Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1937-09-30

far from Harrisburg, gave occasion
for my first sunrise in that state
just before diving through the tubes
into Pittsburgh. Stages had chang
ed to busses over the Rockies, and
the bus took us across the state by
way of State college. School and
town much like Pullman. Big pine
trees were few and far between, but
many groves of small trees were
department of forestry. Watch them
grow
Brick and stone houses and barns
became common, and to the east
ward big houses beyond the needs
of the ordinary family was the rule.
Here too thrifty horror of debt
permitted forehanded folks to sur
vive the depression in good shape.
Could not advise any one east of
he picked his new location with
care. The thriftless there have a
broader tax base to lean upon.
Across New Jersey in drenching
rain which stopped before we went
across the Newark flats over the
Sky Way. Here swamps have kept
country vacant until now it can be
used for airports and such. We en-
, tered the metropolis through the
Holland tunnel and were soon out
over the George Washington bridge.
at Albany l hunted the blanket, to
sleep more comfortably. Elsewhere
a sheet had been too much.
In Pennsylvania | had crossed the
Blue Ridge. Now in Vermont, in
the gray dawn l stood on one of the
Green mountains and gazed over at
the White mountains. Later in the
Blue mountains of Oregon l found
: in OF 1I6y q
! trip. They can raise gardens in
Vermont and Connecticut, if the
deer do. not come down and eat
them in the night.
My nephew, as is usual with 1.-the
man from Ohio,'' has done we'll in a
way. He is deputy master of the
/ grange, and has been in the legisla-
ture He has nice home which he
hopes to sell to some rich man from
or a hunting headquarters for the
deer season. He was milking some
cows, and saving ties from his for
est rather than raising farm crops
Ties were of oak; turning stock
from white birch and pulp wood
from poplars. These still furnish
ready money, but farm homes are
being abandoned.
A short stop in Indiana was not
While waiting in the bus at Leb.
anon, Ind, rain flooded the cutters
and almost ran into the store build
ings across the sidewalk Plenty OF
moisture in Illinois, but the dry
belt has moved over from centra
Kansas into Missouri 1t is no dry
er in western Missouri than in 9th
er relatively prosperous places. The
weeds adjust themselves to droutl
I,,t ,xriy ND HI
people seem unable to do SO success
fully.
Crossing the wide plains of west
ern Kansas further built wild ides
for the dust bowl Annually they
expect a June rise in the Missouri
river through Missouri. This f1ooe
menaces bridges and fertile farm
lands along its course. There i:
really enough water for two rivers
the dust bowl? 1t would simply re
quire an earth dam on each and ev
cry river from Montana south, Great
ing reservoirs in each valley. Ther
with huge connecting canals an(
culverts to permit average flow
down each stream, the system would
be complete and the dust bowl con
quered. No, it isn't as crazy az
planting trees and corn in that arit
area.
But seeking and longing we find il
no use.
We always come back to the fertile
ssPalouSe.
There's an omen of health in the
life-giving air.
The rainfall is gentle, the sunshine
is fair
So here. in this country I'll stay
there's folly in going away.
Among our green hills, where life
has it's thrills
Let me live till the close of the day
james E. Lindsey.