakfast. Up to that time we had been giving
them flapjacks and maple syrup in the morning. I
complied with this request, but got my first big shock
when we took 100 tots oil a picnic one Saturday and
served a big lunch of apple dumplings, waffles and
honey, bread and molasses and heaps of plum pud
ding. They refused to touch it and set up a cry of
‘What? No spinach?’
Then I realized what had happened. The chil
dren had become spinach addicts. It was pretty ter
rifying: I couldn't get any spinach then, but I fed
them raw dandelion greens while I summoned the
faculty. The faculty saw the situation at a glance.
To deprive them of spinach suddenly would have
made them nervous wrecks. We had to let them ta
per off over a period of months.
"Most of the children finally got so they could go
without more than one meal of spinach a day, but
we are still working on five little boys and girls who
have become spinach slaves.
*Tt is pitiful to hear them crying ‘6pin-n-n-nach!
Broccoll-i-i-i!’ all through the day and night.”
• • • •
"Would Bar Thugs from Hunting Licenses.—Head
line. Except in the open season for adult human be
ings: Jan 1st to Dec. 31st inclusive.
• * • •
“One Year Prison Term for Killing Weather Pore
caster.”—Headline. It seems sn excessive penalty.
A count has been arrested in New York as a boot
legger. That's the way it goes: every time an attempt
is made to Improve the tone of the profession the
government steps in and spoils everything.
• * • •
HEAR! HEAR!
The Actors' Equity is out to unionise the talkies.
The eight-hour lisp with time and a half for over
tones.
Opposition Is voiced by the picture magnates who
anticipate a crisis in which a movie star might walk
out in the middle of a four-syllable word.
Look for a sign over some motion picture cathedral
reading. “This theater employs only union voices.”
• • • •
Mr John David predicts that in another hundred
years styles in attire will have changed to such an
extent that men will appear in *'scanties” for street
wear, with legs bare from the ankles to Just above the
knees. Another hundred years? Aren't we going
cray any faster than that?
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Washiinigton Lsftftcer
By HERBERT C. PLUMMER
WASHINGTON. June 13.—There's an historic old
mansion on H street at Madison place which daily is
growing in popularity amonog high government offi
cials as a rendezvous.
In the distant past It was the home of Dolly Mad
ison. For more than a quarter century it has housed
the Cosmos club, one of the capital’s most exclusive
male organizations.
It is composed of men who have done meritorious
work in science, literature or the fine arts; those who
have distinguished themselves in a learned profes
sion or In public service, and those who, though not
occupied in these fields, are well known to be culti
vated in a specific department thereof.
The club was organized in 1878. Its membership
Includes artists, scientists and savants famous In all
parts of the world.
SUB ROSA CABINET
There was a time when the Cosmos club was re
tarded as the unofficial headquarters of the admin
istration. This was during the presidency of Wood
row Wilson.
Many of the war president's leaders were mem
bers. Franklin K. Lane. Chartea It. Crane. Newton
D. Baker. David F. Houston; economlats, sociologists,
college professors—these types were common in the
Wilson administration. The Cosmos club was their
natural habitat.
Then came the Harding-Coolidge administrations.
A different type of men composed the officialdom un
der these presidents. Bankers and business men were
in control. Prosperity was the keynote
Bit by bit the Cosmos club backed Into obscurity
as the government leaders foregathered in their
leisure hours to the Metropolitan club. Just beyond
the opposite comer. The Metropolitan has been fa
mous since its foundation for the wealth of its mem
bership.
GLORY OF OLD
Now there are unmistakable signs that the Cosmos
club Is coming back into the glory It once knew. Of
ficialdom gradually la veering back to the club that
President Hoover Joined in 1921 when he wss secre
tary of commerce.
There is Secretary Ray Lyman Wilbur, the edu
cator. a member since 1922. There is the political
economist type in Dr. Julius Klein, assistant secretary
of commerce. And there Is the technically efflicent
engineering type.
Such men as these, holding important poats in the
present administration, may be found in groups about
the parlors or at round tables In the dining room at
noon at the Cosmos club these days.
Some of them still refer to the president aa “ehleT
with the same enthusiasm and affection they did
when he was secretary of commerce.
The writer hears that mere than one Important
administration project is conceived or planned at
these little gatherings.
And when no task is immediately at hand, an
agreeable hour is spent in talking tbout the ‘ chief
and what he is doing.
