Greencastle Herald, Greencastle, Putnam County, 5 July 1921 — Page 2

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Decrease in Gipsy Moths the Past Year

Report of Government Entomologirt Shows Progress of Campaign Againet Insects.

The control of such danperous Insert* as the pipsy moth, cotton-boll weevil, alfalfa weevil, preen hup and potato tuber-moth, has kept the office of the United States Department of Agriculture's etomopolist busy during the past year, according to the anual report. Besides directing its attention to combating insects that attack crops, the office has been active in attempting to eradicate insects that affect the health of man and animals, such as malaria-bearing mosquitoes, the spotted fever tick, and the typhoid fly. Special attention has been given to inserts injuring forests and those affecting stored products such as grain, flour, prepared cereals, meat, cheese. Work in bee culture lias also progressed satisfactorily. The gipsy moth campaign, waged also against its cousin the brown-tail moth, has been very encouraging, there being a marked decrease this year in the numbers of both these pests. Parasites and beetles that attack these dangerous insects have been introduced and have been, largely instrumental in bringing about good results. Colored posters were prepared by the office illustrating the gipsy moth and its natural enemies and these were posted in all postofilces and town offices in the infected districts and copies were sent to granges and public libraries. The campaign has also been waged by mail and Boy Scouts who have distributed cards bearing the same illustrations. A combination spray, composed of lime-sulphur, arsenate of lead and nicotine, has been used successfully during the year by many orchard growers, to control insects and fungoup diseases. Other poisons to control orchard Insects have been developed and are now being tested. Arsenical spraj’s are being made more practicable for use In combating cranberry pests in New Jersey. Effective spraying has also been done in pecan orchards of the south, Interested growers aiding the Departmen In the work. Remedies are also being recommended and developed for pests that endanger apple, peach and pear orchards. The boll weevil did about $30,000,000 worth of damage to the cotton crop last year, as estimated in the new report of the entomologist. Nearly 18,000 square miles of new territory became infested during the year. Every effort is being made to control these depredations, particularly by the use of powdered orthoarsenate of lead, and band picking of cotton squares and bolls. Arsenate of lead was tried with varying results and the question of its success under practical plantation conditions today remains undecided. Violets growing around a cotton field £eem to give another cotton pest, the red spider, an opportunity to work, and the department recommends the destruction of tills harmless-appearing flower to control the spider. Other measures suggested as a result of investigations in Soutii Carolina are the destruction of winter food plants and pokeweed around Helds, the plowing of wlf*e harriers around isolated infested places, and spraying with potassium ■alphid. Investigations of "buffalo gnats" and their possible relation to pellagra have continued and it now seems unlikely that they olive any relation to that dangerous disease. It seems more probable the typhiod fly (commonly spoken of as the "house fly”) does more to transmit this infection along with the other numerous diseases laid at its door. Tlie typhoid fly Itself is given his share of attention and means of control by treating manure, where the fly breeds, are being developed. It seems that the fly can b« almost completely controlled in the manure arid the value of the fertilizer remains unchanged, if applications of commercial borax are made at the rate of .62 pounds to 10 t cubic feet (8 bushels) of manure. Investigations tiave been carried on |o discover remedies for insects which xmage such forest products as telegraph poles, railroad ties r.rvl tool handles. Users of these products are now putting the results of the office's Investigations to practical tests. With hardwood products liable to attack by the so-called powderpost beetles it has been found that kerosene and linseed oil are effective repellents against 'bese Insects. A rather general utlllzaqn of these oils by manufacturers bar \>wed this discovery.

OF SCIENCE.

Learned Scoffers at - Wonders Thai Have Come to Pate.

