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Cattle. Cotton,
Oil. Gas
The Hebbronville News
What’s W rong
With Cotton
Austin, Texas, Aug. 27—Special to
Epco.—Average yield of cotton in
VOLUME
George Edds
To Get Heads
. Last Long Horns
According to San Antonio News
dispatches Tuesday of last week two
of the few remaining'members of the
gamed breed of Texas Longhorns, af-
two months reprieve on the ranch
of George W. Saunders, 12 miles from
San Antonio on the Medina River,
were slaughtered.
The mounted heads of these steers
will be sent to George Edds, near
Hebbronville, son of the late Henry
Edds, the original owner, who wished
to have them kept in the family as a
reminder of the frontier days of Tex- i sis and presentation of the significant
facts bearing on the problems of cot-
ton production, marketing, consump-
tion and their inter-relationship.
It is with this purpose in view that
the committee has compiled its second
report on the yield and quality of
Texas cotton. This report contains pa
HEHHKON V1LLK, (JIM RQGG COUNTY), TEXAS, fVKDNES DAY, AUGUST 28. 1929
THE WORLD ENCIRCLING GRAF
ZEF SOARS MAJESTICALLY ON
Texas has declined about 27 per cent,
or 49 pounds per acre during the last j
30 years, and the average staple
length of Texas cotton has destined
about 11-16 inches to 7 8 inch, ac-
cording to Dr. A. B. Cox, director of
the Bureau of Business Research at
the University of Texas and chair-
man of the Texas Cotton Committee.
The Texas Cotton Committee has for
one of its purposes the arousing of
public interest in cotton raising and
marketing, and it hopes to accomplish
this more effectively thru the analy-
GRACEFULLY POKING HER NOSE AND SILVERED SIDES
THRU THE CLOUD8 OF THE GOLDEN GATE THE GRAF
ZEPPELIN SAILS MAJESTICALLY OVER SANFRANCIS-
CO BAY.
Epochal Achievement Brings Man Nearer to that Day When
He Shall Exercise Dominion Over All the Earth in Obe-
dience to the Command of the God of the Universe.
Madam Editor
Takes Vacation
Tuesday at 6 p. m. the world en-1 points on record,
circling Graf Zeppelin entered Texas, Newspaper planes speeded out of
at El Paso and passed thru the state i the Golden Gate and flew like insects
on its way to Little Rock, Ark., ac-
Saunders bought the cattle when
they were shipped to San Antonio to
be slaughtered, intending to keep
them until the Old Trail Drivers’ Re-
union in October, but when feed and
water became scarce on his ranch, he
Ordered the animals killed. Saunders
tried to get Edds to accept an oil
painting of the animals in place of
the heads, as he wanted to buy them
for L. A. Schriner to place on his an-
imal preserve near Kerrville, but Edds
true to his father’s wish, refused, and
will soon be the owner of the mounted
heads of a breed that will soon disap-
pear and which will indeed be a re
minder of former days.
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Four Year Term
In Agriculture
% By T. C. of A & I
The Texas College of Arts and In-
dustries located at Kingsville will of
fer this fall a four year course in Ag-
riculture, leading to a B. S. Degree.
This course will consist of four
subjects: Horticulture, emphasizing
citrus and vegetable growing-; Agro-
nomy, with emphasis on cotton; all
phases of Poultry production, and dai
rying.
The students will lack nothing in
their laboratory work. In the dairy
laboratory they will have, among oth
ers, the Taft herd, the Lasater herd,
Falfurrias, and the Santa Gertrude
f^erd on the King Ranch. These herds
ll*re among the best in the world. The
Velvet Jersey Creamery, producing
more than one millions pounds of but
ter annually will be used as a labor
atory. A modern poultry farm and la-
boratory have been provided for
poultry students. One thousand cit-
tus trees have been provided and the
college has access to the “Commer-
cial Orchards” for the Horticulture
students. Agronomy experiments will
be in various field crops in coopera-
tion with the Federal Government,
and efforts will be made to eradicate
loot rot.
The school of Agriculture has been
I ^organized in the interest of agricul-
ture in South Texas and additional
subjects will be added as necessary
and demand justify. Adequate instruc
tors will be provided to carry all
courses necessary.
cording to the announcement made at
El Paso by Dr. Eckener over the ra-
dio.
