Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 191, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 December 1929 — Page 12

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HOLIDAY GREENS DISAPPEARING IN UNITED STATES Preservation Body Urges Conservation of Holly and Pine. Hu Sr ,vcr fietTlrr WASHINGTON, Dec. 20—Go slow on Christmas greens; there aren't any more where they came from. This. In effect, is the appeal Issued by the National Wild Flower Preservation Society. Almost all of the holly, ground pine, laurel and other Christmas greens found in the market is gathered from the wild, and the demand is eating up the available stocks far more rapidly than natural growth is replacing them, officers of the society say. This is true partly because many of the species are plants of slow growth, but even more because the gatherers are usually both greedy and ignorant, and strip the group bare, leaving nothing to start new growth. • This is true especially in the case of holly and ground pine. Holly is a hard-wooded, slow-growing shrub or small tree that thrives in the south along the eastern seaboard as far north as Massachusetts. One year’s unrestricted cutting destroys the growth of ten or a dozen years, and at this rate it will not be long until the native supply of holly will have vanished completely as the once abundant trailing arbutus of Massachusetts. Bay State Arbutus Rare The trailing arbutus is the official state flower of Massachusetts, and was formerly lavished on decorations for public occasions. It is still used, but more sparingly, since the people of Massachusetts now have to send outside of their boundaries to get a supply of their own state flower! Americans already are doing that in the case of the holly, though not as yet for the same reason. We are importing European holly simply because it is a brighter and Showier plant than our native species, with glossier leaves and more and larger berries. Here is a case where we need not be ashamed to admit the superiority of a foreign product, if it will result in the protection and preservation of a native wild plant. European Holly Grown Some cultivation of European holly has been undertaken in this country, the plants usually being grafted on stocks of the native species to enable them to meet American soil conditions more successfully. Holly requires an acid soil, which accounts for its absence from the limestone regions of the Midwest. One traditional Christmas green is excepted from the list of plants to be used sparingly. Mistletoe has many friends, but no advocates. And although European species of mistletoe. as of holly, is larger-leaved and

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Jumping out of airplanes has become a habit with pretty 20-year-old Gene Du Rand of St. Petersburg, Fla. Here you see the daring young aviatrix after she had made her 740th leap from the wings of a plane—a record for women. She has made the highest and lowest parachute jumps ever attempted by women, too—from altitudes of 17,800 and 150 feet, respectively. larger-berried, we are not urged to buy it and spare its American relative. The reason is simple. Mistletoe, In spite of its romantic associations, is a plant parasite, seriously damaging merchantable trees. Friends of American forests, therefore, would not worry if the Christmas demand for mistletoe should result in its total extermination. KEEP ON RIGHT SIDE Failure to Adhere to Laws Cause of Many Auto Accidents. St' T v ••■’< Prms BOSTON, Dec. 20.—Failure to keep on the right side of the road when the motorist’s view is obstructed Is the principal cause of automobile accidents, at least in Massachusetts. Out of a total of 3,556 accident cases studied, this factor prevailed in 1,084 instances. _____

ANCIENT RELICS FOUNDIN SYRIA French Expedition Unearths New Line of Kings. , By Rrienre Srrricr PARIS, Dec. 20.—A newly discovI ered line of kings who ruled In

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Syria and had close dealings with Egypt back in the thirteenth century B. C. must be added to the world’s ancient history recards as a result of excavations by the Institute at Minet-el-Beida, in northern Syria. / The expedition, attracted by the belief that an ancient port and trading center must have stood at this site on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean, began digging not far from shore, and discovered many funeral vases and figurines of deities, and at last astone sepul-

ehre. Four skeletons, stripped of their funeral adornments, lay scattered in the tomb. Robbers who knew how to remove a keystone of the vault had plundered the place in ancient times. Objects rejected by the robbers, however, show that this was a regal burial place. Egyptian jars of alabaster, beads of gold and of stones, glass paste goblets, terracotta vases painted in the Mycenean or Cyprian style, and an ivory casket decrated with a goddess reminiscent of Cretan tjeities, all indicate the

dignity of the tomb owners and the cosmopolitan world in which they lived. * DEATH ON RATTLERS THROCKMORTON, Tex., Dec. 20. -Forty-six rattlesnakes, ten of them more than five feet long, were found under one rock and killed here recently by Albert Thomas and N. L. Loundon. The largest snake had twelve rattles.

VIRGINIA LADS ON TOP Take First Prize u Model of Younger Farmers. Bit Timm Surrinl PHILADELPHIA. Dec. 20.—Twen-ty-two schoolboys of Holland, Va. all still in their teens, stand out today as America’s model group of younger generation fanners. They are the members of the Holland chapter. Future Farmers of America which has been awarded the SSOO annual first prize for 1929 in the

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national competition conducted by the Farm Journal, national agricultural monthly. The report on the Virginia chapter shows that the average boy has S2OB invested in farming in his own name, besides a savings bank account, and that he contributed $215 worth of farm labor during the year, while attending school. The total labor income of the chapter for the year was $4,845.49. The snail travels at the average speed of one mile in fourteen days,