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WHILE WOO TONS OF TOP SOIL ARE WASHED OR 
6L ?Svt5 AY .,I EARLV AND HALF 0F THE WORLD IS 
STARVING, MANY SAY THINGS ARE PICKING UP. 
WASHINGTON, Oct. 4, ‘37—15,929,753 still 
on relief rolls, costing taxpayers Si 48 , 946,639 
ivtnnthlif • ’ 
monthly. 
50,000,000 acres has produced its last food. 
Farmers on over 200,000,COO acres more unable 
to make a living and must be located at tax¬ 
payers expense on land that will produce crops 
Cotton that was ours for a century now pro¬ 
duced in 52 countries dropped to $8.25 in New 
uneans, and the world’s carry over will be 
between 17,000,000 and 18,000,000 bales. 
Stocks off again from $ 5.00 to 19.00. Steel 
production down to 64%. 5,000 meat shops 
closed in New York on account of high prices. 
Ranges over-grazed or on account of no rain, 
there is no grass. Streams and water holes 
have dried up. In many sections, farmers 
will not get their seed back this year. Many 
have had no rain for five years. 
Frank S. Betz 
Our trees, the real rain-makers the world 
over, are practically gone and instead of our 
business men taking an interest in this work, 
as they did in England and Europe iri the 15th 
century, they all wait for something 10 turn 
up as they did in Asia and Northern Africa. 
Read article on pages one and two, also 
Zon’s wonderful book, "FORESTS AND 
WATER IN THE LIGHT OF SCIENTIFIC 
INVESTIGATION", published by the Govern¬ 
ment. Price, 20 cents. It tells where rain 
comes from according to the greatest scientists 
in the world. Nothing will save this country 
but trees. 
WILL YOU AND YOUR FRIENDS ORDER 
ENOUGH WATER-TESTED BLACK WAL¬ 
NUTS TO GIVE EACH PUPIL ONE or TV/O. 
The Trees will sell for $25. to over $100 each 
One Bushel (about 1250 nuts), — $ 1.50 OR 
5 BUSHEL, — $7.00 
(Betz Building) 
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WHAT I SAID AT THE GARY, INDIA NA, KIWANIS CLUB, AUGUST 31,1937 
SHOULD INTEREST TAXPAYERS, WAGE EARN- 
ERS AND THE UNEMPLOYED 
KIWANIANS: You no doubt have read about our great 
2,600,000,000 bushel corn,876,000,000 bushel wheat, and 15,500 000 
bale cotton crop for 1937. ’ 
But have you ever read an article, out- Travel through most any wooded farm 
side of the many published in SATURDAY I section today, look at the iods m me area 
fur 1 .™ ;,°„ 8 rt u .°„ LLi “ s ' Nt » vork ; «■»««"is; 
SUN and TIMES secured at great expense oi the lowering of the water revel 
BCJT srrs "S,i 1 Tro n S:! ! 0 " e ", s J orm '" y 55 ■" - 
the few paltry dollars thev receive monthiv *^ n,S ae 1 lhe hdnds 01 renters and ma( 
trom relief sources and must receive tor years - ands Wl " nawe *' pr0QUce enough again 
to come, which will be paid by taxpayers? 
• t you really want to see poverty, take 
houte 20 from Sioux city ithere are many 
omer sections) west to k. aj, urin, Wyoming, 
souin to Cneyenne, Denver, east to Limoa, 
ooiorado, men 24-40 to uoiby, Kansas, south 
to Oaaley, Hays City, sauna ana east. 
co pay taxes, unless planted with trees tor 
lumber? Should we have inflation, tne littie 
you spend for l,Oao Walnut or other trees 
wiii bring back many thousands tor every 
uGnar invested. 
Tire great Dust Bowl covers 90,000,000 
acres, 00,000,000 or Winch are unuer cultiva¬ 
tion. in i os adjoining counties in Texas, New 
mextco, Coiorauo, Kansas and Oklahoma, and 
is growing larger every uay. ssoo,uoo,uoo of 
peueral Punas have aireauy been spent and 
options more must do bemre those unable 
to matte a living are located on land that 
will support them. 
If you have time, go through the Dakotas 
where 40,ouu farmers have lost their farms 
and halt of those left are on reiiet. 
With conditions in so many sections be¬ 
coming worse every day, why is it none of our 
newspapers ever mention it or take any in¬ 
terest in suggesting methods that will save 
the farmlands of this country? 
What about the armies in our cities with¬ 
out trades or professions still unemployed? 
Millions of these men are from farms. 
