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It Seem to Me HEYWOOD MIN CHICAGO, June 6.—“ You have been unjust to a Century of Progress,’’ said Ernie, and I was puzzled by the indictment. “Oh, well, if you like, 1 think that you haven’t been fair to the fair,” he explained. “Why not?” “I think it was too big for you. It’s like going to Moscow for a week-end and then doing a book about Russia. You were over there a couple of hours and then you % 3|||||§|J|HE come back and write a piece saying it's good. I'll bet you BPiaSPIiSBBg didn't even see the hall of science.” fig I hung my head in shame. Bl .jgfflHV “Just as I thought,” continued faH Ernie. “You went to the wrong 9k places with the wrong people. ? r Jm Mj How did you get around?” 1 told him that Id walked. HT -That was wrong, t j. This is an educational exhibition at I'* 1 '* H Semi - vou have t 0 sit down to take ’ f Come along with me and see the Hi SB f air properly.” Ernie tom the taxi driver that Heywood Broun he wanted the gate nearest to the hall of science so when we got out we had only to cross two bridges, Aalk half a mile and turn to the left. At that point we could see our objective in the distance. So we took rickshaws. I picked a big husky college boy who told me he had been a tackle at Purdue but at the end of two blocks I couldn’t stand it any longer. Passersby would say. “Look at that little fellow dragging that great big fat man along. I suppose he thinks he's in China and that we're all a bunch of coolies.” tt tt tt Case of Injured Pride I TOLD Ernie it was too painful. “He can give you another cushion,” he suggested. “It’s my pride that’s hurt,” I answered. “Well,” said Ernie, “here’s the best idea yet. I told you it was to be educational. This is the avenue of the flags and exhibits of all nations. Most of them have restaurants attached and we’ll creep up on that old hall of science sampling the native drinks as we go along. Here’s the Czechoslovakian place right here. Wonderful people, the Slovaks, but they’ve only got a service bar. Well have to sit down at a table.” A blond girl in a brilliant red and black peasant costume came over to the table with tne menu containing a list of strange stews and fricassees quite unknow'n to me. “Bring us,” said my mentor, “a couple of Martini cocktails.” The Italian exhibit just across the way was decorated gaily in red and green. Chianti bottles lined the walls and a tenor sang Rudolpho’s narrative. “Garcon,” said Ernie, “two Martini cocktails in a hurry.” tt tt tt Time Out Again “TTERE in this one narrow street,” he ruminated, XI “the cultures of the world are met. There is no east nor west, but only Chicago. I want ycu to see the Chinese village. It’s a bit of the Orient set down here in the new' hemisphere. When Chicago was only a rutted wagon trail these people already had developed a civilization which still endures. They have erected in miniature the golden temple of Jehol. I think the name is Jehol, but at any rate it was the playground of great monarchs who drank the wines of antiquity.” We crossed the street. Ernie pointed to the temple gates. “Keep going,” he advised, “that’s the temple, but we want a restaurant. It’s next door.” Twice he clapped his hands and a young Chinese came running with a scroll in his hands. “You fetchee two Martini chop chop. Can do?” asked Ernie. The celestial assented. “I think maybe that we might have a bite to eat before we tackle the hall of science. After that we can try the native beverages at the Belgian village and I understand that the Swiss have one of the nicest layouts around here. The Swiss are a free and independent people who run hotels, but they tell me that the Hawaiians next door have the best food in the grounds and they also put on a show about a native princess who sacrifices herself in a volcano. I understand she has to take off practically all her clothes to do it. Before the coming of the white man they were a primitive people.” The Hawaiian concession was the largest on the block and at one end of the dining room stood a lumpy mountain made of cardboard. Occasionally steam came from its summit. “Kelner, we w’ant two Martinis and a menu.” tt u tt Science ilie Next Time A MAN with a deep baritone voice began telling the unfortunate history of the Princess Moana Luana. It seems there was trouble in the tribe and she decided to give herself to the gods of the mountain in order to appease them. The young lady who played the role seemed to me a shade on the hefty side and I sympathized with her as she ascended the canvas trail. At each curve of the road she discarded something. “Going to die for her people,” murmured Ernie with emotion and this time I paid for a round of Martinis. “she stands at the crater’s edge,” said the announcer. “She prays. She hesitates. She casts herself into the flames of the volcano.” And the princess suited her every action to his words. She disappeared from view behind a canvas parapet and great clouds of steam arose and filled the room with smoke. “What will you have, gentlemen?” asked the Hawaiian waiter attired in the costume of his people. “One pig’s knuckle,” said Ernie. “And a couple of Martinis.” Next time I get to Chicago I mean to see that hall of science. I understand that it is highly educational.

