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Fe - - E Are Washing Away Over 100,000 Acres of Farm. Land Made Poor Dujing 1932 Crops and their prices, the devasta- tion wrought by drought, ete., engross readers of agricultural items, yet we rarely hear of the most deriiuctivel force in the .great farm areas and that is the fact that the farms them: selves are often slipping away, Washed down by water and even blown off by winds, the fertile soil is being gtript, leaving the infertile sub- ~ soil, not good for cultivation. "A national survey in the United States of these eel has just un; Says H. H. Bennett, writing of them in the New York Times: "In America last year 3,000,000,000 tons of soil washed out of fields and overgrazed pastures, * Fully 100,000 acres of farm land were made hope- lessly poor, Under normal price con- ditions this would have cost our farm-|- ers $400,000,000. "Our original' weaith in "soil has served to prevent any general reali- zation that all land is not permanent- ly fixed. Unrestrained soil erosion is rapidly building a new empire®of wornout land in America--land stript of its rich surface layer down to poor subsoil, and land gullied 'beyond the possibility of practical | reclamation. This wastage of the nation's basic as- set is speeding up. "Three-fourths of the agricultural area. of the nation is sloping enough to invite ruinous cutting away, Al- ready more than 100,000 acres of thE 350,000,000 in cultiyation have lost all or most of the original top-soil, "Bedrock has been reached in count- less places and deep gullies have torn asunder millions of sloping acres. All this has been abandoned; yet, all of it could have been saved, : "Probably no other nation or. race has permitted such rapid depletion of large areas of its agricultural lands. "We have looked upon our vast do- main of agricultural land as limit- less and capable of enduring forever. What are the menacing aspects of this evil erosion? ~ £0 "The. area of the more. favorable soils is steadily diminishing. Acreage yields are declining. . "Cultivation is more difficult and ccstly. Water flows across the im- pervious clay exposed by tRe strip- ping of the mellow, absorptive top- soil more rapidly to augment floods. . "Stream channels are silting up and overflows are becoming more frequent and destructive. Vast areas of extra- ordinary original productivity are be- Ing covered with infertile sand and gravel." : Our best estimates, Mr. Bennett tells us, indicate that erosion steals twenty-one times as much plant food as the crops take off the land, And it is by no means restricted.to the section of rain-water, In the drier parts of-the country erosion by wind is frequently even more destructive. He goes on: ' ; "Thousands of fields . have been stript of the productive surface layer, great holes have been dug and numer- ous areas have been. deeply buried with the wind-driven material. "In some localities farm machinery left in the open has been completely buried with this drifting soil. Recent- ly wind-driven: dust from the West laid down_over the black -soils of fowa enough red "material, derived from the distant Red Plains of Kan- . tas, Oklahoma, and Texas, to give a distinct red color to the soil. "At the new experiment stations every promising practical method for slowing down erosion is to be tried out on a field scale. Terracing, strip- cropping, scarification of 'the land, and other methods are being tested, - first on small plots and then in large fields, + - "The cheapest methods of reclaim- ing .erosion-worn land are being deter- mined, with the cost. Conservation of the remaining soil, however, is to be the prime endeavor of the pro- gram, rather than reclamation of de- pleted land. Variots methods of gully control are being tested, using living dams of grass, trees, shrubs, and vines, rock dams and dams made of poles, brush and other cheap ma- terials. Every effective experiment will necessarily constitute a demon- stration." ein ie AS} bai Women Join British Columbia Gold Rush "Like their men folk, many British ~ Columbia women have caught the gold- hunting fever. Many are now in the field and others have announced their Intention to go out with pick and axe In the spring. An ex-nurse from Vancouver has led the procession, Using an airplane to lake in supplies, she is at present car- ryiflg on prospecting work in the Cari- boo dfstrict: : ; Inspired by this example, many wo- men- have taken 'the geology course provided by the British Columbia gov- ernment, ¢ : w i am si -------- ti A Hungarian woman, suing her hus- band for alimony, was astonished to hear that she had been divorced sev: eral years before, Her husband is a professional hypnotist; and she asserts that he must have aad Ahen obtained to the divorce. er signed consent ut her in a trance, Doctors Encourage Fasting London, Eng.