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Southern Oregon News Review, Thursday, September 9, 1948 Washington Di9CSt> ASK M S ANOTNSK Man Is Riding Life Cycle Toward His Destruction | A General Quiz fV- fX- <V. <x~ <x. (%. <v fv. <*■ f*- «»'T'HESE next Olympic games * w ill be just about the same as B y B A V K IIA G E the others." Dean Cromwell was A’ru'S Analyst and Commentator. speaking at the University of Cali WASHINGTON.—Today we have two visitors whom I met fornia track last winter. “ They recently at the Smithsonian institution, Mrs. Neanderthaler don't change too much." "Why should it be that way?” I (her husband wasn’t available) and Mr. Cro-Magnon. They have come a long way. The Neanderthalers lived about 25,000 asked our Olympic coach. years ago—but what's a few thousand years among friends—or relatives? "Too many fine, natural athletes.” Fertilizing wheat paid dividends 1 doubt that the Neanderthalers are relatives of ours—and I'm not sorry. he said. “ Too many able coaches In crop Increases averaging seven and tr a in e r s all to nine and one-half bushels per They lived early in the Old Stone^ over the map. Our acre, Purdue university research age. and died without leaving any age depth of the topsoil on the earth track-and-field ath men revealed In announcing results known heirs, assigns or descendents is about one foot. It is estimated that letes get the best of 1947 studies conducted In 15 In —which may be just as well for the it takes nature, under favorable con training and coach diana counties. rest of us who might have inherited ditions. from 300 to 1.000 years to ing in the world— Wheat yields increased s e v e n some of their characteristics. They build one inch of that vital source and I'm not talk were sub-humans—stocky folks— of our food, clothing and shelter ing about myself. bushels per acre when fertilizer applications aver but they cov’dn’ t take it. They died We can’t miss." "Y e t,’’ he says, "what may have aged from 150 to out. The genial Dean taken a thousand years to build can 200 pounds per Now Mr. Cro-Magnon was a d if be. and in some places has been, Cromwell was right acre, W h e n the ferent proposition. He was a su removed by erosion in a year, or Grantlandltlce But’ be,ore plant food treat- p e r io r hum an even in a single day." ta k in g too m a n y ment was boosted and I wish he bows, don’t forget we faced a war- Erosion. That comes from over to 300 to 400 pounds were a relative wrecked world that wasn't very use, wrong use or removal of pro per acre, average because he was tecting grasses and trees. We over- well fed. Also, we had one of the production gains of really superior to strongest teams that ever entered grazed the plains to get quick money nine and one • half us—better body, for beef, mutton and wool. We an Olympic meet since Pindar sang bushels were ob better brain. If of Grecian glory a few thousand plowed fields of grass, left them ex tained. he’d only lasted, years ago. posed, and you remember what hap Demonstrations what a career he This was a star United States pened—the dust bowl. We slaugh with wheat started would have had team that couldn't be approached. tered the forests and reaped the on various soil in Hollywood— yearly devastating floods. Today our But despite better food and better ty p e s last fall a n d w h a t he training, it was none too keen about food and shelter runs down the mud showed somewhat might have done died rivers to be lost in the ocean any races beyond half a mile or sim ilar results, ac for us! He might 800 meters. The U. S. had the call cording to the Pur And animal life? We killed have saved us. in speed. Europe had the call in due research men. off millions of wild animals on He may still. stamina. When 165 pounds this continent. We replaced I ’ve been read- I asked Cromwell why it was that Baukhage of 0-12-12 was ap them, to some extent, by domes in g t w o n e w U. S. athletes couldn’t handle dis plied on six south tic animals. But we are break books—"Our Plundered Planet," by tance races. ern Indiana upland ing the magic cycle of life there, Fairfield Osborne and "Road to “ We are a nation of quick re soils, increases of five bushels per too, for the life-giving proper Survival," by W illiam Vogt. actions,” he said. "We can't acre resulted. When the applica ties of most of our domestic Our friend Neanderthaler proba wait. Our favorite race Is the tion was doubled, yield increases animals do not return to the soil bly managed to stick around 200,000 100-yard dash—or the 100 me averaged seven bushels per acre. as did the bones and bodies of years or so before his environment ters. Our next favorite race Is "Applications of 300 to 350 pounds wild life that lived their course, or his neighbors finished him off. the 200 meters. After the mile of 3-12-12 are being recommended died and were enveloped in their we have little interest. We have Today we are rapidly chang mother earth. for wheat on practically all upland few athletes w illing to train that ing our environment, and un silt or clay loam soils and for Sheep and cattle are shipped today long and that hard. less we cease destroying