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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7,

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Give Light and the People Wilk Fina Their Own Way

1836.

THE AMERICAN WAY

Ff tose politicians now seeking to turn the

1936 campaign into semblance of a class struggle between the haves and the have- nots would do well to ponder the wise words of President Roosevelt's fireside talk of Sunday night. They will then see in his program a will to bulwark our capitalist order against those destructive forces of social injustice and insecurity that set mass against class and destroyed parliamentary governments in Europe.

“Our workers with hand and brain deserve more than respect for their labor,” he said.

“They deserve practical protection in the opportunity to use their labor at a return ade- |

quate to support them at a decent and con-

_ stantly rising standard of living, and to ac- | against the |

cumulate a margin of security inevitable vicissitudes of life.

“The average man must hive that two-fold

opportunity if we are to avoid the growth of | dispute:

8 class-conscious society in this country.

“There are those who fail to read both the signs of the times and American history. They would try to refuse the worker any effective power to bargain collectively, to earn a decent livelihood and to acquire security. It is those short-sighted ones, not labor, who threaten this country with that class dissension which in other countries has led to dictatorship and

the establishment of fear and hatred as the ]

dominant emotions in human life.

“All American workers, brain workers and manual workers alike, and all the rest of us whose well-being depends on theirs, know that our needs are one in building an orderly economic democracy in which all can profit and in which all can be secure from the kind of faulty economic direction which brought us to the brink of common ruin seven years ago.”

LABOR’'S VALLEY FORGE

T is not too much to say that this Labor Day dawns on an American labor movement

facing the worst crisis in the 50 years since the 1 Federation of Labor emerged victorious fyom | its war with the old Knights of Labor.

Although united politically behind a {riendly

Administration, it is beset from without by un-, | employment, the unyielding resistance of cer- | tain enemy industries and a world full of the | hostile forces of fascism. And in face of these | foes it finds itself torn by angry factions with-

in its own ranks that threaten to tear its union

| In twain. -

On Saturday the American Federation of Labor's executive council did a strange and regrettable deed to itself. It 'made definite its suspension of 10 powerful unions that had grouped themselves under the Committee fol Industrial Organization. By that act of selfmutilation the council wilfully severed som: 1,100,000 members from the federation's ranks and impoverishea it by loss of their dues. Out went the federation’s most potent single group,

the United Mine Workers, 500,000 strong. Worse

than this loss—serious enough in face of the federation’s relatively small membership of 3,250,000 out of a potential 25,000,000 industrial workers—is the forfeiture of such able and powerful leaders of the C. I. O. as Coal Miner John L. Lewis, Sidney Dubinsky of the garment unions, and probably Charles P. Howard of the typographical.

This break brings to ‘light the * essential

| weakness of organized labor, a craft-dominated ' one struggling in a nation of great mechanized

mass-production industries. It was to bring the benefits of unionism to millions of steel, oil, rubber, auto, textile and similar workers that Miner Lewis and his group went forth on an organization campaign. Their crusade ran | athwart the council, most members of which | are chiefs of the old international,” or craft,

"| unions whose years of service have given them

SETS SIRT

founded on industrial lines may result.

a sense of caste and conservatism and a vested interest in the status quo. What will come of this civil war in labor's | ranks only time can tell. If the federation's November convention backs the council's “purge,” as it doubtless will, a rival federation And until these groups become reunited into a

. larger, stronger movement geared to the real-

ities of the times and embracing the bulk of |

the wage-earners, union labor's voice in shaping its own and America’s destiny may weaken. The split is doubly regrettable, since it might have been avoided had the council aggressively

followed the compromise resolution of the San

Francisto convention of two years ago to grant.

| national charters to production workers’ unions:

in these mass industries. As it is, the issue largely is one of personalities involving the future leadership in organizing the unorganized. This untimely discord probably will not affect the immediate political scene. Both the orthodox President Green and the heterodox Mr. Lewis will work for Roosevelt's re-election, and sing praises for the many labor reforms

labor will progress mare slowly until the breach

Let no cne, least of all the employer of labor, rejoice in this situation. If it slows down

. organized labor's march toward higher living

standards with the accompanying increased buying power for the masses, if it delays inuctrial peace and economic democracy, it will slow down America.