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Believe It or Not By Ripley
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Selling aiflf
Count Orcsena sold the air above frieslandChoii&m)
tor 8000 Guilders. all windmill owners .
_AND PlCEON FANCIERS HADTo PAy FOR USING THE WIND /
T£fRAM£.MDI/tMIDOTRIPH£N/iWlH*C^OT«l
IS MUCH US£t> N LABORATORIES.
Kicking flowers wnu
a sledge-hammer.
UP 9HAHZA *<ti HonoluJo
gamers.coral Blossoms With a hammer.
BOB BEATTy
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basketball team')
SCORED TWICE
from The Field
- BUT BoTh Times
IN HiS opponent^
BASKET.
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A DRAB LITTLE^
MOTH FLIES TO
HAPPINESS
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READ THIS FIRST:
Vivian Matthews, shy and un
happy because she was a doorstep
baby, is called a ‘flat tire" by the
yotmger set of Bender. Kentworth
Hillman Johns III, to secure his
grandfather's fortune, offers her
one hundred thousand dollars and a
divorce In Paris at the end of a year
If she will marry him and, secretly
in love wtih him she consents. In
New York Vivian attracts Mann
Barkow. famous artist, and he flies
to Kansas to paint her. Aurello
“Dovie" Jansen, who jilted Kent to
marry Count Von Popper in Paris,
has returned mysteriously without
her count. She has a frank talk with
her mother about ways and means
of getting Kent back into her net
again.
While Vivian is posing in the
stunning white flying outfit Barkcw
has brought her, Dovie calls at the
house and is met and thoroughly
upset by “Pat" Sullivan, Vivian's best
girl friend and a former chorus girl.
Mrs Jansen, alarmed at the news
Dovie brings back of the changed
Vivian, decides to call on Kent and
"fix things.” Vivian sees Kent go to
the Jansens that night—and sends
for Barkow. He is puzzled, but com
forting and flattering.
♦ Now go on with the story >
• • •
CHAPTER XIX
They had agreed to go their sepa
rate way*—doing as they pleased—
and to Vivian knew she had no right
to question Kent about his three
hours at the Jansens’.
She longed, like any Jealous wife,
to rave at him and demand that he
stay away from Dovie. But why
should she? In her saner moments
she admitted to herself that she had
| absolutely no right, by their agree
ment. to fight against it. Kent's life
was to be bis own after then- year
was up—and what difference did it
make to her what he did? Let h’m
make an utter fool out of himself.
Blind idiot! It amazed her that he
could not see through Dovie’s sham
Vivian knew It was rude of her to
leave Mann *o suddenly when he
had been so kind to her. But she
felt he would understand and for
give any mood she might have. If it
were not for Mann and Pat and
Celeste she would go mad. How
loyal and good they all were!
No posing this afternoon.” Mann
met her at the door the next day
with a broad smile of greeting, al
though nothing had happened. "We
are going for a nice long sky jaunt.
It is a glorious flying day.”
She caught his hands gratefully
end said nothing. He understood
that she was thanking him word
lessly for his understanding. Btr
kow felt that Vivian would tell him
some day what was making her so
unhappy—and so bided his time. He
was actually getting a great kick onr
of living for a time in the littie
western town. He almost hated to
think of ever leaving It He smiled
when he thought that everyone ex
pected him in Paris and how they
would chide him if they knew he
had settled dowp for the winter in
the wide open space*. They would
think, of eourie. that it was a
woman. And the more he saw of
Vivian, the more he wondered what
it was about her that attracted him
to her.
She wasn’t gay. She wasn’t at all
the sort of girl he had always gone
around with. But there was some
thing smouldering there in those
green, lucinating eyes. Sometimes
he believed that It was her eyas that
drew him—the artist In him. He
only knew he wanted to be with her
—and that was sufficient reason for
a man who had plenty of money and
did not have to worry about where
“Oh—I love it!”
he spent his winters His painting
of her^s the sky girl really, he be
lieved, was going to be one of his
i best. That was excuse enough.
Mann looked closely at Vivian as
they walked through the sunshine to
the airplane hangar. She was very
pale %nd very unhappy. He felt
sorry for her.
“Surprise!” He laughed when he
opened the door of the hangar.
Vivian gave a little exclamation of
pleasure. The new two-seater had
arrived. It was striped a bright
hands and stood gazing at It raptur
orange and blue, anl looked like a
smart little bright bird all ready to
take wing.