It occasionally happens that the predictions and theories of mathematicians and scientists are woefully upset and contradicted by actual results, says a writer in Cassier’s Magazine. Every one familiar with the story ot the editor who, in the days of Stephenson's early experiments in railroading, predicted that a speed of more than twelve miles an hour by rail would be impracticable if for no other reason than that the human system would not withstand traveling at a higher rate of speed. In the early days of steam navigation also Dr. Lardaer delivered an address before a scientific body, in which he maintained that transatlantic steam navigation was impracticable, mainly because of the inability to provide room aboard ship tor the coal that would be necessary tor the voyage. The meeting had scarcely adjourned before the news arrived that a ship had just completed a transatlantic trip under steam. In another case a number of individuals seriously promulgated their belief that it would never be possible to successfully lay a cable across the Atlantic, because, as they said, the density of the water below a certain depth would be so great that the cable would not sink to the bed of the ocean. Regardless, however, of theso predictions, the cable promptly sans to the bottom of the sea. At that time also, It may be noted, the greatest ocean depths In which cables were laid was only about 16.404 feet. Within the past year a cable has been successfully laid by a German company In the Pacific ocean in the vicinity of the Dulkin Islands at a depth of 26,246 feet. In still another instance the author of a well-known text-book on telegraphy, published In the sixties of the last century, expressed the opinion that while the idea of duplex telegraphy, or the sending of two messages at once over the same wire, was very beautiful In its way, it must be looked upon as little more than a feat ol intellectual gymnastics, and quite useless from a practical point of view. Within less than a decade after the publication of this opinion not only was the uuplex telegraph in practical operation, but quadrupled telegraphy, or the sending of four messages at once over one wire, was also an accomplished fact.

CRIMINALS NEVER CAUGHT.

How Lawbreakers Have Succeeded In Evading the Police.

The Negro’s Optimism. The contemplation of death, which brings terror to many and to almost all men sadness, brings to the negro the idea of rest from labor and surcease of sorrow. Hence one finds more preparation by him for that fatal last event than for living, moving, ana having his being on earth. Death, too, is a certain vindicator of equality; not that the negro Is glad when an Aryan, though a hostile one, goes to the land of darkness; but he points significantly and with melancholy satisfaction to the fact that poor Mos^ who died a social pariah yesterday, occupies as much of this mother earth as the dead colonel who lorded It over him so haughtily but a short fortnight ago. Through all bis vicissitudes hope Is the black man’s priceless asset. This he never loses, now gloomy soever the way. For him there is always something In the future, no matter how distant A neg-o of uncommon ability, the advocate ot a new education for negroes, has told them that in a thousand years they will he fitted to partake of the things J the Aryan now enjoys, and this promise of remote enjoyment the blacks hail with enthusiasm. Was there ever stiblimer faith? The very heart-wall-ings of the negro smpeak of a brighter beyond. Of joy be cannot be bereft; his buoyancy overtops any sorrow. Pessimism seldom knows him. One miracle of deliverance has been performed for him, and ha is confidently expecting another.

Not Used to Stoves. The Genoese are not accustomed to the artificial high temperature whicn we maintain in America. Their houses, in fact, are constructed to contend entirely with summer heat and not with winter cold, being all built ot stone, with enormously thick walls, floors of marble mosaic, ceiling from ten to fifteen feet high and inner partition wails nearly two feet ihick. \ diminutive open fire place, a ridiculously small oil stove or nothing but a little cnarcoal brazier is depended on to warm a vast room which Is sumptuous in everything but comfort as wo understand the word. Hotels, even of the best class, are very slow in being provided with the so-called "central heating,” while some of the finest old palaces are warmed no better today than they were when ereJled centuries ago. Churches i public buildings, theatres and halls make no pretence of being heated at all. Such being the case and the native people wholly Indifferent to a winter temperature which chills an American, the demand for stoves is naturally not very lively among them; but there are some three or four thousand foreigner living here, and all fairly well to do, besides the thousands ot travelers constantly coming and going. all of whom prefer better heated bouses and hotels. The Genoese himself enjoys the outdoor air and puts on heavier clothing only when fie comes inside his "marble halls.*'

There are nrnbaWy 300,000 men employed in the ralnee of Mexico.

