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THE RADIO POST, FREDERICKSBURG, TEXAS
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call at the office of the Post,
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Move to Utilize South’s
Cut-Over and Wet Lands
Agriculture Committee
Reports
WAGES HERE AND
ABROAD
His death marks the passing of
one more of those sturdy pioneer
characters to whom this part of
Texas owes no small part of its
present development.—Comfort
News.
Friedman-Shelby All Leather
Shoes, the best for the money
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Many prosperous localities in the
South which have been built up on
cut-over lands furnish convincing
proof that large portions of the cut-
Several million acres of arid land
in the West have been made to "blos-
som like the rose” by reclamation
through irrigation projects financed
and constructed by the federal govern-
ment. The South now is asking that
she be allowed to share in this fed-
eral assistance so that those portions
of her idle lands suitable for agricul-
ture also may be made to “blossom
like the rose.”
SEO CROSS ENABLES
MOTHERS TO ATTEND
TEXAS STATE FAIR
Women who never before had found
it possible to attend the state fair
were present at the West Texas Fair
r.t Abilene, Texas, this year, accord-
ing to reports received from that city
at the division headquarters of the
Southwestern Division, American Red
Cross, in St. Louis. This was because
the Red Cross of Abilene was on the
job to assist the mothers in the care
of their children and to give them an
opportunity for resting when the sight-
seeing of the fair became too strenu-
ous.
“I never would have thought of com-
ing to the fair,” said one mother in ex-
pressing her appreciation of the care
given her baby at the Red Cross tent
during one day, “if I had not known
that the Red Cross would be here to
help me take care of my baby.”
Babies of all sizes and ages were
cared for in this day nursery ana dur-
ing the hour of the races there were
65 babies under the charge cf the Red
Cross nurse and volunteer helpers
while their mothers cheered on the
running horses, sharing the pleasure
of their husbands in this “sport of
kings.”
Miss Mary Kennedy, Red Cross Ad-
visory Nurse for Texas, for the South-
w* stern Division of the American Red
Cross, was present and in charge of
the tent. The Rod Cross tent and
F.rst Aid station was set up by the
Abilene Chapter and members of that
chapter took turns in the management
and conduct of its various depart-
ments.
The mothers who were able to enjoy
the outing of this fair were unstinted
in their praises of the courtesy, kind-
ness and unfailing consideration of the
Red Cross people who were in charge
o-*5 the tent.
Improvement in Health and Discipline
and Reduction in Underweight
Result in Schools.
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“Blossom Like The Rose”
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This typifies the American Red Cross bringing hope to suffering mankind.
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ORIGINATES SYSTEM
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in the group of counties that be-
long in the section northwest of
San Antonio and southwest of
Temple. Giilespie, winner of
ninth place, Brown County, win-
ner of twelfth place, Bexar, Coun-
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it often costs less to produce pure
breed products than products of
lower quality, and the high qual-
ity products always command the terest has been particularly keen
highest prices.
It may be well to add here an
excerpt from the Dallas News:
Counties Win Distinction.
Failure to take high rank among
the winning counties has by no
means lessened any of the county
ty in twenty-first place and San
Saba County in twenty-sixth, are
included in the group.
Gillespie County, that boasts of
many distinctive qualities and
achievements, including such
things as the only railroad tunnel
in Texas, a solid granit rock that
covers 640 acres of ground and is
leclared to be the largest single
stone in the world. Gillespie Coun-
•y’s agricultural exhibit brought
>iere by R. S. Miller, county agent
and B. B. Byrne in entirely unique
and perhaps more distinctive than
any ever before entered.
120 Exhibit Off One Farm.
It includes, along with a gener-
is display of products of the field
a. single exhibit from the farm of
Sen HL Hagel that contains 120
different specimens of canned
roods grown and canned on the
Hagel farm. In addition, there
s a second display of twenty pro-
lucts from the Hagel farm, inclu-
fing seal,alfalfa and several kinds
of hay and legume crops, corn,
regetables, fruits and peanuts.
Che list of canned products runs
he gamut of orchard, field, gar-
len, barnyard, and range pro-
•ucts and every single one of the
principal ingredients was grown
on the Hagel farm.
The Gillespie County score card
was filled and to addition the ex-
hibitors brought along such unus-
ual things as perfect red granite
sphere taken from Bear Mountain
md given a high polish, together
with tifty-two kinds of native
wood from the hills and valleys
of Gillespie County.