LET'S IMPEACH HIM R several days now—with Secretary Wal-

Secretary Wilson away from Wash-

. Editor | Manager |

outside of Indiana, 65 {

Hillman and David .

~~ HE KENEW THEM HEN James E. Watson was a United States Senatot he was widely known for

his humorous stories and entertaining tales. since"

Now, living quietly in Washington the voters of Indiana retired him in 1932, Wat-

son has written down the anecdotes and yarns

of his 30 years in Washington, in “As 1 Knew Them” (Bobbs- Merrill). These memoirs will: give! the careful student clews to the exciting history of this period, but only by indirection Jim tells no inside history aside from his d@necdotes, some of them old, some new. As a revelation of the mental processes of an Old Guard Republican leader, it is frank. Jim is proud of his political tricks. He was elected to Congress first because he could speak in German to German residents of his district; and because he made a speech wearing the wooden shoes then com-

| mon to'that Hoosier community, for which per-

formance he gained the fickname “Wooden Shoe Jim.” He gained other nicknames later, the background for which 'his book unfortu-

{ nately does not adequately treat. .

It is regrettable that Watson has not discussed the undercurrents which affected these formative years, starting with McKinley and ending with the second Roosevelt, nog disclosed what went on behind Old Guard screens. For he was a close confidant and lieutenant of the great ones. He lived for years, with Uncle Joe Cannon. He thinks Cannon and Boies Penrose were the greatest'men he worked with in Congress. He thinks Presidents Taft, Harding, Coolidge and other arch-reactionaries were sincere, honest men, not susceptible to flattery or pressure. He still regrets the amendment providing for direct election of Senators, instead of election by Legislature. Campaigners of 1936 will be interested in his report that Theodore Roosevelt, when President, said to him in connection with a coal “To hell with the Constitution when the people want coal!” This volume gives light also on the procedure by which Bosses Tom Platt and Matt Quay “kicked T. R. upstairs” to the vice presidency, never dreaming what the final result would ke, * Watson naively devotes half a page to the oil scandals of the Harding Administration, mostly just regretting. the! misdeeds of his friends. He thinks we ought to go back to the old

days.

A NEW GRETNA GREEN

HE effectiveness of Pennsylvania's law’ requiring a five-day pause between license application and marriage is told in a United Press dispatch, from Wellshurg, W. Va. Already this year; more than 7800 men and women have been’ married in this West Virginia border town—an increase of 3000 over the same period last year. - And more than half of the Wellsburg marriage business comes from

western Pennsylvania. Local Wellsburg officials’ are profiting by

new

| this high-gear marriage mill, just as county clerks and justices of the peace in several In-

diana border towns get gxtra marriage fee revenue from neighboring states. But this increased “business” is nothing of which to" be proud. It simply means our marriage stgndards are too low; that we do nothing to make

| matrimony slower:and safer.

BYE, BYE, BLACKBOARD

ORKING through the meat packers, the G. O. P. propagandists are distributing blackboards to butcher shops all over the land, each board bearing at the top some legend as, “Meat is cheap, but : taxes are high,” and leaving space for the butcher to chalk down daily, listingss somewhat as follows: “Beefsteak, 30 cents; taxes, 15 cents; total, 45 cents.” While it is a very goed idea to get the voters to thinking more about the taxes they pay on their food, it takes a statement such as Gov. Landon’s to disclose the nature of those taxes. The impression which the -G. O. P. propagandists wish to pas$ out is that the taxes on bread and meat all spring from the New Deal. But the truth is the Federal government levies no taxes whatever on bread and meat as fuch. There is not and never has been a Federal tax on beefsteak, lamb, beans, butter, potatoes, poultry, eggs, squash, blackeyed peas or countless other foodstuffs sold by the butcher and grocer. The only indirect Federal taxes which might conceivably be traced to those products are the individual and ‘corporate income taxes which the butcher and grocer and baker pay, just as all other forms of business and all other citizens pay—when they enjoy incomes large enough to be taxed. Nevertheless those products are subject to fn large number of direct and indirect taxes, all of which are state and local, and none of which has anything to do with the New Deal. For example, in Kansas, as Gov. Landon points out, 40 cents out of every tax dollar goes for schools. The other 60 cents goes for such other state and local services as fire protection, police protection, highways, courts, sewer ‘system$; water systems, public health, garbage clearance,. sidewalks. The taxes referred to on the butchershop blackboards and the bread wrappers were in existence before the New Deal. They will still be in existence after the New Deal. The New Deal didn't make them any larger. Passage of the New Deal will not make them any smaller. The only way they can be changed is by state and local governments revamping their tax systems or by closing their schools, firing their town constables and county sheriffs, closing up -their fire departments, abandoning their sewage systems, and otherwise going back where we came from.