The Oxford street "doctor,” who while ostensibly conducting a legitimate business, yet maintained the closest relationship with the elite of rascaldom, assisting them with his advice and financing and engineering their,most promising schemes, mignt have posed as a veritable double of the man who so nearly foiled the redoubtable Sherlock Holmes. True, Bridgewater, has met with his deserts at last and is now undergoing a well deserved term of penal servitude. But his conviction was due to a series of (for him) unlucky coincidences, such as no intelligence, however keen, could hope to guard against or circumvent. And, besides, there are others, keener and cleverer even than he, says the London TitBits who have flouted the police all their lives through and have died rich and respected in the end, without having had a solitary conviction recorded against them, although their crimes have been manifold. Sir Robert Anderson. K. C. B., late chief of the criminal investigation department, Scotland Yard, who was Interviewed by the writer, laid particular emphasis upon one such—nthe Individual responsible for the theft of Gainsborough’s picture of Georgians., Duchess of Devonshire, and Its sensational restoration after a lapse of more than 20 years. "That man,” said Sir Robert, "lived in a bigger and finer house than the one I now occupy. He was better off financially than I ever was, or am ever likely to be. Yet he simply revelled in robbery. It was his prolession, you see. He had embraced It as other men embrace the army as a profession, or the law, or the church. He took genuine pride in it. And he made it pay from every point of view, save only the moral one.” Further investigation revealed the existence of other master criminals of a like type. One of them—he Is well known to the police, who, however, can do nothing- for lack of the necessary proofs—is an individual who, some few years back, conceived a certain diabolical scheme which had for Us object the decoying abroad ct rich Englishmen and murdering them there for the sake of their money and valuables. This dangerous desperado resides at this present moment in an elegant suite of bachelor chambers not far from Hyde Park, and can be met with nightly at "swagger” West End bars as weH as at other and more questionable resorts in the same neighborhood. He never commits a crime himself, but is ever ready with advice and money for the encouragement of those who do commit them. He is liberal, too, and “straight" from his own point of view, and for this reason probably not one of the human tools he uses so freely has so far presumed to "round on" him. Once, however, the police thought they had him. It was when a notorious Jewel thief was being tried at the Central Criminal Court for the theft of a duchess's jewels. Scotland Yard knew perfectly well that this man had been financed in his enterprise by the individual In question, who had also disposed, through tils agents, of the bulk of the stolen property. A word from the prisoner would have sufficed, and he would then have got off with a nominal nine months or so. That word, however, he refused to speak, and was consequently "sent down” for seven years. This was in 1899. He was released in the spring of 1905, went straight from tne prison to his "banker” and confederate, and received from him in hard cash the sum of £1,000, with a promise, afterward faithfully kept, of more to follow. Of a different type of the above, but equally difficult to natch, is the master criminal who, while keeping carefully In the background, devotes all bis energies to the furtherance ami fostering of some particular brunch of rascality. Concerning one such the writer gathered some interestling particulars In the course ot a conversation he had with the cbioi Inspector of weights and measures 'o tlie London county council. For years, it appears .this gentleman’s detectives have been trj-4rg in vain to run to earth a mysterious individual whose business in life It is to manufacture false weights for the use of dishonest costermongers and fraudulent tradesmen generally. Many thousands of these weights are turned out yearly. They are all oast from the same molds and are expensive articles to buy, coating from 30s to £2 a set But they are absolutely perfect to the eye, even the council's stamp being forgM upon them to a nicety, and they consequently command a ready sale at county fairs, markets, etc. The men who sell them—there are only two or three of them—are perfectly known, but merely to posses* false weights Is, as the law now stands, no offense, and consequently they cannot be. interfered with. U the authorities could lay handa on the actual maker things would be different. But this theyi have so tar failed to do.

Mexico la the richest mineral conntry In the world, not excepting Peig.

BOYS WITH A BUSINESS.