"Oh—I love It!” She clapped her
ously. “Oh—I want one just like it
for myself!"
“You—do! You really want to
learn to fly and have a ship of your
own. my dear?"
"There is nothing in the world
that would give me so much happi
ness right now. I could get right
off the earth—all to myself, and take
my cares and worries to the clouds
and dump them overboard ”
"Cares and worries! You lucky
girl—with everything in the world to
live for!”
“Yee?” She raised her brows
“What do you know about my cares
and worries?”
“Not a thing—I’m merely wonder
ing how so lovely and so charming
a lady could possibly encounter any
thing hectic In a world that should
be made for her kingdom.”
“Blah—blah—blah!” She mocked
him. suddenly cheering up. He
could always—almost cheer her up
with his pretty sayings and his non
sense.
He handed her a heavy leather
coat and helmet.
"It is going to be a little cool in
the air today. It is almost October,
you know.”
When they had pushed the plane
from Its hangar and the sunshine
struck it Vivian knew that she had
to have one like it. Barkow studied
a moment—then held out his hand.
"Shake! Ill sell you this one."
“You—will?” Vivian cried happily.
“Sold!”
He named a prize that was ridicu
lous But Vivian, having no idea of
the price of airplanes, did not real
ize that she was getting such a bar
gain. He would have loved to give it
to her. But he knew she would not
accept it.
"Mine—you sweet little thing.” she
crooned like a mother to her lovely
baby.
"Oh. Vivid, am 1 REALLY your’n?"
Mann caught her hands and tried to
look serious.
She pushed him away.
"I mean the plane, of course '*
“Oh. why I beg your pardon." He
bowed very low. Then In an aside,
dramatically: “Coises! Foiled agin’."
The take-off was perfect. Vivian
no longer afraid, leaned over and
watched the beautiful ship rise ferom
the ground, bank to the side, and
begin to climb higher and higher. It
gave her the feeling that she vas
leaving her cares behind. They sud
denly seemed petty as she looked
below at Bender and the earth
A
Health and Right Living
BY ROYAL S. COPELAND. M D. 4
Former Commissioner of Health
You may have noticed that be
cause of the presence of smallpox
in England, the French government
would not permit tourists from that
country to enter France, without
their having been vaccinated withm
a reasonable time. As I view it. this
is as it should be.
We talked a lot about the “Golden
Rule.” As it is applied it relates
largely to moral and social contacts.
Why should we not think of the
‘Golden Rule" in connection with
our physical contacts?
I have no fault to find with our
friends who oppose vaccination and
other similar methods intended to
prevent disease. I would not say a
word today if the position they as
sume related only to their own tn
i dividual welfare
To my mind the right of self-de
termination is fundamental We
should never seek to trampl** upon
this right unless there Is abundant
and provable reason I might look
In sorrow upon a person taking a
course which to my mind is a mis
taken one. I might be so bold as to
remonstrate with him But when It
comes to a matter related to the
public health and the welfare of
many .individuals .there is no doubt
in mv-mind about the duty of gov
ernmedt.
I receive an occasional letter from
some honest and perfectly conscien
tious person, remonstrating with me
because I advocate such preventive
measures as vaccination and inocu
lation. They ask for conclusive
proof that such preventive measures
are actually useful.
This is not the time to discuss in
detail that particular criticism. I
shall pass It by for the moment with
the arbitrary statement that in my
opinion there is no more conclusive
fact in med’<*ine than the effective
prevention of smallpox by vaccina
tion and of diohthcria bv inocula
tion. Holding this view. I fee! that
the French government is to me
cemmended for its watchful rare of
th“ health and lives of its citizens
The person who habitually dwells
In one limited rezion,. a reeion where
no smallpox is present at the time;
may be excused if he neglects to be*
vaccinated. He is in no Immediate
danger himself and the community
will not suffer by reason of his
neglect.
If is quite another thing with the
individual who converts himself into
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bound mites that looked like a .Vs
rrawling along the streets now She
fancied she could see them all look
ing up and saying:
“My stars! There goes thase tv.o
crazy loons again. That artist feller
from New York and Kent Johns’
wife Don't see why he lets her go
oif breakin' her fool neck like tint ”
"Watch closely today.” Mann
leaned over and creamed in her ear.
I'm going to start giving you lessons
tomorrow. You'll have to take
ground lessons first—but keep your
eyes open and follow me lightly on
the stick.
