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4 CENTRAL POINT STAR Drouth of 1930 Most Serious in History TODAY Ö NI MBER 5 FRIDAY. AUGUST W. l»»0 V O I .I M E T H R E E AND WTTH Show* a . T o thousand* ol middle aged eblrrly American» the news ol the death ol Mr». Isabella M Alden will come a« a surprise that »he »huutd have lived so long, and wm cause many a sigh ol regret at the »napping ol another link with the irreclaimable past „ Under the pen name ol I an»» Mi». Alden wrote more than 120 book», which were enormou»ly pop ular in the 1870'* and. indeed, down to the heginnoig ol the present century She war horn in 1841. and before 1850. more than eighty year» ago. her lirst «tory had hern pub lisl.edl The wile ol a minister, all of her book* were ol a di»tmctly religion* cast Her m ini popular aerie*, (he "Esther Reid" book»for girl* and young women, »old into the million*. It war largely through M r*. Alden'» writing» that the Chaut uqua educational movement gained it* great popularity. I ki >w ol few person» who have lived uch useful live* and none who *!>ent so many year» in one vocale n. POPULATION The total number of Inhabitant» ol the United State» it 122,728.873, icco r’ iin itie Ccntut »»iu* *.guin. That v a» the count on April I, I9JÜ, and ci ver» on Continental United Slate» Adding Alaska, the Philip- iine*, I ’orto Rico. Hawaii and the i" irgn Island», the total number ol per»oi « tinder the United State» flag is IJ7.5OI.5bl. I he e are but three other govern ments in the world under which so many people live. I hey are China, R ush .. and India The total pop ulation ol the British Common wealth ol Nations i». of courte, larger but none of the Dominion»— Australia, Canada, the Union ol South Africa and the rest—n >r even Engl ; id and Scotland together, has anywhere near a» many people a* we ha vt. And we are »till growing Th» 1930 ligure» are seventeen million higher than the 1920 count, the larg est ten-year increase in our history. ALICE My guess i» that the winner in a national referendum on the most popular woman in America would be Mr». Nicholas Longworth, wife of the Speaker of the House and daughter of Theodore Roosevelt. She know* more about politic», the inside worktn of affairs. than any other woman . America, in all p r o b a b i li t y . She never make* speeches, which may be one of the reason» why everybody think» well of her. Her most intimate friend is Mr». Ruth Hanna McCormick, who is running for Senator from Illinois and in whose campaign Mr*. Longworth i» helping They have been intimate* from girlhood, when Alice', father lived in the White House ami Ruth’» father wa» United State* Senator from Ohio. BIRTHS Twenty-four hundred and eighty babies were born in New York City in the last week of July. In the same week only 1,205 person* died in the city. It the same ratio of births to death* continua through the year and prevailed all over the country, our population would soon grow so large that we could not support it. As a matter of fact, the national birthrate in the United States ia rapidly approaching the death rate. The proportion is now about 20 deaths to every 23 births. A century and a halt ago an English clergyman named Malthus wrote a learned essay in which he calculated that the pressure of pop ulation upon the mean* of subsis tence would make it impossible lor all the people on earth in the 20th century— now— to get (ood enough to eat. The Malthusian theory was taken seriously by many economists until recently But, somehow, it isn’t working out. Riglt' now we have a surplus ot most foodstuffs, and the birthrate i» still declining. DROUGHT * r If mankind ever learns how to forecast the weather for even a few weeks ahead, it will mark the begin ning of our final victory over N a ture. But so long as we are at the mercy of the weather we can hardly say that we have conquered our environment. The drought of 1930. extending throughout the Middle West and the South, is the severest in 30 years. Last year the Northeast and the Northwest suffered from lack of rain, hut without serious economic consequences. Tliyi year the wheat and corn belts arc the victims, with greatly reduced crops as a result. The compensation lies in the larger market for wheat, as