LANGUAGE OF PRESCRIP tioNS

What Two Boy* Have Done Other Boy* May do. The same rule that makes a success, ful business man makes a successful business boy; ‘that is, to find something which people need, and then let them know that you can supply it. Of course, there are certain standards kinds of business of which every boy thinks—selling newspapers, or running errands, for example. But the really alert boys wants to invent a business of his own. Here is what a couple of boys of my acquaintance have done in a business way: The best business boy I know is James Conroy, of Plainville. Like most boys, Jimmy had increased his spending money by shoveling snow, but in Plainville most of the sidewalks had taken care of themselves. This last winter Jimmy decided to extend his business and hire other boys to do the shoveling. So, late in November, he went from house to house, politely explaining that he proposed to make regular season contracts for shoveling snow, just as the man who cleans the New York streets does, at so much a cubic foot He allowed that it would be much more satisfactory to know, every time it snowed, that the shoveling would be dorie, and Just bow much It would cost, without waiting to make a bargain with any one who might come along. By this time people were interested, and when Jimmy measured their walks and showed them how much a three-inch snowfall would cost, most of them signed bis contract Meanwhile Jimmy organized at school a shovel brigade of boys* who agreed to report at the first snowfall, to work at a fair, fixed price, and to keep on working until his last sidewalk was finished. Jimmy signed each boy to a house and waited for the snow. Fortunately it came on Friday night, and Jimmy could use his brigade all day Saturday. Of course, some boys shirked, though that did not hurt Jimmy, for he paid only for work done; but it was a busy day for him, seeing that the walks were promptly and properly cleared, and collecting his payment. The next storm wits so heavy that it neary swamped Jimmy; but he rose to the emergency, hired several men who preferred sure work to simply hunting for a job, and he made a good profit, for, of course, the more snow there was, the better for Jimmy.’ In-the spring he saw that the same system could be applied to mowing lawns; with better results, too, for he could give steady work to two men. So he made contracts for the season, basing his price on the number of square feet in the lawn. The last time I saw him he told me that he intended to try to get the work of cutting all the lawns and shoveling all the sidewalks which belonged to their small city! Then there is Joe Sargent, of Monroe. Monroe is a "summer place’’ near a big city. Every night the business men come out from the city, and many of them, though they do not care to keep horses, prefer to drive from the station to their homes along the shore. Formerly, If they were fortunate, they found a disagreeable liveryman or one of his untidy stableboys waiting for the train. Sometimes there were no carriages at all, and sometimes, worse yet, when % carriage was ordered for a particular train, no carriage came and the business man lost his train—and his temper, too. Of course, people grumbled, but what could they do? They had to hire of Jones and take their chances, or else walk. Last summer I found on the station platform an alert boy, about thirteen years old, whose "Carriage, sir?" soundest earnest and inviting. When I smiled, in some astonishment, the boy seized my suitcase, placed it carefully in an old carryall and darted for another passenger. 1 looked at the team. Everything, horse, harness, and carryall, was old, but everything was clean and well-polished. Decidedly, the new stable was worth trying, and I wondered who had started it. Soon the boy returned with another pnssonger in tow. climbed aboard, and clucked "Get up!’’ “Whom do you drive for?" I asked. “For myself, sir,” was the answer. “You see. It’s vacation, and I thought perhaps some people would ride with me if I started in business. So I took our old horse and hired this carryall. I hope I may have your trade, sir, this summer. I won’t miss any trains if 1 can help it.’’ He had my promise on the spot Many of the cottages tried him, auA, finding that he could be relied upon, became regular customers. Joe soon had more work than he could well do with his one team. Then some business men clubbed together and lent him money to buy a second team. This was not charity, for It was worth while to be sure of catching the train, and Joe never failed. By the Aid of the summer he had bought the carryall and more than paid for the aeoond team. This year he plans to start with three teams, and eoon he will control the livery business of Monroe.—8t. Nicholas.

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Should They Be Written In LM in or English? Why shouldn't medical pre* ,crip | lions be written in English inEt*’ 111 ’ of Latin? Would it not be better 1°'' all concerned if good English wer ’ 3 used instead of bad Latin or wors^ Greek? one writer asks, and t> e t ^ eu goes on to say: Hen-track writing of foreign wor “® and obscure cabalistic symbols in ott certainly do not render the ph)S> c aI1 - more efficacious, and the simpler l aI1 guage would perhaps prevent uneducated or overworked pharmacists I ,u '- soning customers by misreading directions. The suggestion is not new. Indeed, it is as old as the semi-occasional hints from bench and bar that it 13 time to nave done with legal redundancy and verbiage and use plain language. le is just now under discussion by the American Medical society. But notning is done. Doctors still differ. The writer of the foregoing fails to explain why medical prescriptions are usually written ,n Latin. This is done as many times explained by those who are employed to answer questions, so that the prescriptions can be filled or refilled in any country where a regular and competent pharmacist can be found.

TUESDAY JULY 5, 1921

POISON IVY HAS THREE LEAVES

Virginia Creeper, With Five, Often Mistaken for Feared Plant. They don't pick poison ivy and take it home to cover brick walls; at least they don’t do it more than once. Many persons have just cause to remember it well. No doubt just a picture of the ivy is enough to cause some folks to shudder and remember the time their face arid body became scarlet and swollen from contact with the leaves. How it itched and burned! Yet to rub it was only to make matters worse. A curious fact is that some persons are immune from this poison, while others must not even breathe the pollen of the plant. It is otten conlounded with the Virginia creeper, altho tne diflerence between them is disj tinct.. The leaves of the latter are divided into five leaflets, while those of the former have hut three, a fact well worth remembering. Strange enough, the witch hazrl plant is sometimes found growing close to the poison ivy. As witch hazel extract is one of the best lemo aies for ivy poisoning it would seem nature was holding disease in one band and a remedy in the other.

