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MILD
W. N. U., ATLANTA, NO. 4-1931.
Huge Berries Introduced From Colombia.
(Prepared by the National Geographic
Society, Washington, D. C.)
r .....I.....HIM recent award by the Massa
X | chusetts Horticultural society to
Dr. David Fairchild, botanist
and agricultural explorer, of the
George Kobert White medal, highest
horticultural honor in America, empha¬
sizes the important influences on
American life and economics that have
flowed from the stream of plants
brought into the country from the far
corners of the world.
Just as the United States lias been
a melting pot for peoples, so it 1ms
been a melting pot for vegetation. Hut
while the influx of human units lias
been largely haphazard, and while
even under present Immigration re¬
strictions the entries must Include a
certain number of individuals from
practically every race and climate,
this chance accumulation has been su¬
perseded for a quarter century among
plant immigrants by a most careful
scientific system of choice and control.
The office of seed and plant introduc¬
tion of the United States Department
of Agriculture sends plant explorers
Into all parts of the world to seek
promising specimens. Thousands of
seeds and cuttings and growing plants
are sent In every year, are cared for
at testing gardens and orchards, and
are then, if found worthy, passed on
to the fields and gardens of citizens.
Probably nowhere else In the world
and at no other period in history has
there been drawn together in one
country such a rich collection of the
world’s best plants. It was for his
work in systematizing this bringing to
America and establishing of many val¬
uable plants that Doctor Fairchild re¬
ceived the White medal.
Plant introduction—systematically by
the government during the past three
or four decades, and by individuals be¬
fore—has given the United States
practically all of its staple crops. Only
corn, cotton, and tobacco, among the
leading agricultural products, were na¬
tives of this region. Even the potato,
although originating In the New world,
was Introduced into the North Amer¬
ican colonies from Europe after hav¬
ing been taken there from Peru.
Much of tlie cotton grown today In
the United States may have originated
from native plants, but this is not
clear. This is one of the three crops
from a single type of plant that have
reached the bilHon-dollar value In the
United Stntes in a single year. Corn,
another of the btlllon-dollur class, un¬
questionably traces its ancestry direct¬
ly to American stock.
Wheat an Immigrant.
America’s wheat of today, third of
the blllion-dollar plants, springs from
immigrant stock, and furnishes one of
tlie best examples of how valuable
conscious plant introduction can be to
a country.
Tlie wheats that were brought over
in colonial days from England and
western Europe grew reasonably well
in tlie eastern and central states and
in the eastern edge of the prairie coun¬
try. But when farmers pushed far¬
ther west and north they found ap¬
parent limits to easy wheat produc¬
tion. Since that time tlie wheat in¬
dustry has practically been made over
by the conscious introduction of new
varieties. Most of the leading vari¬
eties now grown either came as such
from Russia and Russian Turkestan,
->r have been selected or bred from
strains from those countries. A type
particularly well suited to cultivation
under irrigation in tlie Southwest was
brought from Australia. Tens of mil¬
lions of bushels of wheat grown an¬
nually are the direct progeny of little
more than a handful of grains brought
across the oceans three or four dec¬
ades ago.
One of the most Important groups of
Introduced wheat is made up of dur
unis, very hard wheats, which dis¬
placed softer varieties. By adapting
these hardy newcomers, American
wheat growers were enabled to extend
the producing area northward to cold¬
er regions and westward to drier
areas. The coming of this improved
grain, therefore, in effect added hun¬
dreds of thousands of acres to the
wheat producing area.
Valuable Grain Sorghums.
| Oat culture, too. has been greatly
influenced by conscious introductions,
j One type from Russia “60-day oats.”
brought in in 1901. now covers more
than five million acres. The entire
rice industry, built up to an important
position in the past thirty years, is
built on carefully introduced varieties.
CLEVELAND COURIER.
Almost a revolution in agriculture
has been wrought in some sections by
the introduction of the grain sorghums,
including Milo maize, Kaffir corn, Fe
terita, Kaoliang, and the like. When
settlers first went into Kansas and
other western states with limited rain¬
fall, they planted solely tlie crops that
they iiad been accustomed to grow in
the moist regions of the East. When
the first drought occurred these plants
withered and there was almost a total
crop failure.
Following tills practical demonstra¬
tion, the government began investigat¬
ing the use of these grains in various
parts of (lie world. It was found that
the plants are a staple crop in dry
portions of Manchuria, China, Korea,
India, and practically all sections of
Africa. In Manchuria rural civiliza¬
tion is virtually built around Kaoliang,
a grain sorghum. The grain is used
ns food for man; the leaves as fodder
for animals; the stalks are utilized in
building and the weaving of baskets;
brooms are made from the heads after
the removal of the seeds; and the
roots are employed as fuel. In India
and Africa millions live largely on the
meal of sorghum grain. From all these
regions seeds were introduced and se¬
lected and improved varieties were dis¬
tributed throughout the southwestern
United States.