a aub- aitute for corn for cattle feeding, and higher prices for both grain» because of the short supply. T ht Great Drouth of 1930 Publisher« Autor alter Service No Similar Calamity Ha» Been So Widespread Or Done So Much Damage FIRE DAMAGED PROPERTY OWNED BY SAM KOHLER black, an’ begins to il.uudutK" prices lower than they have been f t IN the RADIO STL'DIOES SHE STOPPED Henry Burbig, Columbia comed- ian, was clow ning on a recent broadcast. “Will the little girl out in Ohio please slop biting her n ails?” he said. One of the hostesses at WOK, Cleveland, who was actually b it ing her nails at the time hasn’t bitten one since! New Features Will Be Seen At County Fair Plans for the annual Jackson coun ty fair, which will open Wednes day,, Septem ber 10, are moving for w ard with increased momentum with novel features never before witnessed in southern Oregon, promised in the program forecasts released by County Agent R. G. Fow ler, m anager of the fair. Leading the amusement list an LUCKY 13 nounced today are the perform ances Phit Lord, otherw ise Seth P a r to be staged by the Hitt Firew orks ker of the National netw ork, Ls com pany which ,will present an superstitious about num ber 13 but outdoor showing of the thrilling it means good luck to him. He was w ar film. “Over the Top.” While horn on July 13 and there are 13 the moving picture is showing, the letters in his name—Phillips H. actual pyrotechnic effect to sim Lord. His first appearance on the ulate it will be electrically fired air was on July 13, 1928. There are at the same instant. The picture 13 members of the cast in “Sunday will be punctuated with realistic Night at Seth P ark e r’s. His con bom bardm ents and flashes. tract for his latest program , "U n Among the scenes will be a fight cle Abe and David” was signed on be'w een an American airplane and Friday, June 13. And now he ap a German Zeppelin. This picture pears 13 times each week, twice, each night except Sunday in "U n is the newest form of talkie and cle Abe and David" and once eat h will be accom panied by an actual as semblage of heavy artillery. Sunday nigth as Seth P arker! Prt sent indications also point to th e best horse racing program ever FIFTY FOR THE STEIN SONG— held on the local track, Mr. Fow The most popular piece of m u sic in the United States at the pres ler stated this m orning. Horses ent w riting is the Stein Song, which are being entered from San F ra n was w ritten tw enty years ago. The cisco to the Canadian line. The stock barns will be filled to story goes that years ago the Un- iversit >of Maine sought to p u r capacity and many ow ners have chase H.b rights to it. Carl Fisher been refused the privilege of en offered to sell the plates for fifty tering their anim als due to Limited dollar», but the school authorities space. The ow ner of a nationally though! the price lie high. Now known Guernsey herd has applied the music house is reaping a for- to the committee for entrance as tune from the sales of the aged well as ow ners of several beef herds in California. These appli melody. Ami in case ti might wor.de- cations are proof of the reputation how it is that that song became pop the Jackson county fair has achiev ular overnight I'll let you in on ed in o th er sections and are en some inside inform ation. It seems thusiastically received by local that the’'N ational Broadcasting Sys fair w orkers, whose only regret is tem wanted to find out if they that they are unable to g rant out etiuld “make” a song popular by of state stockmen space for ex cont nual and continuouos placing hibiting at the Jackson county over the air or what they call grounds. ---------o--------- “plugging a song.” Accotdingly. they selected the Maine Stein song Light» “Hubby” Hom» for its inherent qualities of mel Only the female lightning bug ody and told Rudy Vallee to re s a k e s light. The mule Is not equipped introduce the song and to plug with any Illuminating power. He hae it. Anti the w ord was sent right the habit of going out nights, however, down the tine of NBC orchestras so the fem ale has had to make use of that no program w ould be consid her ability to make part of her body ered complete unless it included at shine with a sort of phosphorous green tight