THE HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON
Mayor Walker and ». Bunch of Admirals
Am erica’s
Cotton Crop
things
to understand
about used car
allowances
1 When
you trade-in your used car for
a new car, you are after all making a
purchase, not a sale. You are simply ap
plying your present car as a credit toward
the purchase price oi the new car.
2 Your used car has only one fundamental
Cotton Balta Bound for Market.
sturdy little tree three to four feet
high, its branches touching those of
HE United States is the prin its neighbors in its row and almost
cipal realm of King Corton—His meeting the tranches from plants in
Majesty Gossyplum Hlrsutum, to rows on either side.
use his technical name—but his
How the Bolls Develop.
power is felt throughout the world.
The first blooms appear in the
Night and day the average man sel southernmost part of the cotton belt
dom escapes the influence of King about the middle of May and sweep
Cotton. He sleeps between cotton to the northern edge in northern
sheets on a mattress stuffed with the Tennessee and southern Virginia by
fluffy white fibers. After he discards the middle of July. They are beauti
his cotton pajamas and takes his ful snow-white blossoms at first, then
morning bath, he uses a Turkish towel change through pink to red. They
made of cotton; he dons cotton under never fade, but the red petals full,
clothes ; and if it Is summer, he prob leaving at their basrii little green
ably wears outer garments at least "squares” in the center of which nes
partly made of cotton. The celluloid tie the green “bolls" about the size
comb and brush which he uses in mak or a finger end. These swell steadily
ing his toilet, and even the handle of through the warm summer weeks—If
his tooth brush, are probably made the dreaded boll-wevll does not punctu
from the same indispensable fiber.
ate them—until they are the size of
Breakfast is not entirely cottonless an egg, when they are tinged with
even though the table Is spread with reddish brown. They then crack open
linen. If margarine is used instead of along five lines and expose In each
butter It is prohably made largely orange-like segment a closely packed
from cotton-seed o il; while the same moist white substance. In a few days
oil or solid shortening made from It the segments have folded back, the
may be used in griddle cakes, biscuits moisture has evaporated, and a ball of
or muffins. The morning paper, too, fluffy white cotton rests In Its frag
which Mr. Average Man thumbs mentary saucer. If left unpicked too
through, is dependent on cotton for long the cotton hangs downward from
the film from which its photographs the open bolls—now dry and brown
are made.
—like snowy moss.
If he motors to town, he rides on
Cotton-picking time is as much a
tires that could not be so cheap and nature-marked season in the South as
strong and durable' except for their is the overflow of the Nile in Egypt
“carcasses” of cotton fabric or cords. or the appearance of the summer sun
Perhaps the upholstery, the brake- in the Arctic. The work appeals to
linings, and even the lacquer finish on the southern negro. Industries lose
the car have drawn upon cotton as their employees, housewives their
raw materials. Arrived at his office maids, when the late summer exodus
he makes use of cotton in some of his to the cotton fields begins. Many of
stationery, his telephone insulation, the pickers camp out for weeks near
his typewriter ribbons, his window the fields in which they work and
cords, his shades, and probably in look upon the outing as a sort of holi
numerous other ways.
day. Even children and aged persons
take part In the work, dragging their
Cotton All Day Long.
At luncheon Mr. Average Man doubt canvas sacks behind them.
A generation ago pickers received
less eats from a table covered with
cotton and uses a cotton napkin, for 40 to 50 cents for each, hundred
most restaurants and hotels use cot pounds picked, but the pay has in
ton “table linen.’’ More than likely creased greatly in recent years. Last
the roast of his dinner is from an ani year pickers received $1.25, $1.50 and
mal fattened In part on cotton-seed even $1.75 a hundred in some regions.
meal. If he goes to the “movies" in The average worker picks about 200
the evening he is patronizing a huge pounds a day, but experts pick 500
Industry into whose miles of film cot pounds or more.
Put Through the Qin.
ton enters as the chief raw material.
Approximately two-thirds by weight
The seat covers, the hangings, and
even the screen on which the story of “seed cotton"—the cotton as it
he has come to see unfolded owe comes from the bolls—is seed, one-
third lint or fiber. The latter adheres
their allegiance to King Cotton.
