The Lampasas Daily Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 35, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 16, 1940 Page: 2 of 4
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Three million pounds pressure per
square inch—greatest ever created
by man—was produced in Washing-
ton recently in a machine invented
by Dr. Roy Goranson. It was first
demonstrated in the Carnegie insti-
tute’s geophysical laboratory,. The
demonstration was made at the con-
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graphed model, Is crowned “Miss
Print” by illustrator McClelland
Barclay at a* Now York banquet.,
Miss Shaw’s regal robe is a paste-
up of advertising illustrations.
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An official rebuke to James H. R. Cromwell, right. United States
minister to Canada, was administered by Secretary of State Cordell Hull
recently when Cromwell, in a Canadian speech, lauded the war aims
of the allies. Hull informed Cromwell that he had “contravened instruc-
tions” in his talk. Pictured with Cromwell are his wife, the former Doris
Duke, and H. G. Hengs tier, United States consul-general. Cromwell’s
speech was made before the Empire and Canadian clubs.
A house-to-house census, ordered by the ministry of home security,
jg under way in England. Wardens have been instructed to visit every
homo to find If residents still have their gas masks, and whether or not
they are in good condition. A lost or damaged gas mask is replaced
without charge- here a checkup ip being made in a typical London borne.
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Unmistakable sign of spring is the circus* preparation for the long trip north after a winter hibernation
in warmer climate. Here a big show prepares to leave winter quarters in Florida. Left: The ringmas-
ter, symbol of the big top, has readied his “spiel” for the season. Center: An elephant (known as a pon-
derous Pachyderm) goes through his act, supported by an attractive aid. Right: The equestrian acrobatic
act goes through practice session for the coming year’s work.
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U. S. Volunteer.
munitions manufacturing herself,
granting credits to Britain and ear-
marking her gold for Britain. When
peace finally comes she will not only
be independent of London but may
actually be a creditor nation.
His Diet Is Better.
While watching his pennies, the
farmer manages to eat more good
things than other groups. His brood
of five consumes 60 per cent more
milk, 16 per cent more butter and
25 per cent more fresh vegetables
than city families. Village families,
incidentally, are shown by the sur-
vey to be the poorest fed in the
land, some almost to the point of
malnutrition, though an abundance
of fresh and nourishing food is usu-
ally available nearby.
In fairness, however, the survey
discloses that farmers do not have
as many incidental expenses as their
urban brethren. Less than half those
questioned had electricity, while 98
per cent of city and village dwell-
ers get monthly power bills. Only
52 per cent of the rural families
had installed telephones as com-
pared with 60 per cent for village
and urban families.
More than 94 per cent of city
homes were billed for running wa-
ter, while in the north-central re-
gion of the United States only 24
per cent of the farms paid for that
convenience. Furthermore though
94 per cent of the farmers own au-
tomobiles as compared with only
70 per cent of the others, the agrari-
ans buy three-fourths of their cars
from the used-car market while
more than half the city families buy
new cars.
However, from one point of view,
farm savings are menaced by the
rapid spread of rural electrification.
Within the past decade the benefits
of electricity, according to the Rur-
al Electrification administration,
have been extended to 700,000 farms.
In addition, the hard-surfacing of
approximately 85 per cent of the
nation’s primary and secondary
highways has brought the costly at-
tractions of the city—beauty par-
lors, theaters, shops and depart-
Ohioan Makes Cimbalons
For U. S. Music World
MIDDLETOWN, OHIO. — John
Farkas, robust cabinet maker, has
dedicated his spare hours and wood-
working talents to the mission of
supplying cimbalons to the Ameri-
can musical world.
When Farkas arrived in Middle-
town in 1922 from Hungary he
missed the harp-like lyrical music
of the native Hungarian instrument,
and thus began his hobby.
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Canada Fights ‘Strangest War’
With Industry Instead of Guns
TTAWA. — When Canadian I ing
Prime Minister W. L. Mac-
kenzie King won a vote of con-
fidence in his special
mandate”
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nadians find
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ern front but at
home. Their
weapons are industry and agricul-
ture, not guns.
To be sure, one division of troops
has already been sent abroad but
this was more to pacify the Cana-
dians than because Great Britain
wanted them. There are already
too many men on the western front
and the allies are in greater need
of economic resources.
To make it even more unusual,
a large number of the Canadian
troops sent abroad or held for train-
seize them.
Several military men have ex-
pressed this fear openly. Ip 1938,
Rear Adm. Yates Stirling, formerf
navy ehief of staff, expected Francq
| Spain to capture Portugal
are American \tolunteers, of
whonrbetween 10,000 and 15,000 are
said to have crossed the border4
since war began.
Unlike 1914, when hostilities
brought feverish recruiting of men
for cannon fodder and women for
nursing and bandage-making, the
war of 1940 finds Canada going along
much as usual. Only a few select
troops are accepted and they must
pass rigid examinations. Women,
no longer needed for bandage-wrap-
ping and sock-knitting, are concen-
trating instead on saving food and
working in offices and factories.
Nor is Great Britain demanding
huge quantities of foodstuffs as in
1914. Canadian farmers, who ex-
pected such a rush, are left with
bulging granaries.
As a source of war supplies and
a training ground for allied aviation
Canada is rapidly becoming so im-
portant that many believe it may
be the British empire’s most impor-
tant industrial center when the war
is over. Some 15,000 pilots from
England, Australia, New Zealand
and other parts of the empire are
being given their final training in
Canada.
The dominion is also manufactur-
ing planes, shells and automobiles.