EXTRA CAUTION NEEDED HENEVER a holiday falls on the weekend, giving motorists an additional free ‘day for driving, the automobile accident toll usually rises sharply. That was the tragic story Memorial Day, and again on July Fourth. But in addition to the Labor Day holiday

increasing the week-énd accident hazards”

schools open here this week and Indianapolis is entertaining the State Fair. James D. Adams, State Highway Commission chairman, warned motorists to be particularly careful this

week because of incerased traffic to the fair.

The probiem in ‘Indianapolis js complicated by the fact that the use of policemen at the Fairground will prevent adequate police pro-

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

OUR TOWN

Anton Scherrer:

EARLY 2000 years have passed since the

Romans gave a name (Confluentes) to the seftlement situated at the confluence of two rivers, the Rhinéd and the Moselle. It's now known as Coblenz, Germany, and the only reason I know £0 much about it is because Adolph Schellschmidt came over to see me the other night. : Seems Mr. Schellschmidt was in Coblenz once upon a time and among the sights he toek in was the Kaiser Wilhelm monument built at the confluence of the two rivers. Seems, too, that another man was there for the same purpose and pretty soon the two struck up a friendship. You know how it is away from heme. “Pretty fine monument,” said the stranger in German. “Yep,” said Mr. Schellschmidt in what would be the equivalent for “yep” in German. “Only one monument in the world that beats it,” said the stranger. 2 “So-0-0,” said Mr. Schellschmidt. “Ja,” said <4he stranger, “it isn’t anywhere around here. It's in America. Maybe, you wouldn't understand.” “Do tell,” said Mr. Schellschmidt. “Ja,” said the stranger, “it's in a place about 200 miles from Chicago. They call it Indianapolis, Indiana.” Mr. Schellschmidt dug deeper into it when he got home, discovered that Bruno Schmitz, architect of the Soldiers and Sailors’ Monument

Lhere, was also architect of the Kaiser Wilhelm

monument at the confluence of the two German rivers. “It's a mighty LSmall world,” said Mr. Schellschmidt. 2 H ”

ATE from New York-st to Washington-st

isn't much of a walk as walks go nowadays, but it was sufficiently long to pick up enough materia medica to last me a lifetime. Everybody I met was determined to make me the beneficiary of a new medical discovery. When I got home to analyze them I discovered that most of them came straight out of the kitchen and the bathroom. I'll set them down in the order received. “An ordinary oil and vinegar salad dressing will prevent sun-stroke. A “hypo” solution—the kind photographers use—will cure athletes foot. A soiution of epsom salts is good for chigger bites. So is iodine. So is coal oil. I bagged that one in front of “The Dying Soldier,” which is the name of one of the groups surmounting one of Jue cascades on the Circle. I bet you never w that. The name of the other one is “The = urn Home.” At Court-st I met the father of a l-year-old, who told me that after weeks of trial and error he had finally hit upon the right combination of milk and corn syrup and that as a result his baby was picking up considerably. I might as well use this occasion to wonder why Indianapolis fathers always refer to their 1-yeargolds as 12-month-old babies. They can't fool this department.

September 7th

IN INDIANA HISTORY

By J. H. J. —

ESSE VAWTER and eight companions crossed the Ohio River and settled in the hills, back of where Madison now stands, Sept. 7, 1805. They were the first permanent settlers on the site. In 1808 the town site was bought at a government sale of public lands in Jeffersonville by John Paul, who proceeded to sell lots. The first houses were built, it is believed, by John H. Wagner, a Pennsylvania German, who put up a log cabin and a blacksmith shop, later converted into a tavern. In 1810, William Robinson, a Presbyterian minister, opened the first school. In 1812 a twostory log Courthouse was buiit. When news of the Pigeon Roost massacre reached the settlement, the citizens fled to the Kentucky shore, but returned to make a fort out of the Courthouse. Located near the beautiful Clifty Falls along

the Ohio River, Madison, in early days and

now, has deserved its name of the “Switzerland of Indiana.”

