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? KILLED WHEN PLANE FALLS.
Ool. Dickman and Maj. Butts Victims
of Accident.
Americus, Ga., April 3.?Lieut.
Col. Frederick T. Dickman, commanding
officer at Southern flying
field near here, and Major John W.
Butts, executive officer of the field,
4 were killed late today in a fall of
about 200 feet. Col. Dickman is a
% son of Major Gen. Dickman, commanding
the Third army of occupation
of the Rhine.
~ The two officers, Major Butts as
pilot and Col. Dickman in the second
seat, had gone up for their usual afternoon
flight and had made the last
turn of the field preparatory to landing.
From the ground it appeared
that Major Butts attempted what is
known as a "vertical bank." The
wind was coming in gusts and apparently
caught the airplane with full
force in such a way as to lift the tail
vertically into the air.
The usual nose dive followed the
, jerking of the plane into a vertical
position, and it crashed to the earth.
Had they been higher up there would
in all probability have been time for
it to have "flattened out," and glided
safely on. Before it could be righted,
however, the plane hit the earth
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with a crash that smashed it into
bits. Officers and men rushed up.
The two flyers were breathing but
unconscious, and both died within a
few minutes.
' - Both Col. Dickman and Major
Butts were graduates of West Point
and each leaves a widow and one
child residing here. Col. Dickman
came here January 10, succeeding
? Major Carlisle Wash as commander.
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rnoi-man Teas thirtv-five years
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1 i old and an expert flyer.
Major Butts, a native of Cisco,
Texas, was twenty-eight years old.
He was noted as a fine athlete and
an expert rifleman and revolver shot.
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Eyes of the Army.
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For some unexplained reason an
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immense secret has heen made of our
eye service abroad and in this country
during the war. Even now the
medical department of the army refuses
to give the slightest information
on the subject?which to the
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? - layman seems rather silly; for of
what imaginable use could it be to
the enemy?
What is here referred to is chiefly
\ v the providing of glasses for soldiers,
; to correct imperfect vision. The
^ fighting man must see well if he is
to be a worth-while cambatant.
In peace times a recruit, to gain
f acceptance for the United States arj
my, was reqfluired to possess normal
vision. "Specs" were barred. But
the war offered a new kind of problem.
If this requirement had been
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rTinsisted upon we could not have raisi'
ed a force of millions for overseas
service.
It became then, of utmost importance
to provide proper glasses for
men whose vision was imperfect,
and, furthermore, to make sure that
they could get new ones quickly
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when they lost or broke them.
Oculists of high reputation were
y commissioned as officers in the eye
$}l<service soon after we entered war.
I' * And under their direction were enlisted
numbers of opticians, whose
business it was to provide glasses in
? ' accordance with the prescriptions
the eye doctor wrote.
To promote the work a school of
ophthamology was established in
this country, for the instruction of
students in eye-doctoring. On graduation
they were supposed to be able
\ to prescribe glasses and treat eye
diseases.- The course they took was
.necessarily hurried, but it helped.
It is believed that the statements
here made are strictly correct. If
there is an error it is because of the
seemingly nonsensical secrecy preserved
by the medical department of
the army. If, as is the case, that dei
partment freely gives out information
about the mental inspection and
classification of recruits, why should
it refuse to let anybody know about
. the eye service and its warnings?
The eye service in France has done
great work. It has been under the
general direction of a staff of highly
expert oculists, from whose headquarters
have been controlled the ac
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* "optical units," the business of the
latter being to furnish glasses to
soldiers.
'The work has been one of the most
important undertaken by our army
authorities during the war. An ade*
quate description of it would yield a
page of fascinating description, with
pictorial illustrations. But, for the
reason above mentioned, xio such description
is possible.?Popular Science.
A Roundabout Method.
"Pa, why do you always insist on
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here?"
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FARMING IX SOUTHERN STATES.;
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Addresses Bulletin to "Farmers and
Business Men in Cotton Belt." j
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To Farmers and Business Men in ]
Cotton Territory:
The department of agriculture is
issuing a bulletin which I have prepared
for the purpose of putting
the present situation up to the far-1
mers and business men. It is entitled
"Safe Farming in the Southern j
States in 1919." Ask your county I
agent for a copy. !