Battleships may also be built there
eventually, for Canada is now mak-
ing smaller naval vessels.
As never before, Canada at war
is emphasizing her financial inde-
pendence from England, acting al-
most as a separate nation. Cana-
dian securities held in England are
being repatriated and $1,500,000,000
worth of Canadian-held American
securities are being sold back to the
United States.
U. S.* Watches Azwes
As Possible Threat
To Atlantic Security
NEW YORK.—Direct flight of
commercial airplanes between New
York and the Azores islands, a dis-
tance of 2,000 miles, has again fo-
cused attention on the Azores as a
potential aerial threat to American
security.
Beginning this spring, two Ameri-
can transatlantic air services are
making the 2,000-mile trip in a sin-
gle hop, carrying mail and passen-
gers. Military men see no reason
why invading bombers could not
make the same trip.
Thus the dreamy Portuguese is-
lands in mid-Atlantic have assumed
tremendous significance within a few
short months, after 500 years of iso-
lation and loneliness. They have
moved within 15 hours of the Atlan-
tic seaboard.
The islands have belonged to the
Portuguese since their discovery
in 1444. The United States holds
no fear of invasion from the Azores
so long as Portugal owns them,
for the friendly relation of these two
nations has continued unbroken
since Colonial times. But it is
. not implausible to assume that an
The dominion is financing all aggressor power may sonje day
which pioneered the development of
pneumatic farm tires, points out
that the saving of approximately 24
working days on a 150-acre farm
by the faster machines enables
farmers to cultivate approximately
33 additional acres with resultant
increases in income up to $600 an-
nually. Thus, it is presumed that
farm thriftiness, despite rising
prices, will increase during the next
few years.
Statistics on the cash income of
farm families are peculiarly rele-
vant to modern American problems.
In New England, average net cash
income for the group of farm op-
erators* families studied was $789.
In the central region, the average
net cash income for the families
studied extended from a low of $518
in Iowa to $1,202 in Illinois. Dust
and drouth disasters are reflected
"Still in figures for the mountain and
plains regions where the lowest net
cash income was $207 for families
studied in North Dakota. The high
was $874 in Colorado, Montana, and
South Dakota.
New Englanders Need More.
In the Southeast, white farm fami-
lies in Georgia fared worst with an
average net cash income of $449 for
the year. Mississippi white farm
operators fared best with an av-
erage net cash income of $1,566.
Many oddities were brought out
in the survey. Despite their tradi-
tional thrift. New England villagers
required an income of from $ 1,75ft
to $2,000 before substantial savings
were made. The expenditures of
low-income Southern farm wives
and daughters for cosmetics and
beauty parlors almost equalled those
of the Pacific coast group where
net cash incomes were highest. In
Ohio and Pennsylvania, the farmer
spent more on clothing per year
than his wife, while in the Midwest
men spent more tn barber shops
than their wives did in beauty par-
lors.
war
election in late
unleashed forces
LORDINC IT OVER CITY—Agriculture department survey shou>»
farmer making $1,000 to $1,250 a year will save a little of it; city families
with, the same income wind up in a deep financial hole.
ment stores—closer than ever to the
farm.
However, it is pointed out, such
threats to farm bank balances are
more than offset by technological
advances which have cut farm pro-
duction costs. Chief among these
are small low-cost, all-purpose trac-
tors which owe much of their time
and fuel savings ability to the pneu-
matic rubber farm tires on which
they have attained speeds compara-
ble to those of the automobile. De-
signed specifically for work on the
typical American farm of 100 acres
or less, these rubber-shod machines
have been found to cost a maxi-
mum of 34 cents an hour to operate
on regular farm work, including de-
preciation, upkeep, interest, taxes
and all other charges.
Replaces the Horse.
With government figures placing
the cost of working one horse or
mule at 15.4 cents an hour, the
small rubber-equipped machines re-
place four draft animals which would
cost a total of 61.6 an hour to work.
Each hour, then, the tractor is sav-
ing at east 27.6 cents or $2.76 ev-
ery 10-hour day, a sizeable addition
to farm savings. Furthermore, P.
W. Stansfield, farm service manag-
er of the B. F. Goodrich company
Spring Scene: Big Top Prepares to Hit the Trail
Let a farm-
on as much as
Though all is quiet on the western front, the ever-present threat of a fair-weather offensive has caused
British and French army units to be prepared at all times for any eventuality. Here a squadron of tanks is I cornels from $1,000 to $1,250 a year,
pictured during combat maneuvers behind the Maginot line. Inset: French engineers at work on one of the ' a farm family ends the year with
gigantie ditches they have constructed as a barricade against German tanks. Both the allies and Germany : a saving of $26 up, while city fam-
have thousands of these juggernauts in their “carburetor cavalry.” I Hies of the same level wind up in
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j er get his hands
$4,000 to $5,000 a year and he’ll save
■ almost half of it, the survey dis-
1 closed.
By OSCAR REGAN
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
IirASHINGTON- - Though
his source of income is
j constantly threatened by nat-
■ ural and artificial disasters
| and he must support the na-
j tion’fi largest family, Mr. Av-
; erage American Farmer man-
! ages to save more money
i than any other average man
i in the United States. What’s
I more, technological trends will
! probably enable him to better his
record for economy in the next few
* years—and get fat doing it.
1 A house-to-house survey of more
1 than 1,000,000 farm, village and city
1 families by the department of ag-
! riculture reveals that 42 per cent of
the nation's farm families consist of
five or mbFe^ persons. Only 'Wpet*
cent of the village and city groups
are that large, the average being
I slightly under three. Yet where in-
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