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YP WASN'T worth the “I think I'm through counting leaves on trees. Except on my own little oak in University Park. Old friends will remember how I reported three years ago that a Norway Maple in front of the American Legion national headquarters had 354.563 leaves. And eight caterpillars, three ants and three ladybugs. The world must be getting buggy. This time caterpillars almost ran me out of the tree. Ants were moving about in platoons, There were no ladybugs. I was glad of that, You may not be waiting with bated breath until you find out if the Norway has increased or decreased its foliage in three years. On the

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around who know exactly how many leaves a particular tree has,

Just More Caterpillars THE TREE is no dirtier or cleaner than it was three years ago. About the same in all regpects except the number of caterpillars and ants, Almost fell out of the branches once when a long, orange-headed and white-maned fellow walked off the collar of my coveralls and decided to stroll on my neck. Brrrrr. There are 31 new branches that stick out 12 to 24 incWes and spoil the symmetry of the maple. They had a total of 847 leaves. One of these fine days the caretaker will slice them off. The maples get a trim every year.

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Census time . . . his Norway Maple and reports an increase of 8948 leaves.

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1 just kept on with the countin Ii Te ago the rene was greater. At) 3 | Indiana taxpayers $4.30 for every a Slee woud we aug z . one time there were seven persons watching and| $1 allocated for projects in the SS a xe : * Y

It was apparent from the count on the first with three years ago, that the increase in leaves wouldn't be great. The first count on the side branch not the main)’ limb, was 5164. On the second count and three years later to the day, 5197, an increase of 2 leaves. The branch was healthy enough and there! were no signs that any had been broken off. | Only one small branch, about the size of a thick | pencil, was pnapped off, Years of ‘experience in| counting tells me not more than 1500 leaves were lost when that branch was vanked off. Only two men inquired what was going on. | They asked on the move and didn't seem inter-| ested whéther an answer came their way or not

- Gets ‘Short eat ‘was announced today.

1 I: The Indiana State Chamber of! Garfield V. Cox, dean © ; Acsimmeres. urged ‘the 'business school, will make the

United ening address, to be followed ‘States Senate today to cut pro- py 14 other authorities in the posed new appropriations for pub- field of small business and fodera), [lic works projects. { procurement contracts.

The new appropriations. which) ate larger federal deficits, are for projects of the United ‘Jackson said.

States Corps of Engineers and Estimating Indiana's share Reclamation Bureau would cost the public’ works costs he

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offering hints on how to count more efficiently. |. {state, according to Clarence A. Indiana projects.

Must be the war. i (Jackson, executive vice president, Indiana's share of the cost i. Foliage is in terribie shape. Gnawing cater- of the Indiana Chamber, |computed on the basis that the a pillars are taking a heavy toll'in leaf area. Ever Requests from Indiana and Hoosier state bears 2.29 per cent « watch a caterpiliar work? Stupid-looking things | 3 lother “short changed states” foriof the total federal tax burdens, Pe but how efficient in sliding through a leaf. larger share of these public works) Projects covered by the appros A caterpillar eats a leaf in the same manner| lexpenditures would send already|priations are for rivers, and hare

you would an ear of corn only without stopping. | I can go non-stop across a good-sized ear of corn | until the end when I have to chew a little and! | swallow. A caterpillar just cuts away and doesn’t | take time out to swallow, chew, breathe or any-| thing. | § I counted 46 caterpillars and 14 cocoons. Unless there was an invasion last night, you won't be able to find that many,

Crawling Spots Abound

ANTS WERE a nuisance, foo, and added to ‘the growing feeling that counting isn’t what it

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sketch club. All three classes end July 31. Girl scouts spend two morning trate his talks, hours four days a week learning Customs of villagers through- of insecfs, birds and minerals, out the United States reflecting Quizzes by their instructors, who old world ancestry are revealed were Mr. Carson last week, Miss in descriptive lectures and still Thelma Patterson, acting museum

8 e colori and Sex I Jave the ragged, formed visions of wild animals, foreign customs, and landscape in limp and tacky. Understandable with all those drawing. caterpillars and ants running about. I don’t think! On Tuesdays, animal instrucany of us would be too sharp with a nest of tion by John Carson, Martinscaterpillars in our hair, iville, geologist and naturalist, Well, when the count was completed, figures car ries 15 youngsters out of Indishowed an increase of 3563 leaves on the Norway lanapolis to deepest Africa, where

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NEW YORK, July 15--THere is something a little ridiguious about a great big nation like us being “at war” with Northern Korea, and taking some lumps in the process, much as if Joe Louis were being extended by a bantamweight. This is a war, in my book, not a police action, as we are supposed to call it. Anything that's got MacArthur and a draft in it is a war, It is nearly a bow-and-arrow war, too, in that none of our vaunted weapons for push-button battle have been used, and even our fancy jet planes being called less applicable to the situation than something older and slower.