Your Health ■ BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN THE persons who really have to worry about their vacations are those who take to the road. It is astounding how much wreckqage a family vacation in a motor car can bring about from a health point of view. Driving all days means that the calls of nature are ignored. Cinders fly in the eye; elbows and knees are bumped and rubbed. The digestion is disturbed and the muscles are cramped by hours of sitting in contorted positions. Children suffer from the glare of the sun, the dust of the road, the impossibility of getting the right kind of food, insect bites, bad meals and water. A baby should never be taken on such a vacation, and even children from 2 to 6 years old are likely to suffer by such performances. tt tt a FORTUNATELY, most of our states have taken over control of motor camps, so that you can be reasonably sure in such camps of suitable water and milk supplies. Smart tourists nowadays carry along twenty or thirty yards of mosquito netting to fend off insects. T/iere is little fear of infection from the average mosquitoes in the northern parts of the United States, but a mosquito bite that itches or bleeds can spoil any vacation. A weak solution of camphor or a 1 per cent solution of menthol in a suitable lotion will stop the itching and give comfort. * Every camper ought to take along a spade and a first-aid kit. The spade is used to bury remnants of food, empty tin cans, and bottles. These always should be buried tw T enty-five feet from any running stream or body of water. The spade also is used to cover fires. u a tt THE first-aid kit should contain at least a bottle of tincture of iodine, a cake of soap, two rolls of gauze, some cotton and adhesive plaster. It should also consist of some of the family’s favorite laxative, vaseline or petrolatum, and a simple ointment for abrasions, chafing, and sunburn. Any ordinary nc oxide ointment serves this purpose. There should be cold cream for use on dry, chapped lips, and perhaps a small amount of some antiseptic solution that is really antiseptic and will not act as a caustic on a burn.

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Depression Leaves Its Mark on the Army Air Corps

BY GEORGE DAWS Times Special Writer THE army air corps, in the event of sudden aerial attack upon the United States, could only delay rather than defeat the invaders. That statement by several military and civilian experts, including a high ranking officer of the army who must remain unidentified for obvious reasons, supported the conclusion of the Scripps-Howard investigation of the performance, number and location of the air coprs’ fighting planes. These men pointed out that the army had only about 450 fighting planes scattered throughout the nation, that a large share of them would be required for advanced training if war came and that considerably less than half had performance comparable to planes now being built. This further confirmed conclusions of the Scripps-Howard survey that army aviation is five years behind its schedule. “There is not a single fighting plane in Alaska to repel possible attack by way of the Aleutian islands,” they said. “There are no fighting planes in either the northwest or northeast corners of the nation, which most certainly are vulnerable areas. “An enemy coming in by way of Alaska would encounter no aerial opposition until he got down to San Francisco. That is an observation base, bufT they now are putting in some bombers.

WWOU, WUU VA.AV.jr AAV/ VV CIA V- 111 “There’s nothing much along the Atlantic coast except Langley field, in Virginia. They call that a bombardment post, but most of the ships are pursuits. Mitchell field has quite a few observation planes—fine for the ax-tiilery, but not to repel a hard-hitting aerial attack.” These men were not aviation enthusiasts of the type who believe that any future war‘will be won only by air strength. They expressed opinion that final victory probably would be “down in the mud,” as in the last war. tt a it BUT they united on one point—aircraft offers the only form of national defense that could get into immediate action and hold off an enemy attack. Cost of maintaining an army strong enough for that purpose admittedly would be prohibitive. The ground defense—infantry, artillery, tank corps and cavalry—would require weeks and months for mobilization, equipping and transportation to the scene of action, these men insisted. Military men who oppose an increased air force argue that the United States, unlike nations of Europe, is isolated geographically from potential enemies. Advocates of a large navy insist an enemy would need ships to get close enough to launch an aerial attack. Advocates of a large army insist planes would be worthless unless supported by a strong land force to protect bases and occupy conquered areas. tt tt it BUT the advocates of the large air force answer that only airplanes can be immediately mobilized and sent into action. It is significant, perhaps, that the army recently asked congress for funds for a headquarters force of 1,000 fighting planes, and that from 15 to 20 per cent of navy expenditures now go for aviation. The writer, following discussion of the general problem of national defense with army and navy officers, visited a high-rank-ing officer of the army.

