Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 140, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1918 — Page 2

GOVERNOR BEATS MAYOR IN PLOWING

* . Atlanta. Ga., recently had a war-garden parade in which Governor Dorsey plowed thi best furrow in the shortest time. The photograph shows Governor foorsev (oft extreme right) and Mayor Asa G. Candler of Atlanta (next to Governor Dorsey), the rivals. The president of the Atlantic Advertising Men's Club, H. G. Hastings, is presenting the winner with a bouquet made of Georgia-grown vegetables.

TEN SUBMARINES SUNK BY AVIATORS

British Admiralty Gives Out Details of Achievements of Seaplanes. BOMBS DO GOOD WORK Undersea Craft Unable to Dive Before Missiles Are Dropped—One Destroyed in Act of Attack on Merchantman. London. —Details concerning the destruction recently of ten German submarines by naval aircraft, eight by seaplanes and the others by dirigibles, have been obtained by the Associated Press from admiralty reports. The first case is described as follows: “While on patrol !n the English channel a seaplane sighted a submarine eight miles away, directly in the path of an oncoming convoy of merchant ships. The seaplane dived at 90 miles an hour. The submarine attempted to escape by submerging, but was just awash as *the seaplane reached a bombing position and released two bombs, one of which exploded on the conning tower. The seaplane dropped two more bombs into the midst of the bubbles from the collapsed submarine, which was of the largest type, carrying two guns.” The second? case: “At dawn a seaplane sighted a large submarine on the surface, with a member of the

crew standing by the gun. The seaplane dropped a bomb on the tall of the U-boat and afterward photographed the sinking submarine, with a big hole in its deck. A second bomb ■was dropped close to the submarine’s bow, and the U-boat collapsed.” Catches U-Boat on Surface. The third case: “Two seaplanes attacked a large submarine traveling on the Surface at 14 knots, with two men in the conning tower. A bomb was exploded close to the conning tower, and the submarine began to sink stern first. A bomb from a second seaplane completed the. work.” The fourth case: “Three patrol pltines sighted a large submarine as it was submerging, and dropped two bombs- close to the conning tower, causing the submarine to turn turtle and disappear in a mass of oil and wreckage.” The fifth case: “A seaplane sighted two submarines close to the surface and dropped two bombs. One ■bomb was ineffective, but the other hit the deck fairly amidships. The submarine was hidden by the smoke of the explosion, and when the smoke cleared the U-boat was sinking, with both ends in the air.” The sixth case: “A seaplane saw the track of a torpedo fired at a merchantman. It dived toward the surface aad sighted the black shade of the submarine well below the surface. It dropped two bombs, which both ex-

WOMEN GOOD POLICE

Are Doing Efficient Service in Great Britain. X Annual Report of Inspector Praises Work in Combating Evils of War. London—The success of women on the police force Is amply demonstrated In the annual report of Sir Leonard 'Dunning. H. M. inspector of constabulary, just published. Seven counties and 24 cities and boroughs have women “on the strength,” and “their introduction into - professional police work.” says Sir Leonard, "may well help authorities to combat evils which have presented Increasing difficulties to them for years * While moat of the women are engaged la clerical work, others are igtven duties requiring the complete confidence of • woman or child, which

ploded close to the submarine, resulting In a large quantity of oil, bubbles and wreckage.” • The seventh case: “Two seaplanes sighted a U-boat on the surface and dropped a bomb each. The first bomb caused a heavy list to the U-boat, which began to sink by the stern. The second bomb exploded In the center of the swirl, demolishing the Üboat.” Oil Patch Shows Fate. The eighth case: “A seaplane dropped a bomb on a submarine just emerging and the U-boat disappeared with a heavy list to port. The pilot dropped a second bomb Into the swirl and a few minutes later a patch of oil 150 feet long and 12 feet wide appeared on the surface.” The ninth case: “A naval airship at midday sighted a suspicious patch of oil and circled it in an effort to ascertain the cause. Suddenly a periscope broke the surface in the midst of the oil. The airship dropped a bomb close to the periscope and a series of bubbles began appearing, indicating that the damaged submarine was moving slowly away under the water. Several more bombs were .dropped in the path indicated until satisfactory evidence was obtained of the enemy’s destruction.” The tenth case: “An airship dropped Avo bombs over a submarine wjilch in attacking merchantmen. Great patches of oil and bubbles indicated severe damage and trawlers made this complete by depth charges.”

