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£ • • WiK - - LIC PULSE Is a f«tJRNAL-PATHl*r fees m for this T. W. FERGUSON WRITES Tl* Journal-Patriot: The day ot expensive experi ment in water, control should be over and we should put into prac tice the things proved over the rears to be both practical and economical. In eplte of all this, however, it is surprising how some few continue to labor under the ob ' : i tIoub delusion that in order tc protect one, section you must necessarily destroy another. Und er no circumstances can watei control be an over night proposi tion after all our past errors Work with nature and she will help yon; buck her and she wil] ruin you. Water control must start where the first trickle falls. Dams for water control are (be coming largely out moded. Small dams fill up in a few years. Large ones will do likewise. A four teen foot dam on Reddiee River built for a water supply filled up at the rate of two feet per year. Recent floods proved T. V. A. dams ineffective and yon ask Why? Because they are rapidly filling up. Fill a bucket with mud and you have no space for water. Two thousand dams in the U. S. have already filled up. Why con tinue to throw untold millions into donbtful and absurd pro - — jects? The day of Santa Claus is over in that respect. Lets control our excess waters by simple, sensible and economi cal means and in ways that will not return to us as a boomerang. The HEDGEROW PLAN, back ed by an intensive land and for est treatment is the best and | most feasible method of flood I control in North Carolina water sheds especially in the mountain and piedmont sections. Thous ands of farmers have used it for years on a email scale; but it la not a one man's proposition. The government should assist and there is nothing that oan pay better dividends and pay them quicker. First clear the banks of trees and the channels of obstructions so that excess waters may run off rapidly. Place broad hedgerows of quick growing sycamore and willow at strategic places. The hedgerows should <be uniform, reaching from the banks to the hills. They soon catch up mud, trash and drift? forming a natural dam. There should be ten thousand of these In a watershed of 175,000 acres. This is no untried experiment. Many examples of it can be seen on a small scale on nearby Btreams now. The cost would be negligible in comparison with earthen dams. The secret of its strength and effectiveness is the retardation is spread out over a large area instead of being con fined to a few thousand acres. Try to impound Watepr in small areas by unnatural means and you have a headache forever. As iai as rvai otx;uiiujr is wutoi uou the Hedgerow has no equal and its as permanent as the rock of Gibraltar. There will, of course, be some overflow as there will be in any flood control system that can be wisely devised. With further reference to the Yadkin—Reddles River proposed project of large detention dams we have it authentically from the chief engineers who surveyed the projects there will still be 36 feet of water at North Wil kesboro should the dams be built in the event of a flood Hke 1940. If one is going to be drowned he does, not care whe ther it is in ten feet of water or fifty the result is the same. Real estate companies have advertised that the proposed flood control system will give absolute secur ity to any one building in the usual hlghwater reach, chambers of Commerce and other civic or ganizations .peem to be advertis ing the same sort of false secur ity. A former resident of N. C. now living in Dayton, Ohio, ad vised that ten thousand people of Dayton had to evacuate in the recent flood there and they are 1 - ——— -*-? just below the detention duns. An overflow! Of course, you are going to hare an overflow with any method that can be devised. We had just ag well accept that fact and act accordingly. The idea should be to retard the ex cess waters as much as possible by natural means until they get into the main channels, then rush them off as quickly as possible so ag to prevent an overflow. If the dam building crowd wants to build a dam so (badly why don't they build the High Point dam that has been hanging fire tor ten years or more? They express such a keen interest in the peo ple below. Let's act wisely, adopl ' the HEDGEROW PLAN, that pro tects all alike, and destroys noth ing. No government owned lands. T. W. FERGUSON. o — Stewart Bishop Obituary Given Stewart Leonard Bishop was born Sept. 27, 1921; died in ac tion July 15, 1944, in Prance; | age 23 years, 10 months and | 12 days. He entered service Sept. | 14, 1942, with Company F, < 134th division. He was the son: of Afattfo Bishop, who preceded him to death. He Is survived by one brother, Rollen Bishop, Wil keaboro, Route If ana one sister, Mrs. Charlie Dency, Wilkesboro, Route 1. Stewart made a profession of faith In Christ and united with Arbor Grove church on August prior to his enlistment. Stewart was one of the boys to be ap preciated: First, for his moral standing in the community; sec ond, for his social standing. Third, for his strength as a soldier in defense of his country, for which he gave his life; fourth for his spiritual standing with ChriBt and his church, which makes one a good soldier of the cross. He was well loved by all in his community in which he lived and is greatly missed toy his, many, many friends.—Re ported. Beware Coughs Iron common colds That Hang Oh Creomulsion relieves promptly be cause it goes right to the seat of the trouble to help loosen and expel germ laden phlegm, and aid nature to soothe and heal raw, tender, In flamed bronchial mucous mem branes. Tell your druggist to sell you a bottle of Creomulsion with the un derstanding you must like the way it quickly allays the cough or you are creomulsion for Coughs. Chest Colds, Bronchitis Farm Bareau To Organize Wilkes Apple Producers The Farm Bureau, which has a strong organization of 200. farmers In the eastern part ot the county, It planning to orga nise apple producers in Wilkes, George Farthing, Held represen tative, said while on a visit in the county last week. The Farm. Bureau now estab lished in Wilkes is composed in the main of tobacco growers and iB a very strong and active unit. C. E. Tharpe, of Honda, Is pres ident; Irrln Key, of Ronda, is vice. president; and Lawrence Miller, of Wllkesboro, is secre tary. The directors are T. J. Mc Neil, James Pardue, and John Hart, Jr. Support Y. M. 6. A. Call For DANDY BREAD '
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