In order to show him the way least one rendition of the Stein home. Song. So now you folks know ---------o-------- w hy the most popular song of this dry country is the Stein Song? A fire Monday afternoon coniplet- The (»real Drouth of 1930 will didn't the rain fall norm ally in the ly destroyed the garage and wood go ilown lit history us one of (be stricken sections. not only this shed and did considerable damage most serious calam ities which ever Summer but lust W inter and to the house owned by Mr. and Spring? The w eather bureau Mrs. Sam Kohler. All fu rniture and befell the I Tilled Slates. As Ibis is w ritten, there has been sharps m n 't answ er that question, household goods w ere saved. The no rainfall, or none of consequence 'they can only point to the record volunteer fire departm ent are to be complimented on their very ef in an areu which covers ncurly it what happened. Added to Hie lack of rain, or ficient work when the fire broke one-third of tile United Stales for weeks. There wax less thiiil half In i ause of it, extrem ely high tem out. Mr. Kohler was in Medford the norm al rainfall for months be peratures have been ra p ed en e cd and Mr. Kohlet and daughter were fore that. Last w inter was a dry all Summer in (lie country east of in Ashland. They were notified by phone and arrived home soon one. Indeed, since December the Tie Rocky Mountains. greater purl of the United Stales Daytime tem peratures especially after. ---------o--------- nus received less than half of its w ere exceedingly high, wit.i 100 ALFALFA FROM COUNTY norm al share of ruin. degrees or higher reported from QUARANTINED FOR WEEVIL It makes little difference in some seel ions east of the Rocky Moun im portant regions w hether rain tains on every day of the month There is a com plaint from Grants conics now or not. The damage front the 4lh to its close. The daily Pass, and em inating from the of maximum averaged from 91 to 98 has been done. fice of the county agent of that Dr. Marvin, Chief of lite U. S. i.egrees in (tic central and northern | county about the shipping of al- portions of Alabama and Mississippi W eather Bureau, says: falfu from this county th ru Jose "This is unquestionably the N orthern Louisiana, W csl?rn I t n phine county. Mr. Howell, county worst drouth in the history of the nesee. the low er Ohio Valley, Ar agent stated th at Jackson county al W eather Bureau, and the Bureau kansas and the greuter portions of falfa is banned from his county X aus.i,. Oklahoma and Texas. The is sixty years old." ; due to the prevalence of weevil Never before tins a drouth as highest teuipcrnture» occitred the and he has been forced to bring sumed sueli serious proportions us last few days of the month, when several law breakers into court on Io stir the whole nation Io relief Kansas northw ard reported 100 to charges of having broken q u aran tot. degrees. efforts. ; tine. In Oregon there are ttiree in In regions where pastures have Everyw here rivers, creeks a n d ' fested counties, tw o eastern coun been burned up, w ater sources huve brooks are dried up or running ex ties and Jackson. How the pest got gone dry and crops hove failed u t trem ely low. There is a scarcity into the local fields, is only a m at terly, the Bed C ru x is beginning of w ater lor live stock and do- I ter of conjecture but the fact that active relief work.; President Hoov inestic uses. In the w orst affec- it is here is w orking a hardship er and the Farm board have auth icd zones cattle are dying for lack upon the grow ers due to Hie fact orized tlie extension of Govern o f w ater and pasturage. In others that all hay must be consumed at ment credit to farm ers in the stric the stockmen, anticipating w hat home. ken regions on the most lilicrul may lie ahead, are selKng their The weevil first made its appear terms, 't he Intel state Commerce herds at sacrifices. In large sec-1 ance in the west in Utah and since Commission has authorised re tors of the Eastern orchard b e lts ,' its discovery it has spread over duced freight rates on livestock the fruit is burned to a crisp and i several states anti as yet methods and cuttle feed. The President tuts useless for any purpose. Hay anti 1 for its eradication are indefinite as appointed