COURT FREES MAN WHO WHIPPED A PRO-GERMAN

IFond Du Lac, Wis.—Because 5John Fox asserted that he could g place a German flag on his residence if he so desired he was X given a beating by James Finne- » gan. Fox had Finnegan arrest- X led, but the court, declared that & it could find no man guilty In an £ assault case provoked by any & individual who talked favorhbly a concerning the Teuton flag.

BARRED FROM LAKE VESSELS

Subjects of Germany and Austria Will Not Be Permitted on Them This Summer. Cleveland, O. —Federal officers here have issued an order prohibiting subjects of Germany and Austria from working or riding on lake vessels—either freight or passenger—this summer. Neither will Jhey be permitted within 100 feet of a pier or dock where any vessel of 500 tons capacity is located.

Waterproof pockets with water-tight fastenings for bathing attire have been invented by two New York men.

a woman can win better than a man; the maintenance of public decorum among girls, supervision over female servants’ registries, duties under the shop” hours acts, food control orders and the like, and supervision over placesOf amusement catering for children/ It is not, Sir Leonard hopes, suggested that women should be employed in the suppression of public order and the arrest of dangerous or violent criminals. With regard to the desirability of intrusting to them that part of the investigation of sexual crime which involves intimate conversation with the victim, the inspector declares that the police themselves were the first to recognize, this, but Until some years ago failed to find a woman of education who recognized this as a woman's work. Sir Leonard pays tribute to the fine work being done by the women police employed by the ministry of munitions, and refers also to the success of the efforts of the women patrols. He denies that the Increase of offenses by juveniles and the decrease of peijwnal chastity of girls are the

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN. RENSSELAER. WfrP.

AID FROM RED CROSS

American Prisoners in Germany Being Cared For. Food Sent Regularly Through Intornatlonal Red Croea In Switzerland. Washington.—Food is now being sent regularly to American prisoners in Germany by the American Red Cross through an arrangement with the international Red Cross in Switzerland. The American Red Cross office at Paris recently received a complete list of the 159 Americans then prisoners in Germany. The Germah government permits the Red Cross to send each man 20 pounds of food a week, in two packages of ten pounds each. This Red Cross service is being enlarged and a warehouse to hold food enough for 10,000 American prisoners already is under construction near Berne. Switzerland, It is estimated that at least 90 per cent of th» Seed packages reach the men. Parents, wives and relatives of otfr soldiers and sailors will find in this particular Red Cross service the greatest satisfaction because they have dreaded German prison life for their loved ones perhaps more than death itself. The American prisoners wfll be permitted to write two letters and four post cards each month, and also to acknowledge the receipt of food packages. The Red Cross food package follows the army ration pretty closely, and frequently fresh white bread la included from the Red Cross bikery in. Berne. This service is one more reason why the American people will respond generously to the next Red Cross war fund campaign. May 20-27, when another $100,000,000 to “carry on” will be asked.

THRIFT STAMP SALESMAN

master Dick Bruns of New York is the youngest Thrift stamp salesman in the country.

JAILED BECAUSE OF LOOKS

Youth Who Look* Older Than He la Spends 202 Days Behind > Bars. Indianapolis. Ind. —Just because he looks to be twenty-five, but in fact Is only twenty years old, Murphy Cutrer of Shreveport, La., has spent 202 days since June 5 last in jails on charges of being a draft slacker. Cutrer has just been released from his latest trouble after having been In the Marion county jail 20 days. He was first arrested in Fredonia, Kan., and held for 120 days, then he spent 56 days in another jail on similar charges. In each case he was able to prove he lacked one day of being twenty-one on registration day.

Gives 395 Pounds of Milk.

Columbia, Mo. —Campus Lady Hengerveld Alpha <’?■ the University of Missouri dairy herd has broken the Missouri butter record for two-year-olds. In a recent-test this cow produced 395.2 pounds of,,jnllk and 21.95 pounds of butter a week.

consequence of the war or that they have been aggravated by the war. For years past police reports-have laid stress on the decay of parental control and the influence of parents with a true sense of thqjr responsibilities doe* not seem likely to revive. Crime' 1* showing an upward tendency —reduced street lighting, bigamy, concealment of birth and infanticide, the latter directly due to circumstances of the war contributing.

“TWO BITS A DAY—THE PATRIOT’S WAY,” WINNER

Los Angeles. Cal.—“ Two bits a day—the patriot’s way,” was the prize winning slogan In a contest conducted by a local bank. Five thousand patriot’s participated In the contest. “Win the war, bit by bit” won the second prize, and “Every miser helps the kaiser" won the third prize. v

Ravages of Cinch Bug shown. Plant at left not attacked; plant at right attacked.

