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HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, JAN. 15, 1931, PAGE THREE Killing With Kindness Recently a young couple were sub jected to the ordeal of a fashionable church wedding, and started joyous ly on their honeymoon. They were a nice boy and girl. His only Idea was to find a job at the bottom of some good business where he could carve out a career for himself. She had dreams of making a little home, keeping him happily, listening in the evening to the story of his day's adventures, and helping him by her love and enthusiasm to be a real success. They had only one draw-back, or rather six draw-backs; two sets of wealthy parents and two very rich old aunts. While they were away the two aunts had an Inspiration. They look ed around secretly in the most ex pensive part of the city and picked out a swell apartment. They em ployed the highest priced interior decorator, and gave generous orders at the leading furniture stores. When the couple came back to, town they were met by all four par ents and the two doting old maids. In a big limousine they were whisk ed up to the apartment. The lights were switched on. The older people waited expectantly for the exclama tions of joy that would greet the splendid lay-out. Too astonished to say anything, the poor little rich children gazed about them. Then suddenly the bride covered her face with her hands and burst Into a flood of tears. The older people thought that they were tears of joy. In clumsy fashion they began to comfort her, to tell her that what they had given her was nothing in comparison with what they would like to do. Being a well bred young lady, the bride did not disillusion them. She mumbled some conventional words of thanks and held herself under control until they had gone. She could not tell them and they would not have understood that they had done the cruelist thing im aginable; that they had destroyed her dream and robbed her of one of life's sweetest pleasures. They had tried to be so very kind, and they succeeded only in taking from her the joyful right of every girl to fix up her own little home for herself. Most of us run no danger of hurting our children in the same de gree. We are, fortunately, too poor to rob them very much. Yet all parents need to be on guard a bit in this prosperous land. Let us have the good sense not to kill with kindness. Let us give our kids a chance to enjoy the same grand pleasures which we enjoyed the pleasure of selecting their own mates, making their own homes, and fighting their way up by themselves. SLANG There is nothing new under the sun. A smart scholar has been dig ging into the classics of literature and finds that many expressions which are generally regarded as strictly modern slang are hundreds of years old. Alexander Pope, for example, the English poet who died in 1744, originated the expression "nobody home," to signify an empty minded person. Dean Swift, famed as the author of "Gulliver's Trav els," described a middle-aged wo man as "no chicken." The phrase "twenty-three," in the sense of "it's your turn to disap pear," comes from Charles Dickens. In "A Tale of Two Cities" Sydney Carton, the hero, is awaiting his turn to go to the guillotine, in the French Revolution. The old women, knitting, call off the numbers as the executioner's victims pass. Twenty-three, they call, and Carton Is led to his death. About the only "modern" slang that is really modern Is derived from modern inventions. Shakes peare could never have one of his characters advising another to "step on the gas," nor Dickens refer to an individual as a "fiat tire." FLYING Col. Lindbergh the other day pointed out that the Improvement in airplanes since he made his New York to Paris flight has been so great that it is only a question of a short time, in his opinion, before the public takes to flying as it has taken to motoring. Planes are safer, faster and carry larger loads than a few years ago. What is needed most is landing ltelds closer to the centers of towns, says Col. Lindbergh. Where 90 miles an hour was a good cruising speed In 1927, now the same type of plane makes 140 miles an hour eas ily, and carries 1,200 pounds as against 400 pounds then. With In creased safety, flying becomes a matter of routine like driving a car. Col. Lindbergh's opinions are en titled to respect. He probably knows more about both the science and the art of flying than anyone else living, and has proved himself a conserva tive and accurate prophet in the past. WAKEFIELD Nearly two hundred years ago I George Washington's father planted , two thousand cedar trees on the family estate, "Wakefield," near Fredericksburg, Va. Tlday that ce dar forest Is the scene of the great est activity since the birth of the first president, for workmen are en gaged In restoring the old house, which was burned on Christmas Day 150 years ago. The stone foun dations and chimneys still stand, and a brick-kiln has been construct ed to make bricks from the local clay, just like those of which the original house was built. The restoration and preservation of the homes and birthplaces of the Fathers of our Nation is a splendid and patriotic undertaking. We paid too little attention In the early days to these historic sites, with the re sult that many of them have disap peared, never to be replaced. corn sugar as an article of food, failed because it had no sound foun dation. Now the Secretary of Agri culture has removed the restriction on its use in prepared foods; the la bel does not need to tell whether corn sugar, cane sugar, or beet su gar is used for sweetening. As Mr. Hyde says, corn sugar is about three-quarters as sweet as cane su gar and contains nothing detriment al to health He estimates that the potential market for corn for the manufacture of sugar may be as high as 100,000,000 bushels a year, or nearly 4 per cent of the nation's corn crop. WOOD Nothing has ever replaced wood satisfactorily for the interior "trim" of buildings. With wood, effects can be obtained which are impossi ble with mtal or composition. But the use of wood in large buildings in the cities