our sandy loams.” says a statement to slaughter houses where what lit- sources of food and shelter, we "We can't get athletes who really by the Purdue agronomy depart shall soon destroy ourselves, as w ill train for the 5,000 and 10,000- ment. “ If the 3-12-12 cannot be our sub-human friend was de meter races. Maybe they wouldn’t obtained, then 2-12-6 is a good sub stroyed. be so good if they did. It takes stitute for the wheat crop itself. more than one generation to make The additional potash in the 3-12-12, We know that there are two things a 10,000-meter or a marathon w in however, is especially important which chiefly distinguish man from ner.” for the clover and corn crops fol the animal: The way he has de lowing the small grain.” veloped the use of his hands and the Are Americans Soft? way his brain works. But our hands, “ You mean we can't take the at the levers of machines, conceived beating,” I said. “ We want the Machinery Is Revamping by our brains, have so disturbed softer road." the cycle of nature, have done such Farming in Cotton Belt “ It isn’t quite that,” Cromwell terrible things to all forms of life, Nearly a m illion tractors today said, as he squirmed and twisted a that they may prove our undoing— are in action on farms in the 18 trifle. “ We are just not a nation of if they don’t blow us into atomic long - distance runners, from the cotton • producing states, saving eternity, first! time and labor in nearly every m ile on up.” Forgetting atomic destruction, “ Yet the mile race is the great phase of cotton production. The let’s look at some others. invasion of machinery into the est of them all,” I said. South's white cotton fields is elim We are very good at repro “ Who said so?” Cromwell asked. ducing. In three centuries the “ What are you—a Swede or a inating the back-breaking task of producing the cotton crop. M R. CRO-M AGNON Finn?” population of the earth has in Man's mechanical helpers achieve . . . spark of something else . . . creased almost five times. In “ We've had some great m ilers,” the seventeenth century there Cromwell said. "Glenn Cunning in a few hours what form erly took tie is left disappears in disposal ham and B ill Bonthron.” days of costly human labor. For were 400 million people. There plants or goes back to the ocean. are 2,000 million today. Five "What about Jack Lovelock?” I example, the flame cultivator, at We are killing the soil. Gradually suggested. “ Yards beyond them all tached to a tractor, removes grass times as many mouths to feed. removing it and the tiny animal and at the m ile or 1,500 meters. What and weeds from the field at one- Osborne says: “ I f one takes four plant cells it contains, and thus de tenth the form er cost. billion acres, representing an area stroying the potential for reprodu- about Gunder Haegg, the Swede, An experiment in the coastal yards better than Lovelock? What of land estimated as now available ing the tiny living organisms in the plains area of N o r t h C a r o l i n a for cultivation, it means that there top soil which are a part of the re about other Swedes, many yards showed that while 118 man hours beyond the best we’ve ever had?” are less than two acres per capita lationship of all living things. “ Let’s get back to the field are required to produce an acre of Contrasted with this is a generally cotton by the old man-mule meth I haven't space to go on, but I events,” Cromwell said. accepted computation that two and don’t want to leave on a too-de The main weakness in U. S. en ods, use of two-row tractor equip one-half acres of land of average pressing note. I t ’ s true that our tries is the m atter of stamina. ment, mechanical choppers, flame productivity are required to provide friends, Mr. and Mrs. Neanderthal Over here we want results and ap cultivators and machine pickers even a minim um adequate diet for er, the sub-human folk with the lit plause in a hurry. We can’t wait. cuts the man-hour requirements to each person.’’ 19.7 per acre. tle brain, couldn’t take it. But we Johnny Hayes won the marathon Think of that: It takes two and Machines capable of harvesting can hope that his successor, Mr. in England exactly 40 years ago, one-half acres to feed you properly. Cro-Magnon, who had a better brain in 1908. Hayes beat Dorando, the a bale of cotton in slightly more There are now only two acres avail- than we have, passed some of it on Italian, who was carried across than an hour are now a reality to us, w ith the spark of something the line. But Dorando came over i n s t ea d of a remote possibility. While the a v e r a g e hand-picker else that made him lift his chin a here and whipped Hayes. gathers about 15 pounds of seed little from the clod. Let's be honest. We are not a cotton an hour, a single mechanical “ We have been taught to lift ours marathon people. We are not picker in the same field harvests higher, to the heavens. There’s hope even mile people. We never about 1,500 pounds in 2 hours, 20 up there—and inspiration—and with have had anyone to compare minutes. Thus, the mechanical in ourselves the power, too, if we with Paavo Nurmi, Lovelock, harvester accomplishes the work know how to