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CENTRAL POINT STAR
Drouth of 1930 Most Serious in History
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NI MBER 5
FRIDAY. AUGUST W. l»»0
V O I .I M E T H R E E
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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
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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
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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.
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“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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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A phenomenon is the case of Flo
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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.
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ALBERT ZUC SMITH JRj
W a rtt Drouth
White Sp<4|
No Drouth
PANSY
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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!
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old Dorothy Dell
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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!»
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