A Woman’s Viewpoint BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

WOMAN who has devoted her life to her family is disturbed by the comments of sophisticated friends who now point out the folly of her ways. “I was brought up to believe that a woman's whole duty was to her home,” she writes, “and to this good day have not changed my opinion.” I am glad she has the courage to stick to her guns. Whether it is wise to spend one's ‘life in the service of the fainily depends almost entirely on

the temperament of the woman in the case, Cer- |.

tain persons possess a passion for service. They are only happy in their particular small niche, smoothing tne way for those they love. They

| are born home-bodies, and ‘outside work is un-

thinkable for them. They consider the world well lost for domesticity. In recent years this type has taken many a scolding. The tangible rewards for all their efforts are few, we tell them. Sometimes it is the husband who wearies of his handmaiden wife. Sometimes it is the children who resent their mother’s ceaseless concern, feeling her love as a halter holding them back from life.” And the friend ‘who has kept herself busy with politics, or social service; regards the Kitchen type with scorn. “I teld you so,” she reminds her, when all the children are grown up and one. 2 Yet it is inevitable that our children must leave us. This is nature’s way and no matter what our sacrifices have been, there is nothing we ¢an do about it. So it has become a custom for us to point to the home-body and say, “How foolish she: has been! Howsshort-sighted! For she has acted as if her children would always be dependent upon her, and instead of taking up other interests, has clung to her old-fashioned ways. Now that she is alone, she must be miserable.” But perhaps she isn’t. What we forget is that the home-body nas done her job and done it well. She has*followed the star of her destiny and that is the wisest thing any one can do.

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Q—What nationality was Copernicus; the astronomer?

A—A Pole. mother was Q—Give the date of the closing of the Pank of the United States in New York City? A—Dec. 11, 1830.

Q—What does “Honi soit qui mal y pense” mean?

His father was. Polish and his

A—1It is a French phrase which is transiated,

“Evil be to him who evil thinks.”

. Q—What causes shoes to squeak? A—The usual cause is the friction between different layers of leather in the soles.

‘Q—What is the capital of The Netherlands?

The Hoosier Forum

1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it—Voltaire.

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded, Make your letter short, so all can have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be withheld on request.) 2 2 N

SAYS NEW DEAL HAS EDITOR HOPPING

By M. R. Kuehn, Richmond After reading The Times I've felt for upward of two years that all was well in Washington. The cat had been put up for the night and Mr. Roosevelt could do no wrong. Nothing to worry about. But last week, wasn't it, The Times editor shocked thousands of us who had voted for Roosevelt in 1932. In “Landon at Buffalo,” he showed fire in his eyes and fire spitting. from his. pen-points! Landon hadn’t only landed at’ Buffalo—he had also scored a damaging hit! Old Goliath got it square in the heel! The Landon aim knocked the New Deal’s shoes, socks and hat off. The aids have rushed in from everywhere to collect the scattered pelongings. As an habitual reader of The Times I have begun to wonder. I keep saying to myself, “How come? What's the big idea? Isn't Roosevelt the friend of the. ‘common man’?” Why this Times editor standing on the sidelines at Buffalo and taking the hide off the New Deal right before a big crowd and everybody listening in? Something wrong somewhere. Either Alf’s eye is like that of a young Mohican and. The Times’ editor prefers a straight shooter, or my eyes didn’t peer at the paper right. I ‘low the editor has been somewhat lopsided at times in his estimates of the New Deal Dust Bowl.