It looked so easy. As though all
you had to do was move a little con
trol stick fastened to the floor back
and forth with your feet on a rud
der bar. Barkow- was an excellrnt
pilot. with a nonchalant air about
handling the plane that made ;t look
like child's play.
Vivian felt like a new girl an hour
and a half later, when they landed
back at the cottage As though th ?
burden of the world had been lifted
from her sli mshoulders.
“I must find a name for it.” she
told Tj rkow when they landed
And he grinned.
“Call it Moonshine. ' It makes yen
forsret your troubles.”
"That's lovely!” she cried But
not because of that. Bern us** it is
orange like a great yellow. Kanes*
harvest moon—and blue like the
skv—and because it belongs in the
skv”
"We ought to break a bottle of
hair tonic or something over it.” hr
kidded, “in that case. But since this
isn't the maiden voyage well dis
pense with it.”
It was late, and so she did not go
into the house. Kippv was waiting
in the car. watching resentfully
from the corner of his eye as thev
walked from the hangar arm in arm
—Pke two lovers.
“The boss Is a fool." he said to
himself. But his wooden countenance
betrayed no such thoughts as he
touched his cap.
Vivian was anxious to tell Kent
what she had done. Not because she
thought she had any right to tell
her affairs after his going to see
Oovie and staying three hours with
her. but because she wanted to see
what he would say.
They always had dinner tete-a-tete
for the benefit of the servants, al
though it was usually a fairly silent
meal. ' Sometimes he told her little
things that happened at the office—
and it made her very happy.
That evening she saw that he was
in a deep study, and knew* he was
thinking of Dovle and the mix-up
they were in She decided to be very
nonchalant about tailing him of
what she had done. So she said, as
though she had bought a hand
kerchief:
“Bv the way. Kent. I'm learning
to fly I bought Mann Barkow's
new- orange two-seater today "
“Fine.” he smlied absently. "I
imagine you'll aet a lot of amuse
ment out bt it.”
Not a word about, being careful!
what we may call a "public convey
ance.” If he is traveling through
Infected districts, he may. even un
knowingly, pick up germs of small
pox. He conveys them to another
community or another country and
makes himself a menace to every
one with whom he comes in contact.
The safe thing for you and for
society is to practice the "Golden
Rule" and be vaccinated.
• • •
ANSWERS TO HEALTH QUERIES
A. A. S Q —What do you advise
for acid in the system?
A —Correct your diet and avoid
constipation.
• • •
Ed. G Q —Whai do you advise for
falling hair?
A—Shampoo the hair frequently,
brush daily and use a good tonic.
• • •
M A. L. Q—What causes uric
acid?
A —This is usually due to faulty
diet. Cut down on meat and sweet*.
• • •
Miss J T. Q—What causes vari
cose veins in the legs—will massag
ing prove harmful? I am past 80
years of age
A.—Undue exertion or strain often
due to long standing, for instance.
Keep off the feet as much as pos
sible and try wearing an elastic
stocking or bandage on the leg dur
ing the davtime If the trouble i*
very painful or of long standing
more drastic measures may be neces
sary.
A S. Q.—Will careful diet help to
reduce high blood pressure?
A—Yes. Rrd meat. eggs, exces
sive salt and sweets should be elim
inated from the diet.
• • •
W B Q—What is the cause of a
person's ears becoming cold in warm
weather?
• • •
A —This is probablv a circulatory
condition. Try to build up your gen
eral health and you will probably
benefit.
DONALD C Q—Does smoking
i reduce a fattv heart?
lit
A—No.
1 He doesn't car. she thought to lier
) self, grimly. If I crash they will be
all wet with nothing In their way
<TO BE CONTINUED'
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Barber Shop And
Shine Parlor Is
Opened On Plaza
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A three-chair barber shop and
. shine parlor was opened Wednes
day on Adams street between 11th
and 12th streets by V. F Salmas.
The shop extends through the
block, fronting on the Market
Square also.
A complete line of cold drinks,
tobaccos, etc., will be carried by’ f 1 4
new shbp In addition to the shinlialV
and barbering facilities.
It will be known as the Club
Shining Parlor and Barber Shop
p represents strong
II stock fire insur
ance companies
and is qualified
to give you sound
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tion and compe
tent service. *
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boo to you.
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Complete Intuarnce
Service
Phone 6
666
la a Prtatrlptlov for
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Bilious Fever and Malaria.
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