Up to 40 years ago, farmers who allowed 
their land to be ruined, often by carelessness, 
could taae up new land; but, today, there is 
no vacant land fit tor farming nearer than 
Alaska where they located tarmers trom Wis- 
consin, Michigan and Minnesota 2 years ago. 
I went through this wonderful country; picked 
strawberry plants 17 inches high 3 miles south 
of there. 
Today, there are over 1600 counties in 22 
states where farmers are in bad condition. 
South of Indianapolis, there are 250,000 
acres in one body where farmers have not 
made a living for years. 
In 1905, several counties in the state found 
they required $29,590. They did not think 
they would be compelled to ask for aid again, 
but 22 years later the amount had increased 
from $29,590 to $1,164,335, and still going 
strong—yet they tell you things are picking 
up. * 
Many who could encourage the planting of 
trees for saving the black soil on this land 
have something else on their mind or they 
are unable to comprehend that at the rate 
we are working, it will take over 100 years 
to do what must be done. 
While farmers had trees to sell they had 
black soil and could make a living. When the 
trees were gone, the black soil followed and 
they went on relief, where you will find them 
for many years to come, unless they are 
located at taxpayers expense on land they 
can make a living on. 
After going over this territory with State 
Forester Wilcox, one of the best posted men 
in his line, I notified him and State Supt. of 
Schools Weishart to buy 3J/ 2 ttmes more 
STRATIFIED BLACK WALNUTS than were 
planted by all state nurseries in the U. S. 
in 1929, which were to be planted by pupils 
in Indiana schools, and send the bill to me. 
Walnut lumber at that time was worth 
$165 per 1000. 40 years ago, you could buy 
it for $6.00 from farmers who had portable 
mills. 
At that time, few knew what "soil erosion" 
was, and most men, as they do today, con¬ 
sidered planting trees foolish, kindergarten 
stuff, and a waste of time and money. 
But I kept on. I knew what was coming 
and who would eventually pay. 
College graduates ail know the history of 
treeless Asia and Africa; they knew what 
happened there centuries ago would happen 
here. Yet you will find millions who believe 
that black soil has nothing to do with crops. 
Anyone who will cover the treeless sections 
in any country, see the poverty and disease, 
will understand. 
Had a few of the 2,200,000 who received 
my tree-planting printed matter, mailed 
through the Hammond post office, assisted 
ma years ago by contributing a few cents 
yearly for buying WALNUTS, HICKORY 
NUTS, BUTTERNUTS or beautiful one-cent 
trees for pupils, who were in high school and 
have since gone through college, to plant, as 
I expected they would, instead of condemning 
the work, millions of trees planted by them 
would be growing in this country. 
With one of the foremost American writers 
claiming there is enough genuine White Pine 
to furnish all the country’s needs for the next 
50 years and enough other species to last for 
200 years more, many who would gladly 
assist in this work don’t know what to do. 
But if this great writer could see the results 
of drought, dust storms, soil erosion, etc., of 
thousands of years standing and really knew 
anything about our standing timber, he would 
change his mind. 
Since 1928, I have shipped over 250,000,000 
WALNUTS, HICKORY NUTS, BUTTER 
NUTS, PECANS and other tree seed and mil 
lions of trees, as shown by the stack of re 
cord books here, which I trust you will ar 
examine carefully. 
In order to get firsthand information, I 
covered over 30,000 miles with an automobila 
from Hammond to Maine, to 120 miles south 
of Miami, to 60 miles south of New Orleans, 
Galveston, northwest Wyoming, then criss* 
crossed all states east of the Rockies, and 
during the past 8 weeks, covered Michigan, 
Wisconsin, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Colo¬ 
rado, Wyoming, Nebraska, Iowa and home 
In the west, I saw thousands of farmers 
who have lost their crops for 5 years, and 
this year they will not get their seed back. 
Few in sections own a cow, hog, chicken, or 
garden; everything has dried up. 