Mrs. Average Woman leans even tightly to the seed, growing out from
more heavily on the royal and potent all parts of It in tiny white hairs. To
Gossyplum Hlrsutum. The shelves of separate lint from seed the seed cot
her “linen" closet are stacked high ton must be passed through a "gin.”
with white cotton goods used In bed The pickers have their sacks weighed
and bath rooms. In her clothes closets when they have picked down a row
hang dress after dress of the same and back, and dump the cotton In
material, while her dressers are great, deep bedded farm wagons. When
filled with cotton garments. Her 1,500 pounds or more of this has ac
dishes are dried on cotton dish cloths, cumulated it is hauled to the gin,
her laundry (Itself largely cotton) usually located at a near-by town.
There a movable suction pipe sucks
hangs on cotton lines, she darns and
mends with cotton thread, and retires up 4he still Intimately mixed seed
for the night to sleep in and between and lint to an upper floor where It
falls into a hopper and starts on its
and upon cotton.
From where does this indispensable Journey through the whirring, hum
ming machinery whose development
cotton come!
Most of it from American cotton made possible the great cotton indus
try. Numerous whirling saws tear the
fields of the South and Southwest.
The first little green plants whose fiber from the seeds. The latter drops
lives and progress will mean so much into chutes which carry them to huge
to market exchanges and commerce gray-green piles in the seed room. The
in the summer and fall, have been lint passes on belt conveyors in a broad
pushing through the black earth in endless stream to the presses where it
southern Texa-. Each week, as the Is squeezed Into bales weighing ap
sun gets warmer, will see the green proximately 500 pounds. These bales
army advance farther north until it are covered with very coarse brown
will stand in possession of close to Jute bagging and bound with iron
40,000,000 acres of the South. This is bauds. It Is in such bales or in bales
equivalent to 02,500 square miles, and still further compressed that cotton
if it were a single Held it would be moves to American cotton mills and
large enough to cover every square across the oceans to the mills of
foot of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Europe and Japan.
Until after the Civil war the value
Delaware, and most of Connecticut.
The little plants which will supply of cotton seed was not recognized.
the great American cotton crop of Millions of tons were barat, thrown
1927 (“great," because even In poor aside to rot, or shoveled into rivers.
years American cotton Is seldom Now the seed from between three and
worth less than a billion dollars) are four bales of cotton are worth as
growing In rows 8 to 4 feet apart. much as a bale of fiber. They are
They are planted rather thickly; but passed through a super-gin to remove
when they are several Inches tall the the short lint known as “linters.”
farmers and their laborers go along This is valuable for dozens of uses,
the rows with hoes, chopping out sur from making gun cotton and mat
plus seedlings, and incidentally, weeds tresses to preparing surgical dressings
and grass, leaving the plants from and photographic films. The brownish-
green seeds are then hulled and the
12 to 18 Inches apart.
After this most of the cultivation Is kernels are pressed between camels-
given with broad shallow plows and halr pads which hold the golden yel
riding cultivators. Under the warmth low meal and express the oil. Even
of the southern spring and summer the hulls make good cattle feed, while
the plants grow rapidly. When they the meal and oil furnish bases for a
reach maturity each is virtually a growing number of valuable products.
(P re p a re d b y th e N a tio n a l O eo arnphle
Society. W a a h ln x to n . D . C .)
Mayor James J. Walker of New York surrounded on the steps of the city hall by the admirals and aides u o
arrived there with the fleet The largest array of battle cruisers In history entered the Hudson river. The * ttr’
ships In the fleet numbered 116, and they carried more than 30,000 sailors and 2,227 officers. The men had a Hue
time ashore for some days. They and their vessels were fresh from the war maneuvers In the Currlhean sea.
T
First Postage Stamps
British postal reformer, conducted
for some years an agitation for
cheap postage and uniform rates, and
the postage stamp was one of his
proposals. Great Britain became the
first stamp-issuing country In 1840.
when a number of Hill's suggestions
were adopted.
Postage stamps have been issued
by or for some 900 countries, colonies,
provinces, states, cities, or other au
thorities. There are, perhaps, 800
stamp-issuing countries at the pres
ent time, and there have beea laaaed
C*M m * G r a s r a * in Syria
about 75,000 varieties of stamps.
Experiments In cotton growing in
The postage stamp grew out of the
necessity for issuing a receipt for Syria near the Euphrates have bats
money paid In advance for the car highly successful. American sasd pm
riage of letters. Mr Rowland HUI, a during tbs bast resulta.
Dynamiting the Levee Below New Orleans
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basis of value; i. e., what the dealer who
accepts it in trade can get for it in the
used car market.
Your used car has seemingly different
values because competitive dealers are
bidding to sell you a new car.
The largest allowance is not necessarily
the best deal for you. Sometimes it is;
sometimes it is not.