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Twelve hundred and sixty children
in the vicinity of Chickasha, Okla-
homa, developed sturdy little bodies
and healthy alert minds because of the
nutrition classes conducted under the
auspices of the Grady County Chapter
of the Red Cross last year. These
children were found to be underweight
due to malnutrition, and while in many
cases tlie malnutrition was not due to
lack of food but to the wrong kind of
food, the results were the same.
Hot lunches of properly balanced
diet were put into 17 schools. The
children were taught what to eat and
how to eat, that is, how much and how
many limes a day, and were encour-
aged to eat fruit and vegetables, to
drink milk, and to eliminate coffee and
tea from their diet, and a "health rule
contest by which the children were en-
couraged in the practice of outdoor ex-
ercise and personal hygiene and well-
ventilated sleeping and living room?
was inaugurated. This all made for
a general improvement in health and
incidentally a decided improvement in
the discipline in the school.
The percentage of underweight was
greatly reduced and. the parents were
so much pleased with the improvement
that they are demanding a continuance
of the program for another year.
One of the principal objects of the
Forestry Reclamation and Home-Mak-
ing Conference to be held in New Or-
leans, November 19-22 is to devise
ways and means for putting to some
useful purpose the vast areas of cut-
over, swamp and overflowed lands in
the South. The conference will be
held under ausptices of the Southern
Pine Association, Mississippi and
Florida Development Boards and New
Orleans Association of Commerce, and
the people of every southern state
and community are considered to be
vitally interested in this movement.
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The agriculture committee of
the chamber of commerce, H. H.
Sagebiel, R. S. Miller, and R. S.
Klett, which had the Gillespie
county exhibit at the Dallas fair
in charge have made a full report
of their work from which we
quote the following:
Fully 500,000 people viewed the
Gillespie county exhibit at the
State Fair.
Gillespie County scored high on
cotton, wheat, oats, peanuts, and
velvet beans, as well as on the ar-
rangement of the exhibit. On
grain sorphums 55 points were
lost because of low quality. The
impression made by the exhibit
was enhanced because of the
background. The j udge pronoun-
ced Gillespie County’s decorative
design and arrangement the most
unique idea he had ever seen.
The design consisted of the legend
“GILLESPIE COUNTY THE
HOME OF DIVERSIFIED
FARMING. 90 per cent OF THE
PEOPLE OWN THEIR HOMES.
REASON:” From the word rea-
son extended an arrow pointing
towaids the exhibit. The idea
embraced in this design was con-
tributed by County Judge Her-
man Usener. The egend was
executed in large letters, all of
which were covered by seeds of
different agricultural products.
A large exhibit of preserved
fruits, furnished by Ben Hagel,
attracted wide attention. An-
other attractive feature was the
exhibit of mohair. One of the
interesting features was a col-
lection of 52 different kinds of
timber, furnished by August
Krieger of Luckenbach. A tanned
sheephide, by the Itz Tannery
together with other unusual ex-
hibits, attracted a vast amount
of attention. Much favorable
comment was elicited by a large
polished red granite ball, furnish-
ed by Nagel Brothers.
A number of the products were
entered in the individual exhibits
Among them was oats, by Adolph
Lucas, which won third prize,
and oats by Clayton Morris, which
won fifth prize. Both of these
samples of oats tested higher in
weight than any other shown at
at the Fair. Mr. Lucas’ oats
tested 38.9 pounds and Mr.
Morris’ oats tested 38.6 pounds to
the bushel. The velvet beans,
by Ed. Gibson, Morris Ranch,
scored 50 points out of a possible
50 points. Peanuts exhibited
scored 48 points out of a possible
50 points, they were contributed
by Peter Roeder and Christian
Mathisen.
In the exhibit our county scor-
ed 115 points out of a possible 125
points. The cotton for the exhib-
it was furnished by Hermann
Durst, Cherry Mountain, C. E.
Miller, Morris Ranch; Max Hopf,
Harper; A. N. Striegler, Rocky
Hill; and E. C. Hansen.
The fine quality of the^ various
kinds of fruits shown is demons-
trated by the fact that they scor-
46 points out of a possible 50
points, and this score was topped
by the vegetables, which took
down 47 points out of a possible
50 points.