EVERGREEN TREES 
75% OF ALL SALEABLE EVERGREENS ARE 
SOLD. IN SIX MONTHS FROM TODAY, I 
DOUBT IF YOU WILL BE ABLE TO BUY A 
TREE OUTSIDE OF EXTRA-LARGE, EXPEN¬ 
SIVE STOCK. TAKE WHAT YOU WANT 
WHILE THEY LAST 
Size 25 100 250 
of Trees Trees Trees Trees 
4-8" 
Look at the map of Illinois: 81 of 102 
wOuiuiOw, once the higtiest-p. ioeu farmland in 
America, now rumea irom 25 to ioove. loss 
— over $2,400,000,000, and relief rolls run 
$a,ooo,ooo and often more monthly. 
in the south part of the state, t saw thou¬ 
sands oi stuinpa up to 5 it. in diameter on 
lauu tnai has not produced a donar tor 75 
s , “**d the ireignt u.n on luinoer Shipped 
into me state nas amounted $28,ouu,ooo 
.h a single season, sun mey say: "We need 
no trees ’ I 
More of our farm and grazing land has bean 
ruined trom 25 to 100 Vo than ail tne land in 
England, Ireland, Scotland and practically 
all Of Europe.(SEE REPORTS IN BUNDLE) 
Farm mortgages have increased to $12 
BILLION, and thousands oi farms will not 
sell tor the mortgage. 
Half of the standing timber we owned in 
1900 was cut or destroyed by nre before 1930 . 
On lumber formerly sold in Chicago for $8 
per 1,000, there is now a $20 treignt charge 
com western points. 
See tables, “TIMBER STILL STANDING 
AND YEARLY COT SINCE 1809 TO DATE.” 
If the 800,000,000 trees now being planted 
by the Government were planted on farms 
under the supervision ot such men as K. F. 
Wilcox, who has made a life study ot this 
work, it would have saved tiwusand-s of 
farms, the trees would have been protected 
trom fire and eventually produceu billions of 
dollars worth of the finest lumber. 
County Superintendents of Schools; end 
County Agents, all of whom know the history 
and poverty ot treeless count; m., wnere poor 
people are compelled to sen tiseir girls for 
as low as one doiler each, could make a name 
for themselves that would be remembered by 
every woman in the world for the next 500 
years if they would impress upon pupils and 
farmers the necessity of planting the mil¬ 
lions of WALNUTS, ACORNS, and other tree 
seed that rot on the ground, which would 
save their land and eventually produce lum¬ 
ber they will need badly when they grow up. 
$2.50 worth of trees planted on a few 
acres of run down farmland will produce 
thousands of dollars worth of lumber for 
future generations and provide a nesting 
place for birds, which save farmers millions. 
In treeless countries, people live in mud 
hovels without doors, floors or windows, little 
girls for .centuries have followed the cattle 
day after day gathering their offal, which, 
made in the form of a 10-inch pancake and 
plastered on the wall to dry, is their only 
fuel; few ever saw a stove, coal or wood fire. 
I have met caravans of camels 0:1 it * 
Sahara Desert on their way to native settle¬ 
ments loaded down with this “fuel”. 
It is not too late for business men and 
women who must eventually pay these bills 
and who desire to save their children and 
future generations from proverty, to club to¬ 
gether and buy their city superintendent of 
schools 1,000 or more beautiful trees to start 
with at one cent each, to be sold to pupils 
at cost, the money re-invested as often as 
required and then turned over to the county 
superintendent, who would buy trees for pu¬ 
pils on farms. 
When the work is completed, use the money 
left to buy an assortment of trees for a park 
or botanny class, as I did at Hobart, Indiana, 
in 1931, where I also furnished a house for 
the superintendent of the Hobart schools to 
LIVE IN, who taught students about trees 
every Saturday. Many of these trees are 35 
feet high today. 
We use 10,000,000 Christmas trees yearly. 
One or 2 cents each will buy trees, which in 
five years will sell for 75 cents to $3.00 each. 
This is one of the great plans for enabling 
high school graduates to finance their own 
college education, which is much better than 
loafing the streets. 
The Government reports that farmers in 
Pennsylvania make $500 an acre yearly by 
buying small trees every year and selling 
them later. 
Every salaried man who desires to live 25 
years longer should do as they now do in 
European countries—Buy a small 2 V 2 or 5 
acre farm to produce what the family requires 
to eat, and by raising trees, flowers and 
chickens,pay for the land in weekly payments. 
The best tree, fruit and vegetable land In 
this county, only 12 minutes from here, can 
be had for less than $100 an acre. 
A nice little house and 5 acres that will 
produce more fruit and vegetables than any 
family can use, in 10 years will be worth a 
lot of money and many times more than a 
1937 automobile. 
Many changes have taken place in the past 
40 years and unless businessmen wake up, 
there will be more changes in the next 10 
years. 
The world formerly looked to us for cotton. 
Today, 52 cheap-labor countries produce more 
thar\ we do, and before long they will produce 
the world’s requirements for half of what it 
costs us to produce it. 
For years, we supplied the world with meat. 