7 By ROBERT H. MOULTON. OMB HAT the United States is already invaded, not by Germans, it is true, but by their effectlve tfUles > - and 11 - at a great host these are intrenched in r I N the grain fields is an assertion hard to believe at first, but it is nevertheless strictly true, for the cinch bug is pro-German in our present war, the Hessian fly is still Hessian, and the army worm is an ally of the German army. Our duty of helping to feed our fighting ■friends being paramount, that of protecting and defending the food supplies we produce is as essential as their production. As a matter of fact. Incurring the expense of producing crops and then letting them fall a prey to our Insect enemies is worse than not producing them at all, and the official entomologists of the different states are being mobilized for special service in crop protection. These men are but a handful, however —not enough for an efficient patrol—and so they are calling upon the people for such assistance as they can easily ’ give by keeping watch for the common enemy and reporting the first traces of his appearance in numbers sufficient to threaten serious injury. What these field insects are capable of in the way of crop destruction is fairly well known, and what the farmer may do for the protection of his crops can best be intrusted to the hands of various state entomologists, whose business it is by bomb, gas and other means to kill these allies of the foe.

Consider two fields of corn, both lying next to heavily infested fields of wheat. One is protected by a circle of oil about its borders. The other is unprotected. The unprotected corn is entered by the Insects without hindrance as the ripening of the wheat deprives them of food, and a large part of the corn is destroyed, as shown by the part of the field laid bare next to the wheat. In the other field not a hill of corn is hurt. The road oil poured upon the ground in a line between it and the infested wheat catches the bugs which seek to pass. Million* Lost in Small Area. By a somewhat general use of such methods and similar materials in twenty-five southwestern counties of a middle Western state where, during a cinch bug uprising last summer, more than 1,500 miles of barrier were laid down between corn and Infested wheat, $1,000,000 worth of corn was saved from destruction at a total cost to the owners of less than $50,000 and of some SIO,OOO to the state. On the other hand, wheat, oats and corn worth at least $13,000,000 more were lost during the same period for lack of sufficiently general and thoroughgoing action.

Owing to a consequent scarcity of feed many farmers were unable to keep up their stock, and in four infested counties, selected as a sample district for study in comparison with another group of counties not Infested, the number of dairy, cows fell off In four years 7.4 per cent; beef cattle, 21.5 per cept; hogs, 15 per cent; and' horses, 27 per cent. The total sum of this reduction in numbers of the live stock of the four sample counties, due solely to the presence 6f the cinch bug, was $1,053,318. Trade, banking, education, professional Incomes and every kind of business and civic interest naturally suffered from this staggering blow to the agriculture of the region. Greatest Damage to Com. The cinch bug does greatest damage to corn. The adult or full-grown bug Is black and about one-eighth of an

OLD WAYS OF TIME-KEEPING

Ancients Watched for Appearance of Certain Stars and Then Announced the Hour of Night. The stars make one revolution in every twenty-four hours. From this we can readily see how the ancients originally kept track of the passage of time at night. To do thl* they appointed a man Whose duty It was to watch for and

German Allies in American Fields

Hessian Fly, Cinch Bug and Army Worm Ready For Offensive

Digging ditch to trap marching army worms. Pests crushed by dragging log back and forth through ditch.

inch in length, and usually bears con-1 spicuous ( white wings folded over Its j back. The young ones are bright red I and wingless. The old "bugs live over I the winter hidden among clumps of wild grasses, especially those known as the “broom sedges,” which grow abundantly in uncultivated places throughout the greater portion of the main wheat belt of the United States. It is the usual habit of the cinch bug first to attack fields of wheat, rye, or barley, and its presence often is unnoticed becausb the injuries inflicted upon these crops are obscure or of no apparent importance. About harvest time the bugs leaye the small grains and crawl over the surface of the ground to- the nearest fields of corn, where they begin at once to wreak severe Injury. Corn fields may be protected and the migrating bugs trapped about the time of wheat harvest by plowing a deep furrow along the edge of the field, running the land side of the plow toward the field to be protected. In dry weather the side of the furrow can be made so smooth and the sides so steep that the bugs will find it easier to crawl along the bottom than to climb up the sides. . Circular holes from 30 to 40 feet apart, made with a post-hole digger, theu may be dug in the bottom of the trench. Into these holes the bugs will fall in large numbers, and here they may be killed easily by sprinkling kerosene oil over them. In wet weather a line of liquid tar or crude petroleum, which the bugs will not cross, may be maintained in the furrow bottom. Hessian Fly Is Old Foe. Another notorious insect whose function it is, in the order of nature, to take bread out of our jnouths is the Hessian fly, so called because Hessian soldiers, hired from their sovereign by King George 111, were believed to have brought it over from Europe during the revolutionary war. This pest gives its attention almost wholly to wheat, upon which it levies an average annual tax of approximately 10 per cent. Experts figure that sixty million bushels,was the shortage In the 1917 wheat crop of the country which may be charged up to this insect. And itsmeters, Increasing year by year, have deterred many farmers from sowing wheat, notwithstanding the rapidly rising market prices. The_Hessian fly is a minute mosquitolike fly which lays its eggs upon the leaves of wheat. These eggs hatch into little maggots which crawl down into the leaf sheaths. There they live upon the plant’s sap which they obtain by gnawing into the soft portions of the stem. Usually two, but sometimes three or more, generations of the insect occur during a year.