Fiddling Around Can't Help TO FIDDLE around with this too long sure can't help us much. We are in the business of maintaining world-wide prestige and sounding a warning note for other folks with troublous ideas. We have dignified the skirmish by calling out the fleet, rallying the Marines, and putting contemporary history's best general in charge of the operation. I assume we want to win it fast. So, one-half of the bar-room diplomacy set says drop the atom bomb and drop it fast, and show those little so-and-so’s we mean business. Drop the atom bomb on what? The terrain of Korea is such, and its principal targets so small, that using an A-bomb would be roughly like going after’ a duck with a cannon. You would likely kill a few civilians and make a big noise and that's about all. Tactically it probably would be useless, apart from leaving us wide open for counter. propaganda. I don’t think there's any doubt in anybody's we eventually will chase the North Koreans back across their parallel, but it looks like a long and nasty job of injun-fighting-—not a short and explosive chore of concentrating industrial might and laboratory magic in one crushing punch. This looks more like the jungle fighting of the last thing, where you shake em out of the trees one at a time, and cut off a pocket here, and gain a painful, muddy yardage there.

ert C. Ruark By Rob Semi-Annual | NN ' | In the opinion of some reasonably + wise men, | Gon Korea could be and likely is the first tactic in a | : ; long scheme to deplete the United States of men a 2 and money, material and might, by a series of i : | midget wars. These would be partially bank-| \ rolled. and directed from behind the scenes by the ; ; : : Communists —— but they would be fought with, ; Y : ; : other peoples’ bodies on other peoples’ lands. e r u RB NAAR TH I ! finish in Korea, and it starts again in Indo-China. With Big Dollar Savings 0 ou: We wrap it up there and it busts loose in Iran. = - r= ym — t= And so on. 3 J . $ Each time the United States wastes its sub- . stance. Fach time it loses a little more enthus- JJ" A 7 jasm for opening its veins abroad. Each time it loses a little more prestige and incurs a niite more wrath from the depressed peoples who are being

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This, it seems to me, is the principal plan of | World War III, as opposed to the big blitzes and | all-out surprise attacks. We put on preliminary after preliminary, instead of starting off with the main engagement-—and possibly after awhile the customers grow weary of small fights and stir] restlessly in their seats. Then, when they are bored and weary of it all, comes the sneak punch.

Winner Will Get Nothing

NOBODY I have talked to has a pat solution for the business in Korea. It is a kind of war that cannot be won in a hurry. Korea is almost indefensible, militarily. It is not a massed population that can be blitzed into submission. You can't kill it off with a navy, Red China is behind it as a service of supply.~ If we drive the Reds back we have proved a point but little elise. We have now committed ourselves to intervention in other intramural squabbles. This is one in which it seems probable that the winner will take nothing, and open himself to conflict with other small Aghters with chip on shoulder.

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McLEAN, Va, July 15—I have this day demanded that the State Department protest those Russians dumping new model, free-wheeling, ar-mor-plated beetles on my eaten-up acres. The potato bugs the Ruskies claim we sprayed on them from invisible bombers are as gnats compared to the super-beetles with the irontreaded jaws which they have sprinkled on me. I don't want any wise-cracking denials from Alexander 8. Panyushkin, the Soviets’ ambassador extra-or-dinary and .also plenipotentiary. He can't tell me his boys didn’t do it. I've got the evidence.

Disciplined Red Formations

THESE PROJECTILES with 16 legs flying into my place in disciplined Russian formation are not even relatives of the-bugs known as Japanese

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beeties. They're Big and fridescent green on the outside of their steel deck plating. Some of them seem to have the remnants of red stars on their topsides. This indicates that Communist slave labor in its haste to get these killers to my property didn’t get all the paint wiped off. Try to deny:

that, Alex. There are between 100,000 and 200,000 va hetion. of beetles in this world. The scientists never could] make a better count, because new species kept |

buzzing over, probably from laboratories behind|_ the Urals. I have no idea which one of these jet| =

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warfare; keeps the enemy awake. At dawn they . renew their raids upon every sowing thing out-| side. They like to bore into a rose bud, eat the in terior.-and then work down until they've got every. leaf on the bush and have left only the thorns as a road block against me, There is no angle they have overlooked.

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THEY MOW down the clover, until there's) nothing left for my calf. Then they go after the | corn, which they take without salt or butter. This! - indicates again that they have had Spartan, Soviet training. When all i§ gone and the battleground is al shambles, they line up, and laugh at me. This is! not funny. I have urged that the Secretary of } State couch his note in the strongest putsible; - terms and patiently 1 await results, -

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