During January, we imported 19,000,000 lbs. 
and last year, over 30,000,000 lbs. of butter, 
and as much of our best grazing lands are 
ruined or too far from water, we will no 
doubt continue to import these products for 
years to come. (SEE REPORT). 
Over 3,000 manufacturing plants operated 
with American capital and machinery In 
foreign countries are now making goods for 
US. 
continued (over) 
>* »» 11 
...8-12" 
1.25 
2.50 
5.00 
....1 2-18" 
2.25 
4.50 
7.50 
....18-24" 
3.00 
10.00 
14.50 
” Berckman’s Gold, 8 - 10 " 
5.50 
17.50 
10-12" 
7.00 
21.50 
” Bluish Pyr., 
....18-24" 
8.25 
23.50 
” Bonita, 
...4-6" 
3.00 
9.00 
.6-12" 
4.00 
10.50 
” Chinese, 
....8-10" 
2.25 
6.50 
10.00 
” Compacta, 
....6-12" 
2.75 
9.00 
” ” Globe Gold, 
-.8-12" 
4.75 
15.00 
-.1 2-15" 
9.75 
28.00 
” ” Hill’s Pyr., 
—4-6" 
3.00 
11.50 
—10-12" 
4.75 
15.50 
....18-24" 
9.00 
25.50 
Siberian, 
—6-8" 
3.50 
11.75 
” Woodwards’ Globe 6-8" 
3.50 
11.50 
BOXWOOD, English, 
....6-8" 
3.75 
10.50 
8-10" 
4.25 
13.50 
BURNING BUSH, 
—8-12" 
4.75 
14.50 
CEDAR, Amer., 
....4-8" 
1.00 
1.25 
2.50 
-.8-12" 
1.25 
2.50 
5.00 
—12-18" 
2.25 
4.50 
7.50 
—18-24" 
3.00 
10.00 
14.50 
” Deodora, 
—10-12" 
5.00 
15.50 
” of Lebanon, 
....8-1 2" 
4.75 
14.75 
” Red.. 
—12-18" 
2.00 
4.50 
8.00 
»» »• 
.18-24" 
2.50 
5.00 
10.00 
CYPRESS, Italian, 
—12-18" 
4.75 
15.50 
” Lawson, 
.8-12" 
4.50 
12.50 
” Royali, 
—8-12" 
4.50 
12.50 
—12-18" 
5.50 
15.50 
FIR, Balsam, 
....4-8" 
1.00 
2.00 
3.25 
—8-12" 
1.25 
2.50 
5.00 
” Chinese Blue, 
.8-10" 
5.75 
18.00 
” Concolor, 
—3-5" 
1.25 
3.00 
” Douglas, 
—6-8" 
1.50 
3.50 
6.50 
HEMLOCK, Canadian, 
—4-6" 
2.75 
9.00 
—6-12" 
3.25 
10.50 
—12-18" 
3.75 
12.50 
” Native, 
.6-12" 
1.00 
2.00 
3.25 
...12-18" 
1.50 
3.00 
6.00 
HOLLY, Amer., 
....6-12" 
1.00 
2.50 
5.00 
M If 
—12-18" 
. .18-24" 
1.50 
2.50 
3.75 
8.00 
7.50 
JUNIPER, Amer., 
....12-18" 
2.50 
8.00 
16.00 
—18-24" 
4.50 
16.50 
” Andorra, 
....6-8" 
3.50 
12.50 
8-10" 
5.75 
21.00 
” Ashfordi , 
...12-15" 
6.75 
18.50 
” Chinese, 
...8-12" 
2.25 
7.00 
16.00 
” ” Mas., 
...8-12" 
5.50 
” Hill Doug., 
...8-12" 
4.00 
10.50 
” Irish, 
....6-12" 
2.50 
7.00 
—12-15" 
3.75 
12.00 
” Jap. Trailing, 
—8-12" 
4.75 
14.50 
»l It II 
...12-15" 
8.75 
26.50 
” Pfitzer, 
...6-8" 
3.50 
9.50 
22.50 
.8-10" 
4.25 
12.50 
29.00 
” Savin, 
... 6-8" 
2.50 
8.00 
»» »> 
8-12" 
3.50 
10.00 
” Spiny Greek, 
8-10" 
5.00 
16.50 
!» »» II 
. .12-15" 
10.50 
30.00 
” Virginal, 
....8-12" 
5.25 
18.50 
” Virginia, 
...12-18" 
2.00 
4.50 
8.00 
11 11 
.18-24" 
2.50 
5.00 
12.50 
” White Leaf, 
—8-10" 
6.00 
. 