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DAILY WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen

WASHINGTON, June 6.—There is distressing news behind the daily headlines proclaiming more strikes, more riots, more men killed and injured. Bad as the labor situation is, uncontrolled as it is, bitter as it is, those who have been making a close study of it for the President believe it will continue. In fact they think it will get worse. Some of them even go so far as to say that only a dictatorship—call it fascism if you like—will check the present tide of bitterness and bloodshed which is sweeping the iron and steel areas, the textile industry, the automobile plants, the electrical shops. This is blunt language, but here are the reasons given for this pessimism: 1. Labor always strikes on a rising market. 2. The NRA, whilt\ increasing wages, has not increased them in proportion to increases in the cost of living. 3. The rank and file of labor, perhaps disappointed by NRA hopes once dangled before them, are combatant and militant, Employers, feeling that they have made as big concessions as they can under NRA, are now stubborn and recalcitrant. 4. Perhaps most important of all. Young labor leaders have gained control of the locals, are brushing aside old-line union officials who sit complacently in Washington.

. Basic cause of the trouble probably was the temporizing attitude taken by Roosevelt and Johnson when the labor turmoil started. The principle of the NRA was to keep a direct ratio between consumption and production. During the slump, consumer power approached the vanishing point. The problem was to bring it back. Higher wages always will do this. So the NRA sought to boost wages, permit a compensating boost of prices in return. But the price boost got ahead of the wage boost. The steel kings, the automobile barons, some of the others struck wedges in the door of the White House. And now the old dangerous circle where consumption does not keep pace with production is seen looming on the horizon again. a ALL this might not have brought strikes, however, had it not been for an overnight phenomenon. A militant, two-fisted, nose-smashing leadership began to capture the seats of the labor mighty. For many years the latter had been supreme completely complacent and supreme. Bill Green, Matthew Woll, John Frey, Mike Tighe and similar associates had drawn fat salaries, issued pious press platitudes, grown paunchy, lethargic and pathetically ineffective in lifting their brthren from the utter hoplessness into which most of organized labor sank during the depression The new men now at the front are American-born, A. F. of L. members, not reds or radicals. Operating behind the smokescreen of their nominal union chiefs, they are putting up a terrific fight. a ILLUSTRATIVE of this new leadership was the recent convention of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, an affiliate of the A. F. of L. A year ago this union was al-

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“Is the air corps in shape to repel a fairly strong enemy air attack?” he asked. The officer was assured his identity would not be revealed, that no hint would be given as to whether he was a member of the infantry, air corps, cavalry or other division of the ai - my, and he was urged to speak frankly. Pie is a veteran familiar with the abilities and limitations of the various forms of national defense. “That is a serious question and I shall not answer it hurriedly,” he said. “Give me a week, and I’ll write my answer, and truthfully, in the hope good may come of it.” tt tt tt r T'\HE written answer, detailed -*• and obviously carefully prepared, was that the air corps could not defeat an enemy air force. The army, not the navy, has the responsibility for coast defense, the officer said, and thus the air corps becomes, in fact, the first line of land defense. “Its organization, equipment, training and supply should be in svch a state of completion and efficiency as to permit the immediate concentration of an effective air force in such strategic area or areas as may be seriously threatened at the outbreak of war,” he continued. The air corps is not in that position, he said. He declared the corps is not organized on a war preparedness basis, not adequately equipped to carry out its combat role, that its training is entirely too elementary for military combat purposes and that the means do not exist for carrying such training to a px-oper conclusion. There is vital and immediate need, he said, for adequate equipment, including bombing and gunnery ranges, sufficient personnel and funds for training. tt tt tt THE corps is woefully short of funds, personnel and reserve stocks of essential equipment with which to insure continuous effi-