Volumes of favorable comment
were express by people who view-
ed Cillespie County’s exhibit, and
their admiration was succinctly
expressed by many of them, when
they said that they desired to live
in a County which produced such
a great variety of crops.
Gillespie County had probably
twice as large a quantity of farm
products on display than any oth-
er County that exhibited The
display of the entire collection of
products emphasized the great
number of different crops that
can be successfully produced in
Gillespie County.
If the facts above mentioned
are taken into consideration and
properly analized, they are rather
illuminating. Particularly so,
because it teaches our people what
the real capabilities of our agri-
cultural resourses are: The suc-
cess we achieved should stimulate
the farmers of Gillespie county to
greater efforts and higher a- ,
chievement. The greatest possible
benefit that we can get out of this
recent exhibit is that it should
serve as an incentive for the
farmers to produce crops of better
grade and quality. We should
constantly strive to produce as
near as possible pure seeded pro-
ducts, because it costs no more to
produce crops of highest quality,
than crops of poor quality; indeed,
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An important factor in the dif-
ferences between the rewards of
workers is that the productivity of
the American worker has been
greatly increased through the use
of large investments of capital for
machinery.—Journal of the Ameri-
can Bankers Association.
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The Southwestern Division, Ameri-
can Red Cross, has originated a new
form of nutrition instruction which is
being copied by other divisions
throughout the United States. The
Southwestern Division embraces the
states of Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas,
Missouri, New Mexico, Oklahoma and
Texas.
Tins plan is that of the itinerant
I nutrition worker. Three years ago
two such workers were put into the
field by the division. Last year the
number was increased to seven and
now there are twenty, with a con-
stantly growing demand for more.
The itinerant nutrition worker is
the worker who goes from chapter to
chapter instructing classes in nutri-
tion, talking to schools on proper food
values, addressing Mothers’ Clubs and
other organizations on the importance
of proper diet to correct the results
of malnutrition among American chil-
dren.
Here is the way the itinerant worker
organizes her work, according to the
Director of Nutrition Service in St.
Louis: Under the advice of local
physicians who made a school exami-
nation, she plans a program for the
children suffering from malnutrition.
This program consists of instruction to
all school children, with special in-
struction to underweights under the
advi?e of physicians, to mothers <f
children of pre-school age where these
mothers are made to realize the rela-
tion of food to growth, to health, to
bone development, teeth development
and the relation of food to blood, even
to heart action. In this mothers are
shown pictures of animal experimen-
tation, where growth is stunted from
tie absence of enough milk in diet,
where legs become paralyzed when cer-
tain foods containing essential vita-
mines are kept from diet. Mothers
also are given pre-natal instruction in
relation of food to the development of
the unborn child.
Home visits play a large part in
the reaching of mothers and children.
The itinerant worker remains in a
chapter from two to six months in
order to reach the entire community
witli this instruction. She also in-
structs iocal teachers in elementary
nutrition and plans with them on bow
to carry on the work after she has
gone. The following year she returns
for another short period, checking up
o- the results of her former visit and
then opening new classes.
In the states of the Southwestern
Division the itinerant workers serve
eleven chapters in Arkansas, three in
Kansas, twelve in Missouri, six
Oklahoma and twenty-two in Texas.
South’s cut-over lands yield splendid
sottom, sweet potatoes and corn.
Immense areas of cut-over, swamp
and overflowed lands in the South
now are lying idle and serving no use-
ful purpose. President Harding, in
his first message to Congress, said
there were at least 79,000,000 acres of
these lands “which may be reclaimed
and made as valuable as any farm
land we possess ” President Harding
commended federal assistance for
reclamation of these tracts.
It has been satisfactorily demon-
onstrated that cut-over and “wet”
ands if reclaimed, drained and stump-
’d, gradually can be transformed into
is valuable and productive farms as
2an be found anywhere in the United
hates. Some of the finest agricul-
ural lands in the South today are re-
laimed cut-over tracts.
Heavy yields of corn, Irish potatoes,
xits, cotton, rice, velvet beans, sugar
:ane, sweet potatoes, cowpeas,
■ucumbersi, cabbage, beets, lettuce,
arrots, peanuts, chufas, alfalfa, clov
r, watermelons, all kinds of fruits.
jay, forage and other crops, have been
■ reduced and are being harvested an j
jually on reclaimed, cut-over and
wet” lands. Markets and transpor-
ation for farms in many of these
reas already have been developed,
limate is decidedly favorable for set-
rs, the growing season is practically
tinuous the entire year and the
aer in the South has weather_fav- ed to aid in the movement.