a relief commission other pasturage crops are affected no real satisfactory method of con- Which will do wtiat can humanly and corn has sufered m arked det- ; ■ trot has been discovered. be done Io alleviate dislricss, for erioriation. The damage involves I Mr. Howell inform s us that the in sonic parts of the Mississippi every slate in w hich the raising people of this section will do well Valley farm er people are actually of grain is a principal industry. I not to haul any alfalfa hay into on the verge of starvation because The part of the country hit h ar Josephine county as ignorance is of the los» of all their crops and dcsl is the Mississippi Valley. This not considered a good excuse for their livestock because of the dry area comprises W estern West Vir the disobedience of the quarantine went tier. ginia, Southern Ohio, Indiana and rules. The year 1930 will be known, as Illinois, Eastern Missouri and Ar ---------o--------- out W ashington correspondent put kansas, W estern Tennessee and it, us "the year when the Kentuc Mississippi and Eastern Louisiana. ky Blue Grass turned w hite.” The area is increasing and a si Nobody is able yet to estimate tuation almost as serious ttow ex the total loss to agriculture in dol ists in Oklahoma, Eastern Texas, lars. Inti it wilt run into the hun Kansas, Iowa and Nebraska and the dí eds of millions. The corn crop rem aining States in w hich the is so serTiusly damaged that in drouth first assumed grave propor that one commodity alone the loss tions. Virginia, ! M aryland, Dela may run to a half a billion. ware, North Carolina and Alabama Nobody knows precisely whnl face a serious situation, as do ttie mused the drouth. It is due, of Slates on the eastern slopes of the outae. Io lack of rainfall. Ini’ why Rockies. Minnesota, Wisconsin. New England, New York and the Pacific Coast states are the only SAMBO’S PHILOSOPHY sections in w hich conditions de scribed as semin.irmal still exist. ____ A phenomenon is the case of Flo FOLKS THAI rida and Georgia. N either lias B L A M E D THE STOCK MARKET been seriously affected. FOR T H E If t H A R D L U C K The grain crops, w ith the excep 1 3 L A 5 T Y E A R A P E P U T T IN ’ tion of corn, have escaped the tT O N T H E DROUGHT NOW ,, heat. Those crops w ere ready for the harvest before Hie drouth be came serious. The m ajor dam- r ae affects corn, cotton, fruits, hay and live slock. That ruin is fac for some years, the m arket is in in g vast num bers of farm ers is no condition to stand heavy runs certain. —shipped because of the inability One source of w orry arises from to feed them on the farm or ranch. a Hie fact of burn-up pastures. Many W ith sw ine it is different. Pigs ranchm en are said already to he m ature quickly and the feeder can feeding Hie hay usually reserved adjust his crops to his feed supply. for w inter feed. While the early Advancing prices will bring some forage crops were abundant they com pensation for the tosses caus can only go so far tow ard supple ed by nature, but the experience of m enting the lnck of pasturage. the Corn Belt has been that no rise With packers' storage plants said in prices con quite compensate for •'Some fnlk.es neviih thinks TmiJi »livin’ up fo’ n rnlny day 'til hit gits to be glutted with beef, and cattle loss of a crop. 615* JO?ee A,« " studios ALBERT ZUC SMITH JRj W a rtt Drouth White Sp<4| No Drouth PANSY 1 iffTTHE DID YOU KNOW THAT— Tay Knight. NBC production ex pert, is back from his vacation in Mexico w ith a pocket full of notes on the proper sound effects for a bull fight, anti a case of ptom aine poisoning! 'Miss Universe To get the sound effect of a d riv ing rain of a metal roof, nothing has been found better than split peas jiggled in a couple of tin cans. Godfrey Ludlow. NBC violinist, estim ates that it would require over 100 years of concert w ork to play to as many people as he reaches in a single night through the m ed ium of radio! --------- o--------- O ldest American'? □ r/ r$a-4 ’ V L a .«Seventeen-ye; old Dorothy Dell i Goff of New Orleans, winner of the M ajor Bond, a colored man of Stam ford. Conn., claiming to be 115 years a International beauty contest held U Galveston. old, is the oldest person discovered by (be census enumerator!» I
