The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1918-12-26
WRITER IN DALLAS NEWS WANTS TO PLANT TREES ON
ON THE PLAINS TO MAKE 1T RAIN MORE HERE.
TO 'RECLAIM" THE DESERT WASTE IN WEST TEXAS
Thinks Should Decide Upon This Act Memorial
Those Brave Sons of Texas Who Have Fought and Died
In France. Shows How Little She Knows About Pans

really trying TO write about. The
writer Of the above no doubt has the
plains Of East New Mesico and West
TeAas pictured in her mind as a space
of country where there is absolutely
nothing but sand hills and prickley-
pears with a few half starved coyotes
dragging about While il may be
true that timber viii produce rain,
yet il does not seem to work out IN
every case. We know Of sections
Tcxas and not very farm from Prair-
ie View too. where there is more tim
Der than the Government to grow on
the plains or any other treeless cour-
try in forty years. that has not had
enough moisture the past two years
20 grow enough stuff to pay the taxes
on the $4,000 per acre land that
the timber stands on, while the East
Plains Of New Mexico and Of West
Texas, even in its aridness is ship
ping feed for the fellows mileh cows
who sits back and writes Of ways and
means 10 RECLAIM" the barren
regions Of "our great state" The
government can no more produce rain
than the editor Of the Avalanche.
State Press or any other great edi-
tor. and when that is said there is
little hope, so We are not in favor Of
the state spending that money m any
such away. The people OF this ..reat
country are well satisfied with the
treeless plains They have come out
here in the open to make their homes
Live clean upright lives. raise their
families N the pure atmosphere Of
the finest climate in the world. Where
school. church and social surround
ings are deal and as long as we pay
enough taxes TO run our own schools
nins,months In the year ard pay half
Of the school money TO your schools
hack among the timber w. see nc
good reason why Lucy should cen.
ectn herself about our affairs When
vc want trees, we plant EN- water
hem from our unexhaustible supply
Of water from the wells drawn by
mills turned by the wind We plant
them where We want them and they
grow rapidly but the balance % the
country we shall use more and more
from yenr to year. as the people Of
the east get the scales Of prejudice
taken from their eyes and come out
here and join us in the development
" the greatest country in the west
10 raise feed for your cows back
here. and Also ship you flour meat
and potatoes to use on your table
Cut out the memorial tree talk and !
spend that money for farms on the !
plains for those soldiers who return
md they will in a few years make il
4 memorial 10 those who paid the
'uprene price death, in making he
great United States a safe place TO
i've in. No one in the world wishes
hat the memory Of the boys who sac
-ificed their lives for their country
,e memorialized than we. but dead
.rees nor cold marble slabs does not
appeal 20 US Those who are SO keen
n spend money in producing rain
night try IL down in that country
between Lubbock and the Calf. but
70 far as this section is concerned.
me year after another we can make
'ut with the amount of moisture that I
ne Good Lord sees 1T to shower up
IN US.