.... .... 
LARCH, European, 
” Japanese, 
...48-72" 
4.00 
12.50 
. 
. . 30-60" 
4.00 
. 
. 
LAUREL, Mountain, 
—6-12" 
1.00 
2.50 
5.00 
M II 
. .12-18" 
1.50 
4.50 
7.50 
PINE, Austrian, 
...5-10" 
1.25 
2.25 
3.75 
” Banks, 
....4-8" 
1.25 
2.25 
3.50 
” Ponderosa, 
....6-8" 
1.25 
2.50 
4.00 
” Red, 
—6-12" 
1.25 
2.50 
4.50 
” Scotch, 
....4-6" 
1.25 
2.25 
3.50 
»l »» 
...8-12" 
1.50 
2.75 
5.00 
” Shortleaf, 
....6-12" 
1.00 
1.50 
2.50 
if y i 
....1 2-18" 
1.25 
2.00 
3.25 
SPRUCE, Black, 
....8-12" 
1.25 
2.50 
4.75 
” ” Hill, 
...4-8" 
1.25 
2.50 
5.00 
” Colo. Blue, Wis., 
....4-8" 
1.50 
2.75 
5.50 
..Colo., 
...6-8" 
2.50 
5.50 
” Engelman, 
.8-12" 
1.50 
2.50 
5.00 
” Norway, 
...4-6" 
1.25 
2.00 
3.50 
” White, 
....4-8" 
1.00 
2.00 
4.00 
5 Trees-10 Trees 
ARBOR VITAE, Amer. 24" . 
2.75 
4.75 
“ “ Globe, 12-15" .... 
2.80 
4.70 
“ “ Gold Tip, 24" 
2.80 
4.75 
“ “ Hoveys Gold, 12-15" 
’ 2.80 
4.75 
“ “ Pyramidal, 15-18" 
3.00 
5.00 
“ “ Siberian, 15-18" ... 
. 2.80 
4.75 
JUNIPER, Blue Cedar, 18-24"... 
8.00 
14.50 
” Can Red Cedar, 18-24" 
8.00 
14.50 
“ Greek Stricta, 12-15".... 
4.75 
8.25 
“ Irish, 10-12" . 
1.85 
2.75 
•* “ 24" . 
3.00 
5.00 
“ Pfitzer, 15-18" . 
. 3.50 
6.00 
” Prostrate, 15-18" . 
3.25 
5.50 
“ Savin, 10-12" . 
1.85 
2.75 
“ “ 15-18" . 
3.25 
5.50 
“ Scopularum, 18-24" .. 
. 8.00 
14.50 
CYPRESS, Gray, 24" . 
3.00 
5.00 
“ Sawara, 24" . 
. 3.00 
5.00 
“ “ Gold, 24" . 
. 3.00 
5.00 
“ Plume, 24" . 
3.00 
5.00 
“ Plume Gold, 24" . 
3.00 
5.00 
“ Silver, 24" . . 
. 3.00 
5.00 
SPRUCE, Norway, 10-12" 
1.85 
2.75 
<• “ 24" . 
. 2.50 
4.00 
“ Colo. Blue, 24" . 
. 7.50 
13.50 
“ “ Green, 24" . 
. 3.00 
5.00 
“ Koster Blue, 15-18" 
11.50 
20.00 
“ Moerheimi Blue, 15-18".... 
13.50 
24.00 
YEW, Jap. Spread., 10-12" . 
. 2.10 
3.00 
“ “ “ .15-18" . 
12.00 
22.50 
“ Jap. Upright, 10-12" . 
2.10 
3.09 
“ “ “ , 15-18" . 
.12.00 
22.50 
“ Hicks, 10-12" . 
. 2.10 
3.00 
CREAM OF TREES 
5 and even 10 for what thousands pay for 
one tree. As soon as you receive them put 
the roots in a pail of luke warm water for 
four hours and plant in mud. Mulch with 
leaves and cuttings from your lawn and not 
a tree should die. 
MAIDENHAIR TREES 
OLDEST AND ONE OF THE MOST BEAU¬ 
TIFUL TREES GROWN IN ASIA. BAG 
SEED 50 CENTS. 
DOROTHY PERKINS ROSES 
10 BIG 3-yr. old $1.00 
Plant 1,000 cuttings along your fence. 
They are all climbers and will sell in three 
years for 25 to 35 cents each. Cost only 
$8.00 per 1,000. DON’T MISS THIS. 