Your Health

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association F there is any group of workers likely to suffer more than others from materials associated with industry, it is men who are concerned with painting in all its forms. Many different types of chemicals are used in modern paints. House painters use oils and turpentine, with pigments derived from copper and lead. They also use varnishes, driers, and caustic substances, any of which ‘may be associated with production of irritations to the skin or with disease. Painters also use a product called “white spirit,” derived from petroleum. This substance adds not only to the danger from fire and explosion, but also to the danger of ‘poisoning. Incidentally, the disagreeable odor of “white spirit” is disguised by such chemicals as nitrobenzol and amyl acetate, which introduce other hazards of poison. In addition to lead poisoning, however, painters were found to be suffering from inflammations of the kidneys and from disturbances of the heart associated with degeneration of the tissues, brought about by factors concerned in their work. . Many of these conditions are insidious in their onset, and men afflicted with slight degrees of poisoning will go on working for

contact of the worker lead must be of gloves and special control inhalation of dust.

shop. Outside clothing shoul ; kept in a cupboard, protected from the dust, so that it will not carry

Still, even editors get doggone tired of playing one string day in and night out, and monotony might have pushed him to write just the opposite=te. keep him from going nuts.” . -* Nor is The Times editor the only one that’s a hopping around on one foot. There's Michaelson, Dirty Dan Michaelson, and Paul, more familiarly known as “Pretty Boy,” and Tammany Jim, and Ickes the Irritable, who is always scratching himself somewhere, know what foot to rest on. This thing is getting to be scratchy. Nothing so annoying as to feel an itch and not know where to reach it . Thus, perhaps, is the Roosevelt caravan into the Dakotd bad lands to be accounted for. True, advance sheets promised *‘a drought inspection tour.” But like the “tour” through the Southwest and the more recent one to see a big hole at the Cleveland airport, it's turning out to be ‘historical’ or “hys=terical” whatever way it appears to one. To a few like The Times editor, it might be a trip into, the Dust Bowl made for the purpose of getting away from the Debt Bowl— the Debt Bowl that Alf Landon dug up near Buffalo and revealed as a bowl with a double, a false bottom. ” 2 n APPROVES INDIANA'S FEDERAL RELIEF AID By W. I. 165 Boal New York City : Certain New York newspapers have been crying bloody murder because the Administration distributed in the State of Indiana last year $91,660,732 for relief and collected only $67,849,538 in taxes from the citizens and corporations of Indiana. They say that New York paid $761,000,000 in taxes and received only $536,00,000 in relief money. As a resident of New York, I want Indianapolis folk to know that the great majority of New Yorkers see no injustice in this arrangement. We realize that what New York “pays” in Federal taxes consists largely of tax payments by the New York offices of nation-wide corporations whose factories, mines, railroads and steamships are operating in other states, including Indiana, and by certain wealthy individuals whose residences happen to be on Park-av but whose income is the result of the labor of fellow Americans in Indiana and other states. We realize also that what these big New York taxpayers “pay” to Uncle Sam Tepresents only |

who doesn't

a fraction of the income which they draw all over the country. The people here who are doing the complaining are a very small percentage of New York's population. The rest of us know that if the citizens of Indiana were fortunate enough to draw their income from all over the map, they would be only too glad to contribute some of it toward the relief of destitute persons in New York, Most New Yorkers approve the Administration's handling the relief problem on a na-

‘tional basis, which recognizes the

widespread source of the income which is received by the few in New York and other centers of wealth, = ” » JIMMY LIKES THE NEW YORK .ICE CREAM By Jimmy Cafoures, at Ogdensburg, N. XY. On the wdy to Oswego, N. Y,, I stopped ab. Fair Haven Beach which is kngwn as CCC Camp 36 SP up here. I got ther just at supper time and ‘I was not averse to eating a snack with fhe boys. The bugler was just tooting his mess call through a latger megaphone than I have ever. Seen. The place is at the side of Lake Ontaria. The boys live just like soldiers in barracks

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IN WORK OR WAR: BY GEORGE SANFORD HOLMES

| Somewhere you puddle death in

bar Or grub “beyna the glint of sun or star Where only dark and dust and damp are redi.

Somewhere -you stoke léviathans a-keel.” Or clutch thie throttle of-a cometcar, ; Or wind the. ‘world with wires, from spar spar, To fetch t spark that spins a walling, wheel.