One of the world’s epochal events
has been written during the last three
weeks.
Mortal man has flown around the
world.
Twenty nine years ago a young
German fellow by the name of Hugo
pers prepared by the best authorities | Eckener declared to his youthful corn-
in the State, Dr. Cox said, and mimeo- i panions that he was going to build
graphed copies may be secured at a ’ an airship that would fly. Those who
nominal cost from the Bureau of Bus j heard him make this statement, laugh
iness Research, University of Texas. ! ed jn his face. Sunday evening Dr.
°- Hugo Eckener brought his giant,
silver sheeted Graf Zeppelin out of
the clouds, over the water of the
WHAT IS A KILOWATT
IN COMPARISON WITH
WAT’S HORSE POWER
A lot of us who talk glibly enough
of horse power and kilowatts know
little of the relation between the two
as standards of power measurement.
Horse power as much the older term,
is better understood than kilowatt,
for James Watt, when he invented the
steam engine was forced to evolve
some measure of the power of his en-
gines. And when he found that a
strong draft horse could, for short
periods, lift 550 pounds a foot per sec
ond, he adopted as his standard the
“horse power,” i. e., the equivalent of
lifting 550 pounds one foot each sec-
ond or 33,000 pounds in a minute.
“Horsepower” became the standard
of the measure of power for- the rat-
ing of engines and other mechanisms
making or generating power. With
the advent of electricity and its ad-
option as the largest source of power
a new unit came into being, the “watt
and for simplification, the “klowatt"
or 1,000 watts.
The relation between a kilowatt and
horsepower is fixed—a kilowatt is
1,000 watts and a horsepower is 746
watts. Roughly the kilowatt is a kind
of super hoursepower one - third
stronger than the ordinary “horse.”
Theoretically, according to Dr. Geo.
Otis Smith, director of the Geological
Survey, a one kilowatt engine will op-
erate 20 50 watt lights, while a one
horsepower engine will operate 15.9
50 watt lights.
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OUTWITTING THE SKUNK
Golden Gate, to the acclaim of multi-
plied thousands, gathered on the
streets and surrounding hills of San
Francisco Bay. Dr. Eckener has prac-
tically completed the first flight a
round the world made by man.
Leaving Lakehurst, August 7, he
piloted the Graf Zeppelin for the
fourth time across the Atlantic. Stop
ping for a few days at Fricdrichshaf-
en, his home town, to refuel the giant
ship, he sailed away to Tokio, Japan.
Over dismal swamps, across snow
crowned mountains, over lake and for
est, over burning deserts and restless
seas, Dr. Eckener and his companions
drove the giant ship onward day and
night. More than 40 people ate, slept
and lived in the ship as it plowed its
way onward in this, one of man’s
greatest achievements.
From Tokio Dr. Eckener and his in-
trepid fellow workers pointed the nose
of the ship towards the western
coast of the United States. Across the
greft Pacific, where never before had
man sailed thru the air, the monster
«hip did its master’s bidding. Through
storm and rain, thru sunshine and
fog, day and night, it raced towards
America. Sunday evening at 6 p. m.
the Graf Zeppelin nosed gracefully
thru a cloud bank, the sun shining on
her silver side thru the Golden Gate
and bringing the children of men
nearer to that day when they will
heed and obey God’s command; “Let
man have dominion of the fish of the
sea, over the fowls of the air, over the
cattle and over all the earth.”
A trapped skunk can be killed with Associated press dispatches from
out unduly disagreeable odorous con- San Francisco, Monday morning say:
sequences if it is approached slowly
and quietly and giving a sharp blow
across the back with a stick. Skunks
killed in this way, without being al-
armed, do not discharge their scent,
according to the U. S. Department of
Agriculture. Now, if you are con-
vinced, go ahead.
The around the world dirigible Graf
Zeppelin was sighted from the Far-
allones at 6:02 p. m., Pacific Standard
time today, by the marine lookout sta
tioned here. She was sighted a few
minutes later from the Presidio of
San Francisco, heading direetly to-
ward the Golden Gate.
The Farallon Islands are 15 miles
off the Golden Gate, entrance to San
Francisco harbor.