Only wild fruits in primitive form
were found in the area 'that was to be¬
come tlie United States, when the first
European explorers arrived. This was
In striking contrast to the situation
found in China and India, where a
civilization thousands of years old, had
greatly modified the original fruft
forms. The natives of temperate
North America were not skilled agri¬
culturists and had done practically
nothing toward selecting and breeding
plants. Therfore, practically every
fruit of Importance commercially in
the United States today has been
brought in from some other part of
tlie world.
Fruits From Other Lands.
The first to find their way in wore
the popular garden and orchard fruits
of England and Europe—pears, apples,
plums, peaches, cherries, and the like.
Since careful attention lias been given
by the United States government and
by individuals to the introdueton of
new and better fruits, these original
fruits have been almost entirely dis¬
placed. The highly valuable peach
crop of Georgia and adjoining states
is built to a large extent on two va¬
rieties—Georgia Belle and Elberta—
tlmt originated as bud varieties from !
a cling brought from China. The in¬ j
troduction of Chinese pears and their
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use in breeding new American vari¬ i
eties has made it possible for our 1
pears to resist diseases that kill the |
varieties from Europe.
Probably the most romantic story in |
the 400-year history of planned and j
haphazard plant introduction into I
North America has to do with the !
bringing in of the navel or seedless j
orange. Cuttings were sent to the I
Department of Agriculture from
Bahia, Brazil, by a missionary In 1S70. j
Two little trees were grown in green
houses in Washington, and were later
sent to California. From these two
plants have been propagated the
myriads of trees on which the great !
seedless orange industry of California
depends—trees that annually produce i
fruit valued at scores of millions of i
dollars. !
More picturesque In some ways has |
been the building tip of date produc¬ j
tion in the United States. For a long
time the world has seemingly taken It
for granted that dates for consumption I
must be imported from the desert I
oases of northern Africa and eastern
Asia. But American plant explorers j
had other views. Years ago they care¬ |
fully collected sprouts from the roots j j
of old date trees in those regions, I
nursed them to keep them alive on
their long journey across the ocean, |
and planted them in warm areas in
California and Arizona. The trees
thrived and bore. The stock has been ;
multiplied and improved and now cov¬ j
ers many hundreds of acres. East
season the United States produced
three and a half million pounds of
dates of the quality far superior to ;
most important dates. I
Other Important introductions of ;
new or better fruits to the United j
States have included seedless grapes, j
avocados or Alligator pears, figs, ori¬ !
ental persimmons, jujubes, pistaehe
nuts, chestnuts, and numerous strange I
fruits that may or may not find a per¬ |
manent place in American horticulture i
PSYCHIC POLICE
MEET GHOSTS AT
SPIRIT SEANCE
Cop Inquires for His “Aunt
Minnie” and She Oblig¬
ingly Appears.
San Francisco.—Now, “Minnie” and
“Chief Elk Heart” are full fledged
ghosts! Yeah, sure ’nough! They're
no foolin’ ghosts of folks that died a
long time ago, so it’s perfectly all right
for Minnie and Chief to walk in and
out of windows.
But when the window’s closed and
the Big Chief takes the sash and
window pane along with him when
lie goes through, it’s not quite in ac
ebrd with ghostly etiquette, to say
nothing of tradition. And all because
of that broken window, “Rev.” James
J. Dickson, his wife, Gertrude, and a
family friend, Mrs. Freda A. Huttman,
were all taken for a ride and spent
quite a little time in the Oakland City
prison.
Tell Story in Court.
The whole story of Minnie and Chief
Elk Heart and the Dicksons was told
recently when they appeared in the
court of Police Judge Allen G. Norris
in Oakland to face charges of break¬
ing a city ordinance which makes it
a misdemeanor to hold spiritualistic
seances and charge money for ad¬
mittance.
Dickson styles himself pastor of the
Spiritualistic Church of the Revela¬
tion, and Ids home and “cathedral"
are out at 5718 McCall street, Oakland.
Patrolman C. E. Brown is a psychic
cop—O, very, very psybhic!—so he de¬
cided to go out and see if he could
get a message from his Aunt Minnie.
And, sure enough, he did i
There were forty persons in the
“church” when Policeman Brown
called. No admittance was charged,
but just inside the door was a table on
which a card saying a “donation" of
50 cents toward the pastor’s salary
would be appreciated.