most dead. Its dues-paying membership numbered only 5,000. Today it has more than thirty thousand. Last year also, wrhen Elpier Cope, a militant progressive, attacked President Tighe and his coterie of office holding henchmen, he was expelled from the convention. This year all that was changed. Cope’s progressives took over the convention from entrance to exit. When Tighe introduced Senator “Puddler Jim” Davis as the guest speaker and the ex-labor secretary began a babble about the “copartnership of capital, employer and labor,” delegates all over the hall rose and walked out. Finally, sweeping aside its old leadership, the convention ordered a show-down fight with the steel industry over the issue of union recognition. It commanded Tighe to deliver an ultimatum to employers, and called on all locals to prepare for a general strike if the demand was rejected. Then, not trusting the execution of this program to the hands of its own officers, the convention directed that each union district be represented on a board of strategy to plan the battle. Faced with labor revolutions like this, probably the pessimistic prediction of Roosevelt’s advisers may not be so far from wrong. (Copyright. 1934 by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) SOCIALISTS TO HEAR CONVENTION REPORT Decisions of National Parley Will Be Discussed Tonight. Decisions made at the Socialist party’s national convention in Detroit over the last week-end will be discussed by Edward Henry, local party worker, at the Dearborn, 3208 East Michigan street, tonight. The meeting is sponsored by the Ninth ward Socialist branch.

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—Acme Photo. A group of pursuit ships is shown attacking a huge bomber in mimic warfare over Atlantic City. These pursuit ships would be effective in delaying a heavy air attack, but are too few to inflict a decisive defeat of a heavy force.

cient maintenance of aircraft and military equipment in the hands of tactical organizations,” he said. He referred to the War Department’s plan for a headquarters force of 1,000 planes as “the first real step toward air force preparedness,” but called it “not practical” and predicted “it .will not accomplish the purpose.” “Why?” he was asked. “An efficient, hai-d-hitting force of 1,000 planes would seem all right.” “An efficient fighting air force,” the officer answered, “should be under the same directing head as is responsible for the development and supply of aircraft and trained pilots.” The problems of organizing personnel, equipment and supply are so intricately interlocked, particularly at this remarkable stage of development, he continued, that any system which fails to coordinate them under one head will bring divided responsibility and retarded progress.

SHELDRAKE STRUCTURE DRAWS $68,500 BID Proposal for Apartments Is Opened in Court. A high bid of $68,500 for the Sheldrake apartments, 2258 North Meridian street, was received yesterday in probate court from the protective and i-eorganization committee of preferred stockholders, repx-esented by Malcolm Lucas. The apartments have been in receivership since Sept., 1931. A. A. Barnes, receiver, will confirm the sale June 11 and it is expected Probate Judge Smiley Chambers will grant his approval at that time.

BEES INVADE PILLARS Swarm Displays Satisfaction With Home, Owner Otherwise. Cleveland Cole, 611 Orange street, has a humming, industrious swarm of bees with which he is quite willing tcrpart. The bees invaded hollow pillars on his front porch Monday night and today showed evidence of being content with thq pillars as a permanent hive.

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T TE meant, although he did not put it into exact words, that only men who know how to plan, design, build and fly airplanes—in short, men who think in terms of the air—should be in charge of aircraft in time of war. “Where does l-esponsibility for this present condition of the corps lie?” he was asked. “In my opinion,” he wrote in answer, “first in congress, second in the director of the budget, and third, in the war department.” He named congress as primarily responsible because it enacted a comprehensive national defense act and the five-year program for the air corps, but failed to provide sufficient funds to carry out its own program. A'"He placed the director of the budget as secondarily responsible.

TODAY and TOMORROW tt tt tt tt tt tt By Walter Lippmann

BEFORE any one passes judgment upon the suspension by the British of war debt payments, it is desirable to understand exactly what were the choices open to them. On June 15 they are due to pay $262,000,000. This sum is made up chiefly of three semi-annual payments—those of June 15 and December 15 of last year and of next June 15, minus the $20,000,000 of the two token payments of last year. Under the Johnson act, passed by congress this winter, the British must pay the whole $262,000.G(J0 or be considered as legally in' “default.” They could not pay 10 per cent or 50 per cent or 99 per cent and escape the stigma of default. Nothing less than 100 per cent, not only of the present installment, but of all that was due in the past would meet the conditions of the Johnson act. This was Johnson’s interpretation of the act. It has been the administration’s interpretation of it.