The Graf Zeppelin came from the
northeast, and headed directly for the
harbor entrance. She nosed gracefully
YOU WILL PAY MORE FOR YOUR SUIT, YOUR SHOES AND thru a cloud bank, the sun glinting on
YOUR HOUSE BUT YOU WILL SAVE ON YOUR DIA- her silvery sides.
MONDS, YOUR TAPESTRIES AND YOUR PHEASANTS.
Senate Committee Raises
Even House Tariff
_ Washington, D. C., Aug. 27.—Spe-
Bal to Epco.—Following strict prece-
dent, the Republican members of the
Senate Finance Committe brought out
a tariff bill even worse than that pro-
duced by the House of Representa-
tives, which was hailed by the country
as the summit of extortion.
They lowered some schedules, but
these for the most part were those ap
pertaining to articles of little impor-
tance in the domestic economy of the
American public. Indeed, one of these
reductions that helps bring down the
average was purely in the interest of
great steel corporations, which,
cause of their advantageous deal
with Soviet Russia, are enabled, under
the Smoot modification of the Hawley
bill, to bring in manganese free, to
the dismay of those States which have
just began to develop an industry has
ed en the production of this necessary
alloy.
Another of the steel companies was
favored by the Senate Combine fer
the Benefit of Campaign Contributors
to the extent of a prohibitive duty ou
c particular class of steel which in-
sures them a complete monopoly of
the American market. This, in the
face of the report made a month ago
to the directors of the company that
their production and profits for the
previous year had exceeded anything
in the history of that particular in-
dustry.
Chairman Jouett Shouse of the Ex-
ecutive Committee of the Democratic
Thousands of watchers crowded the
San Francisco hills to glimpse the
flying whale.
The airship rode a strong northwest
wind as she headed intoward the bay.
At 6:11 p. m. it still was 10 miles from
the gate, but to the many watchers not believe in losing. His work as
around the big dirigible. A few min-
utes later they were on their way back
apparently having obtained the pic-
tures of the big air ship they had
sought. In their place a squadron of
army planes took the air, flying in
formation toward the Zeppelin.
The greeting to the Graf was a
symphony of sound. The noise of air-
plane motors was distinct from hum
of the airship’s engines; while on the
surface of land and water sirens,
whistles, and automobile horns joined
in a mighty clamor.
Coming in the gate the airship ap-
parently struck cross air currents
which drove her nose to one side, so
that she proceeded crabwise through
the entrance.
K few minutes later the Graf pass-
ed to the north of Alcatraz Island,
famous military prison within San
Francisco bay.
After passing the Island she chang-
ed her course to the northeast, as if
intending to circle the bay. Then she
swung southeast apparently planning
to swing directly over San Francisco
above Market street, the city’s prin-
cipal thoroughfare.
The giant liner glistened like silver
as she followed the waterfront, air-
planes swarming about her as she
circled the bay region. The triumph-
ant Leviathan of the air could be seen
from the' windows of the Associated
Press office and other buildings.
At 6:45 o’clock the dirigible crossed
historic Market street at about First
street. She then was headed north.
Next the airship headed westward
over the heart of the city.
Radio listeners heard some station
ask the dirigible’s radio operator if
he liked San Francisco. They heard
his answer:
“Ja! Grossartib!” (Yes, magnifi-
cent.”)
On the airship went, crossing the
Richmond district.
Skirting the Presidio without return
ing to the Golden Gate, she headed
southwest for the coast, which she
apparently intended to follow south-
ward to Los Angeles. Her visit to
San Francisco bay and city occupied
less than an hour.
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Ray Holder ‘Clean’
Says Sam Harben
Sam P. Harben, veteran Texas edi-
tor and for twenty years secretary of
the Texas Press association, when com
menting recently in his Rilhardson
Echo, had the following to say ahout
the candidacy of Ray Holder who has
announced for Lieutenant Governor:
Kay Holder. Editor of the Lancas-
ter Herald, member of the state Legis
lature from Dallas county, is being
sought as timber for the next lieuten-
ant governor—sought by associates
who know h« would make a very cred-
itable man for this place. Ray is will
ing to make the race if assured of the
proper support, but he cannot waste
several months time and deplete his
funds by making a useless race—he
Well, the little town of Kerrville
looked all the world as tho it were
having an oil boom, automobiles of
all makes and sizes parked up and
down the broad wide main street, and
side street intersections, the sidewalks
were crowded with happy, laughing
people, the holiday spirit was every-
where, for people are beginning to
realize that Texas has its mountain
resorts, as well as its sea coast re-
ports, where one can enjoy all sorts
of summer time pleasures.