Brown sat down with the congre¬
gation and waited. After a little in¬
struction from “Pastor” Dickson, the
pastor disappeared, the lights were
lowered, and nothing was heard but
There Stood a Shadowy Figure in
White.
silence. Then a pair of portieres on
one side of the chapel fluttered, it
wasn’t revealed until late tlmt behind
the portieres was a pair of french win¬
dows, but tlie curtains parted and
there stood a shadowy figure in white.
“Me Chief Elk Heart,” asserted the
figure in white. “I tel! all you want
to know.”
”1 don’t want to bother with no
Injuns,” muttered Policeman Brown
into his heard. “Where is my Aunt
Minnie?"
Chief Elk Heart cleared his tiiroat,
hesitated, and finally ducked behind
tlie curtains. In just an instant a
spectral form appeared again, very
much tlie same as tlie Indian brave,
and announced in a voice strangely
similar to that of the redskin's spirit.
The Ghost Vanishes,
“I am Minnie. Does some one wish
a message from me?”
Policeman Brown thrust forward
with outstretched arms.
“Aunt Minnie!" he cried rnpturous
ly. “Dear Aunt Minnie! O, Min’”
As in answer to bis call the forms
of three other policemen burst Into
the room. The lights There went on and crash tlie j j
ghost went out. was a
of breaking glass, and Aunt Minnie ]
landed full in the arms of Policeman
George Pardee in the garden outside,
And when Pardee had removed a
training white sheet from Aunt Min
nie's ghostly form he found—no, don't
tell me you’ve guessed it! Well, you
are right! It was none other than
“Parson” Dickson,
The half dollar the other customers
had paid to hear the message from
the big chief were confiscated by the
police as evidence.
The ladies? Oh, the psychic cops
just took them along to lend class tj
the arrest!
Rooster Wears Crutch
Middletown, Conn—William Clark of
East Hampton has a prize Rhode Island
red rooster that struts around his
barnyard as well as ever despite a
wooden leg. The bird caught its leg
in a trap and >roke it. The injury re
fused to mend and the leg was ampu¬
tated at the first joint am. a wooden
substitute whittled out. The crutch
is Rttaehed to the stump by a rubber
band.
This Week
by Arthur Brisbanb
Nathan Straus
A Farmer’s Charter
So Much Russian Money
See Your Country
The death of Nathan Straus in New
York, three weeks before the comple¬
tion of his eighty-third year, is a great
loss to this country.
Mr. Straus set an example of wise
philanthropy, devoting more than a
quarter of a century of his active
working years, and a substantial for¬
tune, to his fight for puremilk
throughout the United States. As an
example to others he distributed pas¬
teurized milk, including milk properly
modified for young infants, in the poor
districts of New York.
His influence is felt in foreign.coun¬
tries as well as here. Because of his
work pasteurization of milk and care¬
ful handling and bottling are now en¬
forced by law, and, thanks to Mr.
Straus, the death rate among infants
in New York has been cut down 50
per cent.
Mr. Straus was one of three broth¬
ers, all distinguished for good citizen¬
ship and public spirit.
His brother Isador, whose heroic
death on the Titanic will be long re¬
membered, represented his state in
congress, and was one of the three
greatest merchants produced by the
United States thus far. A monument
in New York city was erected in his
honor. Oscar Straus, the youngest
brother, represented this country as
ambassador to Turkey at Constanti¬
nople, and was in the cabinet of
Theodore Roosevelt.
Nathan Straus literally saved the
lives of millions of children. His
memory will be enshrined in the
hearts of mothers all over the world.
Farmers of Saskatchewan have for¬
mulated a “charter of liberty.” They
threaten “a co-operative common¬
wealth within the British empire.”
That has a Russian sound.
The demand a basic price for wheat
to covr tlie cost of production, retro¬
active to the first of last August. That
sounds like Uncle Sam.
They would abolish grain ex¬
changes and all speculation In farm
products. And they would have the
government crop insurance, "guaran¬
teeing all farmers’ production against
all natural risks.” That sounds like
heaven.
Also the farmers ask an arrange¬
ment that would regulate the cost of
things bought by farmers to fit the
selling price of commodities that the
farmer produces.
Where does Russia get the money?
Her annual budget is $16,500,000,000,
much bigger than ours, biggest in the
world, and she has a surplus of $750,
000,000, while we face a deficit.