So for the British it was a case of deciding whether to pay $262,000,000 to the last red cent or to be considered in ‘default.” That was the choice which was offered them when congress passed and the Preisdent signed the Johnson act. tt tt tt THIS left them with three possible courses: 1. They could pay everything they owed us without attempting to collect what France, Italy, Germany and the others owe them.

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A man standing beside it shows the size of one of the largest of the bombs carried by air corps bombers.

'T'HE war department also was responsible, the officer charged, because it disobeyed the will of congress by not properly developing the crops with the total funds it had available. “Man for man and plane for plane,” he said, “I believe our pilots surpass the personnel and the equipment of any foreign country.” The weakness of the corps, he declared, is not the fault of the manufacturers, the military pilots or the men who have steadily sought to build the strength of the nation’s aei'ial defense. The same persons responsible for the condition, he said, have the power to remedy it. The question of whether United States factories could produce planes needed in a possible emergency will be discussed tomorrow.

2. They could pay everything and try to collect w r hat was owed them. 3. They could pay nothing and be considered in default. Take them in order: 1. They pay in full while collecting little or nothing from their debtors. Theoretically, this would have been the superlatively honorable thing to do. But it was politically impossible. The British people simply would not stand for a course which made them the only nation, except Finland, whose obligation is negligible, which paid war debts. Honorable as it might seem to congress and to American public opinion, to the British people it w'ould seem so fantastically unfair as to make it intolerable. 2. They pay in full and collect all or w r hat they can from France, Italy, Germany and the rest. What does this mean? It means that France, being asked to pay Britain and America, promptly scraps the Lausanne agreement and asks Germany to resume reparation payments and Italy to pay war debts. But Germany does not pay because she can not, and would not if she could. So there is another quarrel added to the disarmament quarrel. This is what the British note means when it says that “to revive the whole system of intergovernmental war debt payments” would be “to throw a bombshell into the European area.” Thus to. pay in full while collecting nothing would have been politically impossible in Britain; to pay in full while collecting from Britain’s debtors would have been politically impossible in Europe; to pay anything less than everything was made legally impossible in the United States, thanks to the initiative of Senator Johnson. The British have, therefore, decided that among the three courses, the one that does the least damage is to suspend payments and be considered in default under the Johnson act. (Copyright, 1934) Bar Association to Dine Annual meeting and dinner of rhe Indianapolis Bar Association will be hel dat the Columbia Club tonight. Circuit Judge Will M. Sparks of the circuit court of appeals will be the principal speaker.

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Edit Enough BHIBt WASHINGTON, June 6.—A Washington editor, who does not believe in capital punishment and entertains other advanced ideas, has been telling your correspondent that the average member of the United States congress is not only misunderstood but cruelly misrepresented by the popular conception of the statesman. The congressmen attend committee meetings and hearings, digest complicated bills

and issues, read and dictate correspondence, look out for the special interests of their respective home communities and, on the average, work much harder and longer at their job than the business man. This is not the first time this radical idea has been suggested in the last year and in a time when many previously unthinkable notions are coming into practice, it is possible that some one yet will have the nerve to propose a national Be-Kind-to-Your-Congressman week. But if this estimate of the average congressman is true, then there would seem to be a