*ipHE American factory worker Is
receiving wages the purchas-
ing power of which is above the ■
wages paid in any other country of i
the world. The British Ministry of
Labor has made a computation of I
the amount of food which the j
wages of workers in different cities
of the world will purchase. In
the following table the purchasing
power of wages in London is taken
as 100, and the purchasing power
of wages in other cities is shown
as percentages of this figure. The 1
table indicates that the worker in i
New York can buy more than
twice as much food with his wages
than can the worker in London,
while the worker in Berlin or
Vienna can buy only a little more
than half as much with his dally
wage as the worker in London,
or only one-fourth as much as the
worker in New York.
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Ottawa ...
Amsterdam
London ..
Christiania
Stockholm
Warsaw ...
Brussels .
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Madrid ...
Berlin ....
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By WALTER W. HEAD
President American Bankers Asso-
ciation.
We speak of “coal”; immediately
we visualize a pile of black lumps. We
speak of “wheat”; in our mind we pic-
ture a golden field
of grain or perhaps
the farmer’s load en
route to market.
Finance is not a
commodity. Being an
intangible thing, it
is greatly misunder
stood. It means on*
thing to some peo
pie, another to oth
ers.
By reason of this
mystery surrounding
it, it is too frequently feared, ami
financiers assailed as enemies of the
public good, using their power selfish
ly to advance their own purposes.
No nation or people ever achieved
greatness without the assistance o!
finance,—accumulated capital, man
aged and directed by those skilled in
the handling of wealth and money. Ac
cumulated resources are represented
at times by hoards of gold, but mon
frequently by ships, herds, and other
productive agencies.
America measures her resources in
terms of billions of dollars. She hat
thousands of prosperous homes, myri
ads of well developed villages an<
towns, thousands of miles of railroad
and paved roads. This has been pos
sible through the investment and usi
of capital or wealth created and ac
cumulated by the citizens.
When the early pioneers first trav
eled over the prairies, which are nov
rich and productive fields, their re
sources consisted only of a productivi
soil, a healthful climate, and the sun
shine and rain necessary to the growt)
of vegetation.
As the early settlers wrought am
produced and prospered, they saved
These savings they invested in th*
tools of production — plows, harrows
binders, stores, railroads, banks am'
manufacturing enterprises. THESJ
SAVINGS “FINANCED” PROGRESS
The building of the railroads was th*
great outstanding contribution o
finance to the development of the West
The West owes a debt of gratitude tc
the investors in eastern states wh*
ventured to invest their money in vir
gin territory, making possible develop
ment by the use of their accumulate*
resources.
Bank deposits represent very larg*
ly the savings of the people. The loan
they make possible are employed ii
productive enterprises. The develop
ment of the agricultural communitief
depends very largely upon the credit*
extended by Investors in other com
munities. The development of munic-
ipalities is possible very large?-
through the sale of municipal bonds t<
Investors in other places. All this if
the work of finance.
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orable for outdoor work almost every
day.
Among the principal purposes of
the Forestry, Reclamation and Home-
Making Conference to be held in New
Orleans. November 19-22 are to de-
vise ways and means to utilize these
idle lands through either reforesta-
tion, livestock raising or agriculture
and to securje for the South a share
of federal assistance in reclamation
which heretofore has been given only
to the West. The list of speakers
the New Orleans conference in-
cludes cabinet members, governors,
United States senators and congress-
men. railroad executives, high govern-
ment officials and experts, prominent
land owners and students of reclama-
tion and settlement from all parts
of the country.
Among the subjects to be discussed
will be the need for more farm homes,
reclamation for home-making, fores
try, grazing and farming, assisting set
tiers, revision of the reclamation law,
| land settlement methods, animal in-
dustry, safe-guarding, the home-seek-
er, selective immigration, and farm
tenantry
The conference is considered as
possessing vital interest for every
resident of the South and all are in
vited to participate in the confer
ence and give it their support. All
southern congressmen are being urg
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COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
APPROPRIATE FUND FOR
RED CROSS WORK
The County Commissioners of Mc-
Pherson County, Kansas, have appro-
priated $1,600 for Red Cross work in
the county during the year.
