AMERICAN DUST STORMS

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 71, 25 March 1935, Page 5

AMERICAN DUST STORMS

Kansas Citv f March 22: In connection wtth the dust-storms, the Federal Director of Soil Erosion stated there was a danger of large sections of the great plains area becoming useless desert. The terrific dust-storms are only another step in a long series of soil disasters beginning two years ago.and nave forced a serious crisis. The Kansas storm yesterday was profcably the most destructive in the history, of the region, but it is only the forerunner of even more severe storms which will follow unless the soil of the great plains is anchored by a vegetative cover and other measures of control. The intensity and frequency of these storms is steadily increasing and the damage is spreading at an alarming rate. The restoration of adequate coyer and the adoption of other measures through-co-operative action by farmers who now see their soil blown to four <winds is the answer to the problem. A form of pneumonia induced by breathing dustladen air claimed a heavy toll of human life and livestock in Eastern Colorado and Western Kansas, which have been particularly ravaged by dust, storms.