--Modified fasting as a cure for disease received the endorse- ment of famous Harley Street, Glas- gow and Edinburgh doctors at a con- ference at Bridge of Allan, Stirling- shire, They decided to press for the setting up of special departments in public insttutions for fasting cures. They expressed the opinion fasting was not a matter for unqualified prac titioners. . The conference was pre- sided over by Sir Willlam Wilcox, and among: those present were Lord Hor der, physician to the Prince of Wales, and Sir Humphrey Rolleston,. physi: 'clan to the King. 70-Year-Old Man Rescues a Child - Douglas, Isle of Man. -- Alfred: A. Kelly, of Douglas, 70 years old,.has been awarded the vellum certificate of the Royal Humane Society for rescu- ing a three-year-old child from drown- ing. He also holds the Life Saving Medal. He was recovering from an illness at the time he saved the child from death. Man Killed by Fish Sting "London, Eng --Willlam Tart, of Dungeness, died from the sting of a fish, a weever, while he was engaged in mackerel fishing, a The weever stung the man on a fin- ger while he was hauling in the nets. His hand became swollen and a doctor ordered him to Folkstone Hospital. Tart, who was 39 years old, had been a fisherman since he left school and was shortly to have been married, A reporter asked Dr, E. J. Allen, di- rector of 'the Marine Biological Lab# oratory, Plymouth, if there were any danger to seaside visitors from the weever fish, "Sometimes the small ones sting 'children paddling on a sandy beach," 'he said, "buf they do little harm, though the stings are pain- ful i - "The larger ones can do a great deal of damage. They are found by fisher- are. I .do not think that there is.any danger to bathers from them." : Double Romance : London, Eng.--It is understood that the Earl of Rosslyn's youngest daugh- ter and his granddaughter have be- come engaged to be married. - The daughter, Lady Mary St. Clair Erskine, is to marry. Mr, Philip Dunn, only.son of Sir James Dunn, Bt. the famous Canadian business magnate, The granddaughter, Miss Rose Bing- bam, daughter of Lady Rosabelle Brand, is to marry the twenty-one- year-old Earl of Warwick, though the engagement has not yet been officially announced, Lady Mary is twenty-two years of age and Miss Bingham is twenty-one. PL " New Police School London, Eng.--Imber Court, the pre- sent home of 'the mounted branch of the Metropolitan Police, at Thames Ditton, may be turned into the pro- posed new police college. This college, under Lord Tren- chard's recent recommendations, ig for the purpose of training the "officer class" of the police force. Should Im- ber Court be chosen, it will be en- larged. The mounted police will re- main there. men who know how dangerous they : Recent Events F rom Overseas King to Open Dry Dock Southampton, Eng. -- The greatest dry dock in the world, built at South- ampton for the Southern Railway at a cost of $10,000,000, will be opened by the King . July 26, During the con- struction of the dock 2,000,000 tons of earth and mud were excavated from the site and 750,000 tons of concrete were used, ez . The dock was planned to accommo- date the new 70,000-ton Cunarder, "No. 534," now lying unfinished at Clyde- bank; but it could accommodate a ship of 100,000 tons if the world had one. This great enterprise is only a part of the Southern Railway scheme for extensions to Southampton ddcks, and the aggregate cost of all the proposed works is about $60,000,000, J Seek to Save Capital ~ Canberra,--Because it is feared the experiment of creating an Australian federal capital at Canberra, a former sheep ranch, may. be abandoned at some near date, residents are o¥ganiz- ing a campaign to popularize this city. The federal parliament was estab- lished here only six years ago, The new city is so isolated and costly to the nation that many Australians have suggested it be evacuated, British Visa Fees Scored London.--The council of the London Chamber -of Commerce, on the recom- mendation of its travel organization section, has sent letters to the Chan- cellor of the Exchequer and the For- elgn Secretary urging that the ques- tion of the visa fee charged to Ameri. can vistors should be reviewed. It has been submitted that as no visa fee is required from Americans visiting many European countries, whether for business or pleasure, the $10 fee charged here is a source of much annoyance and must have some effect on the volume of trafic. .. Seasick Yacht Stealers London, Eng. -- Two seasick men who were rescued from a helplessly drifting yacht off the Goodwins--Her- bert Ingram, aged 23, and Albert Ball, aged 20---were at Canterbury recently sentenced to six and four months' im- prisonment respectively for stealing the boat from Whitstable, Pigeon Returns After 8 Years Manchester, Eng.