The present situation is the most
fion.o'ormie whirh flip rnttnn States
have faced in recent years. You have
had four years of comparative prosperity,
partly because of four short
crops of cotton with resultant good
prices,- and partly because you produced
so much of your own food and
feed. During the last four years
there have been short crops in Tex
as, mainly due to drought. In 1911,
1912, 1913 and 1914 the Texas crop
averaged 4,418,250 bales, while!
during 1915, 1916, 1917 and 1918
it averaged only 3,164,500 bales, or
1,253,750 bales less per annum. Texas
has had good rains this winter. |
From 1911 to 1914, inclusive, Oklahoma
averaged 1,036,250 bales per
annum. From 1915 to 1918, inclusive,
the average was only 742,250
bales, or 294,000 bales less per- annum?mainly
due to drought. Oklahoma
has had splendid rains this
winter. A big crop in Texas and
Oklahoma, has always meant a big
crop in the whole country. Think
that over before you decide to increase
your acreage in cotton.
Will the mills of Northern France
and Belgium be restored to full
workins: caDacitv at once? Certainly
not! Will the poor people of Europe
seek food or cotton first? Food, of
course! People can and will wear
patched clothing and sleep without
pillow cases and sheets if need be:
but the hungry stomach must be
fed. Think about that!
The last four years have been a
period of gradually increasing
prices. Farmers and business men
have profited out of this constant increase.
Cotton just about kept pace
with other things. A pound or an acre
of it would buy about the same
quantity of other commodities in
1918, at 30 cents a pound, as it did
in 1914, at 12 cents a pound. But
during this time the farmers had the
advantage of purchasing supplies in
the spring and summer at one level
of prices and then selling cotton in
the fall at the top price of the year)
and paying the debts contracted at J
the lower prices. Be on your guard
now, for when prices begin to settle
down the situation becomes more difficult.
We may be in the position of
making a crop of cotton with highpriced
supplies and settling our
debts out of cotton at a lower price.
Especially will this be true if we
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by do all in our power to lower the
market price of cotton. Has not a
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large crop always meant lower
prices? Think that over!
What about acreage? Let us look
at the acreage figures in the bulletin.
The total for 191S was 35,890,- j
000. Oklahoma had more acres
planted in 191S than in 1911, 1913
or 1914. Texas had more acres in
191S than 1911 and only about 700,000
acres less than in 1914. The
years 1911, 1913 and 1914 were,
good with big crops and generally!
low prices. With only 150,000 acres
more in the whole country in 1911
than we hqfd in the whole country in
191S, we produced 15,693,000 bales,
and the farm price December 1,
1911, averaged 8.S cen's per pound.;
In 1913 we had 37,089,000"acres and
produced 14,130,000 bales, and the
farm price averaged 12.2 cents per
pound December 1, 1913. In 1914
we had 30.832,000 acres, or only
942,000 acres more than in 191 S, and
yet the production was 16,135,000 j
bales and the farm price December l.j
I 1914, was 0.S cents per pound an the
average?due in part, no doubt, to!
the war in Europe. Think this over.
I With less acres than last year and'
a good season we can easily make a i
very large crop, especially with good j
production in Texas and Oklahoma.!
In 1912 with only 34,283,000 acres
was made 13,703,000 bales of cotton..
With a good season ahead of us, I
would you increase the acreage?
Which would you rathe do, pro-1
; duce more cotton and take a less
; price for it after working a large,
; number of acres at greater expense, i
or limit your production to a smaller
number of acres, better tended, permitting
the full production of your
! food and feed and better chance for
j a good price?
It is absolute folly to upset the
; present prosperity of the cotton |
j States by planting a large acreage; j
which can only mean a large cropj
and a lower price. I hear rumors of
farmers selling 'their livestock to
put their land all in cotton. Such
action is inviting disaster. If farmers,
landlords and bankers combine
to pull the house down upon their
own heads by producing a large crop
of cotton, they should have the courage
to make no appeal to the rest of
the world for help if their own action
lands them into distress.
But remember that there is a good
way. Look in the bulletin. Food
plus cotton equals prosperity. Full
production of the food for our people
and the feed for our growing livestock
industry in the South should
be the first and most important consideration.
Safe farming demands
Cunnlrr ttaiit* i
tdllUUll IU1S lllliC. j uui unu I
needs first as a sound measure of
protection* then hold your cotton
acreage down to a moderate figure,
less than in 1918, in order that we
may safeguard the production and
not destroy our prosperity by deliberately
overproducing.
It is up to the South to play a safe
gaJme. Safety first demands that
every cotton farmer, big and little,:
shall cooperate in holding down the j
cotton acreage.?By Bradford Knapp.,
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'"Do unto others as you would have
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"That's the Golden Rule, and I believe
in it, too, don't you?"
"Well," replied Burroughs, "if 1
did I'd be offering to lend you $10
this minute."?Boston Transcript.
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