great waste of diligence in this field. For the average congressman, as matters stand now, has about as much voice in the legislation which he votes upon as the widow with one share of stock in the affairs of a great, soulless corporation. tt tt tt Golf Would Be Better HE votes as the administration wants him to, if he is a Democrat, and to the contrary if he is a Republican, and, even if he has the intelligence and zeal to inform himself fully on,* complicated measures by professors for the fuddlement of the average intelligence, his time might be better spent at fishing, golf or listening to the children’s hour on the radio. If he is a Democrat and his study of an administration bill reveals to him provisions which he thinks are contrary to the national interest he has only his perturbation for his pains because when the bill comes out of the committee it is the bill that is going to pass. If he is a Republican and his earnest consideration of the bill has convinced him that this is precisely what is needed to save the nation again, there, too, the effort is wasted because he wouldn’t vote for it even if he liked it. The committee is the legislature for practical purposes and though the members may utter speeches or cause unspoken speeches to be printed in the record as though they had been uttered, the bill goes through once it is reported. This is not to agree, either, that the average member of congress knows what he is voting for or against when he votes on one of th-> big administration jobs. He has received his copy of a document which may run from 100 to 300 pages and whose train of thought gets derailed in a landslide of technical language before it has gone two paragrapns. He may read the papers for a digest of the measure and he may pick up a hearsay understanding from .his colleagues. But to be informed fully of the bill’s provisions and its effects he would need a much better education than he has and much more time and energy than he can spare from the important petty work of his position. , a tt tt Can’t Underrate Zero said a Democratic statesman, choosing TN his words carefully, when your correspondent suggested to him that congressmen were underrated. He went on to point out that it was impossible to underrate nothing and that the average congressman represented a factor of- nothing, net, in final decision on any important measure. The decision, he said, was made by the administ.ation, reviewed for possible political mistakes by the committee and merely confirmed by the ordinary member voting on strict party lines. (Copyright. 1934, by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)

Today's Science BY DAVID DIETZ

THREE bureaus of the United States department of agriculture have embarked upon an enlarged program of research to find a substitute for lead arsenate and other poisonous sprays now in general use to protect fruit and vegetables from insect pests. It is a well known fact that many sprays, particularly the arsenicals, leave a residue which presents a health hazard. The department is now enforcing strict regulations on spray removal in order to protect consumers. It is f c lt, however, that the development of harmless insecticides would prove a better solution of the problem. The three bureaus which will engage in the new program are the bureau of entomology, the bureau of chemistry and soils and the bureau of plant industry. The work will be co-ordinated under the direction of Dr. E. N. Bressman, formerly of the Oregon agricultural experiment station. An important part of the program will be the field testing of several organic materials such as rotenone, pyrethrum and nicotine, which have shown promise as substitutes for lead arsenate. These compounds are believed to be harmless to human beings when present in the concentrations in which they would be found on harvested iruit. Laboratory tests are also to be carried on of a great variety of other substances which might prove useful as insect killers. a tt tt THE entomologists will also experiment wit’methods which might be used to replace, a part, the spraying of fruit trees. One such approach to the problem is “orchard sanitation.” A number of practices, including the general cleaning up of orchards during the winter, the banding of trees to collect worms and the early picking of fruit, are known to be of value in controlling the codling moth. It is believed that a general extension of such practices might reduce the necessity for spraying. The New York agricultural experiment station has found that certain types of traps which use a bright light to attract the moths have proved of considerable value. The scientists hope that they can increase the efficiency of these traps and at the same time reduce the cost of operating them. It is also planned to attack the codling moth by means of “biological control.” There is a tiny wasplike insect known as the “trichogramma minutum.” It has the strange habit of laying its own eggs within the eggo of other insects. This insect has proved useful in the fight against certain other pests and it is hoped that it may prove efficient in the battle against the codling moth. n tt ONE of the most important phases of the entire investigation is to determine the effect upon higher animals of various organic compounds which might be used to kill insects. Obviously, there is no point to replacing arsenicals with some compound which is equally dangerous to humans or even more dangerous, Scientists have been working for some time on the formation of synthetic organic compounds which might take the place of arsenic. Among the new compounds under consideration is a combination of nicotine and bentonitt. This compound fs not soluble in water and so would not be washed easily from the fruit by rains. Preliminary laboratory tests give hope that this compound may be useful against the codling moth. The bureau of plant industry is experimenting with types of tobacco which are richer in nicotine than those commonly grown for smoking. The bureau is also experimenting with pyrethrum, a plant which possesses insecticide properties. Another plant being studied is a weed which is common in the southeast. Its scientific name is “cracca virginiana,” but it is more popularly known as “devil’s shoestring.’ This weed is believed to be * possible source of rotenone and related substances which are toxic to insects. ¥

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