use it. Haegg and others who could run of 40 to 50 human pickers. • • • rings around the best we ever had at a mile. Cunningham, M o re Tree» Internal Parasites Loot Bonthron and others, plus Gil O n th e W a y Dodds, made gallant gestures Farmers of Huge Toll American farmers w ill have more In the right direction. But trees to plant next year than ever Few crim inals ever dream of they were not 4.01 or 4.02 m il before in our history. com m itting a 125 m illion dollar rob ers on an outdoor track. bery. But that’s the "am ount in State nurseries plan to grow 368,- ternal parasites steal from the U. S. 976,551 in 1947-48, according to a Lovelock Eases Alon% livestock industry every year. Be national survey just completed by I feel confident that Lovelock the American Forest Products In could have taken at least two sec cause the parasites are hidden, the dustries, Inc., of Washington, D. C. onds from the 1,500 race in Berlin. farm er never w ill see the thieves at Most of these trees w ill be sold He was merely galloping when he work. However, they keep right to farmers and other landowners at finished in 3 minutes, 47 and 8/10 on causing losses day and night. Parasites cause diseased animals cost, while many w ill be given to seconds. and poultry to eat more grain and farmers free of charge by forest “ I wasn’t interested in tim e,” other feeds than healthy stock eat. industries who purchase them from Lovelock said later. “ I merely They stunt the growth of young M RS. N E A N D E R T H A L E R state nurseries. wanted to win comfortably.” Even animals and sometimes k ill them . . . they couldn’t take i t . . . This forest seedling production, then he had only broken the Olym Affected animals generally bring however, w ill be increased substan able. So you can see why there are tia lly by federal and private indus pic record by 4 seconds. I feel sure l o w e r p r i c e s when shipped to Lovelock could have run the 1,500 market. such food shortages around the try nurseries over the United States, meters in 3 minutes and 45 seconds Internal parasites can be con world. pushing the total to approximately —or the mile in 4.01. trolled. Phenothiazine, carbon tet Osborne goes on: “ The relation 400 m illion seedlings. rachloride, hexachlorethane, sodium between land-health and health of In any Olympic game, or any Yet these figures, representing the fluoride and carbon disulfide are human beings is actually no more set of track-and-field games, planting of three trees for every used to fight certain types of parn than a delicate aspect of the delicate the dullest sports are the man, woman and child in the coun sites. The advice of a local veteri complex aspect of all life.” jumps, the shot put, the ham try, indicate statistically that seed narian should be secured to de mer throw, the long, drawn-out The cycle of life—the life in ling production still is not enough termine the proper method of pole vault. For some reason we the soil that feeds and clothes to fill the demand by woodland own treatment. have picked the dullest sports in our own life—is a part of the ers and other citizens interested in which to excel. No one cares growing trees. single whole which contributes very much whether you finish Spoilage of Stored Grain to the fruitfulness of the earth. And while they still do not meet first or last. The weight events the tremendous demand, if all these I haven’t space here to go through Hinges on Bin's Condition arc the dullest of them all. the whole list of crimes that man seedlings were planted 1,000 to an Grain can be stored almost in I don’t believe all Olympic events has committed in the race to break acre they would form a verdant, definitely with little deterioration in should be judged on the same ba mile-wide belt stretching from New that cycle—to destroy the fru itfu l sis. The marathon should be worth farm-type bins — those that hold ness of the earth—that fruitfulness York to Chicago. 30 points, compared to 5 points for 1,000 to 3,000 bushels—if the bins The record in tree planting is upon which his own existence de are kept dry, cool, clean and free pends. Take the most striking ex matched only by the volume of new the 100 meters. The 10,000-meter of insects, according to the USDA race should be worth 20 points, with wood now growing on America’s ample—the topsoil. For control of insect Infestation, forest lands. Total growth now ex 10 points for the 200-meter race. I chief reliance must be placed on Topsoil. When that goes, we still believe that stamina is more ceeds 13.3 billion cubic feet of wood fumigation. Shelled corn has been go with it. every year—greatest volume ever Important than speed—that hardi stored for several years with a loss hood is more important than flash Osborne, as I mentioned in this recorded in surveys made by the of less than 1 per cent, according courage. apace last week, estimates the aver- federal government. to official reports Wheat Yield Boosted Through Fertilization Gains in Indiana Tests Exceed Seven Bushels f*- ? I ? f ? A- <*- <* <*“ 1. What la New York state’s most fam iliar nickname? 2. 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