has been discouraged because of the fire risk. New York authorities are now ex perimenting with a new fireproof- ing method which seems likely to be adopted. It consists in soaking the wood In a chemical solution which, when heated, gives off a fire-extin guishing vapor and at the same time covers the surface of the wood with a protective coating. In New York new wooden shelves, paneling, doors and trim are not permitted in tall olllce buildings and hotels, and wooden floors are allow ed only when laid over solid concrete. reports in regard to the germination requirements of smut We find that the smut may be a little more par ticular in regard to moisture 'and temperature than wheat. Also, that various forms of smut which we will speak about a little later have differ ences in temperature and moisture requirements for germination. The spore germinates with what Is known as a germ tube, and then from each germ tube grow delicate sporidia. These sporidia fuse and produce smut infection tubes which grow into the seedling, keep pace with the growing points of the wheat seedling and plant, and are finally expressed as smut in the head. As previously stated, this ex pression in the head may not always come about. One of the outstanding recent dis coveries made in regard to this dis ease is that while various collections of smut spores may look alike, they do not act alike. We have this same condition in rust, mildew and other diseases, and this condition is Bpok en of as physiologic specialization or occurrence of physiologic forms. A most striking instance of this con dition was brought about in trials at the Moro Station three years ago, when it was found that smut spores obtained from the Federal grain of fices for coating seeds in tests of va rious resistant varieties acted dif ferently and proved strikingly dif ferent from the smut that they had previously been using. This led to the rather exhaustive investigations which we have carried on at Corval lis in cooperation and with the as sistance of Mr. Stephens and the station staffs at Moro and Pendle ton. In the past three years, we have obtained more than 100 collec tions of smut from various sources and applied this smut in equal amounts to various varieties of wheat, and have found that al though the spores may look alike, many collections act quite different ly. Varieties of wheat like Regal, Albit, Oro, Russar, Ridit, which were formerly thought to be resist ant to smut, are not resistant to all of these collections. Therefore these smut collections must be different in that some will successfully infect certain varieties which others will not infect. As a result of our stud ies we have concluded that in all our collections we have at least ten physiologic forms of bunt. These have different reactions on varieties of wheat, and right now there is no variety of wheat which farmers are growing, or which has been distrib uted from the experiment stations which is resistant to all collections or physiologic forms of bunt. It is true that some are more resistant than others, that is, are resistant to more physiologic forms. For ex ample, we have Ridit and Oro which are quite striking in this respect Ridit is resistant to most all of the forms, but we have one or two which attack it readily. Oro is ex ceedingly striking in this respect being susceptible to only one phy siologic form with which we have worked. All of this gives us hope that we may be able to cross such varieties as Oro and Ridit and get new varieties which may be resist ant to all forms. The discovery that so many types of bunt exist makes our breeding work extremely com plicated, in fact adds a factor which involves the need of keeping our strains of smut pure and separate as well as keeping our strains of wheat pure. The existence of dif ferent forms of bunt is a thing that really might have been expected. As stated before, the smut fungus is a small plant subject to Its variations, hybridizations, mutations, and changes the same as the wheat plant. We know in regard to wheat that there are many varieties and strains and that it is easy to orig inate more. The same is now shown to be true of the smut fungus. Sure ly, we have just opened up a new field which demands thorough re search and Btudy, and the field Is barely scratched. Bad Smut From Heppner It is of interest to note that one of the worst, if not the worst, collec tion of smut that we received, came from the vicinity of Heppner. It is what we know as Collection No. 9. It attacks more varieties of wheat than any other so far, but Oro and Ridit are resistant to this collection. As a result we find that this form of bunt is rather widespread. It at tacks varieties such as Regal, Albit, White Odessa and Hussar very readily, and so the existence of dif ferent physiologic forms of bunt should be taken into account when varieties are selected. I do not want to fail to mention that we have evidence that our seed treatments do not act the same against all of these physiologic giving another very practical appli cation of this recent discovery. In regard to control, there are many factors to keep in mind. Particular ly with winter wheat, an important factor, as stated before, is soil in fection, and the amount of infec tion from the soil can greatly be controlled by tillage methods and maybe cooperative efforts. In addition to the three well known seed treatments, bluestone, formaldehyde, and copper carbon- DOCKAGE FOR SMUT y (Continued from First Page) When Minutes Mean Dollars 4-OU are out on the road your oil gauge shows low your hear a slight tap In the motor just a few miles, it becomes perceptibly louder clack, clank, knock beads of perspiration rise as you realize it is 50 miles to the next service station. Just a little forethought forestalls an overhaul. GEMMELL'S Service Station P. M. GEMMELL, Prop. "Our Service Will Please Tou; GLUCOSE "Corn sugar" is the fashionable word now for what used to be call ed glucose. As glucose it was vio lently attacked a quarter of a pen tury ago by the cane sugar and beet sugar Interests, with the result that the Department of Agriculture made a ruling that all