Kerrville lies 150 miles west of
Austin and 70 miles northwest of San
Antonio, excellent highways either
way, which makes one feel very grate
ful to the state highway commission
and also, that after all, one shouldn’t
grudge the 4 cent taz on gasoline
if it is to be so well spent, the high
ways are excellently marked, and in
tome places, mountains almost had
to be cut in two to get these results.
With these main trunk highways in
the country where the next step will
be the perfecting of the lesser but im-
portant roads, I believe there is al
ready a step taken in that direction.
Kerrville is around 1800 feet above
sea level, has good artesian water,
excellent and affiliated schools as
well as a modern sewer system and
just at this time of our arrival it is
brilliantly lighted with thousands of
red, white and blue electric lights, in
honor of the opening of its fine air-
port landing field ,the gift of Louis
Schreiner one of its patriotic and sub
stantial citizens. The Schreiner fam-
ily have done everything to make Ker
rville what it is and fortunate is the
town that has such men among its
citizenship. They have been pioneers
not only in their coming to Kerr
county, but in almost every form of
business.
Here you find the Schriener Insti-
tute, a fine preparatory school and
junior college for young men and boys
Notre Dame Institute, a Catholic
school for boys and girls.
Many, many summer camps along
the beautiful banks of the Guadalupe
river. Many with special athletic ad-
vantages, as well as ideal conditions
for culture, physical as well as men-
tal development for boys as well as
girls.
Among them, Camp Waldemar,
with its lovely buildings, and fine
campus and especially noted for its
fine group of piebald horses which
are to be exhibited this winter in New
York City by permission of the own-
er and director, Miss Ora Johnson.
Camp Wabun Annung and Camp
Mystic, which are beautifully situated
in a grove of pecan and cypress trees
on the beautiful Guadalupe river. We
were present here for the horse show
and were quite thrilled when our lit-
tle ncice, Miss Eurmie Lou Phillips,
of Galveston won the gold medal for
horsemanship, hurdling being among
the tests. We were also present at the
last camp fire meeting. It was a gor-
geous moonlight night and the huge
log fire, with the girls, almost a hun-
dred in number, sitting around it, in
their adorable Peter Pan costumes,
singing their songs, will ever remain
Shipments of
Sulphur Will
Commence Soon
COMPANY’S FUEL SUPPLY BEEN
INCREASED TO 5,00,000 CUBIC
FEET OF GAS PER DAY; 20
NEW WELLS RECENTLY COM-
PLETED.
It was definitely announced last
week that the Duval Texas Sulphur
Company will commence shipments of
sulphur from its mines in Duval coun-
ty this week. The first shipments will
be to domestic destinations, with ex-
port shipments commencing from Cor
pus Christi to Europe in September,
it was said.
The company’s No. 2 battery at the
and tested and will be put in service
immediately. This battery will trip-
le the plant’s capacity ond should in
crease the production. The plant is
fueled with natural gas supplied by
Southern Gas Company, which has
recently increased the capacity of its
17 mile tap line to the mines by the
addition of a six mile loop that will
insure a maximum delivery of 5,000,-
000 cubic feet of natural gas daily.
At this time there are more than
20 recently completed sulphur wells
that are fully equipped to be placed
on production as required.
Rains Slow
Down Picking;
Cowmen Rejoice
Jim Hogg county has been visited
by goodly showers the past few days,
which has been cause for rejoicing a-
mong the cattle men, but the cotton
farmers are not so jubilant as there
still remains much cotton to be pick-
ed in their fields, and rain will slow
up the picking.
It is estimated that Jim Hogg coun-
ty gins will turn out some 8,000 bales
of cotton this year, unless unfavorable
weather destroys what may be still
in the fields. Up to date about one-
half of the estimated crop has been
ginned.
this reason a site near town was
chosen for the location of the U. S.
Veterans Hospital No. 93 for tuber-
cular ex soldiers and many of those
brave boys who went over during the
World War and were gassed or
suffered through its effects are there
now to regain their lost health, or
learn how to take care of themselves.
They make many beautiful things,
which they learn to do through the
vocational training and which are of-
fered for sale.