In time of peace you man the drill

and ch, In hours strife, the gun and front e trench; Yours is the: risk of life and limb and helith Creating of others’ wealth, In work of war, ; saviorsX role For industry, ‘that puts you on the dole.

defending -

: you play the

SIDE GLANCES & So Clarke

MONDAY, SEPT. 7, 1936 -

Vagabond

Indiana

\ EDITOR'S NOTE—This roving reporter for The Times goes where ke pleases, when he pleases, in searéh for odd stories about this and Abat.: ie

ANFF, Ala. Sept. 7. — The wranglers all laughed when I stepped up to the horse. They thought I was a city dude. - # But they stayed to cheer when I leaped on and rode away with the grace of an Indian, rolling a cigaret behind my back with one hand as I disappeared into the forest. They didn't know that 40 years ago I was foreman of 600 cowboys on Maj. Hoople's ranch, and that I always rode wild horses, and never the same horse twice. Because aft= er a wild horse has been ridden once he’s too tame for me. Well, I returned two hours later, having jogged over to Calgary and back, 85 miles each way. And then Dick Roberts, foreman of the Banff corral, and I sat down on the fence to talk. He says that nest to me, the fune niest rider they've had at this dude corral was a fellow named Yates, or Gates. He blew in one morning and said he didn’t know how ta ride, but wanted to try. He got on, and fell right off on the other side. The horse started going, and Yates somehow worked himself up under the horse's neck and twisted around: into the saddle;

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XY this time the horse was runs - ning wild, and the last they saw of Yates he had turned around in the saddle and was riding back= wards, yelling and waving his arms. It turned out he was a trick rider with Barnum & Bailey. Dick Roberts is an Irishman. Ha has never done anything but handle horses. He has run livery and rid« ing stables in Ireland, England, Paris, United States and Canada. He has taken a shipload of horsed to South Africa, and he has fol« lowed the horse business into Ruse sia. Once he rode 2700 miles inta the wilderness of Canada, for tha fun of it. He still rides every day, though he’s nearly 60. In the summer he manages the pony corral here, and in the winter he goes into the Calgary stockyards: He sends an average of 100 people a day off over the mountain trails on horseback. Most of them are dudes. ? “They all pretend,” Dick Roberts says. “Good riders say they've never been on a horse before. And people wha have never ridden are ashamed to say ‘so, and ask for a fractious horse. But they don’t fool me. I can tell by looking at them.” : "hon [HE dudes bring all kinds of A tribulations to Dick Roberts, Women want to leave. their husbands, and husbands want to leave their wives, and people come doped up with heroin, and whole parties of drunks show! up thinking a horseback ride would be nice. The corral is just across from the huge Banff Springs Hotel. It has 30 horses and seven guides, or “dude wranglers.” They're all ex=cowboys except one. He's a 17-year-old boy, born in Banff, and they say he's one of the best in the bunch. Roberts never smiles, but he al= ways has a sharp answer in a fast Irish tongue that keeps people won= dering after they're ridden away. He has one of these freak mathe= matical memories. He knows the name and hotel room number of

.| every person who takes out a horse,

They have to tell him only once. While I was there, he knew the room number of two people who had forgotten the numbers them= selves.

Todays Scrace)

BY SCIENCE SERVICE =o: that prey on other in= sects have long been recognized as man’s allies. The agricultural expert turns loose swarms of such -| parasites and predators to prey upon pests and thereby save crops. But there is one pest that is its own worst enemy — the corn ear worm. These repulsive larvae, that appear in ears of sweetcorn to the disgust of all proper housewives, are cannibals, and regularly eat each other up whenever there is an opportunity. Thus it comes to pass that the one ear worm you find in an ear of corn may be, the living sarcophagus of a number of his de= parted mates, liké that sad survivor of shipwreck in the “Bab Ballads,” who in his sole person represented, among others,

. « . the Bosun tight, ns the Midshipmite, And the crew of the Caplain’s gig.”

Dr, George W. Barber, entomoloe gist in the United States Depart= ment of Agriculture, has made 3a study of the ways of this selfdestructive pest, which he reports in a recent department publication, The corn ear worm, it appears, eats corn silk, green corn grains, or his ‘brethren, all with quite equal appetite. If anything, he prefers his brethren; for wherever two or

| three corn ear worms are gathered

together, presently there is only one,

oped on actual ears of corn d2pended to a considerable extent, Dr, Barber found, on the ‘tightness of the husks. The worms normally enter the ear by way of the tip. If the husks are , they keep more or less out of each other's way. with

the feeding of several individuals. But if the husks are tight, the worms| are crowded together develops quick=

DAILY THOUGHT

1 will have mercy, and not. sacrifice; for I am not come to call

The degree of cannibalism ‘devel= .