food products containing srlucose should be so marked on the label. The effort to discredit glucose or ing losses which annually amount to more than a million dollars in the Northwest states and losses nearly as great in other sections of the United States. At this time of low price of wheat, there is interest in the reduction of cost of production, and one of the big factors in cost of production, of course, is the yield of clean wheat. Smut, without a doubt, reduces not only the yield in the field but also the quality of wheat and hence the actual price received. The study of bunt is of a fairly technical nature because we are dealing with a living organism. There are two species of bunt, one a rough spored form, and the other a smooth spored form. I will not dis cuss the differences in these two species greatly, as right now we are of the opinion that the two kinds behave in much the same way. We have other differences of greater Importance which we will mention later. Bunt is a fungus and hence a small living parasitic plant, re producing itself through microscop ic spores. A spore is similar to a wheat seed, in that it germinates and grows, producing a plant which attacks the wheat plant. The dis ease Is what we call systemic, that is, infection takes place in the young seedling, the fungus grows up through the plant and shows it self In the head. It may be true from evidence both with this dis ease and smut of oats that we may have the disease present and yet not have it show in the head. In this case we also may get a reduction in the yield. Therefore, even though smut may not be Indicated by smut ty kernels in the head of the plant, one still may have smut in the wheat plant which may cause reduc tion in yield and other losses such as lodging and shrivelled kernels. Smut Germination Told Most everyone knows that smut spores on the kernel can Infect the crop nnd in addition, particularly In winter wheat, Infection Is obtained from the soil. Just a few words on the nature of the growth of the smut disease and Its Infection. The smut spore germinates along with the wheat kernel and infects the seedling up until the time the seed ling emerges from the ground. We have found some interesting things and some discrepancies in various Your Patronage Will Please Us' Money has wings and it is no Homing Pigeon "NE of the Hohenzollcrn grandsons has waited an entire year for a needed din ner cont, and almost any prin cess will be pleased to endorse your soup or cigarette for a modest stipend. While you are earning money is the time to save it. Big incomes don't last forever. IQNAL ate, there have arisen many new ! dust seed treatments, most of them with commercial names. Some of these newer commercial treatments are changing quite rapidly in regard to their formulas. For this and oth er reasons we are not ready to rec ommend any of them, particularly, for the control of wheat smut We still believe that of the three best known treatment methods the cop per carbonate method of control is the best for many reasons. We be lieve that in a region where there is much smut in the seed it is highly important that a good grade of cop per carbonate be used, that is, one having a high copper content (50 or more) and that the dust be thor oughjy coatetd on the seed. Thor ough dusting is essential and is one point in the treatment that many growers neglect Although there is not much difference, maybe, in the value of the different grades of cop per carbonate where there is not much smut, we believe that as a general practice a high grade only should be used. The copper carbon ate should be thoroughly dusted on the seed at the rate of 2 ounces per bushel and smut balls should be re moved previous to treatment Control Measures Cited In view of the fact that we have new physiologic forms and do not know the exact resistance status of off varieties of wheat we feel that it is essentially important now to make every effort to control smut, and by every effort we mean that you should grow the most resistant varieties, treat them thoroughly and carefully with the copper carbonate dust of high quality, plant as early as practicable to avoid as much of the soil infection as possible, seed rather shallow, where this can be safely done, and use every cultural practice which experience shows will help toward the control of this disease. It is rather unfortunate that after all of the years of effort spent on control methods that we have more smut than ever, and it appears that the time is ripe for a concentrated effort to control this disease from all angles. To some people the entire smut problem seems one of discourage ment and it may appear that we are going backward, but as in the solution of mafiy problems, the search for an answer to the smut problem revealed the fact that it is far bigger and more complicated than was thought as first We find now that these physiologic forms exit It is fortunate, therefore, that we have found It out so soon nd are taking it into consideration. Already we have started a new breeding program, including new combinations. In fact we have one combination, a cross between Ho henheimer, a German wheat and Hussar, which we call Hosar. It is not only resistant to all of the phy siologic forms of bunt which we have used, but it is more resistant to the foot rot trouble, which has given some difficulty in various sec tions, than any other variety. Ho sar, however, is not a desirable com- THE NEW FORD There Is No Substitute for Safety Everything you want or need in a motor ear THE more you see of ihe new Ford, the more you realize that it brings you everything you want or need in a motor car. . . . And at an unusually low price. Its substantial beauty of line and color is ap parent at a glance. Long, continuous service em phasizes the value of its simplicity of design and the high quality that has been built into every part. The new Ford accelerates quickly and it will do 55 to 65 miles an hour. It is an easy-riding car because of its specially designed springs and four Iloudaille double-acting hydraulic shock absorb crs. 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