There is also excellent fishing along
the Banks of the Guadalupe and in its
hidden pools one can sit for an after-
noon under the beautiful trees and
catch a fine string of bass or perch.
Doc. Stewart has a beautiful rustic
inn, up in the Heart o’ the Hills,
where many of the parents of the
boys and girls stay while they are at.
tending his camps, or where they mo-
tor up for weeks ends, and it was
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the approach was rapid.
The ship had been expected to strike
the mainland near Point Reyes, 30
miles northwest of the Golden Gate,
but instead swung southward while
still out at sea, and parsed into the
National Committee, thus traced the l »hore south of the Faralloues, the
progress of the administration tariff
bill: “The deliberate purpose first of
the Ways and Means Committee of
the House, held to shameful complai-
sance by the administration leaders in
that chamber and then by the Repub-
lican majority of the Finance Com
mittee of the Senate in their star-
chamber proceedings has boon perfec
tly apparent. The analysis of the
schedules as they became known made
it plain that tho motivating princi-
ples behind tho proposed enactment
was not protection of American in-
dustry—still less protection to Ameri-
(Continued or editorial page)
guardians of the outer portals of San
Francisco Bay.
Coast guard cutters patrolled the
Golden Gate while other craft went
out to meet the airship. It shortly be-
came a race back toward the harbor
between the surface ships and the le-
viathan of the air.
The Graf Zeppelin entered the Gol-
den Gate at idi p. m.
Seventy seven hours, forty-nine min
utes elapsed between the departure of
the airship from Kasumigaura air
base near Tokyo, Japan and her sight-
ing off the California coast. This is
the fastest passage between the two
a member of the state legislature
serving there on some of the most
important committee assignments has
stamped him as a political economist,
a successful executive and an honest
straight forward thinker. He has been
dose to the administration he has
sought to redeem every campaign
pledge, made his constituents, he has
always been on the right morally of
all leading Questions, and no breath
of suspicion has ever been cant over
his efforts at home or for the state.
Such a man as Ray Holder would
do credit to the state government and
the Echo junior edttee fools- thab, no-
better man could he secured for this
position. Whan the people gait elect-
ing too many pehticiaas, and select
such a kuaiussa and prof seal anal man
as Bay Haidar, they will have a dean
or alula at Aaatla and less trouble
Oklahoma Man Doubles Size
of Crops by Electrical Current
Ponka City, Oklahoma.—V. K. Stan
Icy of Ponca City, who grows vegeta-
bles thru the use of electricity has in
quiriee as to his methods from all ov-
er the United States, from farmers,
farm colleges, farm publications and
farm and electrical magazines.
“For the last two or three years,’
says Mr. Stanley, “I have made a stu
dy of a method of gardening which
would produce fruits and vegetables
of dimensions never before attained.
"My garden is laid out in parallel
furrows, running true north and south
about three yards apart, and parallel
with the meridian. Into these furrows
are laid galvanised iron wires the
length of the furrows and about a
loot under the soil. Tho wire to the
north is sunk into tho earth while to
tho south it goes up a 20 foot pole and
ends at the top in an antenna.
“The antenna receives tho atmos-
pheric (positive electricity and con.
ducts it into thl ground along the iron
wires in the furrows. There it unites
with the negative electricity, collec-
ted by a network of the wires, and
thus forum the natural
force which new can act
on the roots of the plants or trues.
It may be thus said the plant roots
take an electric footbath, which has
an immense fertilizing effect.
“Heat or other energy also is car-
ried to the plants by catching the sun
rays from great mirrors of two dis-
similar metals, copper and zinc, and
conveys them to the roots in the same
way as the atmospheric electricity.
If used to crop any kind of dwarf
fruits such as grapevines, berries and
small fruits, tomatoes and vines, the
wires leading from north to south
need not be covered with earth, but
the north end of the galvanised wire
must be stuck in the ground.
“It is an established fact that by
this method the prductiveness of the
soil is at least doubled, but it will re-
ouire from two to five years to bring
the vlume up to this. The first year
will start results. Most fruits raised
in this way develop to unusually larn
sizes and are richer in flavor. The soil
is also totally freed from vermin,
which cannot bear the electric current.
But what is more important, the elec-
tricity makes fertiliser of ad Mad*
superfluous. Every farmer sad gord
nor knows what a great saving thkr
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