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^ 'in Do you believe the average f prefers a handsome man? ' s a man who thinks she is handsome.

GRASSHOPPER AS FOOD; GOOD, SAYS EDUCATOR

Quick-fire Camera. Carl E. Akeley of the American Museum of Natural History has evolved a motion picture camera so novel in its constructional and operating features that it gives promise of revolutionizing at least one of the diversified fields of motion picture photography—that of the naturalist and big game hunter. It is the first motion picture camera equipment with the necessary mechanism to enable it to inter the hitherto unexplored realm of the hand or still camera and thus place w ithin the scope of the operator all the vast possibilities of quick action and instantaneous photography, says the I’opular Science Monthly. As a hunter of a big game In the wilds of Africa, Mr. Akeley has used the ordinary motion picture camera, to find it deficient and even useless. He lias attempted time and time again, and at risk of great personal danger, to photograph a herd of (barging elephants, or an alligator stealing on its prey, or a trapped lion in its death throes, only to be disappointed in the finished film. He once bad the rare opportunity to photograph a real battle between giant ants of the tropics, but before he could adjust the intricate mechanism of the camera and set it up it was too late. It stimulated him to concentrate his technical knowledge on plans for a new camera. There are parts of the Akeley camera w hich have’ yet to he named —they are so new. Indeed, tlie instrument is such a radical departure, fiom the newest of the old style machines that it has few features in common with them. In form his , camera is cylindrical. It rotates in ■ a steel ring on ball bearings and is 1 supported by a curved arm, which rises* from a sub base on which the • panoramic base rests when in oper- . alien. The complete apparatus, I camera, and panoramic devices form J a single compact unit to be used with ! or without a triprod. " The camera can be mounted in the ' twinkling of an eye for rapid picture taking. It can he trained in any direction as accurately and as quickly us a cowboy can draw a gun. U a triprod is not at hand a window-sill, a rock, a saddle horn, a tree branch, a knee—in fact, anything stationary may serve as a base for operations. Where quick action is absolutely imperative, the newspaper photo grapher can film every stage of an exciting fire rescue, or a riot, or a sinking ship, or indeed,anything heretofore solely within the compass of the hand or still camera.

Electric signals at bridges will be of great service c» those ecorcblng automobllst* who .are sober enough U> see them.

Some people e Idea of charity le to glv* a starving man a pepsin tablet

True. "My boy, remember this.” “What, dad?" "There’s a big difference between l-i ing level beaded and flat headed."

Ohio Species Have Fine, Nutty Flavor if Roasted and Eaten Like Sandwich. "Most excellent.” That g what Chester Bliss, Jr. of Sanuusky, Ohio, says about grasshopper sandw reties, and Bliss ought to know—because he ate one, says tho Cleveland Press. "Grasshoppers may yet help solve the high cost of living," says Blits. Bliss, who is assistant curator of the high school museum, was on a zoological trip with Louis 1’usch and lirrold Stuez, high scb»ol students. ‘When dinner time came we were tear a field in which grasshoppers were plentiful," said Bliss. "1 (suggested we make them into Banlwichts. Wt ate them and found them fine. Each grasshopper was roasted until he turned red like a iJbster. They have a line, nutty fievor. If v e could get some wellknown man or woman to try grasshoppers, evety one would soon be eating them. They couid be cajight in large numbers. The farmers would be benefited and the people would havi a means to get cheap food. "1 intend to eat many another grasshopper sandwrich,” Bliss declared to the Sandusky coiresiiondent.

Firs; liii(;y American—Foimmutlcg now, are you? How do you like the place you're living in? Seeorri Busy American—Well, you see, 1 hav-t-u i spent a Sunday there yet, and it’s pretty hard to judge a place in th.- dark.—Life.

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Myer—Bo y- u believe in a future state? Oyer—Ye?, in reveral of them. Mejr—In several of them! Oyer—ture; Arizona. New Mexico, Indian Territory, etc.

One Man’s Theory.

Fortunate in the man who know* how big a fool he ran be without trying.

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