In the expenditure of this money
the Executive Secretary of the chap-
ter will act as Poor Commissioner,
Truant Officer and Probation Officer
for the county. She already has acted
in these three capacities Without remu-
i erat-ion and her work has necessarily
been hampered by lack of sufficient
funds to carry it through.
The Lyon County Chapter at Em-
poria, Kansas, has organized a County
Health Unit with a full-time health of-
ficer and nurse. 'Phis work in a near-
by county has so interested the Mc-
Pherson Couniy Commissioners that
they have deieri. ir.ed to in .ke that as
the next work <m their program of
public weifa. i .
A recent summary of the agricul
tural situation grouped the needs ar
follows:
1. Increased and balanced produc
tion
2. Increased understanding of cred
it facilities
3. Increased market facilities
4. Better business methods
The Agricultural Colleges are work
ing out production problems, the bank.-*
the credit problems and co-operativ*
associations appear to be greatly im
proving marketing facilities and busl
ness methods.
On Monday, Oct, 29, at 4 a. rn.
Peter Inpenhuett, one of Com-
fort’s oldest citizens and a pioneer
settler of this community, passed
iway at the home of Mr. andJMrs.
^rnst Ingenhuett at the head^of
Joshua Creek. Though more
ninety years of age, the decedent
had been in excellent health and
his death was unexpected.
Peter Ingenhuett was born at
Kirchhofen in Prussia on April 1,
1833, and emigrated to the United
States in 1852. He landed at In-
dianola, and from their went to
Cibolo where he was joined two
years later by his parents and
his two younger brothers, Martin
and Thomas.
In 1854 the family moved to
Comfort and located on the farm
on Cypress Creek, now owned by
Joe Spenrath. On July 4, 1861,
Peter married Miss Marie Karger,
and they resided on the farm un-
til 1868 when he opened a gener-
al store in Comfort, on the site
of the present Schellhase Cafe
building. His business prospered
and he was appointed postmaster
of Comfort, a position he held for
twenty-five years.
His married life was crowned
with happiness and was blessed
with six children. The first-born
a daughter, died when three years
□f sge and the youngest, Bertha,
who became the wife of Herman
Schmeltzer of San Antonio, pass-
ed away in 1907 at the age of
thirty-one years. The other four
children, Hubert, Paul, Herman
and Ernst, are well known resid-
ents of Comfort. Their mother
died in 1913 at the age of seventy
years. There are nine living
grandchildren and two great-
grandchildren.
Before he retired from active
affairs Peter Ingenhuett was a
prominent figure in the life of
this community. In 1870 he as-
sisted in organizing the Comfort
Liedertafel and for thirty-five
years he was an active member
of this worthy organization. He
was also an honorary member of
Pfeuffer Lodge Sons of Hermann.
As a business man and citizen he
enjoyed the confidence and re-
spects of all who knew him, and
his gentle and kindly nature won
him many friends. Coming as a
friendless youth to this strange,
unsettled land he enjoyed the sat-
isfaction of playing an active and
successful part in its develop-
ment, and of living to see this
worthy work carried forward by
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Some of the crops produced on Southern cut-over lands,
sugar cane; below, high grade cattle and Satsuma Oranges.
over and “Wet” tracts in the South
can be made as desirable agricultural
lands as can be found anywhere in
America. The South today is the pio-
neer country as it is the only section
where low-priced farm homes can be
procured. The cost of reclaiming
southern cut-over and “wet” lands is
said to be about one-fourth the cost
of putting western arid lands in suit-
able condition for agriculture.
At the Forestry, Reclamation and
Home-Making Conference in New Or-
leans the problem of utilizing and set-
tling the South’s idle lands will be
considered from all angles including
reforestation, livestock raising, dairy-
ing, fruit growing and agriculture in
all its branches. It is hoped the Con-
ference will result in an effective
movement that will secure expan-
sion of the federal reclamation
policy into national scope so thajt oth-
er sections than the West may bene-
fit from such assistance. All persons
interested in the constructive devel-
opment of the South are invited to
[ittend and participate in the New Or-
leans Conference and all southern
congressmen are urged to support its
purposes.
exhibits that have strong points
that give them distinction and
win for them universal favor. In-
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Dietel, William. The Radio Post (Fredericksburg, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 9, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 14, 1923, newspaper, November 14, 1923; Fredericksburg, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1313829/m1/3/: accessed July 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Gillespie County Historical Society.