The Swedish Krupp works receive
from Russia an order for military
supplies amounting to $14,500,000, and
Germany has just shipped into Russia
thirty carloads of machinery a’nd
equipment for a large ammonia fac¬
tory. one of several such shipments
sent by Germany to Russia within the
last few years. German engineers and
chemists will erect and supervise the
factories, which can be used, and prob¬
ably are intended, to manufacture
poisonous war gas. Perhaps we
underestimate Russia. The allies may
have made a mistake disarming Ger¬
many and making her worthless as a
buffer between Russia and western
Europe.
Every American should see all of
this wide, beautiful country, West,
East, North and South, going by one
railroad and returning by another, and
without fail making one trip through
the Panama canal.
The pessimist especially should see
his country, from the giant trees of
Washington and Oregon in the North¬
west. to the palm trees and sand
beaches of Flordia.
A trip from the Atlantic to tlie Pa
cific means only three nights on the
train now, and the comfort of modern
travel is unbelievable—solid trains of
steel cars, running smoothly, with ev
ery comfort of a first-class hotel, and
the additional pleasure of going some¬
where and seeing the world as you go.
You sympathize with the turtle be¬
cause he cannot go far. But at least
he goes as far as he can.
You feel sorry for the Texas “tick,”
brushed from a cow, and unable in his
whole lifetime to crawl more than.two
or three feet in search of another
cow’s leg to start in business again.
Don’t be a turtle or a Texas tick,
Travel, see your country.
Doctor Williams, editor of Mental
Hygiene, says, very truly, that those
that practice or contemplate trial mar
riage “lack sincerity and faith in each
other.”
The girl in the partnership may be
sure of one thing—namely, that the
man thinks little of her.
If his opinion of her were what it
should be he would want to marry
and forever, with no trial, no doubts
and no misgivings.
Detroit, after a period of hibema
tion, shows signs of life at full speed.
Tens of thousands of additional men
have gone to work. Seventy-five thou
sand started at the Ford River Rouge
plant.
Chevrolet promises 30.000 steady
jobs through the winter. Dodge, Hud
son, Lincoln. Buick. Cadillac and
Chrysler are all increasing inventory.
(©. 1931, by King Features Syndicate, Inc.)
Happy Again
“Nothing seemed to please Betty
Jean,” says Mrs. James W. Nolen,
113 Ceanter St., Dallas, Texas. “She
was feverish and fretful. Her appe¬
tite was poor; she seemed bilious,
“A child specialist recommended
California Fig Syrup and it certainly
made my little girl happy, well again
in a hurry. We haTe used it over
three years for all her upsets.”
Mothers by thousands praise this
pure vegetable product. Children
love it. Doctors recommend it for
feverish, headachy, bilious, consti¬
pated babies and children; to open
the bowels in colds or children’s
diseases.
Appetite is increased by its use;
the breath is sweetened; coated
tongue is cleared; digestion and as¬
similation are assisted; weak stom¬
ach and bowels are strengthened.
For your protection the genuine
always bears the name California.
FIG CALIFORNIA
SYRUP
LAXATIVE-TONIC for CHILDRENi
Birds Worry Fruit Grower*
Tlie discovery of a small colony of
mina birds at large in southern Cali¬
fornia has caused considerable con¬
cern to a number of chambers of com¬
merce and to grape and cherry grow¬
ers, For the minas are very intelli¬
gent pests, even worse than crows.
Heretofore tlie only ones known in
this country were caged pets. They
learn to speak more distinctly than
parrots, as visitors to the Catalina
Bird park know. The mina belongs
to the starling family, being slightly
larger than a blackbird. It has a
yellow beak and brown feathers.—
Los Angeles Times.
To keep clean and healthy take Dr.
Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets. They regulate
liver, bowels and stomach.—Adv.'
Hubby’s Real Grievance
Gustave J. Miller, of Pittsburgh,
whose divorce bill set forth among
other tilings, that his wife insisted
that her airedale dog sleep in tlieir
bed. has been granted a decree. He
told the court that he objected stren¬
uously, but that his wife insisted and
.finally threatened to put him out’ of
her room unless he agreed to let the
dog sleep with them.—Indianapolis
News.
Professional Pride
“Do you never get arrested?”
“Only once in a while,” answered
Bill the burg. "If you don’t get ar¬
rested occasionally how are you goin’
to get your picture in the paper?”
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Constipation may easily become
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bring attacks of piles—and a host
of other disorders.
Watch your bowels at any age.
Guard them with particular eare
after forty. When they need help,
remember a doctor should know
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“Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin”
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j or weaken you; can be used with¬
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bad, your tongue is coated; when¬
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I Next time just take a spoonful
of this family doctor’s laxative.
See how good it tastes; how gently
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A Doctor's Family Laxative