After the Hessian fly has once thoroughly infested the crop of wheat there is no known means of saving It, and the only known means of preventing damage from the fly is to keep It out of the wheat. The remedies for the Hessian fly are, therefore, entirely preventive. One is to plow down the wheat stubble Immediately after harvest In order to destroy the maggots which remain in it. This is for the protection of future crops. Another is to pay great attention to the preparation of the seedbed for the wheat by plowing early and working and packing the soil thoroughly In order to eliminate lumps and clods, thus producing a finely pulverized, compact, and moisture-con-serving bed for, the seed. Care should

announce the appearance of certain stare In each of the constellations ns they appeared above the horizon. As there are twelve of these constellations from which the zodiacal signs take their names, It can readily be seen that each twelfth part of the starry host passed over the horizon every two hours. Now let ns consider the ancient observer as he sits In his tower with his face to the east. The sun had set, and darkness Is coming on. Low In the eastern Sky he

also be takenthat the sowing of wheat in the fall is delayed until the fly-free date, information regarding which date can be obtained by applying to local county agricultural agents or state experimental stations. Finally, a good rotation of crops should be practiced wherever possible, and the co-opera-tion of the entire community secured in following these preventive measures. Daily Action Is Necessary. The army worm, known as a pest of tlie farmer from early colonial times, and the locusts or grasshoppers often multiply under favorable conditions to numbers sufficient to devour great areas of both grain and forage crops. Both may be killed easily if attacked in time by sowing broadcast among them a poisoned food which they prefer to the grain and grass plants on which they naturally feed. But this method requires, as a rule,-early notice of the impending calamity, prompt organization of the communities concerned for self-defense and general arrangements for the quick supply of all the necessary materials in wholesale quantities —all measures for which careful preparation must be made in advance.

In case the worms are not discovered until they have begun to travel in a mass, usually they can be destroyed by furrowing or ditching completely around the infested area. The worms will fall into the ditches and can he killed easily by crushing them with a log—hitched to a horse or mule —dragged back and forth through the ditch or furrow. Another method Is to dig shallow postholes in the- bottom of the ditch at Intervals at about 20 feet, into which the worms, crawling along the ditch bottoms, will fall. TWy can then be destroyed by crushing or other means. Fighting the Cutworm. The cutworm injury, which usually consists in the cutting off the plants at or a little below the surface of the ground, almost invariably occurs in the spring, beginning as soon as the first plants sprout and continuing until late June or early July, by, which time the worms are full groWd. The worm# feed at night and rest\durlDg the day beneath debris or In the soil from onehalf to one inch below the surface, and since in most cases they resemble the soil closely in color the cause of the injury often is not apparent. Poisoned baits are effective when cutworms are found to be abundant on corn land,’but proper rotation of crops is the best preventive measure. Pasturing hogs upon land supposed to harbor cutworms is a beneficial practice, as these animals root up and devour Insects of many kinds, including cutworms, in large numbers. Farm poultry, allowed to follow the plow, 1» also of great value. A billion dollars a year on the average is sacrificed to insects in the United States, according to careful computations and estimates made by the experts of the national department of agriculture. It is a prize worth lighting for, especially in these times of threatened scarcity of food. But individual guerrilla fighting to which this interest has been left in the past will no longer suffice —has never sufficed, in fact. Carefully planned campaigns by,organized communities, participated in by everyone so situated as to be available, directed by experts and financed so far as necessary hy the state, are the only means to success.

sees a brilliant star which he recognizes as belonging to one of the original groups. He calls the-time indicated by the appearance of this star and then at intervals announces the hour of night by the appearance of other stars on the horizon. ■fhis ancient .custom persisted through long ages. Even after the Invention of clocks and watches old communities in Europe and the United States employed watchmen whose duty it was to make the rounds and call the hours of night.