--After an absence of eight years, a black chequer cock racing pigeon returned to the loft of his owner, John Lewis, of Maryport. The bird disappeared in a race as a yearling. Prince Climbs Big Ben re ,.. Londen, Eng--Prince George went climbing recently--to the top of Big Ben by way of the web-like scaffold- ing that surrounds the tower. He was watched by a knot of people below, but they did not know who he was. "Climbing the ladders to such a height is not an easy job for one not accustomed to the work," said an of- ficial, "but the Prince got up very quickly and showed very fine nerve." After spending a& few minutes en- joying the sight, he climbed over the parapet which leads into the gallery where the bells that chime the quar- ters are installed. - . Women Complain ~ Men Swagger Say Scientists Masculine Delusion of Grand- eur Lies in Fact that Life is Complex For Him Chicago.-- Complaining about head- aches that don't exist is women's or- dained lot, the American Association for the Advancement of Science was told last week. ; . Man's lot is to swagger about the house with inflated ideas about his own importance. The reason: Life is that way. These observations were reported by Dr. Mandel Sherman of the Uni- versity of Chicago, as. the result of extersive studies that he said indi- cated the-existence of a direct reln- tionship between cultural background and the abnormal mental symptoms 'of persons. Hone ® Varying kinds of mental twists, Dr. Sherman also declared, were found among- abnormal persons of different religious faiths, He placed no inter- pretation on the findings. Comparing the symptoms in the mental diseases among the three main groups of religious affiliation--Cath- olic, Protestant and Jewish, Dr, Sher- man said: SE "Of the hallucinations in the Pro- testant group, 67 pér. cent. pertained to religion. In the Catholic group only 27 per cent. pertained to . religion. Wheréas none was found in thé Jew- ish group. "Of the total number of grandiose deiusions (abnormally high self es- teem), the. percentage distribution was as follows: Protestant, 55; Catho- lic, 89; Jewish, 6." ' Of the group of patiénts studied, Dr. Sherman also found that women had more religions delusions than men and more frequently imagined they were sick, ed On the other hand, the men pa- tients suffered mer. from delusions of grandeur, ¢ The explanation for this difference, I'he said, lay in the fact that life, for | man, was more complex, his social problems more numerous and difficult, his contacts with others in daily com- petition commoner. 'v What Shall We Say, Now You Are Gone? Old friend, what shall we say, now you are gone? That all is over--all the things we knew-- The things we shared--so flat to one alone, - So full of savor tasted once with you? Those trifles that made friendship? 2 Let us hope That you have found a place, not very sirange, Where you may sit and 'wait for me-- | some slope "Of sun-warmed grass, with where sight may range Across wide valleys to the sunset hills. There rest, and plan what you and I will do When I come footing after. Te © If the ills tired us, I will sit with trees, Of life you, , Not speaking mjich, until at last the peace © Of that still place has.wrought into the soul Its silent benediction and release, Then we will rise together, with the whole - ay Of life before us, as it used to be, In that new land, not much unlike the old, And walk with the 61d strength to gearch, and see . ' What prospects that new country may unfold, And maybe, in some hollow, we shall find ' T The very spring, the .very trees we knew, * That were the heaven most perfect to my mind-- The same old pace to travel In--and you, ? : f ~John Edward Colburn in "The Vermonter." A g ---- A) id crs Hundreds of unstamped letters in the letter boxes of San Antonio, Texas, puzzled the postal officials till experts found that the stamps had been eaten oft by ants attracted by the gum, LAY 42--Foolish 43--Affected 45--Bishopri 46--Pronoun 47--Cons 1--Portable chair 6--Not volatile 11--To pertain 12--Heaved A 14--Type unit : 16--Plain headdresses 17--Pronoun ; 18--Beverage 20--Darknesses , - 21--Beast's cave ' 22--S8kin disease : 24--Alkaline solution b2--Printing 64--Verse 1--Iroquian 