The Omaha morning bee., 1923-11-17

]. Out in the Vest.
Harvesting Oil and Wind
One Texas Baby.
No Worry about This
Land.
By ARTHUR BRISBANE

Kan, you notice heavy cloud of
smoke overhanging a field. A
farmer is doing his fall plowing,
under a sky without cloud, driv-
ing an oil engine.
On hill, in the next field, is a
gigantic wheel, on tower. The
wheel is pumping water. Oil from
below the ground, wind in the
heights above, harnessed and, no
longer blowing where it listeth--
these plow the ground that men
once painfully turned by hand,
and pump the water that women
carried from wells, on their heads,
1000 years ago.
Oil, wind, and higher power
under the farmers hat, give him
what he needs.
In the Wichita Eagle, you read
the warning of Wichita's under
writers, in we'll written advertise
ment, "95 per cent of men at go
are dependent on their daily earn
ings, or on others for support,
and not one man in 80, who re-
tires with a competency, is able
to retain that competency to the
close of his life." Moral, take out
a.iife income policy.
For one good kind of insurance,
move to the western country, bring
some money with you. Be well
81, ,,.t ,.,rrl,t thof old
and other trif1es need not worry
you.
How long will the extraordinary
wealth of this country last? For
ever. You read R. L. Jones Tulsa
Tribune, like everybody else with
in reach of that excellent news
paper, and see, on the front page,
of yesterday, this:
"a gas gusher that will provide
gas for all towns in northern
Colorado, including Denver, has
come in near Collins, Colo"
About 100, 100000 cubic feet of
gas "every "a hours" is the cal
culated flow of that well, biggest
ever brought in, in Colorado's in
termountain field.
1t Just gushes out, every day, as
much gas as would cost consumers
100000 in New York-and no ex-
pense, except piping and burning
it. Or you can turn the gas into
electric power, where it comes
out of the ground, and distribute
that power along wire, for hun
dreds of miles.
That is not all the meaning, in
such news. Where there is gas,
there is oil, nearly always, and by
now, men are drilling for oil
around there, where no oil was
thought to be.
Don't however, be led into buy
ing stock. If it's fine well, but
with no oil, you can have it. Some
would not sell you stock in an oil
less oil well, but they have wicked
friends that would, and do, sell
carloads of it.
And even more important than
the we'll is that baby eating break
fast with his mother in the rail-
road restaurant at Caldwell, Kan,
Just north of the Oklahoma border.
You ask what kind of baby it is,
meaning boy or girl, and the
mother, tall, cheerful and proud
answers:
"This boy is Texas baby. We
live about 800 miles out from
Fort Worth" In Texas, you know,
1900 miles out" means in the sub
urbs.
You learn that the Texas baby
Is eight months old, and having
heard from DR.. Kerley, in New
York, how eight-months-o babies
should be fed, you watch the
Texas baby taking his 7:30 break
fast with his mother, and learn
something about Texas constitu-
ton.
The baby eats his share Of his
mothers baked apple, very sweet.
While waiting for the oatmeal, he
eats very large slice of raw
apple, and needs no help in eating.
He has his oatmeal, and a piece
Of toast, and some egg, when the
bam and eggs come-but eats no
ham. "He has quite a mouthful
Df teeth, began having them very
young, but he can't chew ham
very well.
"He does not eat wheat cakes
either, but takes some of the
molasses from a spoon.
Hes like his father that way,
very fond of sweet things"
Never a sound from this Texas
baby, except two roars. The
mother understands them both.
The first means "Give me water"
He takes a long drink Of iced
water, with much ice floating in it.
The second roar means "Tm
tired of this high chair, take me-"
His mother takes him, and before
she starts back to her pullman
car, the Texas baby is fast asleep.
Eyes," says the mother, "He's a
very good baby. H'll go all day
without making sound, unless
you get him angry. He's got a
quick temper, like his father. What
does he eat? Oh, pretty much what
his father eats, only he hasn't got
such a hearty appetite. But you'd
be surprised to know how much he
can eat"
With such western empire, oil
wells and gas wells, gold, silver
and copper mines, helium in the
natural gas, to carry your flying
machines, "black wax land" 20
feet deep. water power. forests.