An excessive allowance may mean that
you are paying an excessive price for the
new car in comparison with its real value.
First judge the merits of the new car in
comparison with its price, including all
delivery and finance charges. Then weigh
any difference in allowance offered on
your used car.
G E N'E RAL
M OTORS
" A c a r f o r e v e ry p u r s e a n d p u r p o s e ”
CHEVROLET
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PONTIAC
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OLDSMOBILE
» OAKLAND
BUICK r L a SA LLE , CADILLAC
GMC TRUCKS r YELLOW CABS A N D COACHES
This photograph, made at the Instant of the explosion, shows the actual dynamiting of the Mississippi levee In
St. Bernard parish when that and adjoining parishes were sacrificed to the flood waters of the Mississippi river to
save the city of New Orleans. Afterward it was necessary to blast other openings In the dike and the operation was
successful so far as New Orleans was concerned, but, of course, the farm and trapping lands between there
and Lake Borgne were Inundated and the loss there was considerable. All the Inhabitants had been evacuated.
Explosion Cripples the Langley
FRIGIDAIRB—Tkt El'ctric Rrfrietrator
The promoter Is a sort of drum I It doesn’t take a very bright woman
major of Industry.
| to dazzle some men.
PILOT CHAMBERLIN
cially prepared for Infants in arms and Children all ages.
T o avoid imitations, always look for the signature o f
Clarence Chuniberlln, selected as
The U. S. S. Langley, flagship of the fleet’s air forces, being towed Into pilot of the Wrlgbt-Bellanca plane In
Brooklyn navy yard for repairs after the explosion off Ambrose light. Electric the projected nonstop flight from New
It takes a man with a lot of brass
A miser's face Is like a bank note;
York to Paris, Is seen above In the
machinery aboard the craft was paralyzed, but no one was hurt
to dispose of a gold brick.
every
line
In
It
means
money.
cockpit of the machine.
Apple Blossom Parade Prize Float
MICHIGAN BEAUTY
SAY “ BAYER ASPIRIN” and INSISTI
Proved safe by millions and prescribed by physicians for
Colds
Headache
Neuritis
Lumbago
Pain
Neuralgia
Toothache
Rheumatism
DOES NOT AFFECT THE HEART
Miss Lillian Itowett, seventeen
year-old high school girl, chosen by
the Bessemer (Mich.) Chamber of
This float won first prize In the Apple Blossom parade at Winchester, Va. Commerce to represent Bessemer In
Beauties of the Shenandoah valley were garbed in old-fashioned dresses In the International Beauty contest at
Galveston, Texas, Moy 21-23.
the apple blossom colors, pink, white and green.
FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS
Whole meat tastes very much like
bsef.
Tarantulas sometimes kill young
rattlesnakes.
Chimpanzees are right or left-handed
as man ara.
Distemper In dogs Is similar to tn-
ll’ r2ta kill more people than hn»-
U«, according to tha National Bafo-
tr ePB»eO.
Early Education Board
The legislature of Massachusetts
created a state board of education on
Loa Angele* contains 801 square April 20, 1887. Horace Mann was the
originator of the bill. Mann was
alias.
California's farms and Industries elected secretary of the new board al
produce a revenue of about $3,500,- a salary of $1,000 s year.
000,000.
Tha longest pipe line In tha world
Excellant Definition
shoots oil from Texas to New Jersey,
Mike says; "A pessimist Is a man
1,700 miles.
who buries the hatchet of enmity,
There has been a vast Increase in but carefully oils It to keep It from
the transportation of freight by rivers getting rusty, and also kaspa a spade
rince tha war.
to die it up,"—Cincinnati Cynic
Kzzzpl only "Bayer" package
which contains proven directions.
Handy "Bayer” boxes of 18 tablet!
Alto bottles of 24 and 100—Druggists.
A -p ,., . jg the tra d . mark of B arer lf .n n f .e t n r . of M o o o arrttr.rtd «s t.r of S .llerU e .eld
Cuticura Preparations
Unexcelled In purity, they are regarded by
m illio n s ss unrivalled In the promotion
o f skin end heir health. T h e purifying,
antiseptic, pore-cleansing properties of
Cuticura Soap invigorate and preserve the
sk in ; the Ointm ent soothes and heels
rashes end irritations. T h e freely -lather
ing Shaving 9tick cauaes no frltasth ■ i hut
leaves the skin fresh and smooth The
Talcum is fragrant sod refreshing.