25--Rude child 2--Spanish 26--Buddhist temple 3--To stem 28--Sea-nymphs 4--Particle 30--Note of Guido's scale 5--Star gro 31--Youth 6--Prizes 32--Verbal noun 7--Toys 35--Promise 8--Donkey - 38--Beverages 9--Exists 39--Prior ~ 10--To act 49--French article b0--More spruce 65--To hasten Vertical OUR CROSS-WORD PUZZLE : FEPPFPFF FIT Fl [rT 3 : 3 wT [© rT [ pa es i$ i2 {6 Fe ; 6 ey : Y {0 il ZT J L228 LX BN 36 [37] ST TT © | a} 46 7 49 50 aT 57 54 55 Horizontal 41--Ruminant 1i--To bore into again 13--Small depressions smile 16--To weep . ¢c © 19--Enraged 21--Deepens 23--God of winds (variant) ' - 25--Plait of hair 27--Tribe of Israel 29--Sick 32--Street Arab © 33--Click beetle 34--Decorous 35--Dangers gpaced Indian for "the" 36--Slang: armed 37--Cornered of matter 40--To free up 43--Stalk 44--To detain 47--Pen b1--Exclamation 53--Prefix: down Answers to Cast Week Puzzle UIB|T} |U|M|B|O EfR|A N H ATE AlN rk esi 'Two Women Pilots = : After King's Cup Thirty-eight airplanes have been entered for the King's Cup race on July 8, They represent 17 distinct types of single' and twin-engined civil craft, and employ nine different air-cooled motors of moderate pow- er, Eleven of the aircraft types have not yet participated in a race of major importance; some of them have only recently completed flying trials, Lady Bailey has entered a plane 'and will pilot it herself, Mrs. A. S, Butler, whg did well in some earlier King's Cup contests, will also take part. In all, competitors who reach the final round will fly approximate- ly 800 miles, Every airplane will be assumed by the handicappers to De capable of averaging . at least 100 1ot healthy children. "Pencil Figures" Declared "Not Truly Feminine The problem of "that fashionable pencil figure" and the anxiety it causes among young women of to-day was re- ferred to by Dr. Margaret Lowenfeld, speaking in London recently at the conference of the Alliance of Honour (Women's Section). "It you look at any large group of "girls to-day," she sald, "you will ste that the. girl who is most attfactiye to young men is the girl with a figure like a pencil. But she certainly is not the best constructed for the production This 'pencil' figure, which is so fashionable to-day, may be partly responsible for the high British maternal death rate, In Sweden, where a much broader figure is considered attractive among women, the maternal death rate is con- siderably lower than it Is in England. "Many girls suffer acute anxiety be- cause they have developed a full fig- ure, which is supposed to be unattarc- tive." } o Shoes Size Twenty-two Museum's Attraction Chief attractions of the state mus- eum in Missouri's state house in Jef- ferson City, Mo., are a pair of shoes, size 22, once worn by Miss Ella Ewing. Miss Ewing, a native Missourian, who Uied several years ago, was 8 feet, 4 inches tall. She .was supposed to be the "largest woman-in the world" mileg an hour over the course. during her life. Bale of Hay Pays Alimony ' \ LA Bert Anderson of Los Angeles but plenty of hay, His wife got was threatened with contempt of court when he failed to pay his wife $60 alimony, Bert had no money, the hay--ten tons of it. SAV same money. b . Ni ~ IE D ] | f : Plug Tobacco will last "you 14 longer. It burns 14 slower... gives you more smokes, more enjoyment for the - E "ONLY 20° A BIG PLUG Pry SMILES... "But why are you so angry with.the 'doctor, Mrs. Blank?' "I told him I was tired, and he asked {10 gee my tongue." "I don't believe in associating with my interiors. Do you?" : "That's all right, old man--I don't mind making an exceplion in your case." The wife wrote from a fashiohable hotel: "Dear John, I enciose the hotel bill." John replied: "Dear Mary, I'enclose cheque to cover the bill, but please don't buy any more hotels at this figure; they are cheating you." Summer Shower It's hard for a woman approaching 40 to make ip her mind to be her age. Making hotels homelike would be fine homes, They say a man whips his boys for the same kind of foolishness his dad couldn't whip out of him. - A woman gets all run down worrying about what her husband refuses to take seriously. Some minds are 80 'open that they can't hold anything. [S A jlg-saw jigger called up the jig- saw depeartment of a store and asked it any new ones had come 'in from Jigsawvllle. . Young Saleswoman--*"Yes, we have a new one just in." ) Jig-Saw Jigger--" What's the name?" Young Saleswoman--""The Road to Denver." Jig-Saw Jigger--"All right. Send It out." But when the Jig-Saw Jigger re- ceived the new jig-saw puzzle the name on the box raid: "The Rhododen- dron." Mrs. P.----"Your new neighborg are great borrowers, aren't they?" Ms, R---Yes, If they keep Tp their present pace my next party will have to be given at their home!" The talking mavies have a never- ending possibility, but we shudder to think of a slow motion picture of a man stuttering. ' Judy---""Dovs that story youre read: ing end in a modern way?" Grace--"Yes, they are married ard live happily thereafter for a few months, The dificrence between meddling and investigating is that we investi- gate and the other fellow meddles, Hostess-----"Mary, you musl other place at the table. pected guest hag arrived." Maid--"But, I can't, madam, there is no more 'china." Hostess--"0h, that's all right, They will be go close together they won't know one plate from anotlier anyhow," pul an- An wunex- Eager, Youth--"0One kiss from you and I could die happily!" Bored Misys -- "Well, here's your kiss." Helen ---"}al and I have parted for- over." h Begs--"(lood gracious! What does that mean?" . Helen---"A fivepound box of candy in about ap hour." Parents who tell their children that gpinach will give them strength shonld tell them the rest of it--that it will also give them gril, 8 Husband---"Mary, after IT die I wish you would marry Bill' Henry." Wife--"Why do you ask that?" Husband--"Well, he introduced us." -- The fellow who has nothing to boast about but his ancestors betfer get busy 1S it they didn't make them' like modén | = Classified Advertising | - ----d GOVERNMENT APPROVED CHICKS . ALE OF GOVERNMENT APPROVe ED Chicks, While they last: Leg< horns .06¢c, Barred Rocks .063c. Onde week old chicks one cent more. J Gq Tweddle, Fergus, Ont, . ervey! i or his posterity won't have anything to brag about, Mother--"Daughter, how many times do you imagine Henderson has kissed you?" : Daughter--"So far mother dear, } haven't had to imagine at all." ) Permanent waves are things of beauty but the upkeep of the fragile things far exceeds the initial cost ERLE Wa.) Bridget, It alway Mistress: seems to me that the crankies 'mistresses get the best cooks. "Bridget: Ah, go on wid ye#d blarney! ) o King Gustav's Role ng In Romance Bared 'Stockholm=--How King Gustav of Sweden became involved in & sails or's romance was recalled in the A of anecdotes and biographical liter ture which greeted the King's recend 76th birthday. . «parling," read a note His Moles ty found amid his mail one Wg "can you meet me at the usual plac ! tonight?" . - Investigation revealed the messag was intended for the Swedish of ship "King Gustav Vv" and for certain sailor in particular. 3 King Bustav paused to chuckle an dictated a telegram to the captafi) of the warship suggesting the addres seo be glven shore leave that evel ing. il eat vy Turkish Woman Made Judgd key a woman has been appointe judge of a criminal court. She" Moizzez Hanim, formerly judge in {1 : Istanbul Court of Correction, y! OFF COLOUR? HOW IS YOUR LIVER Wake up your Liver Bile --Without Calomel Your liver's a very small organ, but it cece tainly can put your digestive and climinative organs out of kilter, by refusing to pour out ite daily two pounds of liquid bile into your bowe You won't completely correct ich a conditio by taking ealts, oil, mineral water, laxative cand or chewing gun, ar ronghage.. When they' moved your bowels they're through--and yom need a liver stimulant, FE Carter's Littlo Liver Pills will soon bring backs the eunshing into your life. They're purely vegas table. Bafe, Bure, Ask for them By name. Ticiine substitutca, 260 at all druggists, "- 48 | of ? si IN UP-TO-DATE" STABLES --Old Reliable Minard's When horses come in to stable with wird cuts or saddle" boils, or cows have cak udder, the thing to do is get the Minard' bottle at once, as Mr. Dowd of Glenboroy Manitoba, knows, He writes: "I like your Minard's Liniment. Like have it In the housé. 1 have found you Minard's Liniment especially good fo barbed wire cuts on horses." v] A family doctor prepared Minard's Linimen over b0 years ago, Still invaluable | every stable and every house. . 8 -- WEAK WOMEN Take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compoun Have you ever felt that [you wero t weak to do anything . . , that you d not have the strength to do your work Women who are weak and run-do should take a tonic such as Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Head aches and backaches that are the res! of @ tired, run-down condition oft yleld to this marvelous medicine, . i 98 out of every 100 women who re to us say that they are hénefited by thi medleines Buy a bottle from your dr gist todayy « « and watch the results. 4 -- --- ISSUE. No. 286--'33 ; ~ " Istanbul.--TFor the first time in Tugs - * £2